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Executive Papers of Governor John Letcher, 1859-1863

Title: Executive Papers of Governor John Letcher, 1859-1863

Governor Letcher's Executive papers are organized into two series. Series have been designated for Chronological files and Subject files. The bulk of the material can be found in the Chronological files' series which primarily consists of incoming correspondence between 1860 to 1863. Although Governor Letcher did not take office until 1860, there is correspondence addressed to Governor Letcher soon after he was elected between November and December 1859. Correspondence, court cases, telegrams, poll books, pardons, proceedings, receipts, clippings, reports, petitions, resignations, contracts, proclamations, requisitions, resolutions, and other items can be found in this series. Noteworthy correspondents include Jefferson Davis, Gen. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Joseph R. Anderson (President Tredegar Iron Works), L.P. Walker & James A. Seddon (C.S.A. Secretaries of War), and James Mallory (C.S.A. Secretary of the Navy). The correspondence from Jefferson Davis involves Virginia troops (May 2, 1861), the reduction of service for some soldiers' companies (July 16, 1861), the enrollment of conscripts (Dec. 2, 1862), and the reduction of the number of slaves working on fortifications (Feb. 25, 1863 & March 5, 1863). As commander of all land and naval forces in Virginia, Gen. Robert E. Lee received correspondence referred from Governor Letcher. One such letter relates to the civil and military government alleged to have been established in Norfolk and Portsmouth (March 24, 1862). These letters include Lee's response written on the endorsement. Stonewall Jackson wrote Governor Letcher on several occasions. On October 12, 1861, Jackson wrote regarding Letcher's intended visit. On January 31, 1862, Jackson wrote Letcher complaining about an order from the Secretary of War to fall back from Romney. Jackson expresses his opposition to this order and requests a resignation and another order to be sent back to the Virginia Military Institute. Joseph R. Anderson wrote to Governor Letcher asking him to exempt workers at Tredegar from volunteer service (May 7, 1861) and for other purposes. Also included is a contract between Anderson and the Board of Commissioners to manufacture arms (Aug. 23, 1860). A letter from Secretary of the Navy, James Mallory, involves the transfer of the steamers Jamestown and Yorktown to the Confederate navy (July 15, 1861). Much of the correspondence to Governor Letcher consists of recommendations of Virginians for appointments. The governor appointed coroners; inspectors of salt, flour, tobacco, warehouses and vessels; commissioners; Bank of Virginia directors; and notaries, in addition to positions in the Provisional Army. Numerous petitions accompany these recommendations. Letters by individuals stating their desire to be considered for a particular position are also present. One such letter from Elizabeth L. Stuart asks the governor to reserve a position in the Virginia Provisional Army for her son, Jeb Stuart (April 23, 1861). Governor Letcher dealt with numerous such requests for commissions in the Provisional Army before the governor transferred all Virginia's forces to the Confederate States. Also common are letters and telegrams, mostly from April 1861, to the governor from individuals in support of secession and others who are tendering their service for the war effort. Letcher sent letters to the convention nominating colonels, calling volunteers into service, and issuing commissions (May 1-2, 1861). Letcher nominated Robert E. Lee as commander of all land and naval forces with the rank of Major General (April 22, 1861) and also Thomas J. Jackson as colonel of volunteers. Along these same lines are various requests for exemptions from military service. An ordinance of the convention exempted railroad officers and employees from service. A list of Central Railroad exemptions can be found in these papers (July 16, 1861). An important function of the governor was issuing reprieves and pardons. Copies of court cases, clippings, petitions, and correspondence supplement the pardons. All of the pardon papers are filed separately in the chronological series at the end of each month. One significant pardon involved the case of Notley P. Adams of Patrick County who was charged with arson. Letcher pardoned Adams in December 1863, after he served three years in the penitentiary. A map of the area in Patrick County where the crime was committed is included in the papers. The governor also received and issued proclamations and requisitions regarding escaped convicts and fugitives. Significant are the requisitions involving conspirators who assisted John Brown in his raid on Harper's Ferry (see below). Other noteworthy documents within the chronological series include: a rough copy of the ordinance of the Virginia Convention defining the duties of the Advisory Council (April 23, 1861); a letter from the Virginia Convention to Jefferson Davis inviting him to make Richmond the seat of government of the Confederacy (April 27, 1861); an anonymous letter to Letcher warning of the U.S. government's intention to take Arlington Heights (May 6, 1861); a letter from Letcher to Sam Houston, Governor of Texas, enclosing a copy of the resolution in response to the request of South Carolina and Mississippi for a Conference of the Southern States (May 24, 1860); a resolution of the state of Tennessee on state's rights (May 24, 1860); telegrams from the states of Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi announcing their secession from the Union (Jan. 10-12, 1861); a proclamation by Letcher to the people of northwestern Virginia regarding secession (June 17, 1861); deed of the state of Virginia to the Confederate States of America transferring property including all the machinery and stores at Harper's Ferry and the armory in Richmond (Oct. 3, 1861). A drawing of a "steam gun" designed by Philip Strickler (Oct. 29, 1861); a message from Letcher to the General Assembly announcing the death of former President John Tyler (Jan. 18, 1862); a 15-page report by Jeb Stuart to Gen. Lee on the Pamunkey expedition (June 23, 1862); lists of negro convicts employed by Joseph R. Anderson & Co. (Sept. 3, 1862); a list of prisoners taken by Maj. Gen. Floyd confined in the State Armory (Dec. 29-30, 1862); report of S. Bassett French calculating the slave population in those counties where requisitions were made for slaves to work on fortifications (March 20, 1863); deed of the Hollywood Cemetery Company to the Commonwealth of Virginia for a section to bury President Tyler (March 17, 1863); a telegram from James P. Smith, Guineas Station, to Letcher regarding the condition of Gen. Jackson (May 5, 1863); and a message from Letcher to the House of Delegates transmitting a statement of the number of troops furnished the Confederate States by Virginia (Oct. 8, 1863). The second series of Governor Letcher's Executive papers contains subject files. There are three subjects represented in this series: the Advisory Council, John Brown's Raid, and Railroads. The materials related to the Advisory Council include correspondence, proceedings, and reports of committees between April and June of 1861. Governor Letcher often referred correspondence to the Advisory Council and the endorsement on the letter details the Council's action with regard to the letter. One letter, in particular, from Robert E. Lee is relevant to the preparations for the defense of Virginia (June 15, 1861). The majority of the correspondence, however, concerns appointments in the Provisional Army and other military matters. The proceedings contain reports of the Committee for Courts of Justice, the Committee of Propositions and Grievances, the Committee on Finance, and the Committee on Military Affairs. The John Brown's Raid documents include correspondence related to the request for pardon of conspirators, Aaron D. Stevens and Albert Hazlett, and information concerning fugitive conspirators Barclay Cappoc, Owen Brown, and Francis Merriam. Particularly interesting is a printed protest by the Democratic members of the Iowa General Assembly condemning Governor Kirkwood's refusal to extradite Barclay Cappoc. There are copies of the indictments for Francis Merriam, Jeremiah Anderson, Owen Brown, and Charles P. Tidd. Military expenses incurred by militia, yet unpaid, are also documented here. Lastly, material concerning railroads include correspondence with regard to railroad connections and the ordinance of the convention relieving railroad workers from military duty and arming them for the defense of the railroads. A roll of the Richmond & Danville Railroad Guard is included. Accession 19736 has been included in Governor Letcher's Executive Papers. This accession consists of a letter from Susan E. Wash to Governor Letcher asking that her husband be relieved from military service. Endorsement of Gov. Letcher, dated May 7, 1861, grants the request. Accession 19923 has been included in Governor Letcher's Executive Papers. This accession consists of a letter from Major Gen. T.J. Jackson, Winchester, to Governor Letcher. In this letter, Jackson comments on the military situation and requests reinforcements and arms to be sent to Winchester, Nov. 30, 1861. Accession 33651 has been included in Governor Letcher's Executive Papers. This accession consists of a letter from John H. Winder to Governor Letcher regarding the sentence of J.C. Northwood, April 6, 1863.

ArchivalResource: 14.35 cu. ft.

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Jackson and Sharp Company. Records, 1869-1946 (bulk 1898-1905).

Title: Records, 1869-1946 (bulk 1898-1905).

The records consist of six lots of miscellaneous material acquired from different individuals who salvaged them from the plant after its closing. At that time, the builder's negatives were given to the Delaware State Archives.

ArchivalResource: 4.1 linear ft.

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Robinson, Moncure, 1802-1891. Papers, 1787-1890.

Title: Papers, 1787-1890.

Personal and professional papers of Moncure Robinson dealing mostly with management of Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad in which he held controlling interest. Prominent correspondents include James Buchanan, Washington Irving, Dennis Hart Mahan, Winfield Scott and Abel Parker Upshur. Also included is the correspondence of his father, John Robinson (including letters from William C. C. Claiborne), his brothers, Cary, Edwin, Conway and Eustace Robinson and his brother-in-law John C. R. Taylor whose letters concern plantation management. Also included are notebooks of Wirt Robinson.

ArchivalResource: 3, 302 items.

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Daniel, Robert Williams, 1936-. Collection : of Robert Williams Daniel, 1776-1882.

Title: Collection : of Robert Williams Daniel, 1776-1882.

The collection contains a letter from Edmund Pendleton to James Mercer, 19 March 1776, concerning Sir Andrew Snape Hamond and Charles Lee, the Virginia Committee of Safety, the arming of slaves by Lord Dunmore, raids in Virginia by British navy ships, and the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge (N.C.). George Washington writes (via Tench Tilghman) to the governors of seven colonies and officials in four other colonies on 31 January 1777 concerning desertions from the U.S. Continental Army. Also included are letters (1792-1795) by Edmund Randolph; a land grant (1788) from the Virginia Land Office to Samuel Woodson for 440 acres in Henry County, Va.; a printed act (1794) of the U.S. Congress concerning construction of a naval fleet to be sent to the coast of North Africa; and a letter (1801) from Elizabeth Nicholas Randolph to Jacob I. Cohen. There is also a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Hopper Nicholson, 7 December 1804, concerning the pension claims of Mrs. Ann Welsh of New London, Conn. Other Jefferson papers as President include clearance papers, and a grant for 100 acres of military bounty land in Ohio. There is a letter (1841) from Peter V. Daniel to Henry St. George Tucker; an 1845 deed for pew no. 14 in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Va.; a letter (1861) from Raleigh Travers Daniel concerning the Virginia militia; and a pass issued to Peter Vivian Daniel (1818-1889) by the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company. Also included are passes (1861-1862) issued to Robert Findlater Williams by the Confederate States Army of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, Confederate States War. Dept., and the mayors of Charleston, S.C. and Savannah, Ga. There are also an affidavit (1777) of John Eede of Sussex, England concerning a deed; revenue stamps and seal of Horsham, Sussex, England; and a receipt (1827) for the purchase of two slaves.

ArchivalResource: 26 items.

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Financial Dept. Records, 1899-1971.

Title: Records, 1899-1971.

The records give nearly complete coverage of the activities of the financial Department at its highest administrative level from 1900 until the Penn Central merger of 1968. Some files have been lost. Many of those covering the later years of Bevan's administration were impounded during the investigations of the Penn Central bankruptcy. Some have been lost and others are in the custody of Penn Central Corporation. Copies of many of these files are included in the Hagley Museum & Library's holdings of Bevan's papers.

ArchivalResource: 140 linear ft.

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Virginia. Board of Public Works. Falmouth and Alexandria Railroad field notes, 1836-1837.

Title: Falmouth and Alexandria Railroad field notes, 1836-1837.

These records contain level notes and route surveys done in 1836-1837.

ArchivalResource: 14 v.

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Fredericksburg (Va.). Volumes from the town archives [microform], 1789-1855.

Title: Volumes from the town archives [microform], 1789-1855.

Include minute books, 1798-1808, and docket books, 1796-1797 and 1817, for the Fredericksburg District Court, concerning primarily lawsuits for debts; proceedings of the Fredericksburg Mayor's Court, 1821-1837, chiefly containing records of public disorderliness, thefts of a minor nature, and insolvent debtors. Also include five loose warrants, 1845-1855, issued by the Mayor's Court, including incidents of two free African-American hands on a steamboat using provoking language, and a Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad engine, for exceeding the allowable speed within the corporate limits; and minute and fee books, 1811-1833, for the Circuit Superior Court of Spotsylvania, County, Va., for suits of law and chancery, John Tayloe Lomax, Judge.

ArchivalResource: 2 reels : positive microfilm ; 35 mm.

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Predecessor and subsidiary companies (Lines East). Corporate records, 1828-1968.

Title: Corporate records, 1828-1968.

The records primarily consist of basic corporate records, including minute books, papers of the boards of directors, printed annual reports, leases and agreements, stock transfer books, account books, financial statements, and annual reports to regulatory agencies.

ArchivalResource: Mss. 92.5 linear ft.Microfilm 42 reels.

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Lee, Fitzhugh, 1835-1905,. Papers of the Anderson family [manuscript], 1773-1930.

Title: Papers of the Anderson family [manuscript], 1773-1930.

The collection contains personal, legal and business correspondence, ledgers daybooks, journals, notebooks, addresses, scrapbooks, drawings and other papers of Francis Thomas Anderson and his son William Alexander Anderson. Papers chiefly concern coal, tin, iron and agricultural land in Lexington, Virginia and Rockbridge County, Virginia, and iron companies, including the Tredegar of Richmond, Va. Legal papers document numerous court cases in Virginia including the Virginia-West Virginia Debt Controversy, for which William A. Anderson prepared briefs and arguments as attorney-general of Virginia. Other topics include politics; social life; Daughters of the Confedracy; the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union; the Stonewall Jackson Monument Corporation. the Good Road movement and other matters. Items of note include a letter from Socrates Maupin on the University of Virginia and Professor John A. G. Davis; an 1832 draft resolution disapproving of South Carolina's nullification of the tariff; Fitzhugh Lee on the Rockbridge Company, 1890; letter from William Hodges Mann to Samuel W. Williams about retaining William A. Anderson to argue the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad case, 1910 November 4; social letters from Thomas Nelson Page; and a 1920 document concerning the Arlington Case and the passing of the Arlington Estate from the Lee family. Miscellaneous papers include drawings by Ellen Graham Anderson; Francis T. Anderson's loyalty oath, notes on McCorkle family history, material on the invention of the McCormick reaper; monthly reports of Nelson County, Va., teachers; World War I rally photographs; a Negro Book, 1847-1849; and account books from various Lexington and Rockbridge County industries.

ArchivalResource: ca. 7000 items.

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American Car and Foundry Company. Jackson & Sharp Plant. Job files, 1898-1905.

Title: Job files, 1898-1905.

Accession 1130 contains a total of 75 envelopes of customer order files from the period 1898-1905. Each file contains a specification sheet and notes relating to the order. Some also contain copies of the builder's photograph and blueprint floor plans.

ArchivalResource: 2.6 linear ft.

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Minor family. Papers of the Minor family, 1831-1906.

Title: Papers of the Minor family, 1831-1906.

Correspondence, 1831, of Charles Landon Carter Minor (1805-186?), while in Jefferson Barracks, Mo., to Lt. G. McRee concerning a legal dispute; from Carter Nelson Berkeley, 1841, concerning, Carter's study of medicine in Philadelphia, Pa.; answer, 1835, of Carter Berkeley, to the Court of Law and Chancery in Botetourt County, Va., pertaining to the estate of William Gordon, the marriage settlement of Nathaniel Burwell and Lucy Carter, a bill of sale for male slaves, and a mortgage. Also includes letter, 1832, of Lucius H. Minor to Catherine Berkeley of Edgewood, Hanover County, Va.; power of attorney, 1852, of Lucy Minor of Fredericksburg, appointing Lucius H. Minor to represent her interests in the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad; a copy of Bishop William Meade's relinquishment of his deceased wife Thomasia Meade's estate including his statements of her intent to provide for her slaves' welfare. Also includes correspondence, ca. 1863-1884, of Charles Landon Carter Minor (1835-1903) addressing the supply needs of Berkeley Minor, while at the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now VPISU) in Blacksburg, Va., and at the Shenandoah Valley Academy in Winchester, Va., comparing race relations in the 1880s with the antebellum period; and his accounts, 1868-1869, for board at the Washington House (Blacksburg, Va.). Also include letters, 1866, from Mary Ann Randolph Custis Lee, concerning life in Lexington and family affairs; certificate, 1867, issued by Hanover County Va., to Berkeley Minor to practice law; correspondence, 1906, of Berkeley Minor, with cousin Julia enclosing genealogical notes about the Carter family. Also include tax returns, 1867 and 1891; miscellaneous papers including an undated sketch of the first floor of a house with a narrative description of the second floor; and a letter, n.d., of Fanny Minor as a child to her uncle concerning Christmas.

ArchivalResource: 50 ca. items.

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Ould, Robert, 1820-1882. Papers : of Robert Ould, 1806-1883.

Title: Papers : of Robert Ould, 1806-1883.

The collection contains correspondence and documents on various legal, political, and religious subjects, including material on the Readjuster Party in Virginia and a certificate forming a company called the Magdalen Association devoted to the "reclamation of abandoned women, and their restoration to virtue and industry." Also includes correspondence with and about his son Robert Ould, Jr., and with A. Spiers George regarding a lawsuit, Pilcher v. George, and letters regarding the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad.

ArchivalResource: 73 items.

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Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad. Dispatchers' record books, 1905-1981, for the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad.

Title: Dispatchers' record books, 1905-1981, for the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad.

Include records of weather, number of cars per train, tonnage, crew, and the times trains passed reporting stations. Volumes cover the years 1905, 1909 (January-June), 1915, 1917, 1920, 1924, 1929, 1933, 1938 (July-December), 1939 (July-December), 1945 (January-June), 1948 (January-June), 1950, 1953 (January-June), 1955 (January-June), 1970, and 1981.

ArchivalResource: 25 v.

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Office of Vice President-Operations. Records, 1917-1968 (bulk 1930-1964).

Title: Records, 1917-1968 (bulk 1930-1964).

The records of the Vice President-Operations are a surviving fragment (perhaps less than 10%) of a much larger body of material. A large portion of the VP-O's files were not scheduled for permanent retention, and more was destroyed in the late 1970s. However, the surviving material does cover most of the major developments of the 1928-1955 period. There is significantly less material from Newell's tenure as Vice President (1955-1958) and from the 1960s.

ArchivalResource: 55 linear ft.

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Virginia. Board of Public Works. Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad records, 1835-1889.

Title: Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad records, 1835-1889.

Contains letters sent to the board, reports, specifications, certificates of stock subscriptions, and lists of stockholders.

ArchivalResource: 5 in.

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Executive Dept. Office of Vice President Samuel Rea. Records, 1866-1916 (bulk 1905-1912).

Title: Records, 1866-1916 (bulk 1905-1912).

Rea's surviving files cover primarily the period from 1905 to his elevation to the presidency at the end of 1912. Earlier documents dating back to 1866 were occasionally preserved, and Rea's correspondence was continued in the files of the vice president in charge of treasury, accounting and corporate work, and of the chief of corporate work.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear ft.

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Office of First Vice President (Finance and Accounting). Records, 1900-1909.

Title: Records, 1900-1909.

ArchivalResource: 16 linear ft.

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Virginia. Board of Public Works. Annual reports of railroad companies, 1856-1876.

Title: Annual reports of railroad companies, 1856-1876.

These records contain annual reports of the following railroad companies: Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (1870), Manassas Gap Railroad (1858), Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad (1859, 1870), North Western Virginia Railroad (1856), Richmond and Petersburg Railroad (1857, 1870), Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad (1870, 1871), Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad (1872), South Side Rail Road (1871), Virginia and Tennessee Railroad (1860, 1870), and Winchester and Strasburg Railroad (1876).

ArchivalResource: 14 v. (4 in)

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Bush & Lobdell. Letters addressed to Bonny & Bush, later Bush & Lobdell of Wilmington, Delaware [manuscript] 1834-1865.

Title: Letters addressed to Bonny & Bush, later Bush & Lobdell of Wilmington, Delaware [manuscript] 1834-1865.

Letters from companies in Virginia which provided pig iron or which were purchasing products. They sold locomotives, drill machine for wheat, railroad parts, etc. Letters written from Conomingo Furnace, E. Fontaine, Stump & Jackson, George T. Hupp and John L. Hupp of Strasburg, Virginia, South Side Railroad Company, Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad Company, Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company, Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Company, Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company.

ArchivalResource: 28 items.

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Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad. Time table.

Title: Time table. ca. 1900-

ArchivalResource: pieces : maps.

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Brock Collection: Virginia railroads collection, 1828-1894.

Title: Brock Collection: Virginia railroads collection, 1828-1894.

Chiefly correspondence of the companies' officers and employees, with miscellaneous documents.

ArchivalResource: Approx. 2000 pieces.13 boxes.

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American Car and Foundry Company. Jackson & Sharp Plant. Job files, 1898-1904.

Title: Job files, 1898-1904.

ArchivalResource: 0.9 linear ft.

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Cass, Lewis,. Faulkner family papers [manuscript] 1829-1929.

Title: Faulkner family papers [manuscript] 1829-1929.

The collection consists of the official, personal, and business correspondence of Charles James Faulkner, Sr., and Charles James Faulkner, Jr. The elder Faulkners papers contain legal, personal letters; official correspondence as U.S. minister to France, 1860-1861; and letters to Lewis Cass, William Seward, and Jeremiah Black. The largest group of papers concern the business affairs of the younger Faulkner, his activities as counsel for the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Central Railroad of Georgia, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, Delaware and Hudson Railroad, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Missouri Pacific Railroad, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, New York Central Railroad, Norfolk and Western Railroad, Pennsylvanie Railroad, Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad, Rock Island Railroad, Southern Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, 1905-1917. The papers include material on railroad legislation, Adamson Bill, Elkins Bill, Hepburn Act, Interstate Commerce Commissions.

ArchivalResource: 3,000 items.

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Office of Secretary. Corporate records, 1843-1968.

Title: Corporate records, 1843-1968.

The records consist of typed duplicates or microfilm copies of all records pertaining to the activities of the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from its organization to 1960. In addition, there are good representative samples of the contracts, manuals and other corporate papers, which were printed and distributed in multiple copies.

ArchivalResource: Mss. 16 linear ft.Microfilm 115 reels.

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Nelson, Thomas, fl. 1811,. Page and Nelson family papers [manuscript], 1694-1912.

Title: Page and Nelson family papers [manuscript], 1694-1912.

The collection consists mainly of personal family correspondence, bills and receipts and some legal papers dealing with railroad interests in the 1870s and the financial difficulties of a Richard Price. There are also [copies?] of the wills of Johh Mann (1694) and Thomas Nelson (1708); and a genealogical chart. Of interest is a letter, 1809 July 9, Thomas Nelson to Francis Page asking him to lookout for his runaway slave, Bristol; and a receipt , 1811 October 20, signed by Sarah Chisholm for payment for midwifery services for a slave of Francis Page. Correspondents include Edmund Berkeley and William Cabell Rives.

ArchivalResource: 600 items.

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Battle, John Stewart, 1890-1972. Papers of John Stewart Battle [manuscript] 1954-1967.

Title: Papers of John Stewart Battle [manuscript] 1954-1967.

Chiefly correspondence dealing with personal and business matters. However there is some of a political nature from Va. and national governmental figures and politicians who discuss the South and integration, civil rights, the Democratic Party, the presidential elections of 1956 and 1960, and the Va. senatorial candidacy of 1958. Papers, 1958-1960, dealing with the Civil Rights Commission, of which Battle was a member, include correspondence, memoranda and minutes of meetings [ca. 300 items] -- Papers, 1962-1964, dealing with the George C. Marshall Research Foundation, Lexington, Va. [ca. 150 items] -- Papers, 1962-1967, concerning the Tayloe Murphy Institute at U. Va. [ca. 60 items]. Correspondents from Virginia politics include: James Lindsay Almond, Harry Flood Byrd, Colgate Whitehead Darden, Burr P. Harrison, former law partner and member of the House of Delegates, and Howard Worth Smith. Those from the national scene include: Sherman Adams, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Robert Francis Kennedy and Samuel James Ervin. Also numerous letters from the American Electric Power Company, and the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company as he was on the boards of directors. Included are letters from William Cullen Battle and his wife Francis Barry Webb Battle describing life as Ambassador to Australia.

ArchivalResource: ca.500 items.

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Woolfolk family. Woolfolk family papers, 1775-1893.

Title: Woolfolk family papers, 1775-1893.

Papers of the Woolfolk family of Caroline County, Va. including correspondence and accounts of John George Woolfolk, Jourdan Woolfolk, Pichegru Woolfolk and John William Woolfolk. The collection includes correspondence, accounts and vouchers for the stage line run by the Woolfolk family (Allen & Woolfolk; Jourdan Woolfolk & Company; and Woolfolk & Hoomes). Includes records of routes, rates, supplies, arrangements for layover of passengers and mail contracts of the Potomac Steamboat and Stage Company as well as papers concerning stock purchases in the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad. Also includes bound account books for the stage lines. Includes letters written by James Lyons, Timothy Pickering, Robert Ryland and Benjamin Waller; letters of and accounts concerning members of the Maury family; and lists, 1829 and 1837, of vaccinated slaves.

ArchivalResource: Total 9,980 items.Lot 1 3,980 items.

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Virginia. Auditor of Public Accounts (1776-1928). Records of suits against public officials, 1792-1926.

Title: Records of suits against public officials, 1792-1926.

This series consists of suits brought by the commonwealth against county treasurers and sheriffs who had not paid the taxes they had collected. An anomoly in this series is a case against the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad. This series contains accounts, correspondence, bonds, and petitions to the court for the years 1792, 1822, 1844, 1867-1869, 1874-1898, 1900-1902, 1904-1906, 1908-1926.

ArchivalResource: 1 ft. 8 in.

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Fletcher, John W.,. John Fletcher railroad memorabilia collection, 1896-1912 and undated.

Title: John Fletcher railroad memorabilia collection, 1896-1912 and undated.

Timetables and other documents collected by John W. Fletcher relating to various railroads in the area of Northern Virginia bordering on the District of Columbia. Some documents are originals and others are photocopies of originals. Timetables for the railways include those for the Falls Church Division of the Washington-Virginia Railway Company, the Bluemont Division of the Washington & Old Dominion Railway, the Great Falls Division of the Washington & Old Dominion Railway, the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Company, and the Washington, Arlington & Falls Church Electric Railway Company. With the exception of one, the source of which is unclear, the photographs are photocopies from Herbert H. Harwood's Rails to the Blue Ridge: The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad 1847-1968. Other documents include a hand-drawn map showing the path of the W&OD through Ashburn during the late-nineteenth century, an illustration of "Early Trains of America," a photocopy of the cover of an official map of Washington published by the Estey Organ Company, and an Information/Travel brochure from the Standard Guide Information Office in Washington.

ArchivalResource: 3 folders.

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Transportation in Virginia [manuscript], 1937 ca.

Title: Transportation in Virginia [manuscript], 1937 ca.

Typescript article summarizes a history of Virginia transportation from the colonial period to the 1930's, providing names of numerous railroad companies, some steamship companies, ferries motor companies, and aviation companies; major highways and waterways are noted as well as legislation dealing with transportation. An index and bibliography are included.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Chandler, E. H. E.H. Chandler letter, 1861 May 30.

Title: E.H. Chandler letter, 1861 May 30.

Letter from Confederate Army Headquarters, Fredericksburg, Va., instructing Chandler to report to the mayor of Fredericksburg the arrival by railroad of all suspicious persons and to detain them for questioning by military authorities. The letter also contains instructions about the issuance of railroad passes to soldiers.

ArchivalResource: 1 letter.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81259757 View

Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad. Papers, 1863-1864.

Title: Papers, 1863-1864.

Collection contains receipts of the railroad, and items concerning the association of that railroad with the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36437730 View

Gentry, Joseph B. Papers : of Joseph B. Gentry, 1862, 1868.

Title: Papers : of Joseph B. Gentry, 1862, 1868.

The collection includes letters, mostly between Richmond and Fredericksburg, from friends and family containing personal news and descriptions of Civil War events around Richmond. Also includes correspondence with various Southern banks, and a manuscript train schedule for lines from Richmond to Montgomery and Richmond to Kingsville, 1862. All but one item is dated 1862.

ArchivalResource: 26 items.

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