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16 pages. Draft of Autograph Manuscript.

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...

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...

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Scope and Contents 3 pages. Copy of M. Tribute by unknown woman to his work Under The Empire. Bears Autograph Letter Signed from Kensey Johns, Sudley, Maryland, to James Barron Hope, Norfolk, Virginia; Above tribute is by a lady friend of his; he may print it in The Landmark, or throw it away; greetings to the family.

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1 page. Poem.

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4 pages. Autograph Manuscript Signed. Poem.

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8 pages. Copy of Manuscript. The potato from a historical point of view; written in hand of James Barron Hope.

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Scope and Contents 1 page. Copy of Document. Following the beheading of Charles I this proclamation affirmed the loyalty of the authors to Charles II; signed in the original by Edm: Matthews Clc. Cur. original is probably in Accomack County records.

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1 page. Copy of Manuscript. Concerns religious laws in Virginia; written in hand of James Barron Hope.

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4 pages. Manuscript. Apparently intended to accompany the poem Lioni Di Monota; mentions his attendance of, and B. A. degree from, the College of William and Mary.