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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Box 6

 Container

Contains 15 Results:

Family Correspondence of Chapman J. Leigh (1826-1911), 1850-1878, undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1850-1878, undated

Family Correspondence of Julia Wickham Leigh (1801-1883), 1836-1865

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

One letter, September 16, 1836, described a duel between her brother James and John Chapman, which ended in reconciliation between the two men.

Dates: 1836-1865

Family Correspondence of Julia Wickham Leigh (1801-1883), 1870-1878

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the File: The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and “Hickory Hill” plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with...
Dates: 1870-1878

Family correspondence of Judith Nelson (1782-1869), 1852-1856

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the File: The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and “Hickory Hill” plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with...
Dates: 1852-1856

Family correspondence of Lucy Nelson , 1857-1872

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents From the File: The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and “Hickory Hill” plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with...
Dates: 1857-1872

Family Correspondence of Julius Theodore Porcher (1829-1863), 1857-1863

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Contains one letter, August 17, 1863, concerning the Civil War, from Chattanooga, Tennessee, shortly before his death following his wounding and capture.

Dates: 1857-1863

Family Correspondence of Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly (1851-1939) , 1862, 1866-1881

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: Majority of material found in 1862, 1866-1881

Family Correspondence of Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly (1851-1939) written from Port Oratava, Tenerife, Canary Islands, to her brother Henry T. Wickham, 1882

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the File: The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and “Hickory Hill” plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with...
Dates: 1882

Family Correspondence of Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly (1851-1939), with three letters from Robert H. Renshaw (1833-1910), 1883-1925

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1883-1925

Family Correspondence of Lucy Carter Wickham Byrd (1834-1923) with her Aunt Anne Butler Carter Wickham, 1855-1868

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the File: The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and “Hickory Hill” plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with...
Dates: 1855-1868

Family Correspondence of Lucy Carter Wickham Byrd (1834-1923) with her Uncle [William Fanning Wickham], circa 1868-1880

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: circa 1868-1880

Family Correspondence of Lucy Carter Wickham Byrd (1834-1923) with her cousin Lucy and others, circa 1859-1979

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the File: The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and “Hickory Hill” plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with...
Dates: circa 1859-1979

Family letter of Robert Carter, consisting of a copy of a “letter of advice to my children,” Will, Anne Lucy, and Thomas Carter, originally dated October 12-14, 1803 and copied into a notebook, undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the File: The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and “Hickory Hill” plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with...
Dates: undated

Family Correspondence of Charles M. Fry (1822-1892) and Elizabeth Wickham Leigh Fry (1824-1895), chiefly written from New York, 1872-1877, 1888

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the File: The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and “Hickory Hill” plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with...
Dates: Majority of material found in 1872-1877, 1888

Family Correspondence of Charlotte Wickham Lee (1841-1863), 1858, 1862

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the File: The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and “Hickory Hill” plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with...
Dates: 1858, 1862