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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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32136523 View

Dinwiddie, William, 1830-. University of Virginia Master's degree essays [manuscript] 1854-61.

Title: University of Virginia Master's degree essays [manuscript] 1854-61.

Authors include: for 1854 William Dinwiddie, George Tucker Harrison, John S. Moore, John B. Shearer, Edward Buckey Smith, and John Baker Thompson; for 1855 Gray Carroll, Edward T. Fristoe, Powell Harrison, Thomas H. Malone, Edwin L. Taliaferro, William D. Thomas and David Watson, for 1857 Philip Barraud Cabell, John Chapman Little, William N. McDonald and William H. Proctor; for 1858 John Hampden Chamberlayne, Thomas Underwood Dudley, Horace Waldegrave Luckett, Charles Landon Carter Monor, Thomas Randolph Price, Summerfield Smith, John Henry Timberlake, and William E. Towles; for 1859 Douglas C. Cannon, James Mercer Garnett, James Jones Leigh, William Page Louthan, William Bernard Meredith, John Murray, Robert Rives and Archibald Magill Smith; for 1860 William Frasier Allen, Launcelot Minor Blackford, James M. Boyd, Charles Mortimer Gibbens, John Munford Gregory, Henry Herbert Harris, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, William Hardin Mackoy and John Bowie Macgruder and for 1861 Jerry Malsolm Harris. There are also some essays written for B.A. degrees, 1859-60.

ArchivalResource: 60 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647927230 View

Dudley, T. U. (Thomas Underwood), 1837-1904. Thomas Underwood Dudley : miscellaneous papers, 1883-1899.

Title: Thomas Underwood Dudley : miscellaneous papers, 1883-1899.

Routine professional and personal correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49217782 View

Galt, William Henry, 1827-1893. Account books, 1866-1883.

Title: Account books, 1866-1883.

Account books kept by Dr. William H. Galt regarding his medical practice from 1866 to 1883. Each book contains an index and records visits and accounts regarding his patients, some of whom were prominent Louisvillians. Specific instruments and medical procedures are mentioned. Also listed is financial data from 1878-1879.

ArchivalResource: 4 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49223932 View

Guerin, Henry C. Henry C. Guerin papers, 1843-1905.

Title: Henry C. Guerin papers, 1843-1905.

Chiefly consisting of correspondence as chief of the Subsistence Bureau, Confederate States Army of South Carolina, re officer inefficiency, impressment, investigation into misappropriations, and difficulties in procuring supplies. Including list of personel, 1862-1863; letter, 11 Jan. 1863, Gen. Roswell Sabine Ripley to Brig. Gen. Thomas Jordan, re supplying deficiency in troops, protesting against relieving Capt. John S. Ryan of his command, and his endorsement of Guerin; report, Mar. 1863, re investigation of goods and produce bought by government agents and sold by Keating Simons. Three letters, 7 Dec., 14 Dec., and 28 Dec. 1863, Richmond, Va., Lucius Bellinger Northrop, to Gen. Samuel Cooper, and Guerin, re Gen. P[ierre] G[ustav] T[outant] Beauregard's charges and complaints against the Commissary Department and Guerin, advising Guerin on his defense, and a resolution introduced to Congress by James Lawrence Orr. Letter, 11 Jan. 1864, Richmond, Va., from J.L. Orr, re his views towards the Guerin investigation; letter, 8 Aug. 1864, Spartanburg, S.C., Means, to Guerin, re enforcement of the Impressment Act, and the incompetence of Congress; letter, 26 July 1864, Richmond, Va., Thomas Underwood Dudley, Jr., to H.C. Guerin, re rising price of rice, and requesting a supply be shipped to him from Charleston, S.C. Affidavit, 24 May 1865, Winnsboro, S.C., E.W. Oliver, re Guerin's deposition, and three boxes of materials re Guerin's official returns as Commissary in Confederate States of America, July 1861-Apr. 1865; letter, 9 Jan. 1871, Orangeburg, S.C., John F. Riley to Guerin, re lawsuit against Riley for lumber used by the Confederate States of America.

ArchivalResource: 103 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41069929 View

Munn, Abraham Godwin, 1819-1909. Abraham Godwin Munn : papers, 1856-1930.

Title: Abraham Godwin Munn : papers, 1856-1930.

Papers include correspondence regarding business and family matters, the Jennie Casseday Rest Cottage, and the Louisville Free Kindergarten Association; and a map of Lakeland, Fla., 1884. Also included are the papers of William Garnett Munn, Louisville manufacturer and son of Abraham, containing routine correspondence and an 1889 stock certificate for the Peewee Valley Hotel Co. Correspondents include Bishop Thomas U. Dudley, Andrew Cowan, Augustus E. Willson, and others.

ArchivalResource: 0.33 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49254473 View

Episcopal Bishops collection 1778-1911 Episcopal Bishops collection

Title: Episcopal Bishops collection 1778-1911 Episcopal Bishops collection

This collection contains letters, biographical newspaper clippings, cartes de visite, and other material related to Episcopal bishops between the late 18th and early 20th centuries.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-565epi?rgn=main;view=text View

Galt-Gray family photograph collection, ca. 1860-ca. 1910.

Title: Galt-Gray family photograph collection, ca. 1860-ca. 1910.

Photographs of members of the Galt, Gray, Brown, and Ingram families. Doctor Norborne Alexander Galt and his son, Doctor William Henry Galt, were prominent Louisville physicians. Identified persons include Alexander Galt Brown, Matilda Galt Brown (Mrs. Arthur Brown), Arthur Brown, Elizabeth C. Hobbs Campbell, Annie Alexina Galt, Elizabeth Thruston Pope Galt (Mrs. William H. Galt), Ellen Pope Thruston Galt, John Galt, William Henry Galt, Norborne Alexander Galt, Elizabeth M. Thompson Gray Galt (Mrs. Norborne A. Galt), Bishop Thomas Underwood Dudley, George Gray, Strother Gray, Urath Pope Galt, Selena Gray Galt Ingram (Mrs. Robert Hord Ingram), Selena Pope Ingram, Wyatt Ingram, Matilda Nicholas, Mary Anne Pope Nicholas, and Elizabeth Thruston Pope (Mrs. Worden Pope). The Galt family home, "Repton," is pictured in the collection. It was on Brownsboro Road in Louisville. After a fire it was rebuilt in 1902 by Edward Moran. The original house is the one pictured.

ArchivalResource: 68 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46460448 View

Bishops' papers, 1761-1943.

Title: Bishops' papers, 1761-1943.

Letters, portraits and photographs, biographies, clippings, and other material concerning bishops of the Episcopal Church. Includes material concerning Samuel Seabury, William White, Thomas Church Brownell, Benjamin B. Smith, William R. Whittingham, William M. Green, John Williams, Henry John Whitehouse, Thomas Fielding Scott, Henry B. Whipple, Arthur C. Coxe, Robert H. Clarkson, Daniel Tuttle, William C. Doane, William H. Hare, John F. Spalding, Alexander C. Garrett, Thomas U. Dudley, George F. Seymour, Henry C. Potter, William Lawrence, Nathaniel S. Thomas, Julius W. Atwood, Philip M. Rhinelander, Frank Touret, Edward L. Parsons, William T. Manning, Charles L. Slattery, Thomas Casady, Charles K. Gilbert, and others.

ArchivalResource: 11.7 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155475279 View

Dudley, T. U. (Thomas Underwood), 1837-1904. Thomas Underwood Dudley papers, 1867-1882.

Title: Thomas Underwood Dudley papers, 1867-1882.

Part of this correspondence with Bishop William Rollinson Whittingham concerns Dudley's church work in Baltimore, at Christ Church and the Church of the Holy Innocents, 1867-1873. Other papers chiefly relate to his election as Bishop of Kentucky, 1875, and affairs of that Diocese. He asks Whittingham for advice about administration, writes of clergy matters, and so forth. One letter expresses his views on Charles C. Penick as Bishop of Cape Palmas (Liberia).

ArchivalResource: 53 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/656802996 View