Box 1

Scope and Contents This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. The letters have been previously divided into "copied" (Series 1a.) and "not copied" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the...

Scope and Contents

Topics include:

Politics: Items 3a, 4-4b, 6-8, 17-19 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates, and from Washington, D.C. regarding Congress)



Family and Friends: Items 1-3, 5, 9, 11,14-16, 20 (from travelers to the West, temperance, church activities)



Law/Business: Items 10-13 (Monongalia County Court and Clerk concerns)

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Topics include:

Politics: Items 21, 24, 26-29, 39 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates)



Family and Friends: Items 22, 30-36, 40, 41 (from travelers to the West, e.g. [35 Illinois in 1837 [36 New Orleans in 1838; church activities [40 and #41 regard "abolitionists" in the Methodist Church)



Law/Business: Items 23, 25, 28, 37-38 (post office routes, roads in Virginia, Monongahela River navigation)

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 61-68b, 71, 73, 75, 77-78 (national election of 1840; convention of Whigs in Richmond; local politics; death of President Harrison; United States Presidential election of 1844, James K. Polk vs Henry Clay, e.g. item 68) Family and Friends: Items 68a-68b (illness while traveling in 1841); 69 (F.H. Pierpont regarding Mississippi travels, church activities) Law/Business: Item 74 (iron business in...

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Topics include:

Politics: Item 105 (election of Zachary Taylor)



Family and Friends: Items 101,102,104,106-112,114,116-119 (temperance activities, including passwords and cyphers)



Law/Business: Items 103, 113, 115 (letters from Baltimore about legal matters)

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Topics include:

Politics: Items 220-224, 226-227 (information regarding American Party, Congress)



Family and Friends: Items 225, 229-230, 232-233, 237 (property in Iowa and missions)



Law/Business: Items 231, 234-236, 238-239 (applications for the Morgantown Female Academy, one man refuses a job because he was told "Northern men not wanted in the state" [item 238])

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Topics include:

Politics: Items 248-250, 252-259 (Virginia election of 1859, WTW nominated for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Letcher for Governor wants taxes on enslaved persons)



Family and Friends: Items 242, 244, 246-247, 251 (son writes from Meadville College)



Law/Business: Items 240, 243, 245: (court in Harrison County, navigation on the Monongahela River, election to a literary society)

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 260-267, 269, 279-280 (Virginia election of 1859; invitations to speak about the election; WTW's views on dividing Virginia with free state in the west [item 261]; invitation to Henry Clay birthday party in Alexandria [item 280]) Family and Friends: Items 268, 273, 275-277 (temperance; church; son's suspension from college [items 273, 275]) Law/Business: Items 270-272, 274, 278 (how to build a...

Scope and Contents

Topics include:

Politics: Items 342-347, 349, 351, 353, 356 (Wheeling convention, slavery and future of USA, slavery)



Government/War: Items 348, 350, 354-355, 357-361 (Union; battle at Manassas; capture of rebel equipment; Dakota Territory Union men; Camp Chase, Ohio prisoner from Beverley, Virginia [item 361])



Family and Friends: Items 352, 355 (Morgantown events; battle at Laurel Hill)

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 50, 52-56, 58-60 (national election of 1840; Whig activities in elections; WTW to be elector for the Whig party in the state; rumors regarding Harrison and debtors; rallies for voters [items 56, 58]) Family and Friends: Items 46-49, 51, 57 (temperance movement; church activities; traveler in New Orleans) Law/Business: Item 45 (WTW elected Director of Discount and Deposit of the Morgantown branch of...