TY  - GEN
AU  - Rives,William C.
AU  - Rives,William C.
AU  - Walker,Francis
AU  - Walker,Thomas
TI  - William C. Rives papers,
KW  - Barbour, James,
KW  - Campbell, David,
KW  - Cooper, James Fenimore,
KW  - Everett, Edward,
KW  - Fillmore, Millard,
KW  - Hamilton, James,
KW  - Harrison, William Henry,
KW  - Hoops, Adam,
KW  - Jackson, Andrew,
KW  - Jackson, Robert,
KW  - Jefferson, Peter,
KW  - Jefferson, Thomas,
KW  - Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier,
KW  - Lawrence, Abbott,
KW  - Legaré, Hugh Swinton,
KW  - Lewis, Andrew,
KW  - Lewis, William Berkeley,
KW  - Madison, Dolley,
KW  - Madison, James,
KW  - Mason, J. M.
KW  - Monroe, James,
KW  - Niles, Nathaniel,
KW  - Pendleton, Edmund,
KW  - Ritchie, Thomas,
KW  - Tyler, John,
KW  - Van Buren, Martin,
KW  - Webster, Daniel,
KW  - Winthrop, Robert C.
KW  - Washington, George,
KW  - Reeve family.
KW  - Rives family.
KW  - Dismal Swamp Canal Company
KW  - Loyal Land Company
KW  - Whig Party (U.S.)
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Government relations
KW  - Land speculation
KW  - Kentucky
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Plantations
KW  - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
KW  - Slavery
KW  - United States
KW  - Augusta County (Va.)
KW  - Surveys
KW  - Fort Pitt (Pa.)
KW  - History
KW  - France
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - French and Indian War, 1754-1763
KW  - 1783-1865
KW  - Commerce
KW  - 1775-1865
KW  - Representatives, U.S. Congress
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Senators, U.S. Congress
N1  - 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
N2  - 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of the Rives family; a draft of Rives's History of the life and times of James Madison (1868-1873); and a draft of his unpublished autobiography.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
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