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James McDowell Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0449
Scope and Contents This collection contains two letters written to James McDowell while he was a Congressman. In one, dated May 16, 1848, James Paxton writes that he is not sure if the administration of Washington College needs changes, discusses the pay of the professors, which varied from $800 to $1300 per year, Governor William Smith's recent appointment of George H. Lee to fill a vacant judgeship. The other from C. S. M. Lee, J. S. Fishburn, and W. P. Wharton, dated December 6, 1848, asks him to deliver...
Dates: 1848
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

James McDowell Order Books

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0078
Scope and Contents

This collection contains James McDowell's General, Division, Brigade, and Regimental manuscripts order books.

Dates: 1814
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

James McDowell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0045
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of three documents: a land survey, Oct. 27, 1795, of 624 acres on the Big Calf Pasture River in Rockbridge County, Virginia; deed of trust between William Moore and Andrew Reid, Jr. in favor of McDowell, Oct. 8, 1804; deed of 29 1/2 acres on South River from David, an emancipated slave, and McDowell, Dec. 23, 1816. Included in the Control folder is a Thesis by Mary Boyce Hicks, "James McDowell and the Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831-32," Athens, Georgia, 2010.

Dates: 1795 - 1816
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

William Alexander Graham Narrative

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0099
Scope and Contents

A narrative of William Alexander Graham's journeys, medical training, and career from 1816-1819, in Lexington, and Abingdon, Virginia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, taken from his diaries and letters, including references to some well-known contemporary figures like actors James Wallack and Thomas Cooper and artist Benjamin West.There is a summary of included names and places in the control folder.

Dates: Inclusive 1816-1819
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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