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Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Joyes Family 

Title:  Additional Papers, 1820-1891 

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

Size of Collection:  1 cubic foot 

Location Number:  Mss. A J89b 

Scope and Content Note 

Contains correspondence on legal, business, and family matters. Principal correspondents are Thomas Joyes, Judith Joyes, Patrick Joyes, Florence Joyes, Ann Mary Coleman of Baltimore, Md., and Tilly Emerson of Carlton County, Md. There are also letters from F. W. Desha, J. J. Crittenden, and J. L. Crittenden. Subjects include land matters, lawsuits, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and family matters. 

Folder List 

Box 1 

1 Correspondence, 1820-1825.

2 Correspondence, 1833-1839.

3 Correspondence, 1840-1844.

4 Correspondence, 1845-1847.

5 Correspondence, 1848-1849.

6 Correspondence, 1850.

7 Correspondence, 1851.

8 Correspondence, 1852.

9 Correspondence, 1853.

10 Correspondence, 1854.

11 Correspondence, 1855.

12 Correspondence, 1856.

 

Box 2 

13 Correspondence, 1857.

14 Correspondence, 1858.

15 Correspondence, 1859.

16 Correspondence, 1860.

17 Correspondence, 1861.

18 Correspondence, 1862.

19 Correspondence, 1863.

20 Correspondence, 1864.

21 Correspondence, 1865.

 

Box 3 

22 Correspondence, 1866.

23 Correspondence, 1867.

24 Correspondence, 1868.

25 Correspondence, 1869-1872.

26 Correspondence, 1873-1879.

27 Correspondence, 1884-1885.

28 Correspondence, 1886-1889.

29 Correspondence, 1890-1891.

30 Miscellaneous.

31 Pamphlets.

 

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Joyes Family 

Title:  Papers, 1780-1871 

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

Size of Collection:  4 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A J89 

Scope and Content Note 

Includes correspondence, 1783-1868, some concerning Thomas Joyes’ land transactions, litigation arising from the transactions, and management of his landed property; legal papers, 1784-1862, including those regarding the estate of Henry Reed (d. 1793) of Fort Pitt and Louisville, Ky.; bills, receipts, promissory notes and orders to pay, 1783-1870; land papers, 1780-1871, a good many of which concern Thomas Joyes’ property in Ky., Ind., Kn., and Mo.; two slavery documents, 1834, 1851; War of 1812 material, including an orderly book, account of service, defense of Ky. troops at the battle of New Orleans, plan of the battle, and rosters of Captain Thomas Joyes’ company of militia; shipping papers; notebooks; surveyors’ instructions (printed); Indian treaties (printed); newspaper clippings; and miscellaneous material. 

The collection also includes papers, 1817-1850, of Chapman Coleman, containing correspondence; fee bills, 1831-1843; statements of account, 1839-1849; bills of sale for slaves, 1823-1837; legal papers; land papers concerning land in Bath County, Ky., Frankfort, Louisville, and Mason County, Ky., La., Miss., and Tx. 

Folder List 

Box 1 

1 Correspondence, 1783-1802.

2 Correspondence, 1803-1817.

3 Correspondence, 1818-1823.

4 Correspondence, 1824-1826.

5 Correspondence, 1827-1833.

6 Correspondence, 1834-1836.

7 Correspondence, 1837.

8 Correspondence, 1838.

9 Correspondence, 1839

 

Box 2 

10 Correspondence, 1840 Jan.-June.

11 Correspondence, 1840 July-Sept.

12 Correspondence, 1840 Oct.-Dec.

13 Correspondence, 1841 Jan.-Mar.

14 Correspondence, 1841 Apr.-June.

15 Correspondence, 1841 July-Sept.

16 Correspondence, 1841 Oct.-Dec.

17 Correspondence, 1842.

18 Correspondence, 1843 Jan.-June.

19 Correspondence, 1843 July-Dec.

20 Correspondence, 1844.

21 Correspondence, 1845 Jan.-June.

22 Correspondence, 1845 July-Dec.

23 Correspondence, 1846.

24 Correspondence, 1847.

 

Box 3 

25 Correspondence, 1848.

26 Correspondence, 1849 Jan.-June.

27 Correspondence, 1849 July-Dec.

28 Correspondence, 1850 Jan.-June.

29 Correspondence, 1850 July-Dec.

30 Correspondence, 1851.

31 Correspondence, 1852.

32 Correspondence, 1853 Jan.-Mar.

33 Correspondence, 1853 Apr.-Dec.

34 Correspondence, 1854.

35 Correspondence, 1855. 

36 Correspondence, 1856-1857.

37 Correspondence, 1858-1859.

38 Correspondence, 1860.

39 Correspondence, 1861.

40 Correspondence, 1862-1868.

41 Correspondence, n.d.

 

Box 4 

42 Land papers, 1780-1786.

43 Land papers, 1787-1793.

44 Land papers, 1794-1805.

45 Land papers, 1806-1817.

46 Land papers, 1818.

47 Land papers, 1819 Feb.-Apr.

48 Land papers, 1819 May-Dec.

 

Box 5 

49 Land papers, 1820.

50 Land papers, 1821-1822.

51 Land papers, 1823-1826.

52 Land papers, 1827-1828.

53 Land papers, 1829-1832.

54 Land papers, 1833-1835.

55 Land papers, 1837-1839.

56 Land papers, 1840-1845.

57 Land papers, 1846-1849.

 

Box 6 

58 Land papers, 1850-1854.

59 Land papers, 1855-1856.

60 Land papers, 1857-1859.

61 Land papers, 1860-1871.

62 Land papers, n.d.

63 Land papers, n.d.

64 Land papers, n.d.

65 Land papers, n.d.

66 Newspaper clippings containing lists of forfeited lands.

 

Box 7 

67 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1783-1785.

68 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1786-1793.

69 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1794-1799.

70 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1805.

71 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1806-1808.

72 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1809-1811.

73 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1812-1816.

74 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1818-1820.

75 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1821-1825.

76 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1826-1829.

77 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1830-1834.

78 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1835-1838.

79 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1839.

 

Box 8 

80 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1840.

81 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1841.

82 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1842.

83 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1843-1844.

84 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1845-1846.

85 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1847-1848.

86 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1849.

87 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1850.

88 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1851.

89 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1852-1854.

90 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1855.

91 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1856.

92 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1857.

93 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1858.

94 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1859.

95 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1860.

96 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, 1861-1870.

97 Bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders to pay, n.d.

 

Box 9 

98 Legal papers, 1784-1799.

99 Legal papers, 1801-1815.

100 Legal papers, 1816-1820.

101 Legal papers, 1822-1828.

102 Legal papers, 1831-1839.

103 Legal papers, 1840-1848.

104 Legal papers, 1852-1862.

105 Legal papers, n.d.

106 “A map of the town of Columbus.” Iron Banks maps and surveys.

107 Shipping papers, 1813-1815.General instructions to Deputy Surveyors. Notebook. 

108 Fragments.

 

Box 10 

109 Thomas Joyes commissions, 1807-1816.

110 13th Ky. Militia Regiment muster rolls, 1814-1815.

111 Order book. Account of service in the War of 1812.Defense of Ky. troops in the War of 1812. 

112 Indian treaties and other Indian papers.

113 Certificate of membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Louisville, Ky., 1851 Sept. 14.

114 Slavery documents, 1834-1851.

115 Poems.

116 Printed material.

117Miscellaneouspapers. 

118Miscellaneouspapers. 

119Miscellaneouspapers. 

 

Box 11 

120 Estate of Henry Reed. CLICK TO ACCESS PDF

121 Estate of Henry Reed. CLICK TO ACCESS PDF

122 Estate of Henry Reed. CLICK TO ACCESS PDF

123 Estate of Henry Reed. CLICK TO ACCESS PDF

124 Chapman Coleman letters, 1823-1846 and n.d.

125 Chapman Coleman accounts, 1831-1850.

126 Chapman Coleman slavery documents, 1823-1837.

127 Chapman Coleman land papers, 1817-1828.

128 Chapman Coleman land papers, 1831-1834.

129 Chapman Coleman land papers, 1836.

130 Chapman Coleman land papers, 1839-1850.

131 Chapman Coleman miscellaneous papers, 1833-1841.

 

Box 12 

132 Mary Verhoeff: Miscellaneous notes and material concerning the Joyes family.

133 Mary Verhoeff: Miscellaneous notes and material concerning the Joyes family.

134 Mary Verhoeff: Miscellaneous notes and material concerning the Joyes family.

135 Mary Verhoeff: Miscellaneous notes and material concerning the Joyes family.

136 Mary Verhoeff: Miscellaneous notes and material concerning the Joyes family.

 

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Johnston Family 

Title:  Papers, 1798-1943 

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

Size of Collection:  2.66 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A J72j 

Scope and Content Note 

Collection includes correspondence of Albert Sidney Johnston, his Johnston relations, and the Preston relations of his first wife. Much of the correspondence concerns military affairs during the Civil War, including administrative communications received by Johnston and letters received by his son, an aide de camp to Jefferson Davis. Extensive correspondence of William Preston Davis and his wife Rosa Duncan Johnston, discussing wartime conditions and letters during the period of William P. Johnston’s imprisonment and exile. 

Later correspondence concerns William P. Johnston’s career as a faculty member at Washington and Lee, 1866-1877, as president of Louisiana State University, 1881-1883, and president of Tulane University, from 1883. Many letters of William P. Johnston’s children are included. 

Additional material includes correspondence, 1798-1943; miscellaneous papers, 1833-1861, of the Duncan family of New Orleans; autobiography of William P. Johnston; diary, 1880-1901, of George Anderson Robinson; genealogical data on the Barret, Brown, Covington, Duncan, Goldsborough, Hancock, Johnston, Patton, Poignand, Preston, Provoost, Robinson, and Yoder families. 

Correspondents include James Breckinridge, Major William Preston, William Campbell Preston, Caroline Hancock Preston, Henrietta Preston Johnston, John J. Crittenden, James Guthrie, Simon Bolivar Buckner, John Cabell Breckinridge, Winfield Scott, Josiah Gorgas, Benjamin Huger, Leroy Pope Walker, Judah P. Benjamin, Braxton Bragg, William J. Hardee, General William Preston, George Washington Custis Lee, William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, John Hunt Morgan, Randall Lee Gibson, John Echols, Varina Howell Davis, Basil W. Duke, Robert E. Lee, Margaret Junkin Preston, Wade Hampton, Alexander Lamar, Joseph Jefferson, Josiah Stoddard Johnston, Charles Dudley Warner, and John Mason Brown. 

To view a calendar of correspondents, please click here to access PDF.

Biographical Note 

Albert Sidney Johnston 

• 1803 Born in Washington, Ky. 
• 1826 Graduated from the United States Military Academy. 
• 1832 Fought in the Black Hawk War. 
• 1846 Fought at the battle of Monterrey. 
• 1861 Appointed to head the Confederate Army in the West by Jefferson Davis. 
• 1862 Killed at the battle of Shiloh 

William Preston Johnston 

• 1831 Born in Louisville, Ky. 
• 1852 Graduated from Yale. 
• 1853 Began the practice of law in Louisville. 
• 1861 Joined the Confederate Army. 
• 1862 Served as aide-de-camp to Jefferson Davis. 
• 1867 Became chair of the dept. of history and English literature at Washington University in Lexington, Va. 
• 1880 Assumed the presidency of Louisiana State University. 
• 1882? Became president of Tulane. 
• 1899 Died and was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery. 

 

Folder List 

 

Box 1 

1 Correspondence, 1798.

2 Correspondence, 1800-1827.

3 Correspondence, 1831-1839.

4 Correspondence, 1842-1848.

5 Correspondence, 1850-1858.

6 Correspondence, 1860.

7 Correspondence, 1861 Jan.-Sept.

8 Correspondence, 1861 Oct.-Dec.

9 Correspondence, 1862 Jan.-June.

10 Correspondence, 1862 July-Dec.

11 E. W. Munford to Jefferson Davis letter, 1862 May 10.

 

Box 2 

12 Correspondence, 1863.

13 Correspondence, 1864.

14 Correspondence, 1865.

15 Correspondence, 1866.

16 Correspondence, 1867.

17 Correspondence, 1868.

18 Correspondence, 1869.

19 Correspondence, 1870.

20 Correspondence, 1871.

21 Correspondence, 1872.

22 Correspondence, 1873.

23 Correspondence, 1874.

24 Correspondence, 1875.

25 Correspondence, 1876.

26 Correspondence, 1877.

27 Correspondence, 1878.

28 Correspondence, 1879.

 

Box 3 

29 Correspondence, undated 1870s.

30 Correspondence, 1880.

31 Correspondence, 1881.

32 Correspondence, 1882.

33 Correspondence, 1883.

34 Correspondence, 1884.

35 Correspondence, 1885.

36 Correspondence, 1886.

37 Correspondence, 1887.

38 Correspondence, 1888.

39 Correspondence, 1889.

40 Correspondence, 1890.

41 Correspondence, 1891.

42 Correspondence, 1892.

43 Correspondence, 1893.

 

Box 4 

44 Correspondence, 1894.

45 Correspondence, 1895.

46 Correspondence, 1896.

47 Correspondence, 1897.

48 Correspondence, 1898.

49 Correspondence, 1899.

50 Correspondence, 1900.

51 Correspondence, 1901.

52 Correspondence, 1903.

53 Correspondence, 1904.

54 Correspondence, 1906.

55 Correspondence, 1907.

56 Correspondence, 1909.

57 Correspondence, 1910-1919.

58 Correspondence, 1920-1943.

 

Box 5 

59 Correspondence, n.d.

60 Notes to Colonel William Preston Johnston from Mary Custis Lee, when Johnston was on the faculty of Washington College. 

61 Miscellaneous legal papers and receipts. 

62 Duncan family papers, 1833-1861.

63 Duncan family papers, n.d.

64 Autobiography of William Preston Johnston.

65 Poem “Heaven’s Hostage,” by W. P. Johnston, 1885.Incomplete text of a paper on the value of family history. Eulogy of Johnston. Invitation. 

 

Box 6 

66 Inscription for the tomb of Major William Preston. Account of the grave of William Preston. Account of the tradition of a romance between Dolly Payne and Major William Preston. 

67 Proof sheet for a printing of “Bivouac of the Dead,” with a letter to the editor and a note by D. Doty.

68 George A. Robinson diary, 1880-1901.

69 Scrapbook of newspaper clippings about Albert Sidney Johnston, William P. Johnston, Richard Alexander Robinson, and Rosa Robinson.

70Miscellaneousclippings about the Robinson family of Louisville. 

71 Newspaper clippings about Albert Sidney Johnston.

72 Newspaper clippings about William P. Johnston.

73 Newspaper clippings about Richard Alexander Robinson.

74 Newspaper clippings about George Anderson Robinson.

75 Newspaper clippings about Margaretta Mason Barret. 

76 Newspaper clippings about Mason Brown Barret.

77 Newspaper clippings about Rosa Robinson Barret.

78 Newspaper clipping giving a biographical sketch of Susan Preston Christy Hepburn, 1916 June 25.

79 Newspaper clippings about Henry St. George Tucker.

80 Newspaper clippings. Article on the Preston Hotel (Seelbach); article on the Preston family graveyard.

81 Newspaper article about George Hancock.

82 Newspaper clippings.

83 Newspaper clippings about Liberty Hall, Frankfort, Ky.

84 Newspaper clippings about Washington and Lee University.

 

Box 7 

85 Article on James Patton of Va. American Monthly Magazine, 1897 July.

85a Genealogical data on the Barret family. 

86 Genealogical data on the Brown family.

87 Genealogical data on the lineage of Rosa Robinson (Barret) of Covington.

88 Genealogical data on the Duncan family.

89 Genealogical data on the New York (New Amsterdam) Dutch families from whom Margaretta Mason descended. 

90 Genealogical data on the Goldsborough family.

91 Genealogical data on the Hancock family.

92 Genealogical data on the Johnston family.

93 Genealogical data on the Patton family.

94 Genealogical data on the Poign and family. 

95 Genealogical data on the Preston family.

96 Genealogical data on the Provoost family. 

97 Genealogical data on the Robinson family.

98 Genealogical data on the Yoder family.

99Miscellaneousgenealogical data. 

 

Box 8 

100 W. P. Johnston address to the Literary Societies of Washington and Lee, 1879June 25.In Memoriam Rosa Duncan Johnston. Certificate, 1884 Mar. 8. Sonnet. List of schools attended. 

101Fourtax stamps from the Spanish American War. 

102 Memoranda of the Preston Family, 1870.

103 “The Brown family of Liberty Hall.”

104 Edward Harris and his Ancestors, 1634-1820, by W. P. Johnston, 1899.

105 Memoranda of the Preston Family, by Orlando Brown, 1842.

106 Photo of the Joseph H. Bush portrait of Albert Sidney Johnston.

107 Photo of Albert Sidney Johnston (carte devisite).

108Twophotos of Albert Sidney Johnston (carte de visite). 

109 Print of a portrait of Albert Sidney Johnston in uniform.

110 Photo of Eliza Croghan Johnston and three of the children. 

111 Photo of an oil portrait by Joseph H. Bush of Colonel William P. Johnston.

112 Photo of Griffin Johnston.

113 Photo of Henrietta Preston Johnston.

114 Photo of Mary Owen Preston.

115 Carte devisite of Robert E. Lee. 

116 Engraving of a portrait of Richard Alexander Robinson.

117 Carte devisite of George Anderson Robinson, 1874 Feb. 10. 

118 Photo of George Anderson Robinson, 1901 Oct.

119 Group photo of schoolchildren at Miss Sally Booth’s School in Louisville, ca.1883.

120 Photo of Mason Brown Barret, 1912.

121Twophotos of Rosa Duncan Johnston. 

122Fourtintypes of a young man, probably George Anderson Robinson. 

122 Miscellaneous.

 

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Jesup-Sitgreaves family 

Title:  Papers, 1846-1919 (bulk: 1883-1902) 

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

Size of Collection:  1 cubic foot 

Location Number:  Mss. A J58 

Scope and Content Note 

Includes correspondence from the four daughters of General Thomas Sidney Jesup: Lucy Jesup Sitgreaves, Mary Jesup Blair, Jane Jesup Nicholson, and Julia Clark Jesup, and their children Mary Jesup Sitgreaves, Violet Blair Janin, and Jesup Blair. This correspondence discusses family and personal news as well as Mammoth Cave business affairs; the four sisters each inherited a portion of the Cave estate from their uncle Dr. John Croghan. Bulk of the collection is correspondence from Mary Jesup Sitgreaves to her mother Lucy, relating Mary’s social activities and travels. Also includes miscellaneous correspondence to Mary and Lucy, Mammoth Cave financial reports and other material, genealogical correspondence regarding the Jesup family, and unidentified photographs. See finding aid for a full list of subject headings. 

Biographical Note 

General Thomas Sidney Jesup (1788-1860) married Ann Heron Croghan (1797-1846), daughter of Lucy Clark and William Croghan. Six of their children lived to adulthood: Lucy Ann Jesup (b. 1823), Mary Serena Eliza Jesup (1826-1914), Jane Findlay Jesup (b. 1827), William Croghan Jesup (1833-1860), Charles Edward Jesup (1835-1861), and Julia Clark Jesup (b. 1840). 

Lucy Jesup married Lorenzo Sitgreaves (1811-1888), an Army captain who fought in the Mexican War; he was also a topographical engineer and surveyor. They had one child, Mary Jesup Sitgreaves (b. ca. 1858), who never married. The Sitgreaves family lived in Washington, D.C. (on N Street in the 1880s and Lafayette Square in the 1890s) until late 1902, when Lucy moved to Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, Boston. 

Mary Jesup married James L. Blair (1819-1853) and they had at least two children, Violet Blair Janin (1848-1933) and Jesup Blair (1852-1902). Jesup Blair never married; Violet Blair married Albert Janin in 1874 and the couple apparently had no children. 

Jane Jesup married Major Augustus S. Nicholson (1830-1911) and the couple had at least one child, a son named Jesup (ca. 1853-1893) and possibly a daughter named Charlotte (Lottie). 

Julia Jesup never married. She lived in Italy for many years. 

The four Jesup sisters (Lucy, Mary, Jane, and Julia) each inherited a portion of the Mammoth Cave estate from their uncle, Dr. John Croghan. The following nine Cave beneficiaries (his nieces and nephews) were named in Dr. Croghan’s will, 1 Jan 1849: 

• George Croghan 
• Angelica Croghan Wyatt 
• Serena Croghan (Rodgers) 
• William Jesup 
• Charles Jesup 
• Lucy Ann Jesup (Sitgreaves) 
• Mary Jesup Blair 
• Jane Jesup (Nicholson) 
• Julia Clark Jesup 

This partial genealogy shows the familial relationship among the Mammoth Cave beneficiaries, with the original beneficiaries’ names in bold: 

Lucy Clark (1765-1838) m. William Croghan (1752-1823) 

• Dr. John Croghan (1790-1849) 
• George Croghan (1791-1849) m. Serena Livingston 
• Mary Angelica Croghan m. the Rev. Christopher Wyatt 
• William E. Wyatt 
• George Croghan (d. 1861) m. Cornelia Ridgeley 
• Serena Livingston Croghan (?-1926) m. Augustus F. Rodgers (1829-1908) 
• Ann Heron Croghan (1797-1846) m. Thomas Sidney Jesup (1788-1860) 
• Lucy Ann Jesup (1823-) m. Lorenzo Sitgreaves (1811 – 14 May 1888) 
• Mary Jesup Sitgreaves (ca. 1859-) 
• Mary Serena Eliza Jesup (1826-1914) m James L. Blair (1819-1853) 
• Violet Blair (1848-1933) m. Albert Janin 
• Jesup Blair (1852-1 April 1902) 
• Jane Findlay Jesup (1827-) m. Major Augustus S. Nicholson (1830-1911) 
• William Croghan Jesup (1833-1860) 
• Charles Edward Jesup (1835-1861) 
• Julia Clark Jesup (1840-) 

Folder List 

1. Correspondence from Jesup Blair, ca. 1900-1901 and undated, 7 items 
2. Correspondence from Mary Jesup Blair, 1900, 34 items 
3. Correspondence from Mary Jesup Blair, 1901-1902, 47 items 
4. Correspondence from Violet Blair Janin, 1860, 1898, 1900, 33 items
5. Correspondence from Henry G. Jesup, 1880-1887, 38 items.
6. Correspondence from Julia Clark Jesup, 1900-1919, 8 items
7. Correspondence from Jane Jesup Nicholson, 1898-1904, 17 items 
8. Correspondence from Lucy Jesup Sitgreaves, 1884-1902 and undated, 19 items 
9. Correspondence to Lucy Jesup Sitgreaves, 1879-1901 and undated, 30 items 
10. Correspondence from Mary Jesup Sitgreaves, 1863-1883, 45 items 
11. Correspondence from Mary Jesup Sitgreaves, 1884, 38 items 
12. Correspondence from Mary Jesup Sitgreaves, 1886-1888, 32 items 
13. Correspondence from Mary Jesup Sitgreaves, 1891-1893, 37 items 
14. Correspondence from Mary Jesup  Sitgreaves, 1895, 41 items 
15. Correspondence from Mary Jesup Sitgreaves, 1896, 32 items 
16. Correspondence from Mary Jesup Sitgreaves, 1898-1900, 41 items 
17. Correspondence from Mary Jesup Sitgreaves, January-July 1902, 29 items 
18. Correspondence from Mary Jesup Sitgreaves, September-December 1902, 41 items 
19. Correspondence from Mary Jesup Sitgreaves, 1903-1904, 23 items 
20. Correspondence from Mary Jesup Sitgreaves, undated, 18 items 
21. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1846-1919 and undated, 13 items
22. Penmanship exercises, drawings, and compositions from Mary Jesup Sitgreaves, 1862-1872, 31 items 
23. Mammoth Cave financial reports, petitions, and copies of letters, 1903 and undated, 10 items
24. Miscellaneous material, 20 items
25. Photographs, undated, 13 items

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Jeffrey, Rosa Vertner, 1828-1894 

Title:  Papers, 1855-1892 

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 J46r 

Scope and Content Note 

Collection includes correspondence; poems (including poems dedicated to her as well as those written by Jeffrey); copyright certificate, 1857, for her poems; accounts of the sales, 1857-1881, of her writings; a release, 1862, of a claim against her for sale of an African American woman who proved to be unsound; powers of attorney; statement of cotton captured at Vicksburg, Miss., in 1864 from Mrs. Jeffrey’s plantation, “Canton Place”; claim against the U.S. for damage to the residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Vertner during the Civil War; insurance policies, 1884; tax receipts, 1864-1892; and a scrapbook containing clippings of Mrs. Jeffrey’s poems. 

The correspondence, chiefly literary, contains some family letters, including those of her husband, Alexander Jeffrey, describing Lexington, Ky., during the Civil War. 

Correspondents include David Bates, Charles Augustus Davis, James Cephas Derby, the firm of Derby and Jackson, Julia Deane Freeman, William Jeffrey, Emily V. Mason, Dr. Thomas S. Powell, Orville James Victor, P. L. Wickes, and Robert W. Woolley. 

Biographical Note 

Born 1828, in Natchez, Miss., Rosa was brought to Ky. by her aunt to receive her education. She was enrolled in the Episcopal Seminary of Bishop Smith at Lexington. At age fifteen she wrote “ The Legend of the opal” which was published in Poems, 1857. At seventeen she married Claude M. Johnson of La. by whom she had six children. In 1850, she began writing for the Louisville Journal. She moved to Rochester, N.Y. following the death of her husband. There she met and married (1863) Alexander Jeffrey of Scotland. Her first novel, Woodburn appeared in 1864. After the war she moved back to Lexington where she died in 1894. 

For more information consult the Dictionary of American Biography. 

Folder List 

Box 1 

82* Scrapbook of Jeffrey’s poems.

83Correspondence, 1855-1862.

84Correspondence, 1863-1882.

85 Certificate of copyright, 1857.Accounts of sales of her writings, 1857-1881.

86 Receipt concerning the sale of a female slave and children, 1862 May 15.

87 Poems.

88 Papers about Jeffrey’s children.

89 Bill for refreshments at her wedding to Jeffrey, 1862 May 1.

90 Power of attorney to lease her plantation, 1865 Jan. Power of attorney to collect money owed her father’s estate, 1865 Dec. Statement of cotton captured at Vicksburg, 1864 May 13. Claim against the U.S. government for damage to the Vertner residence. 

91 Tax receipts, 1864-1892.

92 Insurance policies, 1884 July 3.

93 Papers of C. M. Johnson of Lexington including a bill of sale for an enslaved girl, 1853 July 16. 

94 Papers, including letter of George B. Kinkead, receipts given by Jeffrey to her husband, receipt of Dr. J. K. Morton and statements of account against her estate, 1867-1872. 

 

*Continued folder count from the John Jeffrey papers.