Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Fontaine Family Papers, Accession 7984, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

The collection was purchased July 7, 1965.

Funding Note

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

Scope and Content

This collection consists of ca. 355 items, ca. 1809-1908, pertaining to families in Buckingham County . There are correspondence, personal papers, and legal papers of these families, especially the Fontaine family . Papers of Walter L. Fontaine , a lawyer in Buckingham County and Cumberland County , concern his practice and his actions as executor of several estates. Included is a list of receipts for bonds presented for suit to Valentine W. Southall including an 1819 bond from Wilson Cary Nicholas and Thomas Jefferson Randolph to John Wayles Eppes . There are also a letter, March 12, 1820, from John Wayles Eppes to Walter A. Fontaine , which mentions Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Jefferson Randolph ; and, a letter, February 24, 1828, from John Daniel to Walter Fontaine regarding bonds.