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Lee, Charles Carter, 1798-1871. Papers of Charles Carter Lee and the Lee family [manuscript], 1768-1931 (bulk 1780-1871).

Title: Papers of Charles Carter Lee and the Lee family [manuscript], 1768-1931 (bulk 1780-1871).

Papers collected by Charles Carter Lee include papers of General Light-Horse-Harry Lee, Major Henry Lee, Charles Carter Lee, and John Penn Lee. Light-Horse-Harry Lee's papers consist mainly of correspondence pertinent to his "Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States." Other topics include anti-Federalism, travel to the West Indies and advice to a son. Light-Horse-Harry Lee's correspondents include William Goddard, Christopher R. Greene, Nathanael Greene (copies), Andrew Jackson (copy), Lafayette (copy), Ann Hill Carter Lee, James Madison (copies), Nathaniel Pendleton, and George Washington (copy). Major Henry Lee's papers consist primarily of correspondence written during his residence in Europe in the 1830s. Topics of interest include James Wilkinson's defeat before Montreal, Jacksonian era politics, David Porter in the Mediterranean, Lee's biography of Napoleon and proposed biography of Andrew Jackson, Lee's financial and legal troubles, Lee's literary efforts. Prominent people discussed include James Buchanan, Henry Clay, John H. Eaton, Thomas Jefferson, Amos Kendall, Gales and Seaton, Henry St. George Tucker, and Daniel Webster. There is fairly extensive correspondence with Charles Carter Lee, Major William B. Lewis and Duff Green. Other correspondents include John Armstrong, James Biddle, Charles L. Bonaparate, Daniel Brent, John Carroll Brent, James L. Cathcart, Edward Vernon Childe, John Browne Cutting, Andrew Jackson Donelson, George William Featherstonhaugh, and Robert Selden Garnett. Also Francis Walker Gilmer, James A. Hamilton, William B. Hodgson, Sam Houston, Rachel Jackson, Peter Augustus Jay, Anne R. Lee, Charles Carter Lee, Hugh S. Legaré, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, John McLean, James Madison, John Marshall, John Moore of Paris, Nathaniel Niles, Barry O'Meara, Thomas Ritchie, Meritt M. Robinson, Gilbert C. Russell, Andrew Stevenson, John Taliaferro, Martin Van Buren, William Conway Whittle, and James Wilkinson. The papers of Charles Carter Lee constitute the bulk of the collection and contain manuscripts of his literary works and speeches, correspondence, and legal and financial papers. Topics include his student days at Harvard; a reply to George Henry Moore's "Mr. Lee's plan--March 29, 1777. The treason of Charles Lee"; scattered political commentary including remarks on William Cabell Rives; and a description of the capture of General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, 1863. Correspondents include William S. Archer, Henry Carey Baird, Nathaniel Burwell, George H. Calvert, David Campbell, Bernard M. Carter, J. H. Chamberlayne, Jr., Robert Young Conrad, E. S. Davis, Frederic De Peyster, Lyman C. Draper, Benjamin Rush Floyd, Letitia Floyd, David Graham, Robert Greenhow, William Wirt Henry, Francis Kinloch, and Benjamin H. Latrobe. Also George Washington Custis Lee, Richard Henry Lee, James Lyons, A. W. McDonald, Louis McLane, James Madison (copy), Hugh Nelson, Beverley Randolph, Charles H. Randolph, Robert E. Scott, Andrew Stevenson, Norborne M. Taliaferro, Martin Van Buren, Peter Van Winkle, Daniel Webster (copy), John Wickham, and William F. Wickham. John Penn Lee papers, consist of miscellaneous printed matter, routinme legall papers and business papers of the law firm of Dillard and Lee, Rocky Mount, Va.

ArchivalResource: 1917 items.

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Whittle, William C., 1805-1878. Papers of William Conway Whittle [manuscript] 1753-1871.

Title: Papers of William Conway Whittle [manuscript] 1753-1871.

Journal, 1753-1856, kept by Whittle first on board U. S. Brig. Spark, 1823 June 26-Oct. 15, during a West Indies cruise, and telling of hunting of Pirates. At end, record, 1753-1827, of children of Whittle's parents, Fortescue Whittle and Mary Ann Davies Whittle, written 1854 Jan. 1-1856 Dec. 5, by the latter. Journal, 1829 Sept. 4-1831 June 30, kept by Whittle on U. S. Ships Ontario, Constellation (Frigate), Java, consisting of copies of letters home containing little but descriptions of Mediterranean cities visited. Journal, 1836 Aug. 30-1864 Feb. 10, of Conway Davies Whittle containing notes and quotations, and occasional personal or family entries. Journal, 1850 June-1857 July 19, William Conway Whittle's religious reflections. Inverted and reversed, the watch bill of the U. S. Brig Spark. Trade and arbitration treaty, 1854 Mar. 20, between Sochray Moosa, sub-chief of Debruka River, Isles de Los [French Guiana] and [Commander William Conway Whittle]. Drawing, 1855 Aug., of the Dale (U. S. S.) commanded by William Conway Whittle. Journal, 1857 Aug.-1858 Aug. 4, kept by William Conway Whittle as Capt. of the United States (U. S. S.), stationed at Norfolk, Va., where Whittle lived ashore. Concerns his dead wife, Elizabeth Beverley Sinclair Whittle and his 11 children, including Beverley Kennon Whittle and Stafford Gorman Whittle. Also concerns naval affairs, his financial difficulties, and his purchase and move to a home later called "Anchorage", Buchanan, Botetourt Co., Va. Mentioned also [p. 68, 69] is his acquaintance with Nathaniel Hawthorne and [p. 303] ex-President Franklin Pierce. Journal, 1866 May 7-1871 Aug. 11, of William Conway Whittle, kept at "Anchorage", of reflections on his reading, diary entries, and copies of many letters, both his own and others, including the Civil War letters of his son, Beverley Kennon Whittle, who served in the Virginia Cavalry, 2d Regt., 1861-1865, and his son, William Conway Whittle who served on the C.S.S. Nashville. Miscellaneous vols., 1874-90, and [n.d.]; 2 v. of prayers, one printed and the other manuscript; a book of recipes; and a leather pocketbook. Henry Clay and Daniel Webster are correspondents.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

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Bruce, Philip Alexander, 1856-1933. Papers of the Hubard family [manuscript] 1749-1951.

Title: Papers of the Hubard family [manuscript] 1749-1951.

The collection contains the correspondence of three generations of the Hubard family of Virginia and West Virginia planters, lawyers and politicians. The papers of Robert Thruston Hubard [1808-1871] of Rosney and Chellowe, Buckingham Co. Va., contain letters from his brother Edmund Wilcox Hubard and his son at V. M. I. James Linnaeus Hubard. Genealogy, U. S. politics and farming are frequent topics. Most of the papers of Robert Thruston Hubbard [1839-1921] were generated by his law practice and businesses, including the presidency of the Orange-Keysville Railway. There are a few Civil War letters and copies of political letters between his father-in-law John R. Edmunds and Walter Coles as well as some genealogical material. The bulk of the papers of Robert Thruston Hubard [1876- ],a Fayetteville, W. Va. lawyer, consists of correspondence with his wife Ruth Drewry Whittle Hubard, their children, and relatives. Family papers include land grants, wills, deeds, court orders, maps and plats, stocks and Confederate bonds, plantation journals, insurance policies, bills and receipts, and estate settlements. There are numerous clippings, greeting cards, invitations, photographs, school reports and miscellany. Of special interest in the collection are 1781 orders to William Hubard to join Nathanael Greene's southern army; class notes from lectures on economics by George Tucker; and a description of the garrison at Vera Cruz by William A. Whittle of the U. S. Ohio; Also a denouncement of Martin Van Buren for turning a relative out of office; an effort to discredit the log cabin campaign of 1840; an 1844 letter to Thomas Ritchie on the annexation of Texas; an account of a visit to V. M. I. by Millard Fillmore; and an 1852 letter on the Virginia delegates' role at the Democratic National Convention, Also an 1854 plea by an overseer on behalf of a slave named "Walker" who wishes Hubard to buy his wife; memoirs of the battle of Spotsylvania; a description of an 1870 James River flood; an 1872 appeal from Horace Greeley to support his nomination, and an 1875 description of the Va. Democratic party by Fitzhugh Lee. Also efforts to aid Jefferson's impoverished granddaughter Septimia Randolph Meikleham; 1884 papers for the Richmond, Va., Republican City Committee; a letter from William Smith commending Hubard II's legislative service, and a petition to William McKinley recommending Hubard II for an appointment. Correspondents include Philip Alexander Bruce, George Craighead Cabell, William C. Cabell, William M. Cabell, Philip St. George Cocke, John Warwick Daniel, Alfred T. Harris, John Bell Henneman, Bolling Hubard, Lyttleton E. Hubard, Sallie Edmunds Hubard, William Bolling Hubard, Thomas Staples Martin, Septimia Ann Randolph Meikleham, Richard McIlwaine, Henry Chester Parsons, Henry Smith Pritchett, Wilson Cary Nicholas Randolph, Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Buckner Thruston, John Randolph Tucker and Lewis N. Whittle.

ArchivalResource: 9,600 items.

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