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Box 4

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Item Nos. 1143-1160, 1880–1886

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 1144, 1146-1147, 1149, 1151, 1153-1154 (invitation to a reception for Hon. A.N. Campbell and a painting of him; positions for F.H. Pierpont and Hagans; aid to the public schools; Virginia's debt and West Virginia's part of it; information requested about Lincoln signing the West Virginia state bill; a Prohibition bill in Congress) Family and Friends: Items 1145, 1148, 1152, 1155-1160 (church matters and a convention in...
Dates: 1880–1886
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Waitman T. Willey Papers / Series 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied [boxes 1-4]

Item Nos. 1161-1181, 1887–1898

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents Topics include: Politics: Items 1165-1166, 1170, 1172, 1175, 1177 (letter regarding the Army and Stonewall Jackson [item 1165]; Prohibition; state health forms; Congressional compensation; request for a job as a judge) Family and Friends: Items 1161-1164, 1168-1169, 1171, 1173-1174, 1176, 1178-1181 (church matter; history of West Virginia by Lewis; letters from son in Washington, D.C.; WTW biography in the newspaper; family in West Virginia; request for an...
Dates: 1887–1898
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Waitman T. Willey Papers / Series 1a. Incoming Correspondence -- Transcribed/Copied [boxes 1-4]

Item Nos. 1182-1221, 1833–1834

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 11-12
Scope and Contents

Topics include:

Legal Matters



Friends (e.g. 1209)



(Note: during this time, WTW began his law practice in Morgantown)

Dates: 1833–1834
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Waitman T. Willey Papers / Series 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied [boxes 4-16]