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Hamlet, R. A. Papers of R.A. Hamlet, 1813-1889.

Title: Papers of R.A. Hamlet, 1813-1889.

Include four letters of good standing, 1841, 1845, 1888, issued by Union Hill Baptist Church, Campbell County, Va., including one, 1845, issued to a free Afro-American woman, and one, 1841, to a slave woman; photocopy of letter, 1840, from Thomas Clark to "Brother" Hamlet concerning expulsion of a slave woman from a Baptist church in Prince Edward County, Va., for misconduct. Also include letters to R.A. Hamlet; letter, 1880, from William Mahone concerning organization of a Readjuster party in Campbell County; and a letter,1885, from Frank Simpson Blair, requestig help in seeking the Republican party gubenatorial nomination. Also includes letter, 1886, from Samuel F. Hurt concerning railroads' right of way; letter, 1889, from Page Morris, Duluth, Minn., concerning advice on Hamlet's obtaining a political appointment; and two printed pamphlets, 1889, by William Mahone, urging Republican party workers to keep Afro-Americans registered and combat Democratic efforts of disenfranchisement. Also include receipts and accounts, 1813-1847, primarily of William Hamlet; and affidavits, 1843- 1844, taken in support of Revolutionary War pension claims of Virginia soldiers.

ArchivalResource: 26 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32135462 View

Mahone family. Papers, 1866-1900.

Title: Papers, 1866-1900.

These records are chiefly correspondence regarding engagements of troops under Mahone's command during the Civil War. Correspondents are mainly officers who served under Mahone. The papers relevant to Robert Butler Mahone deal with his appointment as Consul of the United States at Nuevo Laredo by William McKinley.

ArchivalResource: 35 items (313 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122464699 View

Armistead, Mary S. Scrapbooks, 1879-1907.

Title: Scrapbooks, 1879-1907.

This scrapbook consists mainly of newspaper clippings of obituaries, marriages, trials, suicides, and poetry. Also included are articles about William Mahone and the Readjusters, and letters from Dr. M. D. Hoge. Glued in are opera programs; the June 20, 1879 St. Paul's Female School musical commencement program; cornerstone laying program for Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church, Petersburg, Oct. 8, 1879; letter from Kate Thayer to Mrs. Armistead, Jan 1, 1881; and a letter from R. M. Candlish, Jr., Sept. 15, 1874, appointing Mrs. Armistead matron of the Social Club. This scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings of obituaries, marriages, wills, and trials. A biographical article on author Amelie Rives is also included. This scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings of obituaries, marriages, and trials in the Richmond-Petersburg area. Also included are a biography of Ellen Adair "Florida" White Beatty, a biography of author Amelie Rives, and a history of the Richmond post office. A manuscript poem and two German Christmas cards are glued in. This scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings of obituaries, marriages, trials, and poetry. A biographical article about author Amelie Rives and her divorce plus obituaries for William Mahone are also included. This scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings of obituaries, marriages, and poetry. Also included is a manuscript letter from M. A. Peabody to Mary, February 19, 1897, asking about her and her husband's health and requesting a visit. This scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings of poems and a few obituaries. This scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings of obituaries, marriages, and wills. Also included are a report card for Miss Keen at the Judson Female Institute, Marion, Alabama, May 1854, and a program for the Judson Female Institute concert of vocal and instrumental music, February 29, 1856.

ArchivalResource: 7 v.

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Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894. Jubal Early papers, 1863-1890.

Title: Jubal Early papers, 1863-1890.

Papers, 1863-1890 and n.d., relating to Jubal A. Early. Includes typescript of an account of the evening of the first day and the morning of the second day at the Battle of Gettysburg by [?] Turner; typescript of a report of Isaac Ridgeway Trimble regarding the Battle of Second Manassas; letter, 1867, of Mrs. E.C. Wirz (widow of Henry Wirz) thanking Early for a copy of his A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence; and letter, 31 March 1884, from Early concerning Second Manassas and Antietam. Also includes letter of John Thomas Gibson concerning a meeting between Lee and Grant on 10 April 1865; letter, 3 December 1890, of Early to Horatio G[ouverneur] Wright, sending copies of his memoir, relating the caving in of the walls to his quarters on top of him, false signal sent to deceive Wright at Cedar Creek, and errors in Grant's memoir; typescript of an account of the Battle of Cedar Creek by Samuel J.C. Moore; typescript of an account of the Battle of Second Manassas by James G. Field; typescript of extract of a diary, 13 June-12 August 1864 concerning Maryland and the Valley campaign of Early; newpaper clippings concerning differences between Early and William Mahone; and printed correspondence between Early and Mahone.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22723034 View

Baldwin, John Brown, 1820-1873,. Papers of the McCue family [manuscript], 1767-1944.

Title: Papers of the McCue family [manuscript], 1767-1944.

The collection contains correspondence, legal and business papers, legal case notes, genealogical material, school notebooks and bound volumes, accounts, and Confederate Army quartermaster records of McCue family members particularly the Rev. John McCue of Augusta County, Va.; Judge John Howard McCue, Lovingston, Va., lawyer and Confederate Army officer; and William T. McCue, Staunton, Va., lawyer and Democrat. Topics of general interest are life at Randolph-Macon College in the 1830s; slavery, including hires, pre-war emancipations, a law suit and sales; sectionalism and efforts to preserve the Union; professor William E. Peters and the University of Virginia; the Lynchburg Fire Hose Insurance Company; Claudius Crozet, railroad construction and inventions; Jedidiah Hotchkiss' plans for opening a school; the Civil War, particularly in western Virginia and the Valley, including John B. Floyd's retreat from Carnifex Ferry; and secession and reconstruction in Virginia, particularly in Nelson County. Prominent people mentioned include Claudius Crozet, John Buchanan Floyd, Horace Greeley, Jedediah Hotchkiss, Stonewall Jackson, William Mahone, and William E. Peters. Political papers include election returns, a secession resolution, a letter to the editor on African-American suffrage, and a Nelson County meeting on Andrew Jackson. The collection also contains marriage licenses, 1801-1803, for Augusta County, Va.; quartermaster records, 1861-1862, of the 51st Virginia regiment; letters, 1846-1889, of John Daniel Imboden; genealogical information on the McGlachlin, Moffett, and Trimble families; a copy of "The McCues of the Old Dominion," a Virginia oath of allegiance, 1777, clippings on Augusta County politics, ca. 1900-1905, and photographs, largely unidentified. Correspondents include John S. Barbour, Thomas Barry, Thomas S. Bocock, John Minor Botts, D. S. G. Cabell, Mayo Cabell, William C. Cabell, Claudius Crozet, Robert E. Cutler, R. L. Dabney, John W. Daniel, James B. Dorman, Lyman Draper, R. T. W. Duke, Dr. James A. Forbes, Edward Echols, John Echols, Thomas Walker Gilmer, Don P. Halsey, James Marshall Hanger, Col. A. W. Harman, John B. Imboden, James Lawson Kemper, Joseph L. S. Kirby, Shelton Leake, Robert E. Lee, John Letcher, John F. Lewis, John McCue, and John Howard McCue. Also John Howard McCue, Hudson Martin, John E. Massey, N. H. Massie, Matthew Fontaine Maury, John Newton, Royal Paris, John Paul, William E. Peters, Alexander Rives, William C. Rives, John Robertson, Roger A. Pryor, Leverett Saltonstall, C. Whittle Sams, Joseph Santini, Hugh Sheffey, James C. Southall, John Spiece, Alexander H. H. Stuart, Wiliam T. Sutherlin, Nicholas K. Trout, G. W. Truehart, James A. Walker, Robert Whitehead, Elisha E. Wills, William Withrow, Drury Wood, and Edgar Woods.

ArchivalResource: 10,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647825610 View

Hale, Peyton G. Letter of Peyton G. Hale 1880 February.

Title: Letter of Peyton G. Hale 1880 February.

Hale, a state senator, writes to "Jane and Sid" chiefly about payment of his debts but mentions a compromise bill on the public debt, and a visit by Mahone and Judge Strother to hear his views on the debt question.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647911484 View

Brady, James Dennis, 1843-1900. Letters and clippings of James Dennis Brady [manuscript] 1859-(1900)-1948.

Title: Letters and clippings of James Dennis Brady [manuscript] 1859-(1900)-1948.

Letters and clippings covering his career as officer in the Second Army Corps of the Army of the Potomac, as official of the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Va., as several times Collector of Internal Revenue at Petersburg, and especially as a leader in the Republican Party in Virginia, material on his service in Congress and his break with William Mahone being included here. 2 scrapbooks. Series of three newspaper articles on Brady by James H. Baily from Catholic Virginian 9-23 July 1948. Collection includes a brief note from L.Q.C. Lamar to Sophia Bledsoe, 1877 February 16.

ArchivalResource: 550 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647967464 View

Myers, Moses, 1752-1835. Myers-Burrage-Graham Papers (I) Group A.

Title: Myers-Burrage-Graham Papers (I) Group A.

Papers of Moses Myers, and his sons Samuel Myers (1790-1829) lawyer in Norfolk and Pensacola, Fla. and John Myers (1787-1830) merchant of Norfolk. Includes papers of Barton Myers (1853-1927), mayor of Norfolk, Va. and his family. Includes Barton Myers' writings (speeches and reports), correspondence, invitations to events and the Jamestown Exposition of 1907 and newspaper clippings. Also includes letters and telegrams of sympathy to Myers' wife Meeta Hamilton (Burrage) Myers upon his death, as well as letters to their parents by Barton Myers, Jr., R. Baldwin Myers, and Louisa "Loutie" Barton Myers Lloyd. The sons' letters concern World War I, military service; the daughter's letters concern her life in Japan (as the wife of an Episcopal missionary). Prominent correspondents include William Wirt, John Randolph (1773-1833), St. George Tucker, Bushrod Washington, Littleton Waller Tazewell, William Mahone, Thomas Nelson Page, John W. Daniel, Thomas S. Martin, Claude A. Swanson, William Hodges Mann, Cyrus McCormick.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52777601 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

French, Samuel Bassett, 1820-1898. Papers, 1858-1892.

Title: Papers, 1858-1892.

Letters, 1858-1892, received by Samuel Bassett French. Most concern biographical sketches for his projected biographical book, The Annals of Prominent Virginians of the XIXth Century. The book was never published. Other letters concern politics. Prominent correspondents include William Evelyn Cameron, Jubal Anderson Early, James Lawson Kemper, Fitzhugh Lee, Phillip Watkins McKinney, John Barbee Minor, Roger A. Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, John Sherman, John Randolph Tucker and Lyon G. Tyler.

ArchivalResource: 52 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22742888 View

Borland Family. Borland family papers, 1771-1940 1830-1854.

Title: Borland family papers, 1771-1940 1830-1854.

Family correspondence, chiefly 1830-1854, of Mary (Giles) Green and George Godwin of Nansemond Co., Va.; Roscius C. Borland of Murfreesboro, N.C.; Thomas Roscius Borland of Norfolk, Va.; and of other family members in Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. Includes business correspondence and receipts, 1788-1867; a manuscript by Armistead Borland about his father Thomas R. Borland (who was involved with William Mahone and the Readjuster Party) which contains a genealogy of the Borland and Godwin families; and family photographs. Includes a letter, 1828 April 18, from Euclid Borland to George Godwin giving impressions of life at College of William and Mary.

ArchivalResource: 521 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21249095 View

Tyler, John, 1819-1896. Papers, 1825-1928, 1856-1895.

Title: Papers, 1825-1928, 1856-1895.

Papers, 1856-1895, of John Tyler, Jr., post Civil War Republican Party activist. Subjects covered by the collection include alcoholism, Republican Party politics, Presidential elections, political patronage, Reconstruction, Methodist Episcopal Church, Florida, Braxton Bragg, and the Fenian Brotherhood. Prominent correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Chester Alan Arthur, Pierre G.T. Beauregard, James Gillespie Blaine, James Buchanan, Jefferson Davis, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell, Henry Stuart Foote, Nathan Bedford Forrest, James A. Garfield, John Brown Gordon, Horace Greeley, Wade Hampton, Rutherford B. Hayes, Andrew Johnson, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, L.Q.C. Lamar, William Mahone, Raphael Semmes, William Henry Seward, John Sherman, Leroy Pope Walker, and William Lowndes Young.

ArchivalResource: 5, 303 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23660535 View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647972016 View

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

Title: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

A collection of images, manuscripts, and printed material, mostly relating to the Massachusetts soldiers and regiments in the American Civil War. Some material relates to other Union regiments and the Confederate States of America.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear feet (143 boxes, 2 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00124/catalog View

Massey, John E. (John Edward), 1819-1901. Letter to William Mahone [manuscript], 1881 April 13.

Title: Letter to William Mahone [manuscript], 1881 April 13.

Massey writes to Mahone regarding the former's campaign for governor of Virginia and expressing his concern that Mahone's endorsement of him is shifting to William E. Cameron.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821169 View

Mahone, William, 1826-1895. William Mahone letter to H[enry?] L[aurens?] Hopkins [manuscript], 1861 March 5.

Title: William Mahone letter to H[enry?] L[aurens?] Hopkins [manuscript], 1861 March 5.

Mahone discusses the Norfolk and Petersburg Rail Road's resposnsibility for the medical care rendered by the late Dr. [?] Spencer to James Whitney, a free African American injured in the railroad's employment.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/433613415 View

Shearin, J. Connell, Mrs. Speech and photographs relating to Nat Turner's Insurrection [manuscript], circa 1900-1941.

Title: Speech and photographs relating to Nat Turner's Insurrection [manuscript], circa 1900-1941.

A speech by Mrs. J. Connell Shearin on Nat Turner's Insurrection (1941) and 62 undated photographs (ca. 1900) of people, scenes, and artifacts relating to the insurrection or Southampton County in general, including the birthplaces of George H. Thomas and William Mahone.

ArchivalResource: 1 item + 62 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821432 View

Adams, Stephen, 1835-. Papers of the Barbour family [manuscript], 1793-1941.

Title: Papers of the Barbour family [manuscript], 1793-1941.

The collection consists chiefly of the personal and financial papers of James Barbour, his son, Benjamin Johnson Barbour, and granddaughter Caroline Homassel Barbour Ellis. Topics of interest include complaints of extravagance by a Harvard student, 1815; the War of 1812; slaves and slavery (including an 1854 inventory); genealogy; the American Party and its opposition to Roman Catholics as office holders; rail travel from Virginia to Florida in 1857; cotton; Orange County court house construction; and Reconstruction, the Republican Party, and the Virginia Convention of 1867. Also the Immigration Society; the shooting of General Thompson by Osceola at Ft. King; William Mahone's political activities; a St. Paul law practice in 1886; the Minneapolis exposition, 1886; the destruction of Madison letters by a gardener; a building for the Library of Congress; Fitzhugh Lee as governor; Thomas L. Rosser's political opinions; and Russian and Polish affairs, 1889. Also James Barbour's orations, 1890; race relations in 1891; the Boer War; the San Francisco earthquake; a 1917 poetry reading by Robert Frost; Red Cross Work; Catherine Booth; the Yorktown Sesquecentennial; and Garden Week. University of Virginia topics include the Student Infirmary Fund, 1867; Washington Hall, 1869; renovations and additions, 1869; astronomical observations, 1869; a department of agriculture, 1870; and the detrimental effect of politics on the University, 1884. Also the selling of the Lee family papers to the Library of Congress, 1886; the resevoir and dam, 1886; reorganization of various schools, 1887; recasting of the bell; the hiring and resignation of professors; Dr. Harrison's affair; and Presbyterian influence. The collection also contains ballot sheets for the election of Zachary Taylor; a William Henry Harrison political cartoon; U.Va. Board of Visitors resolutions, 1850-1865, on faculty salaries; minutes and membership lists, 1876-1879, of the Lay Association Virginia Diocese of the Episcopal Church; minutes, 1892, of the U.Va. Society of Alumni; photographs of Barboursville; slave inventories; and copies of General orders, August - November 1861, issued by Generals Banks, and McClellan, U.S. Army of the Potomac.

ArchivalResource: 3 feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647806574 View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28621247 View