Box 6
Contains 15 Results:
Family Correspondence of Chapman J. Leigh (1826-1911), 1850-1878, undated
Leigh mentions the death of Lizzie Wickham (February 27, 1862); General Johnston and his prospects in the Tennessee area (March 25, 1863); and the death of Mrs. Carter, probably Mary B. Randolph Carter (August 6, 1864).
Family Correspondence of Julia Wickham Leigh (1801-1883), 1836-1865
One letter, September 16, 1836, described a duel between her brother James and John Chapman, which ended in reconciliation between the two men.
Family Correspondence of Julia Wickham Leigh (1801-1883), 1870-1878
Family correspondence of Judith Nelson (1782-1869), 1852-1856
Family correspondence of Lucy Nelson , 1857-1872
Family Correspondence of Julius Theodore Porcher (1829-1863), 1857-1863
Contains one letter, August 17, 1863, concerning the Civil War, from Chattanooga, Tennessee, shortly before his death following his wounding and capture.
Family Correspondence of Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly (1851-1939) , 1862, 1866-1881
Includes two letters mentioning visits by Yankees to Hickory Hill and the taking of her father as a prisoner (May 27, 1862; August 4, 1862); also includes a letter from Robert E. Lee to his cousin, Miss Annie Wickham [later Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly], Lee promises to stop by “Hickory Hill” to visit if at all possible on his way back to Lexington, autograph signature excised from the letter (May 23, 1870).
Family Correspondence of Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly (1851-1939) written from Port Oratava, Tenerife, Canary Islands, to her brother Henry T. Wickham, 1882
Family Correspondence of Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly (1851-1939), with three letters from Robert H. Renshaw (1833-1910), 1883-1925
Letters through March 1883 are written from Port Oratava to Henry T. Wickham but in April 1883 the Renshaw’s began their journey home, settling in New Market and then Boyce, Virginia, by the turn of the century; In 1906, Annie writes from the University of Virginia about Robert H. Renshaw’s poor health which continues until his death in 1910.
Family Correspondence of Lucy Carter Wickham Byrd (1834-1923) with her Aunt Anne Butler Carter Wickham, 1855-1868
Family Correspondence of Lucy Carter Wickham Byrd (1834-1923) with her Uncle [William Fanning Wickham], circa 1868-1880
These letters are chiefly undated, but she appears to continue her correspondence with her uncle after the death of her Aunt Anne in1868, chiefly written from New York.