Correspondence
Found in 283 Collections and/or Records:
James R. Moody Letter
One 1864 letter from son to mother, with news of his arrival at Fortress Monroe, his good health, and love sent from various individuals to their families back home.
James V. Alfriend Family Papers
Correspondence, photographs, and a narrative written by James V. Alfriend. The narrative was written by Alfriend to commemorate his 80th birthday; it relates the author's experiences as a 15-year-old boy in Norfolk, Virginia and his five-month adventure to South America on the tug Victoria J. Peed.
Jamestown Exposition Collection
Books, booklets, sheet music, maps, and other published materials relating to the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition of 1907 in Norfolk, Virginia.
Jane M. Ruffin Scrapbook
One circa 1909-1920 scrapbook of cards, invitations, correspondence, telegrams, photographs, score cards, sketches, programs, ticket stubs, receipts, business cards, clippings, napkins, ribbons, menus, and other ephemera of Jane M. Ruffin. The scrapbook contains programs for Maury High School in the 1910s, theater programs for plays, musicals, and movies, and ephemera relating to trips to New York, Kentucky, Vermont, China, and Japan.
Jean Curry Cooke Scrapbook
One book listing 327 individuals' names and gifts received from each for an engagement party or wedding shower of Jean Curry Cooke and Charles James Andrews of Norfolk, Virginia. Includes photographs, possibly from a honeymoon, used checks, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. Also included is a Christmas greeting card from Virginia McKnew in 1970.
Jeannie Stone Letters
Two letters: one written in Cairo, Egypt and the other in Florence, Italy around the time of British intervention in Egypt.
Jenkins Family Papers
Photographs, correspondence, and clippings related to the Jenkins family in Norfolk, Virginia; a majority of the materials refer to John S. Jenkins, Jr.
John Ackiss Collection
Fourteen deeds dating from 1763-1769 concerning John Ackiss and his purchase of land, primarily in the Pungo area of Virginia Beach, Virginia. Also includes a letter of attorney, list of Revolutionary War militia officers, two letters of correspondence with their accompanying envelopes, and the circa 1900 envelope of attorney A. Johnston Ackiss that at one time housed these eighteenth- and nineteenth-century documents.
John E. Doyle Letters
Two 1843 letters to Anne P. Herron, five 2010 cemetery photographs, and one photocopied obituary.
John Edward Handran Papers
Circa 1930s sea stories and other materials belonging to John Edward Handran, a mariner from approximately the 1920s through the 1950s.