Papers of the Trist, Randolph, and Burke families [manuscript], 1721-1969 (bulk 1800-1861).

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Papers of the Trist, Randolph, and Burke families [manuscript], 1721-1969 (bulk 1800-1861).

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The collection contains the correspondence of several generations of the Trist family and generally concerns family matters. The largest number are from Tryphena Pendarves re the education of her intended heir Hore Browse Trist [1832-1896] and his disputed inheritance. The correspondence of Nicholas Philip Trist includes letters to him at West Point and from him during his consulship at Havana. There is considerable genealogical information in the letters of Nicholas Browse Trist and Martha Jefferson Trist Burke and much about the game of whist. Of interest is a letter from Thomas Mann Randolph re the suicide of a slave and his theories of slave discipline. Other topics include the religious beliefs of Daniel Webster; John Randolph of Roanoke's challenging of Webster to a duel; an 1857 voyage to Rio de Janiero on the U.S.S. Vandalia; the money owed to Nicholas P. Trist for his Mexican War negotiations; and advice on good conduct from Thomas Jefferson to Cornelia Jefferson Randolph. There are copies of other Jefferson letters as well. The collection also contains the journal, 1783, of Elizabeth House Trist of a journey from Philadelphia to Louisiana, overland to Pittsburgh and by raft down the Ohio and Mississippi; the diary, 1791-1792, of a foreign student in Switzerland; and reminiscences, ante 1836, of Thomas Jefferson by Martha Jefferson Randolph. Nicholas Philip Trist material includes his Cuban journal, his memorial, 1848, to Congress re his salary, his memorial "To my country," and his notes and drafts for "A state," and "The power of the state." Later material includes an account of the death of George Wythe Randolph by Sarah Nicholas Randolph; a sketch of Nicholas Trist by Hore Browse Trist; "A diplomat with ideal," 1923, by Louis Martin Sears; a ficticious journal of an unknown Southern maiden; and "At Totness," an account of the Louisiana Trists during the Civil War. In addition there are family certificates, indentures, appointments, commissions, artifacts, newsclippings, military passes signed by Winfield Scott, photographs, and a manuscript map of the battle of Carnifex Ferry. Correspondents include Harry Flood Byrd, Joseph Coolidge, Hamilton Fish, Schuyler Hamilton, Herbert Hoover, Lady Caroline Melfort, Henry Stephens Randall, Mary Jefferson Randolph, Mary Louise Brown Trist Jones Tournillon, Elizabeth House Trist, Hore Browse Trist [1775-1804], Hore Browse Trist [1802- 1856], Nicholas Trist, Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist, and Thomas Jefferson Trist. Papers of the Trist, Randolph and Burke families, 1800-1960, Accession #10487, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

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Randolph, Sarah N. (Sarah Nicholas), 1839-1892,

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