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Reade, Philip Hildreth (1844-1919) Papers, 1915-1919

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Reade, Philip Hildreth, 1844-1919 

Title:  Papers, 1915-1919 

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department. 

Size of Collection:  0.33 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A R285a 

Scope and Content Note 

Correspondence of Philip H. Reade with R. C. Ballard Thruston concerning Reade’s study of General Anthony Wayne and the officers and men in his Legion of the United States. This research was facilitated by Thruston and by materials at the Filson Club. 

Folder List 

Box 1 

1 Correspondence, 1915 Aug.

2 Correspondence, 1916 Feb.-Mar.

3 Correspondence, 1916 Apr.-May.

4 Correspondence, 1916 June-Oct.

5 Correspondence, 1916 Oct.-Nov.

6 Correspondence, 1917 Jan.

7 Correspondence, 1917 Feb.

8 Correspondence, 1917 Mar.

9 Correspondence, 1917 Apr.-Oct.

10 Correspondence, 1919.

Price, Charles Baird, Jr. Papers, 1942-1952

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Price, Charles Baird, Jr. 

Title:  Papers, 1942-1952 

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department. 

Size of Collection:  1.33 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A P946 

Scope and Content Note 

Papers consisting of correspondence regarding Price’s World War II experiences from 1942 until the end of the war as an artillery officer. Topics discussed include American newspapers, censorship, economic conditions, descriptions of European countries, and accounts of different war experiences such as night raids, foxholes, Christmas during the war, and some battles. Also included are propaganda pamphlets, photos, clippings, and foreign money. Most original letters also have typewritten copies. 

Biographical Note 

1919 Born in Louisville, Ky. 

1941 Graduated from Yale University. 

1941- Served in the U.S. Army as an artillery officer who fought in North Africa 

1946 and Europe. 

1946-1958 Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing. 

1958 Formed a furniture distributing company with Bodley Booker, Jr. President Booker-Price Co. 

1968 Bought Kentucky Sanitary Bedding Co. 

Folder List 

Box 1 

1 Biographical information.

2 Correspondence, 1942 Apr.-May.

3 Correspondence, 1942 June.

4 Correspondence, 1942 July.

5 Correspondence, 1942 Aug.

6 Correspondence, 1942 Sept.-Dec.

7 Correspondence, 1943 Jan.-Feb.

8 Correspondence, 1943 Mar.-Apr.

 

Box 2 

9 Correspondence, 1943 May-June.

10 Correspondence, 1943 July-Sept.

11 Correspondence, 1943 Oct.

12 Correspondence, 1943 Nov.-Dec.

13 Correspondence, 1944 Feb.-May.

14 Correspondence, 1944 June-July.

15 Correspondence, 1944 Aug.

 

Box 3 

16 Correspondence, 1944 Sept.

17 Correspondence, 1944 Oct.-Dec.

18 Correspondence, 1945 Jan.

19 Correspondence, 1945 Feb. 1-12.

20 Correspondence, 1945 Feb. 17-28.

21 Correspondence, 1945 Mar.

22 Correspondence, 1945 Apr.

23 Correspondence, 1945 May 1-8.

24 Correspondence, 1945 May 11-19.

 

Box 4 

25 Correspondence, 1945 June-Dec.

26 Correspondence, 1946 Jan.-Feb.

27 Correspondence, 1946 Mar.

28 Correspondence, 1946 Apr.

29 Correspondence, 1946 May-July.

30 Correspondence, 1946 Aug.-Dec.

31 Correspondence, 1951-1952.

32 Sydney Sayre Combs correspondence, 1942-1952.

33 Miscellaneous.

Preston Family Papers Joyes Collection, 1780-1956

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Preston Family 

Title:  Papers Joyes Collection, 1780-1956  

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department. 

Size of Collection:  2 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A P937j 

Scope and Content Note 

Papers of the Preston family, a prominent family of Virginia and Kentucky.  

Most of the papers were created by or written to Major William Preston, resident and large landowner of Louisville, and his wife and children. The papers include correspondence, 1788-1866, discussing personal, legal, land, business, social, and political matters; legal papers, 1793-1847; military papers, 1796-1810; certificates and grants, 1788-1817; genealogical material on the Preston, Hancock, Joyes, Lee, Woodson, and Venable families; newspaper clippings; and miscellaneous material. Also included is a printed prospectus for Meriwether Lewis’s proposed book on the Lewis and Clark expedition, and documents signed by Edmund Randolph, Henry Lee, Gabriel Slaughter, John Adams, and Littleton Waller Tazewell.  

Correspondents include John Bowyer, H. Brady, James Breckinridge, John Breckinridge, John Brown, Cuthbert Bullitt, Thomas Butler, James Freeman Clarke, Nicholas Croghan, Edward Everett, John Floyd, Edmund P. Gaines, Felix Grundy, Jr., J. F. Hamtranck, George Hancock, Nathaniel Hart, James McHenry, Benjamin Howard, Howell E. Jackson, Albert Sidney Johnston, William Preston Johnston, Henry Knox, Meriwether Lewis, James McDowell, Lachlan McIntosh, Eliza Madison, Bishop James Madison, Agatha Marshall, Louis Marshall, James Monroe, Garnett Peyton, John Pope, Jr., Maria Preston Pope, Worden Pope, Caroline Hancock Preston, Edmonia M. Preston, Francis Preston, Henrietta Preston, James Patton Prestonm John Preston, William Preston, William Campbell Preston, Edmund Randolph, Jason Rogers, Josephine Preston Rogers, John Smith, Abram Trigg, Daniel Trigg, Rachel Walker, Anthony Wayne, James Wilkinson, Oliver Wolcott, and A. R.. Woolley.  

Folder List 

Box 1  

fl.  1 Correspondence, 1780-1791.  

fl.  2 Correspondence, 1792.  

fl.  3 Correspondence, 1793.  

fl.  4 Correspondence, 1794.  

fl.  5 Correspondence, 1795.  

fl.  6 Correspondence, 1796.  

fl.  7 Correspondence, 1797.  

fl.  8 Correspondence, 1798 Jan.-May.  

fl.  9 Correspondence, 1798 June-Dec.  

fl.  10 Correspondence, 1799.  

 

Box 2  

fl.  11 Correspondence, 1800.  

fl.  12 Correspondence, 1801.  

fl.  13 Correspondence, 1802.  

fl.  14 Correspondence, 1803.  

fl.  15 Correspondence, 1804.  

fl.  16 Correspondence, 1805.  

fl.  17 Correspondence, 1806-1807.  

fl.  18 Correspondence, 1808.  

fl.  19 Correspondence, 1809.  

fl.  20 Correspondence, 1810.  

fl.  21 Correspondence, 1811.  

fl.  22 Correspondence, 1812.  

fl.  23 Correspondence, 1813.  

fl.  24 Correspondence, 1814.  

 

Box 3  

fl.  25 Correspondence, 1815.  

fl.  26 Correspondence, 1816.  

fl.  27 Correspondence, 1817.  

fl.  28 Correspondence, 1818.  

fl.  29 Correspondence, 1819.  

fl.  30 Correspondence, 1820.  

fl.  31 Correspondence, 1821.  

fl.  32 Correspondence, 1822-1823.  

fl.  33 Correspondence, 1824.  

fl.  34 Correspondence, 1825.  

fl.  35 Correspondence, 1826.  

fl.  36 Correspondence, 1827.  

fl.  37 Correspondence, 1828.  

fl.  38 Correspondence, 1829.  

fl.  39 Correspondence, 1830-1831.  

fl.  40 Correspondence, 1832.  

 

Box 4  

fl.  41 Correspondence, 1833.  

fl.  42 Correspondence, 1834.  

fl.  43 Correspondence, 1835.  

fl.  44 Correspondence, 1836-1839.  

fl.  45  Correspondence, 1840.  

fl.  46 Correspondence, 1841.  

fl.  47 Correspondence, 1842-1846.  

fl.  48 Correspondence, 1847-1848.  

fl.  49 Correspondence, 1850-1855.  

fl.  50 Correspondence, 1856.  

fl.  51 Correspondence, 1857-1866.  

fl.  52 Correspondence, 1890-1963.  

fl.  53 Correspondence, n.d.  

 

Box 5  

fl.  54 Land papers, 1786-1817.  

fl.  55 Land papers, 1825-1866.  

fl.  56 Legal papers, 1793-1847.  

fl.  57 Military papers, 1796-1810.  

fl.  58 Certificates and grants, 1788-1817.  

fl.  59 Appointment of William Preston as Commissioner, U.S. 3rd Division, Va. Signed by John Adams, 1798 Nov. 17.  

fl.  60 Political notes of Francis Preston and memo on river distances.  

fl.  61 Miscellaneous papers.  

fl.  62 Prospectus for the publication of Lewis & Clark’s travels, by Meriwether Lewis, 1807.  

fl.  63 Newspaper clippings.  

 

Box 6  

fl.  64 Genealogical material.  

fl.  65 “A Conflict of Laws: An Episode in Slavery,” typescript.  

fl.  66 Miscellaneous transcripts of manuscripts from various sources.  

fl.  67 “Romance and Legends of Fotheringay Mansion,” and “Greenfield and the Prestons of Greenfield and Smithfield.”  

fl.  68 Positive photostats of letters of Francis Preston to William Preston, 1804-1820.  

fl.  69 Negative photostat of a memorandum of Zachary Taylor, n.d.  

Preston Family Papers Gray Collection, 1754-1899

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Preston Family 

Title:  Papers Gray Collection, 1754-1899  

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department. 

Size of Collection:  0.66 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A P937k 

Scope and Content Note 

Collection covers the political, military, financial, legal, and domestic affairs of a leading Va. and Ky. family which had extensive land holdings in southwestern Va. and Ky. Much of the collection pertains to land, 1754-1835. Correspondence and accounts with agents regarding litigation, debts, disputes, sales, taxes, and surveys; the Loyal Land Co. of Va.; family plantations mentioned in letters; and autobiographical sketch of Thomas L. Preston; and Francis Preston’s memoranda book discussing family genealogy and Preston family estate settlements, especially disputed land.   

Most of the collection deals with Francis Preston (1765-1835). His correspondence; business and legal matters, his role as agent for the Loyal Land Co.; documents regarding the War of 1812 signed by him; a 1797 political circular written by him; and a biographical sketch of him by his son, Thomas.   

Colonel William Preston (1729-1783) also figures prominently in the collection. His correspondence primarily concerns the American Revolution and land, and matters regarding the settlement of his estate are included.   

In addition to the Francis and William Preston, other correspondents include Nathaniel Hart, John Preston, William C. Preston, Isaac Shelby, Francis Walker, William C. Bullitt, Robert Wickliffe, Horace Greeley, and Edward Dorsey Hobbs.   

Legal and business papers, 1776-1838, of the Preston family and Arthur Campbell, regarding taxes, estates, a legislative act, court fees, a guardianship, household and farming materials, and services provided are also included. In addition, there are accounts of a Preston/Campbell family salt business at “Salt Works” Washington County, Va., 1785-1836; and considerable genealogical material regarding the Preston, Campbell, Buchanan, and allied families.  

Folder List 

 Box 1  

fl.  1 Correspondence, Preston and allied families, 1780-1840.  

fl.  2 Business and travel journal, 1825.  

fl.  3 Memoranda book: genealogy, and business and legal affairs, 1761-1899.  

fl.  4 Military papers, 1777-1865.  

fl.  5 Legal papers, 1790-1835.  

fl.  6 Arthur Campbell legal and business papers, 1776-1792.  

fl.  7 Land papers, 1754-1827.  

fl.  8 Loyal Company of Virginia land papers, 1789-1833.  

fl.  9 Papers of Edward Dorsey Hobbs, real estate agent for Francis Preston.  

 

Box 2  

fl.  10 Business and financial papers, Preston and Campbell families, 1781-1838.  

fl.  11 Papers of Preston/Campbell family salt business, “Salt Works,” Washington County, Va., 1785-1830.  

fl.  12 Papers of Preston/Campbell family salt business, “Salt Works,” Washington County, Va., 1831.  

fl.  13 Papers of Preston/Campbell family salt business, “Salt Works,” Washington County, Va., 1832-1836 and n.d.  

fl.  14 Printed political circular, 1797.  

fl.  15 Genealogical and biographical material, Preston and allied families, n.d.  

Preston Family Papers: Preston Davie Genealogical Collection

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Preston Family 

Title:  Papers Preston Davie Genealogical Collection 

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department. 

Size of Collection: 11.33 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A P937g 

Scope and Content Note 

The collection includes papers and notes assembled by Preston Davie for a proposed book on the Preston family of Va., Ky., and S.C., and drafts of the various chapters and sections written by Davie during his forty years of research on the family. The papers include biographical details on members of this family with emphasis on the years between 1740 and 1860, although several lines are continued to ca. 1960. There is much in the collection on the American origins of both the Preston and Patton families in Ireland, Scotland, and England. The collection contains material on the allied families of Breckinridge, Brown, Hart, McDowell, Smith of Hanover and Gloucester counties, Va., Waddy, Wickliffe, Floyd, Johnston, and Davie of Ky.; lists of portraits of various members of the family and the artists who painted or sculpted them; and histories of “Smithfield” and “Greenfield” plantations in Va.   

Biographical Note 

Folder List 

Box 1  

fl.  List of portraits of Preston family members.  

fl.  1 Secretary’s old index to genealogical files, 1963.  

fl.  2 Preston Family History: drafts of introductory materials.  

fl.  3 Preston Family History: drafts of introductory materials.  

fl.  4 Preston Family History: Secretary’s lists of drafts of chapter 1.  

fl.  5 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “Of the name Preston,” 1927.  

fl.  6 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “The Prestons of Greenfield and Smithfield in Virginia,” 1927.  

fl.  7 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “Of the Prestons of Great Britain and Ireland,” 1927 Nov.  

 

Box 2  

fl.  8 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “Of the Prestons of Great Britain and Ireland,” 1930 Feb.  

fl.  9 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “Old World Backgrounds,” 1941 Feb.  

fl.  10 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “The Prestons of Greenfield and Smithfield in the Great Valley of Virginia,” 1942.  

fl.  11 Preston Family History: chapter 1- fragment, 1942 Feb.  

fl.  12 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “The Earliest Known Origins of the Preston Family,” 1943.  

fl.  13 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “The Earliest Known Origins of the Preston Family,” 1943. Carbon copies.  

fl.  14 Preston Family History: chapter 1- handwritten draft, 1945.  

 

Box 3  

fl.  15 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “Old World Origins,” 1946.  

fl.  16 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “Preston Family Origins,” 1946.  

fl.  17 Preston Family History: chapter 1- fragment, 1947 July.  

fl.  18 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “Origins and Old World Backgrounds,” 1952.f  

fl.  19 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “Old World Origins,” 1965.  

fl.  20 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “Old World Origins,” n.d.  

fl.  21 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “Origins and Old World Backgrounds,” n.d.  

fl.  22 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “Origins and Old World Backgrounds,” n.d.  

fl.  23 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “Old World Backgrounds,” n.d.  

fl.  24 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “Old World Backgrounds,” n.d.  

fl.  25 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “Preston Family Origins,” n.d.  

fl.  26 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “The Prestons of Greenfield and Smithfield in Virginia,” n.d.  

fl.  27 Preston Family History: chapter 1- “The Family in England,” n.d.  

 

Box 4  

fl.  28 Preston Family History: chapter 1- miscellaneous handwritten drafts, n.d.  

fl.  29 Preston Family History: chapter 1- miscellaneous handwritten drafts, n.d.  

fl.  30 Preston Family History: chapter 1- miscellaneous handwritten drafts, n.d.  

fl.  31 Preston Family History: chapter 1- miscellaneous handwritten drafts, n.d.  

fl.  32 Preston Family History: chapter 1- miscellaneous draft fragments, n.d.  

fl.  33 Preston Family History: chapter 1- miscellaneous draft fragments, n.d.  

 

Box 5  

fl.  34 Preston Family History: chapter 1- miscellaneous draft fragments, n.d.  

fl.  35 Preston Family History: chapter 1- miscellaneous draft fragments, n.d.  

fl.  36 Preston Family History: chapter 1- miscellaneous draft fragments, n.d.  

fl.  37 Preston Family History: chapter 1- miscellaneous draft fragments, n.d.  

fl.  38 Preston Family History: chapter 1- miscellaneous draft fragments, n.d.  

fl.  39 Preston Family History: chapter 1- miscellaneous draft fragments, n.d.  

 

Box 6  

fl.  40 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Greenfield and the Prestons of Greenfield and Smithfield,” 1930 Apr.  

fl.  41 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “The Prestons of Smithfield and Greenfield in Virginia,” pre-1938.  

fl.  42 Preston Family History: chapter 2- draft written in the 1930s.  

fl.  43 Preston Family History: chapter 2- draft of 1945 Aug.  

fl.  44 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” 1950.  

fl.  45 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” redraft of 1950 draft.  

fl.  46 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” 1962 redraft of 1950 draft.  

fl.  47 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” 1963 Aug.  

fl.  48 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” with preface, 1963 Dec.  

fl.  49 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” 1964 Jan.  

fl.  50 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” 1964 May.  

fl.  51 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” 1964 June.  

fl.  52 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” 1964 Oct.  

 

Box 7  

fl.  53 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” n.d.  

fl.  54 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” n.d.  

fl.  55 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” n.d.  

fl.  56 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” n.d.  

fl.  57 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” n.d.  

fl.  58 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” n.d.  

fl.  59 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” n.d.  

fl.  60 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” n.d.  

fl.  61 Preston Family History: chapter 2- undated draft with comments by Mrs. Peyton.  

fl.  62 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Advent to Virginia,” n.d.  

fl.  63 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “The Prestons of Virginia,” n.d.  

fl.  64 Preston Family History: chapter 2- “Of the Greenfield, Smithfield, and Walnut Grove Prestons of Virginia,” n.d.  

 

Box 8  

fl.  65 Preston Family History: chapter 2- miscellaneous handwritten drafts, n.d.  

fl.  66 Preston Family History: chapter 2- miscellaneous handwritten drafts, n.d.  

fl.  67 Preston Family History: chapter 2- miscellaneous draft fragments and notes.  

fl.  68 Preston Family History: chapter 3- “Of What Befell John Preston in the New World,” 1928 Nov.  

fl.  69 Preston Family History: chapter 3- “The Great Valley of Virginia,” 1939 Jan. 20.  

fl.  70 Preston Family History: chapter 3- “The Great Valley of Virginia,” 1939 Jan. 24.  

fl.  71 Preston Family History: chapter 3- “The Prestons of Smithfield and Greenfield in Virginia,” 1939 Mar.  

fl.  72 Preston Family History: chapter 3- “The Prestons of Smithfield and Greenfield in the Great Valley of Virginia,” 1938-1940.  

fl.  73 Preston Family History: chapter 3- “The Virginia Background,” 1940 Mar.  

 

Box 9  

fl.  74 Preston Family History: chapter 3- “Virginia and the Rappahannock River in the Year, 1727,” 1940.  

fl.  75 Preston Family History: chapter 3- “Virginia and the Rappahannock River in the Year, 1727,” 1940. Carbon copies.  

fl.  76 Preston Family History: chapter 3- “The Settlement of the Great Valley of Virginia and the Coming there of Captain James Patton and John Preston,” 1940.  

fl.  77 Preston Family History: chapter 3- handwritten footnotes to 1950 Aug., draft.  

fl.  78 Preston Family History: chapter 3- “The Great Valley of Virginia; Its Discovery and Settlement by White Men,” n.d.  

 

Box 10  

fl.  79 Preston Family History: chapter 3- incomplete drafts and fragments covering period through the 17th century.  

fl.  80 Preston Family History: chapter 3- incomplete drafts and fragments covering period through the 17th century.  

fl.  81 Preston Family History: chapter 3- incomplete drafts and fragments covering period 1700-1730.  

fl.  82 Preston Family History: chapter 3- incomplete drafts and fragments covering period 1700-1730.  

fl.  83 Preston Family History: chapter 3- incomplete drafts and fragments covering period 1738-1755.  

fl.  84 Preston Family History: chapter 3- incomplete drafts and fragments covering period 1738-1755.  

 

Box 11  

fl.  85 Preston Family History: chapter 3- miscellaneous handwritten drafts and fragments, n.d.  

fl.  86 Preston Family History: chapter 3- miscellaneous handwritten drafts and fragments, n.d.  

fl.  87 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Secretary’s inventory of old box 1a.  

fl.  88 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Drafts of genealogical sketches of Aldred.  

fl.  89 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. “Michael LeFleming of DeFurness,” draft, notes.  

fl.  90 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. “The Prestons of Cockerham Parish, Lancaster, England,” draft, 1927 May.  

fl.  91 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Cockerham Parish Prestons, notes, genealogical charts.  

 

Box 12  

fl.  92 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Prestons of Bolton and of Preston, handwritten fragment.  

fl.  93 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Heraldic arms-notes.  

fl.  94 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Genealogical charts.  

fl.  95 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Genealogical charts.  

fl.  96 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Genealogical charts.  

fl.  97 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Genealogical charts.  

fl.  98 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Genealogical charts.  

fl.  99 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Bibliography for research into old world origins.  

 

Box 13  

fl.  100 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Photostats from secondary sources on British families.  

fl.  101 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Photostats from secondary sources on British families.  

fl.  102 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Photostats from secondary sources on British families.  

fl.  103 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Miscellaneous notes.  

 

Box 14  

fl.  104 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Miscellaneous notes.  

fl.  105 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Miscellaneous notes.  

fl.  106 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-England. Miscellaneous notes.  

fl.  107 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Scotland. Draft fragment, “Of the Scottish Branch of the Parental Stock of Prestons of the Manor.”  

fl.  108 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Scotland. The Prestons of Gorton, notes.  

fl.  109 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Scotland. The Prestons of Valleyfield, notes.  

fl.  110 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Scotland. The Prestons of Valleyfield, notes.  

 

Box 15  

fl.  111 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Scotland. Excerpts from Culross and Lasswade parish registers.  

fl.  112 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Scotland. Heraldry-Craigmillar and Valleyfield.  

fl.  113 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Scotland. Excerpts from county records and genealogies relating to Preston families.  

fl.  114 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Scotland. Craigmillar Castle, pamphlets, magazine articles, notes.  

fl.  115 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Scotland. Miscellaneous notes, charts.  

fl.  116 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Scotland. Miscellaneous notes, charts.  

fl.  117 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Ireland. Memo on John Preston in Ireland.  

fl.  118 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Ireland. Shannon River fishing rights-correspondence with Mabel Phelps.  

fl.  119 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Ireland. 17th century Irish background, notes, memos.  

fl.  120 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Ireland. The Reverend William Preston.  

fl.  121 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Ireland. The Prestons of Gormanston.  

 

Box 16  

fl.  122 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Ireland. Calendar of State Papers of Relating to Ireland, excerpts from index.  

fl.  123 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Ireland. Calendar of State Papers of Relating to Ireland, excerpts.  

fl.  124 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Ireland. Calendar of State Papers of Relating to Ireland, excerpts.  

fl.  125 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Ireland. Calendar of State Papers of Relating to Ireland, excerpts.  

fl.  126 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Ireland. Calendar of State Papers of Relating to Ireland, excerpts.  

fl.  127 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Ireland. Patton and Preston names in Irish sources.  

fl.  128 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Ireland. Excerpts from “Landed Gentry’s.”  

fl.  129 Preston Genealogical Files: Old world origins-Ireland. Printed Irish county maps.  

fl.  130 Preston Genealogical Files: The Prestons in America. Orlando Brown’s “Memoranda of the Preston Family,” 1842.  

fl.  131 Preston Genealogical Files: The Prestons in America. Historical sketches of the Preston family in newspaper clippings, 1878-1914 and n.d.  

 

Box 17  

fl.  132 Preston Genealogical Files: The Prestons in America. Descendants of John Preston in the male lines, 1960s.  

fl.  133 Preston Genealogical Files: The Prestons in America. Miscellaneous Preston obituaries from 1810.  

fl.  134 Preston Genealogical Files: 1st generation-John Preston notes.  

fl.  135 Preston Genealogical Files: 1st generation-James Patton biographical sketches.  

fl.  136 Preston Genealogical Files: 1st generation-James Patton biographical sketches by Thomas Lewis Preston, about 1897.  

fl.  137 Preston Genealogical Files: 1st generation-James Patton- correspondence relating to research, 1920-1956.  

fl.  138 Preston Genealogical Files: 1st generation-James Patton-genealogical charts.  

fl.  139 Preston Genealogical Files: 1st generation-James Patton-Lynn family materials.  

 

Box 18  

fl.  140 Preston Genealogical Files: 1st generation-James Patton-notes.  

fl.  141 Preston Genealogical Files: 1st generation-James Patton-notes.  

fl.  142 Preston Genealogical Files: 1st generation-related materials. William Beverley-notes.  

fl.  143 Preston Genealogical Files: 1st generation-related materials. Notes on crownlands grants in Virginia in the 1730s.  

fl.  144 Preston Genealogical Files: 1st generation-related materials. Notes on various colonial families in Virginia.  

fl.  145 Preston Genealogical Files: 1st generation-related materials. “History of Augusta County, Virginia,” by J. Lewis Peyton, photostat.  

fl.  146 Preston Genealogical Files: 1st generation-related materials. List of governors of Virginia, 1710-1822.  

fl.  147 Preston Genealogical Files: 1st generation-related materials. Other Pattons in America-Captain James Patton of Louisville.  

fl.  148 Preston Genealogical Files: 1st generation-related materials. Other Pattons in America-descendants of William Patton of Augusta County, Va.  

 

Box 19  

fl.  149 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Letitia Breckinridge notes, biographical sketch.  

fl.  150 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Col. William Preston-Greenfield and the Prestons of Greenfield and Smithfield.  

fl.  151 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Col. William Preston-Smithfield brochure-proofs and final copy.  

fl.  152 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Col. William Preston-Smithfield family burial grounds, notes and maps.  

fl.  153 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Col. William Preston-transcripts of correspondence in John C. Wyllie article on Daniel Boone.  

fl.  154 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Col. William Preston-excerpts from entries in the family Bible.  

fl.  155 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Col. William Preston-issue.  

fl.  156 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Col. William Preston and the founding of Liberty Hall Academy, article.  

fl. memoranda.  

fl.  158 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Col. William Preston-notes and memoranda.  

Box 20  

fl.  159 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Susanna (Smith) Preston-“The Line of Descent of Susanna Smith . . .” 1939 July.  

fl.  160 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Susanna (Smith) Preston-“The Line of Descent of Susanna Smith . . .” 1944 June 19.  

fl.  161 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Susanna (Smith) Preston-“The Line of Descent of Susanna Smith . . .” 1944 June 22.  

fl.  162 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Susanna (Smith) Preston-“The Line of Descent of Susanna Smith . . .” 1944 Sept.  

fl.  163 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Susanna (Smith) Preston-“The Line of Descent of Susanna Smith . . .” 1944 Oct.  

fl.  164 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Susanna (Smith) Preston-“Susanna Smith . . . Her Ancestry and Her Story,” n.d.  

fl.  165 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Susanna (Smith) Preston-“Susanna Smith . . . Her Ancestry and Her Story,” copies of previous draft.  

fl.  166 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Susanna (Smith) Preston-“Susanna Smith . . . Her Ancestry and Her Story,” copies of previous draft.  

 

Box 21  

fl.  167 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Susanna (Smith) Preston-undated fragments and drafts.  

fl.  168 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Susanna (Smith) Preston-handwritten drafts.  

fl.  169 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Susanna (Smith) Preston-handwritten drafts.  

fl.  170 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Susanna (Smith) Preston- correspondence concerning research.  

fl.  171 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Susanna (Smith) Preston-notes.  

fl.  172 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Susanna (Smith) Preston-biographical sketches of the Smith family.  

fl.  173 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Susanna (Smith) Preston-“The Waddy Family of Virginia,” 1944 July and notes.  

fl.  174 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Margaret (Preston) Brown-issue.  

fl.  175 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Ann (Preston) Smith-notes.  

fl.  176 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-Mary (Preston) Howard-notes.  

fl.  177 Preston Genealogical Files: 2nd generation-James Preston (1742)-notes.  

 

Box 22  

fl.  178 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Elizabeth (Preston) Madison (1762-1837). “Line of Elizabeth Preston,” & notes.  

fl.  179 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. John Preston (1764-1827)-“Line of John Preston,” 1939 and n.d.  

fl.  180 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. John Preston (1764-1827)—notes, correspondence concerning research, 1928-1942.  

fl.  181 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Francis Preston (1765-1835)-“Line of General Francis Preston,” 1926 Apr.  

fl.  182 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Francis Preston (1765-1835)-biographical, genealogical sketch, ca. 1929.  

fl.  183 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Francis Preston (1765-1835)-genealogical tables, n.d.  

fl.  184 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Francis Preston (1765-1835)-notes.  

fl.  185 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Francis Preston (1765-1835)-biographical sketch of his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Henry (1749-1835).  

 

Box 23  

fl.  186 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Sarah (Preston) McDowell (1768-1841)-notes, draft fragment on McDowells.  

fl.  187 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Ann Preston (1769-1782)-note.  

fl.  188 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Major William Preston (1770-1821)-biographical sketch.  

fl.  189 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Major William Preston (1770-1821)-biographical sketch, copies of above.  

fl.  190 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Major William Preston (1770-1821)-“Line of William Preston,” n.d.  

fl.  191 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Major William Preston (1770-1821)-miscellaneous incomplete biographical sketch.  

fl.  192 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Major William Preston (1770-1821)-notes, correspondence, clippings.  

fl.  193 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Major William Preston (1770-1821)-Caroline (Hancock) Preston (1785-1847).  

fl.  194 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Susanna (Preston) Hart (b. 1772)-genealogical tables, notes.  

fl.  195 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. James Patton Preston (1774-1843)-“Line of James Patton Preston,” 1926 Apr.  

fl.  196 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. James Patton Preston (1774-1843)-“Line of James Patton Preston,” 1939 Mar.  

fl.  197 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. James Patton Preston (1774-1843)-sketch for Virginia Historical Portraiture.  

fl.  198 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. James Patton Preston (1774-1843)-genealogical tables.  

 

Box 24  

fl.  199 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. James Patton Preston (1774-1843)-chronologies.  

fl.  200 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. James Patton Preston (1774-1843)-photostats of items concerning appointment of Thomas Jefferson as Visitor of the University of Virginia.  

fl.  201 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. James Patton Preston (1774-1843)-text to accompany Jefferson items.  

fl.  202 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. James Patton Preston (1774-1843)-correspondence concerning research, 1925-1939.  

fl.  203 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. James Patton Preston (1774-1843)-notes.  

fl.  204 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Mary (Preston) Lewis (1776-1824)-notes.  

fl.  205 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Letitia (Preston) Floyd (b. 1779)-notes and clippings.  

fl.  206 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Thomas Lewis Preston (1781-1812)-genealogical tables, notes.  

fl.  207 Preston Genealogical Files: 3rd generation-children of Colonel William Preston. Margaret Brown Preston (1784-1843)-genealogical tables.  

 

Box 25  

fl.  208 Preston Genealogical Files: 4th generation-William Campbell Preston (1793-1860) notes and chronology.  

fl.  209 Preston Genealogical Files: 4th generation-Francis Smith Preston (1798-1801).  

fl.  210 Preston Genealogical Files: 4th generation-Charles Henry Campbell Preston (1807-1832).  

fl.  211 Preston Genealogical Files: 4th generation-Henrietta (Preston) Johnston.  

fl.  212 Preston Genealogical Files: 4th generation-Major General William Preston C.S.A. (1816-1887)-genealogical charts, notes, correspondence.  

fl.  213 Preston Genealogical Files: 4th generation-Major General William Preston C.S.A. (1816-1887)-Wickliffe family materials.  

fl.  214 Preston Genealogical Files: 4th generation-Susan Preston Christy Hepburn (1819-1897).  

fl.  215 Preston Genealogical Files: 4th generation-William Ballard Preston (1805-1862).  

fl.  216 Preston Genealogical Files: 4th generation-James Francis Preston (1823-1862).  

fl.  217 Preston Genealogical Files: 4th generation-Letitia Preston Floyd Lewis.  

fl.  218 Preston Genealogical Files: 4th generation-John Thomas Lewis Preston (1811-1890).  

 

Box 26  

fl.  219 Preston Genealogical Files: 5th generation-Elizabeth (Preston) Allan (b. 1849).  

fl.  220 Preston Genealogical Files: 5th generation-Mary Owen (Preston) Brown (1841-1898).  

fl.  221 Preston Genealogical Files: 5th generation-Caroline Hancock (Preston) Thornton (d. 1917).  

fl.  222 Preston Genealogical Files: 6th generation-Helen (Draper) (Taft) Ayer (d. 1931).  

fl.  223 Preston Genealogical Files: 6th generation-Mason Brown.  

fl.  224 Preston Genealogical Files: 6th generation-Preston Brown.  

fl.  225 Preston Genealogical Files: 6th generation-Janet George (Allan) Bryan.  

fl.  226 Preston Genealogical Files: 6th generation-Sarah (Carrington) Currell.  

fl.  227 Preston Genealogical Files: 6th generation-John Preston Darby.  

fl.  228 Preston Genealogical Files: 6th generation-Margaret (Thornton) Hunt (b.1874).  

fl.  229 Preston Genealogical Files: 6th generation-Margaret (Preston) Johnston (d. 1964).  

fl.  230 Preston Genealogical Files: 6th generation-Benjamin Howard Payne.  

fl.  231 Preston Genealogical Files: 6th generation-E. R. Preston.  

fl.  232 Preston Genealogical Files: 6th generation-Randolph Preston.  

fl.  233 Preston Genealogical Files: 6th generation-William Preston.  

fl.  234 Preston Genealogical Files: 6th generation-Caroline (Thornton) Scott.  

fl.  235 Preston Genealogical Files: 6th generation-Mary Mason (Brown) Waite.  

fl.  236 Preston Genealogical Files: 7th generation-John Mason Brown (d. 1969).  

fl.  237 Preston Genealogical Files: 7th generation-Dr. Caroline Preston Scott.  

 

Box 27  

fl.  238 Other Preston Families: Prestons of Walnut Grove, Washington County, Va., descended from John Preston (d. 1796), Elaughmore, County Donegal, Ireland.  

fl.  239 Other Preston Families: Prestons of New England, descended from Roger Preston of Upper Ottery, Devonshire, England.  

fl.  240 Other Preston Families: Preston Family of Orange County, New York, cadet branch of the Prestons of Ipswich, Mass., descended from Roger Preston.  

fl.  241 Other Preston Families: Preston Family of Philadelphia, descended from William Preston of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, emigrated 1684.  

fl.  242 Kimbrough family of Va.  

fl.  243 Other Preston Families: biographical sketch of Sir Amyas Preston (d. 1617) of England.  

 

Box 28  

fl.  244 General correspondence: Letitia Hart Alexander.  

fl.  245 General correspondence: Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.  

fl.  246 General correspondence: John W. Barr, Jr.  

fl.  247 General correspondence: Rosa Robinson Barrett.  

fl.  248 General correspondence: Mrs. Jasper Blackburn.  

fl.  249 General correspondence: Charles E. Breckinridge.  

fl.  250 General correspondence: Breckinridge family, Dr. Scott D. Breckinridge, Desha Breckinridge.  

fl.  251 General correspondence: James M. Breckinridge.  

fl.  252 General correspondence: Francis W. Butler-Thwing.  

fl.  253 General correspondence: Colonel John Campbell of Va.  

fl.  254 General correspondence: R. C. Campbell-Preston of Ardchattan Priory, Taynuilt,  Argyllshire, Scotland.  

fl.  255 General correspondence: Cocke family of Okland, Cumberland, Va.  

fl.  256 General correspondence: Ella M. Cocke, Richmond, Va.  

fl.  257 General correspondence: Hon. Philip P. Cary, York Herald, College of Arms, London, England.  

fl.  258 General correspondence: Craigmillar Castle, Scotland.  

fl.  259 General correspondence: Reverend Robert S. Crutchfield, Tinkling Spring, Presbyterian Church, Fishersville, Va.  

fl.  260 General correspondence: Douglas and Faullee, Booksellers, Edinburgh, Scotland.  

fl.  261 General correspondence: Wickliffe Draper.  

fl.  262 General correspondence: Antoinette Edmundson, Fotheringay, Botetourt County, Va.  

fl.  263 General correspondence: Ralph T. Eubanks, Gainesville, Fla. About Senator William Campbell Preston of S.C.  

fl.  264 General correspondence: the Filson Club.  

fl.  265 General correspondence: Robert Fridenberg.  

fl  266 General correspondence: Henry W. Frost, Middleburg, Va.  

fl.  267 General correspondence: Garden Club of Va. about Greenfield, Smithfield and Whitethorn.  

fl. 268General correspondence: Mrs. Cary B. Preston Gary, Norfolk, Va.  

fl.  269 General correspondence: Mrs. E. L. Gibbon about the Smith family of Gloucester and Hanover counties, Va.  

fl.  270 General correspondence: Reginal Glencross, London, England about English research on the Preston family.  

 

Box 29  

fl.  271 General correspondence: Sir William Gooch, Lt. Gov. of Va.-biographical sketch.  

fl.  272 General correspondence: Mrs. Robert Gray, Wythe County, Va.  

fl  273 General correspondence: Mr. E. L. Green, Columbia, S.C. about portraits of Senator William C. Preston.  

fl.  274 General correspondence: Mrs. William Hamblen.  

fl.  275 General correspondence: Charles Xavier Harris.  

fl.  276 General correspondence: Mrs. Matthew Bland Harrison, Campbell County, Va.  

fl.  277 General correspondence: Archibald Henderson, Chapel Hill, N.C.  

fl.  278 General correspondence: Freeman H. Hart, Gainesville, Fla.  

fl.  279 General correspondence: F. H. Haskell, Columbia, S.C. about Preston family portraits.  

fl.  280 General correspondence: Preston Haskell.  

fl.  281 General correspondence: Mary Rushton Haskell.  

fl.  282 General correspondence: Mrs. Lucy P. Huffman.  

 

Box 30  

fl.  283 General correspondence: Mrs. Rebecca Johnston, Richmond, Va.  

fl.  284 General correspondence: Morton V. Joyes, Louisville, Ky.  

fl.  285 General correspondence: Edward Keane, Public Record Office of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland about Archibald Preston, father of John Preston the emigrant.  

fl.  286 General correspondence: Ky. State Library, Frankfort, Ky.  

fl.  287 General correspondence: University of Kentucky.  

fl.  288 General correspondence: Philip Kerr and Lord Richard Cavendish about Preston pedigree in the library of Holker Hall, Lancashire, England.  

fl.  289 General correspondence: Mrs. Brockenbrough Lamb, Richmond, Va.  

fl.  290 General correspondence: Mrs. Grace Ward Krug.  

fl.  291 General correspondence: Warren H. Manning, Cambridge, Mass. about description of Preston burial ground at Smithfield, Montgomery County, Va.  

 

Box 31  

fl.  292 General correspondence: Mrs. Charles F. Middleton.  

fl.  293 General correspondence: Missouri Historical Society about a portrait of John Howard.  

fl.  294 General correspondence: Montgomery County Branch, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Blacksburg, Va. about the Smithfield restoration.  

fl.  295 General correspondence: William Preston Moore, Charlottesville, Va.  

fl.  296 General correspondence: Mrs. W. P. Moore, Blacksburg, Va. and Mrs. Evans Willson Lindsey, Salem, Va., and Ann Preston Didier.  

fl.  297 General correspondence: G. Andrews Moriarty, Boston, Mass.  

fl.  298 General correspondence: National Americana Society, Colonial Families of North America publication.  

fl.  299 General correspondence: National Cyclopedia of American Biography about Gov. James Patton Preston.  

fl.  300 General correspondence: Cosmo Neville.  

fl.  301 General correspondence: New York Public Library.  

fl.  302 General correspondence: James W. Patton, Dir., Southern Historical Collection, UNC.  

fl.  303 General correspondence: Rev. Father Terence O’Donnell, O.F.M.  

fl.  304 General correspondence: Mrs. Thornton Parker, Jr.   

fl.  305 General correspondence: Mrs. Ashton W. Peniers.  

fl.  306 General correspondence: Miss Florence Perry.  

fl.  307 General correspondence: Miss E. M. Peyton, Ashville, N.C.  

fl.  308 General correspondence: Mrs. Lawrence W. H. Petyon, Staunton, Va.  

 

Box 32  

fl.  309 General correspondence: Mrs. Mabel Phelps, Dublin, Ireland.  

fl.  310 General correspondence: H. Minot Pittman.  

fl.  311 General correspondence: A. A. Preston, Richmond, Va.  

fl.  312 General correspondence: Mrs. Alfred Preston (d. 1936).  

fl.  313 General correspondence: Captain John Preston, Wythe County, Va.   

fl.  314 General correspondence: Mrs. Nelly Preston, Wythe County, Va.  

fl.  315 General correspondence: T. W. Preston, Bristol, Va.  

fl.  316 General correspondence: John H. Preston, Yorkshire, England.  

fl.  317 General correspondence: Mrs. William Campbell Preston, Richmond, Va.  

fl.  318 General correspondence: Mrs. S. B. Quillan, Lebanon, Va.  

fl.  319 General correspondence: Florence H. Robertson, Abingdon, Va.  

fl.  320 General correspondence: Dr. Mason Gordon Robertson, Savannah, Ga.  

fl.  321 General correspondence: Mrs. Susan Preston Robertson.  

fl.  322 General correspondence: Rosenbach Co. of N.Y. and Philadelphia.  

fl.  323 General correspondence: Miss Phina Schraeder, London, England.  

fl.  324 General correspondence: Alfred Byron Sears.  

fl.  325 General correspondence: Charles Coleman Sellers.  

fl.  326 General correspondence: George Green Shackelford, Blacksburg, Va.  

fl.  327 General correspondence: J. Adger Stewart, Louisville, Ky.  

fl.  328 General correspondence: Mr. L. P. Summers, Abingdon, Va.  

 

Box 33  

fl.  329 General correspondence: College of William and Mary-Dr. Earl Gregg Swem and Dr. John Stewart Bryan.  

fl.  330 General correspondence: Maude Thomison, Dayton, Tenn.  

fl.  331 General correspondence: Charles Wickliffe Throckmorton.  

fl.  332 General correspondence: Tinkling Spring Church, Fishersville, Va.  

fl.  333 General correspondence: Philip H. Trout.  

fl.  334 General correspondence: Lyon Gardiner Tyler.  

fl  335 General correspondence: Winifred B. Wyde.  

fl.  336 General correspondence: Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.  

fl.  337 General correspondence: University of Virginia Library.  

fl.  338 General correspondence: Horace Lee Washington.  

fl.  339 General correspondence: Washington and Lee University.  

fl.  340 General correspondence: Miss Mabel Claire Weaks.  

fl.  341 General correspondence: Edna Talbott Whitley.  

fl.  342 General correspondence: College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.  

fl.  343 General correspondence: Colonial Williamsburg, Inc.  

 

Box 34  

fl.  344 General correspondence: Reverend Howard M. Wilson, Fishersville, Va.  

fl.  345 General correspondence: State Historical Society of Wisconsin.  

fl.  346 General correspondence: John Cook Wyllie, Charlottesville, Va.   

fl.  347 General correspondence: Miss Marian Hayes, Yale University.  

fl.  348 General correspondence: Miss Minnie Clare Yarborough.  

Preston Family Papers: Davie Collection, 1658-1896 

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Preston Family 

Title:  Papers Davie Collection, 1658-1896 

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department. 

Size of Collection:  2 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A P937d 

Scope and Content Note 

Papers of the Preston family, primarily of General William Preston, C.S.A., his sister, Susan Preston Christy Hepburn (1819-1897), and other family members.  Folders 39 and 52 of this collection have been digitized. To view PDF scans, click on the links provided in the folder list below.

Papers include correspondence, 1658-1896, concerning family, business, political, military, and legal matters; land papers, 1789-1873; wills of James Patton, 1750, and Colonel William Preston, 1777; genealogical notes; James Patton’s Woods River Entry Book, 1746-1749, 1781; map of the Big Sandy and Tug River area of Ky.; copy of the Journal of the Sandy Creek Expedition, 1756; copy of the diary of Mrs. William Campbell Preston, ca. 1834-1838; broadsides about General Albert Sidney Johnston and General William Preston; poems of Margaret Junkin Preston; map of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va.; newspaper clippings about Robert E. Lee; and miscellaneous photostats, clippings and other material.  

Correspondents include P. G. T. Beauregard, Judah Philip Benjamin, Alexander Breckinridge, General James Breckinridge, Robert Breckinridge, John Brown, Jefferson Davis, Reuben Thomas Durrett, John Walker Fearn, Robert T. Ford, Horatio Gates, William McKendree Gwin, Colonel George Hancock, James Harrison, Colonel Charles John Helm, Patrick Henry, Robert William Hughes, Henry Inman, Edward Johnson, William Preston Johnston, General Thomas Jordan, General Edmund Kirby-Smith, James Madison, George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, Donn Piatt, Mrs. Caroline Hancock Preston, Francis Preston, James Patton Preston, John Preston, John Smith Preston, Mrs. William Campbell Preston, Mrs. Margaret Wickliffe Preston, Mrs. Mary Owen Preston Brown, Robert Preston of “Walnut Grove,” Robert Wickliffe Preston, Mrs. Sarah Buchanan Preston, Susan Marshall Preston Christy Hepburn, Colonel Thomas Lewis Preston, Colonel William Preston, Major William Preston, General William Preston, William Ballard Preston, William Campbell Preston, John Slidell, Waddy Thompson, Joseph A. Waddell, and Charles Anderson Wickliffe.  

Biographical Note 

William Preston  

1816 Born near Louisville, Ky.  

1835 Graduated from Yale.  

1838 Received a law degree from Harvard.  

1840 Married Margaret Wickliffe of Lexington.  

1846-1848 Fought in the Mexican War.  

1849 Delegate to the Ky. constitutional convention.  

1851-1852 Served in the Ky. legislature.  

1852 Elected to fill Humphrey Marshall’s vacant Congressional seat.  

1858 Made U.S. minister to Spain. 

1861 Joined the C.S.A. and rose to the rank of Major General.  

1864 Appointed C.S.A. minister to Mexico.  

1866 Received a federal pardon and returned to the United States from exile in Canada.  

1887 Died in Lexington and was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery. 

Folder List 

Box 1  

fl.  1 Correspondence, 1658-1668.  

fl.  2 Correspondence, 1731-1742.  

fl.  3 Correspondence, 1769.  

fl.  4 Correspondence, 1771-1775.  

fl.  5 Correspondence, 1776.  

fl.  6 Correspondence, 1777.  

fl.  7 Correspondence, 1778-1779.  

fl.  8 Correspondence, 1780-1781.  

fl.  9 Correspondence, 1783-1788.  

fl.  10 Correspondence, 1791-1795.  

fl.  11 Correspondence, 1796-1799.  

fl.  12 Correspondence, 1801-1806.  

fl.  13 Correspondence, 1807-1809.  

fl.  14 Correspondence, 1810-1812.  

fl.  15 Correspondence, 1813-1815.  

fl.  16 Correspondence, 1816-1819.  

fl.  17 Correspondence, 1820-1823.  

fl.  18 Correspondence, 1824-1828.  

 

Box 2  

fl.  19 Correspondence, 1830-1833.  

fl.  20 Correspondence, 1834.  

fl.  21 Correspondence, 1835-1836.  

fl.  22 Correspondence, 1837.  

fl.  23 Correspondence, 1838-1839.  

fl.  24 Correspondence, 1840-1842.  

fl.  25 Correspondence, 1843.  

fl.  26 Correspondence, 1844.  

fl.  27 Correspondence, 1845 Jan.-Mar.  

fl.  28 Correspondence, 1845 May-July.  

fl.  29 Correspondence, 1847-1849.  

fl.  30 Correspondence, 1850-1851.  

fl.  31 Correspondence, 1852-1854.  

fl.  32 Correspondence, 1855.  

fl.  33 Correspondence, 1856-1859.  

 

Box 3  

fl.  34 Correspondence, 1860.  

fl.  35 Correspondence, 1861-1862.  

fl.  36 Correspondence, 1863-1864.  

fl.  37 Correspondence, 1865.  

38 Letterbook of William Preston as C.S.A. minister to Mexico, 1864-1865.  

39 Letterbook of William Preston, 1864-1865.  (click to access PDF)

fl.  40 Correspondence, 1864-1865.  

fl.  41 Correspondence, 1866-1868.  

 

Box 4  

fl.  42 Correspondence, 1870-1876.  

fl.  43 Correspondence, 1878-1879.  

fl.  44 Correspondence, 1881-1889.  

fl.  45 Correspondence, 1896.  

fl.  46 Correspondence, William Campbell Preston to General Waddy Thompson, 1823-  

1860.  

fl.  47 Correspondence, handwritten copies of letters, 1777-1789.  

fl.  48 Correspondence, n.d.  

 

Box 5  

fl.  49 Land papers, 1789-1873.  

fl.  49a Promissory note from Michael Shanlety to Daniel Boone, 1789 Jan. 8.  

fl.  50 Wills of James Patton and Colonel William Preston.  

fl.  51 Genealogical notes on the Preston family.  

fl.  52 James Patton’s Woods River Entry Book, 1746-1781.  CLICK TO ACCESS PDF

fl.  53 Manuscript map of the Big Sandy and Tug River area of Eastern Ky.  

fl.  54 Journal of the Sandy Creek Expedition, 1756. Positive photostat.  

fl.  55 Journal of the Sandy Creek Expedition, 1756. Typescript.  

fl.  56 Warrant authorizing payment of troops serving under Lt. Gen. George Preston,   

1784 Sept. 10.  

fl.  57 Material on William Beverly of “Blandfield,” 1698-1756.  

fl.  58 Material concerning Colonel James Patton of Va.  

fl.  59 Diary of Mrs. William Campbell Preston, ca. 1834-1838. Typescript.  

 

Box 6  

fl.  60 Broadsides: In Memoriam, Albert Sidney Johnston (1861-1885).  In Memoriam, General William Preston.  In Memoriam, Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862).  

fl.  61 Speech of Hugh Blair Grigsby on Colonel William Preston, 1870.  

fl.  62 Margaret Junkin Preston poems.  

fl.  63 Miscellaneous material.  

fl.  64 Copy of Charles Wickliffe’s Revolutionary War pension application.  

Excerpt from Letitia Burwell’s Girl’s Life in Virginia Before the Civil War.  

Copy of document signed by Francis and William Preston, 1805.  

fl.  65 Map of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va.  

fl.  66 Newspaper clippings.  

fl.  67 Photostats of two letters relating to James Patton, 1731 Jan. 17 and n.d.  

fl.  68 Appointment of William Preston as Captain of a Company of Rangers in Augusta  

County, Va., 1755 July 29.  

fl.  69 Appointment of William Preston as Major of Augusta County, Va. militia, 1758   

Sept. 30.  

fl.  70 Appointment of Nathaniel Hart as Captain, Orange Regiment, Militia of N.C.,   

1771 Dec. 5.  

fl.  71 Appointment of Thomas Jefferson as a Visitor of the University of Virginia, 1819  

Feb. 13 (photograph).  

fl.  72 Appointment of Thomas Jefferson as a Visitor of the University of Virginia, 1819  

Feb. 13 (photostat).  

fl.  73 Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Governor James P. Preston of Va., accepting   

appointment as a Visitor of the University of Virginia, 1819 Mar. 11 (photostat).  

fl.  74 Death notice of Colonel James Patton of Va. in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 

1775.  

fl.  75 Map of Louisville by Edward Dorsey Hobbs, 1832 (photostat).  

fl.  76 Newspaper clippings about Robert E. Lee.  

Pratt, James H. Papers, 1863-1868

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Pratt, James H. 

Title:  Papers, 1863-1868 

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department. 

Size of Collection:  0.66 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A P913 

Scope and Content Note 

Collection is in five bound volumes and one folder. It spans 1863-1868 and is primarily made up of records kept by Captain James H. Pratt, a member of the 18th Michigan Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Pratt served as Quartermaster at Camps Nelson and Burnside in Ky. and at Little Rock, Ark. Included are orders from Camp Nelson, 10 Nov. 1863-16 Jan. 1864, which list supplies sent to Knoxville, Tenn., Somerset, Ky., and those needed at Camp Nelson; a letter press book, 26 May 1864-27 Dec. 1864, containing orders for steamers, trains, soldiers, hired workers, Quartermaster requests, and mentions of the pilfering of Army supplies; a transportation record, Sept. 1864-Sept. 1865, which lists soldiers traveling from Little Rock, reasons for travel, destinations, and their regiments; and a fuel book, Dec. 1864-20 April 1865, listing fuel used by the steamer, Carrie Jacobs, the type of fuel used, the amount, and where and from whom it was purchased. The fifth volume is an account book, 19 April 1867-1868, of a grain and supply business with which Pratt was associated in Michigan. 

Biographical Note 

Captain James H. Pratt served in the 18th Michigan Infantry Regiment and in the Quartermaster Department during the Civil War. In the war he was stationed at Camp Burnside, Ky., Camp Nelson, Ky., and Little Rock, Ark. After the war, he returned to Michigan where he engaged in business. 

Folder List 

Box 1 

Folder 1: Loose orders, 1863 

Folder 2: Bound orders, 1863-1864 

Folder 3: Letter press book, May-December 1864 

 

Box 2 

Folder 4: Transportation book, September 1864-September 1865 

Folder 5: Fuel book, December 1864-April 1865 

Folder 6: Ledger, April 1867, 1868 

Powell, Edward Lindsay (1860-1933) Papers, 1886-1936

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Powell, Edward Lindsay, 1860-1933 

Title:  Papers, 1886-1936 

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department. 

Size of Collection:  3 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A P882 

Scope and Content Note 

Papers include correspondence, 1886-1936, discussing routine church and personal matters; sermons and addresses; annual reports as pastor of the First Christain; articles; commissions and membership certificates; church bulletins; membership lists; theological notebooks kept while a student at Christian University at Canton, Mo.; and a manuscript biography of Dr. Powell. 

Biographical Note 

Edward Lindsay Powell was born in King William County, Va., 1860. He graduated from Christian University in Canton, Mo., in 1881. Ordained Christian (Disciples) Ministry, 1881. Powell was a pastor in Va. at Charlottesville, Gordonsville, Norfolk and Lynchburg; in Ky. in Maysville, and First Christian Church in Louisville beginning in 1887. In that year, he married Lida Smoot, of Maysville, Ky. Lida died in 1907 and Powell married Dr. Anna M. D. Gordon in 1909. Powell died in 1933. 

Folder List 

Box 1 

1 Correspondence to Powell, 1886-1914.

2 Correspondence to Powell, 1915-1929. 

3 Correspondence from Powell, copies, 1912-1931.

4 Anna D. Powell correspondence, 1932-1936.

5 Correspondence to Anna D. Powell and others about the memorial tablet to Powell at the First Christian Church, 1935-1936.

6 Notes on John P. Starks. Report on distribution of fund for the needy in Louisville, 1930.

7 Excerpts from Powell diary, 1887.Certificate of membership in Woodmen of the World, 1910.Commissions as a member of Ky. State Library Commission, 1919 and 1923. 

8 Biographical notes on members of Powell’s family.

9 Notes on the history of the First Christian Church. Circular letter presented to the Long Run Association of Baptists, 1825.

10 Annual reports as minister of the First Christian Church.

11 Power of attorney from Powell to his wife, 1929 Apr. 25.

12 Obituary notices, etc., 1933.

13 Portraits of Powell, his brother John Powell, and Elder D. Pat Henderson.

14 E. L. Powell and the Long Pastorate.

 

Box 2 

15 Sermons.

16 Sermons (A).

17 Sermons (B-C).

 

Box 3 

18 Sermons (D-E).

19 Sermons (F-H).

20 Sermons (I-N).

21 Sermons (O-P). 

22 Sermons (R-S).

23 Sermons (T-W).

24 Sermon: Young faith vanquished, or Allen’s Reign of Law. A review.

25 Sermon: What is worthwhile.

 

Box 4 

26 Addresses.

27Idleinklings abroad, 1908. 

28 Irving Bacheller.

29 Religious instruction in the public schools.

29a Robert Burns.

30 Foreword and introduction by E. S. Jouettto a volume of Powell’s sermons. 

31Miscellaneouspapers. 

32 Sermons. Pamphlets, 1888-1916.

 

Box 5 

33 Newspaper clippings of sermons and addresses, 1886-1922 and n.d.

34 Newspaper clippings of sermons, 1890-1927.

35 Newspaper clippings of sermons delivered at McCauley’s Theatre, 1902-1909.

36 “My Litany.” “My Business Creed.”

37 Newspaper clippings about Powell.

38 Newspaper clippings about the First Christian Church. Address from the Pastor to the Board of Officers, Finance Committee and Membership. 

39 Newspaper clippings about the dedication of the First Christian Church, 1911.

40 Newspaper clippings about the Louisville Free Public Library.

 

Box 6 

41 Newspaper clippings of sermons, 1885-1912. 

 

Box 7 

42 Newspaper clippings about annual banquets.

43 Newspaper clippings of “articles political and otherwise.”

44 Miscellaneous newspaper clippings. 

45 Miscellaneous newspaper clippings. 

46 Miscellaneous pamphlets. 

 

Box 8 

47 Mss. of a biography of Powell by his wife, Anna D. Powell. “Edward Lindsay Powell, Preacher, Citizen, Friend.” 

 

pkg. 48-55 Notebooks on theology; old sermons, etc. 

pkg. 54 Index Rerum, kept by Powell starting 1881 Oct. 

pkg. 56 Scrapbook of newspaper clippings including sermons delivered at Hopkinsville, Ky., in 1883. 

 

Box 9 

57 Correspondence, 1911-1912.

58 Clippings.

59 Church bulletins, registers of members, sermons.

60 Material relating to the history of the First Christian Church.

Pope-Humphrey Family Papers, 1807-1938

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Pope-Humphrey Family 

Title:  Papers, 1807-1938 

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department. 

Size of Collection:  2 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A P827 

Scope and Content Note 

Collection includes correspondence, 1807-1859, mainly concerning the family of Alexander Pope, a prominent Louisville lawyer, his son Fontaine, and son Henry Clay Pope during the Mexican War. Correspondence, 1860-1868, regards the family and social lives of Reverend Dr. E. P. Humphrey, a Presbyterian clergyman, his wife Martha Pope Humphrey, their daughters, and sons Edward W. C. Humphrey, and especially Alexander Pope Humphrey who attended Centre College and the University of Virginia from 1862 to 1868. Included during this period are letters from schoolmates of Alexander Pope Humphrey concerning academics, social lives, and careers. Correspondence, 1873-1938, concerns the lives of Judge Alexander Pope Humphrey, his wife Mary Moss Churchill, and their children, especially Alexander Pope Humphrey, Jr., who died in flight training during World War I, and Mary Churchill Humphrey who spent years abroad and became involved in theater and writing; two small diaries kept by Alexander Pope Humphrey, one while attending Centre College in 1864, and the other dated 1878 containing notes on law cases; one small diary kept by Alexander Pope Humphrey, Jr., recording data on training flights made in 1917; a diploma and grade reports from Centre College; addresses by Alexander Pope Humphrey; inventories of personal items belonging to Mary Churchill Humphrey and some of her unpublished written work; collected poetry on the subjects of war, death, religious faith, and life philosophy; programs and invitations; a memorial and tribute; pamphlets, broadsides, and circulars; genealogical information on the Pope and McKinley families; and newspaper clippings concerning World War I, horse racing, and the theater. 

Biographical Note 

Alexander Pope Humphrey 

  • 1848 Born in Louisville, Ky. 
  • 1866 Graduated from Centre College. 
  • 1868 Received his law degree from the University of Virginia. 
  • 1868- Lawyer, firm of Humphrey, Crawford & Middleton; bank director, National 
  • Bank of Kentucky; president, Louisville & Jeffersonville Bridge & Rail Road Co. 
  • 1928 Died. 

Folder List 

Box 1 

1 Correspondence, 1807-1826.

2 Correspondence, 1831-1836.

3 Correspondence, 1840-1859.

4 Correspondence, 1860-1862.

5 Correspondence, 1863-1865.

6 Alexander Pope Humphrey diary kept at Centre College, 1864. 

7 Correspondence, 1866 Jan.-Apr.

8 Correspondence, 1866 May-Sept.

9 Correspondence, 1866 Oct.

 

Box 2 

10 Correspondence, 1866 Nov.

11 Correspondence, 1866 Dec.

12 Correspondence, 1867 Jan.

13 Correspondence, 1867 Feb.

14 Correspondence, 1867 Mar.-Apr.

15 Correspondence, 1867 May.

16 Correspondence, 1867 June.

17 Correspondence, 1867 July-Sept.

18 Correspondence, 1867 Oct.-Dec.

19 Correspondence, 1868 Jan.-Apr.

 

Box 3 

20 Alexander Pope Humphrey diary, 1878.

21 Correspondence, 1873-1879.

22 Correspondence, 1880.

23 Correspondence, 1881-1889.

24 Correspondence, 1892-1893.

25 Correspondence, 1905-1909.

26 Correspondence, 1912-1916.

27 Alexander Pope Humphrey, Jr. diary and correspondence, 1917. 

 

Box 4 

28 Correspondence, 1918.

29 Correspondence, 1919-1921.

30 Correspondence, 1922-1925.

31 Correspondence, 1926-1927.

32 Correspondence, 1928.

33 Correspondence, 1932-1938.

34 Undatedpre-Civil War correspondence. 

35 Correspondence, n.d. ca. 1860.

 

Box 5 

36 Correspondence, n.d.

37 Correspondence, n.d. post World War I.

38Unmatchedenvelopes, 1866-1925 and n.d. 

39 Mary Churchill Humphrey inventory, n.d.

40 Alexander Pope Humphrey diploma from Centre College, ca. 1866. 

41 Alexander Pope Humphrey addresses, 1884-1915.

42 Mary Churchill Humphrey unpublished works, 1912 and n.d.

 

Box 6 

43 War poetry, 1915-1918 and n.d.

44 Death poetry, 1873-1928 and n.d.

45 Religious and philosophical poetry, 1862-1927 and n.d.

46 Poetry, 1893-1927and n.d. 

47 Programs and invitations, 1867-1932 and n.d.

48 Memorials and tributes, 1924-1926.

49 Pamphlets, broadsides, and circulars, 1841-1916 and n.d.

50 Genealogical data on the Pope and McKinley families.

51 World War I newspaper clippings, 1918-1920 and n.d.

52 Newspaper clippings about horse racing, 1922 and n.d.

53 Newspaper clippings about The Theater, 1924-1927 and n.d.

54 Newspaper clippings, 1875-1931 and n.d.

55 Miscellaneous written work, 1913 and n.d. 

56 Miscellaneous printed material, 1918-1928 and n.d.

57 Miscellaneous material, 1862-1933 and n.d. 

Pope, Curran Papers and Additional papers, 1792-1931

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Pope, Curran 

Title:  Papers and Additional papers, 1792-1931 

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department. 

Size of Collection:  2.33 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A P826b and ba 

Scope and Content Note 

Papers consist of Pope family papers, genealogical material on the Pope and Thruston families, and Pope’s personal papers. The Pope family papers include letters and deeds. Curran Pope’s personal papers consist of biographical material, lists of writings and speeches, medical and miscellaneous writings, speeches, and correspondence. 

Folder List 

Box 1 

1 Biographical material.

2 Certificates, 1905-1926.

3 Correspondence, 1877-1918.

3a Correspondence, 1920-1922.

4 Correspondence, 1923-1924.

5 Correspondence, 1925-1926.

6 Correspondence, 1927-1929.

7 Writings, n.d.

8 Writings, 1893-1901.

9 Writings, 1902-1904.

10 Writings, 1905-1907.

 

Box 2 

11 Writings, 1908-1910.

12 Writings, 1912-1914.

13 Writings, 1915-1921.

14 Writings, 1924-1931.

15 Writings, n.d.

16 Writings, n.d.

17 Writings, n.d.

18 Writings, n.d.

19 Writings, n.d.

20 Writings, n.d.

 

Box 3 

21 Writings, n.d.

22 Writings, n.d.

23 Writings, n.d.

24 Writings, n.d.

25 Writings, 1912-1917.

26 Writings, 1920 May-1923 Apr.

27 Writings, 1923 Oct.-Nov.

28 Writings, 1924 May-Oct.

 

Box 4 

29 Writings, 1924 Nov.-Dec.

30 Writings, 1925 Apr.-Oct.

31 Writings, 1926 Apr.-Sept.

32 Writings, 1927.

33 “The Nurse,” 1928 May.

34 Writings, 1929 May-Sept. 9.

35 Writings, 1929 Sept. 11-1931.

36Miscellaneouspapers. 

37 Newspaper clippings about Curran Pope, 1909-1930.

 

Box 5 

38 Miscellaneousnewspaper clippings. 

39 Cards announcing meetings and programs of medical societies, 1910-1931.

40Miscellaneousmagazine clippings. 

41 Miscellaneous printed material.

42 Photographs of Curran Pope, and Colonel Curran Pope.

43 History of the Pope family.

44 Deed by Benjamin Pope and wife, James Patten and Mark Thomas to Stephen Ormsby for 100 acres of Jefferson County land, 1792 Jan. 5. 

45 Deed by Anna Shain to Royal Glass for three lots in Louisville, 1805 Aug. 16. 

46 Deed by William Shain and wife to Thomas Glass for Louisville land, 1811 Dec. 16. 

47 Deed by Felix Seymour and wife to John W. Sanders for land near Louisville,1835 June 29.

48 Correspondence from Worden Pope to his son Curran Pope (1813-1862), 1830-1832.

49 Mary Tyler Pope papers.

50 Letter from William R. Jacob to his brother, 1857 July 13.

51 Notes on the Pope and other families.

52 Biography of Charles Mynn Thruston, 1840. 

53 Anne L. Davis correspondence about the Thruston family. 

54 Fontaine family portraits.

55 Portraits of George and Martha Washington inscribed by Mary Custis Lee. 

 

Box 6 

1 Correspondence, 1913-1917.

2Correspondence, 1919-1923.

3Correspondence, 1924-1925.

4Correspondence, 1926.

5Correspondence, 1927-1928.

6Correspondence, 1929-1931.

7 Biographical material.

8 Genealogical material: families of Pope, Thruston, Jacob, Payne, and Fontaine.

9 Genealogical material: families of Pope, Thruston, Jacob, Payne, and Fontaine.

 

Box 2 

10 Genealogical material: families of Pope, Thruston, Jacob, Payne, and Fontaine.

11 Application for membership in various patriotic societies.

12 Invitations. Membership cards. Speech and menu for a testimonial dinner. 

13 Newspaper clippings.

14Miscellaneousmaterial