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Bacon, Edmund, b. 1785,. Papers of the Randolph family of Edgehill and Wilson Cary Nicholas [manuscript], 1765-1869.

Title: Papers of the Randolph family of Edgehill and Wilson Cary Nicholas [manuscript], 1765-1869.

The collection correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and the following: Francis Eppes, Thomas Walker, Maria Jefferson Randolph, Francis Walker, James Strange, Matthew Maury, Thomas Mann Randolph, Wilson Cary Nicholas, John Barnes, Dabney Carr, Edmund Bacon, Patrick Gibson, James Madison, Martin Dawson, and John Steele. Also included are maps of Germany, a map dividing Albemarle County, Jefferson's map of the James and Fluvanna Rivers from Richmond to Monticello, Jefferson's notes on Monticello, his deed of slaves to Thomas Mann and Martha Randolph, and a marriage contract between Charles Bankhead and Anne Cary Randolph. The Nicholas papers contain letters to Robert C. Nicholas, discssing his business and shipping endeavors, particularly from John Norton of the firm John Norton and Son, merchants of London. There are occasional references to the political situation, including an apology from Norton for signing an address in support of the King. Other topics include the introduction of copper coinage and slave hiring. The Duke of Beaufort, Coloniel Richard Corbin, and Richard Oswald are mentioned briefly. Correspondence of Wilson Cary Nicolas discusses Nicholas's increasingly distressed financial affairs, business endeavors, family matters, western (Kentucky) land, national politics including the elections of 1800, 1804, and 1808, governorship of Virginia, foreign affairs including the War of 1812, high taxes caused by the War of 1812; the Second Bank of the U. S.; and the settlement of George Nicholas's estate. Of interest are letters from Joseph C. Cabell on Jefferson's trade embargo; John Guerrant on the Virginia Militia; James Monroe discussing his plans to travel to the 'western country' and purchase of land near Charlottesville; Nelson Nicholas on studies at the College of William and Mary; Peggy Nicholas on a rumored slave uprising and correct punishment for a young girl; Robert Carter Nicholas on the situation at Fort George; Wilson Cary Nicholas, Jr., on a county fair; Richard Randolph on a shipment of flour stopped by the Committee of Safety and a claim on the same rejected by Patrick Henry; Edmund Randolph on changes to the Constitution which would extend its powers, and Samuel Smith on the Miranda affair and the Burr trial. Several letters mention slaves and slave sales. Other correspondents include James Breckinridge, William Brockenbrough, William A. Burwell, Joseph C. Cabell, William H. Cabell, Dabney Carr, Thomas Fairfax, Albert Gallatin, William B. Giles, George Hairston, Bishop James Madison, John Mason, James Morrison, George Nicholas, Philip Nicholas, Peyton Randolph, Thomas Mann Randolph, Spencer Roane, George William Smith, John Smith, Robert Smith, Samuel Smith, John Taylor of Caroline, Abram Trigg. There are brief mentions of George Logan, James Madison, John Marshall, Commodore John Rodgers, and Littleton Waller Tazewell. Legal and financial papers include bills of sale, bills of exchange, bills of lading, receipts, invoices, promissory notes, land grants, indentures, wills, lottery tickets, speeches on the salary and compensation of the keeper of the penitentiary, and on internal improvements, and notes by Wilson C. Nicholas on militia, currency, military bounties, pardons, slaves and land. Document signers include Isaac Coles, James Leitch, and John Page. Also incudes a biographical sketch of George Nicholas and information on the Ambler family. Militia papers include commissions, returns, orders, lists of fines and instructions regarding an Indian campaign, 1775. Several pertain to the 47th Virginia Militia Regiment from Albemarle County. Papers of the Randolph family of Edgehill concern land sales, legal matters and family news, Of interest are a copy of a letter from Thomas Jefferson; a letter to John M. Perry and James Dinsmore re plans for the University of Virginia; a letter from Richard Kidder Meade on the morality of dancing; letters from Joseph Coolidge on publication of Thomas Jefferson's works and possible arrangements by Lafayette for translation and publication in France; letters from Robert C. Nicholas on the Sub Treasury bill; G.W. Randolph on his Civil War service together with receipts from the Quartermaster's Dept. signed by T. J. Randolph; and letters concerning the Soldiers' Christian Association. Correspondents include H. I. Bowditch, Francis Eppes, Thomas W. Gilmer, Martha Randolph (Patsey), Bernard Peyton, Sarah Nicholas Randolph, Thomas Ritchie, William Starke, and Thomas Jefferson Randolph Taylor. The collection also contains an announcement of the first session of the University of Virginia; a photostat of a list in Jefferson's hand [1811?] of current prices for tobacco from Virginia, Maryland and Kentucy, cotton and rice found with a John Barnes letter; an undated petition to the General Assembly for education slaves before manumission; draft articles/ notes on military bounties and presidential pardons; a Jefferson lottery ticket; and a ghost story. Drawings, maps and surveys include drawings of stands or tables, a plan for a well winch and two views of an unidentified piece of machinery and a hand-painted woodcut of Adair, Ireland. There are also maps and/or surveys of lands in Albemarle and Bedford counties, particularly Jefferson's survey surveys of his property in Albemarle; plat of Edgehill as surveyed by Achille Broadhead; a map of Albemarle County,showing St. Anne's Parish, 1777; and a a survey and plat in Bedford county;

ArchivalResource: 787 items.

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Meade, Richard Kidder, 1812-1892. Parish register of Christ Episcopal Church [manuscript], 1838-1868.

Title: Parish register of Christ Episcopal Church [manuscript], 1838-1868.

Register contains baptisms, confirmations, communicants admitted, communicants removed by deatah or emigration (chiefly to Missouri), deaths, marriages, contributions (with designated cause including colonization society and foreign missions), and record of visits. Family names appearing include Bankhead, Bledsoe, Cabell,Carter, Coleman, Craven, Dabney, Davis, Duke, Garrett, Garth, Gilmer, Latane, Macon, Massie, Maury, Meade, Meriwether, Michie, Minor, Noland, Pollard, Randolph, Rives, Ruffin, Saunders, Schele de Vere, Slaughter, Southall, Taylor, Teale, Terrill, Timberlake, Trueheart, Tucker, Watson, Wood. Of interest are services performed for African Americans including several marriages.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume.

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Clay, Henry, 1777-1852. Papers of the Morris family [manuscript], 1704-1931 bulk 1776-1865.

Title: Papers of the Morris family [manuscript], 1704-1931 bulk 1776-1865.

Correspondence, business and legal documents of three generations of the family. Papers of Richard Morris are chiefly concerned with business and legal affairs but also include items pertaining to his service as Commissary of Provisions for Virginia, 1776-1780, purchasing food for Virginia troops. Papers of his sons William O. Morris and Dr. James Maury Morris concern tobacco and grain sales, coal mining, candle manufacturing and Dr. Morris's medical practice. Letters of grandson Richard O. Morris are chiefly mercantile. Of interest are a bond of Patrick Henry, 1767; two bills signed by John Marshall; five letters from Henry Clay, 1822-1833, and a substantial amount of slavery material, 1769-1864, including bills of sale, tax bills, taxable property lists, a register, hiring agreements, three documents pertaining to runaways and a suspected thief, and a portrait, 1850, of Harry Holmes, slave of Major James Watson. The collection also contains documents, particularly bonds, land grants and maps, 1727-1831, 1894, pertaining to property and estate settlements in Louisa and Hanover Counties, Roanoke, and Kentucky, together with wills for several members of the Morris and Watson families. Finally there are genealogies, some scattered Confederate items including a bond and a receipt; a journal containing accounts of an Orange, New Jersey, physician, 1910-1920; and a speech re the presidential election of 1872. Also of interest are letters, 1778 and 1788, to James Maury, U.S. consul in Liverpool concerning business prospects, local news, tobacco shipping, and mentioning Patrick Henry's objection to the new Consititution.

ArchivalResource: 400 items.

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Armsby, James H., 1809-1875,. American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1787-1914.

Title: American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1787-1914.

Material collected by Hench, some as an autograph collection and others for use in his classes at the University of Virginia with examples of various periods. Modern autographs collected by Hench include letters by associates of Edgar Allan Poe; Civil War letters; papers relating to Virginia history; correspondence of writers and politicians, particularly from the Victorian era; and other miscellaneous correspondence with literary or histocial interest. Gerald Massey writes to Osgood & Co. and [James T.?] Fields on book sales, a publishing venture and American lectures. Dabney Herndon Maury sends an autograph and writes to the Piedmont & Arlington Life Insurance Company on a business matter and expressing concern on the business situation in New Orleans. Matthew Fontaine Maury to James H. Armsby, Bond & Son, and John D. Simms accepts an invitation to visit the Dudley Observator and Meet O. M. Mitchell, reports on the trial of varaious chronometers and recommends an appointment. Letters of Mary Russell Mitford to William Cox Bennett, Frances Trollop and others criticize the work of Henry Chorley and John Hughes, discusses her "Recollections of a literary life...."; solicit the patronage of Lord Nugent; recommends Bennett to Mrs. Acton Tindal, describes a packet containing work by John Greenleaf Whittier and Oliver Wendell Holmes; a bad fall suffered by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; a production of her play by [Charles?] Kemble; and mentioning Digby Starkey, the widow of Eliot Warburton, Joseph Hume. Letters of John S. Mosby to Eben Swift and Marcus J. Wright discuss Civil War incidents including his "closest call" and the objective of Pleasonton's attacks on Stuart at Brandy Station together with an autograph and a signed photograph. Also a letter of John Ware Mosby to George S. Palmer arranging a safe conduct pass for Mosby in May of 1865 so he can obtain a parole from General Halleck. Letters of his sister Victoria P. Mosby convey Richmond social news of 1842. Letters of Charles Eliot Norton to Dana Estes, C. C. Hazewell, Oliver Johnson, Andrew P. Peabody, Winslow Warren and others are chiefly brief social and business notes but include a letter about an archaelogical dig in Cotrone, Italy, conducted by Berlingieri and Clarke. Single letters of interest include Miles D. McAlester to Erasmus D. Keyes, 1862 August 25 concerning work parties for fortifications at Yorktown; W. Gordon McCabe to John Esten Cooke on a literary notice for a novel; Henry McKenzie to [Thomas?] Cadell on sales of "The Lounger"; Katharine Sarah Gadsden Macquoid to Roberts Brothers on the publication of "Dolly's grandfathers" in the U. S.; William H. McGuffey declining a request. Also William C. Macready to Mary Russell Mitford on publishing her play and his performance in "Julian"; Richard Kidder Meade to Samuel Pickens on the sale of Alabama land; James Montgomery sending thanks for a musical composition; Samuel McDowell Moore to John Letcher, 1861 September 3, on poor condition of roads which will hinder army transport and volunteering to supervise repair if given supplies and slave labor. Robert Nares to Thomas Cadell the Younger and reply on proofs for the completion of Macklin's Bible, together with engraving of Nares; and Yoné Noguchi to Madison Cawein on an evening with Joaquin Miller. The collection also contains an autograph of Joaquin Miller; a fragment by James Monroe on the acquisition of Florida.

ArchivalResource: circa 52 items.

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Baker, Richard Henry, b. 1826. Richard Henry Baker papers [manuscript], 1849-1856.

Title: Richard Henry Baker papers [manuscript], 1849-1856.

Diary of Richard Henry Baker discusses his life as a University of Virginia student. He describes his fellow students as "wild heedless young men and mentions election as president of the Jefferson Society, Professor William Holmes McGuffey, a funeral service for "poor Haile who was shot.... " He also mentions a cholera epidemic in Norfolk in 1849, his future wife, and church sermons including ones by Richard K. Meade and U. Va. chaplain William H. Ruffner. In addition he frequently includes poetry, rules of conduct and Sabbath reflections. After leaving the University he records his marriage, confirmation and births of three children. Also included are two commissions, 1851 and 1852, in the Virginia Militia signed by Joseph Johnson and John B. Floyd, and a commission, 1854, making Baker a notary public signed Joseph Johnson and George W. Munford.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

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Edwards, David S., Dr. Dr. David S. Edwards Medical and Surgical Journal and Letter Book, 1834-1858.

Title: Dr. David S. Edwards Medical and Surgical Journal and Letter Book, 1834-1858.

Dr. Edwards, surgeon of the fleet for the United States Navy, kept this medical journal and letter book on board ship and at the United States Navy Yard (Pensacola, Florida), the Washington Navy Yard (Washington, D.C.), and at the Naval Hospital in New York. Edwards also kept a journal of the voyage of the Ship Merrimack, which sailed from Boston, Massachusetts to locations in the Pacific Ocean. The journal also includes a listing of medical supplies.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume in one box.

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Rust, George, Jr., 1788-1857. Papers, 1788-1858 (bulk 1815-1858).

Title: Papers, 1788-1858 (bulk 1815-1858).

The collection contains Gen. Rust's political, personal, and business papers. There are a few drafts of letters by Rust, including one to President Franklin Pierce, dated March 9, 1853, concerning one Henry Bedinger and various Virginia political figures, and a second to Pierce, dated March 7, 1856, being "a list of the persons from [Loudoun] County, Virginia, now holding offices in Washington under the federal government." The business papers contain routine accounts and copies of agreements and deeds. A number of the items concern Rust's "Indian Town" tract in Lancaster County, Virginia. Rust sent letters to: William Allen, William Segar Archer, Henry Bedinger, George Bomford, Horace C. Cammack, Richard Kidder Meade, Charles Fenton Mercer, John Moore, P.N. Nicholas, Franklin Pierce, James K. Polk, J. William Roper, George Rust, William Rust, Landry Trasimond and G.B. Wager. Rust received letters from: James Barbour, L.P. Bayne, George W. Bolling, John H. Briscoe, W.C.B. Butler, William H. Handey, R.H. Henderson, William M. Hume, Richard M. Johnson, Robert Ward Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Amos Kendall, Andrew Keyser, Clarence F. LeGrand, Joseph Lewis, Edward Lucas, Armistead Thomson Mason, John Mason, Richard Norris, Ben Peyton, James Pleasants, Asa Rogers, Albert Rust, Bushrod Rust, W. Selden, W.G. Singleton, Smith Slaughter, Joseph R. Snyder, Pierre Soule, Agnes Taylor, and R.I. Taylor.

ArchivalResource: 214 p.

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Letters from Gabriel P. Disosway to John Anthon, 1832, 1849-1851

Title: Letters from Gabriel P. Disosway to John Anthon 1832, 1849-1851

Gabriel P. Disosway was a merchant and politician in New York City. These letters from Disosway to John Anthon at New York discuss his efforts as a member of the New York State Assembly to secure the removal of quarantine and emigration facilities on Long Island to Sandy Hook, and to establish a marine hospital there. The letters which are written from Albany, New York, Trenton, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. describe his negotiations with members of the New York and New Jersey legislatures, the Governor of New York, the state land commissioners, members of Congress and of the federal government including President Fillmore. Disosway mentions bitter debate on the floor of the House of Representatives between William Duer of New York and Richard K. Meade of Virginia. The letters date from 1832 and 1849-1851

ArchivalResource: .1 linear foot (1 folder)

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