Gifford at Burlington Hotel to “Bev” [Nathaniel Beverley Tucker 1820-1890]. Writer has left for America. “…not money enough, that is profit enough in the matter to induce Capitalists to run not only the risk of the blockade, but also the whole of their…” “I have given authority to Mr. …to act for us…” Discussion of the war in America and how it will affect their finances, and mention of the Queen and an English blockade. Accession Number 2008.27

Tucker, [Nathaniel] Beverley [1820-1890] to Mrs. [Julia Kean] Fish. Enclosed a private letter for her husband [Hamilton Fish]. Hopes that rumors of the Fishes soon leaving Washington are untrue and mentions that daughter Maggie [Margaret Nimmo] attended schools with Fish’s daughters.

April 29: John Randolph Tucker, Charleston, W.Va. to Fannie B. Crump, daughter of Judge Wm. W. Crump[July] 22 [1873]: Beverley D[andridge] Tucker to Anna Maria, daughter of Colonel John A. Washington, of Mt. Vernon, at Charlestown, W. Va.Undated: Mr. Ellis, of “Ellis & Allen,” Richmond, Va. To Margaret Nimmo, daughter of James Nimmo, Esq.Undated: Clipping of tribute to late Mrs. Ann E.T. Magill by Rev. Beverley D[andridge] Tucker

One addressed to [M? Cartret?] in Paris, the other addresses “Letters and papers regarding Business for Confederate States in France 1862” with a seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts: Official Business.