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Box 7

 Container

Contains 55 Results:

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to Edwin Robinson, Richmond, Virginia, 1852 January 1--27

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 1
Identifier: id85239
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Through tickets, ice boat, profits of the Piney Point Line, buying railroad stock; negotiations with Parker of the B. & O. R.R. and Fontaine of the Central R.R. (Louisa Line).

Dates: 1852 January 1--27

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to Edwin Robinson, 1852 February 3-14

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 2
Identifier: id86024
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Mail contracts, through tickets; transfer of passengers in Washington; Capt. Macausland of the Steamboat Line and Gen. MacRae of a competing R.R.

Dates: 1852 February 3-14

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to Edwin Robinson, Richmond, Virginia, 1852 April 7-18

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 4
Identifier: id86026
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents The Petersburg and Richmond railroad bill before the Virginia legislature; expenses of the railroad cutting profits; trouble with Geo. Mattingly.

Dates: 1852 April 7-18

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to Edwin Robinson, Richmond, Virginia, 1852 May 3-10

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Identifier: id86027
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Trouble made by Falls; attempt to rouse the Petersburg people against him; manipulation of stocks.

Dates: 1852 May 3-10

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to Edwin Robinson, Richmond, Virginia, 1852 June 17-22

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 6
Identifier: id86028
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Negotiations with Parker of the B. & O. R.R. for through tickets; the Ice Boat Bill; the Louisa Case before the courts; Fontaine, Bird, and MacRae. Family affairs--death of their sister, Cornelia; a box of clothes sent to John, son of Moncure Robinson, at VMI.

Dates: 1852 June 17-22

Moncure Robinson, Lexington, Va., and Red Sulphur Springs, to Edwin Robinson, Richmond, Virginia, August 1852 August 1-23

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 7
Identifier: id86029
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Employees of the steamboat line with letter from Geo. Mattingly enclosed; trouble with Falls of the Bay Line.

Dates: August 1852 August 1-23

Moncure Robinson, Lexington, Va., and Kabletown, Jefferson Co., Va., to Edwin Robinson, Richmond, Virginia, 1852 September 10-27

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 8
Identifier: id86031
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Visit with John, son of Moncure Robinson, at VMI; defeat of Ice Boat Bill; bills before legislature of N. Carolina and S. Carolina; trouble with Falls about through tickets.

Dates: 1852 September 10-27

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to Edwin Robinson, Richmond , Va., 1852 October 1-28

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 9
Identifier: id86032
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Steamboat schedules from Richmond; attempt to buy Seaboard of Roanoke stock at a depressed price; reprimanding Edwin Robinson for changing railroad schedules; a resolution to be presented to the Virginia Legislature; Edwin Robinson is running for the Virginia State.

Dates: 1852 October 1-28

William H MacFarland, Richmond, Virginia, to Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, 1852 October 23

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 11
Identifier: id86034
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Appreciation for "kind favors"; but still thinks that he is entitled to redress in the suit against the railroad.

Dates: 1852 October 23

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to Edwin Robinson, Richmond, Virginia, 1852 November 1-27

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 12
Identifier: id86035
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Urging passing of a resolution which will corner Alexandria trader for the Piney Point Line; enclosing copy from William Parker, stating that B. & O. R.R. will return to old arrangement on through tickets; the R.F. & P. stockholders to control Falls; through tickets from the south and connections at Alexandria.

Dates: 1852 November 1-27

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to Edwin Robinson, Richmond, Virginia, 1852 December 7 -13

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 13
Identifier: id86036
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Mail contracts; government ice boat on the Potomac; negotiations with MacRae, Falls, and the Lynchburg & Tenn. R.R.; problems with employees Sharp and Macausland opposing increase in salaries with enclosed letter from L.H. Minor supporting increase in salaries; urges work to pass Richmond and Petersburg R.R. line with draft of letter for Edwin Robinson to send.

Dates: 1852 December 7 -13

E Caylus, New York, to Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, 1852 December 21

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 14
Identifier: id86037
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents E. Caylus has suggested to Ch. Sedgewick that Moncure Robinson be asked to be director of the "Universal Exposition" planned for New York, and has been empowered to ask confidentially whether he will accept the position. Endorsement refers to it as "International Mining Engineers Exposition."

Dates: 1852 December 21

E Caylus, New York, to Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, 1853 January 6

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 16
Identifier: id86039
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Regrets that Moncure Robinson is not interested in the position of Director of the New York Exposition. He is embarking on a wine importing business for which he seeks some capital from Moncure Robinson.

Dates: 1853 January 6

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to Edwin Robinson, Richmond, Virginia, 1853 January 11-12

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 17
Identifier: id86040
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Instructions to Capt. Macausland of the steamboat and steamboat expenses; passage of Ice Boat Bill in the Senate; schedule changes by Parker of the B. & O. R.R.

Dates: 1853 January 11-12

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to Edwin Robinson, Richmond, Virginia, 1853 February 5-16

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 19
Identifier: id86042
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents The Directors for the new Richmond and Petersburg R.R.; bills before the Virginia Legislature; opposition of Rives.

Dates: 1853 February 5-16

Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to Col F.H. Smith, VMI, 1853 February 13

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 20
Identifier: id86043
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Examination of his John, before the Board of Visitors, and the risks of his dismissal.

Dates: 1853 February 13

WB Robinson, Quebec, to Moncure Robinson, 1853 April 3

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 22A
Identifier: id86046

P. V. Daniel, Jr., Richmond, Virginia, to Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, 1853 April 18

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 23
Identifier: id86047
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Expressing his willingness to accept a position on the condition that "its duties will be discharged by me independently, according to my conscientious convictions."

Dates: 1853 April 18