Letters to Warwick Miller [manuscript], 1825 and 1840.

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Letters to Warwick Miller [manuscript], 1825 and 1840.

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Letters to Miller from Charlottesville, Va., residents William Meriwether and Peter Carr describe the University of Virginia in 1825 and 1840. Topics include the opening of classes, lectures, future prospects and the murder of professor John A.G. Davis. The hiring of slaves to cultivate a tobacco crop, an anticipated Rivanna [Navigation] Company, property transactions, and news of family and friends are also mentioned.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Carr, Peter?, 1816-1858.

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Meriwether, William Hunter, 1793-1862.

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University of Virginia

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

Rivanna Navigation Company

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Davis, John A. G. (John Anthony Gardner), 1801-1840

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American jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Charlottesville, to Thomas Jefferson, 1825 May 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270517658 Jurist, professor of law and chairman of the faculty at the University of Virginia. From the description of Letter, 1837 July 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86164563 John A.G. Davis, b. Middlesex County, Va., killed November 14, 1840, by student he was trying to arrest; professor o...

Miller, Warrick, 1793-1863

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Louisville, Ky., resident. From the description of Letters to Warwick Miller [manuscript], 1825 and 1840. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647827122 ...