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J. B. H. (James Barron Hope), 1829-1887. James Barron Hope Papers II.

Title: James Barron Hope Papers II.

Correspondence and literary works, chiefly 1861-1874, of James Barron Hope (1829-1887), soldier, author (poet, orator, and novelist), and newspaper editor, of Norfolk and Williamsburg, Va., dealing mainly with his 1849 duel with Jonathan Pembroke Jones; his West Indies naval cruise (1851-1852); his Confederate military service (1861-1865); and the aborted 1874 William Mahone-Bradley Johnson duel, in which Hope was Mahone's second. The majority of correspondence is with his family (wife, Annie Beverley (Whiting) Hope, and his mother, Jane Armistead (Barron) Hope). Prominent correspondents include Benjamin S. Ewell, John Goode, Hugh Blair Grigsby, John Lesslie Hall, John Blair Hoge, General Bradley T. Johnson, General John B. Magruder, President John Tyler, William F. Vilas, and Robert C. Winthrop. The collection also contains numerous newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: 195 items.

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Barron, Samuel, 1765-1810. Papers, 1793-1942.

Title: Papers, 1793-1942.

Papers and correspondence of three generations of Samuel Barrons, all of whom were involved in naval affairs. Papers, 1793-1809, of Samuel Barron (1765-1810), commander of one of the Mediterranean squadrons sent to defeat Tripoli. Papers concern naval business and the War with Tripoli. Includes correspondence with his brother James Barron, Stephen Decatur, William Eaton (concerning his controversy with Tobias Lear over the Tripolitan peace settlement), Tobias Lear, Edward Preble, John Rodgers, Robert Smith (Secretary of the Navy), and Thomas Truxton. Includes letters written by Preble and Rodgers on board the USS Constitution and letters concerning the capture of William Bainbridge and the seamen of the USS Philadelphia. Collections includes manuscript volume, 1834-1847, of sea service of Samuel Barron (1808-1888) aboard ships in Carribbean and Mediterranean seas and includes a copy made by Samuel Barron (1836-1892) of an account by James Barron of his duel with Decatur. The volume also has genealogical material concerning the Barron family. Papers of Samuel Barron (1808-1888) concern his service off South America and as an officer of Confederate States Navy in command of the European theater. Correspondents include Zebulon Baird Vance, Stephen R. Mallory and Raphael Semmes (giving an account of the engagement between the USS Kearsage and the CSS Alabama). There is a memoir by James Barron Hope in vindication of the censure of Samuel Barron for the loss of Fort Hatteras, N.C., and there are some papers relating to the service of Samuel Barron (1836-1892) as acting master and lieutenant in the Confederate States Navy.

ArchivalResource: 538 items.

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Autograph verses and photographs of Southern poets of the Civil War, circa 1860-1870

Title: Autograph verses and photographs of Southern poets of the Civil War circa 1860-1870

ArchivalResource: .08 linear foot (1 volume)

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Jackson, Samuel K., 1817-1899. Papers of Samuel K. Jackson [manuscript], 1822-1893 (bulk 1866-1893).

Title: Papers of Samuel K. Jackson [manuscript], 1822-1893 (bulk 1866-1893).

Include correspondence, speeches and medical lectures, class notes and clippings. The 1866 cholera epidemic in Norfolk is the chief topic in the correspondence. Other subjects include the quarantining of ships, the hanging of Dr. David Minton Wright in 1863 for the murder of a Union officer, and a dispute over the City's mortality rates. With these are three items pertaining to his professorship of Chemistry at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Virginia (V.P.I.). The collection also contains sermons, 1826-1844, possibly by Jackson's brother, the Reverend William M. Jackson.

ArchivalResource: 125 (ca.) items.

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J. B. H. (James Barron Hope), 1829-1887. James Barron Hope Papers I, 1790-1965, 1847-1887.

Title: James Barron Hope Papers I, 1790-1965, 1847-1887.

Papers, chiefly 1847-1887, of James Barron Hope. Correspondence includes letters to his mother Jane A. Barron Hope while on a naval cruise to the Caribbean and letters to his wife, Annie Beverley Whiting Hope written during the Civil War. There are letters between Jane A. Barron Hope and her friend, Caroline Matilda Campbell. Prominent correspondents in the collection include Jubal A. Early, Benjamin S. Ewell, Hugh Blair Grigsby, Fitzhugh Lee, W.H.F. Lee, Thomas Nelson Page, John Tyler and Robert Charles Winthrop. The collection also includes manuscript poems of Hope including his address at the Yorktown Centennial, as well as articles and letters concerning his death and his involvement in dueling.

ArchivalResource: 993 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21632307 View

Inventory of the Robert William Hughes Papers, 1818-1900

Title: Inventory of the Robert William Hughes Papers 1818-1900

Papers, mainly 1865-1900, of Robert William Hughes (1821-1901), journalist, Republican politician, and United States District Judge, of Abingdon and Norfolk, Va.

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Hughes, Robert W. (Robert William), 1821-1901. Papers, 1818-1900.

Title: Papers, 1818-1900.

Prominent correspondents include Louis Agassiz, Chester A. Arthur, George Bancroft, Benjamin F. Butler, Lewis Cass, Claudius Crozet, J.M.L. Curry, John Moncure Daniel, John Warwick Daniel, J.D.B. DeBow, Benjamin S. Ewell, Ulysses S. Grant, James Barron Hope, G.P.R. James, Joseph E. Johnston, W.H.F. Lee, James Longstreet, John S. Mosby, Bishop Alfred Magill Randolph, and William Fanning Wickham (concerning his father John Wickham and members of the Richmond Bar including John Marshall.).

ArchivalResource: 103 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22845508 View

Withers, Robert Enoch, 1821-1907,. Papers of Williams family [manuscript] 1773 (1825-1903) 1934.

Title: Papers of Williams family [manuscript] 1773 (1825-1903) 1934.

Chiefly business & legal papers of Philip Williams, Samuel C. Williams, and James Harrison Williams. In addition, there are scrapbooks, ledgers, newsclippings, school notebooks, etc. Account books, 1802-88, of various people and firms in Frederick, Rockingham, and Shenandoah Cos., incl. a German shoemaker, some merchants, and a tavern in Woodstock. Other vol. are: minutes for the Meckleburg Literary Society, minutes of the trusteees of Woodstock, a toll book for the Maurertown Gate on the Valley turnpike, and notes taken during U. Va. professor Henry Howard's medical lectures.

ArchivalResource: 7 ft.

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Warner T. Jones Papers, 1891-1891.

Title: Warner T. Jones Papers 1891-1891.

Letters and business papers of Judge Warner T. Jones of Gloucester County, Virginia, 1807-1891.

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Walters, James Booth, 1846-1884. Papers, 1854-1881.

Title: Papers, 1854-1881.

The collection includes correspondence, 1854-1867, of James Booth Walters of Richmond, Va., with Walters and Booth family members and soldiers serving in the Confederate States Army (primarily with the 24th and 56th Virginia Infantry Regiments) in Virginia and during the seige of Richmond, 1864-1865; and a scrapbook, 1870-1881, consisting of newspaper clippings of Walters's articles as a correspondent for the Richmond (Va.) Whig and as editor of the Norfolk (Va.) Journal. The articles primarily concern visits to local communities throughout Virginia and local politics (including the participation of African Americans); some concern a potential duel involving newspaperman James Barron Hope of Norfolk, Va.

ArchivalResource: 112 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31752250 View

Literary autograph collection [manuscript], 1852-1937.

Title: Literary autograph collection [manuscript], 1852-1937.

The collection includes letters of George William Bagby, Gamaliel Bradford, James Branch Cabell, John Esten Cooke, and miscellaneous autographs used in making facsimiles for the Library of Southern Literature. Other persons named include Pierre Arminjon, Ben Belitt, William Stanley Beaumont, Maria Gaitskell Foster Clopton, Pierre Crabites, John Temple Graves, Paul Green, Thomas Hardy, Atcheson L. Hench, Maurice H. Hewlett, James Barron Hope, John Hughes, Thomas Johnston, Charles William Kent, George L. Kilmer, Samuel Solomonovitch Koteliansky, Lawrence Lee, Captain Meredith, Andrew Jackson Montague, Thomas Moore, Mary Noailles Murfree, Duval Porter, John Hyde Preston, Ida Baskerville Tanner, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, James Southall Wilson, and John Cook Wyllie.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

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Jones, Warner Throckmorton, 1819-1891. Papers, 1807-1891.

Title: Papers, 1807-1891.

Papers, 1807-1891, of Warner T. Jones, judge of Gloucester County, Va.; his brother Richard P. Jones; and his nephew John R. Page. Papers include letters concerning the Jones family and the Seawell family. Prominent correspondents include John Randolph Bryan, Joseph Bryan, Samuel Bassett French, James Barron Hope, Charles Triplett O'Ferall, William Booth Taliaferro, John Randolph Tucker, and Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Collection includes printed advertisements for sewing and knitting machines.

ArchivalResource: 2,674 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22329398 View

James Barron Hope Papers (II), 1820-1923.

Title: James Barron Hope Papers (II), 1820-1923.

Correspondence and literary works, chiefly 1861-1874, of James Barron Hope (1829-1887), who was a soldier, author and newspaper editor, of Norfolk and Williamsburg, Virginia.

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