Dickins and Kirk families additional papers [manuscript], 1861-1870.

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Dickins and Kirk families additional papers [manuscript], 1861-1870.

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The collection contains miscellaneous correspondence, photographs, and clippings pertaining to the Randolph, Kirk and Dickins families. The majority of the items were meant to be exhibited by Page Kirk at various events and include photographs, poetry, letters, transcripts, and exhibit cards of family, Civil War and local history items. The collection includes letters by family members Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge and George Wythe Randolph together with Randolph's expense list while serving as CSA agent in Europe, a letter concerning the efforts of Virginia Governor Pierpont to obtain a pardon for him and letters on life in Paris in 1866. Letters from Union soldier Henry Gardiner to his brother Samuel mention the battle of Vicksburg and runaways as good soldiers. Other Civil War items include a draft list of officers stationed at Ossian Hall and information on churches damaged during the Civil War. A letter from William Kirk, 1876, describes his journey west in search of gold. Correspondence of Mary Custis Lee with her aunt Mrs. A. M. Fitzhugh and friend Margaret Harvie Randolph Dickins mentions government seizure of property, the arrest of Francis Asbury Dickens, Robert E. Lee in 1870 and Custis Lee's acceptance of the presidency of Washington College. Accompanying clippings discuss a Congressional rersolution to return Lee family property. Photographic negatives include scenes in Japan and China. There are also assorted family photographs including family home "Federal Hill, " and the contralato Theodora Wight Keim, several in operatic costume, together with promotional broadsides for her as singer and music teacher. Clippings pertain to speeches by Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln and the return of Lee family relics. The collection also contains a bibliography of Gilbert White's "Natural History of Selbourne; a list of books in the library of "Ossian Hall," Fairfax County, Va.; sermons, 1893; a ship's pass signed by Andrew Jackson; and a deed to Peyton Randolph, 1760, signed by Francis Fauquier; and a pencil sketch of John Randolph of Roanoke by Francis A. Dickins.

circa 148 items.

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