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Accession number
10596-d
Title
Rives Family Papers, Compiled by Elizabeth
Langhorne
1839-1990
Physical Characteristics
150
items
Collector
Elizabeth
Langhorne
Language
English
Abstract
This collection contains Rives
family correspondence, photographs, biographical and
genealogical sketches, 1839-1990, along with research notes
and letters compiled by Elizabeth Langhorne.
The collection consists of papers of the Rives family, of
Albemarle County, Va., 1839-1990, compiled by Elizabeth
Langhorne. The papers contain family correspondence, together
with photographs, biographical and genealogical sketches, and
research notes and letters compiled by Langhorne.
Family correspondence discusses a feud between family
members, a Johns Hopkins position for William Cabell Rives,
Jr., efforts to finance a school in Rochester, N.Y., estate
settlement, Amelie Rives's "The Quick or the Dead?", family
news including deaths, marriages and a divorce, and
genealogical information. Of interest is a copy of a letter to
Judith Page Walker Rives from Robert E. Lee extending
condolences on the death of her husband William Cabell
Rives.
The collection also contains two poems by Judith Page
Walker Rives.
Letters to Bishop Philip Mercer, Helen
(Hamilton) Rhinelander, and Amelie Rives
Troubetzkoy
Discussing the death of cousin William
Cabell Rives
1939 Jan 2
Writing her appreciation for the
financial assistance to her family, and the
difficulties of her sister Gertrude (Rives) Potts
1940 Oct 10
Landon Rives, expressing her deep
gratitude for the financial assistance for
Gertrude (Rives) Potts
1940 Oct 1
News of Gertrude's health
1940 Nov 2
Friendly, Personal
1940 Nov 7
Giving details of her actions
concerning the check sent for Gertrude (Rives)
Potts
1940 Dec 19
Re Gertrude's husband Allen Potts and
son Thomas R. Potts telling "tales of our
iniquities," claim that Pierre and Amelie drove
her from "Castle Hill"; ongoing feud between
"Happy Creek" and Castle Hill"; mentions a friend,
Leslie Hepburn Beckler, who was a professor of Law
of the University of Virginia, 1929-1956
1940 Dec 29
Thomas R. Potts to Mrs. Rhinelander,
writing on behalf of his mother, Gertrude (Rives)
Potts, extending belated condolences on the death
of Bishop Rhinelander and thanking her for the
financial support
1941 Jan 10
Re Thomas R. Pott's recent cooperation
1941 Jan 14
Mrs. Rhinelander to Princess
Troubetzkoy, re the situation with Gertrude
(Rives) Potts
1941 Jan 17
Re family difficulties, Gertrude
(Rives) Potts
1941 Jan 24
Re a visit from Louise Potts concerning
the gravity of Gertrude's illness
1941 Feb 5
Letters to William Cabell Rives, Jr.
1876-1888
Francis Robert Rives (1822-1891)
offering contribution toward the church cemetery
in Albemarle County, Virginia
1876 Jan 1
Robert C. Winthrop re communication
with D.C. Gilman, enclosing letter from DCG,
concerning the placement of WCR, Jr. as a teacher
at Johns Hopkins University
1876 Jan 24
William Cabell Rives, Jr. re WCR III's
illness
1878 Oct 8
Robert C. Winthrop re Johns Hopkins
University trustees meeting around February to
discuss candidates
1880 Sep 8
Ella Rives (1834-1892) seeking help in
purchasing a new carpet for their mother's
bedroom, re farm operations and local news
1881 Apr 14
Thomas Underwood Dudley (1837-1904),
Bishop, re officiating in All Saints Chapel,
Newport, Rhode Island
1884 July 11
Anna Pell re Dr. Mercer's estate,
enclosing letter from Samuel Robertson Honey
(1842-1927), attorney, discussing conditions of a
charitable organization receiving a portion of Dr.
Mercer's estate
1884 July 14
Thomas Underwood Dudley accepting the
Rives' invitation
1884 July 19
J.E. Macfarland re difficulties in
beginning a school for boys in Rochester, now a
teacher of French in the Rochester Female Academy
and another institution conducted by Miss
Doolittle, seeking a small loan for the purpose of
forming a joint association with Miss Doolittle in
the conduct and management of her school
1884 July 22
Martin Brimmer re Macfarland and his
schemes and his struggle against ill fortune
1884 July 25
J.E. Macfarland in appreciation of his
assistance
1884 July 28
Martin Brimmer re Macfarland, his
admiration of J.W. Rogers
1884 July 3
Ella Rives discussing bad manners of
the young people, fixing up a little cottage at
"Beauval"
1886 June 29
Francis Robert Rives referring to
The Quick and the
Dead 1888 May 12
Letters to William Cabell Rives III
1896-1933
Grace Winthrop Sears Rives (1828- )
discourse on the wedding of Gertrude Rives and
Allen Potts
1896 Oct 21
Alexander Brown (1843-1906) re death of
his sister, Lucy Rives Boles in London, England,
his own reply to Mr. Henry in
The Virginia Historical
Magazine 1899 Jan 24
W.W. Scott, State Library, Richmond,
Virginia referring to the friendship of his
father-in-law John Willis and William Cabell
Rives' grandfather, William Cabell Rives, and
inquiring as to the location of Willis'
Buck's History of
Virginia lent to his grandfather
1899 Mar 7
Gertrude Rives Potts re problems with
Amelie and John Armstrong Chanler ruining her
character
1909 Oct 12
Ethel King to Mrs. William Cabell Rives
1927 Nov 19
Annie Rives C. Owen re genealogical
information of Rives, Saunders, and Pollard
families
1931 May 26
Margaret Walker Morgan re genealogical
information on the Walker family of "Castle Hill,"
with chart of Dr. Thomas Walker's descendants
1932 May 26
Gertrude Rives Potts, family news,
divorce of Thomas R. Potts and his wife, Katherine
1930 July 25
Gertrude Rives Potts, final divorce of
TRP, now legal guardian of their children,
mentions Amelie and Landon Rives
1932 Nov 26
Gertrude Rives Potts, re his kindness,
a falling out with "Castle Hill" family, her own
family problems, her son Tom running away and
marrying a sixteen year old girl, then divorcing,
and marrying a very undesirable woman, and her
poor health
1933 Dec 22
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