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)

Scope and Contents

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 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...

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...

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 81, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95 (from Richmond regarding Virginia House of Delegates and legislation) Family and Friends: Items 82, 84, 87, 94, 96, 99 (temperance and church activities; death of John H. Pleasants by duel [item 87]; secret writing and key, temperance [item 99]) Law/Business: Items 83, 86, 89, 91, 98 (Monongahela River improvements; county court activities; sale of property in Wheeling;...

Scope and Contents

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)

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 121, 127, 129, 130, 132, 138, 139 (Virginia legislation; election of delegates to Virginia convention; defeat of WTW in local election; slavery in northwestern Virginia [item 139]) Family and Friends: Items 120, 122-126, 128, 131, 133-136 (Sons of Temperance convention) Law/Business: Item 137 (suspension bridge for Morgantown by engineer who built Fairmont bridge and mill; Cheat River bridge to be...

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 141, 144-147, 150-160 (Virginia legislature and convention; slavery; splitting the state; Whig politics; Millard Fillmore; Winfield Scott; from Iowa, about Iowa politics [item 151]) Family and Friends: Items 140, 141, 143, 148-149 (news of Morgantown, the Morgantown Female Academy, Temperance) Law/Business: Items 142 (J. Gould regarding a road to be built in Morgantown known as the Decker's Creek or...

Scope and Contents

Topics include:

Politics: Items 163-170 (WTW as candidate for Congress, Whig politics, legislative bill for railroad from Morgantown to Baltimore)



Family and Friends: Items 161-162, 171, 173-174, 176-179 (temperance, the Morgantown Female Academy, Methodist Church evangelical work in Wisconsin)



Law/Business: Items 172, 175 (Ray property in Wheeling and documents)