Contain the correspondence of James Lyon (while practicing law in Richmond, Va., concerning Virginia and national politics, legal matters, and life in Richmond) with John Minor Botts, Alexander Gustavus Brown, Salmon Portland Chase, William Wood Crump, Jefferson Davis, Varina (Howell) Davis, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell, James Mercer Garnett, Thomas Walker Gilmer, Thomas Green, John Munford Gregory, Peter Guerrant, Jedediah Hotchkiss, Robert Reid Howison, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Levin Smith Joynes, Beverley Kennon, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, William Mason McCarty, John Mercer, Robert Mills, John Singleton Mosby, William Munford, Roger Atkinson Pryor, John Henninger Reagan, William Henry Roane, Winfield Scott, Robert Stanard, William Beverley Stanard, Robert Matthew Sully, William Booth Taliaferro, Roger Brooke Taney, Julia (Gardiner) Tyler, L. Quinton Washington, Mayo Carrington Watkins, Louis Trezevant Wigfall, John Henry Winder, Philip Bickerton Winston, Henry Alexander Wise, Mary Elizabeth (Lyons) Wise, Obadiah Jennings Wise, Thomas Hicks Wynne, and others. Also, include the correspondence of William Henry Lyons (while serving as judge of the Hustings Court of Richmond, Va.) with Wood Bouldin, Robert Ruffin Collier, John Esten Cooke, Henry Curtis, Richard Stoddert Ewell, S. Bassett French, Richard V. Gaines, Thomas Green, Randolph Harrison, William Mahone, Sarah (Bruce) Seddon, Thomas P. Shields, S.V. Southall, William Beverley Stanard, William Booth Taliaferro, Henry Carrington Watkins, Mayo Carrington Watkins, Henry Alexander Wise, and others. Also, include the account book, 1799-1806, of Doctor James Lyons (d. 1830) kept in Richmond, Va.; letter written by Peter Lyons to John Hatley Norton; letters written by James Lyons, Jr. (the grandson of James Lyons [1801-1882]) to Robert Alonzo Brock; and deeds and leases for land in New Kent and Prince George counties and Richmond, Va.
