Papers of Trist and Burke family members [manuscript] 1818-1916.

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Papers of Trist and Burke family members [manuscript] 1818-1916.

The papers contain recipe books, a scrap-book, copy books, memo books, music, an autograph album, invitations, obituaries, poetry, correspondence, including a copy of a letter regarding colonizing Santo Domingo with American blacks, and a note on the death of a slave, a message book found on the Bull Run battlefield, a document regarding the boundary of Texas, and a memo on the phrenological character of Thomas Jefferson Trist. Family members and other correspondents represented in the collection include Anne Cary Randolph Bankhead, Frances Maury Burke, Martha Jefferson Trist Burke, Nicholas Philip Trist Burke, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Thomas Mann Randolph, Nicholas Philip Trist, Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist, Bushrod Washington, and John F. Watson.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7928401

University of Virginia. Library

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Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc.

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The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation was incorporated in 1923. In this year, the Foundation purchased Monticello and strove to restore and preserve the historic home. Now known as the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the group operates the house, the gardens, the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, a museum shop, the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants, and the Monticello Visitors Center. The Foundation is a non-profit organization that emphasizes pre...

Trist, Nicholas Philip, 1800-1874

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U. S. diplomat; grandson-in-law of Thomas Jeferson. From the description of N. P. Trist letter to Henry Carey [manuscript] 1869 Apr. 2. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647946227 Nicholas Philip Trist attended West Point; was a Louisiana planter, 1821-1824; U.S. State Department clerk, 1828-1834; consul to Havana, Cuba, 1834-1840; State Department chief clerk, 1845-1847; and chief negotiator of the treaty ending the Mexican War, 1847. He was also a lawyer and pa...

Trist family.

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Bear, James Adam, 1919-

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Former Curator and Resident Director of Monticello. From the description of Papers of James A. Bear, 1783-1966. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136318 ...

Randolph, Martha Jefferson, 1772-1836

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Daughter of Thomas Jefferson. From the description of Letters to Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist [manuscript], 1833 October 10 and 23. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647844212 ...

Burke, Frances Maury, 1861-1933,

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Burke, Nicholas Philip Trist, 1859-1907,

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Trist, Virginia Jefferson Randolph, 1801-1882

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Bankhead, Anne Cary Randolph, 1791-1826

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Burke, Martha Jefferson Trist, 1826-1915

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Randolph, Thomas Mann, 1741-1793

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Thomas Mann Randolph was born 1 October 1768 at Tuckahoe in Henrico County, Virginia, to Thomas Mann Randolph (1740-1793) and Anne Cary Randolph (1745-1789). Educated by private tutors until age 16, Randolph studied at the University of Edinburg from 1785 to 1788. He returned to Virginia and settled in Albemarle County, Virginia, eventually establishing his home at Edgehill. Randolph served in the Virginia Senate from 1793 to 1794. He was elected to the United States Congress and served from 180...

Burke family.

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Watson, John F., fl. 1818,

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