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Wickham family. Wickham family letters, 1853-1854.

Title: Wickham family letters, 1853-1854.

The collection chiefly contains courtship letters (folders 1-2) from the spring of 1853 through December of 1854, between Littleton W.T. Wickham and future wife Elizabeth "Lizzie" Peyre Laurens. Their letters include declarations of love, discussion of their engagement, and marriage, which most likely occurred in December of 1854. Some of the exchanges include the whereabouts of a lost shipment of slippers sent from Laurens to Wickham and even a misunderstanding of the wedding date. Laurens writes from her home in South Carolina to Wickham in New Orleans and Richmond. Also included are a few letters to Littleton Wickham from his brothers William Fanning Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and John Wickham (folders 2-5). This correspondence discusses the sale of the Virginia plantation in 1854 after the death of Elizabeth Selden McClurg Wickham and the division of proceeds and property, including in one letter from William the fate of some slaves. A detailed ledger page of the final sum for each sibling is enclosed in one of William's letters. The three brothers also relay the living arrangements and welfare of their sister Frances "Fannie" Wickham.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (7 folders)

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Wickham family. Papers, 1754-1977.

Title: Papers, 1754-1977.

The collection includes correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills, correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) of "Hickory Hill," Hanover County, Va., including diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman; correspondence, 1862- 1888; financial records; "Hickory Hill" farm records; and materials concerning the management of "North Wales," Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of Philadelphia, Pa. Also includes correspondence, 1848- 1913, financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks, correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943) of "Hickory Hill"; correspondence, accounts, farm records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of other members of the Wickham and Fanning families.

ArchivalResource: 11, 500 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30891142 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

Lee, Charles Carter, 1798-1871. Papers of Charles Carter Lee and the Lee family [manuscript], 1768-1931 (bulk 1780-1871).

Title: Papers of Charles Carter Lee and the Lee family [manuscript], 1768-1931 (bulk 1780-1871).

Papers collected by Charles Carter Lee include papers of General Light-Horse-Harry Lee, Major Henry Lee, Charles Carter Lee, and John Penn Lee. Light-Horse-Harry Lee's papers consist mainly of correspondence pertinent to his "Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States." Other topics include anti-Federalism, travel to the West Indies and advice to a son. Light-Horse-Harry Lee's correspondents include William Goddard, Christopher R. Greene, Nathanael Greene (copies), Andrew Jackson (copy), Lafayette (copy), Ann Hill Carter Lee, James Madison (copies), Nathaniel Pendleton, and George Washington (copy). Major Henry Lee's papers consist primarily of correspondence written during his residence in Europe in the 1830s. Topics of interest include James Wilkinson's defeat before Montreal, Jacksonian era politics, David Porter in the Mediterranean, Lee's biography of Napoleon and proposed biography of Andrew Jackson, Lee's financial and legal troubles, Lee's literary efforts. Prominent people discussed include James Buchanan, Henry Clay, John H. Eaton, Thomas Jefferson, Amos Kendall, Gales and Seaton, Henry St. George Tucker, and Daniel Webster. There is fairly extensive correspondence with Charles Carter Lee, Major William B. Lewis and Duff Green. Other correspondents include John Armstrong, James Biddle, Charles L. Bonaparate, Daniel Brent, John Carroll Brent, James L. Cathcart, Edward Vernon Childe, John Browne Cutting, Andrew Jackson Donelson, George William Featherstonhaugh, and Robert Selden Garnett. Also Francis Walker Gilmer, James A. Hamilton, William B. Hodgson, Sam Houston, Rachel Jackson, Peter Augustus Jay, Anne R. Lee, Charles Carter Lee, Hugh S. Legaré, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, John McLean, James Madison, John Marshall, John Moore of Paris, Nathaniel Niles, Barry O'Meara, Thomas Ritchie, Meritt M. Robinson, Gilbert C. Russell, Andrew Stevenson, John Taliaferro, Martin Van Buren, William Conway Whittle, and James Wilkinson. The papers of Charles Carter Lee constitute the bulk of the collection and contain manuscripts of his literary works and speeches, correspondence, and legal and financial papers. Topics include his student days at Harvard; a reply to George Henry Moore's "Mr. Lee's plan--March 29, 1777. The treason of Charles Lee"; scattered political commentary including remarks on William Cabell Rives; and a description of the capture of General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, 1863. Correspondents include William S. Archer, Henry Carey Baird, Nathaniel Burwell, George H. Calvert, David Campbell, Bernard M. Carter, J. H. Chamberlayne, Jr., Robert Young Conrad, E. S. Davis, Frederic De Peyster, Lyman C. Draper, Benjamin Rush Floyd, Letitia Floyd, David Graham, Robert Greenhow, William Wirt Henry, Francis Kinloch, and Benjamin H. Latrobe. Also George Washington Custis Lee, Richard Henry Lee, James Lyons, A. W. McDonald, Louis McLane, James Madison (copy), Hugh Nelson, Beverley Randolph, Charles H. Randolph, Robert E. Scott, Andrew Stevenson, Norborne M. Taliaferro, Martin Van Buren, Peter Van Winkle, Daniel Webster (copy), John Wickham, and William F. Wickham. John Penn Lee papers, consist of miscellaneous printed matter, routinme legall papers and business papers of the law firm of Dillard and Lee, Rocky Mount, Va.

ArchivalResource: 1917 items.

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