Worthington, C. L. Papers Guide to the C. L. Worthington Papers Mss. 65 W89

Guide to the C. L. Worthington Papers Mss. 65 W89


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Repository
Special Collections Research Center
Identification
Mss. 65 W89
Title
C. L. Worthington Papers 1752-1938
Quantity
13.50 Linear Feet
Quantity
Language
English

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access:

Collection is open to all researchers. Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Manuscripts and Rare Books Librarian, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Preferred Citation:

C. L. Worthington Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Purchased between 1953 and 1955


Biographical Information:

C. L. Worthington was the owner of the Green Bookman Shops, located in Richmond and Charlottesville. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki:

Scope and Contents

The collection also contains miscellaneous manuscripts and account books. Included in this material are: land grants, 1761 and 1766, for land in Fairfax and Frederick counties, Va.; eighty-five survey maps of Frederick, Fauquier, and Loudoun counties, Va. and Berkeley and Hampshire counties, W. Va.; road petitions, 1743-1828, for Frederick County; affidavits for Revolutionary War service; correspondence, 1923-1930, of the Improved Order of Redmen, Great Council of Virginia; letters written to W. H. H. Flick; account books of merchants in Frederick County, , Lexington, Va. and Harrisonburg, Va.; and account books of the Richmond Whig (1837), the Lexington Gazette; and the Southern Collegian (student newspaper at Washington and Lee College). There is also a daybook which contains copies of letters, notes and bonds written by Philip Nelson to Powhatan R. Page; notes on the Washington and Custis families and the building of "Arlington"; and notes concerning John Randolph of Roanoke and the Underwood Constitutional Convention in Richmond.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Account books
  • Arlington Estate (Va.)
  • Berkeley County (W.Va.)--History
  • Colonial period, ca. 1609-1774
  • Correspondence
  • Custis family
  • Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857
  • Design drawings
  • Fauquier County (Va.)--History
  • Financial records
  • Frederick County (Va.)--History
  • Hampshire County (W. Va.)--History
  • Improved Order of Red Men
  • Land grants--Virginia
  • Legal documents
  • Loudoun County (Va.)--History
  • Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century
  • Page, Powhatan R., d. 1863
  • Pensions, Military--United States--Revolution, 1775-1783
  • Randolph, John, 1773-1833
  • Richmond Whig (Va.)
  • United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
  • Virginia--History
  • Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  • Washington family

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Arlington Estate (Va.)
  • Berkeley County (W.Va.)--History
  • Virginia--History
  • Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Container List

Mixed Materials Box: 1 id132611
Ledger and Correspondence
1825- 1938
Scope and Contents

Ledger of Captain James Long, merchant 1825-1836. Correspondence between C.L. Worthington, owner of the Green Bookman shops in Richmond and Charlottesville, and libraries of the state: William and Mary; V.M.I.; University of Virginia; Virginia State Library, 1934-1938. Undated list of Women authors of Virginia. Letters to Hon. W.H.H. Flick of Martinsburg, West Virginia. The letters concern Republican political affairs in the district, 1883-1888. Folder of papers removed from volumes included in purchase. Folder contains 1886 Broadside for Croy's Washing Machine, Price $10.

Mixed Materials Box: 2 id132612
Land Grants
1752-1841
Scope and Contents

Two Parchment land grants to John Louvance and signed by Lord Fairfax. The grant of July 23, 1761 is for land in Fairfax County and the one of June 11, 1766 in Frederick County. 85 survey maps of land in Frederick, Fauquier, Loudoun, Berkeley and Hampshire Counties. These maps were made as exhibits involving land titles and cover the years 1752 to 1841. Constitution for stockholders in the Opequeon Factory for woolen manufacture--February 29, 1812.

Mixed Materials Box: 3 id132613
Veteran Service Applications
1743-1828
Scope and Contents

Original and copies of petitions presented to the court of Frederick County for the establishment of roads. Affidavits presented to the court certifying veteran's service in the Revolutionary Army. The affidavits give time and place of service and are filed by the following men: John Williams, Henry Harris, Dennis Bush, Daniel Hayley, Lewis St. John, John Hefferlin, James Johnson, Christopher Bendinger, Robert Shearman, John Haney, William Kingore, James Beckham, William Albert, James Foster, Alexander McMullen, George Seifret, Thomas Crawford, Simon Harrell, Archibald Finley, John Campbell

Mixed Materials Box: 4 id132614
Correspondence of the Improved Order of Redmen Great Council of Virginia, including some pamphlets.
1923-1930
Scope and Contents

The letters are written primarily to Judge Thomas B. Robertson, Hopewell, Va., head of the order in Virginia.

Mixed Materials Box: 5 id132615
Letters and Carbon Copies
1933- 1938
Scope and Contents

Boxes 5-15 contain 1933-1938 letters and carbon copies of the replies to them to C.L. Worthington of the Green Bookman store in Charlottesville.

Mixed Materials Box: 6 id132616
Letters and Carbon Copies
1933- 1938
Scope and Contents

Boxes 5-15 contain 1933-1938 letters and carbon copies of the replies to them to C.L. Worthington of the Green Bookman store in Charlottesville.

Mixed Materials Box: 7 id132617
Letters and Carbon Copies
1933- 1938
Scope and Contents

Boxes 5-15 contain 1933-1938 letters and carbon copies of the replies to them to C.L. Worthington of the Green Bookman store in Charlottesville.

Mixed Materials Box: 8 id132618
Letters and Carbon Copies
1933- 1938
Scope and Contents

Boxes 5-15 contain 1933-1938 letters and carbon copies of the replies to them to C.L. Worthington of the Green Bookman store in Charlottesville.

Mixed Materials Box: 9 id132619
Letters and Carbon Copies
1933- 1938
Scope and Contents

Boxes 5-15 contain 1933-1938 letters and carbon copies of the replies to them to C.L. Worthington of the Green Bookman store in Charlottesville.

Mixed Materials Box: 10 id132620
Letters and Carbon Copies
1933- 1938
Scope and Contents

Boxes 5-15 contain 1933-1938 letters and carbon copies of the replies to them to C.L. Worthington of the Green Bookman store in Charlottesville.

Mixed Materials Box: 11 id132621
Letters and Carbon Copies
1933- 1938
Scope and Contents

Boxes 5-15 contain 1933-1938 letters and carbon copies of the replies to them to C.L. Worthington of the Green Bookman store in Charlottesville.

Mixed Materials Box: 12 id132622
Letters and Carbon Copies
1933- 1938
Scope and Contents

Boxes 5-15 contain 1933-1938 letters and carbon copies of the replies to them to C.L. Worthington of the Green Bookman store in Charlottesville.

Mixed Materials Box: 13 id132623
Letters and Carbon Copies
1933- 1938
Scope and Contents

Boxes 5-15 contain 1933-1938 letters and carbon copies of the replies to them to C.L. Worthington of the Green Bookman store in Charlottesville.

Mixed Materials Box: 14 id132624
Letters and Carbon Copies
1933- 1938
Scope and Contents

Boxes 5-15 contain 1933-1938 letters and carbon copies of the replies to them to C.L. Worthington of the Green Bookman store in Charlottesville.

Mixed Materials Box: 15 id132625
Letters and Carbon Copies
1933-1938
Scope and Contents

Boxes 5-15 contain 1933-1938 letters and carbon copies of the replies to them to C.L. Worthington of the Green Bookman store in Charlottesville.

Mixed Materials Box: 16 id132626
Publications
1876- 1935
Scope and Contents

This box contains manuscripts submitted to the Historical Publishing Co. of Charlottesville. Most of these manuscripts were published in pamphlet form. The following is a list of authors, titles, and dates, where shown: Col. Heros Von Boucke by Major Edgar Erskine Hume, 1934. John Daly Burk by Edgar W. Wyatt, IV, 1935. James Dunwoody Bronson Debow, author and date not shown. State Socialism in the Confederate States of America, by Louise Biles Hill, date not shown. Col. Theodore O'Hara by Major Edgar Erskine Hume, 1935. Peter Johnston, Jr. by Major Edgar Erskine Hume, date not shown. Hinton Rowan Helper by Hugh Talmadge Lefler, 1934. Charles Campbell, by Edgar A. Wyatt, IV, date not shown. A printed pamphlet The Church of the Reformation, a sermon delivered October 31, 1872 in St. Louis by Rev. Prof. C.F.W. Walther, and published in Baltimore in 1876. A printed pamphlet The South Must Publish Her Own Books, An Exposé by William W. Brewton, published in 1928 in Atlanta.

Mixed Materials Box: 17 id133323
Diary and Account Books
1861- 1898
Scope and Contents

January 1861 - December 1871 cash account book of merchants Shacklett and Gibbons of Harrisonburg, Virginia. 1867 account book of the Richmond Whig, containing 314 pages. An unidentified 1869-1870 account book. Common place book of W.R. Houston who attended school in Augusta, Georgia. A cursory review shows the book to contain many priceless comments and observations. The book is partially a diary and covers the years 1894-1898.

Mixed Materials Box: 18 id133324
Ledgers and Account Books
1794-1940
Scope and Contents

1799-1809 account book of a school in Frederick County. 1828-1879 unidentified account book of a store. 1794-1802 ledger and account book including English business houses and many prominent Americans, such as James Madison. On page 168 written in longhand is the following : This ledger was presented to Madison College by Kirby Smith Bassford who is the greatgrandson of William F. Ast of Leeds, England and Richmond, Virginia, who founded the first mutual society for insurance in the United States and was the first writer of this remarkable specimen of quill pen handwriting.... November 1940.

Mixed Materials Box: 19 id133325
Daybooks
1822-1866
Scope and Contents

June 1, 1849 - May 31, 1850 daybook of Harrisonburg, Va. merchants Shaklett and Bruffy. March 22, 1822 - March 1824 daybook of Samuel Henry of Rockingham City, Va. The book was later used as a copybook and contains the following: 1. March 26, 1866 copies of letters, notes, and bonds written by Philip Nelson on April 4, 1857 to Powhatan R. Page, later Col. Page who was killed near Petersburg in June 1864. 2. Notes on the Washington - Custis families and the building of Arlington. 3. Eleven pages of notes and comments on John Randolph of Roanoke, written on Nov. 3, 1862, and including comments on the carpetbag constitutional convention meeting in Richmond.

Mixed Materials Box: 20 id133326
Ledgers and Account Books
1872- 1884
Scope and Contents

3 volumes. Printer's account book 1874-1884. Probably of the Lexington Gazette (Virginia) belonging to the Barclay Family. The book lists accounts of Virginia Military Institute (p. 82), Washington and Lee (p. 646), and Town of Lexington (p. 601). 1882-1883 ledger of E.H. Barclay store in Lexington, Virginia. 1872-1878 ledger and daybook of a Lexington, Virginia store.

Mixed Materials Box: 21 id133327
Ledgers and Account Books
1872-1888
Scope and Contents

5 Volumes. 1884-1888 ledger of E.H. Barclay store in Lexington, Virginia. 1872-1874 subscription book of a newspaper, probably the Lexington Gazette. 1875-1876 Lexington, Virginia merchant's account book. 1876-1877 merchant's daybook and ledger. 1876-1877 Washington and Lee University mail and subscription book of the Southern Collegian.

Mixed Materials Box: 22 id133328
Account books of Barclay and Co., publishers of the Lexington Gazette.
1873-1879
Scope and Contents

4 volumes.

Mixed Materials Box: 23 id133329
Account books of the Lexington Gazette.
1874-1899
Scope and Contents

4 volumes.

Mixed Materials Box: 24 id133330
Teacher's Register
1900- 1904
Scope and Contents

4 Volumes. 1900-1904 teacher's register of the Central District, Rockingham County, Keezletown School No. 12. Register shows daily attendance, tardies, names of teachers and students, and subjects taught. 1866 register of Harrisonburg Graded School. 1885 - 1891 Lexington Gazette advertiser's account book. 1889-1904 minute book of two organizations: Shenandoah Alliance No. 102, and the Myers, Riddlebarger Camp Confederate Veterans, organized Feb. 15, 1896.

Mixed Materials Box: 25 id133331
748 page ledger of general merchant Benton Tankersly of East Lexington, Virginia.
1907-1911
Scope and Contents

1 Volume

Mixed Materials Box: 26 id133332
Scrapbook of Mattie Campbell, Monterey, Va.
1890-1910
Scope and Contents

Book contains newspaper clippings of social affairs, funerals, historic items and events, and invitations announcements, and postcards.

Mixed Materials Box: 27 id133339
Taxbook of court clerk
1804-1806
Scope and Contents

1804-1806 taxbook of court clerk or official. Location not shown. Memo book 1841-1860 of Samuel Brown, near Staunton, with private school account, Lebanon Presbyterian Church accounts, copies of bounty land certificates of land owned in Missouri, and stock held in the Augusta Savings Bank. Leather envelope type container with unidentified sermon notes and Bible quotations. Unidentified 1834-1850 Rockingham County merchant account book. The secretary-treasurer's book of the Green Valley Division No. 380 of the Sons of Temperance, 1852-1856. Philip Montague Arnold indexed law lecture notes of Prof. John B. Minor's junior course at the University of Virginia, session 1858-1859. 1846-1863 account book containing original poems of Lucretia V. Hite. MsV of Breese Family Genealogy. The volume contains copies of Bible record of dates of births, marriages, deaths, copies of family letters, and stories of family history written sometime after 1871. Letter memo book 1863-1869 of Captain Schuyler of U.S. Army of the Potomac. The memos show dates and writer and recipient and general content of letters. Receipt and account book 1812-1814 of William A. Baker, Winchester, Va. In separate package are the following newspapers printed in Maryland. Boonsboro Times - July 20, 1899 Frederick County Guide - August 6, 1892 Lutheran Observer (Baltimore) - Sept. 17, 1858; February 11, 1859; July 29, 1859 The Mail (Hagerstown) - March 19, 1886 The Valley Register (Middleton) - October 8, 1858; December 14, 1860; January 11, 1861; May 14, 1880; April 29, 1892; July 21, 1899 Magazine - Ladies' World (New York) - Nov. 1892; Dec. 1892.