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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1865-1891

Title: Correspondence, 1865-1891

This record unit consists of outgoing correspondence from the Office of the Secretary during the tenures of Joseph, Henry, 1846-1878; Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1878-1887; and Samuel Pierpoint Langley, 1887-1906.

ArchivalResource: 46.06 cu. ft. (62 document boxes) (68 3x5 boxes) (243 microfilm reels)

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Minor, Berkeley, 1842-1930. Letters of Berkeley Minor to Anne Spotswood Dandridge [manuscript] 1905-07.

Title: Letters of Berkeley Minor to Anne Spotswood Dandridge [manuscript] 1905-07.

Minor refers frequently to a book, The real Lincoln: from the testimony of his contemporaries, and asks Miss Dandridge to check citations in it. Book review, 1905 April 12, of the above book [1 item print]--Poem, n.d., in German [1 l. holograph signed 18 cm.].

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

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Jones, J. William (John William), 1836-1909. Papers, 1875-1893.

Title: Papers, 1875-1893.

Letters, 1875-1893, received by John William Jones, Richmond, Va. as secretary of the Southern Historical Society. Most of the letters concern the Civil War. Correspondents include Edward Porter Alexander, Jubal A. Early, Horace Edwin Hayden, Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Joseph E. Johnston, Charles Colcock Jones (concerning his A Roster of General Officers), Dabney H. Maury, Charles Landon Carter Minor, William Gordon McCabe, H.B. McClellan (concerning the twenty-fifth reunion at Gettysburg, 1888, William E. Peters and Virginia Hortense Woodruff Rodes. Letter, 21 April 1876, from Mary Sophia Hill concerns her treatment by Union soldiers.

ArchivalResource: 45 items.

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Campbell, John Archibald, Judge, 1811-1889. Papers of the Minor family [manuscript] 1721-1957.

Title: Papers of the Minor family [manuscript] 1721-1957.

Genealogies of Jesse Lewis Maury and Lucy Jane (Price) and issue, and of the Berkeley (of Barn Elms), Carter, Champe, Conway, Fontaine, Jefferson, Minor, Morris, and Overton families; also genealogy relating George Washington and Robert E. Lee to Queen Elizabeth II; correspondence and business records, 1802-1957, mainly concerning Berkeley Minor, Lilian Forbes (Lyman) "Mrs. Jas. F. Minor", Susan Watson (Fontaine) "Mrs. Carter Nelson Berkeley Minor", and James Fontaine Minor, dealing chiefly with family matters, the Civil War and the University of Virginia; James Fontaine Minor's notebooks; biographical sketches of Charles Landon Carter Minor and Dr. Carter Berkeley of "Edgewood", Hanover, Co.; appendix of the History of the Virginia Company of London; Berkeley Minor's autograph book for Delta Kappa Epsilon, Eta Chapter, University of Virginia , and the Jefferson Society at the University of Virginia; "Recollections of the evacuation of Richmond," 1880, by Judge John Archibald Campbell; notebook, 1876-1877, of James W. Watson, IV, University of Virginia; diary, 1911, of James Fontaine Minor; Letters & Reminiscences of the War for Independence in the South, n.d., of Berkeley Minor; Memoirs of a Huguenot family, 1721-1722, by Jacques Fontaine; a history of Albemarle County, Va., and its court house with comments by Thomas Perkins Abernethy; and a printing block of an unidentified family member.

ArchivalResource: 275 items.

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Blackford, Charles Minor, 1833-1903. The Home Gazette [manuscript], 1849.

Title: The Home Gazette [manuscript], 1849.

Paperbound volume containing issues of the gazette which was edited by Charles Minor Blackford with the aid of Charles Landon Carter Minor, Benjamin Lewis Blackford, Launcelot Minor Blackford, and Eugene Blackford.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. [46 pages]; 19 x 23 cm.

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Minor, Berkeley, 1842-1930. Papers, 1905-1909.

Title: Papers, 1905-1909.

Includes 2 postcards and 2 letters to James R.B. Van Cleave, a publisher's prospectus, and a reproduction of a newspaper article. Refers primarily to "The Real Lincoln" by Charles L.C. Landon.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

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Minor, Charles Landon Carter, 1835-1903. Papers of Charles Landon Carter Minor [manuscript], 1879 -1899.

Title: Papers of Charles Landon Carter Minor [manuscript], 1879 -1899.

The collection contains the President's special report to the Board of Visitors of Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1859 April 15, and "Caroli Minoris opera, Tom II," a scrapbook with clippings from the Richmond Times and Norfolk Landmark of Dr. Minor's articles on the Civil War with his manuscript notes, 1899.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Title: Weather Bureau

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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879

Title: SIA RU000026, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1863-1879

This series consists mostly of correspondence addressed to Joseph Henry, much of which received his personal attention; also included are some copies of Henry letters, occasional returned original Henry letters, and a considerable number of letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird.

ArchivalResource: 59.56 cubic feet

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Minor family. Minor family papers, 1787-1905.

Title: Minor family papers, 1787-1905.

Scattered papers and correspondence, including letters to and from Lucian Minor (1802-1858), John Barbee Minor (1813-1895), and Charles Landon Carter Minor(1835-1903).

ArchivalResource: 109 pieces.1 box.

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Gordon, Armistead C. (Armistead Churchill), 1855-1931. Papers of Armistead C. Gordon [manuscript], 1890-1925.

Title: Papers of Armistead C. Gordon [manuscript], 1890-1925.

Miscellaneous papers of Gordon include personal correspondence, pamphlets, notices, advertisements, statements and excerpts. Topics include genealogy; the University of Virginia; free schoolbooks for African-Americans; racial intermarriage; the Jamestown Exposition; the 1905 Virginia gubernatorial election; the Gordon Land Company of Gordonsville, Va.; Charles L.C. Minor's "The real Lincoln"; the Federal land bank; the Red Land Club, Charlottesville, Va.; the Augusta County Court House; the Virginia Beach Development Company; the Staunton Academy; Harry Byrd, Sr.'s gubernatorial campaign, 1925; Southern history school books; the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Birthplace; and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation's "Help Free Monticello" campaign, 1925.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

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Barclay, Julius Preston, 1924-. Photograph album chiefly of the Minor, Southall and Venable families of Charlottesville, Va., ca. 1860-1900.

Title: Photograph album chiefly of the Minor, Southall and Venable families of Charlottesville, Va., ca. 1860-1900.

Members of the families depicted include John B. Minor, Charles L. Minor, Raleigh C. Minor, James C. Southall, James P.C. Southall, Stephen O. Southall, and Frank Venable. A Michael Miley photograph of Robert E. Lee in 1865 is included. In addition there are photographs of Wade Hampton, 1877, Stephen D. Lee, the Rev. George Petrie, and Justus Scheibert.

ArchivalResource: 65 photographs ; Cabinet card or smaller.

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Robinson, Leigh, 1840-1922. Manuscripts, letters, and papers of Leigh Robinson, Confederate soldier, orator, with several items of an early date relating to Conway Robinson [manuscript] 1787-1930.

Title: Manuscripts, letters, and papers of Leigh Robinson, Confederate soldier, orator, with several items of an early date relating to Conway Robinson [manuscript] 1787-1930.

Most of these are in the period 1870-1930, but a few date to the 18th century. They relate chiefly to the Civil War and Reconstruction in Virginia, to the Negro question, and to the University of Virginia. Among the items are a Bermuda land plat, 1787, with signatures of Sarah Nash, James Perot, William Todd, Mallory Todd, John Jennings, Robert Jennings; a report by George Frederick Holmes, William Holmes McGuffey, and John B. Minor on the University of Virginia magazine, 1858; a description of the University in 1865; text of an anniversary address before the University of Virginia Jefferson Society. Correspondents and names found in the papers include Archer Anderson, James K. Archer, Charles G. Bosher, F.F. Bowen of Danville, Va., William Brockenbrough, Francis Brooke, William Cabell Bruce, William H. Cabell, R. Kenna Campbell, Bedford County, Va., editor, George L. Christian, Moncure D. Conway, John Drinkwater, Edward C. Dutton, Moses Ezekiel, Charles W. Fry of New York, N.Y., Basil L. Gildersleeve, Thomas Randolph Harrison, T.C. Howard, John I. Johnson, G.T. Jones, James Keith, Mary Custis Lee (wife of R.E. Lee), Mary Custis Lee (daughter of R.E. Lee), Robert Edward Lee, William Leigh, James Longstreet, W. Gordon McCabe, Charles M. Miller, C.L.C. Minor, M.F. Morris, Kinloch Nelson, Raleigh Colson Minor, William H. Payne, Green Peyton, William C. Robinson, George Savage, John Selden, Benjamin D. Silliman, Moncure Silliman, James E.B. Stuart, Robert Taylor, Robert Stiles, R.S. Thomas, William M. Thornton, Henry St. George Tucker, United Confederate Veterans, Armfield F. VanBibber, E.C. Venable, L.J. Washington.

ArchivalResource: p. ; cm.

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Minor family. Papers of the Minor family, 1831-1906.

Title: Papers of the Minor family, 1831-1906.

Correspondence, 1831, of Charles Landon Carter Minor (1805-186?), while in Jefferson Barracks, Mo., to Lt. G. McRee concerning a legal dispute; from Carter Nelson Berkeley, 1841, concerning, Carter's study of medicine in Philadelphia, Pa.; answer, 1835, of Carter Berkeley, to the Court of Law and Chancery in Botetourt County, Va., pertaining to the estate of William Gordon, the marriage settlement of Nathaniel Burwell and Lucy Carter, a bill of sale for male slaves, and a mortgage. Also includes letter, 1832, of Lucius H. Minor to Catherine Berkeley of Edgewood, Hanover County, Va.; power of attorney, 1852, of Lucy Minor of Fredericksburg, appointing Lucius H. Minor to represent her interests in the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad; a copy of Bishop William Meade's relinquishment of his deceased wife Thomasia Meade's estate including his statements of her intent to provide for her slaves' welfare. Also includes correspondence, ca. 1863-1884, of Charles Landon Carter Minor (1835-1903) addressing the supply needs of Berkeley Minor, while at the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now VPISU) in Blacksburg, Va., and at the Shenandoah Valley Academy in Winchester, Va., comparing race relations in the 1880s with the antebellum period; and his accounts, 1868-1869, for board at the Washington House (Blacksburg, Va.). Also include letters, 1866, from Mary Ann Randolph Custis Lee, concerning life in Lexington and family affairs; certificate, 1867, issued by Hanover County Va., to Berkeley Minor to practice law; correspondence, 1906, of Berkeley Minor, with cousin Julia enclosing genealogical notes about the Carter family. Also include tax returns, 1867 and 1891; miscellaneous papers including an undated sketch of the first floor of a house with a narrative description of the second floor; and a letter, n.d., of Fanny Minor as a child to her uncle concerning Christmas.

ArchivalResource: 50 ca. items.

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Charles L. C. Minor Annotated, The Real Lincoln, 1901

Title: Charles L. C. Minor Annotated , The Real Lincoln 1901

The collection contains a first edition copy of belonging to, extensively annotated, and edited by author Charles L. C. Minor. The Real Lincoln

ArchivalResource: 0.1 cu. ft.; 1 folder

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