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Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.

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Letters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.

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29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.

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64 items. Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.

Scope and Contents 18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired."] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously...

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Letters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.

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Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.

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Letters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.

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11 items. Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]

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18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.

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12 items. Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of enslaved persons.

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14 items. Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of enslaved persons.