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Preferred Citation:

J. Willcox Brown and Turner Macfarland Letters, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Acquisition Information:

Donated to William & Mary Libraries on behalf of Greta Brown Layton by her children.

Biographical Information:

John Willcox Brown was the son of John Thompson Brown and Mary Edloe (Willcox) Brown. He lived in Petersburg, Va. until 1869 when he moved to Baltimore, Md. He had served in the Confederate Army and was a lt. col of artillery. He married Ellen Turner Macfarland of Richmond in 1867. He was a banker and stock broker with the firm of Brown and Lowndes.

Scope and Contents

Contains 2 bound letterbooks. One volume has letters from J. Willcox Brown to Ellen Turner Macfarland, and the other volume contains her letters to him.There is also a microfilm reel of the correspondence.

Related Material

Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers, 1790- 1929, (I) Mss. 65 B 85

Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers, 1791- 1920, (II) Mss. 65 B 855

Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers, 1838- 1964, (III) Mss. 65 B 8555

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Correspondence
• Courtship
• Richmond (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
• Virginia--Social life and customs--19th century
• Women--Virginia--Social life and customs