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Re: papers regarding the house on Boush Street, Norfolk, Virginia; divided into two folders for ease of handling; between the two folders are specifications for the house's rebuilding and inventories of possessions. Also included are detailed accounts about the house.

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Re: papers regarding the house on Boush Street, Norfolk, Virginia. (See preceding folder.)

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Re: papers regarding property. (See also folder marked: Whittle, Conway--papers regarding house on Boush Street.) Includes will (revoked) of Grace L. Whittle Sams.

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Includes letters to his uncle and other miscellaneous unidentified persons. One letter from Conway Whittle to (Ion?) concerning family news; one letter discusses the bank bill before Congress (1832). Asking uncle to use influence to have him appointed insurance agent in Virginia for Phoenix Fire Insurance Company of London and discusses Mutual Assurance County of Virginia.

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Manuscript memorial to Congress, re: Dismal Swamp Canal Company. Unfinished. Manuscript.

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Concerning lawsuit; desire to educate Conway Whittle II and his [Conway Whittle I] poor health.

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Gives physical description of himself. His life and studies in England and Ireland; at college in Dublin, his views about slavery (a curse and a disgrace); news of War of 1812, relations between U.S. and Britian, relations in England and Ireland, he is often in Liverpool; loss of William Lewis and Benjamin Neale; comments on Napoleonic Wars; trying to choose a career. Asks about his mammy "Aggy".

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Re: his opinions on his sister's advice about brushing his teeth; insanity of Stafford Whittle; business failure of Conway Whittle I; college life in Dublin; Liverpool; politics and business matters; meeting with Robert Oliver in Baltimore; his cruise on the USS Constellation to Rio de Janeiro.

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Re: his opinions on his sister's advice about brushing his teeth; insanity of Stafford Whittle; business failure of Conway Whittle I; college life in Dublin; Liverpool; politics and business matters; meeting with Robert Oliver in Baltimore; his cruise on the US Constellation to Rio de Janeiro.

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Written copy of his will. Copy of manuscript.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers of Conway Whittle II of Norfolk, Va. and of his two sisters, Mary Eliza Whittle Neale and Frances Munford Whittle Lewis. There are items concerning the earlier generation of the family, represented by Conway Whittle I and his brother Fortescue Whittle, Norfolk merchants. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of social history and naval history (including personal and official correspondence of William Lewis [1781-1815] and several letters of his...