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Pope, William, 1775-1844. William Pope Papers, 1783-1864.

Title: William Pope Papers, 1783-1864.

Included is correspondence, 1786, 1809-1844, chiefly about his lands in Ind. and Ala., and litigation with the heirs of Peyton Southall and others about land on Beargrass Creek, Jefferson County, Ky.; accounts, 1800-1844; land papers, 1801-1844 consisting of deeds, tax receipts, etc. for lands in Ky. and Ind.; legal papers; fee bills, 1813-1843; records of lawsuits with William B. Randolph, Thomas Joyes, the Louisville Turnpike Co., and the Lexington and Ohio Rail Road Co.; and miscellaneous papers, 1783-1839. In addition there are accounts of his son, William H. Pope, as administrator of his estate, 1844-1864. William Pope's correspondents include Larz Anderson, John Dangerfield, Cyrus Edwards, John Edwards, Norborne A. Galt, James S. Lemaster, John McKinley, William Owens, George F. Pope, Nathaniel Pope, William B. Randolph, George W. Southall, John Speed, Robert Sturgus, Robert Wickliffe, John Pope, and others. Collection also includes a small group of U.S. senator and Ark. territorial governor John Pope's papers, 1797-1839, which include his 2 Jan. 1839 letter to Charles Wickliffe; will of Matthew Walton, Pope's father-in-law; deeds for Ky. land, 1797-1839; and legal documents. Also included are papers of Alexander Pope and William S. Vernon, trustees of Fortunatus Cosby, consisting of accounts and vouchers; bank book for an account with the Bank of the United States, Louisville, Ky.; and financial papers and receipts.

ArchivalResource: 1.33 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49264401 View

Wickliffe, Robert, 1775-1859. Letterbook of Robert Wickliffe, 1817-1835.

Title: Letterbook of Robert Wickliffe, 1817-1835.

The correspondence in the letterbook deals chiefly with financial and property suits but includes several cases of contested slave sales and runaways. There is correspondence from the following: Joseph Anderson, Henry Clay, and James DeWolfe. There is also correspondence with George Mason, Return Jonathan Meigs, Charles Fenton Mercer, Samuel Mifflin, Samuel Smith, and many others.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 200 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32136387 View

Henry Clay Family Papers, 1732-1927, (bulk 1814-1852)

Title: Henry Clay Family Papers 1732-1927 (bulk 1814-1852)

Personal, official, and family correspondence, speeches, writings, business records, legal files, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers chiefly documenting the public career and private life of statesman Henry Clay (1777-1852), United States secretary of state and representative and senator from Kentucky; his son, James B. Clay (1817-1864), diplomat, United States representative from Kentucky, and Confederate sympathizer; and other members of Henry Clay's family.

ArchivalResource: 18,850 items; 75 containers; 30 linear feet; 24 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000010 View

Wickliffe, Robert, 1775-1859. Letters, 1827-1830.

Title: Letters, 1827-1830.

This collection contains business letters written by Robert Wickliffe to Cornelius Comegys of Philadelphia. These letters to Comegys concerned land and business transactions in which the Philadelphian apparently represented Wickliffe. The earliest letter, dated October 21, 1827, mentioned the death of Wickliffe's first wife, Margaret Howard Preston Wickliffe.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28323211 View

Wickliffe, Robert, 1775-1859. Letter : Lexington, Kentucky, to unidentified man, 1841 Nov. 6.

Title: Letter : Lexington, Kentucky, to unidentified man, 1841 Nov. 6.

Manuscript copy of a letter about John Fitch.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82470212 View

Bodley family. Bodley family papers, 1773-1939.

Title: Bodley family papers, 1773-1939.

Papers pertaining to the Bodley and related families, primarily in Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Virginia, include personal and business correspondence, business, legal, land, and military papers, and genealogical material. Personal correspondence, 1776-1920, revolves around Thomas Bodley, his son William Stewart Bodley, and his grandson Temple Bodley. Topics include Kentucky history and politics; prominent Kentucky families like the Breckinridges, Clays, Crittendens, and Wickliffes; presidential elections and candidates; African American colonization efforts; agriculture in Kentucky and the South; banking; California history and the gold rush; cholera and other diseases; churches; land speculation; North American Indians; lawyers in Kentucky and Mississippi; Louisville history and politics; the Mexican War; Mississippi history and politics; the Aaron Burr Conspiracy; railroad development; the Civil War; states' rights; Reconstruction; slavery; religion and religious thought; St. Louis history; United States history, politics, foreign relations, and military; Virginia history; the Whig Party; and World War I. Documents include three diaries (1770-1811, 1814-1815, 1863-1865); land papers, 1783-1912; business papers, 1781-1936; military papers, 1788-1852; and genealogy. The collection also contains a group of Clark-Hite-Shiell Papers.

ArchivalResource: 9.33 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86072194 View

Wickliffe, Robert, 1775-1859. Letterbook of Robert Wickliffe [manuscript], 1817-1835.

Title: Letterbook of Robert Wickliffe [manuscript], 1817-1835.

The correspondence in the letterbook deals chiefly with financial and property suits but includes several cases of contested slave sales and runaways. There is correspondence from the following: Joseph Anderson, Henry Clay, and James DeWolfe. There is also correspondence with George Mason, Return Jonathan Meigs, Charles Fenton Mercer, Samuel Mifflin, Samuel Smith, and many others.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 200 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647845048 View

Wickliffe, Robert, 1775-1859. Robert Wickliffe : miscellaneous papers, 1806-1837.

Title: Robert Wickliffe : miscellaneous papers, 1806-1837.

Papers include a 24 May 1806 answer to a complaint in the case of McElwain v. Doherty written by Wickliffe as Doherty's attorney; a 13 Nov. 1819 bill of sale for a slave named Stephen; a 14 Nov. 1827 letter to Fortunatus Cosby noting that he will attend to a case of Cosby's daughter, wishes he could visit Louisville, and discusses John Pope's support of Andrew Jackson; and a 12 Jan. 1837 letter to James Copersthwait complaining about the Bank of the United States's treatment which cost him money in regard to a legal case.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49378759 View

Beatty-Quisenberry family. Beaty-Quisenberry familty papers, 1798-1962.

Title: Beaty-Quisenberry familty papers, 1798-1962.

Papers of Adam Beatty and his descendants in the Beatty and Quisenberry families. The papers of Adam Beatty include correspondence, legal papers, and business papers detailing agriculture, politics, slavery, the Episcopal Church, and other aspects of life in Kentucky from the turn of the nineteenth century through Beatty's death in 1858. Correspondents include Robert J. Breckinridge, Leslie Combs, John J. Crittenden, Garrett Davis, Richard Hawes, Richard M. Johnson, Thomas Metcalfe, B. B. Smith, Thomas B. Stevenson, J. R. Underwood, Charles A. Wickliffe, Robert Wickliffe, and numerous other prominent political and religious figures. Letters from family members in California, Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas discuss life in those states. Also included are letters written to Beatty's wife, Sarah, mostly concerning daily life. A small group of Ormond Beatty's papers contain material related to the Civil War, Centre College, the Caldwell Institute, and real estate in Danville, Kentucky. Letters from Ormond Beatty are included in the papers of his parents. Ormond Beatty's daughter, Pattie, grew up in Danville, following the Civil War. Her papers mostly concern social life in postbellum Kentucky, although they also include references to politics and major events. Correspondence to and from Pattie Beatty describes traveling and vacationing in numerous parts of the eastern United States. She was also involved with Presbyterian missionary groups and some related material is included in the collection. In 1882, she married John A. Quisenberry. His papers relate to agriculture, politics, social life, business, and real estate in Kentucky and Texas. Thomas E. Quisenberry, the son of John A. and Pattie Quisenberry, moved to Evanston, Illinois. His papers reflect business, politics, social life, and other aspects of life in Illinois in the mid-twentieth century. Included are copies of his letters to politicians, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, offering Quisenberry's opinions on various issues. The correspondence of his wife Quinlan Hanna Quisenberry (nee Agnes Quinlan Hanna) details social life and travel.

ArchivalResource: 6 cubic feet.

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Wickliffe, Robert, 1775-1859. Fenelon Cannon commission, 1859.

Title: Fenelon Cannon commission, 1859.

Commission by Governor C. Wickliffe appointing Fenelon Cannon of Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, to the Board of Supervisors of the State Seminary of Learning.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/255963935 View

Mentelle papers, 1789-1879.

Title: Mentelle papers, 1789-1879.

These are letters and various other documents of Augustus Waldermarde Mentelle and Charlotte Leclere Mentelle.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191917837 View

Wickliffe-Preston family. Wickliffe-Preston family papers, 1753-1897 1770-1887.

Title: Wickliffe-Preston family papers, 1753-1897 1770-1887.

These are the papers of Robert Wickliffe, General William Preston and their families. There are papers from Preston's career in Congress and from his tenure as Envoy to Spain. Correspondents include Thomas Hart Benton, Mary Todd Lincoln and Cassius M. Clay. There are several documents signed by CSA President Jefferson Davis. Andrew Jackson's pardon and amnesty to Preston (1868) is included as are Texas Association papers which include letters, contracts, stock certificate books, surveys and maps which are important in the history of Texas. Included with the Wickliffe-Preston papers are the Christy-Hepburn papers, George Hancock papers, Jason Rogers papers, Wickliffe executor's papers and the Woolley family papers.

ArchivalResource: 80 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15219132 View

Dicken family. Dicken-Troutman-Balke family papers, 1816-1945, 1850-1899.

Title: Dicken-Troutman-Balke family papers, 1816-1945, 1850-1899.

This diverse collection consists of the papers of the family of Francis Troutman. There are 37 record books in the collection, which contain lists of subscribers to railroad companies, banking transactions, and accounts of the Louisiana plantation. Photographic materials were removed from the collection and placed in the Photographic Archives of the library.

ArchivalResource: 51 v.2,972 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13307686 View

Scott family. Scott family papers, 1746-1962 1870-1915 (bulk dates).

Title: Scott family papers, 1746-1962 1870-1915 (bulk dates).

These are the business and personal papers of Lexington, Kentucky attorney, Robert Augustine Thornton and his descendants. The Catherine G. Reid papers consist of business documents from Lexington, Missouri and Lexington, Kentucky dated 1890-1910. She is believed to have been a Scott family servant. The Hunt family papers contain personal papers related to the marriage of Margaret Thornton Hunt (1904), and expressions of sympathy on the deaths of George Radford Hunt (1945) and Margaret Thornton Hunt (1962).

ArchivalResource: 11 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16440842 View

Wickliffe, Robert, 1775-1859. Letter : Lexington, Kentucky, to unidentified man, 1841 Nov. 6.

Title: Letter : Lexington, Kentucky, to unidentified man, 1841 Nov. 6.

Handwritten transcript of a letter about John Fitch.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52249575 View

Beall-Booth family. Beall-Booth family papers, 1778-1956.

Title: Beall-Booth family papers, 1778-1956.

Papers include correspondence regarding land speculation, surveys, and division of vast tracts of land in Kentucky, as well as the legal and financial problems associated with their landholdings; land records for acreage along the Kentucky, Ohio, and Green rivers; orders of payment and receipts regarding Norborne Beall's personal business; accounts and ledgers from Williamsburg and early Louisville, Ky., stores and merchants; and legal records. The letters and records also chronicle the hardships and dangers of frontier Kentucky, slave concerns, Kentucky economics, and politics. Correspondents include John May, George May, John Marshall, George Mason, Robert Morris, George Nicholas, Richard M. Johnson, Joseph Hamilton Daviess, Samuel Griffin, Robert Breckinridge, Basil Holmes, David Meade, James Mercer, David Ross, Robert Lewis, Henry Clay, Robert P. Letcher, and others. Also included are the papers of the William L. Booth family of Meade County, Ky., and Leavenworth, Ind. which contain correspondence and business and legal records. The bulk of the collection is correspondence discussing farming, finances, legal and business matters, diseases, family matters, the Mexican War, Civil War, religion, and politics.

ArchivalResource: 10 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49224190 View

Native American History collection 1689-1921 Native American History collection

Title: Native American History collection 1689-1921 Native American History collection

The Native American History collection contains miscellaneous letters and documents concerning Native American Indians in the United States, Canada, and the West Indies, and their interactions with British and American settlers.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-342nat?rgn=main;view=text View

Corlis-Respess family. Corlis-Respess Family : Papers, 1698-1984 1787-1840.

Title: Corlis-Respess Family : Papers, 1698-1984 1787-1840.

John Corlis, 1767-1839, was a successful merchant in Providence (R.I.) but suffered misfortune when his ship, Hazard, was seized by the Spanish governor at Valparaiso, Chile, in 1801. Financial difficulties resulting from the Hazard and other unsound investments drove him to leave Rhode Island for Bourbon County (Ky.) in 1816. Correspondence includes early letters, 1787-1799, discussing his and Robert Murray's trading efforts along the North Carolina coast; letters, 1801-1815, discussing his international trading efforts and the ill fated voyage of the Hazard; letters, 1816-1839, discussing his and his family's efforts to establish a farm in Kentucky, finances, daily routines, family matters, and John Corlis' efforts to start a distillery in Bourbon County; and later letters, 1829-1900, are primarily between Susan C.R. (Corlis) Respess and her family, although other Corlis children are represented. John Corlis' business records include accounts, payments, promissory notes, and receipts detailing his efforts as a merchant and international trader in Providence, 1787-1815, and as a farmer in Kentucky. They also include records from the Hazard, 1801-1802, as well as invoices, memoranda, and bills of lading, 1817-1819, regarding the shipment of tobacco down the Kentucky River to New Orleans. Legal records, 1790-1816 and undated, detail John Corlis' handling of his brother-in-law, John C. Nightingale's estate. Records include material relating to his investments in Yazoo lands. Land records, 1698, 1747-1868, include indentures, deeds, and contracts regarding the Corlis family buying and selling land and lots in Rhode Island and in Providence; the Corlis and Respess families purchase of land in Bourbon County (Ky.), 1812-1816; and later deeds and indentures regarding land purchased by the Respess family in Boone and Kenton counties in Kentucky. Collection also includes John Corlis' commission, 5 Nov. 1792, in the Rhode Island militia; broadsides; recipes and a recipe book; Elizabeth Corlis' poetry book; essays; newspaper clippings; family records from the Respess family Bible; and other miscellaneous genealogical information.

ArchivalResource: 8 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49211164 View

Rogers, John. John Rogers estate papers, 1834-1860.

Title: John Rogers estate papers, 1834-1860.

These papers consist of receipts for various services involving the estate of John Rogers.

ArchivalResource: 44 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15804436 View

Yandell family. Yandell family papers, 1823-1877.

Title: Yandell family papers, 1823-1877.

The papers primarily consist of correspondence, diaries, and medical notes. Most of the letters were written by Wilson Yandell, Lunsford Pitts Yandell, Susan Wendell Yandell, and Lunsford Pitts Yandell, Jr. The letters consist mostly of family news but also contain information relating to a variety of other topics, including medical practice, physicians of Ky., medical politics at Transylvania and the Louisville Medical Institute, state politics and economic conditions in Ky. and Tenn., references to important citizens in Louisville and Lexington, the career of David W. Yandell, disease, slavery, the secession crisis, and the Civil War. In addition to correspondence, the collection also includes lectures of Lunsford P. Yandell, material about his father Wilson Yandell, notes for medical biographies, diaries of Lunsford P. Yandell, and a scrapbook. Correspondents include Elisha Bartlett, Charles Caldwell, Daniel Drake, Austin Flint, Timothy Flint, Samuel D. Gross, Philip Lindsley, Henry Miller, and Benjamin Rush.

ArchivalResource: 2.66 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49492081 View

Lexington Cemetery Company. Lexington Cemetery Company account book, 1849-1858.

Title: Lexington Cemetery Company account book, 1849-1858.

This is an account book from the Lexington Cemetery Company, Lexington, Ky.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15482821 View

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852. Letter to Major [blank] regarding a law suit regarding Messers. West, Harding and Wickliffe and mentioning appointments of officers in the new army will soon be made [manuscript] 1812 Feb. 6.

Title: Letter to Major [blank] regarding a law suit regarding Messers. West, Harding and Wickliffe and mentioning appointments of officers in the new army will soon be made [manuscript] 1812 Feb. 6.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647952917 View

Breckinridge-Ripley family papers, 1796-1886.

Title: Breckinridge-Ripley family papers, 1796-1886.

Personal correspondence contains discussions about politics, elections, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Includes detailed indentures of land sales in Ky. Speeches and writings examine states' rights and the U.S. Constitution, and admitting Tx. into the Union. Items of note include a firsthand description of Daniel Boone and autographs of Worden Pope and Peter Benson Ormsby. Other material includes receipts, newspaper clippings, short stories, and a published genealogy of the Ripley family.

ArchivalResource: 0.33 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46453819 View

Wickliffe, Robert, 1775-1859. Robert Wickliffe letterbook, 1817-1835 [microform].

Title: Robert Wickliffe letterbook, 1817-1835 [microform].

This is a microfilmed copy of Robert Wickliffe's letterbook.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel (20 ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16388602 View

Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826. Isaac Shelby papers, 1765-1911 1765-1820.

Title: Isaac Shelby papers, 1765-1911 1765-1820.

This is a microfilmed collection of the papers of Isaac Shelby, first governor of Kentucky.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15257512 View