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Box 17

 Container

Contains 46 Results:

Letters from John Thompson Brown, Richmond, to Mrs. Mary E. Brown in Petersburg, 1832 January-March

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 1
Identifier: id179597
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Writes of the fortunes of the (Petersburg) Railroad Bill in the House of Delegates and State Senate.

Dates: 1832 January-March
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

Amos Eaton, Rensselaer School, Troy (New York), to Honorable John Thompson Brown, 1832 January 17

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: id179598
Scope and Contents

Information regarding Rensselaer School. Samuel T. Brown, younger brother of John Thompson Brown, appears to have been interested in this school.

Dates: 1832 January 17
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

John Thompson Brown Speech...in the House of Delegates of Virginia...delivered January 18, 1832, 1832 January 18

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 3
Identifier: id179599
Scope and Contents

In this important speech John Thompson Brown took up several proposals for the freeing of slaves, including that of Thomas Jefferson, as submitted to the Legislature by Jefferson Randolph, his grandson, and argued against each.

Dates: 1832 January 18
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

Letters from John Thompson Brown, Richmond, to Henry Brown, Jr., 1832 January-March

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 4
Identifier: id179600
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents "My speech on abolition has had great eclat--a fund has been raised for publishing it in pamphlet form for general distribution... Judges [Henry St. George] Tucker and Brookehave taken active part in puffing the speech." He also reports, "I have carried my Railroad Bill...and shall enjoy the credit of effecting it by my personal influence."

Dates: 1832 January-March
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

"The Letter of Appomatox to the People of Virginia...view of the Recent Proceedings in the House of Delegates on the Subject of the Abolition of Slavery", 1832 February 4

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 5
Identifier: id179601
Scope and Contents

Physical Location: Removed from this collection and catalogued in the Rare Books Department - Virginia, E 449 L45. 47 pages. Includes in a "Postscript" an answer to a statement in The Enquirer over the signature of Jefferson [Randolph]. Reference is made to a remark made in The Wig that his argument "had been far surpassed by the discussion of the subject by a stripling . Mr. Brown of Petersburg." General Assembly. Committee on Federal relations. Official Document Nos. 14, 15, 16.

Dates: 1832 February 4
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

J. F. May, Battersea, to John Thompson Brown, 1832 February 5

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 6
Identifier: id179602
Scope and Contents

Concerning a suggested amendment for the Circuit Court Law.

Dates: 1832 February 5
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

John Tyler, Washington, D.C., to John Thompson Brown, 1832 February 12

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 7
Identifier: id179603
Scope and Contents

He cannot give his nephew, Edward Steptoe, an appointment to West Point because he has used his appointment for the session. "...the Senate is involved in the Tariff discussion...The farther I have gone into it the more thoroughly have I convinced myself of its tyrannical and oppressive character."

Dates: 1832 February 12
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

D. MacKenzie, Petersburg, to John Thompson Brown, 1832 March 6

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 8
Identifier: id179604
Scope and Contents

A resolution from the Petersburg Rail Road Company to tender thanks for "the zeal and ability with which our Delegate John T. Brown, Esq. and our Senator, William Old, Esq. have exerted in procuring passage of the said (Rail Road) act."

Dates: 1832 March 6
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

Draft of a resolution concerning the vote of Virginia for Vice-President, circa 1832 March 15

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 9
Identifier: id179605
Scope and Contents

This is the resolution presented by John Thompson Brown and reported in a newspaper article of this date preserved in the scrapbook to be found in Box 14.

Dates: circa 1832 March 15
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

Letters from John Thompson Brown, to Henry Brown, Jr., 1832 March-May

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 10
Identifier: id179606
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Two speeches given before the House of Delegates, published in pamphlet form: The speech of John Thompson Brown, in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Abolition of Slavery; Speech of John Thompson Brown, (of Petersburg,) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, in Committee of the Whole, on the State of the Relations between the United States and South Carolina. The important and exciting national political events of the years 1832 and 1833, as they affected the people of Virginia, are...
Dates: 1832 March-May
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

James Murray Mason, Winchester, to John Thompson Brown, 1832 April 4

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 11
Identifier: id179607
Scope and Contents

James Murray Mason (1798-1871).

Dates: 1832 April 4
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

Letters from Henry Brown, Jr. to Henry Brown, 1832 April

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 12
Identifier: id179608
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents "I send you 2 copies of John's speech (on Slavery) and a paper with one of Jefferson Randolph's in reply to him."

Dates: 1832 April
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

John Thompson Brown, Petersburg, to D. MacKenzie, 1832 May 7

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 13
Identifier: id179609
Scope and Contents

Declines appointment as a member of the Board of Directors of the Petersburg Railroad.

Dates: 1832 May 7
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

Notes of John Thompson Brown on the Baltimore convention of the Democratic Party, 1832 May 21-22

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 14
Identifier: id179610
Scope and Contents

5 pages. Autographed draft. Notes on the convention of the whole party and of the Virginia Caucus. At the latter the resolution of John Thompson Brown. was adopted, viz. that Virginia's vote should go first to P. P. Barbour for Vice-President, and when there was no longer a reasonable prospect of his selection, to Van Buren.

Dates: 1832 May 21-22
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

John Thompson Brown, Washington, D.C., to Mary E. Brown, 1832 May 25

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 15
Identifier: id179611
Scope and Contents

"...on last evening we went to the President who is in excellent health and fine spirits. Many persons here, including some members of Congress from Virginia, seem to be much dissatisfied with our proceedings at Baltimore..."

Dates: 1832 May 25
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

Letters from John Thompson Brown, Petersburg, to Samuel T. Brown, at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1832 June-November

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 16
Identifier: id179612
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents To his youngest brother, attending college, regarding the health of Henry, Jr.

Dates: 1832 June-November
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

Jacqueline P. Taylor, Richmond, to John Thompson Brown, 1832 June 6

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 17
Identifier: id179613
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Two speeches given before the House of Delegates, published in pamphlet form: The speech of John Thompson Brown, in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Abolition of Slavery; Speech of John Thompson Brown, (of Petersburg,) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, in Committee of the Whole, on the State of the Relations between the United States and South Carolina. The important and exciting national political events of the years 1832 and 1833, as they affected the people of Virginia, are...
Dates: 1832 June 6
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

John Thompson Brown, Walnut Hill, to Peronneau Finley, 1832 September 14

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 18
Identifier: id179614
Scope and Contents

On the death of Finley's brother.

Dates: 1832 September 14
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

John Thompson Brown, Hobson's Inn, Stony Point Mills, to Henry Brown, Jr., 1832 October 24

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 19
Identifier: id179615
Scope and Contents

The family has traveled south to escape an epidemic of Cholera.

Dates: 1832 October 24
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

Letters from John Thompson Brown, Richmond, to Mary E. Brown, 1832 December

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 20a-b
Identifier: id179616
Scope and Contents Scope and Contents In the letter of December 3, he discusses the election of U.S. Senators, stating that Mr. Leigh is out because of his opposition to President Jackson. Among those mentioned for the position are Judge Henry St. George Tucker, John Randolph Rives, and himself, though he feels that he has neither the years nor the experience for the position. President Jackson's message on the U.S. Bank is discussed. On nullification he writes: "It will, I fear, be an exciting subject and one...
Dates: 1832 December
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

William Cabell Rives, Fredericksburg, to John Thompson Brown, 1832 December 4

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 21
Identifier: id179617
Scope and Contents

The possibility of his appointment as Senator to supply the vacancy left by Mr. Tazewell.

Dates: 1832 December 4
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

John Young Mason, Washington, to John Thompson Brown, 1832 December 10

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 22
Identifier: id179618
Scope and Contents

Excitement in Washington caused by the President's proclamation on nullification debate.

Dates: 1832 December 10
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

Notes on the cases of James Dunlop and Leslie vs. Henderson, and of John C. Hobson, Undated

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 23
Identifier: id179619
Scope and Contents

2 items. Autographed draft.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

J. C. Brice to John Thompson Brown, circa 1833 January

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 24
Identifier: id179620
Scope and Contents

Regarding the removal of deposits from the U.S. Bank by the Federal Government.

Dates: circa 1833 January
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown

Letters from John Thompson Brown, Richmond, to Mrs. Mary E. Brown, 1833 January

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 25
Identifier: id179621
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents "I was rather mortified at making a very poor speech [on Federal Relations] in the House today...To avoid misrepresentation I shall have to write out my speech..."

Dates: 1833 January
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers / Correspondence and publications of John Thompson Brown