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Pratt, Harry E. (Harry Edward), 1901-1956. Correspondence, 1937-1955.

Title: Correspondence, 1937-1955.

Correspondence to Pratt from Carl Sandburg (about Sandburg's Lincoln books); Sandburg's wife Lilian Paula Steichen Sandburg; Sandburg's daughter Helga Sandburg; and Catherine McCarthy of Harcourt, Brace and Company, publishers of Sandburg's work.

ArchivalResource: 27 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/405596732 View

Mitchel, John, 1815-1875. John Mitchel letter to Eugene L. Didier [manuscript], 1867 August 29.

Title: John Mitchel letter to Eugene L. Didier [manuscript], 1867 August 29.

Mitchel writes that he has written for the Richmond Dispatch in the past but currently has no connection with it as he is unable to write under the censorship of [John M.] Schofield's Adjutant General. He discisses Didier's proposal to establish a weekly in Baltimore to be called "Southern Society," noting that only sensational or obscene writing succeeds. He himself knows Southern Society well and believes it to be in its "death throes." He feels Didier's project may have some suceess because Baltimore is the most Southern of Southern cities and comments on Albert Bledsoe's "Quarterly." He concludes by stating that he has a family to support and cannot write for Didier without adequate compensation. A magazine photograph of Mitchl and a brief printed biography are included.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/431417162 View

University Of Virginia Library, Special Collections. [Contact repository for more information].

Title: University Of Virginia Library, Special Collections. [Contact repository for more information].

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Grinnan, Cornelia. Letter: Fredericksburg, Virginia, to the Duke of Argyll, Inverary Castle, Scotland, 1863 September 12.

Title: Letter: Fredericksburg, Virginia, to the Duke of Argyll, Inverary Castle, Scotland, 1863 September 12.

Miss Grinnan writes a letter of introduction for Dr. Albert Taylor Bledsoe to accompany him on his mission to London for Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Grinnan also informed the Duke about civilian life conditions after the Battle of Fredericksburg and how the northern newspapers distort the situation. A note on this photostatic copy indicates the letter was never delivered to the duke.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145407803 View

Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870. Letter: Lexington, Virginia to Dr. Albert Taylor Bledsoe, 1866 October 8.

Title: Letter: Lexington, Virginia to Dr. Albert Taylor Bledsoe, 1866 October 8.

Lee replies to Bledsoe's letter of 27 August 1866, encouraging him on his decision to publish articles on literature and history in the Southern Review.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86172273 View

Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870. Papers of Robert E. Lee [manuscript], 1830-1870. n.d.

Title: Papers of Robert E. Lee [manuscript], 1830-1870. n.d.

ArchivalResource: 140 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647990352 View

Lewison, W.L., fl. 1862,. Virginiana [manuscript] 1828-1909.

Title: Virginiana [manuscript] 1828-1909.

The collection contains two letters, 1861, Walter Creigh Preston, University of Virginia, to Uncle John M. Preston, Sr. discussing the atmosphere at the University just prior to the Civil War, and mentioning the Southern Guard, Sons of Liberty and a company raised by Albert Taylor Bledsoe. In addition, an 1862 letter from W.L.Lewison, Charlottesville jail, requests financial assistance and clothing; and an 1828 letter from Edward L. Watson, Charlottesville, to Ambrose L. White, Tennessee, discusses the convention of 1828 to consider internal improvements and asks about western prospects. In addition there is a receipt, 1867 December 20, from John R. Woods to Walter C. Preston, for $200 paid for the benefit of Davidella Preston. In addition there is a carte-de-visite, ca. 1867, of Henry A. Wise, a photograph, ca. 1890, of the West End Railway Station, Falls Church, Va., and a photograph, 1909, of the Richmond Howitzer's Alexandria homecoming.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647845475 View

Bledsoe family. Bledsoe-Herrick family papers, 1750-1964 (inclusive), 1819-1954 (bulk).

Title: Bledsoe-Herrick family papers, 1750-1964 (inclusive), 1819-1954 (bulk).

The Bledsoe-Herrick family papers contain genealogies, memoirs, correspondence, writings, and photographs of various members of the Coxe, Bledsoe, Herrick, Fox, Wall, and Hunt families. A substantial amount of the correspondence and manuscripts in the collection center on Sophia Bledsoe Herrick. The bulk of this is a long series of letters to her daughter, Louise Herrick Wall.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006892 View

Lewison, W. L., fl. 1862,. Virginiana 1828-1909.

Title: Virginiana 1828-1909.

The collection contains two letters, 1861, Walter Creigh Preston, University of Virginia, to Uncle John M. Preston, Sr. discussing the atmosphere at the University just prior to the Civil War, and mentioning the Southern Guard, Sons of Liberty and a company raised by Albert Taylor Bledsoe. In addition an 1862 letter from W.L. Lewison, Charlottesville jail, requests financial assistance and clothing; and an 1828 letter from Edward L. Watson, Charlottesville, to Ambrose L. White, Tennessee, discusses the convention of 1828 to consider internal improvements and asks about western prospects. In addition there is a carte-de-visite, ca. 1867, of Henry A. Wise, a photograph, ca. 1890, of the West End Railway Station, Falls Church, Va., and a photograph, 1909, of the Richmond Howitzer's Alexandria homecoming.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34336540 View

Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 1809-1877. Letters, 1863-1890 [microform]

Title: Letters, 1863-1890 [microform] 1863-1890.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144385311 View

Papers, 1750 (1819-1954) 1964

Title: Papers, 1750 (1819-1954) 1964

Chiefly papers of editor and author Sophia Bledsoe Herrick, as well as papers and photographs of the Coxe, Bledsoe, Herrick, Fox, Wall, and Hunt families.

ArchivalResource: 9 file boxes, 30 folders of photographs, 2 folio volumes, 1 oversize folder, 1 folio+ folder

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00090/catalog View

McGuffey, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1816-1896. McGuffey Papers, 1814-1955, bulk 1826-1874.

Title: McGuffey Papers, 1814-1955, bulk 1826-1874.

Sections I and II contain the correspondence of William Holmes McGuffey. Section III consists of various documents and letters of members of the McGuffey family, including letters of Alexander Hamilton McGuffey and two sermons by William Holmes McGuffey. Section IV consists primarily of the journals and reminiscences of Henrietta McGuffey Hepburn, but also includes correspondence and documents of the family.

ArchivalResource: 264 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32037029 View

Bledsoe family. Papers of the Bledsoe family [manuscript], 1837-1951.

Title: Papers of the Bledsoe family [manuscript], 1837-1951.

A letter, 1837, from Albert Taylor Bledsoe to his wife discusses a religious convention in Danville, Va. and of a review he has written. A letter, 1951, from Louise Herrick Wall to Elizabeth D. Halladay, concerns unfavorable comments about A.T. Bledsoe in Philip Alexander Bruce's History of the University of Virginia, and in an article by Edwin Mims. The collection includes a photograph of Sophia Childress Bledsoe.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647806699 View

Sharp, Thomas C. The Thomas C. Sharp and allied anti-Mormon papers, 1844-1846.

Title: The Thomas C. Sharp and allied anti-Mormon papers, 1844-1846.

Ten autograph manuscripts, accompanied by Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, vol. LXXII no .2 (May 1979).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. + 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702126703 View

James Dodson Barbee and David Rankin Barbee Papers, 1784-1953, (bulk 1852-1904)

Title: James Dodson Barbee and David Rankin Barbee Papers 1784-1953 (bulk 1852-1904)

James Dodson Barbee, Methodist clergyman in Tennessee and Alabama and publishing agent, and son David Rankin Barbee, journalist. Correspondence, including family letters, notebooks, account books, printed matter, notes, and sermons chiefly relating to the Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, Tennessee, and to claims of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, growing out of Civil War property confiscations, and to the writings and research of David Rankin Barbee.

ArchivalResource: 5,000 items; 17 containers plus 1 oversize; 7.2 linear feet; 2 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010282 View

Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 1809-1877. Letters of Albert Taylor Bledsoe [manuscript] 1858-1875.

Title: Letters of Albert Taylor Bledsoe [manuscript] 1858-1875.

Letters from Jefferson Davis, Edwin DeLeon, Stephen Elliott, Edward Everett, L.C. Gailand, Elen Glasgow, Asa Gray, S.S. Haldeman, Wade Hampton, Joseph Henry, Josiah Gilbert Holland, John H. Hopkins, J.E. Johnston, L.Q.C. Lamar, R.E. Lee, James Russell Lowell, William McCloskey, Leonidas Polk, Margaret J. Preston, Margaret E. M. Sangster, James Spence, F.H. Tremlett, and R.H. Wilmer. Related letters as follows: William Gladstone to ... Froude, Cornelia Grinnan to the Duke of Argyll, introducing Bledsoe, and M.O.W. Oliphant to ... ; and two other items: pass made out by Abraham Lincoln for Mrs. Harriet C. Bledsoe and autograph of Jefferson Davis for Miss Anna Bledsoe. Additional Bledsoe material (microfilm only) includes a portrait of Bledsoe; an outline of his life; an 1899 article on him; a typed copy of his memorandum book; photostats of two series of newspaper articles "Reply to the Rev. Charles Hodge, D. D. 'On the State of the Country'," from the New York Weekly Journal of Commerce, February-April 1861 and "The causes of the American War," from the London Index, December 1863-January 1864; two articles by his daughter Sophia Bledsoe Herrick; an article by Harry E. Pratt "Albert Taylor Bledsoe: Critic of Lincoln"; various notes and clippings including a copy of an 1861 Schele de Vere on his desire to help save the union; and some correspondence of David Rankin Barbee on his search for Bledsoe material.

ArchivalResource: ca. 25 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647967586 View

Taylor, Creed, 1766-1836. Papers of Creed Taylor [manuscript], 1791-1873.

Title: Papers of Creed Taylor [manuscript], 1791-1873.

Correspondence contains information on plantation life at Taylor's "Needham" and Judith Randolph's "Bizarre"; legal and financial matters; Virginia politics and the Republican Party; the law school maintained at "Needham" by Taylor; the Virginia Literary Fund to support public education; the division of Fincastle County, Va., in 1799; James Monroe's presidential bid of 1808; and cases before the Superior Court of Chancery, including one involving William W. Hening. Other topics include the Virginia-Kentucky boundary dispute of 1803; the necessity of a Republican university education (Eldred Simkins); a Virginia state bank (John Taylor of Caroline); a book endorsement; the Mutual Assurance Society (Alexander McRae); changes in the Virginia judicial system (Archibald Stuart, ); judicial procedure (Dabney Carr); residency requirements for judges of courts of chancery (Robert Nelson, William Nelson); safety of court records in war time (Archibald Thweatte); Mordecai's school in Warrenton (Samuel Taylor); the sale of Thomas Mann Randolph's estate and Randolph's distrust of Francis Walker Gilmer's motives; Taylor's incipient problem with alcohol (Samuel Taylor, 1828 Feb 27). Also of interest are letters concerning the binding out of a free black youth (John Michaux, Nat Dodson) and the disposition of Taylor's property and the fate of his slave Rhody and her family (Samuel Taylor 1826 Aug. 28). In a note, 1802 February 1, James Monroe sends a publication. In a letter fragment, ca. 1808, Monroe suggests corrections in the wording of an endorsement of his presidential bid by Taylor. In a letter, 1811 Janaury 21, he writes re the appointment of a Mr. Robinson to an unnamed position. In a letter, 1813 January 4, Taylor writes to Monroe recommending the appointment of William Randolph as Captain. In a letter, 1813 January 4, James Madison writes re the appointment of R. M. Chapman as clerk of the Chancery Court at Fredericksburg. There are several letters from admirers concerning Creed's Journal of the Law School including one from Thomas Jefferson,1823 March 24. In addition the collection contains accounts of Creed Taylor as executor of Beverley Randolph. Correspondence of Creed Taylor, Jr., chiefly convey family news. An 1863 letter concerns salt rationing, an 1873 one concerns the whereabouts of a former servant "Aleck" "carried to Kentucky by the Federal Army." The collection also contains the diaries, 1852-1856, of Jennette Knickerbocker, a Madison County, New York school teacher, as well as her correspondence with Albert Howard, Jr. The 1852 diary describes her year at an institute in Cazenovia, N.Y. (Cazenovia College?).

ArchivalResource: 416 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647897558 View

Bledsoe family. Papers, 1837-1951.

Title: Papers, 1837-1951.

Include letter, 1837, from Albert Taylor Bledsoe to his wife re: a religious convention in Danville, Va. and of a review he has written. Also include letter, 1951, from Louise Herrick Wall to Elizabeth D. Halladay, concerning unfavorable comments about A.T. Bledsoe in Philip Alexander Bruce's History of the University of Virginia, and in an article by Edwin Mims. The collection includes a photograph of Sophia Childress Bledsoe.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32958791 View

Coxe, Harriet. Papers of the Dinwiddie Family [manuscript], 1846-1937.

Title: Papers of the Dinwiddie Family [manuscript], 1846-1937.

The collection includes 39 letters of William Dinwiddie, 1846-1878. Many of the letters concern the Civil War in Albemarle County, Va., especially the Confederate hospital in Greenwood. Correspondents include James P. Holcombe, Lucius Q.C. Lamar, R.L. Dabney, Hunter McGuire, and Stonewall Jackson. The collection also contains a scrapbook of articles concerning Albert Taylor Bledsoe, 1877-1878, and a typescript memorandum book of Bledsoe; and a manuscript notebook of Harriet Coxe containing algebra notes. There are also genealogical notes on the Coxe family, especially regarding Dr. Daniel Coxe. Of interest are maps of Big Sewell Mountain, autumn, 1861.

ArchivalResource: 50 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647924313 View

Thompson, John Reuben, 1823-1873. Civil War journal, 1864.

Title: Civil War journal, 1864.

Thompson describes events and conditions in Richmond, Va., particularly in regard to the war; and his life in England where he travelled in June and where he met Albert T. Bledsoe, Thomas Carlyle, Alexander Collie, Lord and Lady Donoughmore, Walker Fearn, Henry Hotze, James E. MacFarland, Norman Walker and David Watson.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54077030 View

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. [Contact repository for more information].

Title: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. [Contact repository for more information].

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Bullock, C. Seymour,. C. Seymour Bullock letters, 1823-1889 [manuscript].

Title: C. Seymour Bullock letters, 1823-1889 [manuscript].

Letters to and from Jefferson Davis, including an 1856 invitation from A. T. Bledsoe to Jefferson Davis to an evening party; a typescript copy of a letter, June 1823, from Sam Davis to his son Jefferson concerning family and personal news; and typescript and photostatic copies of a letter from Jefferson Davis to Major Walker Taylor in 1889, denying the rumor that he had intended to capture or assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Also included are photostatic copies of other items, including a bill, 1854, from Oak Hill Cemetery for burial expenses for Jefferson Davis' son; a letter, 20 March 1862, from S. Mullens, secretary of the Navy, C.S.A., to Jefferson Davis regarding the battle of the Monitor and the Virginia (Merrimac); a letter, 27 February 1865, from Mrs. M. E. Trotter and Miss E. P. Buel, to Jefferson Davis, offering their services, perhaps as spies, to the Confederacy; and a letter, 18 December 1878, from Jefferson Davis to C. E. Hooker responding to inquiries about former personal belongings. Additional items include a typescript copy of a letter, 3 September 1883, from Jefferson Davis to Hancock Taylor, Gen. Abe Buford, and R. H. Taylor, declining an invitation to appear at the dedication of a monument to Zachary Taylor; and a printed reproduction of a portrait of Stonewall Jackson, with a photostatic copy of an explanation from the artist, J. R. Graham.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27188740 View

Coffin, James H. (James Henry), 1806-1873. James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

Title: James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

These papers consist of correspondence concerning temperature, wind, and weather reports of the Hudson Bay region, 1848; resolutions of condolence to Coffin's son, Seldon J. Coffin, from students and alumni of Lafayette College after Coffin's death, 1873; newspaper articles; an illustration of James H. Coffin; and the original manuscript of Winds of the Northern Hemisphere. Additional correspondence of James Henry Coffin exists elsewhere in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, especially in the Joseph Henry Collection, Record Unit 7001, and Meteorological Project Records, Record Unit 60.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)

https://sova.si.edu/record/SIA.FARU7060 View

Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 1809-1877. Autograph inscription of Albert Taylor Bledsoe [manuscript], 1850 December 25.

Title: Autograph inscription of Albert Taylor Bledsoe [manuscript], 1850 December 25.

Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Dec. 25, 1850 to his friend, Susan I. Sparrow, autograph inscription in Rufus Wilmot Griswold's "Poets and Poetry of England, in the nineteenth century."

ArchivalResource: 1 tem.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647884869 View

Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867. Alexander Dallas Bache Papers, 1821-1869

Title: Alexander Dallas Bache Papers, 1821-1869

The papers of Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) relate to his study of European education, his appointment as Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, his professional intercourse with other scientists on a broad range of topics, his own research, and his work on the United States Lighthouse Board. They include diaries, 1836-1837, of his study of educational institutions in Britain; correspondence, 1821-1866, documenting his European trip, his work on education during the years 1839-1841, and his contact with the American scientific community; small collections of papers concerning the Coast Survey, the Lighthouse Board, and the Smithsonian Institution; letters to his wife, Nancy Clarke Fowler Bache; and a small collection of posthumous papers.

ArchivalResource: 3.47 cu. ft. (5 document boxes) (3 half document boxes) (2 microfilm reels) (6 oversize folders)

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_217212 View

Harrison, William Henry, 1810-1881. Letter, Wigwam, to Albert Taylor Bledsoe, U. Va. regarding having seen the religious light [manuscript] 1854 Sept. 25.

Title: Letter, Wigwam, to Albert Taylor Bledsoe, U. Va. regarding having seen the religious light [manuscript] 1854 Sept. 25.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647947918 View

Blackburn, John S. (John Stuart). Notebooks and scrapbooks 1853-ca. 1908.

Title: Notebooks and scrapbooks 1853-ca. 1908.

The books include a notebook, 1853, from Charlestown Academy containing French, poetry and debates; a literature notebook, 1858-1859, reused as a scrapbook, 1872-1887; scrapbooks kept in Jefferson County and Alexandria, 1868, 1878, 1881, chiefly containing scientific, chess and Civil War clippings and some obituaries; a poetry notebook of Susan Beverly; and a U. Va. math notebook, n.d., of Bennett Taylor from John Bledsoe's class.

ArchivalResource: 7 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647927269 View

University of Virginia students' letter to the editors of the Exchange [manuscript], 1861 March 22.

Title: University of Virginia students' letter to the editors of the Exchange [manuscript], 1861 March 22.

A letter from "The sons of Virginia & of Maryland [who?] are true to the South" describes the raising of a flag of the Southern Confederacy over the Rotunda on 15 March 1861 by a group known as the Carr's Hill boys." The flag was ordered down by a sympathetic Professor Bledsoe as it was illegal to fly it over state property. The writers then describe a grand flag raising at one of the boarding houses the following Monday, complete with a little girl dressed as the Goddess of Liberty and a salute of seven rounds by the Southern Guard and the playing of "Dixie." Randolph H. McKim describes himself as one of the seven in his memoirs "Soldier's Recollections Leaves from the diary of a Confederate."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/698377752 View

James Dodson Barbee and David Rankin Barbee Papers, 1784-1953, (bulk 1852-1904)

Title: James Dodson Barbee and David Rankin Barbee Papers 1784-1953 (bulk 1852-1904)

James Dodson Barbee, Methodist clergyman in Tennessee and Alabama and publishing agent, and son David Rankin Barbee, journalist. Correspondence, including family letters, notebooks, account books, printed matter, notes, and sermons chiefly relating to the Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, Tennessee, and to claims of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, growing out of Civil War property confiscations, and to the writings and research of David Rankin Barbee.

ArchivalResource: 5,000 items; 17 containers plus 1 oversize; 7.2 linear feet; 2 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010282 View

Broadus, John Albert, 1827-1895. Letters to the Rev. Broadus [microform] 1850-94.

Title: Letters to the Rev. Broadus [microform] 1850-94.

Among those writing to Broadus were Albert Taylor Bledsoe, John Hartwell Cocke, John Staige Davis, Noah K. Davis, Basil L. Gildersleeve, Maximilian Schele de Vere, Gessner Harrison, Moses D. Hoge, Frederick W. Holliday, Thomas Cary Johnson, W. Gordon McCabe, William H. McGuffey, Socrates Maupin, John B. Minor, Samuel C. Mitchell, Dwight L. Moody, William E. Peters, William Barton Rogers, Francis H. Smith, George Boardman Taylor, William M. Thornton, Crawford H. Toy, George Tucker, Zebulon B. Vance and Charles S. Venable.

ArchivalResource: 405 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647971948 View

Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 1809-1877. A review of The life of Abraham Lincoln ... by Ward J. [i.e. H] Lamon / by A.T. Bledsoe, with additional facts.

Title: A review of The life of Abraham Lincoln ... by Ward J. [i.e. H] Lamon / by A.T. Bledsoe, with additional facts.

Typescript.

ArchivalResource: 54 leaves ; 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9435806 View

Bohn, Casimir. Photographs of Casimir Bohn engravings of the University of Virginia faculty [manuscript], 19??

Title: Photographs of Casimir Bohn engravings of the University of Virginia faculty [manuscript], 19??

Photographs of engravings of the University of Virginia faculty published by C. Bohn of Washington, D.C. with A. B. Walter as engraver. The engravings were inserted in University of Virginia autograph albums published by Bohn in 1859. Also included is one image of the Honorable Henry A. Wise, Govenor of Virginia and former member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 16 photos.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647911271 View

Additional manuscripts of the Coxe and Dinwiddie families including Sophia Bledsoe Herrick's "Coxe Family" [manuscript] 1722-1729.

Title: Additional manuscripts of the Coxe and Dinwiddie families including Sophia Bledsoe Herrick's "Coxe Family" [manuscript] 1722-1729.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647964684 View

Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, Duke of, 1823-1900. Papers of the Grinnan and related Bryan and Tucker families of Virginia [manuscript], 1734-1935.

Title: Papers of the Grinnan and related Bryan and Tucker families of Virginia [manuscript], 1734-1935.

Personal and business correspondence, business and legal papers, and memorabilia trace the family through five generations. Broad topics are life in Virginia, the role of women in society, slavery, the Civil War and reconstruction, and religion. Of special interest are letters of Randolph B. Grinnan, missionary to Japan; Andrew G. Grinnan, physician and speculator; John R. Bryan, farmer; St. George Tucker, Williamsburg jurist; and John Randolph of Roanoke. Business papers of Murray, Grinnan and Mundell, Fredericksburg flour merchants concern the flour trade and the effects of the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. Legal papers concern estate settlement and contain wills, deeds, indentures, powers of attorney, land surveys and a Civil War pardon. There are also blacksmith daybooks, store accounts, drug purchase records, and surveys and sketches of coal lands. Of interest is an 1825 journal of a trip to Scotland, England, and France, an essay on whaling in Yosa, Japan, genealogical material on the Carr, Holladay, Lewis, Nicholas and Randolph families, a letter sent through Union lines in care of the slave "Carter" and a tintype of former Albemarle County slave "elder" Sam Pryor. Briefly mentioned topics of interest include the Revolution; travel to New York state, California, India, and New Orleans; an 1812 earthquake; an 1830s cholera epidemic, the election of 1840; Andrew Jackson, Jenny Lind, temperance, and the Miller School. Correspondents include John Tyler who writes to John R. Bryan, 1855 December 5, regretting an invitation. Also James Buchanan (1860), John Hoover (1803), William Waller Hening (1811), Robert E. Lee (1862), Hugh Mercer (1803), Matthew Fontaine Maury (1867), Thomas Nelson (1790), John Randolph of Roanoke (dying statement, 1833), Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. (1806), J.E.B. Stuart (1862), John Tyler (1860), and Henry A. Wise on the triangle slave trade (1856).

ArchivalResource: 5500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647825518 View

James, Charles F. (Charles Fenton), 1844-1902. Diary of Charles F. James [manuscript], 1869-1871.

Title: Diary of Charles F. James [manuscript], 1869-1871.

Diary contains accounts of James's life as a student at Richmond College and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. James writes concerning his father's death, the 1870 collapse of a floor in the Capitol at Richmond, his ongoing debate with his brother, John, over the relative merits of the Baptist and Free Methodist denominations, many sermons and speeches he has heard, and his own work in various churches and in establishing a Sunday School for the workers at "Mr. Grady's factory outside Greenville, South Carolina."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821648 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Autograph letters and documents of officers and statesmen associated with the Confederacy in the Civil War, collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01500/catalog View

Lyons, James, 1801-1882. Letter, Labudnum nr. Richmond, to Lord Hartington, Eng., introducing Albert Taylor Bledsoe [manuscript] 1863 Aug. 21.

Title: Letter, Labudnum nr. Richmond, to Lord Hartington, Eng., introducing Albert Taylor Bledsoe [manuscript] 1863 Aug. 21.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647947923 View

Weather Bureau

Title: Weather Bureau

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/356 View

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889. Letter: Memphis, Tennessee to Dr. Albert Taylor Bledsoe, 1870 March 22.

Title: Letter: Memphis, Tennessee to Dr. Albert Taylor Bledsoe, 1870 March 22.

Davis asks Bledsoe to send the enclosed letter [not included] to Gen. Trimble. Davis is occupied with attempting to extend the operations and improve the organization of the Carolina Insurance Company in Memphis, Tennessee.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122700680 View

Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 1809-1877. Notebooks of Albert Taylor Bledsoe [manuscript] 1863-67, ante 1877.

Title: Notebooks of Albert Taylor Bledsoe [manuscript] 1863-67, ante 1877.

One notebook contains a fair copy by Bledsoe of an incomplete translation of "Le Roman de la Rose." The second notebook contains a descriptive list of letters received by him, chiefly while he was in England doing research for his defense of secession. Many of the letters discuss his earlier work "A theodicy ; or, Vindication of the divine glory." Descriptions of three other books by him are included.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647966349 View

Library Of Congress, Manuscript Division. Albert Taylor Bledsoe Papers.

Title: Library Of Congress, Manuscript Division. Albert Taylor Bledsoe Papers.

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Maupin, S. (Socrates), 1808-1871. Papers of Socrates Maupin, 1790-1921 (bulk 1831-1851).

Title: Papers of Socrates Maupin, 1790-1921 (bulk 1831-1851).

Two letters between Peter Grayson Washington and Maupin discuss an honorary appointment to the U.S. Mint and family matters. An 1858 letter from William "Extra Billy" Smith regards an acquaintance who wishes to matriculate at the University of Virginia. Civil War items include an 1863 letter from Judah P. Benjamin concerning the appointment of M. Schele de Vere to a confidential mission; an 1864 letter to James A. Seddon concerning rations for disabled soldiers enrolled at the University; two 1863 letters from Alfred Landon Rives regarding a military appointment for Maupin's son; and an 1863 letter from Albert Taylor Bledsoe to Robert E. Lee requesting a furlough for Maupin's son, with an affirmative note by Lee on verso. The remainder of the correspondence, chiefly letters from Socrates Maupin to his brother Addison, discuss lead mining; the Peruvian navy; the Medical College of Virginia; an 1841 operation on a Negro woman with osteosarcoma; the use of chloroform; Dr. John Peter Mettauer; Hampden-Sydney College and the influence of the Presbyterian Church there; and the Richmond Academy. Topics related to the University of Virginia include the Alumni Society; textbooks; student life; the school of medicine; the "uniform law"; the faculty; and the murder of John A.G. Davis. Other topics include plantation management; crops; the tobacco market; slave purchasing, hiring and discipline; Richmond business conditions and social life; land values in Albemarle County; travel in Virginia; Virginia state politics and diseases including smallpox, scarlet fever, chorea and cholera. Family matters are also discussed including clothing; courtship; marriage; pregnancies; illness; education; jobs; finances; building a house and the shipment of household goods; and the suicide of a relative. The papers also contain an 1854 bond for the Rivanna Navigation Company signed by Thomas Jefferson Randolph; and a 1790 land grant for property in Richmond, Va., signed by Beverley Randolph.

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Herrick, Sophia McIlvaine Bledsoe, 1837-1919. Personal recollections of my father and Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Davis [manuscript], post 1906.

Title: Personal recollections of my father and Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Davis [manuscript], post 1906.

Herrick writes about her father Albert Taylor Bledsoe, minister, lawyer and professor and author. Topics include Bledsoe's education; disatisfaction with the Episcopal Church; living with this wife in the same Springfield, Ill., hotel as Abraham and Mary Lincoln; Sophia as baby sitter for Robert Todd Lincoln; Lincoln's fascination with mesmerism; the Lincoln shields duel with broadswords; attitude towards slavery; Confederate service as author of "Is Davis a traitor?"; editor of "The Southern Review"; articles about Bledsoe; controversy with Dr. R. L. Dabney over doctrines held by the Plymouth Brethern; and personality.

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