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Joseph Henry letters, 1836-1878, 1836-1878

Title: Joseph Henry letters, 1836-1878 1836-1878

The letters in this small collection concern the Smithsonian Institution, the Colorado Territory, and Humboldt's observations, among many other topics.

ArchivalResource: 48.0 Item(s)

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Inventory of the Robert William Hughes Papers, 1818-1900

Title: Inventory of the Robert William Hughes Papers 1818-1900

Papers, mainly 1865-1900, of Robert William Hughes (1821-1901), journalist, Republican politician, and United States District Judge, of Abingdon and Norfolk, Va.

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

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LeBlanc, C. E. C.E. LeBlanc papers, 1864-1865.

Title: C.E. LeBlanc papers, 1864-1865.

Papers concerning, among other things, the sale of certain Confederate government property in Columbus, Mississippi, and its subsequent confiscation by a U. S. Treasury agent. Additional items include a promissory note, a contract for the delivery of cotton, and a broadside announcing a lecture to be presented by J. D. B. DeBow in Columbus, Mississippi.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122505656 View

Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894. Papers, 1793-1894 (bulk 1838-1894)

Title: Lewis Reeves Gibbes papers, 1793-1894

Scientist and professor. Chiefly correspondence along with specimen lists, resolutions, clippings, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to Gibbes's career as professor of astronomy, mathematics, and physics at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Includes his correspondence with other scientists on the subjects of astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology, meteorology, physics, and zoology. Other subjects relate to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Smithsonian Institution.

ArchivalResource: 5,700 items; 16 containers; 3 linear feet; 8 microfilm reels

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Casey, Martha De Bow. Collection, 1791-1933.

Title: Collection, 1791-1933.

Primarily composed of a fragmented set of incoming business correspondence of James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1820-1867), his son, James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1861-1947), and the wife of the latter, Sarah Spence De Bow, collected by Martha De Bow Casey. 29 letters are addressed to J.D.B. De Bow, Sr. Among the senders are George Bancroft, Aaron V. Brown, W.G. Brownlow, James Buchanan, John C. Calhoun, Horace Greeley, C.G. Memminger, Joel R. Poinsett, Alexander H. Stephens, George Ticknor, William Henry Trescott, John Tyler, Jr., and Henry A. Wise. Subjects covered are De Bow's literary articles and journals, internal improvements in the South, the Louisiana Historical Society, census, and financial aid to the Confederacy. J.D.B. De Bow, Jr. is the recipient of 9 letters, the bulk of which are written by Tennessee governors Henry H. Horton, Austin Peay, A.H. Roberts, and A.A. Taylor. Various Tennessee topics are discussed. Mrs. Sarah Spence De Bow received 22 letters which are responses to her concern about the Methodist Episcopal Church, South becoming politicized and her support of Herbert Hoover in the presidential contest of 1928. Her correspondents include James A. Farley, Carter Glass, Kenneth McKellar, H.L. Mencken, J.J. Raskob, and Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The balance of the correspondence consists of 15 letters apparently addressed to different individuals outside the De Bow family. Prominent among them are Thomas Hart Benton, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, J.D. Howard (Jesse James), William McKinley, Mary N. Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock), John Randolph, John Tyler, and Martin Van Buren. The collection also includes an account of Benjamin Rush, 1791, and an affidavit signed by John Sevier, 1801.

ArchivalResource: 85 items.

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De Bow, J. D. B. (James Dunwoody Brownson), 1820-1867. J.D.B. De Bow letter, 1865 Dec. 30.

Title: J.D.B. De Bow letter, 1865 Dec. 30.

Letter from J. D. B. De Bow, New Orleans, La., editor, requesting Mr. Seymour of the NEW YORK TIMES to use his influence by writing a favorable criticism of a comedy by the well-known Louisiana historian, Charles E. A. Gayarre, in order that the play might be brought to the New York stage.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Weiss, Emanuel, fl. 1849-1868. Correspondence, 1849-1868.

Title: Correspondence, 1849-1868.

Emanuel Weiss was promoting the idea of using camels in the Southwest. This correpondence shows how he proposed to secure the animals and deliver them, the approximate cost of the venture, and the opposition to the plan by the Secretary of War Jefferson Davis.

ArchivalResource: 20 p.

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Preston, Bowker. Papers of Bowker Preston [manuscript], 1773-1882.

Title: Papers of Bowker Preston [manuscript], 1773-1882.

The collection contains miscellaneous legal papers, 1773-1849, including indentures for the hire of slaves, and indentured servitude agreement, depositions, complaints, warrants, affidavits, a subpoena, and a decree by the Virginia Court of Appeals regarding the excution of a deed of trust. There are also papers, 1792-1808, of John Hook, regarding legal matters, accounts, the sale of livestock, a land dispute, land deeds, receipts, financial matters, allowing a slave to testify in a legal case, and the purchase of tobacco and dry goods. There is also a warrant, 1806, against George Hancock, who was accused of harboring a slave belonging to Hook. Miscellaneous financial papers, 1816-1842, of the firms Davis & Preston and Leftwich & Davis, include checks, receipts, letters, accounts, and promissory notes, regarding the sale of tobacco and other dry goods. Miscellaneous papers, 1813-1882, regard Virginia social life and customs, fugitive slaves, legal matters, a telegraph line from Winchester, Va., to Staunton, Va., the Hale family, courtship, Civil War news and camp life, the Holland family, redemption from sin, and selling land. Papers, 1823-1862, of Bowker Preston, concern the tobacco market, the sale and hire of slaves, family, legal, and financial matters, the settlement of decedents' estates, a cholera epidemic, slave health, the standard of living in Ohio in 1835, the sale of animal hides, a land sale, and purchasing livestock. There is also a newspaper clipping, 15 October 1865, from the New York Times, entitled, "The Future of the South : Necessity of Emigration -- Letter from J. D. B. De Bow to Gov. [B.F.] Perry," provisional Governor of South Carolina; and lottery tickets, n.d., to support the New London Academy, Forest, Va.

ArchivalResource: 154 items.

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Preston, Bowker. Papers, 1773-1882.

Title: Papers, 1773-1882.

Include miscellaneous legal papers, 1773-1849, including indentures for the hire of slaves, and indentured servitude agreement, depositions, complaints, warrants, affidavits, a subpoena, and a decree by the Virginia Court of Appeals regarding the excution of a deed of trust. Also include papers, 1792-1808, of John Hook, regarding legal matters, accounts, the sale of livestock, a land dispute, land deeds, receipts, financial matters, allowing a slave to testify in a legal case, and the purchase of tobacco and dry goods. There is also a warrant, 1806, against George Hancock, who was accused of harboring a slave belonging to Hook. Also include miscellaneous financial papers, 1816-1842, of the firms Davis & Preston and Leftwich & Davis, including checks, receipts, letters, accounts, and promissory notes, regarding the sale of tobacco and other dry goods. Also include miscellaneous papers, 1813-1882, regarding Virginia social life and customs, fugitive slaves, legal matters, a telegraph line from Winchester, Va., to Staunton, Va., the Hale family, courtship, Civil War news and camp life, the Holland family, redemption from sin, and selling land. Also include papers, 1823-1862, of Bowker Preston, regarding the tobacco market, the sale and hire of slaves, family, legal, and financial matters, the settlement of decedents' estates, a cholera epidemic, slave health, the standard of living in Ohio in 1835, the sale of animal hides, a land sale, and purchasing livestock. Also include a newspaper clipping, 15 October 1865, from the New York Times, entitled, "The Future of the South : Necessity of Emigration -- Letter from J.D.B. De Bow to Gov. [B.F.] Perry," provisional Governor of South Carolina; and lottery tickets, n.d., to support the New London Academy, Forest, Va.

ArchivalResource: 154 items.

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De Bow, J. D. B. (James Dunwoody Brownson), 1820-1867. Papers, 1779-1915.

Title: Papers, 1779-1915.

Business and personal correspondence, diary, and other papers. Much of the material relates to De Bow's Review, which he founded and edited, and to De Bow's position as agent for the Confederacy's cotton and produce loan, with many letters to and from Christopher G. Memminger and George A. Trenholm concerning details of the loan. Includes early items apparently collected in connection with De Bow's statistical work, essays written while a student at Charleston College, lectures on temperance, and a scrapbook of accounts of Civil War campaigns. Correspondents include John W. Daniel, Charles E. Fenner, George Fitzhugh, Charles Gayarré, Alexander D. Von Humboldt, Freeman Hunt, Edmund Ruffin, William Gilmore Simms, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Maunsel White.

ArchivalResource: 1, 618 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19491448 View

Gayarré, Charles, 1805-1895. Charles E.A. Gayarré papers, 1781, 1830-1907 (bulk 1830-1895).

Title: Charles E.A. Gayarré papers, 1781, 1830-1907 (bulk 1830-1895).

The Charles E.A. Gayarré Papers pertain to Gayarré's association with Confederate leader J.D.B. DeBow, his literary career, and the management of his business affairs. Also included is personal correspondence of Gayarré's wife, Anne Shadie Sullivan Buchannon, with members of the William Woodson King family (1892-1907).

ArchivalResource: 276 items.4 v.

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Walter, Clinton E. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's earliest magazine verse : manuscript, 1851-1936 (bulk 1936)

Title: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's earliest magazine verse : manuscript, 1851-1936 (bulk 1936)

Consists of an autograph manuscript, written in pencil, of an article by Clinton Walter about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's early poems published in various magazines.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (13 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228106861 View

Rosselle, William. Papers, 1862-1865.

Title: Papers, 1862-1865.

Collection contains two letters from James D.B. De Bow to Rosselle concerning a private dispute, and four passes through U.S. military lines around Memphis, Tenn.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Preston, Bowker. Papers, 1773-1882.

Title: Papers, 1773-1882.

Include miscellaneous legal papers, 1773-1849, including indentures for the hire of slaves, and indentured servitude agreement, depositions, complaints, warrants, affidavits, a subpoena, and a decree by the Virginia Court of Appeals regarding the excution of a deed of trust. Also include papers, 1792-1808, of John Hook, regarding legal matters, accounts, the sale of livestock, a land dispute, land deeds, receipts, financial matters, allowing a slave to testify in a legal case, and the purchase of tobacco and dry goods. There is also a warrant, 1806, against George Hancock, who was accused of harboring a slave belonging to Hook. Also include miscellaneous financial papers, 1816-1842, of the firms Davis & Preston and Leftwich & Davis, including checks, receipts, letters, accounts, and promissory notes, regarding the sale of tobacco and other dry goods. Also include miscellaneous papers, 1813-1882, regarding Virginia social life and customs, fugitive slaves, legal matters, a telegraph line from Winchester, Va., to Staunton, Va., the Hale family, courtship, Civil War news and camp life, the Holland family, redemption from sin, and selling land. Also include papers, 1823-1862, of Bowker Preston, regarding the tobacco market, the sale and hire of slaves, family, legal, and financial matters, the settlement of decedents' estates, a cholera epidemic, slave health, the standard of living in Ohio in 1835, the sale of animal hides, a land sale, and purchasing livestock. Also include a newspaper clipping, 15 October 1865, from the New York Times, entitled, "The Future of the South : Necessity of Emigration -- Letter from J.D.B. De Bow to Gov. [B.F.] Perry," provisional Governor of South Carolina; and lottery tickets, n.d., to support the New London Academy, Forest, Va.

ArchivalResource: 154 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32959903 View

King, Grace Elizabeth, 1852-1932. Grace Elizabeth King papers, 1781-1933 [microfilm manuscript].

Title: Grace Elizabeth King papers, 1781-1933 [microfilm manuscript].

Business, literary, and personal correspondence of Miss Grace King of New Orleans, author of Louisiana stories, history, and biography, and leader in historical and literary activities. The correspondence contains criticism and analysis of her works by her editors, and discussion of business connected with its publication. Among the correspondents are: editor H.M. Alden, author Thérese Bentzon, author Samuel L. Clemens, editor Hamilton W. Mabie, William McLennan of Montreal, William M. Sloane of Princeton, naturalist Reginald Somers-Cocks, and Charles Dudley Warner. Also included are items, 1781-1865, relating to Charles Gayarré of Louisiana (149 items), including letters from George Bancroft, Joseph M. Bossier, J.D.B. DeBow, Benjamin French, Francis Parkman, William Gilmore Simms, and William Tecumseh Sherman, discussing the publication of Gayarre's works and general political issues, 1850s-1860s. There are also 79 items relating to the Miller and King families of New Orleans, La., dated 1833-1922, including letters to a son at college in Baltimore in the 1830s disucssing family news and local events; letters, 1861-1865, from Thomas D. Miller commenting on Confederate military and financial problems in Louisiana and Mississippi; and postwar family letters. Also included in the collection are two notebooks, 1886-1903, with biographical sketches of Charles Gayarré and diary entries, 1866-1904, of Grace King.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1120 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24864384 View

William Sharswood papers, 1865-1867, 1865-1867

Title: William Sharswood papers, 1865-1867 1865-1867

These papers pertain to minerals and mining, publications, his play "The Betrothed," St. John's College in Maryland, and Reconstruction in South Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet, Ca. 100 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sh35-ead.xml View

Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894. Papers, 1793-1894 (bulk 1838-1894)

Title: Lewis Reeves Gibbes papers, 1793-1894

Scientist and professor. Chiefly correspondence along with specimen lists, resolutions, clippings, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to Gibbes's career as professor of astronomy, mathematics, and physics at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Includes his correspondence with other scientists on the subjects of astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology, meteorology, physics, and zoology. Other subjects relate to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Smithsonian Institution.

ArchivalResource: 5,700 items; 16 containers; 3 linear feet; 8 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms004009 View

Inventory of the Robert William Hughes Papers, 1818-1900

Title: Inventory of the Robert William Hughes Papers 1818-1900

Papers, mainly 1865-1900, of Robert William Hughes (1821-1901), journalist, Republican politician, and United States District Judge, of Abingdon and Norfolk, Va.

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=wm/viw00041.xml View