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Peebles-Watson-Arrington Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Gift
Mss. 98 P34 combined Accessions 1997.27 and 1997.55 during processing.
The two boxes were combined into one box, but folder labels still reflect two boxes. July 2009.
Folder labels now reflect the new one-box arrangement. June 2015.
Papers and photographs, 1871-1913, bulk 1873-1904, of the Peebles, Watson and Arrington families of Norfolk and Petersburg, Va. Includes letters, primarily from Joseph Littleton Peebles to Kate S. Watson during their courtship and marriage. Also includes genealogical notes. The Peebles farm is a part of the Petersburg National Battlefield Park.
Following the correspondence and family documents is a subseries of photographs arranged by individual names, first by gender and then alphabetically. Some folders combine multiple individuals.
Letters from Joseph Littleton Peebles in Petersburg, Virginia to Kate Smith Watson, also in Petersburg, Virginia, during their courtship. (26 items.)
Letters from Joseph L. Peebles, in Petersburg, Virginia, to Kate S. Watson, also in Petersburg, Virginia, during their courtship. (29 items.)
Letters from Joseph L. Peebles, in Petersburg, Virginia, to his wife Kate W. Peebles, while she was visiting relatives in Littleton, North Carolina. (6 items.)
Letters from Joseph L. Peebles, in Petersburg, Virginia, to his wife Kate W. Peebles, while she was visiting relatives in Littleton, North Carolina. (7 items)
Letters from Joseph L Peebles, in Petersburg Virginia, to his wife Kate Watson Peebles, while she was visiting relatives in Prince George County, Virginia. (4 items.)
Letters from Joseph L. Peebles, in Petersburg, Virginia, to his wife Kate W. Peebles, while she was visiting relatives in Portsmouth, Virginia. One letter from Joseph, in Roanoke, Virginia, to Kate, in Norfolk, Va., on her birthday. (7 items.)
Letters and poems from Dr. John T. Watson, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to his daughter Kate W. Peebles, Petersburg, Virginia. (4 items.)
Miscellaneous letters to Kate Watson from various suitors, including her cousin Jacob Bauth; from her sons John Frederick Peebles and Joseph L. Peebles Jr.; and from her brother Sidney Peebles following the death of their father Dr. John T. Watson. (8 items.)
Miscellaneous documents pertaining to the Peebles and Watson families, including birth and wedding anouncements, obituaries and other newspaper clippings, and a deed of sale for property bought by Kate Peebles from B.W. Leigh. (10 items.)
Miscellaneous documents pertaining to Kathryn Peebles Grant, the donor of the collection, her husband Walter Seay Grant and their family, of Rawlings, Virginia. Includes birth and baptism certificates, school records, post cards, a newspaper clipping, and notes by the donor on the collection. (17 items.)
Letters from Joseph L. Peebles, in Petersburg, Virginia, to Kate Watson, in Petersburg, Virginia, during their courtship and marriage. (10 items.)
Letters from Kate S. Watson to J. L. Peebles during their courtship and her pregnancy with their first child. (3 items.)
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Scope and Contents Bears the notation "showing typical Confederate soldier and uniform" in the back. Previously removed from its case and in poor condition. 3" x 3.5" For preservation reasons, placed not in a folder but in a small box at the end of the larger box in between spacers.