Box 4
Container
Contains 13 Results:
Series 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied [boxes 1-4], 1840–1898
Series — Multiple Containers
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...
Dates:
1840–1898
Series 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied [boxes 4-16], 1833–1900
Series — Multiple Containers
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...
Dates:
1833–1900
Item Nos. 983-1002, 1869–1870
File — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Topics include:
Politics: Items 987-992, 994-1002 (requests for jobs; more on "disabilities;” Republican Party platform; West Virginia Supreme Court; 1861 Harpers Ferry raid; Virginia state government)
Law/Business: Items 983-985, 993 ("disabilities;" and bill in Congress; publishing in West Virginia; reparations for war damage)
Dates:
1869–1870
Item Nos. 1003-1022, 1870
File — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Politics: Items 1004-1020 ("disabilities" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a "colony of men" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul) Family...
Dates:
1870
Item Nos. 1023-1042, 1870
File — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Politics: Items 1023-1031, 1033-1037, 1039-1042 (about the 15th amendment and opposition in West Virginia; state politics; more "disabilities;” requests for WTW to speak; reparations for a destroyed church; job requests; steel companies want tariff bill or they will go out of business [item 1036]; the "coal fight;” and WTW [item 1040]) Family and Friends: Item 1038 (Elizabeth Ray Willey complains that WTW gives away money to "worthless...
Dates:
1870
Item Nos. 1043-1062, 1870–1871
File — Box: 4, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Politics: Items 1043-1046, 1048, 1051-1058, 1061-1062 (Republican slate for election; jailing of election officials in southern West Virginia by "rebels" [item 1048]; Pierpont requests a position; more "disabilities;” a position as consul requested; a bank application for Mason County with list of stockholders; request for reparations for government service; Congress, and state politics) Family and Friends: Items 1047, 1059-1060...
Dates:
1870–1871
Item Nos. 1063-1082, 1871–1873
File — Box: 4, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Politics: Items 1063, 1065-1067, 1069-1075 (recommendations for a professor to receive LLD degree; invitation to speak; constitutional convention; need to change county seat of Ritchie County to attain access to railroad; trial for fraud against P.G. Van Winkle, now deceased [items 1070-1071]; Republican politics in West Virginia; a political colleague reminisces) Family and Friends: Items 1068, 1076-1080, 1082 (church activities; WTW's...
Dates:
1871–1873
Item Nos. 1083-1102, 1873–1876
File — Box: 4, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Politics: Items 1084, 1088-1090, 1092, 1102 (West Virginia politics, WTW elected to convention, the Centennial celebration of 1876) Family and Friends: Items 1083, 1085, 1087, 1091, 1094-1101 (son, William, writes regarding law practice, business, life in St. Louis, and move to Baltimore; whiskey as beneficial medicine for all ailments [item 1094]; temperance in Preston County; inquiry about the invention of the steam engine) ...
Dates:
1873–1876
Item Nos. 1103-1122, 1876–1877
File — Box: 4, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Politics: Items 1105, 1107, 1109-1110, 1112-1113, 1115-1116, 1118, 1120-1122 (church position and convention held in Cincinnati; West Virginia politics; money for river locks and dams; location of state capitol) Family and Friends: Items 1106, 1108, 1111, 1117, 1119 (WTW appointed to National Historical Convention; church convention; letter from a cousin) Law/Business: Items 1104, 1114 (landowner's estate, Wall...
Dates:
1876–1877
Item Nos. 1123-1142, 1878–1880
File — Box: 4, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Politics: Items 1128-1129, 1132, 1139-1142 (Republican Party in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia [items 1128-1129 from David Hunter Strother]; requests for speeches) Family and Friends: Items 1123-1127, 1130, 1133, 1135-1138 (requests for speeches, genealogy of the family, request for WTW's book, church matters) Law/Business: Items 1131, 1134 (railroad business; WTW became President of the Pittsburgh, Southern,...
Dates:
1878–1880