1862 Civil War ALS Describing Captivity in Confederate Libby Prison.
American Civil War-date letter from a former prisoner held at the infamous Confederate Libby Prison at Richmond Virginia. Union soldier A. Hoopes was captured by... Read More
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1861–1862 Archive of Civil War Letters by Pvt. Andrew Given, Third New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment; with additional Given Family and other Correspondence, 1859–1886.
Archive of 41 letters by Private Andrew Given who served in Third New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. Given’s war-date letters... Read More
Traditional Ballads of Virginia. Collected Under the Auspices of the Virginia Folk-Lore Society.
First Edition of this important collection of American balladry, edited by Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr., Archivist of the Virginia Collections of Ballads. Davis, Jr. signs... Read More
Traditional Ballads of Virginia. Collected Under the Auspices of the Virginia Folk-Lore Society.
First Edition of this important collection of American balladry, edited by Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr., Archivist of the Virginia Collections of Ballads. Davis, Jr. presents... Read More
1830 Autograph Letter Signed by Col. Charles Gratiot, U.S. Army Chief Engineer, Constructing a Road near Old Point Comfort, Virginia.
U.S. Army Chief Engineer Col. Charles Gratiot here writes to Major General Alexander Macomb, Commanding General of the Unite States Army concerning the officer in... Read More
1860–1861 Collection of Five ALsS to Textbook Author, and Soldier, Cortland Saunders, Killed at the Civil War Battle of Shepherdstown.
Archive of five letters to Harvard student and textbook author, Cortland Saunders. Saunders was subsequently killed during the Civil War in his native Virginia at... Read More
1867 Autograph Letter Signed by a Virginia-native and Iowa Minister Renouncing his Baptist Faith.
“The doctrine of an eternal Hell of fire & brimstone is all bosh…” Intimate letter by Iowa physician E.T. Manning, writing to a woman friend... Read More
[Virginians in War-Torn America:] American Union Commission, Maryland Branch Office ... Baltimore, November 1865 [opening lines of printed circular]
The American Civil War ended, disenfranchised Virginians are suffering and Marylanders are asked to help. The American Union Commission was “...constituted for the purpose of... Read More
Washington Family Estate Settlement: Armistead v. Armistead and Armistead v. Dandrige.
Manuscript group primarily concerned with the case of Armistead v. Dandridge, a drawn out Virginia lawsuit with roots in the eighteenth century. Much information on... Read More
[1824 District of Columbia Manuscript Indenture Signed Twice by Judge and former U.S. Congressman Richard Bland Lee].
This 1824 indenture concerns the settlement of a debt and sale of land by John Holohan of Washington, D.C. to Humphrey Peake, Collector of the... Read More
C.1902 ALS by Virginian John Paul Bocock, Attorney, Poet, and Journalist.
Interesting letter on the publication of magazine articles by attorney-turned-journalist and popular writer, John Paul Bocock (1856–1903). A Virginian from a leading family, Bocock earned... Read More
1901 Autograph Letter Signed by Julia Magruder, Author, Writing to Editor William Clemens about Short Stories for Children.
Letter from American novelist and writer Julia Magruder (1854–1907) here writing to an editor, one “Mr. Clemens,” concerning short stories for children. It appears that... Read More
1902 Autograph Letter Signed by Molly Elliot Seawell, Author, 1860–1916.
Molly Elliot Seawell (1860–1916), children’s author, short story writer, and novelist. Seawell contributed to such magazines as Lippincott’s, Youth’s Companion, and the New York Critic... Read More
Bible given by Captured Union Soldier to a Woman in 1862 “at The line of the Surrender” at the Battle of Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
In the aftermath of the 1862 Battle of Harpers Ferry in Virginia, a small pocket New Testament Bible was given to a woman, Mollie E.... Read More
1816 Albermarle County Manuscript Estate Inventory also Listing Six Slaves Owned by Samuel Black.
In 1816, William Ramsay, Alvin Cleveland and James Hayes were tasked with appraising Samuel Black’s estate in pounds and shillings. Black was well-to-do. He owned... Read More
1801 Autograph Letter Signed from Samuel Coleman, Virginia clerk, to Georgia Governor David Emanuel, Transmitting a Copy of Recently-Passed Laws by the Legislature of Virginia.
Here, Coleman presents Governor David Emanuel with Virginia’s most recently-enacted laws. The letter is docketed, in part, “Exchange of Laws” and reads, in full: Richmond... Read More
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