Box 3

Scope and Contents

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) ...

Scope and Contents

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...