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Brown, Alexander, 1843-1906,. Papers of the Rives, Sears and Rhinelander families [manuscript], 1829-1923.

Title: Papers of the Rives, Sears and Rhinelander families [manuscript], 1829-1923.

The papers contain correspondence, business and legal papers, genealogical papers, diary, photographs, clippings, and memorabilia of the Rives family and especially William Cabell Rives Sr., Judith Page Walker Rives, William Cabell Rives Jr., Grace Winthrop Sears Rives, and William Cabell Rives III. Correspondence discusses United States and Virginia politics, 1830-1860; the Civil War and post war desolation; the University of Virginia including the Jefferson Society, calithumps, and life on the East Range; German travels, 1851; the management of, alterations to, and life on a Cobham, Virginia, farm, 1853-1855. Of interest is an 1845 letter describing a plantation on a Louisiana bayou, and a slave-pulled tow boat; 1834 letters to William Cabell Rives re the United States Senatorial elections and the principles of instruction; copies of remarks made by him in Congress, 1827, 1836;and letters from him to his wife re politics in Washington in 1844; Also of interest are an 1851 letter describing Paris during Napoleon III's coup d'etat and the establishment of the 2nd Empire; two April 1865 letters re the murder trial of a man in Mosby's command; letters, 1872-1873, from William Cabell Rives as a student at Corpus Christi, Oxford; and correspondence re the construction of Cobham Park, designed by George Snell and built by E.S. McSparren; Also of interest are a diary, 1869-1894, containing brief entries and notes on family members, 1860-1909; and some manuscript histories of the Cabell family by Samuel Houston, and Alexander Brown. Correspondents include Lewis Minor Coleman, Edward Everett, Joseph Grinnell, George Long, E.S. McSparran, William Mahone, Einle George Money, Thomas Walker Page, Lyon Playfair, William Foushee Ritchie, Alfred Landon Rives, Ella Rives, Francis Robert Rives, George Rives, Mary F. Rhinelander Rives, David Sears, Ellen Sears, Frederick R. Sears, Kuyvett W. Sears, Amelie Louise Rives Sigourney, Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy, and Cornelius Walker.

ArchivalResource: 278 items.

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Rives, Francis Robert, 1822-1891. Letter [manuscript] : New York, to G. A. Magruder, 1863 January 27.

Title: Letter [manuscript] : New York, to G. A. Magruder, 1863 January 27.

Here Rives discusses the disputed constitutionality of the Legal Tender Act of 1862 and the politics surrounding that issue, including the hesitance of federal judges to ratify the act and his own negative position regarding the act.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

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Rives, William Cabell, 1825-1889. Papers of William Cabell Rives [manuscript], 1860-1882.

Title: Papers of William Cabell Rives [manuscript], 1860-1882.

The collection consists chiefly of letters from J.D. Osbourne, Paris, John C. Rutherfoord, Rock Castle, and Charles Morris, Hanover. Topics include pro-Southern French sentiment, the Civil War, Reconstruction, sharecropping, the education of freedmen, the Virginia Convention of 1871, life in Paris during the 1860s, and during the Commune and siege of Paris, 1871, and a controversy regarding Grace Episcopal Church rectory, Keswick. Of interest is an attempt to gain help from the Peabody Fund to educate the son of General Reuben Lindsay Walker.

ArchivalResource: 55 items.

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Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858. Papers of the Gooch family [manuscript] 1800-91.

Title: Papers of the Gooch family [manuscript] 1800-91.

Correspondence, medical notes, articles for "The Stethoscope," a journal founded and edited by Philip Claiborne Gooch (1825-1855), and other papers, chiefly of Claiborne Watts Gooch (1791-1844), co-editor and publisher of the Richmond enquirer, relating to Virginia politics, the Virginia Convention of 1829, national politics, states rights and nullification, the National Bank, presidential elections of 1824, 1832, and 1836, and contemporary political figures such as Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, John Calhoun, and John Tyler. Includes correspondence of Philip Claiborne Gooch describing his life at the University of Virginia, the revolutionary movement of 1848 in Europe, and the treatment of various diseases; papers of his brother, Arthur Fleming Gooch (1832-1898), relating to his teaching career and school in Lynchburg, Va.; and correspondence of a third brother, Richard Barnes Gooch (1820-1851?), editor of the Southern planter. The Gooch family resided in Henrico Co., and Richmond, Va. Correspondents include Thomas Hart Benton, Francis Preston Blair, Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough, Peter Vyvian Daniel, Robley Dunglison, Henry Alonzo Edmundson, John Floyd, Albert Gallatin, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Amos Kendall, John Randolph, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Thomas Ritchie, Francis Robert Rives, William Cabell Rives, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin Rush, Winfield Scott, Andrew Stevenson, Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, George Tucker, and Martin Van Buren.

ArchivalResource: 5 ft.

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University of Virginia diplomas of Francis R. Rives [manuscript], 1839-1841.

Title: University of Virginia diplomas of Francis R. Rives [manuscript], 1839-1841.

University of Virginia diplomas of Francis R. Rives, including an M.A. diploma.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

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Rives, William C. (William Cabell), 1793-1868. Letter, Castle Hill, to Francis Robert Rives [manuscript] 1866 April 25.

Title: Letter, Castle Hill, to Francis Robert Rives [manuscript] 1866 April 25. 1866.

Rives discusses his book, History of the life and times of James Madison, publication difficulties, use of Madison's papers, and its reception in the North. Letter, Dec. 17, E.R. Kine to "Barclay" enclosing another letter and sending Christmas presents (3 p. Holograph signed 18 cm.).

ArchivalResource: 4 p.

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Rives family. Papers of the Rives family compiled by Elizabeth Langhorne, 1839-1990.

Title: Papers of the Rives family compiled by Elizabeth Langhorne, 1839-1990.

The collection contains family correspondence, together with photographs, biographical and genealogical sketches, and research notes and letters compiled by Langhorne. Family correspondence discusses a feud between family members, a Johns Hopkins position for William Cabell Rives, Jr., efforts to finance a school in Rochester, N.Y., estate settlement, Amélie Rives's "The Quick or the Dead?", family news including deaths, marriages and a divorce, and genealogical information. Of interest is a copy of a letter to Judith Page Walker Rives from Robert E. Lee extending condolences on the death of her husband William Cabell Rives. The collection also contains two poems by Judith Page Walker Rives.

ArchivalResource: 150 items.

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Gooch family. Papers, 1800-1891

Title: Papers of the Gooch Family 1800 - 1891

Correspondence, medical notes, articles for "The Stethoscope," a journal founded and edited by Philip Claiborne Gooch (1825-1855), and other papers, chiefly of Claiborne Watts Gooch (1791-1844), co-editor and publisher of the Richmond Enquirer, relating to Virginia politics, the Virginia Convention of 1829, national politics, states rights and nullification, the National Bank, presidential elections of 1824, 1832, and 1836, and contemporary political figures such as Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, John Calhoun, and John Tyler. Includes correspondence of Philip Claiborne Gooch describing his life at the University of Virginia, the revolutionary movement of 1848 in Europe, and the treatment of various diseases; papers of his brother, Arthur Fleming Gooch (1832-1898), relating to his teaching career and school in Lynchburg, Va.; and correspondence of a third brother, Richard Barnes Gooch (1820-1851?), editor of the Southern Planter.

ArchivalResource: 5 ft.

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Rives, Francis Robert, 1822-1891. Letter : New York, to G.A. Magruder, 1863 January 27.

Title: Letter : New York, to G.A. Magruder, 1863 January 27.

Here Rives discusses the disputed constitutionality of the Legal Tender Act of 1862 and the politics surrounding that issue, including the hesitance of federal judges to ratify the act and his own negative position regarding the act.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

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