Box 1
Container
Contains 4 Results:
Correspondence, 1858-1860
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers of the Holmes family. Chiefly letters, 1842-1887, received by George Frederick Holmes, educator, concerning the College of William and Mary, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Virginia. Correspondents include William Campbell Preston, Andrew Steele Fulton, Robert Saunders and Charles Minnigerode. The collection also includes papers of the Floyd and Preston families; an album kept by Eliza Lavalette Floyd Holmes consisting of plant leaves, newspapers and memorials...
Dates:
1858-1860
James Barron Hope, Hampton, Va., to George Frederick Holmes, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 1858 June 8
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13, Object: 1
Identifier: id143349
Scope and Contents
Acknowledging Holmes' prompt reply to Hope's "application"; asks whether or not E.J. Trelawny wrote "Adventures of a Younger Son."
Dates:
1858 June 8
D. Appleton & Co., New York, N.Y., to Professor George Frederick Holmes, 1859 October 6
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13, Object: 2
Identifier: id143524
Scope and Contents
Requesting that Holmes write an article on Sir William Hamilton for the cyclopaedia.
Dates:
1859 October 6
William Campbell Preston, Columbia, S.C., to Professor George Frederick Holmes, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va, 1860 January 4
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13, Object: 3
Identifier: id143525
Scope and Contents
Discusses his plan to purchase "Mr. Holcombe's house"; describes a commencement speech given at South Carolina College that "was disgusting even to the fire-eaters."
Dates:
1860 January 4