Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Correspondence of David Gardiner Tyler including correspondence with Lyon G. Tyler, Julia (Gardiner) Tyler and Robert Fitzwalter Tyler concerning narratives of his life as a lawyer; daily life at "Sherwood Forest"; Harry Beeckman's attempts to settle on a plantation; a continuing legal case concerning "Sherwood Forest"; commentaries on the poltical situation in Virginia, as well as the rest of the South; comments on teh political situation evolving from the Boss Tweed...