A Guide to the Edward Alfred Pollard and Pauline Cabell Rives Pollard Letters 1856-1857 Pollard, Edward Alfred and Pauline Cabell Rives Pollard Letters 11056

A Guide to the Edward Alfred Pollard and Pauline Cabell Rives Pollard Letters 1856-1857

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Accession Number 11056

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Repository

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Accession number

11056

Title

Edward Alfred Pollard and Pauline Cabell Rives Pollard Letters 1856-1857

Physical Characteristics

There are 4 items in this collection.

Language

English

Abstract

This collection consists of letters, 1856-1857, from Virginia journalist, Edward Alfred Pollard (1831-1872) and his mother, Paulina Pollard, concerning their financial difficulties.

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Preferred Citation

Edward Alfred Pollard and Pauline Cabell Rives Pollard Letters, 1856-1857, Accession #11056, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

These letters were purchased by the Library from Jerry N. Showalter, Bookseller, Ivy, Virgina, on August 24, 1992.

Biographical/Historical Information

Edward Pollard was born at "Alta Vista," Albemarle County, Virginia, to Richard and Paulina Cabell Rives; he attended Hampden-Sydney College (ca. 1846) and the University of Virginia, 1847-1849. He was a clerk for the judiciary committee of the House of Representatives, 1857-1861, and during the Civil War he was the editor of the Daily Richmond Examiner , 1861-1867.

Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of four letters, 1856-1857, from Virginia journalist, Edward Alfred Pollard (1831-1872) and his mother, Paulina Pollard, concerning their financial difficulties.

The letters include one from Paulina Pollard asking for an eighty dollar advance on the interest from her fund due in February (1856 Nov 17); and three letters from Edward Pollard to C[harles ?] Mitchell about a debt owed by Pollard to Mitchell. In the first letter, Pollard begs for a small loan to enable him to leave [New York City ?] where he had a "personal difficulty at the St. Nicholas; was arrested and fined $10 and was furthermore ordered to give bail in three hundred dollars for the peace." He implored Mitchell to loan him enough money to leave the city and travel to Washington, D.C., that being the condition laid down by the proprietor of Cozzen's Hotel on Canal Street and Broadway for paying his bail and avoiding imprisonment (1857 Jul 5); the second letter promises to pay the debt when he draws his salary on the first and asks that he not acquaint his mother with the circumstances of the loan (1857 July 23); and the last letter answers Mitchell's request for the "immediate remittance of a fifteen dollar debt" and his explanation about why he had not paid the amount earlier (1857 Sep 17).