Folder 17
Contains 25 Results:
Newspaper article, "Letters Written During A Cruise In the West Indies," from the Petersburg, Virginia, South-Side Democrat, no date
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.
Untitled prose story by James Barron Hope, opening line: "It was impossible to converse as..."
23 pages. Draft of Autograph Manuscript. Story begins in New York City, from which the main character is about to depart.
Folder 17
Folder 17
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.
1 page. Newspaper Clipping. Commodore Decatur was mortally wounded, while Commodore Barron was seriously wounded; contains the funeral procession for Commodore Decatur.
Address given before the Neotrophian Society of the Hampton Academy, by James Barron Hope, 25 July 1856.
15 pages. Printed Material.
Flyer, "Down With Mahone Interference!", September 1874.
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.
Newspaper clipping of the New York Herald describing the events concerning the aborted duel; mentions James Barron Hope, 3 October 1874.
1 page. Newspaper Clipping.
Newspaper article, "The Cities of Virginia," 28 April 1880.
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.
Newspaper heading, "For The House Of Delegates," 6 November 1883.
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.
Newspaper article, "Charges Against Judge Godwin," listing supposed wrongdoings by the judge, primarily relating to nepotism, 1883?.
1 page. Newspaper Clipping.
Newspaper article, "Mahoneism, What We May Expect Under Mahone Rule," November 1883?.
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.
Newspaper article, "Mayor Wm. Lamb Restrained," November 1883.
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.
"Extracts from Diary of Janey Hope;" a parade at which James Barron Hope was honored, 20 November 1883.
2 pages. Manuscript.
Note by Janey Hope Marr; her father's well-received prose poem, 23 June 1884.
2 pages. Fragment.
Note by Janey Hope Marr; her father's attendance of the National Democratic Convention in Chicago, 8 July 1884.
Card and ribbon from national Democratic Convention in Chicago; James Barron Hope was a delegate, 8 July 1884.
Typed diary entry by Janey Hope Marr; glad that a Democratic President, Grover Cleveland, has been elected, 9 November 1884.
1 page. Typewritten Manuscript.
Postcard to James Barron Hope, announcing a meeting for the Presidential Committee on Reception; signed by William Wilson Corcoran, 2 February 1885.
1 page. Autograph Card Signed.
Booklet from President Cleveland's Inauguration, 4 March 1885.
24 pages. Printed Material.
Newspaper article, begins: "We here give the notes from which he spoke;" notes from a speech given by James Barron Hope on George Washington, ante 15 September 1887.
7 pages. Newspaper Clipping.
Newspaper article with the heading, "Dueling In The Old Navy," 16 January 1910.
1 page. Newspaper Clipping. Discloses the facts of the Hope-Jones duel and of some other affairs; blames the duel on Jones' second.
Newspaper article, "Hope's Landmark," 4 January 1912.
1 page. Newspaper Clipping. James Barron Hope's association with the Norfolk Landmark and the Norfolk Virginian Pilot.
Newspaper article announcing the death of Annie Beverley Whiting Hope, widow of James Barron Hope; she lived to age 95; Norfolk, Virginia newspaper?, 1 June 1920.
1 page. Newspaper Clipping.
Newspaper article, "Norfolk - Fifty Years Ago, From the Norfolk Virginian, October 2, 1873," 2 October 1923.
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.