Folder 23
Container
Contains 4 Results:
Poem - [by James Barron Hope], undated
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id174621
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Some of the literary and artistic work of James Barron Hope is collected in this box.
Dates:
undated
R. E. Withers, Wytheville, Virginia, to James Barron Hope, Norfolk, Virginia, 4 October 1879
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id173086
Scope and Contents
Letter concerns political affairs in Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Dates:
4 October 1879
Photograph of Wm. H. Polk, undated
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id174749
Scope and Contents
Endorsement by Mrs. Polk.
Dates:
undated
Small circular wooden box with note attached to base: "Relics of the olden times", 1825
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id174996
Scope and Contents
Note reads: "Relics of the olden times, A gift from J. F. Watson to Comdr Jas Barron. 1825. The box is of Walnut, a tree of Penn's day & the last left alive in the City of Philda.It stood till 1813 before the Hall of Independence. The oak on the lid is of the timber of the Alliance frigate, the last relic of the first Amn Navy. The Mahogany is of Columbus' house, the first in Amca, 1496." The following note is written on paper attached to the liner base of the box: "a characteristic of...
Dates:
1825