Letter discusses family matters and "my Williamsburg speech."

Compliments on his speech at Yorktown.

Scope and Contents Invitation to "pronounce a poem" at the celebration.

Appointing Hope the poet for Yorktown.

Invitation to Miss Janie Hope to same.

The activity of Hope after the war is reflected in the correspondence included in Box 2. A duel which was averted only by the arrest of his challenger, 1873, his resignation as Editor of the Norfolk Virginianto start his own paper, The Landmarkand his appearance to read anniversary poems at the Yorktown Centennial are among the events which concern the correspondence. There is also much family correspondence, many letters including humorous sketches, doggerel, and full poems.

The activity of Hope after the war is reflected in the correspondence included in Box 2. A duel which was averted only by the arrest of his challenger, 1873, his resignation as Editor of the Norfolk Virginianto start his own paper, The Landmarkand his appearance to read anniversary poems at the Yorktown Centennial are among the events which concern the correspondence. There is also much family correspondence, many letters including humorous sketches, doggerel, and full poems.

Request that Hope deliver his Yorktown ode in Philadelphia.

Scope and Contents Request that the "eloquent Centennial Poem at Yorktown" be delivered in Washington.

Scope and Contents Letter concerns the reading of Hope's poem, "Charge at Balakiava" to audiences in England.

Compliment on Hope's Memorial Poem, with some criticism of it.

Request that Hope deliver a poem at the dedication of the Lee Monument.

Scope and Contents Much engrossed in work and poetry; wrote 12 verses, 12 stories, night before; two "specimen" verses included and description of the poem.

Scope and Contents My poem is done...is to be delivered on the 27th"; newspaper notices of his work; labor troubles in Norfolk. Enclosure: sketches.

Scope and Contents Requests that poem in honor of Gen. Lee written by "your...lamented husband" should be read at the monument.

Scope and Contents Appreciation for the gift to the museum of the poem, "Memoriae Sacrum" by her father [James Barron Hope], and a letter written by James Barron Hope to Miss Campbell.