Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Charles Campbell mentioned that he had written several hundred pages and John Wilson Campbell urges him to publish, fiction is most profitable, and Carruthers and French have done well even though they are "ordinary writers"; advises Charles Campbell against putting out a newspaper or literary paper; Elizabeth Maben has a baby girl; three new railroads building locally; Edmund Ruffin, Jr., is working for a railroad; expects few Virginians to go to Texas until...