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Folder 6

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Folder 6

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176848
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence and literary works, chiefly 1861-1874, of James Barron Hope (1829-1887), soldier, author (poet, orator, and novelist), and newspaper editor, of Norfolk and Williamsburg, Virginia. The papers deal mainly with his 1849 duel with Jonathan Pembroke Jones; his West Indies naval cruise (1851-1852); his Confederate military service (1861-1865); and the aborted 1874 William Mahone-Bradley Johnson duel, in which Hope was Mahone's second. The majority of correspondence with his family...
Dates: 1820-1923

William Mahone, Richmond, Virginia, to Bradley T. Johnson, Richmond, Virginia, 28 September 1874.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176849
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents 1 page. Copy of Autograph Letter Signed. Desires to know if the enclosed hand bill was "written and authorized to be put out" with his knowledge; if so, whether he approves of it now.

Dates: 1820-1923

Bradley T. Johnson, Richmond, Virginia, to William Mahone, Richmond, Virginia, 28 September 1874.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176850
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. The handbill enclosed in Mahone's note was written with Johnson's knowledge and is now being circulated with his approbation.

Dates: 1820-1923

William Mahone, Richmond, Virginia, to Bradley T. Johnson, Richmond, Virginia, 28 September 1874.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176851
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Scope and Contents 1 page. Copy of Autograph Letter Signed. Has received Johnson's reply to his note; in the reply Johnson adopts derogatory statements made against Mahone in a handbill; Mahone denounces the handbill as a "malicious falsehood" and denounces Mahone as its author.

Dates: 1820-1923

Bradley T. Johnson, Richmond, Virginia, to William Mahone, Richmond, Virginia, 28 September 1874.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176852
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. Received his last note, handed to him by John Sergeant Wise; he has telegraphed a friend, and will send a communication when he arrives.

Dates: 1820-1923

Bradley T. Johnson, Richmond, Virginia, to William Mahone Richmond, Virginia, 29? September 1874.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176853
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1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. His friend Col. R. Snowden Andrews is fully authorized to act for him and will communicate with any friend he designates.

Dates: 1820-1923

Memorandum by James Barron Hope, describing a conversation with Colonel R. Snowden Andrews concerning the Andrews-Mahone dispute, 29 September 1874.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176854
Scope and Contents

2 pages.AMsS. Autograph Manuscript Signed. Discussion of time and place for the duel.

Dates: 1820-1923

Memorandum by R. Snowden Andrews describing a conversation with James Barron Hope, who informed him of Gen. Mahone's arrest, 2 October 1874.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176855
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents 1 page.AMsS. Autograph Manuscript Signed. James Barron Hope offered himself in Gen. Mahone's place, which was politely declined.

Dates: 1820-1923

S. Bassett French, Richmond, Virginia, to James Barron Hope, Norfolk, Virginia, 21 April 1877.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176856
Scope and Contents 9 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. Upset with views held by those from Rockbridge, Virginia, who opposed railroad consolidation; leaders of this faction included a M. Ganett, a Mr. White, and a Mr. Allan, the latter two of which were professors at Washington College; mentions a state judge, Mr. Anderson, and his son, William, both of whom switched to the anti-consolidation faction; implies that the anti-consolidators bribed state officials; lists the votes of both state houses on the bill...
Dates: 1820-1923

Hugh Blair Grigsby, "Edgehill," Charlotte County, Virginia, to James Barron Hope, Norfolk, Virginia, 11 October 1879.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176857
Scope and Contents Scope and Contents 4 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. Positive response to his James Barron Hope letter concerning the Battle of Yorktown centennial celebration; presents legal view of holding Congress to its 1781 pledge of the erection of a statue at Yorktown; lists relatives of Edmund Randolph, who read the pledge in 1781; thinks one of these relatives should read the resolution at the celebration; mentioned the matter to, and received a positive response from, the Massachusetts Historical...
Dates: 1820-1923

?, no place, to Captain James Barron Hope, no place, 188?.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176858
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents 2 pages. Autograph Letter. Great reception of Hope's speeches, and the honor it has brought, both to him and to the state of Virginia; although these demonstrations are sincere, they are from the "worse half of humanity," to the better half, which speaks "in the vernacular of the heart," must express its thanks in another way; flowers accompanied the letter to show their appreciation; puts Hope on the same literary level as Edgar Alan Poe and John Reuben Thompson.

Dates: 1820-1923

Edward V. Valentine, Richmond, Virginia, to James Barron Hope, no place, 5 May 1880.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176859
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Scope and Contents 2 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. Story once told to him concerning the sculptor Johann Christian Rauch; gratification from Hope's understanding of both Homer's literature and his own sculptures; he plans to show "cultivated people" Hope's impressions of his work; his brother is ill; his family sends their regards; looking forward to his next visit.

Dates: 1820-1923

Benjamin S. Ewell, Williamsburg, Virginia, to James Baron Hope, no place, 28 June 1881.

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Identifier: id176860
Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Encloses a resolution of the College of William and Mary Board of Visitors, concerning "the matter in Oct. 1879" and was "offered by General William B. Taliaferro;" Taliaferro spoke to Ewell in kind and grateful terms of James Barron Hope; his grandfather Benjamin Stoddert, served in John Adams' cabinet, and he ha inherited his politics; admiration of James Barron Hope's consistent course." 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. Bears postscript from Benjamin S. Ewell,...
Dates: 1820-1923

George Frederick Holmes, Charlottesville, Virginia, to James Barron Hope, Norfolk, Virginia, 5 December 1881.

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Identifier: id176861
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Scope and Contents 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. Pleasure upon learning that James Barron Hope will deliver his "York Town Centennial here;" insists that he stay at his house; it will delight the children, his wife, and himself to reminisce with him.

Dates: 1820-1923

Abraham C. Myers, Washington, D. C., to James Barron Hope, no place, 20 January 1882.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176862
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Scope and Contents 3 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. Has just learned of his impending visit to Washington, at the invitation of leading Congressmen, to read his Yorktown Centennial Poem; his bad health may prevent his attendance, but he desires to see him; their mutual friend Judge John Blair Hope is now a Congressman, and will be equally happy to see him.

Dates: 1820-1923

Folder 6

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176948
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence and literary works, chiefly 1861-1874, of James Barron Hope (1829-1887), soldier, author (poet, orator, and novelist), and newspaper editor, of Norfolk and Williamsburg, Virginia. The papers deal mainly with his 1849 duel with Jonathan Pembroke Jones; his West Indies naval cruise (1851-1852); his Confederate military service (1861-1865); and the aborted 1874 William Mahone-Bradley Johnson duel, in which Hope was Mahone's second. The majority of correspondence with his family...
Dates: 1820-1923