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Galt family. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1847-[1875] 1941.

Miscellaneous papers relating to the Galt family especially Dr. John Minson Galt, superintendant of Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, and his sister, Sarah Maria Galt. Includes personal letters, architectural notes and rough sketches, newspaper clippings, genealogical information, and other miscellany. Contains information on Eastern State Hospital; attitudes toward the mentally ill; Williamsburg, Virginia and its inhabitants; the disruptions of the Civil War; the Galt family; and the sculptor, Alexander Galt.

ArchivalResource: ca. 50 items : plans ; 31.5 x 20.5 cm. or smaller.

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Galt, Alexander, 1827-1863. Papers of Alexander Galt [manuscript] 1840-1918.

Title: Papers of Alexander Galt [manuscript] 1840-1918.

Of interest are letters from Uriah P. Levy and James L. Cabell to Alexander Galt, 1860 April 27 and May 4, regarding the latter's statue of Thomas Jefferson.

ArchivalResource: ca. 300 items.

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Gault family. Galt Family Papers, 1745-1892.

Title: Galt Family Papers, 1745-1892.

Professional and personal papers; 1745-1892; of the Galt family of Williamsburg, Va. Papers primarily concern the Galt family's work at the Eastern State Hospital, including apothecary shop daybooks, account books, medical daybooks, clinical notebooks, weather diaries, commonplace books, reports, medical notes, lecture notes, correspondence, and other. Personal papers consist of diaries, letters, scrapbooks, school notes, financial papers, memoirs, and other. These papers primarily document life in colonial, revolutionary, antebellum, and post-Civil War Williamsburg, Va. Papers also concern wider Virginia issues and relations with England, such as the Alexander D. Galt Diary (Msv 14a) which was written while in London during 1792-1793. Correspondents include Alexander Dickie Galt, Elizabeth Judith Galt, John Minson Minson, I, Sequeyera, John de.

ArchivalResource: 51 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191881577 View

Blackford, William Matthews, 1801-1864. William Matthews Blackford diaries [manuscript], 1849-1864.

Title: William Matthews Blackford diaries [manuscript], 1849-1864.

Blackford's diaries contain a detailed description of life in Lynchburg, Virginia, during the 1850s and the Civil War until his death in 1864. He records activities of his friends, associates, and immediate family as well as the related Davis and Minor families, particularly University of Virginia professors John Staige Davis and John Barbee Minor. He describes his reading, careers as editor of the "Lynchburg Virginian," postmaster, and cashier for the Exchange Bank of Lynchburg; his attendance at St. Paul's Episcopal Church; and acquaintance with several well-known contemporaries including George Washington Bethune, John C. Calhoun, John Hartwell Cocke, Alexander Galt, Matthew Fontaine Maury, and Winfield Scott. The volumes for the Civil War years are especially lengthy with information on banking in the Confederacy, tobacco speculation and inflation. There are lengthy second hand narratives of battles and political and diplomatic events as reported by the papers or his five sons serving in the Confederate Army. The diaries also contain eulogies for his father, Benjamin Blackford and his older daughter Lucy Landon Blackford Davis.

ArchivalResource: 7 volumes.

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Walker, Georgiana Freeman Gholson, 1833-1904. Private journal of Georgiana F. Walker [manuscript], n.d.

Title: Private journal of Georgiana F. Walker [manuscript], n.d.

This modern copy contains entries from her journal, 1862 -1878, interspersed with later reminiscences. She describes life in Richmond after her husband has been sent on a diplomatic mission and discusses the continuing illness of a daughter, mentioning briefly the death of Alexander Galt, the funeral of D. R. Jones, and inflation. Walker runs the blockade to join her diplomat husband in Bermuda in 1863. She describes the island, with stereotype remarks on the black populace, and also mentions a strike for higher wages followed by the burning of stored [Confederate?] cotton. She also describes the many Confederate sympathizers she meets and their social life; various successful and unsuccesful blockade runnings; high prices and the "fleecing" of resident Confederates; severe illness after the birth of her fourth child; and the continued suffering of a child from an eye affliction. There are brief mentions of Varina Howell Davis, John Newland Maffitt and the C.S.A. Florida, and British governor Sir Harry Ord, among others. Letters from Rose Greenhow are mentioned several times. In 1864 she describes travels to England to consult Sir William Bowman for her daughter and also mentions mining near Falmouth, Confederate society in Leamington, sight seeing travels in England, particularly London and the Crystal Palace and a side trip to Paris. From England she travels briefly to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she describes Confederate Society, the birth of her fifth child and an herbal cure for an affliction that necessitated a resort to "blind puppies." In 1865 she describes a brief sojourn in Bermuda and a return to England after the war as her husband is "under the ban." In England she notes a return trip to Dr. Bowman; English elections; visit to an orphan asylum with George Wythe Randolph and wife; other English attractions including a fox hunt; visits with Jefferson and Varina Davis; births of a two children and deaths of her father, sister and daughter; brief return to Virginia in 1874; and residence in Berkshire.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Galt Family Papers, 1847-1875, 1847-1941.

Title: Galt Family Papers, 1847-1875, 1847-1941.

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Gault family. Galt Papers (III) 1750-1982

Title: Galt Papers (III) 1750-1982

Papers; 1750-1982; consisting chiefly of the personal and business correspondence, financial and legal documents, literary documents, and family history and genealogy notes of the Galt family. The collection also contains clippings, photographs, and artifacts.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191881557 View