Box 1

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...

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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)

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Topics include:

Politics: Items 183, 188 (requests for WTW to speak at Madison College and Charlottesville)



Family and Friends: Items 180-182, 184-187, 189-192, 197-199 (requests for speeches, temperance, Monongalia Literary Society, Iowa and Northwestern lands, train travel to Wheeling, household servants)



Law/Business: Item 193 (lawyer looking to settle in Morgantown)

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 201-203, 207, 212, 216, 219 (American Party convention wants WTW to speak, Henry Clay Dean elected Senate Chaplain over Henry Ward Beecher, WTW as elector in 1856, Buchanan politics) Family and Friends: Items 200, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 213, 215, 218 (temperance, diseases of the day including cholera in Pittsburgh, Literary Society, Morgantown Female Academy) Law/Business: Items 204, 209, 214, 217...

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Topics include:

Politics: Items 281, 286-288, 290, 292-298, 300 (invitations to speak for Bell and Everett, and their success in Virginia; newspapers in Virginia)



Family and Friends: Items 282, 299 (son and Francis H. Pierpont)



Law/Business: Items 283-285, 289, 291 (legal matters with clients)

Scope and Contents

Topics include:

Politics: Items 302-303, 305, 307-312, 314-315, 317-318, 320 (the Virginia convention for secession in Richmond, [items 303, 307, 317a]; sentiment in Morgantown regarding Lincoln and the Union; WTW for the Union)



Family and Friends: Items 304, 306, 313, 316 (son in college writes about the war to come; Morgantown activities and gossip)

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Topics include:

Politics: Items 321-324, 326, 328-329, 331-334, 336-341 (Richmond convention for secession; Union sentiment in western Virginia; confusion in several areas; upcoming Wheeling convention)



Family and Friends: Items 325, 327, 330, 335 (son in Carlisle, PA, writes of Southern students expelled from Dickinson College, the activities of the Army, riots in Carlisle, and Union sentiments)

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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)