Papers of John Letcher [manuscript] 1848-78.

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Papers of John Letcher [manuscript] 1848-78.

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Chiefly correspondence which concerns politics, Congressional activities, business and legal affairs. Correspondents, besides Letcher, include: James D. Davidson of Lexington, Va.; James B. Dorman of Rockbridge Co., Va., who writes of the Va. General Assembly in the 1850's and the Va. Convention, 1861; William Henry Richardson, and Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart.

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Stuart, Alexander H. H. (Alexander Hugh Holmes), 1807-1891

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Richardson, William Henry,

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