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James Everhart Letter

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2988
Overview

A letter written to his parents in West Chester, Pennsylvania, describing his travels from Maysville, Kentucky to Natural Bridge, Virginia, on the way to Richmond, Virginia. Everhart vividly describes the conditions he experienced in travel by steamboat and stage and the mountain scenery he passed through. Sites mentioned are Guyandotte, Virginia, Charleston, West Virginia, White and Blue Sulphur Springs, and The Hawk's Nest.

Dates: 1843
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1301
Scope and Contents

Papers of a Baltimore essayist and novelist which include selected materials pertaining to the Berkeley Springs-Martinsburg-Winchester area, visits to Richmond, Salt Sulphur, and White Sulphur Springs, and a journey in 1850 to Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Louisville from Kennedy's journal, 1848-1855; and his diary, 1829-1832. There are also selected letters and portions of a diary copied from originals in the Library of Congress.

Dates: 1829-1862
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Gaston Caperton (1815-1852) Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1436
Overview Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of: a Monroe County, West Virginia, farmer and politician; his wife, Harriette Boswell Alexander; their daughters, Isabel and Alice Beulah; Alice's husband, Frank Hereford, U.S. senator from West Virginia; and his daughter, Katherine Hereford Stoddard. There is one folder of business papers, 1820-1841, of Thomas Edgar; a few letters from Caperton's son, John, while a cadet at the Camp of Instruction, Richmond, 1861; a folder of letters concerning...
Dates: 1801-1930
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Reynolds Diary

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0048
Overview Extracts from a diary of a tour of the eastern states by a resident of Meadville, Pennsylvania, with descriptions of travel through Greenbrier, Fayette, Kanawha, and Cabell counties, (West) Virginia. Subjects covered include descriptions of buildings, as well as musings about diversions and people of various U.S. cities, including Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C. (where Reynolds attended a session of Congress and heard Clay, Calhoun and...
Dates: May-July, 1841
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Alexander, Harriette Boswell. 1
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 1
Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 1
Caperton, Isabel. 1
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Caperton, William Gaston (1815-1852) 1
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Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 1
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Everhart, James 1
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Hereford, Alice Beulah. 1
Hereford, Frank, 1825-1891 1
Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870 1
Ladies Relief Hospital (Lynchburg, Va.) 1
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Reynolds, William 1
Stoddard, Katherine Hereford. 1
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