England

Scope and Contents A typewritten accounting of the Blackmer family through Walter Blackmer of Devonshire, England. The history accounts for lineage of the Blackmers to the Blackmar Vikings of Norway. Ancestral familial connections include Joslin of France, Charlemagne of France, Brewster of Massachusetts and England, Macon of France, and Custis (Martha Washington). The history further describes connections to the Battle of Hastings in 1066, the Mayflower ship, George Washington, colonial America, New York,...

Scope and Contents Essays, poems, notes, correspondence, and other personal papers and manuscripts of Julia Johnson Davis of Norfolk, Virginia. Many of her essays appear to be recollections of Davis's childhood, early life, and later international trips to Europe. Some correspondents include fellow writers Mary Sinton Leitch, John Richard Moreland, William Stanley Braithwaite, and Idella Purnell. Prominent categories for Davis's poetry include ballads, sonnets, lyrics, and "Negro dialect." The collection also...