James Barron Hope Papers I, 1790-1965, 1847-1887.

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James Barron Hope Papers I, 1790-1965, 1847-1887.

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Papers, chiefly 1847-1887, of James Barron Hope. Correspondence includes letters to his mother Jane A. Barron Hope while on a naval cruise to the Caribbean and letters to his wife, Annie Beverley Whiting Hope written during the Civil War. There are letters between Jane A. Barron Hope and her friend, Caroline Matilda Campbell. Prominent correspondents in the collection include Jubal A. Early, Benjamin S. Ewell, Hugh Blair Grigsby, Fitzhugh Lee, W.H.F. Lee, Thomas Nelson Page, John Tyler and Robert Charles Winthrop. The collection also includes manuscript poems of Hope including his address at the Yorktown Centennial, as well as articles and letters concerning his death and his involvement in dueling.

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