Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Cabell family Papers, Accession 38-111-b, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

The Cabell family papers were purchased on December 30, 1985 .

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

This addition to the Cabell family papers contains ca. 120 items, 1770-1959, chiefly correspondence of the Cabell and related families. The collection also includes a photograph album containing 114 cartes-de-visite of Cabell family members, genealogical material concerning the Bogardus , Cabell , Gantt , Glover , Perkins and Simpson families, and miscellaneous papers.

Of note within the correspondence are letters to Eva Cabell , wife of William Russell Robinson , which coincide with the Civil War period. Letters from Peachy G. Harrison to Eva Cabell describe his general experiences during the war but do not discuss military engagements in any detail.

Several letters in the general correspondence contain items of interest: a photograph of Colonel Wirt Robinson (March 3, 1929); (references to the history of the house " Colleton " (March 19, 1939;) and notes concerning Robinson (December 24, 1952).

The miscellaneous papers include a few business papers of Captain John Cabell , 1770-1815; physician's licenses; school report cards; a history of the old Midway Mill , located on the James River near Wingina, Nelson County, Virginia ; poetry; and a photograph of the Cabell Memorial Chapel in Somersetshire, Great Britain .

The album has photographs of the following people plus some unidentified individuals: Tom Brandes , Mrs. Coalter Cabell , Eva Cabell , Jessie Cabell , Ted G. Cabell , Sadie Chapins , Jeannie Alston Claiborne , Mr. De[Lion ?], Jim Frazer , James Franklin Gate , Bettie Klien , Mary Mollet , Lizzie Cabell Ritchie , Cabell Robinson , Wirt Robinson , Sally Rutherford , Bettie Sanders , Emma Simpson , John N. C. Stockton , Marion D. Wadman , and Tulle' Walkins .