Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Henkel Family Papers, Accession 8653-i, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

This addition to the papers of the Henkel family was given to the Library by Mrs. John Godfrey Miller of New Market, Virginia , through H.E. Comstock of Winchester, Virginia , on January 10, 1991 .

Funding Note

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

Scope and Content

This collection consists of the business, legal, and personal correspondence of the Henkel family of New Market, Virginia , and contains 356 letters (2 Hollinger boxes), 1800-1829, and undated, the majority of which are in German. The correspondents include John Gruber of Hagerstown, Maryland , concerning book purchases and the printing business in New Market ; Ambrose Henkel , Golden Spring, Rowan County, North Carolina , and Baltimore, Maryland , where he worked in a bookstore for a time, about family matters, preaching in the Lutheran Church, and book sales; letters from miscellaneous members of the Henkel family ; Charles Henkel ; Jacob Henkel ; Paul Henkel (6 folders of 126 letters); Philip Henkel (5 folders of 110 letters); the business of Samuel & S. Jackson , late David & S. Jackson ; Gideon L. Jones ; and Samuel Sower & Company .