Journal of Robert Garlick Hill Kean [manuscript] 1852 Dec. 28-1871 Feb. 1.

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Journal of Robert Garlick Hill Kean [manuscript] 1852 Dec. 28-1871 Feb. 1.

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Diary kept in a portion of a commonplace book beginning when Kean is a student at U. Va. Much of the journal is filled with his love for Jane Nicholas Randolph Kean and later with the details of his marriage in 1854 and their life together. He mentions the Jefferson Society of U. Va.; a debate on slavery held by that group; the illness and death of fellow student Alvares F. Hicks, a trip to Richmond to a convention of the Sons of Temperance or the Y.M.C.A. with some description of the Exchange Hotel; visits to Edgehill, Albemarle Co. his fiancée's home, and his home at Olney, Va.; the duel of John Singleton Mosby at U. Va.; visits to Castle Hill, Albemarle Co., and esp. Amélie-Louis Rives Sigourney. In the summer of 1853, Kean moved to Lynchburg, Va. to practice law; his entries after this time mention his admission to the bar, his study of Blackstone and other legal study; his problem in starting his practice and its growth (marked by the yearly inclusion of an account of his net worth). He wrote occasional editorials for the Lynchburg Virginian, considered politics, and was active in the Y.M.C.A. There is little about the war years. He mentions Henry Alexander Wise; the deaths of Patsey Jefferson Randolph Taylor, Martha M. Minor, Cary Ann Randolph Ruffin, Lucy Landon Blackford Davis, and their character in detail, and his grief at the death of his wife in 1868.

217 leaves.

University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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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 ...

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Ruffin, Cary Ann Randolph, 1819-1857.

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Taylor, Patsey Jefferson Randolph, 1817-1857.

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Minor, Martha M.

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