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Box 6

 Container

Contains 77 Results:

Financial and Legal Papers (contains original manuscripts and facsimile documents; includes receipt of Abraham Morgan for fuel and whiskey furnished to Major General Pinckney, Brigadier General Washington, Lieutenant Colonel Watts, and Lieutenant Walback of the Virginia Dragoons [1800]; items pertaining to James M. Laidley [1851-1870]; and the will of Joseph Neely [1882]; among other items; 11 items), 1793-1886

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 7
Dates: 1793-1886
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

Geary Securities Company Papers (contains original and typescript copy correspondence, and manuscript notes, regarding legal topics involved with the land conveyed by the state of West Virginia to the Geary Securities Company; for a blueprint of land owned, see also Series 15, Oversize Material, box 47, folder 8; 17 items), 1937, undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 8
Dates: 1937, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

Miscellaneous Correspondence (includes original, facsimile, and typescript copies of letters; typescript copy of a letter from Michael Cresap to Lyman C. Draper regarding land improvements, dated November 25, 1847 [typescript undated; original owned by Boyd B. Stutler]; a manuscript letter from Channing M. Smith at the Grand Central Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, commenting on various guests and dining room service [July 31, 1892]; a typescript letter on the greatness of West Virginia, from George S. Wallace to Harry T. Hall [May 22, 1923]; and a typescript copy of a letter written to Mary Ann Frey by her father on the event of his death [undated]; 12 items), 1800-1923, undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 9
Dates: 1800-1923, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

Historical Notes and Other Material (contains manuscript and typescript notes on historical topics, research, and excerpts; includes sketch on 2nd West Virginia Volunteer Infantry in the Spanish-American War, information about Blennerhassett Island, and notes regarding a collection of Francis H. Pierpont papers; 19 items), undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 10
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

"Kanawha Sketches" (contains manuscript sketches entitled "Jack Neal," "Colonel Ruffner and the Bear," "Daniel Graham [on the Kanawha Bar]," "A Second Big Sandy Wedding," "Ben Newlan's Leap," "Augustus Woodward," "Little Bobby Willson," "A Screech," and "A Big Sandy Wedding"; 1 item), ca. 1856

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 11
Dates: ca. 1856
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

Letterheads from Businesses in Charleston and Kanawha County (includes mostly bills and receipts; firms include the Kanawha Republican, Charleston Gas Company, Bank of Virginia, various dry goods and clothing stores, etc.; 17 items), 1860-1901

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 12
Dates: 1860-1901
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

Letterheads Regarding Alexander T. Laidley (includes mostly letterheads from bills or receipts for Laidley; many of the firms were in the Charleston and Kanawha County area; 23 items), 1866-1884, undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 13
Dates: 1866-1884, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

Letterheads Regarding Steamships and Steamship Lines (includes receipts as well as original and facsimile letterheads; firms include the Kanawha and Gallipolis Packet Company; 13 items), 1840, 1871-1878

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 14
Dates: 1840, 1871-1878
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

Miscellaneous Items (includes typescript research notes, clippings, a sketch, facsimiles, etc.; includes a pocket guide from Keen, Baldwin and Company clothing firm in Richmond [undated]; various display cards for an exhibit of Cook's historical items [undated]; and a complimentary pass for Hon. H. Clay Shaw to use the West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad [1893]; 23 items), 1868-1893, undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 15
Dates: 1868-1893, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History

Virginia Military Institute Records (contains facsimile certificate appointing John Brannon as "Visitor of the Virginia Military Institute" [1863]; a program or advertisement for the Joint-intermediate Celebration of the Dialectic and Cadet Societies of VMI [1873]; and an appointment for G.W. Hays as a "Pay Cadet" [1869]; 3 items), 1863-1873

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 16
Dates: 1863-1873
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 4. Miscellaneous History