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

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Endorsed: "The property of Caroline Matilda Campbell, presented to her by her much-esteemed friend, the Author, James Barron Hope, Esq. of Hampton, Virginia"

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Endorsed as before, plus "The Original of 'Leoni Di Monota' given to me by the author in January 1854, while in Baltimore to deliver a lecture before the Maryland Institute."

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Endorsement letter concerns the ending, "G. M. C., 17th September, 1855."

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Giving information on the size and management of Gen. Washington's farms, 1792.

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Signed by H. Sheppard.

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Scope and Contents Endorsed: "Papa's Editorial" and "Editorial of James Barron Hope."

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References to fear of the fever, to her son James, and to a visit from Captain Barron and his family.

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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.

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...

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...

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This poem was probably the "Yorktown Ode"delivered by James Barron Hope on the 100th anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, 19 October 1881.