Hope, James Barron, 1829-1887
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas L. Alfriend Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 00269
Scope and Contents
Chiefly letters, 1861-1865, from Thomas L. Alfriend (1843-1901) Sergeant, of Company B, 15th Virginia Infantry and Parken's Battery, Alexander's Battalion, Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, from camps in Virginia and Tennessee to family members in Richmond, Virginia. Includes letter dated May 26, 1861 from Alfriend while stationed in Williamsburg, Virginia.The addition contains 25 typewritten pages of transcripts of letters by Jefferson Davis, James Seddon and others...
Dates:
1843-1901; Majority of material found in 1860-1865
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Barron Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 B29
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence of three generations of Samuel Barrons, all of whom were involved in naval affairs. Papers, 1793-1809, of Samuel Barron (1765-1810), commander of one of the Mediterranean squadrons sent to defeat Tripoli. Papers concern naval business and the War with Tripoli. Includes correspondence with his brother James Barron, Stephen Decatur, William Eaton (concerning his controversy with Tobias Lear over the Tripolitan peace settlement), Tobias Lear, Edward Preble, John...
Dates:
1793-1942
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
James Barron Hope Papers (I)
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 H77
Scope and Contents
Papers, chiefly 1847-1887, of James Barron Hope. Correspondence includes letters to his mother Jane A. Barron Hope while on a naval cruise to the Caribbean and letters to his wife, Annie Beverley Whiting Hope written during the Civil War. There are letters between Jane A. Barron Hope and her friend, Caroline Matilda Campbell. Prominent correspondents in the collection include Jubal A. Early, Benjamin S. Ewell, Hugh Blair Grigsby, Fitzhugh Lee, W. H. F. Lee, Thomas Nelson Page, John Tyler and...
Dates:
1790-1965; Majority of material found within 1847-1887
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
James Barron Hope Papers (II)
Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 93 H77
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and literary works, chiefly 1861-1874, of James Barron Hope (1829-1887), soldier, author (poet, orator, and novelist), and newspaper editor, of Norfolk and Williamsburg, Virginia. The papers deal mainly with his 1849 duel with Jonathan Pembroke Jones; his West Indies naval cruise (1851-1852); his Confederate military service (1861-1865); and the aborted 1874 William Mahone-Bradley Johnson duel, in which Hope was Mahone's second. The majority of correspondence with his family...
Dates:
1820-1923
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
University Archives Bound Volumes Collection
Collection
Identifier: UA 15
Scope and Contents
This collection contains information about the College of William and Mary from the Eighteenth Century to the present. Included in the collection are faculty lecture notes from a variety of classes, scrapbooks, research notes, correspondence, textbooks used at the College of William and Mary, minute and account books, poetry books, student notebooks, a literary manual, and various other miscellaneous bound volumes.
Dates:
1739-1993
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
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- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- College of William and Mary--History--19th century 2
- Dueling--Virginia 2
- Manuscripts (document genre) 2
- Poets, American--19th century 2
- Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781--Centennial celebrations, etc 2
- American poetry--19th century 1
- Athletics 1
- Class materials 1
- College of William and Mary--History--18th century 1
- College of William and Mary--History--20th century 1
- College of William and Mary--Students 1
- College sports--United States--History--20th century 1
- Confederate States of America. Army Virginia Infantry Regiment, 15th. Company B 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. Longstreets I Corps Alexander's Battalion. Parker's Battery 1
- Confederate States of America. Navy 1
- Constitution (Frigate) 1
- Curriculum 1
- Financial records 1
- Lecture notes 1
- Minutes 1
- Natural and Experimental Philosophy 1
- Notebooks 1
- Plays (document genre) 1
- President's House (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Student Government 1
- Student Plays 1
- Textbooks 1
- Typescripts 1
- United States. Navy--History--19th century 1
- United States. Navy--History--Tripolitan War, 1801-1805 1
- Williamsburg (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
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