Campbell, T. H. fl. 1852,. Virginia letters [manuscript].
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Virginia letters [manuscript].
In a letter, 1832 May 18, Joseph William Chinn, Washington, asks Secretary of War Lewis Cass to appoint Dr. Thomas M. Lewis as assistant surgeon in the U.S. Army. In a letter, 1849 August 17,the Rev. Abner Leavenworth, Milford, Conn., writes "to all at home" about his journey from Petersburg, Va., to New York and Connecticut to interview applicants for a position at his Leavenworth Academy and College Seminary for Young Ladies. He mentions attending commencement at Yale and a family friend Frederick John Kingsbury and concludes with a "Howdy" to the servant. In a retained copy of a letter, 1845 May 27, Thomas B. Evans, Middlesex County, Va., writes to Oliver D. Wells to discuss settlement of a dispute with J. B. Bagley of Portsmouth over the C. Island Saw Mill in which Bagley would supply Perry and Wells with a quantity of "merchantable cypress lumber." In letter, 1850, August 24, James Young, Rainsboro, Ohio, asks John Letcher, Lexington, Va., to serve as his attorney in some matters involving the estate of Virginia governor James McDowell. The collection also contains ten letters to Loudoun County, Va., lawyer and Confederate Major John Moore Orr, 1850-1887. His correspondents include Enoch J. Cantwell, Elizabeth C. Fitzhugh, William Graham, Virginia Hutchinson, Daniel Janney, Samuel L. Jenkins, John S. Pollock, W. A. Stepenson, Robert Tyler, and Joseph B. Watters. Topics include guardianship of children, estate settlements (including the sale of slaves), legal cases, purchase of cedar posts, and the Hygeia Hotel at Old Point [Comfort] as the Saratoga of the South. The collection also contains fifteen letters to John Fitzgerald pertaining to the Virginia tobacco trade, 1847-1852. Letters discuss current prices; anticipated effect on the trade of the closing of the canal, a cholera epidemic, drought, competition from Kentucky, and revolutions in Europe; cost of shipping insurance; inspections; and other commodities including hogs. Correspondents include Winfree & Sheppard, Winfree & Watkins, and Sheppard and Williamson, tobacco factors, as well as Captain Thomas C. Eppes, and James Gray. Of interest is a compilation [in Fitzgerald's hand?] of a several slave lists for an undetermined purpose. The collection also contains a letter to Fitzgerald from Methodist clergyman James E. Joyner concerning purchase of a horse, the Methodist quarterly meeting which produced seven converts, and travels. In addition D. S. Wooldridge writes concerning bonds of a Mr. Mann; and T. H. Campbell writes concerning a tax issue.
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