Papers of the Minor and Wilson family, 1764-1936 (bulk 1800-1936).

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Papers of the Minor and Wilson family, 1764-1936 (bulk 1800-1936).

Papers of the Minor and Wilson family, 1764-1936 (bulk 1800-1936).

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The papers contain correspondence, financial and legal papers including deeds, speeches, essays, manuscripts, school papers, newsclippings, photographs, memorabilia, and miscellaneous related items. The majority pertain to John Barbee Minor and most of the remainder to his daughters Susan Colston Wilson, Martha Macon Sams, and Mary Lancelot Minor. The material relates to John B. Minor's Charlottesville, Va., law practice in partnership with his brother Lucian, his University of Virginia professorship, his legal scholarship, and his family life. Additional topics of interest are the Whig Convention of 1844, free public education in Virginia, the temperance movement in Virginia, the American Colonization Society, the Virginia Secesssion Convention of 1861, various campaigns and battles fought by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Civil War, the University of Virginia, the Virginia Female Institute, World War I, family genealogy, and Susan Colston Wilson's biography of her father. Items of interest include 1812 and 1813 letters concerning land speculation in Tennessee; a copy of a letter from Ferdinand Joseph Maxmilian, Emperor of Mexico to Matthew Fontaine Maury; and a reminiscence of Edgar Allan Poe by William Wertenbaker; and a letter from John Davis Minor, University of Virginia to his parents, 1849, giving University gossip, mentioning politics and discussing the purchasing of railroad shares. Over 25 of John B. Minor's speeches and legal writings are present including "Remedies by Suit in Equity," a chapter of "Institutes of Common and Statute Law," and "Synopsis of Procceedings in Chancery." Correspondents include William A. Anderson, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Kemp P. Battle, Benjamin L. Blackford, Charles M. Blackford, Launcelot M. Blackford, Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford, William Mathews Blackford, Montgomery Blair, Charles Bonnycastle, John A. Broadus, Albert Gallatin Brown, Joseph Bryan and George C. Cabell. Also James L. Cabell, Joseph C. Cabell, Clement C. Clay, Henry Clay, John Hartwell Cocke, Ellas N. Conway, Edward Henry Courtenay, John Warwick Daniel, John A.G. Davis, John Staige Davis, Theodore Dwight, Thomas H. Ellis, Charles James Faulkner, William Fleming, William Frazier, Muscoe R.H. Garnett and Basil L. Gildersleeve. Also Thomas Walker Gilmer, E.C. Glass, Armistead Churchill Gordon, T.M. Gunter, Ralph R. Gurley, James Guthrie, Gessner Harrison, C.P. Hastings, James P. Holcombe, Frederick W.M. Holliday, George F. Holmes, Marmaduke Johnson, George Junkin, James Keith, James C. Lamb, Shelton Farrar Leake and Robert E. Lee. Also William M. Lile, James Russell Lowell, Cyrus H. McCormick, William Holmes McGuffey, Dabney Herndon Maury, Richard Lancelot Maury, Socrates Maupin, Richard K. Meade, John S. Mosby, William Barclay Napton, George Wharton Pepper, George Wythe Randolph, John Randolph of Roanoke, Wilson Cary Nicholas Randolph, Alexander Rives, and William Cabell Rives. Also William Joseph Robertson, Wyndham Robertson, William Barton Rogers, John E. Roller, William H. Ruffner, Maximilian Schele de Vere, James A. Seddon, Eli S. Shorter, Philip Slaughter, Campbell Bascom Slemp, Alexander H.H. Stuart, James J. Sylvester, John Reuben Thompson, George W. Trueheart and Henry St. George Tucker.

20 feet (ca. 25,000 items)

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