A Guide to the Lewis Family Papers 1770-1771, 1864 Lewis Family 11253

A Guide to the Lewis Family Papers 1770-1771, 1864

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Accession number 11253

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

11253

Title

Lewis Family Papers 1770-71, 1864

Physical Characteristics

There are twelve items.

Language

English

Administrative Information

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Use Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Lewis Family Papers, 1770-1864, Accession #11253, Special Collections Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

Copies of these items were given to the University of Virginia Library by Ms. Martha M. Grasty, Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 26, 1996.

Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of twelve items, 1770-1771 and 1864, pertaining to the Lewis family including: accounts and receipts of John Lewis for clothing, beer, spirits, and wine (1770 Jun-1771 Feb); an undated student exercise by Richard [McCoan?] beginning "Most Worthy Gentlemen"; an undated document entitled "A Few Rules for Fashionable Friendship"; a black & white copy photograph of a tintype of Thomas Fielding Lewis (see letter 1864 Dec 7); an undated letter to John Lewis of Dublin, asking him to go by the Heraldry's Office and do some research on the coat of arms and crest of a family; and two Civil War period letters between John M. Lewis (1826-1898), a farmer of Albemarle County, and Thomas Fielding Lewis, father and son.

Thomas Fielding Lewis, December 2, 1864, writes to his father, care of Company F, 10th Virginia Cavalry, Chambliss Brigade, [Fitzhugh] Lee's Division, Army of Northern Virginia, about government wagons camping on the family land and turning their horses into the cornfields, the worsening condition of Job, a Lewis family slave, and asks his father to write as soon as possible.

John M. Lewis, December 7, 1864, replies that he is sorry to hear about Job, happy to receive his son's likeness [photograph], and implores him not to get into any trouble because his mother needs him and asks him to look out for his small brothers.