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Box 2

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Contains 80 Results:

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

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id177005
Scope and Contents

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

Newspaper article, "In Memoriam - Honors To Confederate Dead," in Norfolk Virginian, 19 June 1884.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id177007
Scope and Contents

2 pages. Printed Material. Norfolk's first Memorial Day; James Barron Hope was the Commander of the Pickett-Buchanan Camp of Confederate Veterans.

Dates: 1820-1923

Miscellaneous fragments and envelope.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id177009
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

Book manuscript for Col. Cockney Hops, no date

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176930
Scope and Contents

71 pages. Chapters 7-9, 12, 13. Draft of Autograph Manuscript.

Dates: 1820-1923

Incomplete essay by James Barron Hope on American history, no date

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176935
Scope and Contents

6 pages. Pages 9 through 14. Autograph Manuscript. Primarily on the Declaration of Independence.

Dates: 1820-1923

Incomplete address by James Barron Hope; 1st page page 29 begins "I shall now give you some account", no date

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176936
Scope and Contents

14 pages. Pages 29-42. Autograph Manuscript. Possibly a part of the "Press and Printer's Devil."

Dates: 1820-1923

Incomplete address by James Barron Hope, beginning "Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen of the Institute, Ladies and Guests - Antithesis is ever suggestive...", no date

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176937
Scope and Contents

8 pages. Autograph Manuscript. On the subject of Virginia history; compares the modern social system favorably with that of the eighteenth century

Dates: 1820-1923

Incomplete address by James Barron Hope, beginning on page 3 with "obtain a pecuniary consideration...", no date

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176938
Scope and Contents

4 pages. Pages 3-6. Autograph Manuscript. On the subject of American and European societies.

Dates: 1820-1923

Incomplete play by James Barron Hope; first page not originally 1st begins "others princes-camp and court saw us...", no date

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176939
Scope and Contents

9 pages. Autograph Manuscript. Characters include Don Diego, Jon Alonso, Conrad, and Rhodolph.

Dates: 1820-1923

Address by James Barron Hope made at Yorktown, Virginia, 19 October 1881.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176947
Scope and Contents

36 pages.1st page is missing. Autograph Manuscript. Includes references to the earlier celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Jamestown Settlement; this was given at the Yorktown Centennial celebration.

Dates: 1820-1923

Address by James Barron Hope to a North Carolinian organization; opens with: "Mr. President and Gentlemen," post 1865.

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id176951
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Last page ? seems inconclusive; main subjects are history and government.

Dates: 1820-1923

Box 2:

 File — Box: 2
Identifier: id176967
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