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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Fred T. Newbraugh, Collector, Papers Regarding Berkeley Springs, A&M 1283, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Material includes signed letter from David H. Strother to Perley Poore, Berkley Springs, March 25, 1858; lottery ticket for town lot in Bath, 1814; Porte Crayon autograph, and a slave list, Berkley County. Photostats of material in the Library of Congress include an signed letter from William Wirt to his daughter, August 31 1823 on Berkeley Springs; Thomas Jefferson to Mr. Rodney Washington, December 8, 1808 in regard to gambler Thomas Bailey's assault on Jefferson's secretary; portion of a Journal of President James K. Polk describing a visit to Bath in 1848; and a section of the journal of Samuel Vaughan noting a visit to Bath in 1787. The collection also includes a section of "Uria Brown's Journal" from the "Maryland Historical Magazine," volumes 11 and 12 (1915, 1916), detailing a visit to the springs at Bath.

Typescripts include a copy of a diary kept by Robert Atkinson, a political prisoner from Morgan County while at Fort Delaware, 1862; notes on the Hinokle-Duckwall-Shade families copied from letters and notes of Laura Shade Michael; extracts from the diary of Deborah Comly, a governess for Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tutt of Berkley Springs in 1873, including an account of a trip to the new resort of Deer park, Maryland; and references to Berkeley Springs in Donn Piatt's "Sunday Meditations" (1893)

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Atkinson, Robert.
• Bailey, Thomas.
• Berkeley County (W. Va.)
• Berkeley Springs (W. Va.)
• Brown, Uria.
• Civil War -- War diaries
• Comly, Deborah.
• Diaries and journals.
• Hinckle-Duckwell-Shade family.
• Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
• Michael, Laura Shade.
• Morgan County (W. Va.)
• Newbraugh, Fred T.
• Piatt, Donn, 1819-1891
• Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849
• Poore, Benjamin Perley, 1820-1887
• Slaves and slavery.
• Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888
• Tutt, Charles.
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
• Vaughan, Joseph.
• Wirt, William, 1772-1834
• Women's history -- 1850-1899
• Women's history -- 1900-1929