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Frances writes a love letter recalling an explosion she and Bob witnessed the previous weekend.

This card notes Mrs. Monteith's donations to the church through December 31, 1961.

Jimmie tells his mother that he will remain at the camp permanently to be an instructor.

Jimmie talks about the news from the Richmond Times-Dispatch in regard to labor strikes in the U.S. trying to raise their wages. He says that Americans at home don't really know there is a war going on if they aren't directly connected by it. He says…

Jack thanks Mrs. Monteith for the package. He talks about recieving a phone call from Jimmie where they made plans to meet up in London on December 15th.

Jimmie talks about camp inspections. Jimmie says he's been transferred to Company B as an instructor. Jimmie believes the war will be over before Christmas 1943.

Jimmie's grandmother tells him that she got his picture and comments on it.

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Map of Indigenous territories in what is now Virginia around 1600 from First People: The Early Indians of Virginia by Keith Egloff and Deborah Woodward (University of Virginia Press, 1992)

272 pages

The Book for Receipts is a recipe book written in England in 1731. At least two owners added to this work (the names of owners remain unknown) because the handwriting changes in the last third of text. Some recipe contributors are named, such as:…

372 pages

This is a ledger for the Slaveship "Elizabeth" from 1750.

This is a ledger for the Slaveship "Elizabeth" from 1750.

This is a ledger for the Slaveship "Elizabeth" from 1750.

This is a ledger for the Slaveship "Elizabeth" from 1750.

Slip of paper stating that Liasse de Compter and Audebert were commanding the Elizabeth.

This is a receipt signed by Audebert in 1750.

464 pages

February 18, 1783, Letter from Walker Daniel, at Col. Floyd's, to a French Merchant concerning commercial conditions on the wester Kentucky Frontier Both are friends of Col. Floyd, mentions Lincon, Fayette, Fall's of Ohio River, KY River' number of…

The collection consists of a manuscript map survey of land in Montgomery County, Virginia, belonging to Philadelphia merchant Levi Hollingsworth. The acreage, divided into thirty-two tracts of one thousand acres each, is situated on the Guyandotte…

Coade's Lithodipyra or Artificial Manufactory Trade Card, probably printed about 1784. The Coade stone business was started by Eleanor Coade in 1769 and operated into the 1833, later run by a business partner after Coade's death. The trade card was…

381 pages

108 pages

The Hertford Receipt Book is a recipe book written in Hertford, England (a county town of Hertfordshire) from 1800 to 1833. The recipes were documented by several people as handwriting changes throughout the volume. Some recipes are…

5 volumes

Goodson asks Samuel Huff to pay George Helton two pounds and five shillings for him.