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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...

Scope and Contents Items include: Legal and Political Letters (e.g. item 1603 -- from Governor of Virginia regarding election errors in 1844) Requests for Information (e.g. item 1668 -- How many physicians in the County?) Other Material (e.g. item 1726 -- about Evan Morgan, who fought in the American Revolution and was a pioneer in Monongalia County; e.g. items 1728-1729 -- regarding temperance) (Note: WTW is Clerk of...

Scope and Contents

Topics include:

Temperance



Legal Matters



Family Matters



Politics (e.g. item 1797 -- Washington, DC politics; e.g. item 1926 -- Whig voting in 1851 Virginia election)



(Note: WTW was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Richmond, Virginia in 1850)