Hook-Holland Papers [manuscript], 1790-1890.

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Hook-Holland Papers [manuscript], 1790-1890.

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Mostly business papers of John and Robert Hook and of William Holland, Franklin County, Virginia, including correspondence and receipts. The collection includes the first four pages of a letter from an unidentified Confederate soldier stationed at Battery Washington, St. Andrews Parish, near Charleston, S.C. 1864 January 1, mentioning a lengthy illness and his hatred of General Wise who kept him hospitalized in Virginia. The collection also includes a letter from Edmund Randolph to John Hook, 1807 February 23, regarding a bill of divorce for a woman [who has left her husband and is living with Hook?] and a draft of a complaint 1788 [in the hand of a clerk for Patrick Henry with docketing in Henry's hand?].

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University of Virginia. Library

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Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813

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Edmund Jennings Randolph (August 10, 1753 – September 12, 1813) was an American attorney and politician. He was the 7th Governor of Virginia, and, as a delegate from Virginia, he attended the Constitutional Convention and helped to create the national constitution while serving on its Committee of Detail. He was the first United States Attorney General (1789-1794) and the second Secretary of State (1794-1795) during George Washington's presidency. Born in Williamsburg in the Colony of Virgini...

Holland, William, 1813-1891

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Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876

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American lawyer and politician; governor of Virginia. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, to President Buchanan, 1857 Mar. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588282 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Thomas Teackle in Baltimore, 1841 Jan. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588600 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, to Col. T.H. Ellis, 1859 Aug. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588...

Hook, Robert, fl. 1821.

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Hook, John, fl. 1790-1808.

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