Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

J. Singleton Diggs Letters, Accession 2979-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

These letters were given to the Library by S. Allen Chambers, Jr., Washington, D.C., on April 5, 1993.

Funding Note

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

Scope and Content

This collection consists of eight letters from J. Singleton Diggs , Lynchburg , on Diggs and Manson Law Office stationery, September-October 1887, to his wife Lily Diggs , visiting relatives at Stony Point Mills, Cumberland County, Virginia . These letters are full of news about home; his attempts to locate some possible candidates for domestic help to be interviewed by her when she returns; concern for his children; brief references to his legal practice and the "radical ticket" in politics; his plans to come and pick them up; and progress in fixing up their house. There is also a short note from Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Pettyjohn to J. Singleton Diggs , June 19, 1884, thanking him for his beautiful gift.

J. Singleton Diggs served in the Virginia General Assembly Senate during 1881-1887 representing Campbell County and Lynchburg , and was elected city judge for Lynchburg in 1887-1888.