Scope and Contents Letter from Huntsville, Alabama critical of people of the community, December 6, 1846.  Letter on useless speeches and waster of time in the Virginia Convention in Richmond, February 15, 1861.  Letter from Madison's Cross Roads, Alabama, October 23, 1846.  Letter on value of ear trumpets and getting them made in Richmond, July 24 1846. Letter from Spring Grove, Tennessee about floods, cholera, politics, and people around Nashville, January 17, 1849.  Robert E. Hains (ex-William and Mary...

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Lottery broadsides, 1847-1848, 1851, 1852. The Scientific Examiner, 1848, broadside. Douglas, Johnson National Democrats ticket, 1860. Van Buren, Smith Democratic ticket, 1836.  Dr. William T. Galt receipt for the delivery of a patient to the Williamsburg Lunatic Asylum, January 15, 1826.

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Dated 1805-1881. Business and  personal letters and papers of Floyd L. Whitehead, Deputy Sheriff of Nelson County.  Included are day books and fee books of the county; Confederate tax forms for the listing of cattle and agriculture products on which ten percent, tax-in-kind was to be paid; and broadsides advertising lotteries for the District of Columbia, Monongalia Academy, the Dismal Swamp Company and of the State of Virginia.

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Bound Volume -- day book, September 1, 1847-February 29, 1848 of Floyd L. Whitehead, Nelson County, Virginia, merchant.