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Ermatinger, Edward, 1797-1876. Edward Ermatinger letters [manuscripts], 1826-1846.

Title: Edward Ermatinger letters [manuscripts], 1826-1846.

Collection includes: Photostat manuscript letters from Archibald McDonald, 1830-1846, with typed transcripts; Typescript copies of letters from John and William Tod, 1829-1845; Photostat manuscript compilation of French songs, 20 pp, circa 1830-1840, compiled by Edward Ermatinger, with music and lyrics.

ArchivalResource: .17 cubic feet (4 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/678944440 View

Tod, William. William Tod letter to Edward Ermatinger [manuscripts], 1829 July 15.

Title: William Tod letter to Edward Ermatinger [manuscripts], 1829 July 15.

Typescript copy of a letter from William Tod to Edward Ermatinger, 2 pp, July 15, 1829, regarding the massacre of the Jedediah Smith party, John McLeod sent to recover furs with instructions to go to Bonaventura in California, the wreck of William and Anne, and the York Factory.

ArchivalResource: 2 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/678944109 View

Brooke, Robert S. Papers of Robert S. Brooke [manuscript], 1792-1927 bulk 1831-1863.

Title: Papers of Robert S. Brooke [manuscript], 1792-1927 bulk 1831-1863.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence between Brooke and his wife Margaret Lyle Smith Brooke, written while he was serving in the General Assembly. Subjects include family and household affairs in Augusta County including slave hiring and "correction," and social and political news from Richmond. Topics of interest include senator William Tod's fraud against the Bank of Virginia, male views on childbirth, religious attitudes, a church consecration at Hanover Court House, a Staunton fire, 1838, a request for militia to be sent to Pendleton County, a proposed reorganization of Brooke's district in 1843, the Western Asylum at Staunton and slave sales. Also of interest are letters of John F. Brooke while serving in the Navy in 1841 and a 1927 letter in support of the League of Nations. Papers of the related Berkeley and Carter families include copies of the wills of Charles Carter (1803), Nelson Berkeley (1849), and Betty Louden Berkeley (1866).

ArchivalResource: 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647806762 View