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Box 15

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Waitman T. Willey Papers

Item Nos. 5885-6285, 1870s

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 1-20
Scope and Contents Topics include: PoliticsGovernmentFamily and FriendsBusiness (after 1871 the incoming letters concern matters of law, business, politics, friends, and family; they do not pertain to governmental activities)(folder 1 -- letter regarding the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [items 5885, 5904] and a letter from Elizabeth Ray Willey [WTW's wife] about home, crops, weather, and whether WTW wants...
Dates: 1870s
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Waitman T. Willey Papers / Series 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied [boxes 4-16]

Item Nos. 6286-6425, 1880s

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 21-27
Scope and Contents

Topics include:

Legal



Business



General Political Topics



Family and Friends



Temperance Activities



Recommendations for Jobs



Requests for Speeches (folder 23 -- letter regarding damage to a wall at Monticello in August 1880)

Dates: 1880s
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Waitman T. Willey Papers / Series 1b. Incoming Correspondence -- Non-Transcribed/Not Copied [boxes 4-16]