Box 16
Container
Contains 4 Results:
Item Nos. 6426-6685, 1880s
File — Box: 16, Folder: 1-13
Scope and Contents
Topics include:
Legal
Business
General Political Topics
Family and Friends’ Concerns (typescripts appear) (folder 12 -- letter from Virgil Ambler Lewis)
(Note: WTW has written "The Life of Philip Doddridge;” Grover Cleveland was President [1884-1887] but the Republicans returned to power in 1889.)
Dates:
1880s
Item Nos. 6686-6995, 1890s
File — Box: 16, Folder: 14-28
Scope and Contents
Topics include: LegalBusinessPoliticsFamily and Friends (folder 16 -- letters from a company in Oil City, Pennsylvania; folder 17 -- mention of W.L. Mellon and J.M. King; folder 23 -- engraving of WTW for his recently published biography; flyer regarding a hospital in Wheeling [item 6880]; folder 25 -- regards 81st birthday of F.H. Pierpont (item 6911), a broadsheet regarding "loyal WV from 1861-1865" [item...
Dates:
1890s
Item Nos. 6986-7008, 1900
File — Box: 16, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents
Topics include:
Legal
Business
Politics
Family and Friends
(last letter dated 1900 April 23; WTW died 1900 May 3)
Dates:
1900
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