Box 8
Container
Contains 3 Results:
Item Nos. 2441-2520, 1859–1860
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1-4
Scope and Contents
Topics include:
Family and Friends
Politics (e.g. 2442 -- son in college mentions John Brown raid in 1859; e.g. item 2510 -- election results [1859] and consequences; e.g. item 2520 -- 1860 election stationery of National Constitutional Union party featuring John Bell and Edward Everett)
Dates:
1859–1860
Item Nos. 2521-2903, 1860–1862
File — Box: 8, Folder: 5-23
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Family and FriendsPolitics (e.g. item 2556 -- about WTW speech on rebellion; e.g. item 2587 -- circular from Dickinson College, where his son is studying, regarding war; e.g. item 2597 -- letter from General Scott regarding Colonel Emory, copy; e.g. item 2600 -- Brigadier General Robert Anderson to Dr. Crawford regarding Fort Sumter, copy; e.g. item 2723 -- regarding WTW speech in Senate) (Note: WTW is in Richmond...
Dates:
1860–1862
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