Papers of the Rives, Sears and Rhinelander families [manuscript], 1829-1923.

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Papers of the Rives, Sears and Rhinelander families [manuscript], 1829-1923.

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The papers contain correspondence, business and legal papers, genealogical papers, diary, photographs, clippings, and memorabilia of the Rives family and especially William Cabell Rives Sr., Judith Page Walker Rives, William Cabell Rives Jr., Grace Winthrop Sears Rives, and William Cabell Rives III. Correspondence discusses United States and Virginia politics, 1830-1860; the Civil War and post war desolation; the University of Virginia including the Jefferson Society, calithumps, and life on the East Range; German travels, 1851; the management of, alterations to, and life on a Cobham, Virginia, farm, 1853-1855. Of interest is an 1845 letter describing a plantation on a Louisiana bayou, and a slave-pulled tow boat; 1834 letters to William Cabell Rives re the United States Senatorial elections and the principles of instruction; copies of remarks made by him in Congress, 1827, 1836;and letters from him to his wife re politics in Washington in 1844; Also of interest are an 1851 letter describing Paris during Napoleon III's coup d'etat and the establishment of the 2nd Empire; two April 1865 letters re the murder trial of a man in Mosby's command; letters, 1872-1873, from William Cabell Rives as a student at Corpus Christi, Oxford; and correspondence re the construction of Cobham Park, designed by George Snell and built by E.S. McSparren; Also of interest are a diary, 1869-1894, containing brief entries and notes on family members, 1860-1909; and some manuscript histories of the Cabell family by Samuel Houston, and Alexander Brown. Correspondents include Lewis Minor Coleman, Edward Everett, Joseph Grinnell, George Long, E.S. McSparran, William Mahone, Einle George Money, Thomas Walker Page, Lyon Playfair, William Foushee Ritchie, Alfred Landon Rives, Ella Rives, Francis Robert Rives, George Rives, Mary F. Rhinelander Rives, David Sears, Ellen Sears, Frederick R. Sears, Kuyvett W. Sears, Amelie Louise Rives Sigourney, Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy, and Cornelius Walker.

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