Box 1

Scope and Contents

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...

Scope and Contents

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])

Scope and Contents

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 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)

Scope and Contents

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)

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)