Box 3

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 808, 810-812, 814-819, 821 (rebels in Virginia; a bill to make all Confederacy governors declared rebels will destroy Pierpont who is pro-Union [item 810]; satirical letter by Mrs. Julia Robertson Pierpont regarding the oath; President Johnson activities; letter from Melbourne, Australia about the government and times [item 817]; activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) Family and Friends: Items 813, 820 (Montana...

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of “Negroes” from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of "disabilities;" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839,...

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Topics include:

Politics: Items 845-863 (impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in Congress and Copperheads in West Virginia; failure of the Freedman Bureau bill in Congress; President Johnson's impeachment and trial [items 849, 857-858, 862-863]; problems of Governor Pierpont in Virginia; West Virginia politics; opposition to statehood for Colorado [item 859])



Family and Friends: Items 844, 864 (request for seeds, request for money)

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Topics include:

Politics: Items 865-881, 883-884 (Mexico and religious freedom [items 865, 876]; the impeachment and trial of President Johnson [items 866-867, 869-871, 873]; tariffs on foreign sumac; local politics and West Virginia legislature; Virginia politics and the removal of Governor Pierpont [items 878, 881, 883])



Family and Friends: Item 882 (Methodist Church [may be Methodist Episcopal or Methodist Protestant] activities)

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Topics include:

Politics: Items 885-894, 897-898, 901-902 (requests for WTW to speak at rallies; disabilities; Pierpont on racism in judgeships in West Virginia; voting for Texas constitution)



Law/Business: Items 895-896, 899 (West Virginia court holidays; loss of the Doddridge library; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad activities)

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 905-910, 913, 915-922 (requests for removal of "disabilities;” bills in Congress; government in Richmond; a glimpse of Costa Rica [item 913]; "WVU" used instead of "WV Agricultural College" by Professor Martin in a letter to WTW regarding using military as faculty; reparations and jobs; a request from a woman of a distinguished naval family, Perry and Rodgers, for money) Law/Business: Items 903-904, 911-912, 914 (a company...

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 923-933, 935-942 (Blair, Minister to Costa Rica, wants bill defeated that would group all Central American countries together with one minister, or else he wants the job since he has lucrative concessions for a railroad in Costa Rica [item 925]; Governor Boreman elected to Senate; President Grant to be inaugurated; military faculty at WVU; more about "disabilities")Family and Friends: Item 929 (church activities) ...

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Topics include:

Politics: Items 943-945, 947-962 (racial problems in the government of Pennsylvania; request for job; local politics; more about "disabilities;” whiskey tax; slavery; Carlisle and the Republican Party; jobs and appointments)



Family and Friends: Item 946 (Van Winkle letter about his retirement)

Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 963-972, 974, 976, 978-982 (requests for jobs, Grant appointees [item 965]; sale of Harpers Ferry property; taxes and bills in Congress; the Minister to Singapore has no money and wants WTW to help him to get some from the government--he is from Mississippi and has no senators to help him [item 974]; letter from a naval officer about Cuba; Marshall College thanks WTW for documents for its library [item 981]) Family and...

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...