Moyer, James,. Papers relating to Nelson County, Va. [manuscript], 1845-1960.
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Papers relating to Nelson County, Va. [manuscript], 1845-1960.
The collection contains papers, 1845-1860, of the Dawson family of Nelson and Albemarle counties, Va., including personal correspondence, 1845-1960, regarding family and social matters and the employment of Ulysses Samuel Dawson with the Newport News and Mississippi Valley Company, and including registered mail receipts and accounts for household goods. Correspondents include Rosa Dawson, Thomas H. Dawson, Thomas J. Dawson, and Ulysses Samuel Dawson. The collection also includes financial papers, 1851-1876, of Thomas J. Dawson, including accounts, bills, correspondence, and receipts, especially for Nelson County property taxes; volume of poetry, ca. 1860-1865, copied by Sallie Sym Cabell; copy of a deed, 1876, certified by Patrick Henry Cabell, transferring 52.9 acres in Nelson County, Va. from Paul C. Cabell to Thomas J. Dawson; and autograph album, 1886-1888, of Maud Whelan. Also include spelling notebook, 1889, kept by Annie Cabell; registered mail receipts, 1891, for correspondence sent to Alexander Wilford Hall; and business papers, 1891-1948, of Thomas H. Dawson, including insurance policies, receipts and accounts, and merchants' license for his tobacco business. Also include letters, 1912-1913, of the Cabell family of Nelson County, regarding family and social matters, and including recipes for cakes, wine and pickle; biographical sketch ca. 1940, of Wirt Robinson; advertisement, n.d., for products manufactured by E. Remington & Sons; and cased hand-tinted daguerrotype, n.d. of two unidentified children. Also include petition, n.d. signed by William Daniel Cabell, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, and others, requesting the removal of the county seat of Nelson County to a site closer to the railroad; plate glass negatives, n.d., for photographs of Native American artifacts; signed manuscript, n.d., for The Centrifugal age: Man's lost point of focus, by Bolling H. Somerville. Diaries of Robinson, beginning with his youth in Richmond, Va., reflect his life-long interest in birds, insects, and animals. Diary, 1878-82, mentions hunting, fishing, school works, baseball trips on the packet, his brother Cabell Robinson and friends, summer visits to Nelson County, Va., and work at Richmond College. Robinson's diary, 1892 June 6-August 5, describes a visit to Curacao with his wife, Alice P. Robinson, and Cabell and contains details of the island, its inhabitants, and wildlife and a description of a trip to Colombia and Barranquilla, Venezuela. Also include diary of Robinson, 1895-1902, chronicling another trip to Venezuela, Curacao, and Margarite. The later section, 1901-1902, details his life at the United States Military Academy where he was an instructor; a summer visit at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Ga., and visits to Lynchburg, Va., where he stayed with John Warwick Daniel, and to Nelson County, Va. Also include diary of Alice P. Robinson covering the period up to the day of her marriage; and diaries kept by Anne Whelan, of Norwood, Nelson County, Va.
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