Rosa Vertner Jeffrey Papers, 1855-1892.

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Rosa Vertner Jeffrey Papers, 1855-1892.

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Included is correspondence; poems (including poems dedicated to Mrs. Jeffrey as well as those written by her); copyright certificate, 1857, for her poems; accounts of the sales, 1857-1881, of her writings; a release, 1862, of claim against Mrs. Jeffrey for sale of an African American woman who proved to be unsound; powers of attorney; statement of cotton captured at Vicksburg, Miss., in 1864 from Mrs. Jeffrey's plantation, "Canton Place"; claim against the U.S. for damage to the residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Vertner during the Civil War; insurance policies, 1884; tax receipts, 1864-1892; and a scrapbook containing clippings of Mrs. Jeffrey's poems. The correspondence, chiefly literary, contains some family letters, including those of her husband, Alexander Jeffrey, describing Lexington, Ky., during the Civil War. Correspondents include David Bates, Charles Augustus Davis, James Cephas Derby, the firm of Derby and Jackson, Julia Deane Freeman, William Jeffrey, Emily V. Mason, Dr. Thomas S. Powell, Orville James Victor, P.L. Wickes, and Robert W. Woolley.

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Derby & Jackson

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Davis, Charles Augustus, 1795-1867

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Davis was the author of the "Major Jack Downing Letters" in 1834 which included plans for the overthrow of the Bank of the U.S. From the description of ALS, 1836 January 19 New York to L[uther] Brandish. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 25611821 American author. From the description of Letter, 1861 September 12, New York, to an unidentified general [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647827996 ...

Mason, Emily V. (Emily Virginia), 1815-1909

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Coggeshall, William Turner, 1824-1867

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Military secretary to Governor Dennison of Ohio during Civil War from April 12, 1861 through Nov. 22, 1862. In 1862 he moved from Columbus to Springfield, Ohio with his wife and started a newspaper. In 1866 he was appointed Minister to Ecuador and died there in 1867. From the description of Diary, 1861-1862. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 48528773 ...

Forrest, Mary (Mary L.)

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Derby, J. C. (James Cephas), 1818-1892

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Jeffrey, Alexander, 1815-1899.

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Business executive of New York and Ky. President of the Lexington City Gas Co. From the description of Alexander Jeffrey Papers, 1835-1899. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49243679 ...

Jeffrey, Rosa Vertner, 1828-1894

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Poet and wife of Alexander Jeffrey. From the description of Rosa Vertner Jeffrey Papers, 1855-1892. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49243681 ...

Bates, David, ca. 1810-1870.

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Victor, Orville J. (Orville James), 1827-1910

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Jeffrey, William, 1812-1867.

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Brother of Alexander and John Jeffrey. William Jeffrey, formerly of Rochester, N.Y., served as executor and agent of the estate of John Greig, as agent of William Hornby, and as agent of Sir Patrick Colquhoun. From the description of William Jeffrey : papers, 1852-1876. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49243682 ...