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Box 4

 Container

Contains 72 Results:

Conway Robinson, Richmond, to Moncure Robinson, "Elmington," Clarke County, Va, 1838 July 12

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 20
Identifier: id83691
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Buying of stock in the Winchester & Potomac R.R.; receipts of $10,000 in June on R.F. & P. R.R.; competing activity of the Louisa Line. Copy of letter from Jos. M. Sheppard regarding coal company which Moncure Robinson is forming.

Dates: 1838 July 12

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to his brother, Edwin Robinson, Richmond, 1838 July 23

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 21
Identifier: id83692
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Manipulation of railways on the route to Washington and New York; selling to tickets in N. Y. . Enclosure: article "Is Virginia a Repudiating State," written by Moncure Robinson for insertion by E.R. in the Virginia Papers. The guarantee by the State that the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac R.R. would have no competitors on the Richmond-Washington route.

Dates: 1838 July 23

Moncure Robinson, Shannondale Springs, near Charlestown, Va., to his brother, Conway Robinson, Richmond, Virginia, 1838 July 29; August 22

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 22
Identifier: id83693
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents A meeting to be held in Baltimore; Moore R. is leaving the springs. Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to Conway Robinson, Halifax Ct. House, Va. The resignation of Conway Robinson as (President of the R.R.) and of his successor, Marx or Hopkins, and of the way that the election should be controlled.

Dates: 1838 July 29; August 22

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to Edwin Robinson, 1838 August 2-14

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 23
Identifier: id83694
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Through tickets and competition of Jackson in New York, where a "battle of handbills" is being waged; purchase of the Potomac Steamship Co.

Dates: 1838 August 2-14

Moncure Robinson, Baltimore, to his brother, Moore Robinson, Berryville, Clarke County, Va., 1838 August 4

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 24
Identifier: id83695
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Instructs him to take an extended journey by horseback, to visit relatives and improve his health; his brothers will decide later whether Moore is to study medicine.

Dates: 1838 August 4

Charlotte Robinson, "Elmington," to her husband, Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, 1838 August 8, 15

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 25
Identifier: id83696
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Family affairs; investment of Moncure Robinson in the Reading Railroad; Charlotte Robinson has again forbidden the overseer, Jenkins, to whip any of the Negroes.

Dates: 1838 August 8, 15

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to Edwin Robinson, 1838 August 16-31

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 27
Identifier: id83698
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Purchase of steamboat companies; competition with the Gordonsville R.R.; buying into the Baltimore & Potomac R.R.; letters ot the papers on R.R. problems.

Dates: 1838 August 16-31

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to Edwin Robinson, 1838 September 2-30

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 28
Identifier: id83699
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Negotiations for through tickets; plans to go to court on the matter of Virginia's original charter to the R.F. & P. R.R.; great grief at the death of wife of Edwin Robinson; offer to take the two daughters.

Dates: 1838 September 2-30

Moncure Robinson, Baltimore, to Edwin Robinson, 1838 October 2-31

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 29
Identifier: id83700
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Purchase of Turnpike stock; through tickets on Railroadand other Railroad business.

Dates: 1838 October 2-31

Octavia Robinson, Richmond, to her brother, Moore Robinson, Philadelphia, 1838 October 9

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 30
Identifier: id83701
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Decision by his brother that Moore is to study medicine and his objection to it; other family news.

Dates: 1838 October 9

Ernest Caylus, New York, to Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, 1838 October 29 ; November 26

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 32
Identifier: id83703
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Social letter mentioning Latrade, Strickland, and Mrs. Taylor, mother-in-law of Moncure Robinson; the policies of Van Buren; the reception of Lord Durham in N. Y. . In French. Mentions Guy Lussac; John, son of Moncure Robinson; and Moore, brother of Moncure Robinson; discusses political situation in N. Y. In French.

Dates: 1838 October 29 ; November 26

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia to Edwin Robinson, Richmond, 1838 November 1-29

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 34
Identifier: id83705
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Publication of a pamphlet in R.R. competition; problems with Peter Daniel of Richmond & Petersburg R.R., Sanford, and Felton; R.R. conferences at Chatanooga; control of stock of the Seaboard & Roanoke R.R.; problems of through tickets.

Dates: 1838 November 1-29

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to Conway Robinson, Richmond, 1838 November 4-29

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 35
Identifier: id83706
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents The election of Dr. Sheppard as President of the R.F. & P. R.R.; Moncure Robinson to be chief engineer of the Brunswick & Florida R.R. in Georgia; purchase of property in Richmond; building of the Southwestern R.R.

Dates: 1838 November 4-29

Isaac N. Coffin, Washington, D.C., to Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, Pa., 1838 November 28

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 37
Identifier: id83708
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Requesting Moncure Robinson to make a statement to support the claims of the children of Robert Fulton, then pending before Congress.

Dates: 1838 November 28

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to Edwin Robinson, 1838 December 14-24

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 38
Identifier: id83709
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Negotiations with Daniel, Joynes, Jackson, and Fremont on through tickets; purchase of bridge and turnpike in Baltimore.

Dates: 1838 December 14-24

Susan B Taylor, Philadelphia, to her son-in-law, Moncure Robinson, Brunswick, Georgia, 1839 January 15

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 40
Identifier: id83711
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents News concerning the wife of Moncure Robinson, his two children, John Moncure nd Edmund, his brother, Moore, and a nephew of Susan B. Taylor; Peter Daniel; newspaper article quoted which derided the James River Company.

Dates: 1839 January 15