Poe-Allan-Ellis papers, 1803-1881.

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Poe-Allan-Ellis papers, 1803-1881.

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The collection contains letters, personal records, and financial accounts of John Allan and his business partner Charles Ellis and their families and friends. Includes twenty-nine letters written by Edgar Allan Poe, mostly to his foster father John Allan, and a manuscript page of Poe's "Poetic Principle." Also includes correspondence between Thomas H. Ellis and Edward V. Valentine, letterpress accounts, price lists, and letters sent between London and Richmond concerning the Allan-Ellis business. The business records consist of letterbooks, cash books, tobacco books, journals, and ledgers of the firms of Ellis and Allan, Thomas and Charles Ellis and Company, and Ellis and Sons of Richmond, Va., general merchants and buyers and sellers of tobacco. Included are papers of the counterpart firm in London, England, Allan and Ellis, as well as those of several subsidiary companies organized in Lynchburg and in Amherst County, Va., for the buying and selling of tobacco. Charles Ellis, Jr. wrote descriptive letters from West Point during the 1930s. Other correspondents include Archibald Cary, Carter Page, William Bolling, Armistead Gordon, St. George Tucker, Powhatan Ellis, Thomas Mann Randolph, John Randolph, Jesse Burton Harrison, James Maury, and John H. Cocke of Bremo Plantation. Included are papers, 1830-1850, of the James River and Kanawha Company, chartered by the state to build a canal from Richmond to West Virginia along the James River.

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Maury, James, 1746-1840

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James F. Maury (1746-1840), merchant at Fredericksburg, Virginia, before and during the American Revolution, engaged in the tobacco trade between Liverpool, England, and the U.S. after the Revolution. He served as the first American consul at Liverpool....

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American author, poet, and critic. In 1834 Poe married his cousin Virginia, who was not quite fourteen at the time, and began seriously seeking a means of supporting "his family." In the spring of 1835, the family moved back to Richmond where Poe took a position with the Southern Literary Messenger . Poe used the opportunity to publish several of his poems and short tales in the paper, but he also began developing his reputation as a pugnacious critic by contr...

Ellis and Sons (Richmond, Va.)

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Thomas and Charles Ellis and Company (Richmond, Va.)

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Cocke, John Hartwell, 1780-1866

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Fluvanna County, Va. planter, reformer, and University of Virginia Board of Visitors member. From the description of Papers : of John Hartwell Cocke, 1806-1866. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 30793405 Planter, agricultural reformer, and brigadier general in the War of 1812. From the description of Papers, 1825-1872. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39330821 The James River and Kanawha Company The creation of Virg...

James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.)

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Ellis, Thomas H. (Thomas Harding), 1814-1898

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Thomas Harding Ellis (1814-1898) was Private Secretary to his uncle, Powhatan Ellis (1790-1863), who was the U.S. ChargeĢ d'Affaires in Mexico City, Mexico from 1836 to 1839. From the description of Journal, 1836. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 207132112 University of Virginia alumnus; son of Charles Ellis, tobacco exporter and general merchant in partnership with John Allan, step father of Edgar Allan Poe. From the description of Address of Thomas H. Ellis [manu...

Cary, Archibald, 1721-1787

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Virginia merchant, planter, and legislator. From the description of Letter to George Washington [manuscript], 1782 May 25. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647861234 ...

Randolph, Thomas M. (Thomas Mann), 1768-1828

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Congressman; governor of Virginia; son-in-law of Thomas Jefferson. From the description of Letters : Washington, D.C., to Dr. William Bache, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1804 February 11 and November 12. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 30793170 U.S. Congressman, 1803-1807; governor of Virginia, 1819-1822; and son-in-law of Thomas Jefferson; from Albemarle Co., Va. From the description of Letters, 1813-1825. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record ...

Bolling, William,

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Randolph, John, 1773-1833

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Randolph served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1799-1813, 1815-1817, 1819-1825, 1827-1829), the U.S. Senate (1825-1827), the Virginia Constitutional Convention (1829-1830), and as Minister to Russia (1830-1831). From the description of Letter of introduction, 10 July 1813. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235133950 U. S. Congressman from Virginia. From the description of Letter [manuscript] : Liverpool, England, to Jacob Harvey, Cork Irela...

Page, Carter

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Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827

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St. George Tucker (1752-1827), was born in Bermuda and emigrated to Williamsburg, Virginia where he attended the College of William and Mary. He served in the Revolutionary War, as a judge of the General Court of Virginia, and as professor of law at the College of William and Mary. He was elected to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. Tucker was appointed to the federal district court for Virginia. He married, firstly, Frances Bland Randolph who was the mother of John Randolph of Roanoke. ...

Harrison, J. B. (Jesse Burton), 1805-1841

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Ellis, Charles Mayo

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Epithet: of Trinity College, Cambridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000980.0x0001a1 Mormon author and manager of the Star Lecture Course. From the description of The star lecture course, 1892. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122322664 Charles Ellis was author of The Christ in Shakspeare (3rd edition, 1902). From the description of Letters to Horace Howard Furness and essay on ...

Valentine, Edward Virginius, 1838-1930

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Augusta Co., Va., landlord. From the description of Account book, 1847-1863. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32959201 Valentine was a famous sculptor who made the recumbent statue of Robert E. Lee that is housed in Lee Chapel. From the description of Letter, 1922 November 28 : to Mrs. R. L. Walton. (Washington & Lee University). WorldCat record id: 192139527 ...

Allan, J. A. (John Anthony)

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An artistic associate of Clark Ashton Smith. From the description of Miscellaneous paraphrases and original verse, [192-?]. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122623476 ...

Ellis, Powhatan, 1790-1863

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Powhatan Ellis, 1790-1863, was born in Amherst County, Virginia. He was a lawyer, State Supreme Court judge (1823-25), and a U.S. Senator. From the description of Letter, Red Hill (Amherst County, Va.), 1827 December 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145410351 U.S. senator from Mississippi, jurist, and diplomat. From the description of Powhatan Ellis papers, 1822-1832. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71010039 1809 graduate of Washington Academy, Powhatan ...

Ellis, Charles, Jr,

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Gordon, Armistead

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Ellis and Allan (London, England)

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Ellis and Allan (Richmond, Va.)

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