Papers of the Hume family [manuscript] 1836-59.

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Papers of the Hume family [manuscript] 1836-59.

A letter, 1836 November 16, Jack M. Stanard, Pensacola, Florida, to Mrs. J.E. Hume, Stanardsville, Virginia conveying personal news, market prices and his efforts at job hunting in Florida "Clerks will never be paid well here because there are so many creoles or spaniards who board with mamma and daddy and don't call their board anything." A letter, 1842 January 18, Armsted Brown, Ohio County, Ky., to James Collins, Culpeper County, Virginia, conveys news of family, and requests Collins to collect money owed him and he is old and unable to work and is wife is "intirely helpless." A letter, 1859 June 30, Alfred Hume, Grayson City, Texas, to his mother, sends news of family and crops and includes a postscript "My love to all the slaves." A clipping regarding University of Virginia Board of Visitors member Judge Alexander Wellington Wallace is included.

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Collins, James, 1936-

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Brown, Armsted.

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Wallace, Alexander Wellington, 1843-1927.

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Hume, Alfred, 1866-1950

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Stanard, Jack M.

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