A Guide to the Nathaniel Francis Cabell Papers, 1722-1879
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 2
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Preferred Citation
Nathaniel Francis Cabell. Collection of papers relating to Virginia's agricultural history, 1722-1879. Accession 2. Personal papers collection. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Acquisition Information
Gift of J. Staunton Moore, 22 May 1912.
Alternative Form
Also available on microfilm (Misc. Reel 287).
Biographical Information
Nathaniel Francis Cabell was born 23 July 1807 at "Warminster" in Nelson County, Virginia, to Nicholas Cabell, Jr. (1780-1809) and Margaret Read Venable Cabell (1782-1857). He graduated from Hampden Sidney College in 1825 and from Harvard in 1827. Cabell settled in Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1827, then moved back to Nelson County in 1832, settling at the family home, "Liberty Hall." Cabell wrote and published articles on religion, education, and agriculture. He married first Anne Blaws Cocke (1811-1862), daughter of General John H. Cocke (1780-1866), 14 September 1831, and they had six children. He married second Mary M. Keller of Baltimore, Maryland. Cabell spent the last few years of his life living with one of his sons in Bedford County, Virginia, where he died 1 September 1891. Cabell was buried in the family cemetery at "Liberty Hall" in Nelson County.
Scope and Content Information
Papers, 1722-1879, collected by Nathaniel Francis Cabell (1807-1891) of County, Virginia, to be used in a work on the history of Virginia agriculture. Papers consist of bibliographies, constitutions, correspondence, diaries, essays, indexes, memorandums, minutes, patents, recipes, reports, resolutions, testimonials, and transcripts; and concern agriculture in Virginia from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Topics include agriculture, mainly tobacco, wheat, corn, and peas; livestock, mainly cattle, horses, sheep, and swine; farm implements like threshers, circular saws, mill equipment, and other tools; and manures for fertilizers. Some papers relate to the Agricultural Society of Albemarle and to the Virginia Agricultural Society. One letter comments on the possible sale of Mount Vernon in the 1850s.
Correspondents include James Barbour, Joseph C. Cabell, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Dr. William Cabell, John H. Cocke, James M. Garnett, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, William Massie, Peter Minor, Thomas Mann Randolph, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Richard Sampson, John S. Skinner, Edmund Taylor, and Yardley Taylor.
Some letters contain notes by Cabell containing further information on topics and/or information on the writers.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Contents List
Box 1 Folder 1
"A List of Manuscripts
Relating to the History of Agriculture in Virginia,
collected by N. F. Cabell, and now in the Virginia State
Library, "January 1913, published in the
Virginia State Library
Bulletin , volume 6, number 1.
11 leaves.
Box 2 Folder 1
Book spine and title page.
"Manuscript Letters, & C,
from 1722 to 1879, " and title gives provenance of
collection.
1 leaf and 1 item.
Box 1 Folder 2
Extracts,
[1722], from Lowthorpe's Abridgment
of The (English) Philosophical Transactions,
Illustrative of Virginia Husbandry in Colonial Times.
Extracts from the Journal of John Clayton.
12 p.
Box 1 Folder 3
Extracts,
1724, from Hugh Jones'
Present State of
Virginia concerning agriculture in
Virginia.
13 p.
Box 1 Folder 4
Extracts,
1749, from the diary of the Reverend
Robert Rose on the managment of tobacco.
1 leaf.
Box 2 Folder 2
Letter,
6 June 1771, John Howard, Botetourt
[County, Virginia], to Dr. William Cabell, Amherst
[County, Virginia], concerning severe flooding along the
James River.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 3
Letter,
5 February 1778, Landon Carter to
Richard Henry Lee at Chantilly, regarding the process of
making sugar, molassas, and liqour from corn
stalks.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 4
Letter,
19 March 1782, Paul Carrington to
William Cabell, Jr., Amherst [County], informing Cabell
he is sending him some cattle.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 5
Letter,
22 May 1802, Archibald D. Alexander,
Montpellier, Georgia, to Major Edmond Read, Charlotte
County, [Virginia], on agricultural conditions in
Georgia.
3 p.
Box 2 Folder 6
Letter,
9 December 1803, Dr. J. M. Galt to
John H. Cocke, Mount Pleasant, on the cultivation of
Scotch Broom.
1 leaf.
Box 2 Folder 7
Letter,
6 September 1804, Josiah
Scholefield, Lancaster, [England], to Joseph C. Cabell,
London, [England], concerning circular saws.
3 p.
Box 2 Folder 8
Letter,
24 June 1805, John Taylor,
Hazelwood, [Caroline County, Virginia], to Dr. George
Washington Tennent, [Port Royal, Virginia], regarding
the cultivation of the Yetman pea.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 9
Letter,
7 August 1807, Francis Watkins, Sr.,
Amherst [County], to Nicholas Cabell, Jr., concerning a
crop of wheat on Elk Island.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 10
Letter,
2 February 1808, John Brown,
Goochland [County, Virginia], to Nicholas Cabell,
[Albemarle County, Virginia], concerning the value of
burnt grass.
3 p.
Box 2 Folder 11
Letter,
22 September 1808, Philip Tabb,
Toddsbury, [Gloucester County, Virginia], to John H.
Cocke, New Canton Post Office, [Buckingham County,
Virginia], detailing the growing of corn on Gloucester
County lowlands.
3 p.
Box 2 Folder 12
Letter,
21 May 1812, Wilson Cary Nicholas,
Warren, [Albemarle County], to John H. Cocke, Fluvanna
[County, Virginia], offering to purchase sheep from
Cocke.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 5
Letter,
12 July 1813, Randolph Harrison,
Bremo, [Fluvanna County], to John H. Cocke informing
Cocke of the state of his farm and crops.
4 p.
Box 2 Folder 13
Copy of patent,
1814, of J. Hall's specification
concerning a new improvement in cultivating
corn.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 14
Letter,
29 May 1815, L. Wells, New York, to
General [John H.] Cocke, [Fluvanna County], concerning
the management of sheep.
2 p., part of letter missing.
Box 2 Folder 15
Letter,
15 July 1815, Peter Minor, Ridgeway,
Albemarle County, to General [John H.] Cocke, [Fluvanna
County], concerning an experiment for testing the
efficacy of Hall's patent method of raising
corn.
4 p.
Box 1 Folder 6
Letter,
13 August 1815, Bushrod Washington,
Mount Vernon, [Fairfax County, Virginia], to St. George
Tucker, [Williamsburg, Virginia], regarding the
construction of pise' [prize?] buildings.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 7
Constitution and rules,
n.d., of the Agricultural Society of
Albemarle.
5 p.
Box 1 Folder 8
Extract,
n.d, from proceedings of the
Agricultural Society of Albemarle, including
questionaire to planters and farmers.
2 p., printed.
Box 2 Folder 16
Copy,
n.d., of Joseph C. Cabell, [Nelson
County, Virginia], answers to questionaire of the
Agricultural Society of Albemarle.
1 leaf.
Box 2 Folder 17
Note,
n.d., on objects for the attention
and inquiry of an agricultural society by Thomas
Jefferson.
2 leaves.
Box 2 Folder 18
List,
1817, of subjects for essays
assigned to members of Albemarle Agricultural Society by
Peter Minor.
3 p.
Box 1 Folder 9
Letter,
22 March 1817, Thomas Jefferson,
[Monticello], to General [John H.] Cocke, [Fluvanna
County], sending him plants.
2 p., copy.
Box 2 Folder 19
Letter,
October 1817, John H. Cocke,
[Fluvanna County], to Peter Minor, [Albemarle County],
concerning the Hessian fly.
2 leaves.
Box 2 Folder 20
Extract,
1 October 1817, of letter from
Joseph C. Cabell, [Nelson County], to General [John H.]
Cocke concerning the Agricultural Society of Albemarle
and agricultural societies in England.
3 p.
Box 1 Folder 10
Letter,
14 October 1817, Thomas Mann
Randolph, Monticello, [Albemarle County], to James
Madison, [Montpellier, Orange County, Virginia],
informing Madison of his election as president of the
Agricultural Society.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 21
Letter,
14 October 1817, Thomas Mann
Randolph, [Albemarle County], to Peter Minor, [Albemarle
County], calling for an extraordinary meeting of the
society.
3 p.
Box 2 Folder 22
Letter,
25 October 1817, Thomas Mann
Randolph, [Albemarle County], to Joseph C. Cabell,
[Nelson County], containing suggestions as to the proper
course of the society.
4 p.
Box 1 Folder 11
Report,
12 May 1818 [read], of Dr. Frank
Carr on practices of agriculture.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 23
Letter,
1818, John H. Cocke, [Fluvanna
County], to Peter Minor, [Albemarle County], concerning
manuring for wheat.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 12
Essay,
n.d., on management of sheep in
Scotland.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 13
Letter,
4 September 1818, John Overton,
Louisa [County, Virginia], to an unknown recipient
concerning the growing of corn.
1 leaf.
Box 2 Folder 24
Letter,
26 September 1818, Peter Minor,
Ridgeway, [Albemarle County], to Mr. [James] Madison,
[Orange County], on draining of land.
4 p.
Box 1 Folder 14
Letter,
7 November 1818, John Marshall,
Wilson Cary Nicholas, John Coalter, John Wickham, and
John Adams, for the Virginia Agricultural Socity to the
Secretary of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle
regarding the receipt of a communication.
1 leaf.
Box 2 Folder 25
Letter,
10 October 1819, James Barbour,
Barboursville, [Orange County], to Peter Minor,
[Albemarle], concerning the application of society funds
toward greater production.
4 p.
Box 2 Folder 26
Report,
n.d., of committee on James
Barbour's suggestions concerning the application of
funds to premiums.
6 p.
Box 1 Folder 15
Letter,
12 January 1820, John Adams to John
H. Cocke, [Fluvanna County], informing Cocke that he has
been elected president of the Society for Promoting
Agriculture in Virginia.
1 leaf.
Box 1 Folder 16
Letter,
9 February 1820, H. Holmes,
Winchester, [Virginia], to Peter Minor, [Albemarle
County], concerning stone fences.
4 p.
Box 1 Folder 17
Letter,
8 April 1820, James and Jacob
Douglas, Alexandria, [Virginia], to Peter Minor,
[Albemarle County], forwarding seeds.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 27
Report,
8 May 1820 (read), of Peter Minor on
gathering clover seed.
3 p.
Box 2 Folder 28
Letter,
June 1820, David Porter, Washington,
to Philip Barraud, [Norfolk, Virginia], concerning ruta
baga.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 18
Letter,
20 July 1820, Thomas Mann Randolph
to Joseph C. Cabell regarding horizontal
plowing.
2 p, copy.
Box 2 Folder 29
Letter,
15 August 1820, Dabney Minor, Orange
[County], to Peter Minor, [Albemarle County], regarding
farm diaries.
8 p.
Box 2 Folder 30
Letter,
5 October 1820, Ben Coleman,
[Spotsylvania County, Virginia], to Peter Minor,
[Albemarle County], concerning shoeing oxen.
3 p.
Box 2 Folder 31
Letter,
21 October 1820, John S. Skinner,
Baltimore, [Maryland], to Joseph C. Cabell, [Nelson
County], regarding farm accounts and
improvements.
3 p.
Box 2 Folder 32
Letter,
14 February 1821, Andrew Cocke, New
York, to Thomas Jefferson concerning seed
drills.
3 p.
Box 1 Folder 19
Letter,
25 February 1821, Jesse Buel,
Albany, [New York], to John S. Skinner, [Baltimore]
regarding corn.
3 p.
Box 1 Folder 20
Letter,
25 February 1821, Thomas Mann
Randolph, Richmond, [Virginia], to Peter Minor,
[Albemarle County] on purchasing horses from
Spain.
1 leaf.
Box 2 Folder 33
Letter,
24 July 1821, John Stuart Skinner,
Baltimore, to Joseph C. Cabell, [Nelson County],
concerning
"Brown on Rural
Affairs, " and Skinner's own work on
agriculture.
7 p.
Box 2 Folder 34
Letter,
12 October 1821, Peter Minor,
Ridgeway, [Albemarle County], to Joseph C. Cabell,
[Nelson County], regarding tobacco.
3 p.
Box 2 Folder 35
Letter,
17 October 1821, Peter Minor,
Ridgeway, [Albemarle County], to Joseph C. Cabell,
[Nelson County], regarding 2 acres of corn.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 36
Letter,
29 March 1822, John Skinner,
Baltimore, to Joseph C. Cabell, [Nelson County],
regarding [Peter] Minor's Appendix to Essay on
Tobacco.
1 leaf.
Box 2 Folder 37
Letter,
22 April 1822, Thomas Mann Randolph,
Richmond, to John H. Cocke, [Fluvanna County] on Cocke's
horse, Roebuck and his stock, and Cocke's threshing
machine.
1 leaf.
Box 2 Folder 38
Letter,
1822, Thomas Jefferson Randolph,
[Albemarle County], to Peter Minor, [Albemarle County],
concerning green manures.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 39
Circular letter,
21 October 1822, by James Madison
containing resolutions for a professorship of
agriculture at the University of Virginia.
3 p.
Box 1 Folder 21
Letter,
17 November 1822, James M. Garnett
for the Agricultural Society of Fredericksburg to the
Agricultural Society of Fredericksburg regarding a
professorship of agriculture at the University of
Virginia.
1 leaf.
Box 1 Folder 22
Letter,
15 December 1822, Peter Minor,
[Albemarle County], to John H. Cocke, [Fluvanna County]
concerning a professorship of agriculture at the
University of Virginia and his plow
business.
4 p.
Box 2 Folder 40
Letter,
8 December 1824, John Stuart
Skinner, Baltimore, to Joseph C. Cabell, [Nelson
County], concerning copies of the memoirs of the
Pennsylvania Agricultural Society.
1 leaf.
Box 2 Folder 41
Letter,
16 July 1825, Robert Stanard,
Richmond, to an unknown recipient regarding
wheat.
1 leaf.
Box 1 Folder 23
Letter,
21 July 1825, John Wickham,
[Richmond], to John H. Cocke, [Fluvanna County],
concerning wheat seed.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 42
Letter,
1 September 1825, Thomas Melville,
Pittsfield, [Massachusetts], to John S. Skinner,
[Baltimore], regarding corn crushers.
1 leaf.
Box 2 Folder 43
Letter,
12 September 1825, John S. Skinner,
Baltimore, to Joseph C. Cabell, [Nelson County]
regarding Cabell's letter on corn crushers.
1 leaf.
Box 2 Folder 44
Letter,
24 October 1825, James Barbour,
Washington, to Peter Minor, [Albemarle County], on a
professorship of agriculture at the University of
Virginia and on how internal improvements could help
agriculture.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 45
Essay,
3 March 1827, by Jesse Edgington
about sheep.
4 p.
Box 2 Folder 46
Letter,
1 February 1830, John Winn to Elisha
Boyd regarding a drum machine. Includes Boyd's reply.
Winn represented Fluvanna County and Boyd represented
Berkeley County in the House of Delegates at teh time
the letters were written.
3 p.
Box 1 Folder 24
Extract,
n.d., from Eubank on
Indian
Antiquities .
1 leaf.
Box 1 Folder 25
Copy,
n.d., of essay on Jethro
Tull.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 26
Letter,
1 July 1832, Rueben B. Patteson to
Nathaniel Francis Cabell,[Nelson County], containing a
proposed rotation scheme of crops for five fields
written by Cabell's father Nicholas Cabell, Jr., in
1808.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 27
Letter,
1 December 1832, Richard I. Gaines,
Wardfork, Charlotte [County], to Nathaniel Francis
Cabell, [Nelson County], concerning using leaves as
manure.
4 p.
Box 1 Folder 28
Letter,
18 June 1833, John H. Craven,
Penpark, [Albemarle County], to John H. Cocke, [Fluvanna
County], concerning buckwheat.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 47
Letter,
2 February 1837, Reverend J.
Kilpatrick to John H. Cocke, [Fluvanna County],
concerning the Bedford breed of swine.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 29
Letter,
9 February 1837, James M. Garnett,
[Essex County, Virginia], to John H. Cocke, [Fluvanna
County], regarding Maryland twin corn.
1 leaf.
Box 2 Folder 48
Letter,
3 August 1837, William W. Gilmer,
[Charles City County?, Virginia], to Nathaniel Francis
Cabell, [Nelson County] on raising hogs.
3 p.
Box 2 Folder 49
Letter,
12 April 1842, John Morris, Warren,
[Albemarle County], to Nathaniel Francis Cabell, [Nelson
County], concerning the cultivation of corn and an essay
by R. B. Patteson.
4 p.
Box 2 Folder 50
Letter,
18 October 1843, Hill Carter,
Shirley, [Charles City County], to John H. Cocke,
[Fluvanna County], regarding the management of
Shirley.
3 p.
Box 2 Folder 51
Letter,
5 October 1846, Richard Sampson to
John H. Cocke, [Fluvanna County], concerning the use of
lime and internal improvements along the James
River.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 52
Letter,
23 November 1846, Thomas Jefferson
Randolph, Edgehill, [Albemarle County], to Joseph C.
Cabell, [Nelson County], concerning stall-feeding
cattle.
2 leaves.
Box 1 Folder 30
Letter,
26 December 1846, Thomas Jefferson
Randolph, Edgehill, [Albemarle County], to Joseph C.
Cabell, [Nelson County], regarding stall-feeding
cattle.
4 p.
Box 2 Folder 53
Letter,
25 February 1847, Dr. Joseph E.
Muse, Cambridge, Maryland, to Nathaniel Francis Cabell,
[Nelson County], on Spanish tobacco.
3 p.
Box 2 Folder 54
Letter,
9 April 1847, Richard Sampson,
Richmond, to John H. Cocke, [Fluvanna County],
concerning Irish potatoes.
1 leaf.
Box 1 Folder 31
Letter,
1 February 1850, Alexander Rives to
Nathaniel Francis Cabell, [Nelson County], about a corn
cob crusher.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 32
Letter,
9 September 1853, P. V. H.
Steenbergen, Poplar Grove, [Mason County, (West)
Virginia], to Nathaniel Francis Cabell, [Nelson County],
containing reminiscences on Virginia
agriculture.
4 p.
Box 2 Folder 55
Letter,
17 December 1853, John Janney,
Leesburg, [Virginia], to Nathaniel Francis Cabell,
[Nelson County], regarding gypsum and clover
seed.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 33
Letter,
30 December 1853, Reverend Peyton
Harrison to William B. Harrison, [Prince George County,
Virginia], concerning plantatin management.
9 p.
Box 1 Folder 34
Letter,
2 January 1854, Daniel Janney,
Loudoun [County, Virginia], to Nathaniel Francis Cabell,
[Nelson County], describing agriculture in Loudoun
County.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 56
Letter,
5 January 1854, F. S. Sampson to
Nathaniel Francis Cabell, [Nelson County], on
farming.
1 leaf.
Box 1 Folder 35
Letter,
9 January 1854, Ben A. Donald,
Bedford County, [Virginia], to Nathaniel Francis Cabell,
[Nelson County], on sun-cured tobacco.
3 p.
Box 1 Folder 36
Letter,
11 January 1854, Yardley Taylor,
Purcellville, [Virginia], to Nathaniel Francis Cabell,
[Nelson County], on the development of agriculture in
Loudoun County.
6 p.
Box 1 Folder 37
Letter,
13 January 1854, Nathaniel Francis
Cabell, Warminster, [Nelson County], to Dr. Arthur Lee
Brent, concerning George Washington's contributions to
agriculture.
6 p.
Box 1 Folder 38
Letter,
8 February 1854, William Massie,
Pharsalia, [Nelson County], to Nathaniel Francis Cabell,
[Nelson County], on graduated furrows.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 39
Letter,
15 February 1854, Reverend Peyton
Harrison to Nathaniel Francis Cabell, [Nelson County],
concerning farm management.
4 p.
Box 1 Folder 40
Letter,
17 February 1854, John Augustine
Washington, Mount Vernon, [Fairfax County], to Dr.
Arthur Lee Brent concerning George Washington's
agricultural diary and the possible sale of Mount
Vernon.
3 p.
Box 1 Folder 41
Letter,
4 March 1854, H. M. Smith, Richmond,
to William B. Harrison, [Prince George County],
regarding corn shellers.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 42
Letter,
13 March 1854, William B. Harrison,
Brandon, [Prince George County], to Nathaniel Francis
Cabell, [Nelson County], regarding corn
shellers.
1 leaf.
Box 1 Folder 43
Letter,
12 May 1854, Philip St. George Cocke
to Nathaniel Francis Cabell, [Nelson County], concerning
green sand as manure.
1 leaf.
Box 1 Folder 44
Letter,
24 July 1854, Franklin Minor to
Nathaniel Francis Cabell, [Nelson County], stating that
he has gone through his father's papers for autographs
of his father and of James Madison, and for papers on
the Agricultural Society of Albemarle.
2 leaves.
Box 2 Folder 57
Letter,
25 August 1854, W. T. Walker, Dover,
[Loudoun County?], to Nathaniel Francis Cabell, [Nelson
County], containing reminiscences of Richard Sampson and
of agriculture in Albemarle County.
8 p.
Box 2 Folder 58
Letter,
14 September 1854, Stapleton C.
Snead, Bellevue, Nelson [County], to Nathaniel Francis
Cabell, [Nelson County], regarding threshing
machines.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 45
Letter,
18 September 1854, William Massie,
Pharsalia, Nelson [County], to Nathaniel Francis Cabell,
[Nelson County], concerning stone fences.
4 p.
Box 1 Folder 46
Letter,
30 September 1854, Thomas S.
Pleasants, Petersburg, [Virginia], to Nathaniel Francis
Cabell, [Nelson County], concerning a revolutionary-era
plow in Petersburg.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 47
Letter,
30 September 1854, William L. Booker
to Frank G. Ruffin regarding the books and papers of
William Meriweather.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 48
Note,
[30 September] 1854, from Dr. Joseph
B. Anderson containing additional information on William
Meriweather.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 59
Extracts,
[copied 30 September 1854], from
1802 agricultural diary of William
Meriweather.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 49
Letter,
11 October 1854, Yardley Taylor,
Loudoun County, to Nathaniel Francis Cabell, [Nelson
County], regarding the collection of
minerals.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 50
Letter,
13 October 1854, H. E. Watkins to
Nathaniel Francis Cabell, [Nelson County], concerning a
crop of wheat on Elk Island almost fifty years
earlier.
1 leaf.
Box 1 Folder 51
Letter,
16 October 1854, William Massie,
Pharsalia, Nelson [County], to Nathaniel Francis Cabell,
[Nelson County], concerning rock fences.
1 leaf.
Box 1 Folder 52
Letter,
27 October 1854, R. McPheeters,
Augusta County, to the president of the Virginia
Agricultural Society.
2 p.
Box 2 Folder 60
Letter,
28 October 1854, William B.
Harrison, Brandon, [Prince George County], to Edmund
Ruffin, with enclosure, letter, 9 October 1854, from
John R. Todd to William B. Harrison on the Smithfield
bacon trade.
4 p.
Box 1 Folder 53
Letter,
14 November 1854, Thomas S.
Pleasants, Petersburg, to Nathaniel Francis Cabell,
[Nelson County], concerning the Cassia
chamaecrista.
4 p.
Box 1 Folder 54
Letters,
26 February, 15 March, 16 May
1855, Reverend Jesse S. Armistead, Cumberland
[County, Virginia], to Joseph C. Cabell, [Nelson
County], regarding the manuring of tobacco.
11 p.
Box 1 Folder 55
Letter,
4 April 1855, W. T. Walker, Dover,
[Loudoun County?], to Nathaniel Francis Cabell, [Nelson
County], on Richard Sampson's method of
farming.
4 p.
Box 1 Folder 56
Letter,
23 April 1855, Edmund Ruffin, Prince
George [County], to Nathaniel Francis Cabell, [Nelson
County], regarding
American
Husbandry .
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 57
Letter,
12 May 1855, Thomas S. Pleasants,
Petersburg, to Nathaniel Francis Cabell, [Nelson
County], concerning Dr. Greenway's papers on
agriculture.
3 p.
Box 1 Folder 58
Letter,
21 January 1856, T. F. Nelson to
Nathaniel Francis Cabell, [Nelson County], concerning
Nelson's invention of a guano attachment to a wheat
drill and the theft of the idea from him.
3 p.
Box 1 Folder 59
Letter,
16 September 1853, John H. Beale,
Mason County[(West) Virginia], to Nathaniel Francis
Cabell, [Nelson County] regarding artificial
woods.
4 p.
Box 2 Folder 61
Letter,
16 May 1859, A. H. H. Bernard,
Mansfield, [Nelson County], to Nathaniel Francis Cabell,
[Nelson County], concerning the cultivation of
corn.
4 p.
Box 1 Folder 60
Letter,
16 July 1859, Henry S. Randall,
Cortland Village, New York, to Nathaniel Francis Cabell,
[Nelson County], regarding sheep husbandry.
4 p.
Box 1 Folder 61
Report,
3 November 1859, of the Committee on
Testimonials, Virginia Agricultural Society.
2 p.
Box 1 Folder 62
Report,
1860, of the Committee on
Essays.
3 p., copy.
Box 1 Folder 63
Letter,
4 September 1860, J. A. Gibson to
Nathaniel Francis Cabell, [Nelson County], concerning
curing tobacco.
1 leaf.
Box 1 Folder 64
Letter,
14 November 1860, Nathaniel Francis
Cabell, [Nelson County], to Edmund Taylor, [Campbell
County, Virginia], concerning Taylor's essay written
under the pseudonym Agricola, and submitted to the State
Agricultural Society. Includes copy of letter, 3 October
1860 from Charles B. Williams, Richmond, submitting the
essay from Agricola; copy of Agricola's letter to
Williams asking him to submit it to State Agricultural
Society; and copy of Agricola's letter to the
society.
17 p.
Box 1 Folder 65
Letters,
19 November, 29 December
1860, 22 March 1861, Edmund Taylor, [Campbell
County], to Nathaniel Francis Cabell, [Nelson County]
regarding modifications in his Agricola
essay.
14 p.
Box 1 Folder 66
Letters,
10, 21, 31 March, 4 April, 26
June, 15, 17 July 1879, Nathaniel Francis
Cabell, [Nelson County], to Colonel W. C. Knight on the
history of agriculture in Virginia.
25 p.
Box 1 Folder 67
Bibliography,
n.d., or Sources of a history of
agriculture in Virginia.
3 leaves and 36 p..
Box 1 Folder 68
Classified index,
n.d., to articles in Skinner's
American
Farmer .
1 leaf and 3 p.
Box 1 Folder 69
Index,
n.d., to authors of anonymous
articles in
Farmers
Register .
8 p.
Box 1 Folder 70
Index,
n.d., to matters treated in the
Westover Manuscripts.
3 p.
Box 1 Folder 71
Some fragments,
n.d., from an intended report on a
post-revolutionary history of agriculture in
Virginia.
24 p.
Box 2 Folder 62
Rules,
n.d., for judging a horse's
age.
4 p.
Box 1 Folder 72
Rules,
n.d., for observance on the Bremo
plantations and memoranda for practical agricultors,
including advice on slaves, by John H. Cocke, [Fluvanna
County].
7 p.
Box 1 Folder 73
Extracts,
n.d., from treatise on silk
manufacture in
Lardner's Cyclopedia , and
information on tobacco from
Harris'
Voyages .
4 p.
Box 1 Folder 74
Lists,
June 1879, of papers from the
collection of Joseph C. Cabell, of papers from the
collection of General John H. Cocke, and of papers on
matters of agriculture by General John H.
Cocke.
3 leaves.