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Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

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Moyer, James,. Papers relating to Nelson County, Va. [manuscript], 1845-1960.

Title: Papers relating to Nelson County, Va. [manuscript], 1845-1960.

The collection contains papers, 1845-1860, of the Dawson family of Nelson and Albemarle counties, Va., including personal correspondence, 1845-1960, regarding family and social matters and the employment of Ulysses Samuel Dawson with the Newport News and Mississippi Valley Company, and including registered mail receipts and accounts for household goods. Correspondents include Rosa Dawson, Thomas H. Dawson, Thomas J. Dawson, and Ulysses Samuel Dawson. The collection also includes financial papers, 1851-1876, of Thomas J. Dawson, including accounts, bills, correspondence, and receipts, especially for Nelson County property taxes; volume of poetry, ca. 1860-1865, copied by Sallie Sym Cabell; copy of a deed, 1876, certified by Patrick Henry Cabell, transferring 52.9 acres in Nelson County, Va. from Paul C. Cabell to Thomas J. Dawson; and autograph album, 1886-1888, of Maud Whelan. Also include spelling notebook, 1889, kept by Annie Cabell; registered mail receipts, 1891, for correspondence sent to Alexander Wilford Hall; and business papers, 1891-1948, of Thomas H. Dawson, including insurance policies, receipts and accounts, and merchants' license for his tobacco business. Also include letters, 1912-1913, of the Cabell family of Nelson County, regarding family and social matters, and including recipes for cakes, wine and pickle; biographical sketch ca. 1940, of Wirt Robinson; advertisement, n.d., for products manufactured by E. Remington & Sons; and cased hand-tinted daguerrotype, n.d. of two unidentified children. Also include petition, n.d. signed by William Daniel Cabell, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, and others, requesting the removal of the county seat of Nelson County to a site closer to the railroad; plate glass negatives, n.d., for photographs of Native American artifacts; signed manuscript, n.d., for The Centrifugal age: Man's lost point of focus, by Bolling H. Somerville. Diaries of Robinson, beginning with his youth in Richmond, Va., reflect his life-long interest in birds, insects, and animals. Diary, 1878-82, mentions hunting, fishing, school works, baseball trips on the packet, his brother Cabell Robinson and friends, summer visits to Nelson County, Va., and work at Richmond College. Robinson's diary, 1892 June 6-August 5, describes a visit to Curacao with his wife, Alice P. Robinson, and Cabell and contains details of the island, its inhabitants, and wildlife and a description of a trip to Colombia and Barranquilla, Venezuela. Also include diary of Robinson, 1895-1902, chronicling another trip to Venezuela, Curacao, and Margarite. The later section, 1901-1902, details his life at the United States Military Academy where he was an instructor; a summer visit at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Ga., and visits to Lynchburg, Va., where he stayed with John Warwick Daniel, and to Nelson County, Va. Also include diary of Alice P. Robinson covering the period up to the day of her marriage; and diaries kept by Anne Whelan, of Norwood, Nelson County, Va.

ArchivalResource: 194 items and 16v.

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Cabell, William Daniel, 1834-1904. Papers of William Daniel Cabell, 1806-1893.

Title: Papers of William Daniel Cabell, 1806-1893.

Include correspondence of William D. Cabell while residing in Nelson County, Va., and Washington, D.C., with John W. Daniel, William Daniel, and family members, concerning the Norwood High School in Nelson County, Va., its teachers and students (including John R. Page and Launcelot M. Blackford), and the Nelson County Home Guard in the Civil War; and a memorandum of his debts, 1837. Also included are diaries, 1857-1903, of Mary Virginia Ellet Cabell, with comments on the fugitive slave law and secession; her scrapbooks with drawings, poetry, and genealogical notes about the Cabell family of Nelson County, Va., and the Ellet family of Philadelphia, Pa. Minutes, 1888-1894, of the Norwood Literary Society are also included; and printed material, chiefly pamphlets, 1837-1862, by Charles Ellet, about canals, railroads, tolls and bridges.

ArchivalResource: 3 ft.

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Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell. Papers of the Cabell family, 1876, 1972.

Title: Papers of the Cabell family, 1876, 1972.

The collection contains Dugdale's reminiscences, 1972, of Union Hill, the Cabell home in Nelson Co. and Rose Hall, in Waynesboro, Va. Also included are clippings, genealogical material, photographs and copies of Col. William Cabell's appointments as surveyor in Amherst and militia officer in Albemarle and and Amherst counties. There is also a copy of a letter, 1876 September 7, Nathaniel Francis Cabell to William Daniel Cabell about the family cemetery, two plans of a cemetery and a furniture inventory from Union Hill.

ArchivalResource: 19 items.

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Cabell, William Daniel, 1834-1904. Papers of William Daniel Cabell and the Cabell and Ellet families [manuscript], 1798-1955.

Title: Papers of William Daniel Cabell and the Cabell and Ellet families [manuscript], 1798-1955.

Papers of the Cabell and Ellet family contain family correspondence, financial and legal papers, genealogical and biographical material and bound volumes, chiefly journals, of family members particularly William D. Cabell and Mary Virginia Ellet Cabell. Major topics are antebellum plantation life at Norwood in Nelson County, Va.; slavery; the Civil War and Reconstruction; the Nelson County Home Guard; the University of Virginia Alumni Association; the Daughters of the American Revolution; the Norwood School; Nelson County, Va.; and the Norwood Institute, Washington, D.C. Subjects in the correspondence include genealogical and biographical information on the Cabell and Ellet families; European travel, 1855; the Crimean War; collecting of supplies for the Confederate Army; anti-Southern sentiment after the war; the engineering and naval career of Charles Ellet, Jr., especially the design of the Niagara River suspension bridge, war service on the steam ramship he designed, and his death in the naval battle for Memphis. Additional subjects include the settlement of William Cabell's estate and other Nelson County land transactions. Launcelot M. Blackford and John Hartwell Cocke are mentioned in the correspondence. Topics of interest in single letters include Paris during the July Revolution of 1830, Fugitive slave law; political leaders Henry Clay, Lewis Cass, and Jhn C. Calhoun; the caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks; reaction in Staunton, Va., to John Brown's raid; the Washington Peace Conference, 1861; pro-Confederate sentiments of Lynchburg, Va., women and slaves; the South's response to Lincoln's call for troops; families divided by war; armed slaves fighting for the Confederacy; 1st Bull Run; Confederate troop movements April 1862; and Union occupation of Winchester, Va., May 1862. Also Antietam; opposition to the Confederacy in western Virginia; David G. Farragut's abilities as a Union commander; the Switzerland, the Island Queen and other vessels in the Missiissippi Ram Fleet; an 1865 appeal by Robert E. Lee to Virginia farmers regarding provisions; the U.S. War Department's refusal to compensate the Ursuline sisters of Columbia, S.C. for Sherman's destruction of their convent; and the U.S. Navy investigation of Charles Rivers Ellet. Also cotton speculation by Union general Samuel R. Curtis; reunion of northern and southern Episcopal churches; the National Union Convention, August 1866; labor conscription of freedmen; baseball in Philadelphia, 1866; proposed merger of the University of Virginia medical school and Richmond Medical College; a Virginia flood, 1870; legal property rights of women, 1870; and a Gridiron Club dinner, 1896. Also diaries, journals, and commonplace books, 1853-1925, of Mary Virginia Ellet Cabell, with comments on the fugitive slave law and secession; drawings, poetry, and genealogical notes about the Cabell family, the Ellet and related Israel families; speeches on behalf of the D.A.R.; translations of French articles and a clipping concerning the nomination of John Warwick Daniel for the U. S. Senate in 1904. Also journals, memoranda books and scrapbooks of William D. Cabell, catalogs, account books, student autograph books and other printed material of the Norwood Institute, and minutes, 1888-1894, of its Literary Society; a daybook and University of Virginia autograph book of Joseph C. Cabell; pamphlets, 1837-1862, by Charles Ellet about canals, railroads and bridges; and an incomplete essay on the Civil War in 1861 by Edward A. Pollard. The collection also contains "Cabellana," 1851, 1872, by Nathaniel Francis Cabell, a series of essays on the history of the Cabell family used as the basis of "Cabells and their kin." The volume also contains diary entries, 1871, of N. F. Cabell, with a catalog of the Norwood School, 1870-1871, and copies of some correspondence, business and legal documents interpersed, including testimony regarding an incident that led to William C. Cabell's expulsion from Norwood School. Of interest are a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Robert Skipwith, 1771 August 3, giving advice on choice of books, and defending fiction; a statement of Joseph C. Cabell's debts 1837 January 19; and three letters from Robert Skipwith to William Daniel Cabell regarding Cabell's purchase of the 1771 Jefferson letter to Skipwith's ancestor. Blotting sand was found in William D. Cabell's Journal, 1864 Feb. -1865 Feb.

ArchivalResource: 4100 (ca.) items.

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Cocke family. Papers of the Cocke family, 1800-1871.

Title: Papers of the Cocke family, 1800-1871.

Letters chiefly contain family news. There is also a bill from Fisher and Bird, Norfolk, to Alexander Jackson Davis regarding the price of marble and granite; memorabilia from an 1855 tour of Europe; a bookplate of Gouverneur Morris; a photograph of the barn at "Bremo," the family estate; genealogical material; and the diaries, 1820-1842, of Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke. Correspondents include William Daniel Cabell, Ann Blaws Barraud, John Hartwell Cocke, Ann Carter Oliver, Nannie Oliver, Lucy Oliver, Merit M. Robinson, Philip Barraud, and members of the Braxton family.

ArchivalResource: 528 items.

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Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818-1867,. Lee family papers [microform] 1652 [1769-1870] 1890.

Title: Lee family papers [microform] 1652 [1769-1870] 1890.

Correspondence, accounts, deeds, and legal documents. Letterbooks, 1769-1771, 1775-1776, & 1793-1795, of William Lee, a partner in deBendt & Sayre, London, comprise the bulk of the collection. Letters to business associates primarily discuss the tobacco trade. Letters to his brothers Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee contain frequent political commentary on events in England & the colonies, and mention most of the prominent revolutionary Virginia leaders as well as their Parliamentary supporters. In addition to the letterbooks there are genealogies, deeds, indentures, wills, and other legal documents, correspondence of family members including many of Robert Edward Lee and other Civil War leaders. Correspondents include John Albion Andrew, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, John James Beckley, Francis Preston Blair, Braxton Bragg, John Cabell Breckenridge, Ambrose Everett Burnside, Nathaniel Burwell, Benjamin Franklin Butler, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, William Daniel Cabell, Landon Carter, Robert Wormeley Carter, Salmon Portland Chase, Samuel Cooper, Hannah Lee Corbin, Richard Corbin, Henry Knox Craig, Jefferson Davis, Jubal Anderson Early, Richard Stoddert Ewell, Thomas Fairfax, George Gibson, Josiah Gorgas, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Nathanael Greene, Henry Heth, Daniel Harvey Hill, John Bell Hood, Joseph Hooker, Oliver Otis Howard, Benjamin Huger, William Irvine, Thomas S. Thomas Sidney Jesup, Andrew Johnson, Edward Johnson, Robert Underwood Johnson, Albert Sidney Johnston, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. Sidney Lanier, Arthur Lee, Charles Lee, Fitzhugh Lee, Mary Ann Randolph Custis Lee, Richard Bland Lee, Thomas Lee, John Letcher, Abraham Lincoln, James Longstreet, William Mahone, George Brinton McClellan, Lafayette McLaws, George Mason, George Gordon Meade, Robert Carter Nicholas, Edward Follansbee Noyes, George Edward Pickett, Franklin Pierce, Alfred Pleasonton, Roger Atkinson Pryor, George Wythe Randolph, John Cook Rives, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur Comte de Rochambeau, Winfield Scott, Philip Henry Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman, William Shippen, Edmund Kirby Smith, William Smith, James Ewell Brown Stuart, Andrew Talcott, Lorenzo Thomas, Robert Augustus Toombs, Jonathan Trumbull, David Emanuel Twiggs, Zebulon Baird Vance, George Washington, John Wentworth, John Henry Winder, Henry Alexander Wise, John Ellis Wool, and Marcus Joseph Wright.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels.

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Patteson, Camm, b. 1840. Papers of Camm Patteson [manuscript] 1875-1900.

Title: Papers of Camm Patteson [manuscript] 1875-1900.

Chiefly business correspondence from Patteson's law practice. Subjects other than legal matters include Virginia politics, the University of Virginia, Buckingham and Cumberland Counties' politics, free silver, and the appointment of Thomas Henry Carter as proctor of the University of Virginia in 1897. Of interest are a letter from John W. Daniel commenting on the defeat of William J. Bryan for the presidency in 1896; Armistead C. Gordon's summation of Woodrow Wilson as a prospective president of the University of Virginia; an 1897 petition from the University of Virginia faculty to the Proctor, asking that the Building Committee consult with them over new construction; and an 1897 letter from Woodrow Wilson urging a promotion for U. Va. professory Richard H. Dabney. Includes writings, many fragmented, on Patteson's proposed legislation concerning trustees and fiduciaries and protection for individuals against trusts and corporations. Correspondents include Archer Anderson, Charles Minor Blackford, John Thompson Brown, Joseph Bryan, A. S. Buford, William Cabell, Richard H. Dabney, John W. Daniel, Henry D. Flood, Armistead C. Gordon, Randolph Harrison, R. G. H. Kean, John Lamb, Thomas S. Martin, Marshall McCormick, Robert Davis Yancey, and members of the Patteson family.

ArchivalResource: 175 items.

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