Papers of the Anderson family [manuscript], 1773-1930.

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Papers of the Anderson family [manuscript], 1773-1930.

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The collection contains personal, legal and business correspondence, ledgers daybooks, journals, notebooks, addresses, scrapbooks, drawings and other papers of Francis Thomas Anderson and his son William Alexander Anderson. Papers chiefly concern coal, tin, iron and agricultural land in Lexington, Virginia and Rockbridge County, Virginia, and iron companies, including the Tredegar of Richmond, Va. Legal papers document numerous court cases in Virginia including the Virginia-West Virginia Debt Controversy, for which William A. Anderson prepared briefs and arguments as attorney-general of Virginia. Other topics include politics; social life; Daughters of the Confedracy; the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union; the Stonewall Jackson Monument Corporation. the Good Road movement and other matters. Items of note include a letter from Socrates Maupin on the University of Virginia and Professor John A. G. Davis; an 1832 draft resolution disapproving of South Carolina's nullification of the tariff; Fitzhugh Lee on the Rockbridge Company, 1890; letter from William Hodges Mann to Samuel W. Williams about retaining William A. Anderson to argue the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad case, 1910 November 4; social letters from Thomas Nelson Page; and a 1920 document concerning the Arlington Case and the passing of the Arlington Estate from the Lee family. Miscellaneous papers include drawings by Ellen Graham Anderson; Francis T. Anderson's loyalty oath, notes on McCorkle family history, material on the invention of the McCormick reaper; monthly reports of Nelson County, Va., teachers; World War I rally photographs; a Negro Book, 1847-1849; and account books from various Lexington and Rockbridge County industries.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Virginia. Debt Commission.

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