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William & Mary Special Collections Research CenterFinding Aid Authors: Jeffrey Flanagan, SCRC Staff
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Gift
Arranged and described by Jeffrey Flanagan, SCRC staff in September 2009-February 2010.
Processing completed in late 2010 and early 2011 by Anne Johnson.
Mss. Acc. 2011.269 addition given as a gift by William R. Galt.
Captain William W. Galt (1852-1934) was a direct descendent of John Minson Galt, the senior surgeon at the Battle of Yorktown and founder of the insane asylum in Williamsburg. Captain Galt's application for the position of Assistant Paymaster with the US Navy was dated March 20, 1876. He reached the ranks of Paymaster by 1893 when he was dispatched for duty to Norfolk. He served in the Navy for 50 years and won a promotion from Congress to Captain. He married Mary Blair Grigsby and they had six children. Mrs. Galt was the daughter of Hugh Blair Grigsby, Chancellor of The College of William and Mary from 1871 to 1881. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .
This collection contains the family papers of members of the Grigsby and Galt Families. Mary Blair Grigsby married William W. Galt in 1881. The collection contains papers of various members of the Grigsby family, particulary Hugh Blair Grigsby who was a historian and Chancellor of The College of William and Mary and his son, Hugh Carrington Grigsby who lived his entire life at the family farm, Edgehill, in Charlotte County, Virginia.
The collection also contains the personal papers and some navy material of William W. Galt, U. S. Navy Paymaster and author of a book on the Battle of Manila Bay. Extensive correspondence to and from all the members of his family is included.
Both these groups contain correspondence, genealogy, financial papers and personal papers.
The Galt Family resided in Norfolk, Virginia and the Grigsby Family at Edgehill, Drakes Branch, Charlotte County, Virginia.
Gift of the Zimermann family of Susan Galt, daughter of William W. Galt.
The collection has been divided into Series 1, Galt Family; Series 2, Grigsby Family; Series 3 for material from both families; and Series 4 for photographs from both families. Series 1, Galt Family, includes most of the correspondence from the Galt Family and is filed in chronological order, regardless of recipient.
Hugh Blair Grigsby Papers (Mss. 95 G87).
Many collections concerning various branches of the Galt Family are part of the Special Collections Research Center. Hugh Blair Grigsby documents also appear in William & Mary College collections.
The Virginia Historical Society has a large Grigsby Family collection: Hugh Blair Grigsby Papers (Mss 1 G8782 b).
Artifacts have been removed from the collection and filed in the Mss. Artifact Collection.
The collection contains moldy material and is shelved separately.
The Galt Family was from Norfolk, Virginia. William Wilson Galt, a Naval officer, lived at various addresses in Norfolk and overseas. In 1881, he married Mary Blair Grigsby, daughter of Hugh Blair Grigsby and Mary Venable Carrington, also of Norfolk, Virginia, then later of Charlotte County, Virginia. Hugh Blair Grigsby was a historian, president of the Virginia Historical Society and chancellor of William & Mary. Mary Blair Grigsby and William Wilson Galt had 6 children: Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, William Richard Galt, Robert W. Galt, Mary Carrington Galt, Susan D. Galt and Carrington G. Galt. These Galt Papers are the family papers of Mary Blair Grigsby Galt, William Wilson Galt and their children. Includes letters written to Mary Blair Grigsby Galt before her marriage to William Wilson Galt. Includes some Naval correspondence of William Wilson Galt, but also check subseries 4 , the personal papers of William Wilson Galt.
This sub-series is primarily comprised of letters between William Wilson Galt and his family, friends, and colleagues from 1863-1927. Correspondents and recipients include William Wilson Galt, Mary Blair Grigsby Galt, Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt and others. Considerable number of letters are between other Galt family members and their friends, family, and colleagues. William Wilson Galt was a Navy Paymaster and wrote letters to his family from all over the world. Topics of this correspondence include the courtship of his wife, family news such as births, deaths, and job changes, the financial and parental administration of his home, his naval career, his publishing career, and Masonic Lodge business. See also the sub-series for each family member for more correspondence and papers.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and his family, friends, and colleagues; Handwritten copy of Galt's application for Assistant Paymaster with the Navy, dated 1876 March 20, and resignation as Junior Deacon at Owens Lodge in Norfolk, Virginia, dated 1878 April 9; Reference letters written on behalf of Galt by T. M. Barner of Norfolk, Virginia, 1871, and Banking House of Burruss, Son, & Co. of Norfolk, Virginia, 1873. 1878 January 25, confidential letter from C.P. Thompson noting that Galt's application was possibly complicated by the fact that Galt's two brothers were also in the Navy.
Love letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby, to William Wilson Galt from Hugh Carrington Grigsby and from S. C. Daniel at Hampden-Sydney College to Mary Blair Grigsby. 1879 February 21 Hampton Sidney anniversary invitation. 1879 February 5 fun letter from William Wilson Galt, approved by Mary B. Grigsby, future mate, to Hugh Blair Grigsby saying in part, "I have the honor respectfully to transmit herewith a requisition for a mate for this vessel..." with an attached "Jewel" requisition, and1879 April 22 and 26 letters from William Wilson Galt to Hugh Blair Grigsby asking to court and marry his daughter, Mary Blair Grigsby. Correspondence about his position as an assistant Navy Paymaster. 1879 May 27 letter to James S. Galt from assistant Paymaster William Wilson Galt appointing him clerk to the Pay Office at the Naval Station in Key West, Florida, plus related correspondence about the appointment.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from J. H. Dillard (Mary Blair Grigsby's cousin), father William Richard Galt, friend and naval colleague C. P. Thompson; letter from William Wilson Galt to Mary Blair Grigsby. 1879 October 30 letter from R.W. Thompson thanks Galt for rescuing the officers and crew of the disabled schooner, Empress.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letters to William Wilson Galt from parents, sister Molly, C. P. Thompson; letter from L. R. Hamersly, publisher of "United Service" publication, regarding article William Wilson Galt wrote on Key West Naval Station.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from Barton Myers, father William Richard Galt, sister Molly, and brother Rogers.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from father William Richard Galt, brother Rogers, J. H. Dillard, C. P. Thompson, A. K. Micheler, C. Hubbell; letter from Livingston W. Bethel, mayor of Key West, regarding James S. Galt; letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby. Invitation to wedding of Elizabeth Easley and William Carrington Lancaster on 1880 September 25.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letter from William Wilson Galt to Mary Blair Grigsby's mother Mary V. Grigsby; clipping of advertisement for William Richard Galt's school.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letter to William Wilson Galt from C. P. Thompson; Copies of general orders 255 and 256 from Navy Department.
Christmas cards sent to William Wilson Galt; letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letter to William Wilson Galt from sister Annie; letter, written in Spanish, to William Wilson Galt from Mrs. M. A. Thornbury of Albany, GA.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letter to Mary Blair Grigsby from Annie Galt (William's sister); letter to William Wilson Galt from father William Richard Galt; William Wilson Galt's ticket to the Leap Year Ball at the Odd Fellows Hall on 1881 January 13.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; Dinner party invitation to William Wilson Galt from Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Thompson.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; Photograph negatives of unidentified subjects.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; Postcards to William Wilson Galt from Mary Blair Grigsby. Much of this correspondence refers to failing health of Hugh Blair Grigsby, Mary's father and former chancellor of the College of William & Mary.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letters to William Wilson Galt from Corinne and Frank (no last names given) from Key West, E. O. Locke; letter to Mary Blair Grigsby from cousin P. E. Pearl. Much of this correspondence refers to failing health of Hugh Blair Grigsby, Mary's father and former chancellor of the College of William & Mary.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letter to Mary Blair Grigsby from cousin Samuel W. Morton. Most letters refer to failing health and eventual death of Hugh Blair Grigsby, Mary's father and former chancellor of the College of William & Mary.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letters to Mary Blair Grigsby from Walker M. Hill, Freddie Venable, Robert Winthrop, C. Carrington, "Sue" from Stockdale, Nannie Hannah, and Mary F. Vaughn. Most letters express condolences for death of Hugh Blair Grigsby.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letters to William Wilson Galt from brother James Galt and Angela Baldwin.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letters to William Wilson Galt from brother Bob, brother Jim, E. O. Locke, Virginia Ritchie, J. H. Dillard, and anonymous writer who signed only "A Friend" to his or her note; letter to Mary Blair Grigsby from Cynthia B. T. Lohman.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letters to William Wilson Galt from brother Jim, sister Susan W. W. Galt, and E. O. Locke.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letters to William Wilson Galt from sister Annie, sister Susan W. W. Galt, cousin Jane, and T. L. Skinner.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letters to William Wilson Galt from sister Susan W. W. Galt, sister Annie, brother Jim, and brother Rogers.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letters to William Wilson Galt from brother Jim and sister Molly; letter to Mary Blair Grigsby from brother Hugh Carrington Grigsby concerning the exchange of Mary's share in Edgehill farm in Charlotte County, Virginia for property in Norfolk, Virginia.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letters to William Wilson Galt from Aunt J. W. R. Galt, T. W. Clark, and E. O. Locke.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letters to William Wilson Galt from brother Jim and sister Molly.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letters to William Wilson Galt from father William Richard Galt and E. O. Locke.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letters to William Wilson Galt from sister Susan W. W. Galt and E. O. Locke; Program for Yorktowne Centennial Commission's Promenade Concert and Hop on October 18, 1881.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letters to William Wilson Galt from brothers Bob and Jim; letters to Mary Blair Grigsby from William's father William Richard Galt and sister Annie.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby; letter to William Wilson Galt from S. G. Baylor.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby Galt; letters to William Wilson Galt from A. K. Micheler, S. Hubbell, cousin Kate, sister Susan W. W. Galt, brother Rogers, and mother Mary W. Galt; letters to Mary Blair Grigsby Galt from cousin Lance Watkins and William's sister Annie; letter to Mary Blair Grigsby Galt's mother Mary V. Grigsby from Annie Galt; letter to mother Mary W. Galt from William Wilson Galt. Most correspondence relates to the wedding of William Wilson Galt to Mary Blair Grigsby Galt. Drawings of various persons, animals, weapons, and musical instruments.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Galt; letters to William Wilson Galt from sister Susan W. W. Galt and E. O. Locke; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William's sister Molly, William's brother Bob, and Mary's cousin J. W. Morton; letter to mother Mary W. Galt from William Wilson Galt.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from father William Richard Galt and sister Annie; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt; drawing of William Wilson Galt's martins while deployed in Santo Domingo, drawn by William.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from uncle George, father William Richard Galt, brother Jim, Thomas C. Walton, and S. F. Earle; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, cousin Leila, Mother Mary V. Grigsby, Nannie Hannah, Emma Bates, Lizzie Boykin, William's sister Susan W. W. Galt, and "M. F. V." of Franklin County, Virginia.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from uncle George; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, mother Mary V. Grigsby, Nannie Hannah, and William's sister Annie Galt; letter to mother Mary W. Galt from William Wilson Galt.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from father William Richard Galt, sister Molly, and Mary V. Grigsby; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, Nannie Hannah, mother Mary V. Grigsby, and William's sister Molly; letter to cousin Lizzie from William Wilson Galt.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from N. G. Wilson, Charlie Anisdue, C. W. Littlefield, R. W. Ball, N. P. Markham, and brother Bob; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, mother Mary V. Grigsby, and William's sister Susan W. W. Galt.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Galt; letters to William Wilson Galt from father William Richard Galt, T. W. Lester, and A. E. L. Lester; letter to Mary Blair Galt from Clara Morris; postcards to Mary Blair Galt from mother Mary V. Grigsby; letter to "Alice" from Mary Blair Galt.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from father William Richard Galt, sister Susan W. W. Galt, Robert Wilson, and Mary V. Grigsby; letter to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt; postcard to William Wilson Galt from Robert Wilson.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from J. W. Stewart; letters to Mary Blair Galt from Susan W. W. Galt and Clara Morris; letter to Mary W. Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter written by G. R. Pavis certifying that he "exhonerates Dr. John M. Galt from all charges that have been or may be brought against him," dated 1882 October 23.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt and E. B. Baylor; letter to Hugh Carrington Grigsby from Lyon G. Tyler; postcards to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, Fannie Barringer, Sallie Jones, "Evaline", and "Langhorne".
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, Molly Galt, Annie Galt, Susan W. W. Galt, and Nannie Hannah.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, Susan W. W. Galt, and Mary A. Galt (William's grandmother).
Letters to William Wilson Galt from father William Richard Galt, sister Susan W. W. Galt, brother John Galt, brother Jim Galt, uncle George, Thom Donough, Thom Caswell, Robert Winthrop, S. D. Greeve, Charlie Anisdue, J. D. Doyle, and T. W. Lester; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, Annie Galt, and Susan W. W. Galt; primary focus of all August correspondence congratulates Mr. and Mrs. William Wilson Galt on the birth of their son Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt on 1883 August 3.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt and Sallie Jones; letter to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt; invitation to wedding of Emma Bates and Sterling E. Edmunds on 1883 September 12.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from grandmother S. M. Christian; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt and Susan W. W. Galt; letter to Mary V. Grigsby from Mary Blair Galt.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from father William Richard Galt, uncle George, brother Rogers, brother Bob, sister Susan W. W. Galt, Hugh Carrington Grigsby, E. O. Locke, T. W. Lester, Edward D. Washburn, and J. M. West; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, "MLC" from Mulberry Hill, Virginia, and Nannie Hannah; letter to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Richard Galt; letters to Jim Galt from brother Rogers, brother Zander, brother Alex, "Neal", and "Angel"; letters to Jim were generally concerned with his failing health; letters dated late June through early July express condolences to Galts regarding Jim's death.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from father William Richard Galt, uncle James D. Galt, brother Rogers, brother Zander, brother Bob, sister Annie, Hugh Carrington Grigsby, and Charlie Anisdue; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, Annie Galt, and Mary W. Galt; receipt from George P. Zurhorst for (William's brother) John Galt's funeral expenses, dated 1885 January 16.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from father William Richard Galt, mother Mary W. Galt, uncle James D. Galt, brother Zander, brother Rogers, brother Bob, grandmother S. M. Christian, Hugh Carrington Grigsby, Charlie Anisdue, G. L. Dyer, C. A. Stanly, William T. Saunders, and Dr. Donald Phais; postcard to William Wilson Galt from Bancroft Gherardi; telegram to William Richard Galt from Mary Blair Galt. Much of the correspondence in June is regarding the birth of Mr. and Mrs. William Wilson Galt's second son, William Richard.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from T. W. Lester; letters to Mary Blair Galt from mother Mary V. Grigsby, William Wilson Galt, Robert Winthrop, Hallie R. Grier; letter to Mary V. Grigsby from Mary Blair Galt; postcard to Mary Blair Galt from Mary V. Grigsby. Prescription for quinine treatment for William Wilson Galt.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from uncle James D. Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, mother Mary V. Grigsby, cousin Emily, Nannie Bobbing, Annie Galt, Mary W. Galt, and Susan W. W. Galt.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, mother Mary V. Grigsby, cousin P. E. Pearl, L. B. Cary, and John B. Phase.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt and mother Mary V. Grigsby.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from Harriet Gridley and Eluior Allen.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from cousin Emily; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, Mary Davidson, and George K. Mullin, proprietor of Luray Inn in the Shenandoah Valley. Advertisements for Luray Inn attached to Mullin's letter to Mary Blair Galt.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from brother Xander and T. W. Lester; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, mother Mary V. Grigsby, and William Richard Galt; letter to father William Richard Galt from William Wilson Galt; letters to Mary V. Grigsby from Mary Blair Galt and Louisa Baxter.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from father William Richard Galt, son Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, W. T. Churtain, and Barton Myers; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt; letters to Mary V. Grigsby from Mary Blair Galt; Easter card to Mary Blair Galt from Robert Winthrop.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from son Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt and W. Farvot Walk; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt; letters to William Richard Galt from Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt and William Wilson Galt; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from father William Richard Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt and uncle John Whitehead; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt and aunt Molly; William Wilson Galt's invitation to join Cosmos Club in San Francisco as extended by W. R. Wheeler and S. E. Tucker, dated 1891 November 10.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt and William Richard Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to William Richard Galt from Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt; two photographs, one is too damaged to distinguish the subject, the second is seemingly a photo of William Wilson Galt with four of his children, presumably Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, William Richard Galt, Mary Carrington Galt, and Robert Ware Galt.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from father William Richard Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, mother Mary V. Grigsby, uncle John Whitehead, Kate Venable, Olga Dour, and M. H. Macrae; letter to son William Richard Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to daughter Mary Carrington Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to grandfather William Richard Galt from Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, father-in-law William Richard Galt, sister-in-law Annie Galt, and Emma Prud.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from father William Richard Galt, sister Annie Galt, and M. R. Catlin; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, sister-in-law Molly, sister-in-law Annie, brother-in-law Bob, and father-in-law William Richard Galt.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from sister Susan W. W. Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, Emily Galt, Annie Galt, Sallie Aibinson, M. H. Macrae, Eustace B. Rogers, and Lucie Watkins; letter from "Howard" to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt; letter to Zena Galt from William Wilson Galt; telegram to Mary Blair Galt from Eustace B. Rogers.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from C. A. Stanly, G. W. Crusselle, E. A. Morecock, and F. M. Bostwick; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, Susie Galt, Mary M. Galt, Sue B. Glennon, M. H. Macrae, and W. L. Cosby. Much of the correspondence in this period is regarding the birth of Mr. and Mrs. William Wilson Galt's daughter Susie Alexina.
Letters between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Galt; letter to William Wilson Galt from H. Lee Holcombe; letter to Mary Blair Galt from Molly Galt; letter to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt; telegram to William Wilson Galt from H. Lee Holcombe.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from cousin Lucy and Charles Swift; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from Mary Blair Galt.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from brother Rogers, son William Richard Galt, sister Susan W. W. Galt Duane, John S. Williams, and Acting Secretary of the Navy William McAdoo; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, C. L. Loyale, and Emily V. Galt; telegrams to William Wilson Galt from George Brown and Shields; invitation to wedding of Guilielma Lawton and Abram Carrington Read on 1894 October 10.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, Hugh Carrington Grigsby, and Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt; letter to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from son William Richard Galt, Secretary of the Navy Hilary Abner Herbert, and Dr. John Wyeth; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, J. P. Lawrence, and W. A. Boykin; letter to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to Robert Ware Galt from "Charles".
Letters to William Wilson Galt from J. Saunders Taylor and T. F. Rogers; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt and uncle John Whitehead; letter to daughter Susie Alexina Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to daughter Mary Carrington Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to son Robert Ware Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to T. F. Rogers from Mary Blair Galt.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from R. M. Wells and William A. Varty, Jr.; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt; invitation to wedding of Catharine Sampson and Richard Harrison Jackson on 1897 January 6.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from brother Alexander Galt, son Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, Edmund S. Ruffin and Rupert W. Tomlin, R. M. Wells, F. A. Salomonson, Hammond B. Gayfer, A. K. Micheler, M. B. Crowell, and S. Cleburne Browne; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt and Marie B. Sheppard; invitation to wedding of Katharyn Salome and John B. Maher on 1897 May 26.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from George Dragoman, George Casanova, Joseph Starkey, and L. Haller Mingarda; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, uncle John Whitehead, and Barton Meyers. William Wilson Galt's letters to Mary Blair Galt were sent from a variety of locations: Gibraltar, Algiers, Smyrna, Piraeus.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from W. R. Drida; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, uncle John Whitehead, and Dr. Southgate Leigh. William Wilson Galt's letters to Mary Blair Galt were written from a variety of locations: Smyrna, Gibraltar, Algiers, Tangier.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from son Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, F. Scinicariello, Horatio Sprague, and H. L. Gregg; letters to Mary Blair Grigsby from William Wilson Galt, uncle John Whitehead, and daughter Mary Carrington Galt; postcards to wife Mary Blair Galt, son Robert Ware Galt, daughter Susie Alexina Galt, and sister Mollie Galt from William Wilson Galt; menus from Hotel-Restaurant de la Paix and Grand Hotel Brunate; bill for plumbing services from E. E. Guy & Sons in Norfolk, Virginia; William Wilson Galt's letters and postcards were written from Genoa, Rome, and Mersina, Italy.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from son Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt and daughter Mary Carrington Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, uncle John Whitehead, nephew Rogers Harrison Galt, niece Mary M. Galt, niece Elizabeth Ashe Galt, Mary H. Boyd, Dr. Alexander Duane, Dr. Southgate Leigh, Ada Harvey, J. T. Van Patten, and the Army-Navy Journal; letter to son William Richard Galt from William Wilson Galt, including photographs of a torpedo gust leaving the tube when fired from the Raleigh at Mersina, after it left the tube, entering the water after it was fired, about 10 feet from the ship as the torpedo entered in for its course towards the target. Letter to daughter Mary Carrington Galt from William Wilson Galt, including one photograph of Dr. Marsteller and WWG, Mersina, 1897 November 25, USS Raleigh; letter to children Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, William Richard Galt, Robert Ware Galt, Mary Carrington Galt , and Susie Alexina Galt from William Wilson Galt, including a chart detailing the cities and ports visited by the USS Raleigh over nearly a one year period; letter to aunt Molly Galt from William Richard Galt; Reference letter written by William Wilson Galt on behalf of J. T. Van Patten.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from Charles H. Eldridge, Max Rosenberg, Demege, Reid, & Co., and Delmege, Forsythe, & Co.; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, son William Richard Galt, son Robert Ware Galt, uncle John Whitehead, cousin Lara, Dr. Alexander Duane, Virginia Mason, Emma Prud, Lizzie Boykin, Mary E. Carrington, Annie Watkins, Susan Morton, and Alice Green; letter to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to J. B. Coghlan from William Wilson Galt; invitation to celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Military Service Institution of the United States on February 10.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from son William Richard Galt, son Robert Ware Galt, and J. T. Van Patten; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, Mary Saunders, "Belle", E. H. Marsteller, and T. W. Wood & Sons; letter to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to William Richard Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to all children from William Wilson Galt. Topics include William Wilson Galt's observations of the people and lifestyle of Hong Kong and the oncoming Spanish-American War.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from daughter Mary Carrington Galt and Henry Romeike; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, uncle John Whitehead, Alexander Galt, I. B. McPhail, Emma Prud, T. Hall & Mingardo, Anne Letham, A. S. Kenny, and "Belle"; letter to children from William Wilson Galt; translation of a proclamation by the Governor-General of the Philippines; clipping from Army and Navy Journal relating William Wilson Galt's good health after Battle of Manila Bay; printed picture of USS Raleigh; newspaper clipping relating death of Captain Charles Vernon Gridley (William Wilson Galt is mentioned in the article as having reported the death to the Navy Department). Most of William Wilson Galt's letters deal with the Battle of Manila Bay (1898 May 1). Included in his letter to Mary Blair Galt on May 1 is a hand-drawn map of the American battle plan.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from son Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt and Katherine Gridley; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, son William Richard Galt, L. B. Cary, W. L. Cosby, "Lillie", "Sue", and J. G. Shackelford.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from son Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, uncle John Whitehead, son Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, son William Richard Galt, Annie Galt, Emily Galt, J. G. Shackelford, L. B. Cary, Dr. Southgate Leigh, and Lyon G. Tyler; letter to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to "Miss Nannie" from William Richard Galt.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from son Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt and son William Richard Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, son Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, son William Richard Galt, W. J. Upshur, and W. L. Cosby.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from daughter Mary Carrington Galt and son William Richard Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, son William Richard Galt, son Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, Annie Galt, J. G. Shackelford, P. B. Eggleston, Stern Brothers, Larkin Soap Company, Emily Watkins, W. L. Cosby, and Alice B. Greer; invitation to wedding of Cecile Amelie and Cornelius de Witt on 1898 November 15.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from son Robert Ware Galt, son William Richard Galt, and son Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, son Robert Ware Galt, daughter Mary Carrington Galt, daughter Susie Alexina Galt, son William Richard Galt, niece Elizabeth Ashe Galt, niece Mary M. Galt, W. A. Boykin, J. P. Lawrence, J. C. Byenes, and N. Sherwell.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from son William Richard Galt, Laura Sherwood Picking, and C. L. Chamberlaine; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, son William Richard Galt, uncle John Whitehead, cousin Lottie Carrington, Marie Marsteller, W. A. Boykin, B. Boykin, L. B. Cary, C. M. Meginley, and J. G. Shackelford; letter to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from Bessie Daniel. Invitations to wedding of Rosalie Smith and Dr. Isaac Carrington Harrison on January 24, Katharine Storrow and William C. Scott on February 21. Program for 10th Anniversary Service at St. John's Church in Portsmouth, Virginia. Lakewood, New Jersey Railroad timetable.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from Mann L. Quarles and Dr. William T. Bull; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, son William Richard Galt, cousin Margaretta Clingh, Annie Galt, Dr. Alexander Duane, N. C. Lalcolt, C. M. Meginley, J. G. Shackelford, and W. L. Cosby.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from E. J. Bogart and L. B. McPhail; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, son William Richard Galt, son Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, Rogers Galt, W. L. Cosby, and Inez Wichus Montague; letter to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from W. C. "Charlie" Hardy, Jr. with a collection of stamps included. Invitation to wedding of Susan Hedge Amsden and Carl Sutherland Parker on 1899 June 7, Emily Louisa Sawyer and John Nichols Moore on 1899 June 28.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, uncle John Whitehead, and "Lillie"; letter to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from W. C. "Charlie" Hardy, Jr.; freight bill from Southern Railway Co. for William Wilson Galt.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from brother Rogers Galt, Charles H. Consolvo and Edward C. Cheshire, and Mann L. Quarles; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, N. Sherwell, J. B. Lovett, W. S. Friend, Leopold Levy, and Jackson & Co.; letter to W. C. "Charlie" Hardy, Jr. from Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt; invitation to wedding of Clara Fuller and Philip Andrews on 1899 August 16; advertisement for Hoge Memorial Military Academy.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from Gerry W. Simpson and the New York Yacht Club; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, J. B. Lovett, W. L. Cosby, Marjorie March, and J. G. Shackelford; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt, Mary Blair Galt, W. C. "Charlie" Hardy, Jr., Lucy Watkins, and Alexander Martin. Much of the correspondence relates to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt starting college at William & Mary.
Letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt, Mary Blair Galt, Lucy Watkins, Sue Watkins, George H. Watkins, and Hugh Carrington Grigsby.
Letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from brother William Richard Galt, Mary Meares Galt, Joel Hill Watkins, Lucy Watkins, George H. Watkins, John Lloyd Newcomb, William Read Martin, Emily Christian, C. Vernon Spratley, N. Sherwell, "Lloyd", and "Joe"; invitation to Twentieth Annual Celebration of the Sigma Rho Delta Literary Society of the Shenandoah Valley Academy on May 4.
Letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt, Joel Hill Watkins, William Read Martin, Dr. Southgate Leigh, George H. Watkins, George L. R. Stevens, Wright, Kay, & Co., and Lyon G. Tyler.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from brother Rogers Galt, sister Susan W. W. Galt Duane, and J. F. Carr; letter to Mary Blair Galt from Eva C. Lalcolt; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt, Mary Blair Galt, William Richard Galt, Bob Galt, Elizabeth Ashe Galt, Mary Meares Galt, Joel Hill Watkins, Lucy Watkins, George H. Watkins, Dr. Southgate Leigh, William Read Martin, and C. Vernon Spratley; Prescription written by Dr. Alexander Duane for Mary Carrington Galt; Wright, Kay, & Co. catalog for Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Includes a 1900 August 16 letter from L.D. Starke.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from brother Rogers Galt, R. H. Townley, and Arent Schuyler Crowninshield; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from Annie Galt, Molly Galt, Elizabeth Ashe Galt, Lucius F. Cary, Emily Christian, C. Vernon Spratley, Elsie S. Hannah, George H. Watkins, Lucy Watkins, Joel Hill Watkins, William Read Martin, and Wright, Kay, & Co.; bill from Hospital St. Vincent de Paul for services rendered to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from Annie Galt, C. Vernon Spratley, George H. Watkins, George Pugh, J. E. Williams, Lucius F. Cary, W. C. "Charlie" Hardy, Jr., and Dr. Southgate Leigh; letter to Annie Galt from William Richard Galt.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from brother Alexander Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt, Annie Galt, cousin "Bob" given), W. C. "Charlie" Hardy, Jr., Joel Hill Watkins, William Read Martin, Lucius F. Cary, Dr. Southgate Leigh, and Thomas H. Carter. Invitation to wedding of Martha Cabell Bouldin and Albert Humes Gentry on 1901 July 24.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt and "Sue"; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from Annie Galt, John Lloyd Newcomb, D. C. Watkins, and W. C. "Charlie" Hardy, Jr.; mathematics word problem.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from David C. Reis and Cornelia McBlair; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt, Annie Galt, W. C. "Charlie" Hardy, Jr., and William Read Martin; letters to William Richard Galt from William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Galt.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from David C. Reis; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt, Mary Blair Galt, Molly Galt, Annie Galt, George H. Watkins, Mary Daniel, and Cornelia McBlair; letters to William Richard Galt from William Wilson Galt, Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, and Sam Daniel.
Letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt, Annie Galt, George H. Watkins, W. C. "Charlie" Hardy, Jr., Cornelia McBlair, William Read Martin, Mary B. Daniel, and Wright, Kay, & Co.; letters to William Richard Galt from William Wilson Galt and Annie Galt; invitation to wedding of Emily Cary and Thomas Marshall, Jr. on 1901 November 12; description of "Paul Jones" mixer dance.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from Laura Sherwood Picking; letter to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from Mary Blair Galt, William Richard Galt, Cornelia McBlair, W. C. "Charlie" Hardy, Jr., Mary B. Daniel, William Read Martin, and "Joe"; letters to William Richard Galt from William Wilson Galt and "Flea"; Manila Day Reunion Poem by Commander Corwin P. Rees.
Letter to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt, Mary Meares Galt, Molly Galt, William Richard Galt, Annie Galt, George H. Watkins, W. C. "Charlie" Hardy, Jr., Jul H. Watkins, and "Elsie"; letters to William Richard Galt from William Wilson Galt and Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from R. G. Skerrett and B. F. Coble; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, Agnes Douglas West, and W. C. "Charlie" Hardy, Jr.; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt, W. C. "Charlie" Hardy, Jr., M. J. Morton, and Lily B. Cary; receipt for Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt's board at University of Virginia.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Galt; letter to Mary Carrington Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to Susie Alexina Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to Robert Ware Galt from William Wilson Galt.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, Laura Sherwood Picking, and R. G. Skerrett; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Galt; letter to Susie Alexina Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to Robert Ware Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to Mary Carrington Galt from William Wilson Galt; a poem entitled "At Sea" written by William Wilson Galt; William Wilson Galt's letters were written primarily in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from W. D. Southhall; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Galt; letter to Robert Ware Galt from Carroll R. Wright, Jr.; letter to J. W. Patterson from Mary Blair Galt; invitation to wedding of Mattie Lacey and Thomas J Pennybacker on1903 September 9. William Wilson Galt's letters were written primarily in Yokohama, Nagasaki and Kobe, Japan, Chefoo [Yantai] and Tsingtau [Qingdao], China, and Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from Daniel Barnes; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from A. H. Flint. Invitation to wedding of Ruth Waldron and Frank Peard Thomas on 1904 January 12, Minnie Bolling and James Duncan Puller on 1904 February 3, Lucy Daniel and Charles Kingston von Weise on 1904 June 29, Ethel Sharp and Ralph Mancill Griswold on 1904 July 28. William Wilson Galt's letters were written primarily from Manila Bay, Hong Kong, Naples, and Gibraltar.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from J. B. Coghlan, Thorvald Solberg, and the Virginia Club of Norfolk; letter to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from Lewis Crenshaw. Library of Congress document regarding William Wilson Galt's book "The Battle of Manila Bay".
Letter to William Wilson Galt from Robert Ware Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, Rhoderick H. Watkins, and Janice H. Read; Postcards to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from D. D. E. and anonymous; letters to William Richard Galt from William Wilson Galt, Mary Blair Galt, Sniky Byers, Louise Bocereeau, "Stuart", "Mac" (female), and "Dave"; postcard to Mary Carrington Galt from anonymous; letter to Aaron Marx from Claude Swanson.
Postcard to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from R. H. W.; letters to William Richard Galt from William Wilson Galt, Mary Blair Galt, Mary Carrington Galt, Susie Alexina Galt, L. B. Cox, Sniky Byers, H. J. Putnam & Co., R. H. Payn, H. G. McCormick, and R. Stuart Royer; letter to Robert Ware Galt from Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from J. B. Coghlan; letter to Mary Blair Galt from Robert Ware Galt; Postcard to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from "E. W. C."; letters to William Richard Galt from William Wilson Galt, Mary Blair Galt, Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, Robert Ware Galt, Mary Carrington Galt, Guy S. Lurty, and "Stuart".
Letter to William Wilson Galt from Robert Ware Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from Robert Ware Galt; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from J. J. Vogel and Dr. J. B. Murphy; letters to William Richard Galt from William Wilson Galt, Robert Ware Galt, Bill Oglesby, E. W. Lawson, and Daisy Eggleston; letter to Mary Meares Galt from Rogers Galt; Robert Ware Galt's Navy enlistment papers, dated 1906 November 30, listing his examination date as 1907 April 16; invitation to wedding of Gertrude Abyvon Walke and Edward Dickinson Tayloe on October 25. Two letters written as poems to "Uncle Bill" from Rogers H. Galt.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from Leonard Draper, J. E. Duke and G. A. D. Galt at the "Soldiers Home" in Richmond, Virginia; letters to Mary Blair Galt from Robert Ware Galt; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt, Mary Blair Galt, Mary Carrington Galt, William Richard Galt, Susie Alexina Galt, Hugh Carrington Grigsby, Lily B. Cary, T. Catesby Jones, and cousin "Bettie"; Advertisements and reviews. Letter form E.B. Roy in response to Galt's concern that his Pay Director term is for three years instead of four years.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from Robert Ware Galt and H. H. Ewing; letters to Mary Blair Galt from Robert Ware Galt and William Richard Galt; letters to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt, and Mary Carrington Galt; letter to Robert Ware Galt from George J. Durfey and telegram fro Hugh Blair G. Galt announcing "Made the degree all right."
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt and Bettie Marton. Invitations to weddings of Basil Gordon Montague and Lt. Col. George Barnett 1908 January 1, Elizabeth Welsh Galt and William Davidson 1908 January 16, Fanny Lewis Bouldin and Thomas Sprattley 1908 February 26, Elizabeth Virginia Jones and Joseph Hugh Neville 1908 April 16, Hilda Bateson and Laurance Jones 1908 June 18, Lily Brooke Booker and William Cutler Cole 1908 September 5, Evelyn Byrd Trigg and George Harris Sargeant, Jr. 1908 September 15, May Annette Luttmer and Rishworth Nicholson 1908 November 5, Anne McMaster and Davis Wills Jordan 1909 October 20, Margaret Nash Old and John Stone Stump, Jr. 1909 November 3, and Gladys Gertrude Hethorn and Wilford Grigsby Epes 1909 November 24. Note from Thomas E. Watkins 1909 March 25 saying that Carrington is very sick.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from William Richard Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Richard Galt and Louise Lelden; letter to Mary Carrington Galt from William Wilson Galt. Invitation to wedding of Delle Fay Norris and Henry Allen Pearson on February 2. Letter of condolence about the death of Roger Galt from James Riddle 1910 August 27 .
Letter to William Wilson Galt from Susie Alexina Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Richard Galt, Mary Meares Galt, Mary C. Carrington, and W. L. Cosby.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from William Richard Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from Susie Alexina Galt, William Richard Galt, Alexander Galt, Annie Read, J. Watkins Lacy, Sara R. Martin, and Agnes E. Lancaster; invitation to wedding of Helen Howard and Charles Clifford Gill on April 25.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from Robert Ware Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from Susie Alexina Galt, Robert Ware Galt, and "Betty".
Letter to William Wilson Galt from William Richard Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Richard Galt, Susie Alexina Galt, Mary Meares Galt, and Edwin Brockenbrough.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from Susie Alexina Galt, Nannie C. Bolling, and W. L. Cosby.
Letter to Mary Blair Galt from W. L. Cosby; invitation and program for Susie Alexina Galt's graduation ceremony at the College for Women in Columbia, South Carolina on June 6. Invitations to weddings of Louise Keeling Taylor and John Wright Stribling June 12, Lois Drake Millard and Frank Edwin Preston Uberroth June 22, Nancy Collins Nash and Logan Cresap June 29, Lela Coles Bouldin and Oscar Lane Shewmake June 26, Katharine Jones and Reginald Page June 27, Mary Ambler Willcox and Worrall Reed Carter July 2, Lilly Johnson Poor and Henry Morris Johnston July 9.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from R. C. Marshall; letters to Mary Blair Galt from Lucy Gray Harrison and H. A. Hunter; letter to Williamsburg, Virginia Postmaster from Lucy Pemberton, seeking addresses of relatives of late Hugh Blair Grigsby. Invitations to weddings of Cora Isabel Westcott and Laurence Stowell Adams August 1, Maude Walker and Charles Semmes Stanworth September 18, Lottie Washington Lambert and John Walton Grandy, Jr. September 19, and Dorothy Evleth Brown and Stewart Varona Hellings September 30.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from William Richard Galt and Philip Andrews informing Galt that he has been awarded a "Special Meritorious Medal" for his actions in the Battle of Manila Bay. Invitations to weddings of Marie Louise Ryan and George Wirt Simpson on October 2, 1912, Susan Barnett Persons and Lewis Bowen McBride on October 9, Eloise Hirst and William Couper, on October 9, Virginia Klein Cooke and Edward Keville Glennan on October 9, Flournoy Adams Hopkins and Gilbert Alexander Boswell Eliott on October 10, Emily Ward and Otto Barten McLean on, October 17, and Clare Beatrice Rudgard Wigg and Newton Armistead Coggsdale on October 19.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Richard Galt, Robert Ware Galt, Mary Meares Galt, and nephew Rogers H. Galt; Christmas card from W. L. Cosby. Invitations to weddings of Susan Pendleton Howard and Hartwell Heathe Hume on November 6, Josephine Engelhard Boylan and Ellsworth Harper Van Patten on November 23, Mary Lewis Sharp and Irving Brinton Holley on November 27, and Emily Fuller Johnston and Joshua Warren White on December 14.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from Robert Ware Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, Robert Ware Galt, William Richard Galt, Annie Galt, and Lucy Pemberton; letter to Mary Carrington Galt from Mary Meares Galt; invitation to wedding of Harriotte Jones Winchester and Edward Griffith Dodson on January 29. List of members of the Puff Club (a business men's club in Norfolk, Virginia), with attached memos and poem entitled "The Campaign of the Puffs against the Great Destroyer."
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, and William Richard Galt.
Letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, William Richard Galt, Susie Alexina Galt, and Robert Ware Galt; invitation to wedding of Bessie Armistead Doyle and Joseph Virginius Bidgood, Jr. on October 25.
Letters to William W. Galt from Florence J. Grant and Maria Ward Skelton; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Richard Galt, Robert Ware Galt, Belle Boykin, and Maria Ward Skelton; letter to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt from Robert Ware Galt; letter to Secretary of Navy Josephus Daniels from William Wilson Galt; letter to Senator Thomas S. Martin from William Wilson Galt; letter to Alfred P. Thom from William Wilson Galt; Galt's letters to Daniels, Martin, and Thom are regarding his request for a promotion to Rear Admiral upon his retirement.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from John R. Edwards; letters to Mary Blair Galt from Carrington G. Galt, Annie Galt, and E. B. Martin; letter to Alfred P. Thom from William Wilson Galt; letter to Robert W. Shultice from S. B. Avis; letter to W. H. Venable from Secretary of Navy Josephus Daniels; letter to Senator Thomas S. Martin from W. H. Venable; invitation to wedding of Alice Louise Preston and Albert Weston Grant, Jr. on October 17.
Letter to William Wilson Galt from Hugh Blair Jordan; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William W. Galt, Mary Carrington Galt, Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, William Richard Galt, Susie Alexina Galt, Mary Meares Galt, and Ward Skelton Galt.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from William Richard Galt; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, William Richard Galt, and Susie Alexina Galt.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from William Richard Galt, Alfred George Zimmerman, Annie Galt, John M. Galt, Secretary of the Navy Edwin Wenby, T. S. Dunaway, George L. Hunt, Philip Andrews, John Teicher, Joseph W. Eggleston, A. Closdon, Frank Lester, John S. Bottimore, "Alfred", "Aleck", and "Frank"; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt and William Richard Galt; letter to Annie Galt from C. G. Smith; letter to Dr. Pickrell from Annie Galt; letter to Hugh Blair from Aunt Molly and carbon copy of his answer. Much of the correspondence in 1922 is regarding William Wilson Galt's health as in that year he had his right foot amputated and suffered from pneumonia.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from William Richard Galt, Ward Skelton Galt, Annie Galt, Zander Galt, "Alfred" (husband of daughter Susie), Hugh Blair Galt, Mrs. A. G. Zimermann and James B. Denny; letter to sister Susie from William Wilson Galt; letter to brother Zander from William Wilson Galt; letters to William Richard Galt from William Wilson Galt; letter to Mary Carrington Galt, William R. Galt and Hugh Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, letter to Bill from Zander; letter from Billy Galt to Grandfather; list of stockholders of Lynnhaven Beach and Park Co.; 1923 December 23 letter from J. H. D. to "Dill" with an attached news clipping "Dr. J.H. Dillard to visit Africa". 1924 March 3 letter from William Wilson Galt to his son includes a poem; 1923 July 13 letter from Hugh Blair Galt to William Wilson Galt also includes a poem. Most of the correspondence during these years are typed or carbons of typed letters.
Invitations to marriages and other events, plus a few calling cards. A dried plant was transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection Mss. 1.03.
Letters to Mary Galt from Hugh G. Grigsby, William Galt, Annie Galt, Mrs. Conway Robinson, M. L. Nowlin, Laure E. Read, Carrington Galt and Roger Galt. Letters to William Galt from Roger Galt, P. A. Williams, Louise H. Carter, Mary B. Galt, Hugh Blair Grigsby and Mary Meares Galt. Includes a note from W. R. Galt and a letter from William Galt Hubbell.
Letters to William Wilson Galt from Mary Blair Galt, Annie Galt, L. B. Cary, A. K. Micheler, and Virginia (illegible last name); letters to Mary Blair Galt from Carmela Loyale, George Chappell, Annie Galt, L. B. Cary, Louisa L. Read, Nannie Winston, Bradford (illegible first name), Lizzie Boykin, and Kate Gaulding.
Letters to Hugh Blair Galt from "Aunt Molly"," Elsie", Emily M. Watkins, J. Morton, Mary Blair Galt, Lucy D. Thornton and Cordelia McBlair. Letter to Mary Blair Grigsby Galt from William Wilson Galt while on the USS Kentucky. Letter to William Wilson Galt from Mary. Letter to Granddaddy or Grandpa from William R. Galt, Jr., and unknown. Letter to Granddaddy and Mamie from William R. Galt, Jr. Letter to Grandma from Grandson who was in Vallejo, California. Letters to Mother from Mary B. G. Galt and Robert. Letters to "Father" from "Alfred", "Susie", Robert W. Galt, and "Will".
Letters to William Wilson Galt from nephew John M. Galt, Maria, Mary B. Grigsby and Louise H. Carter. Letters to Mary B. G. Galt from cousin Cantey E. Reed, "Annie", "M. L. Y.", C.A . Stanely, Margaret B. Roper, "Susan", "Dorothy", Susie Crane, Sarah S. Read and others. Letters to family from Robert W. Galt, Susie D. Galt, Mary Galt and Carrington Galt. Includes a letter to William Wilson Galt from S. T. Early in which Early sends him a branch of the original Poets Laurel, and a letter from William Lamb, T. M. Whitehurst and John B. Jenkins asking William Galt to donate some land to the City of Norfolk. A legal document from Allegheny County about an 1837 debt of Andrew Fudge.
Two carbon typescripts of a short biography of Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt.
Invitation, newspaper articles and rough drafts with a typescript of Hugh B. G. Galt's speech on the Cape Henry Lighthouse Celebration at Cape Henry, Virginia in 1939.
Correspondence with Estelle Haskins, daughter of Bettie Morton. Bettie Morton was a servant in the Galt household at "Oak Grove" in Charlotte County. Estelle and her mother live in a house on the former "Oak Grove" property. Estelle often writes for help with legal problems and financial problems. Hugh Blair G. Galt responds with advice, gifts of money and hand-me-down clothes, and often intercedes to help with legal problems. Estelle helps him pack up old books and papers that belonged to the Grigsby family after some property was sold. Some correspondence deals with the land that Bettie Morton receives as the dower of 1/3 of the property of Albert Morton. Hugh Blair G Galt sends Betty Morton a deed to the house, which is given for life on 1925 January 10. Eventually, the entire parcel was sold to the Charlotte County School Board by Homer A. Lester and wife. The land had been conveyed to Mrs. Lester by the Galt family.
1934 letter from Galt's nephew "Bill"; 1939 article about First National Seashore Park in North Carolina; 1941 letter from Office of the Marshal of the Supreme Court saying seats will be saved for him and Mrs. Galt; 1943 letter from nephew "Richard" while in the Army Air Forces Bombardier School in Texas; business card of Henry G. Barbee.
Notepad from "The Pocomoke...Guano Company" with notes on farm products, household products, Morse code, and prices of goods.
Report by Miss Elizabeth V. Gaines of Saxe, Virginia on the libraries of Charlotte County, particularly the Edgehill Library of Hugh Blair Grigsby.
Class schedules, grades, certificates, notes, invoices, assignments and reports of Hugh B.G. Galt. Includes 1899 paper "The Romantic School in English Poetry". 1902, 1903, 1904, and 1906 University of Virginia grades; 1903, 1904, and 1906 University of Virginia pass certificates; 1906 document stating "Degree of Bachelor of Arts conferred, June 12, 1906"; 1938 bill for the Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association; 1939 "University of Virginia Newsletter" with article on Virginia's Forest Resources by F.C. Pederson. Undated lecture schedule and notes. University of Virginia report card for November 1901.
Audits of the estate of Mary B. G. Galt by Hugh B. G. Galt, her son and William Wilson Galt, her husband. Includes three copies of 1935 February report "Second Report by Hugh B. G. Galt, Surviving Executor of Mary G. Galt, Deceased"; one copy of 1935 April 9 report "A Report by Hugh B. G. Galt, Surviving Executor of Mary B. Galt, Deceased to the present Beneficiaries of the Same."
Concerns Grigsby Family property "Edgehill", located in Charlotte County, Virginia which Mary B. G. Galt inherited from her brother, Carrington Grigsby. Includes 1914 plat of the Charlotte County property, 1914 Deed of Trust note on the property, correspondence with potential purchasers of the property, and correspondence and legal documents on the sale of the property to L. E. Rogers, John O. Walker, and C.E. Hunter in 1916.
1916-1928 correspondence between Otis M. Locke and William Wilson Galt about rental of property in Charlotte County. Mr. Locke rented a piece of property, possibly since 1907, and tried to purchase it a number of times. The property was originally part of the Grigsby estate. 1919-1925 correspondence about selling other parcels of land that were part of the Grigsby estate, including part of the Cardwell Tract. Correspondence and legal documents on the 1936 sale of one part of the Charlotte County, Virginia property to F. Watts Burgess and L. P. White. Correspondence and legal documents on the 1952 sale of the final piece of property to Boyd Hensley. Includes tax statements, county and property maps, and legal documents given to Hugh B. G. Galt by the remaining descendants of Mary B.G. Galt the right to sell the property.
Handwritten list of some of the furnishings of Mary B. G. Galt with a history of the item. Includes photographs of some of the paintings.
Tax documents and correspondence regarding inheritance tax after the death of William Wilson Galt.
Inventory and appraisement of the estate of William Wilson Galt and Mary B. Galt. Agreement between Carrington G. Galt and his siblings where he releases all his rights to the tangible personal property as a legatee of Mary B. and William Wilson Galt, 1934 July 14. A ledger with lists and appraisals of estate.
1934 death certificate of William Wilson Galt; 1934 certification of H. G. G. Galt as executor to William Wilson Galt's estate; 1934 document giving Hugh Blair G. Galt permission to make repairs to 1104 Westover Avenue in Norfolk, Virginia (home of William Wilson Galt); 1934 inventory of 1104 Westover Avenue. Other legal documents between the beneficiaries of William W. and Mary B. G. Galt, 1916 will of William Wilson Galt, financial notes and ledgers and tax documents.
Application of relief from taxes on property in Charlotte County, Virginia. Cancelled checks and bank statements. Correspondence related to tax and banking issues.
Correspondence and documents of Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt as the executor of the estates of both William Wilson Galt and Mary B.G. Galt, his parents. He dealt with all the aspects of the estate: making an inventory of the contents of the house, selling items not wanted by his siblings, organizing papers, fixing up and selling the house, and maintaining accounts and legal forms to document his work. The correspondence with his siblings is often in triplicate. The names of his siblings are William R. Galt, Susan D. Zimermann, and Carrington G. Galt. Items from the home are mentioned, plus items given or on loan to institutions.
Ledger kept by Hugh B. G. Galt as administrator of the personal estate of Hugh Carrington Grigsby. Pages 6-22 include the inventory of personal estate and page 196 includes an account of finances. Between pages 22 and 23 are three loose items: two pages with pencil drawn scenes set in Colorado and probably drawn by Hugh B. G. Galt, and one letter dated 1892 December 27 addressed to "My precious Mother" (her mother-in-law) from Mary B. G. Galt about the sadness she feels with the death of her father-in-law. Loose memo book in back of ledger includes a few accounts and notes from 1889. All pages in between are blank.
Correspondence with Fitzgerald Flournoy, Henry Riely, other genealogists, family members and organizations about the Grigsby and Galt families. Of particular note is Fitzgerald Flournoy who organized the Grigsby Papers for Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, and his writings about different family members. One unpublished report, "The Lot of the Defeated" is included. Correspondence with Henry Riely, a lawyer with the firm McGuire, Riely and Eggleston in Richmond, Virginia centers on the Carrington Family. Includes notes on the families and Norfolk Historical Society inquiries.
Notes on Dr. Alexander Dickie Galt by William R. Galt and a handwritten paper on Alexander Galt, the sculptor, by Hugh B. Grigsby with a carbon typescript, published 1863 February 3 in the Richmond Inquirer. A "Memoria Sacrum" poem by James Barron Hope in memory of "Alexander Galt, The Sculptor."
Undated handwritten and typescript of "Memoir of John Minson Galt, Jr." by W. R. Grigsby. 1941 September issue of "Virginia Medical Monthly" with an article on "Dr. John Minson Galt and the Williamsburg Asylum" by P. G. Hamlin.
Carbon typescript of paper entitled "Mr. Grigsby: Athlete, Orator, Author", author and date unknown.
Notes, correspondence and copies of documents relating to the Grigsby and Galt Families. Includes notes on the Whitehead Family. Other notes on collateral families of Scervant, Ware, Marston, Finch, McPherson, Silvester, and others. Includes a reprint of the 1863 obituary of Captain Reuben Grigsby from the Richmond Enquirer; 1896 article from the Central Presbyterian on the Old Stone Church in Lewistown, Virginia with a mention of Reverend Benjamin Grigsby, the father of Hugh Blair Grigsby and a handwritten copy of the James Galt family Bible. Some reports written by Mary Meares Galt. Includes a note written on a paper bag, "Home - Woodside, Mrs. Dr. John M. Galt, Dr. John M. Galt, MD - C.S.A. Children, Eva Dulaney Galt, Herbert Randolph Galt" and a 1870 November 14 invoice for tuition for the "Misses C. & M. Skinner" paid by Honorable J. B. Whitehead.
1898 April 19 confirmation certification by the Bishop of Southern Virginia in the Ascension Church in Keysville, Virginia. 1938 January 25 letter from the Virginia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution invitation to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt for membership via John Grigsby or Benjamin Porter.
Includes a 1871 obituary of Judge William Leigh of Halifax County, Virginia. Most clippings deal with events in the Norfolk, Virginia area, either articles or editorials.
Newsletters, brochures and programs from various groups and events. Undated material includes "General Regulations" from William & Mary; map of New York City; reproduction map of "Champlain's Map of New France 1632"; order from for The George Jaberg Music Company of Cincinnati, Ohio; empty notepad from "R.J. Edwards, Smithfield, Virginia"; three copies of "America," one copy of "Yankee Doodle" (3"x2") as advertisements for W. G. Williams, Smithville, Virginia; advertising card for E. E. Guys of Norfolk, Virginia.
Manuscript draft of essay on "The First President of William & Mary," also called "Commissary James Blair," dated 1913, typescript of paper, "Commodore John Paul Jones," undated and an 1899 poem written on the Norfolk Boat Club letterhead using both English and German.
Booklet for The Galt Literary Society which was organized by "the young men of William R. Galt's school."
Typed transcript of a letter written to W. R. Galt by Colonel John B. Cary of Richmond, Virginia about the Scervant Family, dated 1875 August 16. Handwritten note on bottom of letter: original of this letter is in the possession of W.R. Galt's granddaughter, Mary M. Galt.
Certificate to William R. Galt from The Imperial Council of the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America saying that he is "A Noble of the Mystic Shrine in Accas Temple in Richmond, Virginia." 1900 May 16.
1903 form letter announcing meeting of the Orient Mark Lodge of Japan; 1903 menu of the "traditional banquet to the Members of Aloha Temple...in Honolulu; 1907 Funeral Service procedures "as prescribed by The Grand Lodge of Virginia"; 1911 bylaws of the Owens Lodge in Norfolk, Virginia; "Laying of the Cornerstone of St. Andrews Episcopal Church" by Owen Lodge No. 164 in Norfolk, Virginia 1920 June 30; 1918 February 15 Virginia Masonic Journal Newsletter; February 1917 newsletter "Atlantic Lodge News" with an article on William Wilson Galt; The Temple News of Norfolk, Virginia dated 1920 September (Volume 3, Number 9). Includes newspaper clippings about the Masons, William Wilson Galt, and Hugh B. Galt.
Speeches given at the 10th Annual Convention of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association (undated), and a paper entitled "Harmony."
Manuscript speech on the History of Masonry. 39 pages.
Manuscript address explaining "certain words and passages of our work that are not very clear in their meaning or application". 26 pages.
Manuscript speech on the "source of the Sublime Degree, the foundation of Masonry". Gives sources at the end of the paper. 61 pages.
Includes a tribute to William Richard Galt written by James H. Dillard. Originally published in the Southern Churchman, dated 1922 September 25.
Personal papers of William Wilson Galt which include financial material, business correspondence, material as executor of family members' estates, real estate transactions, tax and insurance documents, news clippings, printed and published written material, papers from his time as Navy Paymaster, and his last will and testament. William Wilson Galt joined the Navy about 1877 and served in the Navy for 50 years. He was a Navy Paymaster for most of those years. In 1881, he married Mary Blair Grigsby, daughter of Hugh Blair Grigsby, the Chancellor of William & Mary from 1871 to 1881.
Calling cards from Galt Family members and others.
Grades for Robert W. Galt and Mary C. Galt during one school session. 1901 tuition invoice to Mrs. J. T. Carr for music lessons on guitar for Hugh Blair Galt.
Newspaper and other clippings collected by William Wilson Galt. Some topics are Norfolk, Florida and the Navy. Some clippings are poems.
Newspaper and other clippings about the Galt Family. Obituaries and articles about Roger H. Galt, William Wilson Galt, William Richard Galt, and others.
Correspondence from the U.S. Navy and related people to William Wilson Galt. Correspondence regarding H. R. Bills 18701 and 19313 about giving officers an option of voluntary retirement. Medical examination material for 1909 and 1910. 1911 October 6 letter transferring his position at the Navy Pay Office to Pay Inspector Harry E. Biscoe and October 18 and 21 letters commanding him for duty as Paymaster of Yard under the command of the Commandant, Navy Yard, Norfolk. 1912 correspondence about receipt of a medal, receipts for a meal, Naval Communication Service invoices and a carbon copy of a letter to Miss Serpell from Arthur P. Ware about a War Department plat. Some of William Wilson Galt's Naval correspondence is also filed in date order in Sub-series 1, Galt Family Correspondence.
Small leather covered daybook which includes daily notations, addresses, and account information.
Insurance invoices.
Includes tombstone inscription and order for tombstone; "list of books taken from library at Edgehill Oct. 9th, 1884 by Mrs. William Wilson Galt"; receipts for payments from the estate; 1881 prenuptial contract between Mary Blair Grigsby and W. W. Galt stating that William Wilson Galt will not interfere with the rents and profits of the estate of Hugh Blair Grigsby; legal documents with Mary Blair Grigsby Galt as one of the executors of her father's estate; accounts of the estate of Hugh Blair Grigsby.
Leather account book from the Norfolk National Bank with approximately seven pages of accounts relating to the estate of Mary B. Grigsby, which include lists of items, possibly as inventories, under the headings: "Mary Blair Carrington", "For Grove/For Edgehill", and "Farming Implements". Also includes an account of the security stock of the Charlotte Banking and Insurance Company belonging to the estate of Mrs. Mary V. Grigsby.
Invoices of interest payment to Robert R. Prentis on note due Joseph B. Whitehead's estate.
Canceled checks, bank statements, check stub books, deposit slips and bank notes.
Two bank books for Mrs. Mary Blair Galt. Leather notepad wallet moved to Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03.
Typed list of Galt's expenses when he was a candidate for the House of Delegates. List addressed to the Chairman City Democratic Committee.
Invoices for purchases from local businesses and businesses across the country. Many invoices list items purchased. Receipts from businesses. Most of the accounts are for personal purchases, but a few of them may be related to his position as Navy Paymaster.
Invoices and receipts for purchases from local businesses and businesses across the country. Many invoices list items purchased. Most of the accounts are for personal purchases, but a few of them may be related to his position as Navy Paymaster. Includes receipts for payments to the City Gas Company of Norfolk, and Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Invoices and receipts for local and world-wide purchases. Many invoices list items purchased. Most of the accounts are for personal purchases, but a few of them may be related to his position as Navy Paymaster. Includes purchase of a guitar for $7.00 in 1900 and a General Catalogue No. 66 from Montgomery Ward & Co.
Correspondence, receipts and bonds for the Tidewater Mineral and Oil Corporation and Norfolk-Princess Anne Oil Corporation.
William Wilson Galt elected an Honorary Member of St. Johns Masonic Lodge 1908. Carbon copy of a 1911 June 21 letter from William Wilson Galt, as Representative of the United Grand Lodge, to Sir Edward Letchworth, the Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge...Freemasons' Hall in England, about the honor conferred upon him. Related Mason material, some about William Wilson Galt, is filed in Sub-Series 3, William R. Galt.
1908 contract for telephone service and a 1916 Virginia State Hunter's License. 1896-1899 insurance records which include a policy, payment receipts of premiums and correspondence.
1881 December 1 Charlotte County, Virginia marriage license between William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair Grigsby with a Minister's Return of Marriage.
William Wilson Galt wrote a poem entitled "The Battle of Manila Bay". The poem was printed in various publications and eventually incorporated into a book, also called "The Battle of Manila Bay". Copies of the poem from various sources, newspaper articles about the poem, and order slips for purchasing the book. Research correspondence and requests for photographs from men who participated in the battle, copyright information and letters from appreciative readers. Some correspondence on the lectures Galt gave on the Battle of Manila Bay. Note: accounting details from the sale of the book are located with various financial documents as noted on the inventory.
Leather bound diary kept by William Wilson Galt while stationed at Punta de los Cerritos from 1882 April 19-31.
Two certificates of membership for the Navy Relief Society; one for Paymaster W. W. Galt and one for Mrs. William Wilson Galt.
Newspaper clippings about the Navy, Navy personnel, and William Wilson Galt.
Membership material for the Navy Mutual Aid Association, Allotment Check transmissions and Statement of Account for his pay. Leave requests from 1903-1906. 1922 letter exchange with the Judge Advocate General about bonds.
Report "574 C" reconciling statement of William Wilson Galt, Paymaster, U.S. Navy, Norfolk, Virginia. for 1st quarter of 1896, and Auditor memos from 1913 and 1914.
Clarence N. Howell is an Assistant Chief Clerk in the Paymaster's Office. In 1907, he accuses the Paymaster's Office of misconduct and mismanagement. William Wilson Galt is investigated and the newspapers carry articles about the situation (see news clipping files). Correspondence includes many letters written to William Wilson Galt from creditors of Clarence N. Howell from 1902 to 1907. Includes the official report written by William Wilson Galt where he answers each accusation. Correspondence to and from William Wilson Galt about the accusations. Folder title used by William Wilson Galt.
Receipt slips for navy personnel which include the names of the men.
Chart listing names of men, how many days worked, pay per day, and total pay.
Ledger which is a cash book for the USS. Kentucky (1903-unknown), but also records 1906-1907 sales of "The Battle of Manila Bay" on pages 54-63, 89-90. Near the end of the book are entries for the USS Vicksburg from 1902-1903. Loose papers include sheets listing men and their positions on the Boston, the Raleigh, the Baltimore, and other ships. Includes a few paymaster receipts. Printed list of arrival and departure dates and name of ports for the "Cruise of USS Kentucky" (1900-1904); 1903 issue of "The Open Door: Thanksgiving Number" which includes names of all crew members; 1904 February 20 issue of "The Open Door". Correspondence about physical exam before receiving a promotion and other material included.
Correspondence, supply orders, memos, and other supply related material while stationed in Gibraltar, Hong Kong, and Smyrna. Includes a barber bill for 1899 with names of the men, their pay number and rating; 1898 list from the Treasury Department of the "Values of Foreign Coins"; handmade card signed by members of the crew entitled "You May Fire When You are Ready, Gridley, May 1, 1898 to May 1st, 1901", and a 1898 March 26 letter relieving Galt of duty on the USS Raleigh.
Photo print of "Genl Dewey". Receipts from the Grand Hotel in Guatemala, the Kilaneau Volcano House in Hawaii, the Grand Hotel in Yokohama, and the Fujiya Hotel in Miyanoshita. Pamphlet for the Panic Mail Steamship Company Peru with a list of passengers (1902), and receipt for clothing from "Ah Sing and Co." in Shanghai.
Copy of the "General Service Code" with homographic signals, typed extract from 1898 May 27 China Daily Press; 1907 January 19 partial issue of Army and Navy Register; list of "District Joint Communications Visited"; 1890 pass for W. W. Galt for San Jose De Gu Temala, Central America; 1871 map of Santo Domingo; prospectus pamphlet for the Ostrander Repeating Gun Company, and a pamphlet for the Ostrander Gun.
1898 July 9 order to report to the USS Delmonico; note giving the time of the "Sword presentations & c to officers of the Navy"; 1902 appointment and commission as Pay Inspector in the Navy, with the rank of Commander; 1903 appointment order to be on a "Navy Examining Board" and a Congressional Bill (S. 5693) from the 63rd Congress, 2nd Session "To provide for the promotion of Pay Director William Wilson Galt...to the rank of Rear Admiral in the Pay Corps of the Navy upon his retirement from the service" (1914). Correspondence in regard to promotions, including letters of recommendations.
Resolutions adopted at the last meeting on 1909 May 1. Two copies of the "Constitution and List of Members of the Society of Manila Bay" and a 1920 brochure for the Twenty-Second Annual Banquet at the Army and Navy Club in Washington, DC with signatures on the inside front cover. Tissue paper carbon of a 1926 letter addressed to Captain Dudley N. Carpenter about the May meeting of the Manila Bay Society.
Proposed amendment to House Bill #6616, "That after completing the prescribed course of four years' instruction at the Naval Academy ... there shall be retained each year for service in the Navy and Marine Corps...only so many as shall equal the number of vacancies..."
Notes about spheres, torture, Spanish sentence structure and a medicinal formula. Shopping list, a mostly blank small notebook, list of automobile travel expenditures with names of Virginia towns and the vehicle odometer reading, code labeled "Grimm's Law," drawing of a possible boat, drawing of the floor plan of a house and a doodle drawing.
Poems and prose with titles such as "Our Idyll," "A Prayer" and "To One Who Knows" (1923). Most are handwritten. 1923 typed Christmas poem addressed to Mary Meares from "Uncle Bill".
Brochures, pamphlets, sales advertising, "how to play whist" pamphlet, postcards, printed poems, recipes, programs, safe driver's manual, "a Summary History of the Palazzo Dandolo now Royal Hotel Danieli in Venice" (1896), postcards of Venice, tourist photographs of Venice, an 1894 Missionary Calendar of Prayer, and a 1904 pamphlet Concerning Old Norfolk about Norfolk, Virginia.
Deeds and other legal documents for property in Norfolk, Virginia, Colorado, and Florida.
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings with notes and poems, some by William Wilson Galt, pasted into an account book. Beginning on page 100, accounts for the estate of Hugh Blair Grigsby and Mary V. Grigsby from 1885-1886. Includes loose papers of handwritten poetry, an 1887 map of Alaska, an 1890 broadside for San Salvador and Guatemala, a printed poem "A Ballad of Manila Bay" by Timothy Wilfred Oakley and other printed material.
Tax bills and receipts for personal and property taxes.
Typed carbon copy of the Last Will and Testament of William Wilson Galt dated 1927 August 11.
Certificate dated 1878 January 25, appointing William Wilson Galt as Assistant Paymaster of the Navy, signed by Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, and R.W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate dated 1881 October 15, appointing William Wilson Galt as Passed Assistant Paymaster with the relative rank of Master, signed by Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States, and William H. Hunt, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate dated 1893 September 26, appointing William Wilson Galt as Paymaster of the Navy with the relative rank of Lieutenant, signed by Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, and H. A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate, dated 1899 March 3, appointing William Wilson Galt as Paymaster of the Navy with the rank of Lieutenant Commander, signed by Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, and John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate dated 1901 February 19, assigning William Wilson Galt as number one in the Rank of List of Paymasters in the Navy for Extraordinary Heroism, signed by William McKinley, President of the United States, and John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate dated 1902 April 10, appointing William Wilson Galt as Pay Inspector of the Navy with the rank of Commander, signed by Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, and William H. Moody, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate, dated 1903 December 2, appointing William Wilson Galt as Pay Director of the Navy, signed by Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, and William H. Wood, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate of Membership in the Society of Manila Bay for William Wilson Galt, USS Raleigh, signed by George Dewey, Commodore US Navy, undated. Picture and roster of the members of the Society of Manila Bay who attended the banquet at Admiral Dewey's resident in Washington, DC on 1914 May 1. Photograph is very fragile and rolled. All certificates are loosely rolled.
Includes individual items for Susie Galt, Carrington G. Galt, Herbert Randolph Galt, Mary Carrington Galt and Robert W. Galt, plus newspaper clippings about various family members and homes.
Correspondence, mostly regarding genealogy of the Galt Family, plus her files on the Galt Family genealogy.
Correspondence to Mamie Garland and her father Maurice Garland about the Galt Family with some general letters and invitations from members of the Galt Family.
Correspondence to Mary "Mamie" Garland about the Galt Family with some personal correspondence with friends and family and business correspondence in relation to her jobs at the Valentine Museum and the Richmond Public Library.
Charts, notes, news clippings, and correspondence about Galt Family genealogy.
Empty envelopes, blank greeting cards and blank notepaper.
Some items were moldy when accessioned. They have been boxed separately and are currently unavailable to the public.
These documents are in conservation and unavailable to the public. Letters to Mary Blair Grigsby Galt from her husband, William Wilson Galt. 3 letters.
These documents are in conservation and unavailable to the public. Small notebook with two pages of accounts.
These documents are in conservation and unavailable to the public. Speeches, reports, and poem about the Masons.
1809 property tax bill, and 1808 letter from Lewis Stuart of Greenbrier.
These papers mainly deal with Hugh Blair Grigsby's business and family in Charlotte County, Virginia. Includes some early family papers, deeds and correspondence. The papers were accessioned as a group of loose papers and a group of file folders in a wooden box. In organizing these papers, this original grouping has been kept. The loose papers are arranged alphabetically by subject, then the papers in the wooden box are also arranged alphabetically by subject. There is an overlap.
15 business or calling cards with Hugh Blair Grigsby's signature.
Letter from Annie Christian to Mrs. Anne Fleming about Indian attacks and related troubles, plus her desire to be in Botetourt County, dated 1780 April 1. Hugh Blair Grigsby collected her letters. Most of the letters are housed in the Hugh Blair Grigsby Papers at the Virginia Historical Society.
1842 letter has a note "The only piece of the handwriting of my mother that I possess." 1840 letter deals with results of the presidential election, 1841 letter to his wife about his visit to Norfolk, Virginia; undated response to a complaint by Joseph Caldwell; 1855 letter regarding his purchase of "Pocohantas"; undated letter from Mary Blair Grigsby Galt to her Mother; undated letter to Mrs. Grigsby at Edgehill from "Cousin P. E. R."
1881 receipt from John E. Holt. Agreement of Partition between H. Carrington Grigsby and William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair his wife, dated January 24, 1882. February 8, 1882 agreement between Mrs. M. V. Grigsby, administratrix of the estate of Hugh Blair Grigsby from Thomas Word.
Receipts, invoices, accounts and business correspondence relating to items purchased for home, business and farm. Includes an 1828-1831 account sheet for money received and money expended, requests for loans from neighbors, bond material, and a small book, "Account of John E. Holt" from 1869-1879. Two accounts were grouped separately when accessioned and have been grouped separately in the back of this folder: Accounts with W. H. Smith from 1875-1882 and Accounts with John E. Holt and J. W. Eggleston from 1869-1881.
Account book for family and farm expenses and payments from 1887-1896. Does not include an index, but names of people and merchants are noted on each page. One small "daily" notebook with financial information, undated. Bank book from "Exchange National Bank in Norfolk" with entries from 1871-1880.
Notes on the early history of Virginia and a tribute written "to the memory of my father the Rev. Benjamin Porter Grigsby" by Hugh Blair Grigsby.
Small group of papers belonging to Mary Venable Grigsby, the wife of Hugh Blair Grigsby. Circa 1829 letter from a friend in Richmond, Virginia; a calling card; an 1882 application for life insurance; two undated letters from her son, Hugh Carrington Grigsby (one while at Hampden-Sydney College); undated letter from her sister.
Plats, deeds and related material for land in Charlotte County. Includes a 1736 survey by William Westbrook with notes on "Booker Survey"; 1793 survey for Thomas Read; Edward Fitzgerald deed to Hugh B. Grigsby; 1870 survey of the "Low Grounds of Edgehill" by Thomas F. Petters, correspondence on land bought from the Cardwell Family (1870's and 80's) and more.
1839 deed from George Garraway to Edward Fitzgerald for land on East Street; 1855 deed from Rosina Karcher to Simon S. Stubbs for property on Main Street; 1858 deed from Hugh B. Grigsby to Charles B. Duffield for property on East Street.
List of items taxed for 1879 and Grigsby's copy of the letter sent when paying bill.
Handwritten copy of an indenture, 1859 April 2, in the "City of Williamsburg between Hugh Blair Grigsby...in his own behalf and in behalf of his infant son, Hugh Carrington Grigsby, of his infant nephews, Hugh Grigsby Whitehead, Henry Colgate Whitehead, John Boswell Whitehead, Jr., Holbrook Whitehead and Park Lewis Poindexter, and of his nieces Cornelia Grigsby, Irwin, Jr, Billie Poindexter and Mary Irwin...and the President and Masters or professors of William & Mary in Virginia...a certificate of debt...of One Thousand dollars bearing six per cent interest per annum payable half yearly to have and to hold.... Copy of signatures of Hugh Blair Grigsby and Benjamin S. Ewell. Paragraph in the indenture explains why he is listing his son, nieces and nephews on the document. Document from Benjamin S. Ewell that states "whereas the late Hugh Blair Grigsby...endow in said college, 'The Chancellor Scholarship" with his bond, dated 1881 January 18. 1881 Resolution from the Convocation of the Board of Visitors and Governors of William & Mary in memory of the death of Hugh Blair Grigsby, LL. D.
Handwritten poems, a hymn, a shopping list, published tributes to Hugh Blair Grigsby at his death, printed sheets of the hymn written by Hugh B. Grigsby in 1877, and two copies of pamphlet Lines, to my Daughter on her Fourteenth Birthday, privately printed in Norfolk. 1881 May 20 Richmond Dispatch clipping with a poem, "Lines: Suggested by the Death of Hon. Hugh Blair Grigsby, April 28, 1881," "Hymn written on the morning of the 22d of November 1877, when I entered my seventy-second year" by Hugh Blair Grigsby and "A Sonnet on Spring" from Farmville.
Deeds, surveys and plats of land in Charlotte County. Names on documents include Joel Watkins, Brooks Becker, Thomas H. Spencer and William L. Morton.
Nine 1861 confederate certificates at 8 per cent and four 1864 confederate bonds at 4 per cent.
Handwritten letter written by Hugh Blair Grigsby to Mr. Grinnan of Orange County, Virginia about the Porter Family genealogy and Grigsby Family genealogy. Stamped envelope included.
Receipts, accounts, agreements, invoices, and correspondence for bank business, personal loans, bonds, and purchases.
Receipts for purchase and sale of slaves by the Whitehead and Grigsby families in Charlotte County and Norfolk, Virginia. Slave names included: Louisa, Richard, Emanual, Elexena and her three children Jenny, Fanny and "blank", Virginia and Richard and Rachal and child Diana.
1856 document electing Hugh Blair Grigsby as a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and an 1861 letter inviting him to a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Agreement on rental or use of farm property.
Handwritten and printed poetry. One poem, "Life's Latest Pleasures" was written when Grigsby was 85 years old. Includes 1867 poem, "Lines to Hugh Blair Grigsby, L.L.D, President of the Virginia Historical Society" by Emma Early.
Includes 1779 January 14 plat and description of land which was part of the estate of Thomas Watkins and part of the tract of land owned by Beverly Randolph in Charlotte County, 1805 deed from Joel Watkins to Clement Carrington, 1862 letter from John McPhail sending "old deeds pertaining to the Edgehill Estate," 1878 survey for "T. N. Jones and Catlet" to sell the lands of W. Cardwell in Charlotte County, 1879 deed where Robert Catlet sells the Cardwell land to Hugh Blair Grigsby, 1887 deed between Mary V. Grigsby and H. Carrington Grigsby transferring Edgehill tract to H. Carrington Grigsby, 1905 sketch of the "lines between the farms of Carrington Grigsby and J. Flood Morton as agreed upon by them and established by J. D. Morton", and an undated survey description of land on the Little Roanoke River.
Papers concerning the lawsuit between Pugh and Cardwell which centered on land that Grigsby wanted to purchase. Includes deeds, financial information and property related documents. The land belonged William Cardwell and Thomas Cardwell.
Papers concerning the purchase of the William W. Read property which adjoined Edgehill. Includes deed of sale, correspondence and notes. Appears that Read refused to sell the property after he had agreed in writing to the sale.
List of personal property which included 42 slaves above the age of 16, 9 slaves aged 12-16 years old, 21 horses, 1 piano, 1 gold watch, 1 carriage, stock shares and $125 in value of silver plate.
1872 letter written by H.C. Grigsby to Miss Margaret Venable about boarding at her house when he visits Hampden-Sidney and 1875 letter from H. Carrington Grigsby to "Cousin Mag" sending his regards.
Papers of Hugh Carrington Grigsby, which also includes some material for his sister, Mary Blair Grigsby before and after her marriage to William Wilson Galt. Hugh Carrington Grigsby resided at Edgehill in Charlotte County, Virginia. His papers concern family matters, such as the estate of his father Hugh Blair Grigsby, business affairs of the family and relationships with his sister Mary Blair Grigsby, William Wilson Galt and other relatives who lived in Charlotte County and elsewhere. Even though he invited many ladies to local events, often with the collusion of friends, he never married. He was engaged to Mary H. Holt in 1897 but she evidently broke the engagement because she loved someone else. Many letters deal with the local community regarding farming, money, local politics, clubs, and more. After his Father's death, Hugh Carrington Grigsby slowly becomes more involved in the local community. Letters from his Mother express concern about his welfare, opinions on family matters, reports of her daily routines and advice.
Correspondents include Mary B. Grigsby (sister), Paulus A. Irving (friend) and Hugh Blair Grigsby (father). Mary B. Grigsby asks for advice on how to dress and how to behave when she visits him, probably at Hampton-Sydney College in 1876.
Includes family, friend and business correspondence. Correspondents include his father Hugh Blair Grigsby, his sister Mary B. Grigsby, and other family members and friends. W. Irving Taylor writes about a portrait of Hugh Blair Grigsby. John Whitehead, Carrington's uncle, sends a letter from Mr. Brock who asks for the original minutes of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of William and Mary which should be with his Father's papers. Family letters often concern Hugh Blair Grigsby's death and estate. Other letters offer condolences on the death of Hugh Blair Grigsby. Lucie Knight and Alice Marrow write concerning invitations from Carrington Grigsby.
Includes family, friend and business correspondence. W. G. Morton asks to buy a Revolutionary War flint lock gun, Nina Bouldin solicits donations for a library at the Mt. Pisgah Academy. Letters from brother-in-law William Wilson Galt, J. B. Whitehead, Rev. J. J. Kirkpatrick, and others. Includes draft of a letter from H.C. Grigsby to R. C. Reid where he states that Reid was out of line to publically correct him, letter from B. Johnson Barbour who wants an interview about Hugh Blair Grigsby, letters from W.P. Dye and others about farming and livestock practices, letters from neighbors and friends extending invitations, letter from Robert Armistead of Richmond, Virginia about purchases made by Mary Galt, and a letter from A. E. T. Bradford about a "J. W. Madison" desk given to Hugh Blair Grigsby which was to be returned to him after Hugh Blair Grigsby's death.
Includes family, friend and business correspondence. Correspondents include: Miss Alice Murrow accepting an invitation, Louise Carrington, great grandson of John Grigsby A.B. McCorkle, relative J. B. Whitehead, mother Mary V. Grigsby, sister Mary G. Galt, cousin B.A. White), neighbor J. W. Morton, and cousin Louise Carrington. Includes letters from Mary G. Galt to her mother, a letter from Cousin Thomas B. Venable to Mrs. Mary Grigsby about a portrait of Hugh Blair Grigsby, family letters concerning his father's estate, invitations from F. H. Bouldin and other neighbors, replies from invitations to young ladies, letter about membership in Aspin Grove Range, and letters concerning the price of corn and other farm items. Mrs. Mary V. Grigsby, Carrington's mother, is living with different relatives after the death of her husband.
Includes family, friend, and business correspondence. Correspondents include: brother-in-law William Wilson Galt, cousin John B. Whitehead, sister Mary G. Galt, Lucy A. Priddy asking for a loan, cousin J. C. Carrington, friend and old neighbor J. W. Morton, Miss M. G. Nowlins, L. H. Hayes regarding horses, Miss S. A. Boswell with an invitation to church, an invitation from Mrs. McKelway, a driving invitation from Jennie Watkins, cousin Nellie Watkins, Alice Marrow regarding a visit, and cousin Louise Carrington. Includes a letter from W. H. Grigsby in Washington, DC about reviewing an enclosed crayon portrait of Hugh Blair Grigsby, letter from Lyon G. Tyler asking for any correspondence between Hugh Blair Grigsby and President Tyler for his research on President Tyler, letters from neighbors about escaped sheep and a loan, letters from young ladies and a letter from a local farmer J. E. Holt to Mrs. Grigsby about his family and farming.
Includes family, friend and business correspondence, invitations and wedding announcements. Correspondents include: Mary G. Galt, William Wilson Galt, Mrs. Grigsby, Charles Deane of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Louise Carrington, Emmett M. Dickson and other friends and relatives. Includes letters of introduction by friends for Carrington Grigsby to use during a visit to Kentucky, letter from Mrs. Louise Leigh (cousin) with a note on the back by Carrington about his friendship with her and how he'll miss talking with her now that she is married, a poem by Miss Bigalow, a letter from W. H. Grigsby about a crayon likeness of Hugh Blair Grigsby, an analysis of "Vivorilla Guano" and a copy of his letter to Mrs. Reuben (Virginia) Grigsby Chandler. Mary V. Grigsby's letters relate her daily routines and visits plus she gives advice to Carrington.
Includes family, friend and business correspondence, invitations, and wedding announcements. Correspondents include: Mary G. Galt, William Wilson Galt, Mrs. Grigsby, Mary Bolling, Charles Deane, Marie Shepperdson, John Whitehead, C.T . Hanson, P. R. Carrington about the Carrington genealogy, cousin Henrietta McCormick of Chicago, T. R. Rogers, S. W. Morton, Marianne E. Skelton, and Pattie Finch. Includes a handwritten program for a local "musical soiree" at Mrs. Kate McKelway's home, letter from Frank G. Ruffin who wants copy of Hugh Blair Grigsby's address to the Virginia Convention about the Federal constitution, notes from neighbors about oats and nails, letter from Boylan Green about a new debating society, and letters from extended family members about genealogy.
Includes family, friend and business correspondence. Correspondents include: Mary G. Galt, William Wilson Galt , Mary V. Grigsby, M. L. Nowlin, G. T. Hersfelt, Mary E. Bollings, cousin John Whitehead, Miss Bigelow, and W. M. Cary. Includes 1884 invitation to Hampton Sidney College's graduation, letter from Sheriff C.V. Marshall appointing Carrington as one of the commissioners to view proposed new road, invitation to 1884 leap year party, letter from B. Johnston Barbour about one of Hugh Blair Grigsby's addresses, and letter electing Grigsby as delegate to represent the Walton Magistrate District at the Democratic convention in Roanoke. Mrs. Mary V. Grigsby continues to give advice and talk of her daily routine and health. William Wilson Galt mentions that he may be sent to Europe.
Includes family, friend and business correspondence. Correspondents include: Mary G. Galt, William Wilson Galt , Mrs. Grigsby, Miss Willie Garland, and other family members, friends, and business acquaintances. Includes invitations to local functions and homes, thank you notes for books, notes from Peachy Gilmer, Miss Jeffress and other female friends, note from Dr. Thackston about teeth and dentist problems, Lillian Lee genealogy, and letter from Mrs. G. P. Rice telling him bluntly that she will not congratulate him on his appointment to the Russian Delegation. Mrs. Mary V. Grigsby has further serious health problems.
Includes family, friend and business correspondence. Correspondents include: J. D. Shepperson, cousin Annie Read, Victor Murguiondo, William Wilson Galt, W. W. Glasgow, Charles Deane, Mary B. Grigsby Galt, Mary V. Grigsby, and others. Includes invitations to the "jois de Vie", copy of letter from Carrington to his Mother while he was visiting White Sulphur Springs, responses from lady friends, letters of introductions, letters concerning ladies (one letter from H.H. Booker telling Carrington that a certain young lady was "at church" today), letters about genealogy, letters from neighbors about farming matters, letter fom J. D. Shepperson about helping with a negro club, and letter from William W. Glasgow about the changes in Virginia and "the race of true Virginians." William Wilson Galt writes about his family's move into a new home and business/land dealings that concern the Grigsby Family. John Whitehead writes about Hugh Blair Grigsby's estate. Mary B.Grisby Galt tells of her growing family and activities. Mrs. Galt is staying with friends.
Family, friend and business correspondence. Correspondents include: Mrs. L. Carrington, William Wilson Galt, Mrs. Grigsby, John Whitehead, and others. Mrs. L. Carrington asks for a loan in a flowery letter. William Wilson Galt relates financial information and family affairs . Letter from a Mrs. Crampton (?) who wants her son to receive some education and asks Carrington to ask Mr. Galt about Navy prospects, reply from William Galt about the Navy and about a lady "prospectz' for Carrington. Mrs. Grigsby's eyes are not doing well. She appears to be living with the Galt Family. Miss Maria Davison about genealogy of the Ross Family. W. S. Morton complains about two loose colts.
Family, friend, and business correspondence. Mr. P. B. Price wants to publish a Hampton Sydney address by Hugh Blair Grigsby. Farming related correspondence about prices, orders, and more. William Wilson Galt writes about selling Main Street house, family affairs, and Mrs. Grigsby. Letters and replies to invitations from ladies, plus a letter from P. Morison who writes, "I should prefer not going out with you...I go with are usually college boys and the younger Seminary students in whom I feel some special interest..." Kate Bigelow writes about her teaching job and "if I see or know of any one whom I think will suit you, I will certainly remember you". W. T. Ewell writes from William & Mary about the bond deeded to William & Mary by Hugh Blair Grigsby and the portrait of Hugh Blair Grigsby. Invitations from neighbors. Lottie Carrington sells seven of a dozen of autographed letters from George Washington for $25 each, and is trying to locate some of the other letters that belong to her.
Family, friend and business correspondence. Cousin Bettie Johnson sends a journal article, Lizzie J. Hunt requests a buggy ride to the court house, William Wilson Galt writes about Grigsby business and the Main Street House, J. W. Hooper and others want to see Hugh Blair Grigsby's papers from Hampden Sidney, business letters about farming and banking, Miss Lulie Watkins prays that he meant it when he said he wanted to accept Jesus and explains the plan of Salvation, Nancy Stuart requests his picture for a young lady, Mrs. Grigsby writes of her personal and family affairs and lectures him on other matters, relatives and friends appear to be concerned that he's not married yet, W. W. Read warns about a tenant and J. D. Griselin requests Hugh Blair Grigsby's letters for Miss Sallie Tazewell who is republishing a series of her father's letters.
Family, friend and business correspondence. Cousin Bettie Gaines has organized a female reading club and is still teaching, Major Gaines reports that Col. Whitehead has nominated Gaines to the State Board of Agriculture, Mrs. Viola Minor asks for beef steak "I wanted to ask you this but could not summon up courage", and other correspondence from neighbors and relatives who write of family and local news, the illness of his Mother, and send replies or requests to invitations for visits or functions. Telegram from his Mother about the birth of Robert Ware Galt, son of Mary Blair Grigsby and William Wilson Galt. Appears that Mrs. Grigsby is staying at Edgehill during the later part of the year where friends and neighbors care for her. Letters from "cousins" suggest that he is leading a boring and dull life and sympathize that he cannot find a companion, though there are many notes about "dates" with ladies. Cousin Berta Lackey writes in February of a horse and carriage accident that injured her, about not knowing what love is and implies there might be something going on between the two of them but in March she writes "I will ever regard you with the cousinly interest that first led me to address a letter to you". She later writes more letters, mentioning going to Richmond to get a fragment of bone removed due to her carriage accident. Her writing style is Victorian and her subject matter introspective and analytical. She is a teacher and lives near Lexington, Virginia. By the end of the year, after meeting Carrington and his family in both Lexington and Richmond, the "relationship" seems to be completely platonic. A Mrs. Minor and her daughter, Viola, write to Mrs. Grigsby about an incident at Edgehill where the daughter was either renting rooms or staying as a housekeeper. Evidently Carrington Grigsby became enraged by an incident, suggesting Viola did something dishonest, but Mrs. Minor has found that no one else is surprised by his behavior, and her children are raised to be honest people.
There are only five letters for 1889. William Wilson Galt writes about financial issues and Annie Read writes to Mrs. Grigsby about the death of her father. Includes a bond from Mary V. Grigsby to Carrington Grigsby.
There are only five letters for 1890. Three letters are addressed to Mrs. Mary V. Grigsby from friends and relatives. The other letters to Carrington concern selling stock.
Seven letters, mostly dealing with stock and other financial matters. Lizzie Nash offers condolences on the death of a family member, but is unclear who died.
Four letters. Includes a request for apples by Cousin Annie Read, the selling of Carrington's tobacco by Moss, Eanes and Gills, and matters about Hugh Blair Grigsby's estate from John Whitehead.
Five items. Includes letters from neighbors, William Wilson Galt and a bond between Carrington Grigsby, Dr. McPhail, and H. L. Smith.
Letters about farming, requests for Hugh Blair Grigsby's writings, and personal and family finances. Includes a list of books with the number of volumes in each set, a letter from Dr. A. S. Priddy requesting Carrington's recommendation to Walter H. Taylor for the open position at Eastern Virginia Hospital, and letters from a woman friend who is upset that Carrington will not reply to her letters. Members of the Read family, cousins to Carrington, write about different local and personal matters.
Correspondence with businesses, family and friends. Includes financial matters such as bonds, stock quotes and family concerns, business matters such as price of crops and farming items and a request for farming items for the "Cotton States and International Exposition," Ms. Blair of Walnut Grove, a regular correspondent in other years, continues to write of local events. William Wilson Galt continues as executor of the estates of both Hugh Blair and Mary Venable Grigsby, and Uncle John Carrington appears to manage other aspects of Carrington's finances. S. D. Morton writes about the low salaries of local teachers and requests Carrington's opinion and Richard Gaine asks him to attend a meeting to discuss county affairs. The William Wilson Galt family moved into a new house in Norfolk which he calls #1 Grigsby Place. Miss Nellie Daniel continues to write and issue invitations for visits. He receives requests for copies of his Father's addresses, and even requests for books from the library.
Includes financial matters such as bonds, stock quotes and family concerns and business matters such as price of crops and farming items. Mary B. Galt writes about her visit with the Galt Family plus asks Carrington to check on Miss Ada at The Grove, nephew Will Galt writes his first letter to "Uncle Carrington", Cousin Emma Early writes about her family in Texas, Nannie Daniel continues writing about books, local events, and invites Carrington to visit with the caveat that he better come and stay longer.P. G. Miller, clerk of Court in Goochland County, requests Grigsby genealogical information. The Shepperson and Read families continue to write and extend invitations. Mr. Shepperson writes that he found Carrington's colt dead in the stable. R. C. Winthrop, Jr. writes that his father's estate includes 114 letters from Hugh Blair Grigsby and over 100 letters written by his father to Hugh Blair Grigsby which were given to his father by Carrington. He suggests that this collection should be kept together, possibly at the Virginia Historical Society. He plans to have the collection arranged chronologically and bound. Joseph Bryan, President of the Virginia Historical Society, writes about the potential loan/gift.
Five letters. N. Daniel invites him to the Presbytery at Bethlehem on the 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th. Dr. A. Duane of New York answers Carrington's query about his eye problems with a possible diagnosis and treatments. Sue Wainwright writes two letters that suggest they may have an interest in each other, but questions why he is always too busy.
Carrington has "the grippe" in January and his eyes continue to bother him. On January 9, W. W. Galt writes from Arabia that "probably about this time...you will have left the estate of 'single blessedness' and will have settled down". But other letters from family and friends during this time period do not mention a wedding and he appears to be unmarried due to his activities. Mary B. Galt writes often to Carrington, giving news of her family, William Wilson Galt and his navy travels and the Galt family in Norfolk. Uncle John Carrington continues to send financial accountings. One note from Carrington to Uncle John discusses a misunderstanding about money owed. In January and February, Carrington prepares for a visit to Norfolk, writing the Carringtons and Galts about his plans. Annie Galt of Williamsburg, Virginia suggests he come when the weather is nicer. Emma Early Stringfellow, a cousin from Texas, scolds him for never answering her letters. Cousin Maggie Venable asks for a donation to help build a Presbyterian Church in Lawrenceville. J. Morton White of the William & Mary Quarterly tells of their intention to publish the life of Hugh Blair Grigsby in the February issue and requests any information he can send. Topics once again include the sale of tobacco and other farm items plus business correspondence concerning the farm, banking and stocks. Includes a membership card to the Merrimac Club for twenty days. Beginning in late 1896 and early 1897, many business letters are typed rather than handwritten.
Cousin Kate Flournoy asks if Carrington has a picture of Colonel William Cabell and DC Jackson writes a full description of a carriage and phaeton he is selling and various relatives and business write of farm and local matters. A list "Patrons of Miss K. Boyds' School" is included. Carrington Grigsby met, courted and then became engaged to Miss Mary H. Boyd in 1897. She is a teacher, possibly at the Shepperson home. By December 13, something occurred and the engagement was ended. Correspondence from friends, family, and Miss Boyd. Mary B. Galt writes that she would not "call on Miss M. Hugh Blair because it would be premature." On November 10, Mrs. Mary B. Galt writes "I am truly delighted that she has at last decided positively...and I have written her a real nice sisterly note". Miss Boyd writes, "Thank you for what you said in regard to my fine judgement. I promise you that all of my influence (if I have any) shall be used in your behalf." Cousin Emma Lou Stringfellow writes to Mary H. Boyd in which she says "I know he is one of nature's best nobleman..." and gives many other attributes of Carrington. The December 13 breakup letter from Mary H. Boyd says, "if I could have been launched in to matrimony on the high-tide of my feelings...all would have been well but those things that have broken my dream of yours...frightened and chilled me and I cannot find it in my heart to forgive the fate that makes it so". John Whitehead writes, "I presume...the estrangement is permanent...there are thousands of lovely ladies in Virginia." Some undated letters from Miss Boyd are at the end of the folder. Mrs. Cynthia B. T. Coleman of Williamsburg answers a letter from Carrington about purchasing two chairs belonging to her Uncle William Randolph. She jokes that she barely has two hundred cents much less $200 to buy them. She notes "if Randolfhians is at such a premium I think I had better make my fortune selling off my silver and glass that he brought with him from England. Poor as I am I think I will keep these treasures and hand them down to my children's children."
Letter from Mary Boyd to Carrington discussing the breakup, the rumors around Smithville and how well he is behaving like a "manly man." A draft of a letter from Carrington to Mary Boyd about the termination of their engagement. Other relatives and friends give him support after the termination, especially John Whitehead, Nancy Daniel and Cousin Stringfellow. Nancy Daniel notes that Mary Boyd only wanted "to carry on a fliration...and she did not love any body but Mr. F." Miss Shewall tells of seeing Mary Boyd with Cabell Flourney and they might be engaged. Nancy Daniel continues to write letters asking why he doesn't write or visit often, suggesting he thinks she is uninteresting and wanting to know all about his activities, especially with ladies. Emily Christian from William and Mary asks if he wants a subscription to The William and Mary Quarterly. Mary B. Galt is in Presbyterian Hospital in New York because of possible heart problems. Walter Anderson asks about his Blair Family ancestors. Langhorne Crosby is desperate to know if "Willie Galt" is all right since he is in Manila. Sue Wainwright writes, "When you get this - I will have left Charlotte - I am too sick at heart to write - goodby - God bless you." T. P. Wilson responds to his query about how to kill tobacco worms. Samuel Hannah apologises, asks forgiveness and explains what happened when he stopped by Mrs. Galt's house after he'd had too much to drink. Includes correspondence about farm crops and implements, business transactions and local and family matters with invitations from family and local residents. Includes a November 3 letter from William Wilson Galt in Jamaica to Mrs. Mary B. Galt, list of Kathryn Boyd's patrons for 1898 and a letter from Mrs. Mary B. Galt saying her husband has returned from Manila.
Three letters. Two letters written for Beverly Thomas asking for an extension for a payment for land and one note requesting flour.
1900 Mrs. Mary B. Galt writes that her son, Hugh, is better but "I don't want him to return to Wm & Mary at all, for I don't believe they can get decent food there at all." Samuel Read asks how he can obtain a copy of "History of South Side Virginia" by Hugh Blair Grigsby. Nannie Daniel writes "You seem to have quite a fondness for widows. Now there are four...I think it is time you were getting married...some one said you were in love with yourself and would never love any body else." Mary B. and William Wilson Galt have a new son named Carrington Grigsby Galt. Carrington is a member of the State Board of Agriculture. He still receives letters from friends who tell him about ladies visiting the area. The Virginia Historical Society asks him about some newspapers that he had talked about giving to them. Mary B. Galt speaks of Miss Nannie who is looking after the children and wishes that Carrington was living such a family life. Includes letters from relatives and neighbors. Appears that he is helping some of his poorer relations and neighbors. Includes correspondence about farm purchases such as seeds, fertilizer and machinery and selling farm products. 1908 Correspondence 2 letters. Philip Alexander Bruce about his work on the early history of Virginia and Mrs. Kate B. Page of Danville accepts a request for Carrington to visit her at Edwins.
Mainly personal letters from family and friends, but also business correspondence about the farm and Edgehill. Invitations, acceptances, family news and local news. Includes letters from Mary B. Galt, Kathryn Boyd, Shepperson Family, Read Family, Mary Scott about teaching James, a price list and catalogue for Fanny Clark & Co's in Connecticut, rough draft of Carrington's letter to Mrs. Deane and the "By-laws Governing the Joie de Vie Club of Charlotte".
Correspondence and accounts with banks and uncle John Whitehead about the estate. An inventory of Edgehill with value assigned, a list and division of the plaster casts and busts, a list and division of house linens, an inventory list entitled "Odds" and a statement of "cost of sale of real estate property". A power of attorney document where Mary V. Grigsby appoints John C. Williams her attorney.
Ledger of expenses of Edgehill and salaries of employees. Includes index.
Ledger of expenses of Edgehill and salaries of employees. Includes a loose leaf account sheets for 1888 with personal expenses noted.
Small book with personal accounts. Many entries relate to money transactions with friends, neighbors and relatives.
Ten small memoranda account books. These small pads were probably carried with him as he did his daily business. He records business dealings, cost of farm related items and a few personal notes or reminders.
Mostly accounts for Hugh Carrington Grigsby, but some accounts for Mary Blair Grigsby. Includes invoices for household items, farm equipment, horses, livestock, crop items, physicians, apothecaries, and food items; receipts for sale of tobacco, cattle and other commodities; ledger accounts from local businesses; checks and receipts from banks in Smithville, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia; financial business correspondence, and bonds, requests, payments, and receipts from local men and women who were lent money by Carrington Grigsby.
Mostly accounts for Hugh Carrington Grigsby, but some accounts for Mary Blair Grigsby. Includes invoices for household items, farm equipment, horses, livestock, crop items, physicians, apothecaries, and food items; receipts for sale of tobacco, cattle and other commodities; ledger accounts from local businesses; checks and receipts from banks in Smithville, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia; financial business correspondence, and bonds, requests, payments, and receipts from local men and women who were lent money by Carrington Grigsby.
Mostly accounts for Hugh Carrington Grigsby, but some accounts for Mary Blair Grigsby. Includes invoices for household items, farm equipment, horses, livestock, crop items, physicians, apothecaries, and food items; receipts for sale of tobacco, cattle and other commodities; ledger accounts from local businesses; checks and receipts from banks in Smithville, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia; financial business correspondence, and bonds, requests, payments, and receipts from local men and women who were lent money by Carrington Grigsby.
Mostly accounts for Hugh Carrington Grigsby, but some accounts for Mary Blair Grigsby. Includes invoices for household items, farm equipment, horses, livestock, crop items, physicians, apothecaries, and food items; receipts for sale of tobacco, cattle and other commodities; ledger accounts from local businesses; checks and receipts from banks in Smithville, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia; financial business correspondence, and bonds, requests, payments, and receipts from local men and women who were lent money by Carrington Grigsby.
Mostly accounts for Hugh Carrington Grigsby, but some accounts for Mary Blair Grigsby. Includes invoices for household items, farm equipment, horses, livestock, crop items, physicians, apothecaries, and food items; receipts for sale of tobacco, cattle and other commodities; ledger accounts from local businesses; checks and receipts from banks in Smithville, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia; financial business correspondence, and bonds, requests, payments, and receipts from local men and women who were lent money by Carrington Grigsby.
Mostly accounts for Hugh Carrington Grigsby, but some accounts for Mary Blair Grigsby. Includes invoices for household items, farm equipment, horses, livestock, crop items, physicians, apothecaries, and food items; receipts for sale of tobacco, cattle and other commodities; ledger accounts from local businesses; checks and receipts from banks in Smithville, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia; financial business correspondence, and bonds, requests, payments, and receipts from local men and women who were lent money by Carrington Grigsby.
Mostly accounts for Hugh Carrington Grigsby, but some accounts for Mary Blair Grigsby. Includes invoices for household items, farm equipment, horses, livestock, crop items, physicians, apothecaries, and food items; receipts for sale of tobacco, cattle and other commodities; ledger accounts from local businesses; checks and receipts from banks in Smithville, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia; financial business correspondence, and bonds, requests, payments, and receipts from local men and women who were lent money by Carrington Grigsby.
Invoices for household items, farm equipment, horses, livestock, crop items, physicians, apothecaries and food items; receipts for sale of tobacco, cattle and other commodities; ledger accounts from local businesses; checks and receipts from banks in Smithville, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia; financial business correspondence, and bonds, requests, payments, and receipts from local men and women who were lent money by Carrington Grigsby.
Invoices for household items, farm equipment, horses, livestock, crop items, physicians, apothecaries and food items; receipts for sale of tobacco, cattle and other commodities; ledger accounts from local businesses; checks and receipts from banks in Smithville, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia; financial business correspondence, and bonds, requests, payments, and receipts from local men and women who were lent money by Carrington Grigsby.
Invoices for household items, farm equipment, horses, livestock, crop items, physicians, apothecaries, and food items; receipts for sale of tobacco, cattle, and other commodities; ledger accounts from local businesses; checks and receipts from banks in Smithville, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia; financial business correspondence, and bonds, requests, payments, and receipts from local men and women who were lent money by Carrington Grigsby. Includes a February 4, 1897 receipt from The Colonial Hotel in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Invoices for household items, farm equipment, horses, livestock, crop items, physicians, apothecaries, and food items; receipts for sale of tobacco, cattle and other commodities; ledger accounts from local businesses; checks and receipts from banks in Smithville, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia; financial business correspondence, and bonds, requests, payments, and receipts from local men and women who were lent money by Carrington Grigsby.
Invoices for household items, farm equipment, horses, livestock, crop items, physicians, apothecaries, and food items; receipts for sale of tobacco, cattle and other commodities; ledger accounts from local businesses; checks and receipts from banks in Smithville, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia; financial business correspondence, and bonds, requests, payments, and receipts from local men and women who were lent money by Carrington Grigsby.
Invoices for household items, farm equipment, horses, livestock, crop items, physicians, apothecaries, and food items; receipts for sale of tobacco, cattle and other commodities; ledger accounts from local businesses; checks and receipts from banks in Smithville, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia; financial business correspondence, and bonds, requests, payments, and receipts from local men and women who were lent money by Carrington Grigsby.
Invoices for household items, farm equipment, horses, livestock, crop items, physicians, apothecaries, and food items; receipts for sale of tobacco, cattle, and other commodities; ledger accounts from local businesses; checks and receipts from banks in Smithville, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia; financial business correspondence, and bonds, requests, payments, and receipts from local men and women who were lent money by Carrington Grigsby.
Ledger sheets for accounts with T. J. Berry, who appears to be a metal worker. Other accounts and invoices for T. J. Berry may be included in the chronological "Finances - Accounts" folders.
Ledger sheets for accounts with W. T. Faris, who appears to be an owner of a general store. Other accounts and invoices for W. T. Faris may be included in the chronological "Finances - Accounts" folders.
Ledger sheets for accounts with H. M. Smith and Company, which appears to be a grocery and general store. Many other invoices for H. M. Smith and Company are filed in the chronological "Finances - Accounts" folders.
Three bank check stub books and one page of a saving book account with Franklin Savings Bank.
List of securities in safe at Charlotte Bank Insurance Company.
Correspondence, invoices and contracts about stocks and bonds. 25 or more stock certificates for "Florence Railroad and Improvement Company" purchased in 1888.
Personal Property and other tax bills and payments. Some years involve the estates of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Blair Grigsby. Includes a 1897 list of taxable property.
1892 certificate as an active member of the Smithville Democratic Club; 1895 notices to "Tax Payers of Charlotte County, Virginia" from a committee charged with reviewing the county budget of which Carrington was a member; 1900 printed list of committees for the "Laying of the Cornerstone of the Confederate Monument" of which Carrington was on the Executive Committee .
Invoices, receipts, correspondence, and policies for property and life insurance. Some material on the life insurance policies of Hugh Blair Grigsby and Mary V. Grigsby, with the policy documents for Mary V. Grigsby. Includes insurance policy transfers from William L. Nelson to Carrington Grigsby and John B. Holt to Carrington Grigsby, both in 1882.
Small notepad listing items from the Grigsby Family by category, then by Mr. Grigsby and Mrs. Galt. Appears to be a division of the estate of Hugh Blair and Mary V. Grigsby.
Two small daily journals with entries about daily activities and genealogy notes.
Includes hand drawn plot of Cumberland Street Property in Norfolk, Virginia from 1889; purchase documents with the Grottoes Company for villa lots at Shendun, Virginia; 1899 deed between Beverly and Alice Thomas and H.C. Marshall for land originally purchased by Beverly and Alice Thomas from Carrington Grigsby and Mary B. Galt; 1893 deed between Mary V. Grigsby and Hugh Carrington Grigsby where she gives him Edgehill in Charlotte County as collateral for a debt of Lelia B. Walker.
There is some overlapping in the financial and correspondence papers. Contains bonds, notes, road surveys, merchant's license for operating a dry goods and grocery story, license for "standing" a jack (mule) and a stallion, $15,080 note with William Wilson Galt, a farming contract with Tazewell Taylor, administrator papers for Mary and Louisa Cooper and an appointment to survey the lands of William W. Read.
Broadside announcement of the "Resolutions of Respect in the memory of Judge Wood Bouldin" which were passed at a "meeting of the citizens of Charlotte County, Court Day, November 6th, 1876." Broadsides for farm machinery, "Spring Hill Nursery" in Prospect, Virginia, "Greensboro Nurseries" in Greensboro, North Carolina, tobacco, chemicals, bookstores, kettles, and manure. March 1900 flyer for the Southern Historical Association, price list for plows from "Charles E. Hunter" in Richmond, Virginia; how-to cards from "A.H. Patch" of Clarksville, Tennessee, two copies of Volume II, No. 11, 1891 March 14 "Knowledge, a Weekly Magazine", reprint of "Use and Abuse of the Obstetric Forceps," and flyer with prices from tobacco to groceries for "Sublett & Cary" General Commission Merchants.
1876 article on Lord Botetourt, undated article "Bowie of Alamo Fame" and an 1896 page from "The Sun" in New York.
List of months and their flowers and meanings, 1879 April 13 love poem, paper on Algernon Sidney (paper may possibly be by Hugh Blair Grigsby), 1870 paper entitled "Education."
Material that could not be definitely associated with either the Grigsby or Galt Family.
Blank Valentine greeting card and empty envelopes from Cassiday and Thorp, Iroquois Club of San Diego California, and Vaughan's Seed Store in New York.
Newspaper clippings, mostly with events in Williamsburg, Virginia but some historical and society news.
Includes a drawing of a bookshelf, financial estimates, costs of materials, illegible address of Richard Henry, handwritten poetry in various handwritings, and an essay on religion.
Includes news clippings; a printed John Knox poem, a program of "The Little Duke" performed in at the Broad Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1879-80; a pamphlet "Ode Commemorating the Entrance of the Hon. Horace Binney on his Ninety-Third Year" dated 1872 January 4 and printed in Norfolk, Virginia; 1939 brochure by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities "Pocahontas Bright Stream Between Two Hills", and two other pamphlets for Jamestown Island, 1941 and undated.
These photographs have been grouped by Galt Family, Grigsby Family, provenance unknown. Includes a few tintypes and daguerreotypes.
Galt Family Photographs
*Dimensions range from 5"x7" to 6"x9"
Galt House in Williamsburg, 20th Century
Dicky Galt, CSA
Maurice Hamner Garland
Lucy B. Galt Garland (2)
Herbert Randolph Galt
Eva Galt
Lucy Galt
Landon Cabell Garland
Herbert Galt Garland (2)
William Wilson Galt in uniform, formal pose
Mary Meares Galt, Betty Ashe Galt, Rogers H. Galt, Jr., and John Meares Galt
Mary Ware Galt (2)
Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt
Unknown Subject
Dimensions average, 4"x6"
Postcard of Will Galt
Alfred Galt (?)
Annie Alexina Galt
Bettie Galt
Elizabeth Ash Galt
Elizabeth Welsh Galt
Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt
Hugh Carrington Galt
James S. Galt
John Mears Galt
Mary Blair Grigsby Galt
Mary Carrington Galt
Mary Mears Galt
Mary Williams Ware Galt (wife of William Richard Galt)
Robert Ware Galt
Rogers H. Galt, Jr.
Susan Duane Galt
William Richard Galt
William Richard Galt, Jr.
William Wilson Galt
*Group Photographs:
Miss Mary Ware Galt and Mrs. Mary Ware Galt
Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, Mary Eggleston, C. C. Field, William Wilson Galt, Mary Blair Galt, and Mary C. Ward
Betsy and Germaine Minson Galt
Betsy Andrews, Thomas Randolph, and James Minson
Mary Mears Galt, Roger H. Galt, Bettie Galt, John M. Galt, and Mary Ware Galt
William Wilson Galt, "Will in uniform",
Mary M. Galt, 7 weeks old
William Wilson Galt in uniform (3)
William Wilson Galt in uniform standing on ship (not labeled)
William Wilson Galt, 1873 (3)
William Wilson Galt (2)
Two children on porch
Mary Blair Grigsby Galt
"John G. Zimermann and Alfred G. Zimermann on latter's entering the Naval Academy" (Postcard)
Mary Carrington Galt
*Friends and Others, Many Navy Related
Photograph of a medal with a bust of an Officer of the Navy
Wallace Burnett
Capt. W. R. Capron, Bernkastel Germany 1919 January 19
Ensign H. C. Chadwick (2)
Mrs. A. Duane
Dr. John M. Edga, USN
Fishback, USN
Captain Charles V. Gridley, Lt. Benjamin Tappan, USS Raleigh
Miss Lilla Howard
J. Y. Rhorer, Guatemala, 1890
Robottom, USN
Lt. Hugh Rodman, (USS Raleigh)
Admr. Fabius Stanly
Susan Armistead Marston Williams (Mrs. Robert S. Christian Ware)
Provost unknown
Unnamed navy man
Unnamed navy man in Hong Kong
F. B. Wilson (in uniform)
Group of Navy Officers
*Navy Related
Postcard of Valle Di Pombei, Grand Hotel
Group picture of five men leaning on a fence with a tent in the background
Three men riding in cart behind an ox (2)
Major John G. Tucker and J. W. Mason of Cheyenne, Wyoming
Lighthouse (3 views)
Ship near harbour
Shanghai, China harbour scene, Postcard from Edgar to William Wilson Galt
Street scene, 1898, Battle of Manila Bay
Soldiers in tents, 1898, Battle of Manila Bay
"Corregidor Island", 1898, Battle of Manila Bay (2)
Group picture of "Third Division Consort", 1898, Battle of Manila Bay
"Gun dismantled at Sangley after the Battle", 1898, Battle of Manila Bay (2)
"USS Boston, May 1st, 1898", Battle of Manila Bay
"USS Boston, May 1, 1898 about 8 am", Battle of Manila Bay
"Fort Malate after bombardment when we took Manila", Battle of Manila Bay
"Second Division Consort, Ensign Kaiser, May 1, 1898 8 am", Battle of Manila Bay
Beach scene
Army and Navy Club, Washington, DC (2, both with William Wilson Galt, one with E.K. Moore)
Large sailing ships
Lieutenant Thomas M. Brumby, USN, Flag Lieutenant
Lt. (J. G.) Charles S. Stanworth, USN, No. 10
Six men gathering around a table, drinking
5 men sitting in the War Room of Thetic
Lt. R. H. Galt, USN on the USS Montreal
*Tintypes, Negatives and More
Tintype of A. A. Galt and William Wilson Galt
Framed tintype of Mary Blair Grigsby Galt
Tintype of an unknown man
Negatives of photographs of the Galt home with a pencil drawing and note "Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt"
Negative proofs of William Wilson Galt in uniform (very faded)
Negatives and photographs of silhouettes and busts
Postcard of Science Hall at Virginia Tech
Postcard of Mt. Vernon
Galt Photograph album or possibly a Grigsby album, but most of the identified photographs belong to Galt Family members. Leather covered album. Cover decorated with birds and flowers. Most of the photographs are not identified. Includes photographs of Alexander Galt, Conway Roberson, Sarah N. Randolph, Hugh Blair Grigsby, Charles Read, Augusta Talcott, William Wilson Galt, Robert W. Galt, Jr., and others.
These photographs have been grouped by size, then subject.
Grigsby Family and Relatives
*Dimension average, 4" x 6"
Jan Watkins Carrington, silhouette
Hugh Blair Grigsby
William T. Hamilton (cousin of Hugh Blair Grigsby)
Thomas Jefferson Randolph of Edgehill
John B. Whitehead
Mrs. John B. Whitehead
Hugh Blair Grigsby and Marion Clark Smith
*Dimension average, 2.5" x 3.5"
Photograph of a young lady with an envelope notation "For Carrington to keep for Alice Blair"
Mary Venable Carrington Grigsby (Hugh Blair Grigsby's wife)
John B. Whitehead
*Dimensions range from 5" x 7" to 6" x 9"
"Huge elm at Edgehill B. H. G. standing under gives idea of size. This was taken by H. B. G. Galt".
Ruins of the house at Edgehill (3)
Hugh Blair Grigsby's birthplace on Bank Street (4)
Hugh Blair Grigsby Hugh Blair Grigsby (probably)
Mary Venable Carrington Grigsby (possibly)
Mary (Cousin)
Edgehill
Two girls and a boy, taken by C. C. Firesheets in South Boston, Virginia
Hugh Blair Grigsby's birthplace in Norfolk, Virginia(3)
"Bill Oglesby, Bill Galt. A ppair to draw to"
Friends and Others Many of these photographs appear to be part of a collection from Hugh Blair Grigsby of friends and famous people.
*Dimension average, 4" x 6"
Horace Binney
Lily Cary
Edward Coles
Langhorne Cosby
Quago Dorman
"David Duncan written in my 84th year Wofford College S. C."
"To Hugh Blair Grigsby from David Duncan, Photograph of Rev. Jas. A. Duncan, D. D. of Virginia"
William Frazier
Miss Mattie Gaines (Dowell, Charlotte County, Virginia)
G. C. Hannah, Jr.
Paul Jones
Gertrude Lannehill
Cincinnatus Newton
Mrs. George Newton
Carter Braxton Poindexter
Edmund Quincy
Wyndam Robertson, Acting Governor of Virginia 1836–1837
Rev. Philip Slaughter
"Master George McPhail Smith" (child)
Henry, William, and Robert Smith
Littleton Waller Tazewell (surname changed from birth name of Bradford to Tazewell)
Martha Trimble
"Annie Tazewell Walker, daughter of Mrs. Richard Walker Norfolk, April 28, 1879"
Robert C. Winthrop (3)
*Dimension average, 2.5" x 3.5"
Mr. Graybill
P. B. Simms
Mr. Noyes
Mary Vaughan
C. Bouldin
C. V. L. Marshall
Jim Smith
Edmonia Reed, Greenfield, Charlotte County, Virginia
Mrs. Megehee
Thomas Hicks Wynne
Walker Hill
Miss Harrison
Mr. Forbes
Josh Otley (tinplate)
Mrs. General Greener
Madame A. Berghmand, formerly Miss Lilly Macalister of Philadelphia
Mr. Binney
Group collage of men from 19th Century
Mr. Tedham's turnout (with man in wagon)
Mrs. H. F. Hamilton
Willie Locke
John Masters (2)
Archer Jeffrey
Miss Jane Comfort
Mr. Dexter and daughter
Charles Deane
William C. Hutter
R. A. Brock
Miss Mary Bradford
B. B. Bonhden
Mrs. Allibone
Miss Fannie S. Daniel, Smithville, Charlotte County, Virginia
Eleanor Harrison Carr
Gussie Talcott
Alibone
Mrs. Noyes
Miss S. Leadon
Thomas R. Jones of Accomack
Lyman C. Raper
George
Miss Emily Doyle
Aaron Jeffry
*Dimension average, 4" x 6"
Lt. William Freeman Zeilin, Marine Corps
John Daniel, US Senator
Julian Harrison
Eugene O'Locke
Includes tintypes of Judd Brush, and Walter and Edna Brush, and a framed daguerreotype of Mary Venable Grigsby.
Grigsby Family Photograph Albums Three small leather photograph albums with photographs of friends and family. 1858-1880. Album One Some photographs are labeled incorrectly and there are some photographs without names. N.C. Winthrop Sarah N. Randolph T. Jefferson Randolph Gov. Edward Coles Miss Lizzie ? of Philadelphia Hugh Blair Grigsby McChesney Mr. Peabody General Pendleton Gov. Henry Tazewell Mrs. Henry Tazewell Colonel John Niveson Mrs. John Niveson Mrs. Tazewell Gov. L.W. Tazewell Col. John N. Tazewell Mrs. Skipwith (photograph of a painting) Mrs. Isaac Coles William Nivison Mrs. D. Allihone (Allibone) (J. Austin, Edmonia) Captain Lahrbush (age 109) Mrs. Lilly Berghman Charles Campbell J. Nelson Tappon Col William Lamb Dr. Hugh L. Hodge Jennie Schwartz Clement G. Owens Conway Robinson, Jr. Album Two Most photographs are labeled, but some are too faded to read. Some photographs are labeled on the reverse, but inaccessible without destroying the album. Unknown Badford Unknown Winthrop Mrs. J.G. Payton Major J. Gardner Payton Mary N. Payton Susan W. Payton J. Gardner Payton, Jun. Mrs. Leander McCormick Cousin Lucy McCormick Ella J. Bradford W. McCormick Emira Louise McCormick Robert S. McCormick Anne Reubina McCormick Lucy Virginia McCormick Mrs. J McChesney Charles E. Deans W. Noyes Mrs. J. Henry John Henry Mrs. Trimble Unknown Grigsby Miss Harriet Nash Dr. E.E. Balfour Delaney Chandler Warren Moore Chandler A. J. Smith Mrs. John Henry William W. Henry Mrs. William W. Henry Hugh Blair Grigsby Miss Allebone Album Three Most photographs are labeled, but some are too faded to read. Some photographs are labeled on the reverse, but inaccessible without destroying the album. John B. Whitehead Mrs. J. B. Whitehead Henry C. Whitehead Miss Emily H. Whitehead (John) B. Whitehead William C. Whitehead Daria Griffith Mrs. Griffith Reia White Charles Reed Mrs. W.L. (Scott) William L. (Scott) Mrs. Lucy A. Morton Mrs. Ann Allen Mr. Hogan Mrs. Hogan Miss Maria Hogan Miss Emma Early Mrs. James D. Davidson James D. Davidson Greenlea Davidson Charles Davidson Robert Davidson Gen. Jenkins Robert Tunstall Hugh Grigsby Whitehead
*Unknown Provenance, Photographs Without Names, and Outdoor Scenes, circa 1860 to c. 1920.
Approximately 50 unnamed photographs
Daguerreotype of an unknown child
Group photo of a black family, circa 1880, includes mother, father, son and twin daughters
*Unknown provenance of photgraphs with names. Many of these photographs may belong to Hugh Blair Grigsby who collected photographs of friends and famous people.
Mary Jeffery Wells and Paul Wells, Jr. Susie Amesten
President Chester Arthur
Mrs. Purley Date Bayler
Beer (female)
Beverington
Cordelia
Francis DeCordy
L. P. Godwin
Colonel William Lamb
Bessie Locke
Marjorie Lowell
James Lyons
McCormick
Bessie McDonald
H. E. Parminte
Arnold Walke
Lizzie Wiley
Daniel Webster, copy of a print "from the last Picture ever taken"
*Outdoor Scenes
White house with striped awning, postcard from John W. Edgar
Dark shingled house, 1104 Weston (3 copies)
Street scene, labeled "A typical street scene in Abacia Town"
Old Masonic Lodge in Williamsburg, Virginia Postcard from M. M. Galt to W. W. Galt
New York and Virginia Steamboat advertising card
The Fisher Girl, Corner of Main and Church Street, Norfok, Virginia
Mormon Tabernacle (2 scenes)
Bust
Obelisk
Dark shingled house (probably 1104 Weston)
Drawing of a sailboat
Three women, two men and two children on porch of white house
Primarily correspondence of Capt. William Wilson Galt with his wife Mary Blair Grigsby Galt and their sons, Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt and William Richard Galt. Letters are written from California, Charlotte County, Norfolk, and Williamsburg, Virginia. Other letters are between Grigsby family members, particularly to Hugh Carrington Grigsby, the brother of Mary Blair Grigsby Galt. William Wilson Galt's letters are written on while on voyages to California, Mexico, Cyprus, Gibraltar, the Azores, and Italy. One letter is dated 1898 April 30, the day before the Battle of Manila Bay while on board the USS Raleigh which was engaged in the battle. Letters from Eastern Publishing Company, a potential publisher of "The Battle of Manila Bay," who were unable to publish the book. Accounts concerning the estate of Mary Venable Carrington Grigsby, the mother-in-law of William Wilson Galt.
Envelopes that did not match correspondence. Addressed to Hugh Blair Galt, Hugh Carrington Grigsby, William R. Galt, Mary V. Grigsby, and William Wilson Galt.
Three letters to and from William Wilson Galt. 1894 June 7 letter from John L. Williams and Sons (bankers) to W. W. Galt regarding bonds registered in name of H. Carrington Grigsby; 1897 February 9 letter from William Wilson Galt, Paymaster, U.S. Navy to W. D. Boxom, Governor of Florida, acknowledging his receipt of his "commission as delegate to the Seaboard and Harbor Defense Convention", and 1897 June 4 letter from H. L. Mitchell appointing Paymaster Galt as delegate to the "Gulf and Atlantic Coast Defense Convention."
Letters from E. Eugene May of the Eastern Publishing Company in Boston, Massachusetts to William Wilson Galt about publishing Galt's book, "The Battle of Manila Bay". Includes costs, layout decisions and corrections to the manuscript. It appears that the Eastern Publishing Company had financial problems, plus a burglary of their printing plates, and never published the book for William Wilson Galt.
Correspondence between the William Wilson Galt family members. 1881 April 12, William Wilson Galt writes Mary B. Grigsby about the health of her father and gives advice about keeping healthy in mind and body. 1881 December 1, William Wilson Galt, Edgehill, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Galt, about his small wedding at Edgehill and plans to stay in Washington, DC until his ship sails. 1883 August 2, two letters, one to his Mother and one to his Father, about the birth of his son; he draws a baby with an elongated head to describe his son. 1884 August 2 John B. Whitehead to William Wilson Galt about the price of soy on the stock market. 1885 June 2, William Wilson Galt, Williamsburg, Virginia, to his Mother about the birth of his second son, William Richard Galt. 1886 May 15 letter written by Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt which is a page of scribbles. 1890 July 17, William Wilson Galt, written aboard the USS Thetis while at sea, to his son; explains how fast the ship travels with comparison to the time his son takes to eat and to sleep, what he sees from the deck of the ship, the Southern Cross used for navigation, whales and large birds. 1891 February 4, Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, Vallejos, California, to his Grandmother Galt about the USS Thetis being grounded because of worms and family news. 1891 October 25, Grandfather Galt to Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt about family news and Hugh Blair Grigsby's account of the earthquake. 1892 December 3, William Wilson Galt, USS Thetis while at sea, to his Mother about arriving soon in San Diego. 1893 February 20, M. M. Galt (wife of Rogers Galt), Naval Academy, to Mary Grigsby Galt about the death of Mamie and family news. 1894 November 8, Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt, Smithville, to his Mother about family news.
Letters from family and friends of the William Wilson Galt Family. 1895 John B. McPhail of Mulberry Hill (a cousin on the Carrington side of the family) replies to an invitation from Mary Blair G. Galt; Reginald F. Poindexter to Mary Blair G. Galt about the work done on the house in anticipation of her arrival; Mary B. G. Galt, Smithville, to her mother-in-law about family news and the Rogers Galt family and Carrington Grigsby to his sister, Mary B. G. Galt about news of the farm and the community in Charlotte County. 1896-97 Hugh B.G. Galt, while in Smithville, writes letters to his father about local and family news and his activities, which include hunting squirrels and rabbits, hog killing, problems with his gun, his health, ice skating, school, summer studies, courthouse visits to hear trials, bicycle rides, searching for Native American, visiting relatives in Norfolk and Williamsburg and his desire for a hound puppy. On 1897 September 18, he mentions that "Uncle Carrington is going to get married to Miss Mary Boyd, but I don't think he will." On 1897 December 18, he writes about the death of Mary W. Ware Galt, his grandmother. William R. Galt, while in Smithville, writes a letter to his father about the marriage of Albert and his activities, which includes his desire for a "doublebarrel muzzleloader," hog killing, trapping, hunting, and raising chickens. Robert Galt, while in Smithville, writes to his Father about the pig killing. In 1897 May, William Wilson Galt, New York, writes his mother about his visit with Susie and Rogers Galt. Rogers leaves for target practice the next day. William Wilson Galt's ship also leaves the next day for one or two years of duty. On 1897 May 16, William Wilson Galt, while at sea near Pico Island in the Azores, tells Hugh B. G. Galt about how the ship operates, what he has seen so far on his voyage and asks, "I want you to read up on all the places I go to and tell Will, Robert and Mary all about them." He also writes Hugh B.G. Galt while in Tangier, Morocco, and Genoa, Italy and at sea in the Mediterranean.
Mostly letters between William Wilson Galt and his family while he is in the Navy. Many letters are from Hugh B.G. Galt to his Father. On February 13, 1898, he writes about his hurt arm, "the doctor had my arm put under the x-rays every night while I was down there (Norfolk)" and that his Mother was rundown, got sick in New York and was hospitalized for two weeks. On March 26, 1898, his Mother is home, but still unwell. He writes about his summer plans, his schoolwork and a bicycle accident of a friend. He thanks his Father for the stamps and other items in the boxes he sent. On May 10, 1898, Hugh BlairG. Galt writes, "...glader to hear of Dewey's victory at Manila, and still more so to hear by a telegram that you were well and sound." On March 21, 1899, Hugh B.G. Galt shows his concern about his Father's operation. On April 13, 1898, J. P. Lawrence writes Mary Blair Galt about church work. In his April 30, 1898 letter to his wife, William Wilson Galt is just entering Manila Bay. Sketches the ships in squadron formation. Mentions the possibility of dying during the battle, then proceeds to tell her what assets they have and how to handle everything if he should die. In February 23, 1899, William Wilson Galt is in New York and hopes to come home and "stay with you all for a long time." Undated letters at the end of the folder include letters from Mrs. W.R. Galt to son, William Wilson Galt and family, plus a letter from Hugh B.G. Galt to his Grandmother Galt. A recipe for sweet pickle written on an incomplete letter by Mary B.G. Galt.
Majority of the letters are to Hugh Carrington Grigsby from family and friends, but two undated letters are to "Mrs. Grigsby" from H. C. Nowlin in Richmond, Virginia about buying items for Mrs. Grigsby, and health problems. Hugh Carrington Grigsby attended "The Cluster School" at "Blackwalnut P. O." in Halifax, Virginia in 1871 and 1872. 1871 January 8 letter from "Johnny" at Hampden-Sidney College talks about how wonderful college life is. Letters from both his mother and father are full of advice and some criticisms. His father, Hugh Blair Grigsby, often tells Hugh Carrington Grigsby, with many examples, that the work he does now will enable him to be successful later. Clem D. Lewis writes twice in late 1871 about his troubles with the whooping cough and recent and future parties. In 1872, Hugh Blair Grigsby writes about the death of cousin Clem C. Read "who was named after Grandfather." Hugh Blair Grigsby tells Hugh Carrington Grigsby "Father cannot tell you how much his heart is set upon you and how anxiously he wishes you to be what you can so easily become if you are true to yourself." In 1872, Hugh Carrington attends Hampden-Sidney College. In 1873, his sophomore year, his father is writing with suggestions about his difficulty in mathmatics and "as you stand in the Sophomore year, so you stand for the rest of your course. I wish you to be a scholar for many reasons, and not the least is that your future fortunes depend on your success. You will have to make your own way in the world; and the more accomplished you are in your studies, the greater the probability of success." 1874 May 4, his Father writes, "Both my health and your mother's is frail, and we look to you as our support in our declining years, and we are solicitious that your conduct will entitle you to the esteem of all men and women with you associate." 1890 October 26, letter from William T. Grigsby, Union City, Tennessee, to Mrs Grigsby, Relict of Honorable Hugh B. Grigsby, requesting a photograph of Hugh Blair Grigsby. An undated letter from Hugh Carrington Grigsby relates a story he heard from a "youth" about "cogitations upon the prospect of entering college".
Taxes related to the estate, 1890-1894; invoices for items paid by or charged to the estate, many of them by Mrs. Grigsby prior to her death, with receipts and canceled checks (1889-1898); poem, possibly written by William Wilson Galt, and probably about his mother-in-law, Mary V. Grigsby; copies of deeds and other legal documents, beginning in 1882; notebook with entries for expenditures in regard to Mary V. Grigsby's estate (1891-1894) and receipts of payments made to Grigsby Family members during the division of the estate, particularly the sale of Virginia bonds in 1894. Some items concern administrative matters that carried over from the estate of Hugh Blair Grigsby who died in 1881. Mary Blair Grigsby Galt was an administrator to his estate.
A photocopy of a Galt family tree with notation, "This chart was made in 1934 by Rogers Harrison Galt, in collaboration with Mary Meares Galt". The chart begins with Samuel Galt (circa 1700-1761).
Typed carbon copy on tissue paper of the Naval Record of Captain William Wilson Galt entitled "Record of William Wilson Galt, Captain (S C) U.S.N." The record begins in 1877 and ends in 1925 when he retired. Gives a short biographical background which was noted on his entrance examination in 1877. October 30 letter to Paymaster W. W. Galt from R. W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, thanking him and commending him for the rescue of the disabled schooner "Express" and bringing her safely to Key West harbor; 1899 July 29 letter from the Secretary of the Navy with an excerpt from a letter from Captain J. B. Coghlan praising Paymaster Galt in sailing through rough seas to deliver a pump to the "Raleigh" just before the Manila Bay attack. Handwritten on cover page, "For A.G. Zimermann, Jr."
List of new members to the National Grigsby Family Society.
Typed poem written by William Wilson Galt entitled "July the 9th, 1897" with handwritten notes "Birthday of his wife-Mary B. Galt" and "written by WW Galt & mailed from Algiers, Africa, 14 Augt 97-." Handwritten poem about death and living in the present, author unknown.
Report cards of Hugh Galt from Smithville High School, 1897 June 14 and 1899 February. 1899 invoices from the Episcopal Male Academy for Mrs. W. W. Galt for the expenditures of Willie Galt. Letter from Instructor Elizabeth A. Rowe, "Miss Mary C. Galt has successfully completed an elementary course in Botany," dated 1915 February.