Rives, William C. (William Cabell) 1793-1868 creator mixed material monographic eng 50,400 172 7 68.6 Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, writings, financial records, printed matter, scrapbooks, and other papers of Rives pertaining to Jacksonianism, Whig political movement, Southern politics, slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and diplomatic relations with France. Includes diaries, journals, and correspondence of members of the Rives family; a draft of Rives's History of the life and times of James Madison (1868-1873); and a draft of his unpublished autobiography. Correspondents include James Barbour; David Campbell; James Fenimore Cooper; Edward Everett; Millard Fillmore; James Hamilton; William Henry Harrison; Andrew Jackson; Thomas Jefferson; Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, the marquis de Lafayette; Abbott Lawrence; Hugh Swinton Legaré; William Berkeley Lewis; Dolley Madison; James Madison; J.M. Mason; James Monroe; Nathaniel Niles; Thomas Ritchie; John Tyler; Martin Van Buren; Daniel Webster; and Robert C. Winthrop. Papers of Thomas Walker and his son, Francis Walker, consist chiefly of financial records along with correspondence, a diary, journal, surveyor's notebooks, printed matter, and other papers. Thomas Walker's papers document his activities as a merchant, planter, and land speculator of Virginia. Francis Walker's papers relate chiefly to his service as U.S. representative from Virginia, legal affairs, and family matters. Papers pertaining to their association with the Dismal Swamp Canal Company and the Loyal Land Company include a journal kept by Thomas Walker during his exploration of the Loyal Land Company's holdings in Kentucky in 1750. Also includes his surveyor's notebooks and plats made as deputy surveyor of Augusta County, Va.; financial records kept by Walker as commissary-general to Virginia troops during the French and Indian War, 1754-1763; a report of the Virginia commissioners on negotiations with the Ohio Indians at Fort Pitt in 1775; and accounts pertaining to Peter Jefferson's estate. Correspondents include Adam Hoops, Robert Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Lewis, James Madison, James Monroe, Edmund Pendleton, and George Washington. Open to research. Microfilm edition of the Thomas Walker and Francis Walker papers available, no. 14,983. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1971. U.S. senator and representative from Virginia. Other individuals represented in the collection include Thomas Walker, physician, explorer, merchant, army officer, guardian of Thomas Jefferson, and grandfather of Rives's wife, Judith Page Walker; and his son, Francis Walker, U.S. representative and lawyer from Virginia. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room. Index of correspondents available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room. Some materials transferred to the Library of Congress James Madison Papers in 1958. Barbour, James 1775-1842 Correspondence Campbell, David 1779-1859 Correspondence Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851 Correspondence Everett, Edward 1794-1865 Correspondence Fillmore, Millard 1800-1874 Correspondence Hamilton, James 1786-1857 Correspondence Harrison, William Henry 1773-1841 Correspondence Hoops, Adam 1709-1771 Correspondence Jackson, Andrew 1767-1845 Jackson, Andrew 1767-1845 Correspondence Jackson, Robert approximately 1710-approximately 1764 Correspondence Jefferson, Peter 1708-1757 Estate Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Correspondence marquis de Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier 1757-1834 Correspondence Lawrence, Abbott 1792-1855 Correspondence Legaré, Hugh Swinton 1797-1843 Correspondence Lewis, Andrew 1720-1781 Correspondence Lewis, William Berkeley 1784-1866 Correspondence Madison, Dolley 1768-1849 Correspondence Madison, James 1751-1836 Madison, James 1751-1836 Correspondence Mason, J. M. (James Murray) 1798-1871 Correspondence Monroe, James 1758-1831 Correspondence Niles, Nathaniel 1791-1869 Correspondence Pendleton, Edmund 1721-1803 Correspondence Ritchie, Thomas 1778-1854 Correspondence Tyler, John 1790-1862 Correspondence Van Buren, Martin 1782-1862 Correspondence Webster, Daniel 1782-1852 Correspondence Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles) 1809-1894 Correspondence Washington, George 1732-1799 Correspondence Reeve family Rives family Dismal Swamp Canal Company. Loyal Land Company. Whig Party (U.S.) Indians of North America Government relations Land speculation Kentucky Land speculation Virginia Plantations Virginia Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Slavery United States Augusta County (Va.) Surveys Fort Pitt (Pa.) History France Foreign relations United States Southern States Politics and government United States Foreign relations France United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States History French and Indian War, 1754-1763 United States Politics and government 1783-1865 Virginia Surveys Virginia Commerce Virginia History French and Indian War, 1754-1763 Virginia Politics and government 1775-1865 Representatives, U.S. Congress Senators, U.S. Congress Rives, William C. (William Cabell), 1793-1868 Walker, Francis, 1764-1806 Walker, Thomas, 1715-1794 mm 77037937 Open to research. DLC 770929 20260227111618.0 mm 77037937 eng