0.25 Linear Feet, Summary: 3 in. (1 flat storage box)
Creator
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown,
WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Language
English
Abstract
Charles Henry Ambler (1876-1957) was a professor of history at West Virginia University and the author of numerous books about
American and West Virginia history, including The Life and Diary of John Floyd (1918). Collection contains some of Ambler's research materials for this biography of Floyd, who was a soldier and surgeon
in the Virginia militia in the early nineteenth century and the governor of Virginia from 1830 to 1834. One folder contains
letters and notes from 1912 and 1913 related to Ambler's efforts to locate manuscript material related to Floyd and a partial
typescript draft of Ambler's biography with handwritten annotations. Two additional folders contain typescript copies of letters
that Ambler presumably collected during his research. Letters from 1778 to 1782 are chiefly from William Davies, William Preston,
and Thomas Jefferson and primarily relate to the Revolutionary War and Virginia militia. Materials from 1830 to 1834 consist
of letters between Floyd and John Tyler, Littleton Tazewell, Thomas Gilmer, and other mid-nineteenth-century politicians.
Topics include Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, national and Virginia state politics, the status of Virginia,
and the Nullification Crisis. It is unclear where the original manuscripts of these two folders of letters are located or
when the typescripts were made.
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Conditions Governing Access
No special access restriction applies.
Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], John Floyd (1783-1837), Research Papers of Charles H. Ambler, A&M 0363,
West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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