Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Pritchett Journals and Papers, Accession 38-94, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

These papers were purchased from C.A. Pritchett of Whitmell, Virginia, on April 23, 1931.

Funding Note

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

Scope and Content

This collection consists of ca. 175 loose items and three bound volumes, accounts of the general store of John I. and C. A. Pritchett in Whitmell, Pittsylvania County, Virginia .

The bound volumes consist of two ledgers, 1859 and 1876-1891, and an invoice book, 1879, listing items stocked in the store. The loose papers are almost all promissory notes and accounts relating to the business of the store.

Also in the collection are ca. 20 items relating to P. W. Emmerson , mostly all of which are notes of legal fees and amounts due the clerk and sheriff of Pittsylvania County . There is one personal letter, May 28, 1841, from Thomas W. Micaw to Colin Pass .