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Carr, George, 1800-1886. Papers of George Carr (1745) 1801-1939.

Title: Papers of George Carr (1745) 1801-1939.

Family and professional correspondence of Carr constitutes the bulk of the collection. In the former are numerous letters describing the pioneer life of relatives who emigrated to Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, & Mississippi. Of unusual interest is a letter describing an 1842 Philadelphia race riot. Later 19th century family letters are primarily concerned with the genealogy of the Carr and related Cave, Poore, Cross, Tompkins and Trevillian families. Carr's professional papers contain correspondence and some related legal and financial papers for Albemarle County clients. Of interest are his papers as attorney for Uriah Phillips Levy, the purchaser of Monticello, and Carr's subsequent management of the estate after Levy's death until its purchase by Thomas Jefferson Levy. Other professional items include George Wythe Randolph's interest in a fireproof clerk's office in Richmond, the 1825 proceeds of the Board of School Commissioners, problems over settlement of the will of Martin Dawson, and a contemporary copy of a legal brief in Jefferson vs. Michie over land at Milton, 1804-1813. Political commentary appears frequently and includes a letter, 1814, from Joseph Jones Monroe to James Monroe regarding opposition to the current administration supposedly fomented by Jefferson, and the draft of an 1834 speech by William Cabell Rives explaining his support of Andrew Jackson's destruction of the 2nd Bank of the U.S. and consequent resignation as senator. Carr's financial papers contain bills and receipts, insurance policies for houses and slaves and comodity price reports. The collection also contains 4 letters, 1801-1802, from James Dinsmore to Thomas Jefferson regarding work on the Monticello dining room; 18th cent. land grants in Goochland and Greenbrier; wills and deeds including copies on an 1837 deed from Thomas Jefferson Randolph to David Michie, and and 1832 Deed of James Monroe and Elizabeth Kortright Monroe offering their Albemarle Co. land as surety for a debt; the records of an investigation of a military court of occupation into a land fraud case involving Carr; scattered militia rolls and expenses, 1794-1829; land surveys; an 1832 commonplace book; and The Piedmont Hospital of Charlottesville, Va. 1886-1902, Haidee Watson Perkins Michie. Collection includes a Eugene Perry photograph of an unidentified African American woman "Mammy Sally" connected with the Poore family of Albemarle County, Va. Correspondents include Alexander Rives, Thomas Walker Gilmer, John Andrew Gardner Davis, St. George Tucker, Thomas Johnson Michie, 1795-1873, Charles Christian Wertenbaker, Thomas Mann Randolph, Jefferson Randolph Taylor and Joseph Coolidge.

ArchivalResource: 900 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647952246 View

St. George Tucker House Collection, 19th century.

Title: St. George Tucker House Collection, 19th century.

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Tyler family. Tyler family papers, Group H, 1750-1935.

Title: Tyler family papers, Group H, 1750-1935.

Papers, 1750-1935, which are miscellaneous manuscripts with Tyler family connections. Include a scrapbook which includes correspondence of John Tyler, Thomas Walker Gilmer and St. George Tucker mostly with nineteenth-century Virginia politicians. Papers also include printed material, photographs of people and buildings and miscellaneous notes perhaps collected by Lyon G. Tyler and Sue Ruffin Tyler.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23170451 View

Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914. Letters to S.W. ("Weir") Mitchell, 1847, 184?.

Title: Letters to S.W. ("Weir") Mitchell, 1847, 184?.

November 7, 184?, letter from St. George Tucker at the University of Virginia to "Dear Weir" (Silas Weir Mitchell). The letter mentions that [Mitchell's] affectionate letter was received. Tucker's letter includes reminiscences of a childhood friendship at Woodbury. There is mention of family or friends (Mr. Harrison's children, Dabney, and Brother Dave). In different handwriting are marginalia notes in pencil: "married my far away cousin Miss Gilmer ... a reminder of boy days at Woodbury, the home of Judge St. George Tucker." January 31, 1847, letter from Thomas T. Byrd at Wheatland to Mr. S.W. Mitchell. The letter mentions that [Mitchell's] agreeable letter came duly to hand. Byrd's letter describes festivities of the recent Christmas season and winter in Virginia with two snowfalls and his adventures while "slaying" [i.e. sleighing]. There is mention of mutual acquaintances (Gus, Ben, John Wister, and Philip Wharton). In different handwriting are marginalia notes in pencil: "my oldest boy friend Tom Byrd."

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58749609 View

Tyler family. Tyler family papers, Group G, 1645-1917.

Title: Tyler family papers, Group G, 1645-1917.

Papers, 1645-1917, of the Gardiner family, the Gilmer family, the family of St. George Tucker (1828-1863) and miscellaneous other people unrelated to the Tuckers, Tylers, Gilmers or Gardiners. Boxes I-III contain papers (many are typescript copies) of the Gardiner family of New York. Include letters of Juliana McLachlan Gardiner, her sons David Lyon Gardiner, Alexander Gardiner and daughter Margaret Gardiner Beeckman. Boxes IV-V contain papers, 1814-1842, of the Gilmer family of Albemarle County. Include letters of Thomas Walker Gilmer to his wife Anne E. Baker Gilmer concerning family, religion, politics, and the annexation of Texas; and sppeeches of Gilmer. Box VI contains papers, 1812-1895, of St. George Tucker (1828-1863) and his family. Includes letters, poems, speeches and literary works by Tucker. Boxes VII-XII contain miscellaneous manuscripts, 1645-ca. 1860. Includes two letters, 1700-1701, of Francis Nicholson; copies of Revolutionary War and Civil War letters; transcripts of documents, genealogical notes and manuscript volumes (including Gardiner account books, two volumes of poems by St. George Tucker, an unidentified diary kept in a 1766 Virginia almanac; and copy of diary, 1788-1822, of Charles Copland.

ArchivalResource: 12 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23170317 View

George M. West. Book prospectus for St. George Tucker's book "Hansford" [manuscript], 1857-1858.

Title: Book prospectus for St. George Tucker's book "Hansford" [manuscript], 1857-1858.

West advertises new publication "Hansford" by St. George Tucker as well as the recently published "Richmond in by-gone days" and "Patton & Hatton's reports of the Special Court of Appeals of Virginia, and digested index to Grattan's reports." West, himself, used the sheet as an order form a year later to order copies of "Webster's unabridged dictionary" and Joseph Chitty's "Pleadings" and "Contracts" from an unknown supplier supplier in New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648020178 View

Randolph, John, 1773-1833. Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to St. George Tucker, Esq., 1793 Nov. 23.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to St. George Tucker, Esq., 1793 Nov. 23.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270616255 View

Wilson, James Southall, 1880-1963. Papers of James Southall Wilson [manuscript], 1908-1936.

Title: Papers of James Southall Wilson [manuscript], 1908-1936.

The majority of the papers relate to the personal and profesional life of Wilson. Subjects include the literary work of Wilson, literature, life at the University of Virginia, "The Virginia Quarterly Review," the Bread Loaf School of English, and various trips abroad. In addition to family members his correspondents include Edwin A. Alderman, Emily Clark Balch, Stringfellow Barr, Clifton Waller Barrett, Rexmond Cochrane, Colgate Darden, Walter Pritchard Eaton, Armistead C. Gordon, Julian Green, Atcheson Hench, Charlotte Kohler, H. L. Mencken, John C. Metcalf, Dumas Malone, John L. Newcomb, Allen Tate, and Carl Van Doren. The collection also contains letters written by the ancestors of Wilson's wife Julia Tyler Wilson, and of her father Lyon Gardiner Tyler, president of the College of William and Mary. This early correspondence includes letters written by Thomas W. Gilmer. Frances Bland Tucker, Henry St. George Tucker, St. George Tucker, and Julia Gardiner Tyler. The collection also contains some personal and genealogical papers including notebooks, school records, certificates, and diplomas. There are also newsclippings, postcards and photographs including one group shot in which Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten appear.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647972537 View