Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Hore Browse Trist Papers, Accession #5096-b, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

The Trist family papers were loaned to the Library by Ellen Coolidge Burke's nephew, Mr. Robert M. Graham of Towson, Maryland, and her niece, Mrs. Walter G. Schendel of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on November 15, 1984.

Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of papers concerning the appointment of Hore Brown Trist (1832-1896) to the consulship of Mozambique and his subsequent refusal to serve. These documents include: Department of State form letters No. 1 and No. 2, partially filled out by hand; a printed document, unsigned, entitled "Oath of Allegiance Prescribed By the Act of July 2, 1862"; a bond form, unsigned, for Trist as Consul to Mozambique, with envelope; and, a letter, for Trist as Consul to Mozambique, with envelope; and, a letter, April 14, 1884, John Davis to Trist, acknowledging his letter declining the Office of Consul at Mozambique.

Other items include: a pamphlet, 1841, entitled "Remarks Upon a Letter Written by Mr. Luis C. Vanuxem...in Regard to the Conduct of N.P. Trist...," written by Nicholas Philip Trist (1800-1874) in defense of his actions as Consul at Havana, Cuba, concerning the arrest of Nathaniel Cross by the authorities of Matanzas, Cuba; and a positive photocopy of a memorandum concerning an estimate of the expense of a barrel of flour from Lynchburg to Richmond, February, 1811, in the hand of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) with additional memoranda on verso in another hand.

Arrangement

These items are arranged chronologically.