Randolph family papers [manuscript] 1783-1909, n.d.

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Randolph family papers [manuscript] 1783-1909, n.d.

Chiefly family correspondence of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Agnes (Dillon) Randolph and Margaret Smith (Randolph) Randolph. However, there are letters from Dabney Carr, Ellen Wayles (Randolph) Coolidge, Francis Wayles Eppes, Robert Garlick Kean Hill, James J. Monroe, Nicholas Philip Trist, Bernard Peyton, Wilson Cary Nicholas, Thomas Sully and William Henry Roane. Includes letters, 1802 March 3 and 1803 Feb. 24, Thomas Jefferson Randolph to Thomas Jefferson and, various memoranda, designs and sketches including one by Jefferson for a desk, and calling cards. In addition there are the following: land grant, 1798 Feb. 5, to W.C. Nicholas for property in Amherst County, Virginia; survey, 1791 July 2, by Elliot Lacy of land in Goochland County, Virginia; letters and invoices, 1863-1864, to Major T. J. Randolph of the Quartermaster Corp. for army supplies [38 items]; letters, 1884-1888, from Paul Otto and F. Otto Schulze to Sarah Nicholas Randolph, secretary of the Lee Monument Association, re the statue of Robert E. Lee [15 items].

ca.190 items.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Lee Monument Association

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Randolph, Agnes Dillon.

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Carr, Dabney, 1773-1837

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Randolph, Margaret Smith, 1816-1843.

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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...

Monroe, James J.

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Lacy, Elliot.

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Nicholas, Wilson Cary, 1757-1820.

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Wilson Cary Nicholas, from Albemarle County, Virginia, fought in the Revolution, and became a politician, serving in the Virginia General Assembly, 1784-89, 1794-1799, as a U.S. senator, 1799-1804, and as a congressman, 1807-1809. He was governor of Virginia from 1814-1816, and a close associate of Jefferson. From the description of Papers, 1800-1805, 1815-1816. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122609119 The son of Robert Carter Nicholas (1728-1780) and Anne Cary Nicholas (173...

Eppes, Francis

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Francis Eppes was the grandson of Thomas Jefferson and a long-time resident of Tallahassee, FL; he came to Florida in the 1820's and served as mayor of the city and head of the Seminary West of the Suwannee, which eventually became Florida State College for Women and later Florida State University. From the description of Francis Eppes Letter, 1838. (Florida State University). WorldCat record id: 40098509 ...

Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1875

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Roane, William Henry, 1787-1845

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U.S. Senator and grandson of Patrick Henry; resident of Richmond, Va. From the description of Papers, 1838-1839. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20115918 ...

Kean, Robert Garlick Hill, 1828-1898

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Chief clerk, Confederate Bureau of War, Lynchburg lawyer. From the description of Papers of Robert Garlick Hill Kean [manuscript] 1826-1922. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647967689 ...

Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872

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Artist Thomas Sully was born in London, although his actor parents soon emigrated to the United States. A trip back to England to study painting expanded his horizons, and upon his return to the United States he developed a reputation as a first rate painter. He specialized in portraits, especially portraits of women, and painted full-length portraits of many public and private figures. He is perhaps most closely associated with his portrait of Queen Victoria and for his painting, Washington cro...

Randolph, Mary Walker,

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Coolidge, Ellen Wayles Randolph, 1796-1876

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Granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. From the description of Correspondence of Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 1810-1861. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51207509 ...

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...

Schulze, Paul Otto.

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Peyton, Bernard, 1792-1854

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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...

Randolph, Sarah N. (Sarah Nicholas), 1839-1892,

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Great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. From the description of Photograph of Sarah Nicholas Randolph [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647808071 Great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, author and schoolteacher. From the description of Letters to John William Weidemyer, 1888 April 16 and 19. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50734429 Great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, author, school teacher. ...

Schulze, F. O. (Ferdinand Otto)

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