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Cabell, Joseph C. (Joseph Carrington), 1778-1856. Cabell Family papers [manuscript], 1731-1917.

Title: Cabell Family papers [manuscript], 1731-1917.

The collection contains accounts and correspondence of Nathaniel Francis Cabell, much of it concerning the New Jerusalem Church (Swedenborgianism); agricultural notebooks of Joseph C. Cabell; papers of Philip B. Cabell concerning his Hopewell, Ala., plantation and his life as a teacher in the Greensboro, (Ala.) Female Academy, the Warminster (Va.) Classical School for Boys, his Select School for Young Ladies in Lexington, Ky. and at Urbanna (Ohio) University. The collection also contains a series of essays, notes, extracts, and letters, 1853-1868? on the Cabell family, compiled by Nathaniel Francis Cabell, and recopied by him in 1872, as "Cabellana," which was later used as the basis of "Cabells and their Kin." Items of interest include a journal of travels to the West (Ohio and Kentucky) in 1832 kept by John Hartwell Cocke, Jr.; and a letter from William Leigh to Frank N. Watkins, 1856 June 5, regarding the destruction of the correspondence of John Randolph of Roanoke. Correspondents include Arthur Lee, Richard Henry Lee, Bishop James Madison, Wilson Cary Nicholas,

ArchivalResource: 10,000 items + 113 v.

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Cabell, William Daniel, 1834-1904. Papers of William Daniel Cabell and the Cabell and Ellet families [manuscript], 1798-1955.

Title: Papers of William Daniel Cabell and the Cabell and Ellet families [manuscript], 1798-1955.

Papers of the Cabell and Ellet family contain family correspondence, financial and legal papers, genealogical and biographical material and bound volumes, chiefly journals, of family members particularly William D. Cabell and Mary Virginia Ellet Cabell. Major topics are antebellum plantation life at Norwood in Nelson County, Va.; slavery; the Civil War and Reconstruction; the Nelson County Home Guard; the University of Virginia Alumni Association; the Daughters of the American Revolution; the Norwood School; Nelson County, Va.; and the Norwood Institute, Washington, D.C. Subjects in the correspondence include genealogical and biographical information on the Cabell and Ellet families; European travel, 1855; the Crimean War; collecting of supplies for the Confederate Army; anti-Southern sentiment after the war; the engineering and naval career of Charles Ellet, Jr., especially the design of the Niagara River suspension bridge, war service on the steam ramship he designed, and his death in the naval battle for Memphis. Additional subjects include the settlement of William Cabell's estate and other Nelson County land transactions. Launcelot M. Blackford and John Hartwell Cocke are mentioned in the correspondence. Topics of interest in single letters include Paris during the July Revolution of 1830, Fugitive slave law; political leaders Henry Clay, Lewis Cass, and Jhn C. Calhoun; the caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks; reaction in Staunton, Va., to John Brown's raid; the Washington Peace Conference, 1861; pro-Confederate sentiments of Lynchburg, Va., women and slaves; the South's response to Lincoln's call for troops; families divided by war; armed slaves fighting for the Confederacy; 1st Bull Run; Confederate troop movements April 1862; and Union occupation of Winchester, Va., May 1862. Also Antietam; opposition to the Confederacy in western Virginia; David G. Farragut's abilities as a Union commander; the Switzerland, the Island Queen and other vessels in the Missiissippi Ram Fleet; an 1865 appeal by Robert E. Lee to Virginia farmers regarding provisions; the U.S. War Department's refusal to compensate the Ursuline sisters of Columbia, S.C. for Sherman's destruction of their convent; and the U.S. Navy investigation of Charles Rivers Ellet. Also cotton speculation by Union general Samuel R. Curtis; reunion of northern and southern Episcopal churches; the National Union Convention, August 1866; labor conscription of freedmen; baseball in Philadelphia, 1866; proposed merger of the University of Virginia medical school and Richmond Medical College; a Virginia flood, 1870; legal property rights of women, 1870; and a Gridiron Club dinner, 1896. Also diaries, journals, and commonplace books, 1853-1925, of Mary Virginia Ellet Cabell, with comments on the fugitive slave law and secession; drawings, poetry, and genealogical notes about the Cabell family, the Ellet and related Israel families; speeches on behalf of the D.A.R.; translations of French articles and a clipping concerning the nomination of John Warwick Daniel for the U. S. Senate in 1904. Also journals, memoranda books and scrapbooks of William D. Cabell, catalogs, account books, student autograph books and other printed material of the Norwood Institute, and minutes, 1888-1894, of its Literary Society; a daybook and University of Virginia autograph book of Joseph C. Cabell; pamphlets, 1837-1862, by Charles Ellet about canals, railroads and bridges; and an incomplete essay on the Civil War in 1861 by Edward A. Pollard. The collection also contains "Cabellana," 1851, 1872, by Nathaniel Francis Cabell, a series of essays on the history of the Cabell family used as the basis of "Cabells and their kin." The volume also contains diary entries, 1871, of N. F. Cabell, with a catalog of the Norwood School, 1870-1871, and copies of some correspondence, business and legal documents interpersed, including testimony regarding an incident that led to William C. Cabell's expulsion from Norwood School. Of interest are a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Robert Skipwith, 1771 August 3, giving advice on choice of books, and defending fiction; a statement of Joseph C. Cabell's debts 1837 January 19; and three letters from Robert Skipwith to William Daniel Cabell regarding Cabell's purchase of the 1771 Jefferson letter to Skipwith's ancestor. Blotting sand was found in William D. Cabell's Journal, 1864 Feb. -1865 Feb.

ArchivalResource: 4100 (ca.) items.

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Moyer, James,. Papers relating to Nelson County, Va. [manuscript], 1845-1960.

Title: Papers relating to Nelson County, Va. [manuscript], 1845-1960.

The collection contains papers, 1845-1860, of the Dawson family of Nelson and Albemarle counties, Va., including personal correspondence, 1845-1960, regarding family and social matters and the employment of Ulysses Samuel Dawson with the Newport News and Mississippi Valley Company, and including registered mail receipts and accounts for household goods. Correspondents include Rosa Dawson, Thomas H. Dawson, Thomas J. Dawson, and Ulysses Samuel Dawson. The collection also includes financial papers, 1851-1876, of Thomas J. Dawson, including accounts, bills, correspondence, and receipts, especially for Nelson County property taxes; volume of poetry, ca. 1860-1865, copied by Sallie Sym Cabell; copy of a deed, 1876, certified by Patrick Henry Cabell, transferring 52.9 acres in Nelson County, Va. from Paul C. Cabell to Thomas J. Dawson; and autograph album, 1886-1888, of Maud Whelan. Also include spelling notebook, 1889, kept by Annie Cabell; registered mail receipts, 1891, for correspondence sent to Alexander Wilford Hall; and business papers, 1891-1948, of Thomas H. Dawson, including insurance policies, receipts and accounts, and merchants' license for his tobacco business. Also include letters, 1912-1913, of the Cabell family of Nelson County, regarding family and social matters, and including recipes for cakes, wine and pickle; biographical sketch ca. 1940, of Wirt Robinson; advertisement, n.d., for products manufactured by E. Remington & Sons; and cased hand-tinted daguerrotype, n.d. of two unidentified children. Also include petition, n.d. signed by William Daniel Cabell, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, and others, requesting the removal of the county seat of Nelson County to a site closer to the railroad; plate glass negatives, n.d., for photographs of Native American artifacts; signed manuscript, n.d., for The Centrifugal age: Man's lost point of focus, by Bolling H. Somerville. Diaries of Robinson, beginning with his youth in Richmond, Va., reflect his life-long interest in birds, insects, and animals. Diary, 1878-82, mentions hunting, fishing, school works, baseball trips on the packet, his brother Cabell Robinson and friends, summer visits to Nelson County, Va., and work at Richmond College. Robinson's diary, 1892 June 6-August 5, describes a visit to Curacao with his wife, Alice P. Robinson, and Cabell and contains details of the island, its inhabitants, and wildlife and a description of a trip to Colombia and Barranquilla, Venezuela. Also include diary of Robinson, 1895-1902, chronicling another trip to Venezuela, Curacao, and Margarite. The later section, 1901-1902, details his life at the United States Military Academy where he was an instructor; a summer visit at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Ga., and visits to Lynchburg, Va., where he stayed with John Warwick Daniel, and to Nelson County, Va. Also include diary of Alice P. Robinson covering the period up to the day of her marriage; and diaries kept by Anne Whelan, of Norwood, Nelson County, Va.

ArchivalResource: 194 items and 16v.

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Bolling, Robert B., fl. 1843,. Cabell family papers [manuscript, 1796-1867.

Title: Cabell family papers [manuscript, 1796-1867.

Papers of the Cabell and related Bolling families contain slave censuses from "Bolling Hall" and "Pocahontas," Goochland County, Va. Individual topics include the War of 1812, a tedious legal case involving Judge Tucker, construction of a mill and a barn, "Soldier's Joy," "Corotoman," "Edgewood," the Female Seminary, Lynchburg, transporting hired slaves to Richmond, the James River and Kanawha Canal Company and company, tobacco prices, a Federal raid near Farmville in 1864, an attempted polygraph purchase, the building of a boat to transport wheat, Joseph C. Cabell's interest in running for office, and a "delicate chemical apparatus," possibly for the Universityof Virignia. The collection also contains account books, including one for tobacco sales, 1791-1792 and 1827-1845 that also contains miscellaneous accounts for Thomas Eston Randolph. Account book, ledger, memoranda book, and slave censuses for the Bolling family, 1796-1866, contain plantation records including crop lists, expenses, manager's wages, midwife accounts, slave hires and sales, and rations and clothing allotments for field hands with the note "All lost when freedom came." Estate papers of William C. R. Newburn, William Bolling administrator, 1835-1836, pertain to the sale of Newbern's slaves and includes names of slaves, purchasers and prices. There are also lists of taxable property, 1844 and 1862 that mention slaves; a note on the death of Anne Blaws Cocke Cabell and slave girl from diphtheria in 1862; an 1814 marriage indenture of William Newburn and Sarah Randolph, listing slaves; and an Hungarian Fund one dollar note, 1852. Correspondents and recipients include Robert B. Bolling, William Bolling, Arthur S. Brockenbrough, John Grattan Cabaell, Joseph C. Cabell, Nathaniel F. Cabell, Patrick H. Cabell, Sally F. Cabell, William D. Cabell, William H. Cabell, Dr. George Callaway, John Coalter John Hartwell Cocke, Isaac A. Coles, James Dinsmore, Thomas Dobson, G. W. Featherstonhaugh, Jacques Flouest, William J. Lewis, John Neilson, Reubens Peale, Charles Perros, C. C. Read, James Scruggs, P. G. Tucker, and the Rev. R. H. Wilmer.

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Nathaniel Francis Cabell Papers, 1722-1879

Title: Nathaniel Francis Cabell Papers, 1722-1879

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Cabell, Joseph C. (Joseph Carrington), 1778-1856,. Cabell Family papers, 1731-1917.

Title: Cabell Family papers, 1731-1917.

The collection contains accounts and correspondence of Nathaniel Francis Cabell, much of it concerning the New Jerusalem Church (Swedenborgianism); agricultural notebooks of Joseph C. Cabell; papers of Philip B. Cabell concerning his Hopewell, Ala., plantation and his life as a teacher in the Greensboro, (Ala.) Female Academy, the Warminster (Va.) Classical School for Boys, his Select School for Young Ladies in Lexington, Ky. and at Urbanna (Ohio) University. Items of interest include a journal of travels to the West (Ohio and Kentucky) in 1832 kept by John Hartwell Cocke, Jr.; and a letter from William Leigh to Frank N. Watkins, 1856 June 5, regarding the destruction of the corresopndence of John Randolph of Roanoke. Correspondents include Arthur Lee, Richard Henry Lee, Bishop James Madison, Wilson Cary Nicholas.

ArchivalResource: 10,000 items + 113 v.

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Brooks, Edward, fl. 1808,. Papers : of the Cabell family, 1808-1889.

Title: Papers : of the Cabell family, 1808-1889.

The grant, from Virginia Governor William H. Cabell to Edward Brooks, is for 14 acres in Essex County, Virginia. The resolutions, 1835-1836, are of the Board of Directors of the James River and Kanawha Canal Company concerning the duties of the president of the company. The catalog, 1875-1889, is of thelibrary of Nathaniel Francis Cabell.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Cabell family. Papers of the Cabell family, 1727-1875.

Title: Papers of the Cabell family, 1727-1875.

The papers include correspondence and other papers of William Cabell, a son Nicholas Cabell and a great-grandson Nathaniel Francis Cabell, including records relating to a legal action of William Cabell against William Mayo and George Carrington; a grant of land, 1739, Goochland County, Va., to William Cabell, signed by William Gooch; records of the Minute Men of Amherst County, Va., a militia company under the command of Nicholas Cabell, 1774-1785. The papers also include a bond, 1763 April 15 between William Cabell, John Moore, John Frye and John Lewis to build a courthouse for Albemarle County, Va., a Civil War pardon signed by William H. Seward, slave lists and a permission to marry, fragments of books by George Berkeley and Soame Jenyns and a printed essay on inland navigation, 1766. Also of interest are lyrics of some Revolutionary War songs; book lists; Warminster Academy minutes, 1795; letters patent for a medical remedy, 1795; Liberty Hall furniture lists and graveyard plans; a list of emigrants from Virginia to the West and Southwest; and a description of thefts by the Union army. Correspondents and persons named include Edward Carrington, John Hartwell Cocke, Joshua Fry, Peter Jefferson, St. George Tucker, and Thomas Walker. The material is related to the library's other Cabell collections (including Joseph C. Cabell papers, 1731-1917) and to its Cocke and Jefferson collections.

ArchivalResource: 375 items.

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Massie, William, 1795-1862. Papers, 1814-1870.

Title: Papers, 1814-1870.

Letters and accounts of William Massie, farmer and miller of "Pharsalia" and Tye River Mills, Nelson County, Va. Correspondents include Nathaniel Francis Cabell and Chiswell Dabney.

ArchivalResource: 1,160 items.

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Cocke, John Hartwell, 1780-1866. Papers additional of John Hartwell Cocke [manuscript] 1808-57.

Title: Papers additional of John Hartwell Cocke [manuscript] 1808-57.

Additional manuscripts of John Hartwell Cocke. Includes letters from Rev. William Atkinson, Charles Ellis, John Tyler, Nathaniel F. Cabell.

ArchivalResource: 126 items.

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Cabell, Joseph C. (Joseph Carrington), 1778-1856. Papers relating to the founding of the University of Virginia [manuscript] 1810-1857.

Title: Papers relating to the founding of the University of Virginia [manuscript] 1810-1857.

Mainly letters to Thomas Jefferson, 1810-1826, but includes Cabell's copy of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors' minutes and his memoranda concerning passages of the Jefferson correspondence omitted from Nathaniel Francis Cabell's Early history of the University of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 200 items.

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Cabell family. Cabell family papers, 1778-1893.

Title: Cabell family papers, 1778-1893.

Letters and documents to and from members of the Cabell family, concerning family affairs, business dealings, legal and political matters and local current events, including the affairs of the University of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: Approx. 100 pieces.1 box.

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Archer, William Segar, 1789-1855,. Argosy collection [manuscript], 1795-1893.

Title: Argosy collection [manuscript], 1795-1893.

Letters, papers, portraits of Revolutionary and nineteenth century statesmen. Subjects dealt with in the letters include slavery, the currency question, agriculture, land grants, politics and government, the silver question, education, and religion.

ArchivalResource: 103 items.

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Charles Campbell Papers, 1743-1896.

Title: Charles Campbell Papers, 1743-1896.

Papers received or collected by Charles Campbell (1807-1876), Virginia Historian, as well as letters and other papers, 1743-1896. Includes the business correspondence of Charles Campbell with various editors of , several historical societies, publishing firms, historians and authors, with Petersburg, Virginia. Items also relate to organizations and institutions with which he was affiliated, to the school that he conducted in Petersburg and to his personal correspondence with friends and members of his family. Diaries and notebooks both kept by Charles Campbell and his wife Anna Burdsall Campbell, plus 18 scrapbooks, autographs, historical notes, etc. are also found in the collection. The Southern Literary Messenger

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Miscellaneous Cabell family papers, 1795-1885, n.d.

Title: Miscellaneous Cabell family papers, 1795-1885, n.d.

The collection contains a handwritten transcript of "Pleas before the Commonwealth's Justices of the County of Amherst," 1795, Reuben Thornton against William Lee Harris in Trespass Assault & Battery & False Imprisonment. The collection also contains Appendices A and B of "Address to the Isolated Members of the New Church" outlining church history, speculating on the future, and listing pertinent book titles, n.d. With these is a clipping "Free Schools in France" about the French Educational Department delegate to the New Orleans Exposition, 1884-1885.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Barksdale, W. C., fl. 1876. Papers of Mary Joanna Wright and Agnes Belle Wright, 1876-1962.

Title: Papers of Mary Joanna Wright and Agnes Belle Wright, 1876-1962.

The collection includes copies of D.A.R. membership applications for both sisters; a Woodson family genealogy compiled by Nathaniel Francis Cabell and copied, n.d., by T.N. Watkins; a document, 1876, of W.C. Barksdale assigning William Wright a horse and buggy to secure payment of a bond; "Some little known facts about my town," by an unidentified Charlottesville, man, n.d.; a copy, n.d. of an 1831 marriage license for Charles Wright and Agnes P. Terrell; notes on Confederate cavalryman William George Wright; and notes on the Harris and Terrell families. A photograph of Dr. George L. Petrie, a Presbyterian pastor is included. Newsclippings include obituaries for Mary Frances Harris Wright, Dr. James H. Harris, and Emma Bibb Harris; an article on Japanese prisoner of war Colonel Charles L. Steel; a message on sickness by George L. Petrie.

ArchivalResource: 25 items.

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Ruffin, Edmund, 1794-1865. Papers : of Edmund Ruffin, 1818-1865.

Title: Papers : of Edmund Ruffin, 1818-1865.

This collection consists largely of the correspondence of Edmund Ruffin with family members and political colleagues, primarily concerning agricultural reform and farming operations at "Beechwood," "Coggin's Point," and "Shellbanks" in Prince George County, "Cabin Point" in Surry County, and "Marlbourne" in Hanover County, Va. Also, includes correspondence among his children and letters written by several of his sons while serving in various units of the Confederate States Army. Also, includes Ruffin's correspondence concerning agricultural reform and experimental agriculture, African-American slavery, southern rights, and secession. Correspondents include Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Charles Campbell, John Henry Hammond, Robert Barnwell Rhett, and John Tyler. Also, includes Ruffin's 1843 diary kept as agricultural surveyor of South Carolina; autobiographical "incidents of my life" covering the period 1821-1851, in part concerning the establishment of the Farmer's Register, Shellbanks and Petersburg, Va., and the Virginia Agricultural Society; and essays and speeches concerning agriculture, slavery, and Ruffin's opposition to African colonization. Also, includes diaries, 1843-1847, of Julian Calx Ruffin, concerning farming operations at "Ruthven," Prince George County, Va.

ArchivalResource: 826 items.

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Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818-1867,. Lee family papers [microform] 1652 [1769-1870] 1890.

Title: Lee family papers [microform] 1652 [1769-1870] 1890.

Correspondence, accounts, deeds, and legal documents. Letterbooks, 1769-1771, 1775-1776, & 1793-1795, of William Lee, a partner in deBendt & Sayre, London, comprise the bulk of the collection. Letters to business associates primarily discuss the tobacco trade. Letters to his brothers Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee contain frequent political commentary on events in England & the colonies, and mention most of the prominent revolutionary Virginia leaders as well as their Parliamentary supporters. In addition to the letterbooks there are genealogies, deeds, indentures, wills, and other legal documents, correspondence of family members including many of Robert Edward Lee and other Civil War leaders. Correspondents include John Albion Andrew, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, John James Beckley, Francis Preston Blair, Braxton Bragg, John Cabell Breckenridge, Ambrose Everett Burnside, Nathaniel Burwell, Benjamin Franklin Butler, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, William Daniel Cabell, Landon Carter, Robert Wormeley Carter, Salmon Portland Chase, Samuel Cooper, Hannah Lee Corbin, Richard Corbin, Henry Knox Craig, Jefferson Davis, Jubal Anderson Early, Richard Stoddert Ewell, Thomas Fairfax, George Gibson, Josiah Gorgas, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Nathanael Greene, Henry Heth, Daniel Harvey Hill, John Bell Hood, Joseph Hooker, Oliver Otis Howard, Benjamin Huger, William Irvine, Thomas S. Thomas Sidney Jesup, Andrew Johnson, Edward Johnson, Robert Underwood Johnson, Albert Sidney Johnston, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. Sidney Lanier, Arthur Lee, Charles Lee, Fitzhugh Lee, Mary Ann Randolph Custis Lee, Richard Bland Lee, Thomas Lee, John Letcher, Abraham Lincoln, James Longstreet, William Mahone, George Brinton McClellan, Lafayette McLaws, George Mason, George Gordon Meade, Robert Carter Nicholas, Edward Follansbee Noyes, George Edward Pickett, Franklin Pierce, Alfred Pleasonton, Roger Atkinson Pryor, George Wythe Randolph, John Cook Rives, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur Comte de Rochambeau, Winfield Scott, Philip Henry Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman, William Shippen, Edmund Kirby Smith, William Smith, James Ewell Brown Stuart, Andrew Talcott, Lorenzo Thomas, Robert Augustus Toombs, Jonathan Trumbull, David Emanuel Twiggs, Zebulon Baird Vance, George Washington, John Wentworth, John Henry Winder, Henry Alexander Wise, John Ellis Wool, and Marcus Joseph Wright.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels.

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Cabell, Joseph C. (Joseph Carrington), 1778-1856. Papers of the Joseph Carrington Cabell family, 1834-1876, n.d.

Title: Papers of the Joseph Carrington Cabell family, 1834-1876, n.d.

The collection contains a letter and enclosure from Joseph C. Cabell to Mr. Randolph, bookbinder of Richmond, Va., concerning the binding of pamphlets and reports concerning the James River & Kanawha Company, n.d. The papers also four reports of scholarship and deportment for F.B. Cabell, Hartwell Cabell and J.H. (Hartwell) Cabell at Urbana University, 1875-1876, signed by J.E. Werren, secretary of the faculty. The collection also includes miscellaneous notes on alumni of the College of William and Mary, including attendance for John Hartwell Cocke and John Hartwell Cocke, Jr.; names of leading Virginia families who attended, 1834; and names of prominent individuals; corrections to alumni information in a printed catalog (on back of envelope addressed to N.F. Cabell). Also a letter from N.F. Cabell to "Philip" attached to a digest of Hamilton's "Parliamentary Logic" [sic] which he has prepared; and some brief miscellaneous notes on the Gospels.

ArchivalResource: 13 items.

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Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876 (bulk:1700-1800)

Title: Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876 (inclusive), 1700-1800 (bulk)

The portion of the Emmet Collection housed in the Manuscripts and Archives Division consists of approximately 10,800 historical manuscripts relating chiefly to the period prior to, during, and following the American Revolution. The collection contains letters and documents by the signers of the Declaration of Independence as well as nearly every prominent historical figure of the period.

ArchivalResource: 30.83 linear feet; 108 boxes, 21 volumes

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Card file of the Hartwell Cabell gift, 1948?

Title: Card file of the Hartwell Cabell gift, 1948?

An alphabetical author index to the collection of 18th and 19th century books in the libraries of Joseph Carrington Cabell and Nathaniel Francis Cabell.

ArchivalResource: 1 card file.

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Campbell, Charles, 1807-1876. Papers, 1743-1896.

Title: Papers, 1743-1896.

Papers, 1743-1896, of Charles Campbell of Petersburg, Va. Includes papers collected by Campbell concerning Virginia, but most of the collection is his correspondence with family members (wife Anna Burdsall Campbell, brother Alexander Campbell, father John Wilson Campbell, and son Calloway Campbell), friends and historians and writers such as George Bancroft, Henry Barnard, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, William Alexander Caruthers, John Esten Cooke, Charles Deane, Lyman Copeland Draper, Henry Dilworth Gilpin, Hugh Blair Grigsby, William Wirt Henry, Henry Howe, Benson John Lossing, and Edmund Ruffin. Campbell's correspondence concerns the writing and publishing of Virginia History, the attempted revival of the Virginia Historical Society by William Maxwell, autograph collecting, the Petersburg Library Association, education, genealogy, and life in Petersburg, Va. The collection also includes diaries, 1861-1865, of Charles Campbell; scrapbooks, notebooks and notes of Charles Campbell; and diaries, 1840-1870, of Anna Burdsall Campbell. There are many letters from Mary B. Carter of "Shirley" Charles City County, Va. to Mildred Walker (Moore) Campbell, Charles Campbell's mother.

ArchivalResource: Total 5, 144 items.Manuscript volumes 42 items.

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Cabell, Joseph C. (Joseph Carrington), 1778-1856. Papers of the Cabell family, 1727-1875.

Title: Papers of the Cabell family, 1727-1875.

The papers include correspondence and other papers of William Cabell, a son Nicholas Cabell and a great-grandson Nathaniel Francis Cabell, including records relating to a legal action of William Cabell against William Mayo and George Carrington; a grant of land, 1739, Goochland County, Va., to William Cabell, signed by William Gooch; a tobacco storage book; records of the Minute Men of Amherst County, Va., a militia company under the command of Nicholas Cabell, 1774-1785. The papers also include a bond, 1763 April 15 between William Cabell, John Moore, John Frye and John Lewis to build a courthouse for Albemarle County, Va., a Civil War pardon signed by William H. Seward, slave lists, a letter re discipline and a permission to marry, fragments of books by George Berkeley and Soame Jenyns and a printed essay on inland navigation, 1766. Also of interest are lyrics of some Revolutionary War songs; book lists; minutes of Warminster Academy, Nelson County, Va., 1795; letters patent for a medical remedy, 1795; Liberty Hall furniture lists and graveyard plans; a list of emigrants from Virginia to the West and Southwest; a description of thefts by the Union army; and a Cabell family genealogy. Correspondents and persons named include Edward Carrington, John Hartwell Cocke, Joshua Fry, Peter Jefferson, St. George Tucker, and Thomas Walker. The material is related to the library's other Cabell collections (including Joseph C. Cabell papers, 1731-1917) and to its Cocke and Jefferson collections.

ArchivalResource: 515 items.

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Whitehead, Robert, 1897-1960. Robert Whitehead papers [manuscript], 1876-1964.

Title: Robert Whitehead papers [manuscript], 1876-1964.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence received by Whitehead, 1924-1938. Chief correspondents are Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., J Garland Pollard, A. Willis Robertson, and Henry St. George Tucker. There are also letters from John S. Battle, Carter Glass, George C. Peery, James H. Price, and E. Lee Trinkle, as well as routine mailings from the Virginia State Bar Association. The collection also includes drafts of proposed resolutions and bills (including repeal of the 18th amendment); newspaper clippings of obituaries and tributes to Whitehead, 1960; editorials on political issues, 1929-1936; and a notebook of writings of Robert Whitehead (1815-1898) clipped from the Nelson County Examiner which includes profiles of Archibald Stuart, Lucas P. Thompson, Sterling Claiborne, Robert Garland, John Thompson, Jr., William F. Cabell by N.F. Cabell, an account of the death of University of Virginia professor Walter D. Dabney and a obituary for Robert Whitehead by Charles M. Blackford. The collection also contains a talk "Legacy--profiles of my Whitehead family," 2006, by Ann Whitehead Thomas, and 2 phonograph recordings of an interview on WRVA radio show "Today's outstanding Virginian," 1950.

ArchivalResource: circa 450 items.

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Cocke family. Genealogical notes, ca. 1574-1875.

Title: Genealogical notes, ca. 1574-1875.

Includes letter, 1932 December 30, written by John Bennett Boddie to Earl Gregg Swem (enclosing extract from parish register of Stottesdon, typescript of will, 1587, of Thomas Cocke of Pickthorne in Stottesdon); letter, 1932 August 19 to Boddie, written by J. W. Greaves (enclosing typescript of letter, 1679 April 12, of Alice Corbin to her brother concerning Bacon's Rebellion). Also includes newspaper clippings, ca. 1880, concerning the Cocke family written by N. F. C. [i. e., Nathaniel Francis Cabell], Alexander Brown, Robert Alonzo Brock, T. W. [otherwise unidentified], and T. M. C. [otherwise unidentified] and a printed pamphlet, The Founding of a Virginia Family by William Ronald Cocke (Richmond, 1931).

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

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Cabell, Nathaniel Francis, 1807-1891. Collection of papers relating to Virginia's agricultural history, 1771-1879.

Title: Collection of papers relating to Virginia's agricultural history, 1771-1879.

This collection, compiled by Nathaniel Francis Cabell for a history of Virginia agriculture, includes letters written by or to William Cabell, John H. Cocke, Joseph C. Cabell, Nicholas Cabell, Peter Minor, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Mann Randolph, James Madison, John Marshall, Andrew Cocke, John Stuart Skinner, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Hill Carter, Richard Sampson, William Massie, Edmund Ruffin, and W.C. Knight.

ArchivalResource: 595 p.

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Hubard, Robert Thruston, 1808-1871. Papers of Robert T. Hubard, 1828-1909 (bulk 1841-1866).

Title: Papers of Robert T. Hubard, 1828-1909 (bulk 1841-1866).

Include letters, 1828-1844, from Edmund W. Hubard, Washington, D.C., to his brother Robert T. Hubard and other members of the Hubard family, regarding family matters, legislation and speeches before the U.S. House of Representatives, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, John Tyler, tobacco, and abolition. Topics also include a legal suit to settle their father's estate, presidential candidates for the election of 1844, U.S. fiscal policy, social life in Washington, D.C., courtship, Mount Vernon, the tariff bill of 1842, agricultural boards, and politics in Buckingham County, Va. Also include miscellaneous correspondence, 1837-1866, of Robert T. Hubard, regarding agricultural matters, especially the tobacco market, the purchase and sale of stock, Virginia politics and fiscal policy, family matters and finances, his wife's death, the education of his sons, Virginia Military Institute, Hampden-Sydney College, the Brookland School, and social life in Richmond. Topics also include a traveling hypnotist, a fugitive slave, the Richmond Enquirer, Civil War news, the Quartermaster Corps of the Confederate army, Goldsboro, N.C., and the death of John Hartwell Cocke. Correspondence of Robert T. Hubard of particular note include letter, 1844, from Thomas W. Gilmer, Washington, D.C., regarding slavery, the Massachusetts question, and John Quincy Adams; letter, 1849, from John B. Minor, University of Virginia, regarding his son's education; and letter, 1852, from Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Nelson County, Va., concerning construction of a road in Nelson County. Letters, 1855-1857, from Robert T. Hubard, Jr., to his father, Robert T. Hubard, describe life at the Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., the Brookland School, and hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Later letters, 1857-1909, of Robert T. Hubard, Jr. also discuss the Brookland School, the reputations of various universities in Virginia, memorization as a pedagogical method, family matters, legal matters, Virginia state politics and railroads. Miscellaneous items include hotel bills, 1858; shopping list, n.d.; and an agricultural circular, 1850, concerning the U.S. census of 1850.

ArchivalResource: 80 items.

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Swem, E. G. (Earl Gregg), 1870-1965. List of manuscripts relating to the history of agriculture in Virginia collected by N. F. Cabell, and now in the Virginia State Library [manuscript], 1913.

Title: List of manuscripts relating to the history of agriculture in Virginia collected by N. F. Cabell, and now in the Virginia State Library [manuscript], 1913.

With the calendar is a biographical sketch of Cabell, and an index. The manuscripts are chiefly letters addressed to Cabell; Peter Minor, secretary of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle; Joseph C. Cabell; John H. Cocke; and Col. W. C. Wright. The letters and other papers range in date from 1749-1860.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel microfilm.

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Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell. Papers of the Cabell family, 1876, 1972.

Title: Papers of the Cabell family, 1876, 1972.

The collection contains Dugdale's reminiscences, 1972, of Union Hill, the Cabell home in Nelson Co. and Rose Hall, in Waynesboro, Va. Also included are clippings, genealogical material, photographs and copies of Col. William Cabell's appointments as surveyor in Amherst and militia officer in Albemarle and and Amherst counties. There is also a copy of a letter, 1876 September 7, Nathaniel Francis Cabell to William Daniel Cabell about the family cemetery, two plans of a cemetery and a furniture inventory from Union Hill.

ArchivalResource: 19 items.

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