Content Description Series of letters, bound into a black volume with gold embossing around its edge. The letters span from 1828- 1857 but the bulk of the letters are from 1830- 1833. Brown writes to an assortment of recipients and from varied places such as Petersburg, Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, and Baltimore, Maryland. Topics in his letters include politics, Brown was a member of the House of Delegates for Virginia, love, business, and family affairs. One later letter laments the ill health of his...

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Mostly letters, 1825-1845, from Samuel Owings Hoffman to his wife Louisa Gilmor Hoffman including a chronicle of a trip through Ireland, England and France in 1830.

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Notes, 1872-1873, taken by John C. Stubbs, student at Washington University, Baltimore, Md. The notes concern chemistry and medicine.

See also John C. Stubbs Notebook (MsV Nme10) and letters of Stubbs in the Thomas Jefferson Stubbs Papers (Mss. 65 St9).

Washington University in Baltimore became defunct in 1877. See Baltimore: Its History and Its People (New York, 1912), Vol. I, pp. 595-596.

Scope and Contents Ledger (14 pp.), 1883-1884 recording rent for organizations, individuals and a school. The cover of the volume reads "Society Record Ledger" but no further information is given. Rent was collected from Harmony Lodge No.4, Arbeiter Kranken Unterstuetzungs Verein, Sued Baltimore Kranken Unterstuetzungs Verein, Teutonia Hain No. 13, Window Glass Blowers' Union No. 300, Knights of Labor Liberty Assembly No. 2075, Rescue Council No. 1, Butler Club of South Baltimore, American League of...

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Letter from J. W.  Smith in Baltimore, Maryland to "My Dear Friend" about buying cotton for his friend; mention of Mr. McAllister being in Baltimore.  October 17, 1850.

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Minute book, 1874-1896, of Westham Granite Company (Richmond, Virginia and Baltimore, Maryland.) The quarry was located in Chesterfield County, Virginiaa. The volumes include loose papers.