Papers of Hugh Blair Grigsby, 1760-1876.

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Papers of Hugh Blair Grigsby, 1760-1876.

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Papers consist chiefly of letters to and from Hugh Blair Grigsby that were collected by Margaret H. Morton. The papers contain correspondence on the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, an 1840 article by Matthew Fontaine Maury on the U.S. Navy, the dedication of a Jefferson statue in 1858, a monument ot James Madison, Philip Slaughter's history of St. Mark's Parish and a proposal for an art surgey (fragment). Some copies of Prince Edward County, Va., legal documents, 1755-1796, are present. Correspondents include B. Johnson Barbour, R.A. Brock, Edward Coles, Lyman Draper, Thomas H. Ellis, Delaware Kemper, J.W. Randolph, W.H. Ruffner, Philip Slaughter, and Thomas W. White.

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