Scope and Contents Correspondence of the John P. Taliaferro Family. Correspondents include Mrs. E. M. Marshall, W. L. Faunteroy, P. R. Page, Marcellus Eells, Benjamin S. Ewell of Williamsburg, John P. Taliaferro to his wife, Leah L. Taliaferro, E. W. Taliaferro and John Eells.   Civil War letters are from J. P. Smith while camped near Williamsburg (1861), letter from General Thomas L. Rofson about the death of John Eells (1863), John P. Taliaferro to his wife, while at camp in Augusta County, Virginia, about...

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Courting letters written by Richard P. Taliaferro to Fannie Johnson.

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Includes sale of a negro man, invoices, account statement between Ransome White and John P. Taliaferro and "List of hire of my negros for the year 1856 hired by the months."

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Letters from William Carter Stubbs of New Orleans about the Perrin, Read and other families and a handwritten note about the John Fox and Oliver families.

Scope and Contents Agreements between William H. Anderson and John P. Taliaferro that John P. Taliaferro intermarried with E. W. Anderson (1849), Deed between George E. Tabb and Mary his wife of Mathews County and Thomas S. Tabb (1849), Deed between Benjamin N. Robinson and John P. Taliaferro (1852), agreement for land between Augustine Brown and John P. Taliaferro (1854), agreement by John P. Taliaferro to pay to Thos. S. Tabb for the estate called Toddsbury (1866), indenture between John P. Taliaferro and...

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Poems entitled, "A Confederate Bank Note, "Father Dear" and "I will often Think of Thee."  Essays on wheat by John P. Taliaferro and on "Yellow Pickles" by Mrs. Peans, a draft of a speech on the American Revolution by John P. Taliaferro and another speech draft.