Papers of the Fishburne family [manuscript] 1710-1964.

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Papers of the Fishburne family [manuscript] 1710-1964.

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Additional papers of the Fishburne family contain correspondence, wills and indentures, genealogical information, photographs and paintings, articles and newsclippings of the Fishburnes of Albemarle Co., Va., and related families: Anderson, Barton, Batchelor, Buckholdt, Carr, Davis, Forsyth, Gayden, Hargrave, Harper, Lyons, Maury, Norwood, Ranaldson, Rodes, Staples, Terrell, Williams, and Wood. Correspondents include : Harry F. Byrd, Sr., Lucy Wood Butler, Erskine Caldwell, Martha Jefferson Carr, Lucy Minor Davis, Marshall Field, Jr., Walter R. Fishburne, Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, the Rt. Rev. Noble C. Powell, Lamont Pugh, Ellen Maury Slyden, Sen. John Stennis, John George Wayt, George Washington, Charles Wood, Clara Hargrave Wood, Eliza Jane Harper Wood, John Wood and Lewis Wood. The collection also contains correspondece, essays, and articles, 1852-90, of Clement Daniel Fishburn. The collection also contains transcripts of correspondece, 1840, of George Francis Dabney, Robert Lewis Dabney and John Augustine Washington concerning the murder of U. Va. professor John Andrew Gardner Davis. The collection also contains a photostat of a George Washington letter, 1777 August 18. The collection also contains a diary, 1827 April 16 - Sept. 4, of Zeligman Selwin Lyons of a voyage from Philadelphia to Canton, China.

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