Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material William C. Rives papers,

Title

• William C. Rives papers,

Summary

• Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, writings, financial records, printed matter, scrapbooks, and other papers of Rives pertaining to Jacksonianism, Whig political movement, Southern politics, slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and diplomatic relations with France. Includes diaries, journals, and correspondence of members of the Rives family; a draft of Rives's History of the Life and Times of James Madison (1868-1873); and a draft of his unpublished autobiography. Correspondents include James Barbour; David Campbell; James Fenimore Cooper; Edward Everett; Millard Fillmore; James Hamilton, Jr.; William Henry Harrison; Andrew Jackson; Thomas Jefferson; Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, the marquis de Lafayette; Abbott Lawrence; Hugh Swinton Legaré; William Berkeley Lewis; Dolley Madison; James Madison; J.M. Mason; James Monroe; Nathaniel Niles, Jr.; Thomas Ritchie; John Tyler; Martin Van Buren; Daniel Webster; and Robert C. Winthrop.
• Papers of Thomas Walker and his son, Francis Walker, consist chiefly of financial records along with correspondence, a diary, journal, surveyor's notebooks, printed matter, and other papers. Thomas Walker's papers document his activities as a merchant, planter, and land speculator of Virginia. Francis Walker's papers relate chiefly to his service as U.S. representative from Virginia, legal affairs, and family matters. Papers pertaining to their association with the Dismal Swamp Canal Company and the Loyal Land Company include a journal kept by Thomas Walker during his exploration of the Loyal Land Company's holdings in Kentucky in 1750. Also includes his surveyor's notebooks and plats made as deputy surveyor of Augusta County, Va.; financial records kept by Walker as commissary-general to Virginia troops during the French and Indian War, 1754-1763; a report of the Virginia commissioners on negotiations with the Ohio Indians at Fort Pitt in 1775; and accounts pertaining to Peter Jefferson's estate. Correspondents include Adam Hoops, Robert Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Lewis, James Madison, James Monroe, Edmund Pendleton, and George Washington.

Names

• Rives, William C. (William Cabell), 1793-1868
• Walker, Francis, 1764-1806
• Walker, Thomas, 1715-1794

Headings

• -  Barbour, James,--1775-1842--Correspondence
• -  Campbell, David,--1779-1859--Correspondence
• -  Cooper, James Fenimore,--1789-1851--Correspondence
• -  Everett, Edward,--1794-1865--Correspondence
• -  Fillmore, Millard,--1800-1874--Correspondence
• -  Hamilton, James,--Jr.,--1786-1857--Correspondence
• -  Harrison, William Henry,--1773-1841--Correspondence
• -  Hoops, Adam,--1709-1771--Correspondence
• -  Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845
• -  Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845--Correspondence
• -  Jackson, Robert,--approximately 1710-approximately 1764--Correspondence
• -  Jefferson, Peter,--1708-1757--Estate
• -  Jefferson, Thomas,--1743-1826--Correspondence
• -  Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier,--marquis de,--1757-1834--Correspondence
• -  Lawrence, Abbott,--1792-1855--Correspondence
• -  Legaré, Hugh Swinton,--1797-1843--Correspondence
• -  Lewis, Andrew,--1720-1781--Correspondence
• -  Lewis, William Berkeley,--1784-1866--Correspondence
• -  Madison, Dolley,--1768-1849--Correspondence
• -  Madison, James,--1751-1836
• -  Madison, James,--1751-1836--Correspondence
• -  Mason, J. M.--(James Murray),--1798-1871--Correspondence
• -  Monroe, James,--1758-1831--Correspondence
• -  Niles, Nathaniel,--Jr.,--1791-1869--Correspondence
• -  Pendleton, Edmund,--1721-1803--Correspondence
• -  Ritchie, Thomas,--1778-1854--Correspondence
• -  Tyler, John,--1790-1862--Correspondence
• -  Van Buren, Martin,--1782-1862--Correspondence
• -  Webster, Daniel,--1782-1852--Correspondence
• -  Winthrop, Robert C.--(Robert Charles),--1809-1894--Correspondence
• -  Washington, George,--1732-1799--Correspondence
• -  Reeve family
• -  Dismal Swamp Canal Company
• -  Loyal Land Company
• -  Whig Party (U.S.)
• -  Indians of North America--Government relations
• -  Indians of North America--Ohio
• -  Land speculation--Kentucky
• -  Land speculation--Virginia
• -  Plantations--Virginia
• -  Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
• -  Slavery--United States
• -  Augusta County (Va.)--Surveys
• -  Fort Pitt (Pa.)--History
• -  France--Foreign relations--United States
• -  Southern States--Politics and government
• -  United States--Foreign relations--France
• -  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
• -  United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763
• -  United States--Politics and government--1783-1865
• -  Virginia--Surveys
• -  Virginia--Commerce
• -  Virginia--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763
• -  Virginia--Politics and government--1775-1865
• -  Rives family

Notes

• -  Arranged in eleven series. Series 1: Diaries, 1847-1889; Series 2: Journals, 1829-1886; Series 3: Letterbooks, 1814-1920; Series 4: Correspondence, 1776-1890; Series 5: Family Correspondence, 1817-1939; Series 6: General Correspondence, 1674-1909; Series 7: Speech, Article, and Book File; Series 8: Financial File, 1815-1900; Series 9: Scrapbooks, 1820-1907; Series 10: Miscellany; and Series 11: Thomas Walker and Francis Walker Papers, 1744-1835.
• -  Microfilm edition of the Thomas Walker and Francis Walker papers available, no. 14,983.
• -  Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1971.
• -  Deposit, Helen M. Rhinelander, 1928-1941.
• -  Converted to gift, 1946.
• -  U.S. senator and representative from Virginia. Other individuals represented in the collection include Thomas Walker, physician, explorer, U.S. Army officer, guardian of Thomas Jefferson, and grandfather of Rives's wife, Judith Page Walker; and his son, Francis Walker, U.S. representative and lawyer from Virginia.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms014041
• -  Index of correspondents available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.
• -  Some materials transferred to the Library of Congress James Madison Papers in 1958.

Medium

• 50,400 items.
• 172 containers.
• 7 microfilm reels.
• 68 linear feet.

Repository

• Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home

Library of Congress Control Number

• mm77037937

Access Advisory

• Open to research.

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/mm77037937

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• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record