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Letter by Charles Carter, Ludlow Farm,  to Edmund Pendleton 23 August 1783. Concerns the sale of lands belonging to Carter's grandfather Robert "King" Carter,  to pay off Charles Carter's debts to the estate of John Robinson being administered by Pendleton.

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Archibald McCall, Tappahannock, Virginia,  letter to David Hunter where he states he has been attending the Virginia High Court of Chancery in Richmond in connection with his daughter's "very weighty suit;" and praises cheapness of land in America, good navigation and fishing, price of cattle, horse and crops, and good opportunitie for Episcopal clergy.  Includes typescript.  March 11, 1794.

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Bond of Benjamin Robinson with John Curtis, Jr. and Charles Holden of Northampton County, [Va.].  January 29, 1678.

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Bertrand Russell to [John S. Wood], November 17, 1924. Gives Russell's philosophical views on the establishment of socialism in already democratic countries as opposed to non-democratic nations such as Russia.

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Letters, 1860, of John S. Millson (1808-1874), US Congressman, and autobiographical data submitted for Charles Lanman's Dictionary of the United States Congress.

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Letter from William Russell, Middletown, to William Augustine Washington, Gaywood, near Fredericksburg, Virginia about Russell's offer to sell lands in Stafford County to General Lee and his friend.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Letters, 1888-1928, written to William G. Stanard, secretary of the Virginia Historical Society and editor of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography concerning historical and genealogical matters. Includes letters from Benjamin Stoddert Ewell, J. Franklin Jameson, Lyon G. Tyler, and W. A. R. Goodwin. Some of the letters concern the College of William and Mary and the history of Williamsburg, Va. June 15, 1925, letter from W. G. Stanard to E.G. Swem concerning a portrait of General R....

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etter from John Hoskins Stone, the Governor of Maryland, Annapolis, Maryland to Robert Brooke, Governor of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia to transmit a copy of resolution passed by the Maryland General Assembly relative to the boundary line between the two states.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Includes letters to Spingarn, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from Lowell Thomas, Sumner Welles, Edward Steichen, Charles A. Beard, Henry F. Du Pont, H. L. Mencken, and Owen Roberts concerning horticultural matters. Also includes correspondence, 1938, of Congressman Hamilton Fish, Jr., Walter White, and Springarn concerning remarks made by William E. Borah concerning lynching.Much of the correspondence deals with gardening.  He sends...