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Contains 25 Results:

Newspaper article, "Letters Written During A Cruise In the West Indies," from the Petersburg, Virginia, South-Side Democrat, no date

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Identifier: id177005
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1 page. Newspaper Clipping. Narrates the arrival of the U. S. Sloop-of-War, Spray, at a port in the Caribbean, and the officers' desire to go on shore.

Dates: 1820-1923

Untitled prose story by James Barron Hope, opening line: "It was impossible to converse as..."

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176925
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23 pages. Draft of Autograph Manuscript. Story begins in New York City, from which the main character is about to depart.

Dates: 1820-1923

Folder 17

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176983
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

Folder 17

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176924
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

Newspaper article with the heading "Georgetown"; describes the duel which took place on Wednesday, March 22, 1820 between Commodores Stephen Decatur and James Barron, 24 March 1820.

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Identifier: id176984
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1 page. Newspaper Clipping. Commodore Decatur was mortally wounded, while Commodore Barron was seriously wounded; contains the funeral procession for Commodore Decatur.

Dates: 1820-1923

Flyer, "Down With Mahone Interference!", September 1874.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176986
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents 1 page. Printed Material. Accusing Mahone of plotting to control Richmond, and spreading lies concerning Bradley Johnson; relates to near duel, in which James Barron Hope was Mahone's second.

Dates: 1820-1923

Newspaper article, "The Cities of Virginia," 28 April 1880.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176988
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Scope and Contents 2 pages. Newspaper Clipping. Describing James Barron Hope's speech on that subject on the previous night in Association Hall, Richmond; article is from the Richmond State.

Dates: 1820-1923

Newspaper heading, "For The House Of Delegates," 6 November 1883.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176989
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents 2 pages. Newspaper Clipping. Recommendations for the above offices; article urging that no alcoholic beverages be consumed around election time; article stressing William Mahone'sfaults, which stirs up racist fears and seeks to belittle Mahone.

Dates: 1820-1923

Newspaper article, "Mahoneism, What We May Expect Under Mahone Rule," November 1883?.

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Identifier: id176991
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Scope and Contents 4 pages. Newspaper Clipping. Address by Danville, Virginia merchants and businessmen "to the White Men of Virginia"; accuses Mahone of favoring Negroes over whites; urges that conservative Democrats be voted for.

Dates: 1820-1923

Newspaper article, "Mayor Wm. Lamb Restrained," November 1883.

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Identifier: id176992
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2 pages. Newspaper Clipping. Mayor of Norfolk barred from erecting barricades at the polls on election day. Includes newspaper article, "Riot In Danville;"Negroes fought whites; several Negroes killed. 1 page. Newspaper Clipping.

Dates: 1820-1923

Note by Janey Hope Marr; her father's attendance of the National Democratic Convention in Chicago, 8 July 1884.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176995
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

Card and ribbon from national Democratic Convention in Chicago; James Barron Hope was a delegate, 8 July 1884.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176996
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

Booklet from President Cleveland's Inauguration, 4 March 1885.

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Identifier: id176999

Newspaper article with the heading, "Dueling In The Old Navy," 16 January 1910.

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Identifier: id177001
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1 page. Newspaper Clipping. Discloses the facts of the Hope-Jones duel and of some other affairs; blames the duel on Jones' second.

Dates: 1820-1923

Newspaper article, "Hope's Landmark," 4 January 1912.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id177002
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1 page. Newspaper Clipping. James Barron Hope's association with the Norfolk Landmark and the Norfolk Virginian Pilot.

Dates: 1820-1923

Newspaper article, "Norfolk - Fifty Years Ago, From the Norfolk Virginian, October 2, 1873," 2 October 1923.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id177004
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Scope and Contents 1 page. Newspaper Clipping. Detailed the presentation of a gold pencil to James Barron Hope by the staff of the Norfolk Landmark.

Dates: 1820-1923