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Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (III)

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 B8555
Scope and Contents

Papers and correspondence of three generations of the Brown Family of Virginia:  Frances (Fanny) Bland Coalter Brown and her husband, Henry Peronneau Brown (1838-1888),  J. Thompson and Cassie Tucker Brown (1890-1920) and Frances Bland Brown and Fleming Sanders (1921-1964).

Dates: 1838-1964

Charles Campbell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 C17
Scope and Contents The Charles Campbell papers consist of papers received or collected by Charles Campbell (1807-1876), Virginia historian. The papers fall into four general headings: historical papers collected by Charles Campbell, correspondence, manuscript volumes, and miscellaneous. These include personal and professional correspondence as well as eighteenth century documents collected by Charles Campbell, newspaper clippings, diaries, scrapbooks, and notebooks, covering then period 1743-1896. The papers...
Dates: 1743-1896

Fauntleroy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 F27
Scope and Contents

Papers, 1831-1903, of Thomas P. Knox, his daughter Mrs. Janet P. Fauntleroy, her husband Charles M. Fauntleroy, their daughter Janet Knox Fauntleroy Harrison, her husband Powell Harrison and other family members. Letters primarily discuss family life and conditions at various towns in Virginia, including at Winchester, Charlottesville, and West Point. Letters also discuss agriculture, the Civil War, female social life, and other.

Dates: 1831-1903

John "Jack" Fitzgerald Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01186
Scope and Contents

Letters, 1827-1855, written to John "Jack" Fitzgerald of "Walnut Hill," Nottoway County, Va. Letters written by Thomas Branch and Bros. of Petersburg, Va, his brother, William Fitzgerald (House of Delegates, Richmond, Va.) and Winfree Williamson of Richmond, Va.

Topics and genre include bills, family news, legal matters, invoices and account statements of items sold, prices and commission information and correspondence concerning the selling of slaves.

Dates: 1827-1855

John Alonzo Frenger Diary and Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00659
Scope and Contents Diary and account book, 1876-1879 of John Alonzo Frenger of Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia. The accounts are for farming and household expenses and the diary entries describe  farming, trips to town, social visits, health, family life, church related events and also comment on economic developments and political events.  Also included is a 1881 clipping from the Alleghany Tribune, that shows that a relative of John Alonzo Frenger, W.H.H. Frenger was editor and proprietor at...
Dates: 1876-1879

Grigsby-Galt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.308
Scope and Contents This collection contains the family papers of members of the Grigsby and Galt Families. Mary Blair Grigsby married William W. Galt in 1881.  The collection contains papers of various members of the Grigsby family, particulary Hugh Blair Grigsby who was a historian and Chancellor of The College of William and Mary and his son, Hugh Carrington Grigsby who lived his entire life at the family farm, Edgehill, in Charlotte County, Virginia. The collection also contains the personal...
Dates: 1736-1982; Majority of material found in 1840-1930

Hart Papers I and II

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 H29
Scope and Contents Papers, 1847-1934, including correspondence, essays, articles, and poems by John Hart, a Richmond book seller and poems, short stories, and a novel by his wife, Katherine M. Hart. The papers of John Hart include letters concerning the sale of books and two letters by James Branch Cabell. The collection includes diplomas and certificates awarded by the University of Virginia to his [father ?] John Hart of Louisa County, Va. The Hart Papers (II) series contains 200...
Dates: 1847-1934

Ives Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2011.091
Scope and Contents

Ledgers, letters, receipts, and other material, circa 1850s to 1910, related to the Ives family of Falls Church, Virginia. Includes ledgers of S.S. Ives' business in Falls Church where he made and repaired items for wagons and carts. His customers included African-Americans. Also includes correspondence between members of the Ives family. There are also political materials, receipts, account books, and other materials.

Dates: circa 1850-1910

James Patton Preston Letter

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01771
Content Description A three page letter sent from James Patton Preston to his brother. In the letter, Preston complains that he has been ordered by Colonel Parker to stay and recruit men for the 12th and 20th regiments, a task he finds "vastly troublesome." Preston follows this by mentioning two men with whom his brother is acquainted are traveling under secrecy, and that the news Preston and his brother delivered earlier has proven to be true. News he states is "destroying the confidence of men in the...
Dates: September 15th, 1812

John W. Lewis and Lewis P. Olds Papers, 1808-1902

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2010.022
Scope and Contents Collection consists of the papers of three Southerners, dating predominantly from the 19th century. John W. Lewis lived in Virginia, Mississippi, and North Carolina and the portion of the collection from this Methodist minister and farmer includes references to religion including sermons, farming, and slavery. Lewis P. Olds was a North Carolina lawyer and politician and the collection includes evidence of his career as well as poetry and short stories he wrote. The remainder of the...
Dates: 1808-1902; Majority of material found within 1840-1879

Manuscripts - People and Family Names

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 39.2 Man3a
Scope and Contents

An artificial collection of papers created from material acquired during the 1930's and 1940's.  Mostly letters, financial records, published material and official records of individuals in Virginia and elsewhere.  Includes documents and signatures of well known people, such as Benjamin Harrison, John Randolph and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Dates: 1621-1949; Majority of material found in 1800's

Niebling and Duke Family Letters

 Collection — Container: Small Collections Box 124, Folder: 1
Identifier: SC 01758
Content Description Twenty-four letters written by members of the Niebling and Duke families. Seventeen of them are written to Salena Niebling Duke. Salena Niebling married Richard Hardin Duke and moved to Richmond, Virginia from Baltimore, Maryland. The couple had three sons, Frank M. Duke, Walter Garland Duke, and Charles R. H. Duke. This group of correspondence spans geographically from Virginia and Maryland to Massachusetts and Illinois, and features letters from all three Duke sons, Richard Duke, his...
Dates: 1847 - 1903

Travel Diary of a Trip through Western Virginia and Niagara Falls

 Collection — Container: Small Collections Box 125, Folder: 1
Identifier: SC 01775
Content Description A travel diary written by a person from Baltimore, Maryland. They write about touring through western Virginia on horseback and later Niagara Falls on foot. They comment on Virginia locations such as Mount Vernon, Montpelier, Monticello, Warm Springs, Weyer's Cave (now Grand Caverns), Natural Bridge, and the asylum in Staunton (now Western State Hospital) among other places. On the trip to Niagara, the writer mentions the conditions of the roads, the places they stayed, a...
Dates: 1842 - 1843

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Certificates 2
Clippings (information artifacts) 2
Farms--Virginia--History--19th century 2
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Petersburg (Va.)--History--19th century 2
Richmond (Va.)--History--19th century 2
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 2
United States--Slavery 2
Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 2
African Americans--History 1
African Americans--History--19th century 1
African Americans--Virginia--History--19th century 1
African Americans--Virginia--Photographs 1
Agriculture--History--19th century 1
Agriculture--Virginia--19th century 1
Agriculture--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Apprenticeship programs--Virginia 1
Bedford County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Booksellers and bookselling--Virginia 1
Carriage and wagon making 1
Catalogs 1
Charlotte County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Charlottesville (Va.)--History--19th century 1
College of William and Mary--History 1
College of William and Mary--History--19th century 1
Colonial period, ca. 1609-1774 1
Cotton trade--Southern States--History--19th century 1
Debt 1
Decedents' estates 1
Deeds 1
Dyes and dyeing 1
Education--Study and teaching 1
Education--Virginia--History 1
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Farms--Virginia--Nottoway County 1
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Fliers (printed matter) 1
Genealogical tables 1
Genealogy 1
Greeting cards 1
Horses--Virginia 1
Indians of North America 1
Insurance, Fire--Virginia--History 1
Invoices 1
Japan--Description and travel 1
Jefferson County (W.Va.)--History--18th century 1
Jefferson County (W.Va.)--History--19th century 1
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies 1
Lectures 1
Ledgers (Accounting) 1
Letter writing 1
Logging--Virginia 1
Lumber trade--Virginia--History 1
Manila Bay, Battle of, Philippines, 1898 1
Manila Bay, Battle of, Philippines, 1898--Pictorial works 1
Manuscripts (document genre) 1
Manuscripts for publication 1
Marriage certificates 1
Mecklenburg County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Medical practice--Virginia--History 1
Merchants--Massachusetts 1
Merchants--Virginia--Richmond 1
Merchants--West Virginia--Jefferson County 1
Military records 1
Mississippi--History--19th century 1
New York (State)--Description and travel 1
New York (State)--Social life and customs 1
Nome (Alaska)--Description and travel 1
Norfolk (Va.)--History--19th century 1
North Carolina--History--19th century--Sources 1
North Carolina--Social life and customs--19th century 1
Nottaway County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Orders (military records) 1
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Physicians--Virginia--York County 1
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Poets, American--19th century 1
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Printed ephemera 1
Publications 1
Railroads--Virginia--History 1
Receipts (financial records) 1
Recipes 1
Report cards 1
Richmond (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
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Anderson Gallery 1
Anderson Seminary 1
Braxton family 1
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Brown, Cassie Dallas Tucker 1
Brown, Coalter, and Tucker Family 1
Brown, Frances Bland Coalter, 1835-1894 1
Brown, Henry Peronneau, 1883-1942 1
Brown, John Thompson, 1861-1921 1
Brown, John Willcox, 1886- 1
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958 1
Campbell family 1
Campbell, Charles, 1807-1876 1
Carrington family 1
Carter, Mary B. 1
Centenary Church 1
Coalter family 1
Coleman, Mary Haldane Begg, 1875-1967 1
Cryer, William 1
Duke, Salena Niebling 1
Eastern Publishing Co 1
Exchange Bank of Virginia 1
Farmer's Register 1
Fauntleroy, Charles M. 1
Fauntleroy, Janet P. 1
Fitzgerald, John 1
Forrest Family 1
Galt family 1
Galt, William Richard, 1818-1892 1
Garland family 1
Grigsby family 1
Grigsby, Hugh Blair, 1806-1881 1
Harrison, Janet Knox Fauntleroy 1
Harrison, Powell, d. 1878 1
Hart, John, 1860-1937 1
Hart, Katherine McCowan, 1863-1948 1
Ives family 1
Ives, Albert 1
Ives, Dora 1
Ives, S.S. 1
Knox, Thomas P. 1
Latting, Sally 1
Lee Gallery 1
Lewis, John W., [1808]-1885 1
Marshall, John, 1755-1835 1
Maxwell, William, 1784-1857 1
Moore family 1
New York Weekly Journal of Commerce 1
Olds, Lewis P. 1
Petersburg Index (Va.) 1
Preston, James Patton, Governor 1
Richmond Enquirer 1
Saunders family 1
Saunders, Fleming 1
Saunders, Frances Bland Coalter Brown, 1891 1
Southern Literary Messenger 1
Titanic (Steamship) 1
Tucker 1
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute 1
Tyree family 1
United States. Navy. Office of the Paymaster 1
Valentine, Edward Virginius, 1838-1930 1
Virginia Historical Society 1
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. 1
West, Francis 1
West, John 1
Wingo family 1
Women's College of Richmond 1
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