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Rives Family Papers, Accession #4331, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was purchased on 1953 July 9.
This collection consists of correspondence letters, business and legal papers of the Rives Family. Correspondents include Alexander Brown, James P. Henderson, Samuel Pannill, Alexander Rives, Cornelia Rives, Elizabeth Pannill Rives, Margaret Cabell Rives, Robert Rives, Jr., William Cabell Rives,
-- re an account for a wagon, made out and price fixed by Mr. Cocke; family illnesses
-- re an account concerning Mrs. Vaughan and Mr. William M. Ewen
--re accounts with Mr. Harris and Mr. Ewen
-- re "an abominable and unpardonable lie about the furniture" that he had told
-- probability of cholera in Albemarle; William Pannill's visit to "Oakland," Warren
-- corn and tobacco crops; disgust with convention
-- book prices; family news
-- crops, prices, etc.
-- business
-- financial; labor troubles
-- family news
-- family and local news; his plantations in Nelson County; the marriage of James P. Holcombe to Ann Watts, daughter of General Watts
-- congratulations on his marriage
-- family and farm
-- family and farm
-- extreme illness of his father
-- personal and family news
-- death of her sister Ann
-- wedding of Finny Gannt
-- travelling instructions
-- farm affairs
-- on travelling
-- family news; sunken freight boat
-- her visit to "Allegheny Springs"
-- her visit to "Allegheny Springs"; danger of landslides of Virginia and Tennessee Railroads; death or Dr. Richard Thornton
-- father's estate
-- regrets on latter's absence from an event [a wedding?]
-- opinions on war and politics
-- wheat and finances
-- two runaway slaves
-- family news
-- brief description of Pittsburg
-- attitude toward war
-- mentioning visit of Grant to Richmond
-- the former's lost love
-- law license, Virginia