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Some of the literary and artistic work of James Barron Hope is collected in this box.

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Letter states that she is dreadfully anxious (probably about the duel which is in the papers; a duel that was never fought).

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Signed as above, plus Geo. Fred'k Holmes and Arch'd C. Peachy.

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A group of interesting and valuable newspaper clippings and articles in periodicals which are written by, or concern, James Barron Hope.

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This collection of manuscript poems, addresses, one story, one sketch and a daguerreotype augment the material found in Series 3, Literary and Artistic Work of James Barron Hope.

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Personal letters which tell of the visit of the Frigate "Columbia" to Hampton and the growth of the town.

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Four letters, newspaper clippings, copies of periodicals and printed material collected by Janey Hope Marr, mainly concerned with her father, James Barron Hope.

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Scope and Contents Cover endorsed, "Uncle Sam Barron's letter about Lamb-Hope duel" signed J[aney] H[ope] Marr.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...