Papers of Socrates Maupin [manuscript] 1831-70.

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Papers of Socrates Maupin [manuscript] 1831-70.

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Correspondence relating to Maupin's career as a student at the University of Virginia, a professor at Hampden-Sydney College, Richmond Medical College, and the University of Virginia, and principal of Richmond Academy; family affairs; current events; cholera in Richmond in 1849; and University of Virginia affairs. Includes letters (1861-64) from James Rawlings Maupin and Chapman Maupin to their parents, Socrates and Sally Hay Travers Washington Maupin, describing their Civil War experiences; letters (1835) from James Maury Mason and William Cabell Rives to George Tucker concerning a chapel for the University of Virginia; and correspondence (1846-70) of Peter Grayson Washington, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, concerning patronage, political conditions in California (1856-57), and presidential politics (1856-60). Maupin's correspondents include Judah Philip Benjamin, James Young Mason, John Smith Preston, William Henry Richardson, and William "Extra Billy" Smith. Washington's correspondents include Philip Allen, Thomas Hart Benton, John Carroll Brent, James Cooper, Thomas James Duncan Fuller, Edwin Barber Morgan, John Meredith Read, David Stuart, Littleton Quinton Washington, and John Wentworth.

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