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  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    The Lee family papers, 1742-1795 Catalog Record Only Reproduces personal, political, commercial, and diplomatic correspondence, proceedings of the Secret Committee of the Continental Congress, financial papers, commercial records, the papers of Robert Morris and John Ross, miscellaneous pamphlets, and ms. writings by the Lees. Chiefly correspondence of Arthur Lee (1740-1792) concerning the American Revolution. Includes material on the French and Indian War, the Stamp Act of 1765, Cornwallis and the Siege of...
    • Contributor: University of Virginia. Library - United States. National Historical Publications Commission - Molyneaux, John L. - Hoffman, Paul P.
    • Date: 1966
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    John Mercer Langston personal papers.
    John Mercer Langston papers Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence, speeches, drafts of writings, receipts, estate papers, banking papers, handbills, passports, minutes, a scrapbook, and newspaper clippings. Concerns slavery in the United States, the abolition movement, Reconstruction, American relations with Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Howard University, the War Department, and the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.
    • Contributor: Langston, John Mercer - Fisk University
    • Date: 1958
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    Continental Congress papers, 1775-1789 Catalog Record Only Consists of documents published by the Continental Congress; correspondence from the secretary of the Congress to the governor of Virginia; expenses incurred by Virginia delegates, and correspondence from the delegates to the governor of Virginia describing the proceedings, etc. of the Continental Congress.
    • Contributor: Grundman, Claudia B. - Virginia. State Library - United States. Continental Congress
    • Date: 1973
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    Credentials of delegates from Virginia to the Continental Congress Catalog Record Only
    • Contributor: United States. National Archives
    • Date: 1960
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    Southern women and their families in the 19th century, papers and diaries. Series G, Holdings of the University of Virginia Library
    Holdings of the University of Virginia Library Catalog Record Only
    Accompanied by a printed guide compiled by Martin Paul Schipper, entitled: A guide to the microfilm edition of Southern women and their families in the 19th century, papers and diaries. Series G, Holdings of the University of Virginia Library.
    • Contributor: University of Virginia. Library - University Publications of America (Firm) - Schipper, Martin Paul - Scott, Anne Firor
    • Date: 2002
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    Southern women and their families in the 19th century, papers and diaries. Series D, Holdings of the Virginia Historical Society Catalog Record Only Accompanied by printed guide compiled by Martin P. Schipper, entitled: A guide to the microfilm edition of Southern women and their families in the 19th century, papers and diaries. Series D, Holdings of the Virginia Historical Society. Reduction ratio to be 14:1, per CIP pub. info.; reconsider subject geog. coverage and 043 if necessary when other pts. come in; reconsider treatment of assoc. editor...
    • Contributor: Virginia Historical Society - University Publications of America (Firm) - Schipper, Martin Paul - Scott, Anne Firor
    • Date: 1994
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    George Washington diary, AMs written in the leaves of the 1762 Virginia Almanack. Topics include farming, horse breeding, and the management of Mount Vernon.
    • Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Washington, George
    • Date: 1762

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    James J. Hartley correspondence and printed matter,
    James J. Hartley papers | James Jasper Hartley papers Catalog Record Only
    Chiefly letters between Hartley and members of his family during his Civil War service with the 122nd Ohio Infantry Regiment. Also includes printed matter and letters informing his wife, Melissa Jane Foreacre Hartley, of his death at the battle of Cold Harbor, Va.
    • Contributor: Hartley, James J. (James Jasper)
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    Simms-Wallach families papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, legal papers, financial papers, printed material, and other papers of the Simms and Wallach families relating to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century history of Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Va. Papers of Charles Simms include an account book recording the sale of items from the estate of George Washington and legal papers concerning Simms's real estate ownership and litigation in the state...
    • Contributor: Simms, Charles
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    Henry L. Abbot family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoirs, diaries, writings, photographs, legal and financial records, biographical and genealogical material, military records, ships logs, maps, printed matter, mementos, and other papers primarily documenting Henry L. Abbot's service as topographical engineer and officer in the Union Army and family life and social activities in Massachusetts during the Civil War. Subjects include the First Battle of Bull Run, construction of fortifications around Washington,...
    • Contributor: Abbot, Henry L.
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    Elizabeth Wiltse correspondence,
    Elizabeth Wiltse papers Catalog Record Only
    ALS (1864 July 19; City Point, Va.) written by Richard Maginnis from City Point Hospital where he was serving as a nurse, to his sister Elizabeth Wiltse in Prattsville, Greene County, N.Y., describing hearing cannons from Petersburg, Va.; ALS (1865 April 28; Washington, D.C.) written by James Wiltse from Harewood Hospital to his wife Elizabeth in Prattsville, describing a visit from their son Charles,...
    • Contributor: Wiltse, Elizabeth
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    Joshua Coit correspondence,
    Joshua Coit papers Catalog Record Only
    Letters from Coit to his wife Nancy, his eldest son Robert, and Charles Bulkeley, all of New London, Conn., chiefly written in Philadelphia, Penn., while Coit was serving in Congress as a Federalist representative from Connecticut, 1793-1798. Subjects include a dinner with President George Washington, levees for Martha Washington, politics, the prospect of war with Great Britain, the XYZ Affair, an altercation between fellow...
    • Contributor: Coit, Joshua
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    James Wyche Green papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, journals, writings, reports, military records, biographical materials, publications, clippings, slides, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Green's work in rural land use and overseas agricultural and industrial development. Documents his career as a community advisor to foreign governments for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), and Yemen. Also includes material pertaining to his years...
    • Contributor: Green, James Wyche
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    Ulysses Doubleday order-book,
    Ulysses Doubleday papers Catalog Record Only
    Order-book (248 pages) concerning Doubleday's service as a major in the 4th N.Y. Artillery, as lieutenant colonel of the 3rd U.S. Colored Troops, and as colonel commanding a brigade of the 45th U.S. Colored Troops at the Battle of Five Forks. Consists of correspondence, inspection records, rosters of officers, military lessons, newspaper clippings, and material pertaining to armaments and arrangement of artillery of Forts...
    • Contributor: Doubleday, Ulysses
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    Sidney Morris Davis memoirs,
    Sidney Morris Davis papers Catalog Record Only
    Holograph manuscript by Davis recounting his Civil War service as a Union cavalryman in Company F of the Sixth Cavalry from 1861 to 1864. Topics include camp life; military engagements in Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania; and Davis's incarceration in the Confederate prison on Belle Isle in the James River at Richmond, Va.
    • Contributor: Davis, Sidney Morris
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    J.S. Negley correspondence,
    James S. Negley correspondence | J.S. Negley papers | James S. Negley papers | James Scott Negley papers Catalog Record Only
    Letters (1873 January 8-August 16) from Negley to James O'Connor pertaining chiefly to political affairs in Washington, D.C., during the Ulysses S. Grant presidential administration and to Negley's business and financial affairs. Subjects include Cabinet appointments; the Modoc Indian War in 1873; and the Fredericksburg, Orange & Charlottesville Railroad.
    • Contributor: Negley, J. S. (James Scott)
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    John Werner Kluge papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, reports, inventories and catalogs, financial records, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers pertaining to Kluge's art collecting, real estate properties, business activities, and philanthropic pursuits. Documents Kluge's collections of aboriginal Australian art, ancient bronze sculptures, antique carriages, and historic posters; his real estate properties, particularly Albemarle House, Charlottesville, Va., and Morven Estate, Albemarle County, Va.; his career in television and other...
    • Contributor: Kluge, John Werner
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    John Martin papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly correspondence of Martin during his Civil War service as a soldier and musician in the 116th New York Infantry Regiment. Discusses regimental operations in Louisiana especially during the siege of Port Hudson in 1863; Baltimore and Frederick, Md.; New York state; Camp Sheridan in Winchester, Va.; and Washington D.C. Includes a pro-Union speech from 1861, a newspaper clipping concerning death of Martin, and...
    • Contributor: Martin, John
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    Chandler B. Gillam papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence primarily with Gillam's wife, Sarah Larned, and his parents; diary; journal; writings; Gillam (Gilliam) family papers; photograph; and other papers relating chiefly to his Civil War service with the Twenty-eighth New York Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. Includes correspondence, diary, and pension papers of the regimental clerk, W.L. Hicks. Also includes one broadside relating to Capt. E.A. Bowen's Civil War service with the twenty-eighth...
    • Contributor: Hicks, W. L. (Washington L.) - Gillam, Chandler B. - Collier, Ellen C. (Ellen Clodfelter)
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    Nancy Dickerson papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, speech files, writings, television scripts, family papers, financial records, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Dickerson's work as a pioneering woman in television journalism and to her leading role in the social life of Washington, D.C. Includes material pertaining to her production companies, Nancy Dickerson and Company and the Television Corporation of America; Dickerson's television news documentaries including 784 Days...
    • Contributor: Dickerson, Nancy (Nancy Hanschman)
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    Humphrey Marshall papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, notes, financial and legal records, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Marshall's career as a lawyer, soldier, and politician. Documents his work as a lawyer in Kentucky and Virginia and his service as U.S. representative from Kentucky, U.S. commissioner to China during the Taiping Rebellion, and U.S. army officer during the Mexican War. Subjects include the conduct of...
    • Contributor: McLean, John - Marshall, Humphrey
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    Jean Waldman collection of Civil War papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, reports, paroles and passes, map, and other papers primarily regarding the Confederate campaign in southwestern Virginia. Correspondence relates chiefly to the Union Army's intelligence network and cryptography and to requests for baggage and ambulance transportation for homeward bound troops. Includes a print and manuscript copy of Robert E. Lee's General Order No. 9 announcing the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia and...
    • Contributor: Waldman, Jean
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    John C. Doty diary,
    John C. Doty papers Catalog Record Only
    Diary kept by Doty while serving with the 122nd New York Infantry Regiment, Company G, in which he describes the Appomattox Campaign, Robert E. Lee's surrender, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
    • Contributor: Doty, John C.
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    Benjamin F. Whitten papers,
    Benjamin Franklin Whitten papers Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence, family papers, military records, financial and legal records, and other papers relating primarily to Whitten's Civil War service with the 9th Maine Infantry Regiment. Documents his participation in the Battle of Morris Island, S.C., 1863; other actions and encampments along the southeast Atlantic coast in 1862 and 1863; the Battle of Cold Harbor, Va., 1864; and engagements in Bermuda Hundred, Va., where he...
    • Contributor: Whitten, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin)
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    Augustus S. Boernstein correspondence,
    Augustus S. Boernstein papers Catalog Record Only
    ALS with cover (29 September 1864; in the field near Chapin's Bluff, Va.) from by Boernstein, acting commander of the 4th United States Army Colored Infantry Regiment, describing the Battle of New Market, Va., particularly the actions of Christian A. Fleetwood and Charles Veale (1838-1872) for which they were awarded the Medal of Honor.
    • Contributor: Boernstein, Augustus S.