Watson, Walter Allen, 1867-1919. Papers : of Walter Allen Watson, 1820-1925.
Title:
Papers : of Walter Allen Watson, 1820-1925.
The collection contains the correspondence of Walter Allen Watson from "Woodlawn," Nottoway County, Va., with William Evelyn Cameron, John Warwick Daniel, Berryman Green, Bradley Tyler Johnson, Joseph Luther Kelly, Fitzhugh Lee, Henry Read McIlwaine, Richard McIlwaine, Richard McIlwaine, Jr., Philip W. McKinney, Thomas Staples Martin, John S. Mosby, Roger Atkinson Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Scott Shipp, Thomas Wheelwright, and John Langbourne Williams. Also contains Watson's diaries, 1894-1916; and the correspondence, 1889-1925, of his wife, Constance Tinsley Watson, including letters written by Moses Drury Hoge. Also includes miscellaneous materials: Democratic electoral tickets for Governor, 1889, and President, 1892; invitation notes from Mrs. Stephen Decatur and J.C. Calhoun to James Jones in 1820; and autographs of Sitting Bull, T.R. Ferrar, Hunter Holmes McGuire, Lewis Morrison, and Thomas Nelson Page. Also, includes a speech by Moses Drury Hoge, 13 October 1889, at memorial services at Pryor Memorial Chapel, Crewe, Va.; obituary notice of Robert G. Blanton, 1924; and an engraved invitation issued by the Jefferson Society of the University of Virginia in 1848.
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