Scope and Contents By this time Bolling’s wife Mary has died and children Susan and Philip have married. Susan and her husband Robert Hubard are living with Lenaeus while planning to build a house. Son Robert is no longer mentioned, unless he is the father of grandson Lenaeus, who lives at Chellow. Pleasant Oliver works most days for Bolling, doing odd jobs, including carpentry. Bolling consults frequently with partners in a gold mining company. He observes a solar eclipse. He travels by carriage to Lynchburg...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Two diaries kept by Julia Marie Huyshe (1812- 1890) describing many trips to and around India from 1855- 1864. The wife of Colonel Alfred Huyshe, Julia lived in India with her husband and had many children while in India. Because of unrest in the country and escalating mutinies, Julia took her children back to England but returns to India to be with her husband. In one trip from September 23- November 11, 1858, Julia travels from Calcutta to Peshawar. She gives great detail in describing the...