Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Cocke and related families Papers, Accession 2433-z, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

These items were given to the Library by John Page Elliott of Charlottesville, Virginia, on November 9, 1990.

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

This collection contains an electrostatic copy of the appointment of Philip St. George Cocke as aide-de-camp to the Commander in Chief with the rank of Colonel of Cavalry, signed by Governor John B. Floyd , February 22, 1850, and the seven page manuscript of a poem by Margaret Read Cabell entitled, "Stanzas addressed to Philip St. George Cocke Esq on entering his newly-erected mansion at Belmead, Powhatan, June 1848." Margaret Read (Venable) Cabell was the wife of Nicholas Cabell , Jr. and mother of Nathaniel Francis Cabell . Also present is a typescript of Mrs. Cabell's poem by John Page Elliott .