Papers : of James Lawson Kemper, 1837-1903.

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Papers : of James Lawson Kemper, 1837-1903.

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The collection contains the correspondence of James Lawson Kemper with, among others, Benjamin Johnson Barbour (concerning George Edward Pickett), John Holmes Bocock, Sarah Margaret Kemper Bocock, John R. Chamberlain, William Westmore Gordon (concerning Joseph Mayo), Lewis Edwin Harvie (concerning the University of Virginia), R.M.T. Hunter, W.H. Swallow (concerning the battle of Gettysburg), James Hoge Tyler (concerning George Edward Pickett), and Robert Enoch Withers (concerning freemasonry). Also included are Kemper's speeches, military commissions in the Virginia militia, law licenses, and notes concerning lawsuits and the Virginia debt; his notebook from Washington College; and diary from the Mexican War. There are letters to Sarah Margaret Kemper Bocock from Cremora Conway Cave Kemper and Maria Elizabeth Allison Kemper; the correspondence of Walter Kemper Bocock with Louisa Anderson Kemper, Robert Warner Lewis, and John Poyntz Tyler; letters from John Leyburn and William K. Pendleton to John Holmes Bocock; and letters from William Kellogg to John Taliaferro (concerning John Gaspar Stadler). John Holmes Bocock, Presbyterian minister in Georgetown, D.C., Fincastle and Halifax, Va., kept commonplace books and notes, some of which have been published in Selections from the Religious and Literary Writings of John H. Bocock, ed. by Sarah Margaret Kemper Bocock (Richmond: Whittet and Shepperson, 1891). Newspaper clippings concerning the Bocock, Flood, and Kemper families, and "Madison Hall," Rockingham County, Va., complete the collection.

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Hunter, R. M. T. (Robert Mercer Taliaferro), 1809-1887

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Leyburn, John, 1814-1893

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Kemper, James Lawson, 1823-1895

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Harvie, Lewis Edwin, 1809-1887.

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Tyler, John Poyntz, 1862-1931.

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Stadler, John Gaspar, 1724-1796.

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Tyler, James Hoge, 1846-1925

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Bocock, Nicholas F.

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Flood family.

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Pendleton, William K.

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Kellogg, William.

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Mayo, Joseph, 1832-1896.

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University of Virginia

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