Box 132
Container
Contains 16 Collections and/or Records:
Varina Howell Davis Letters, Miscellaneous
File — Box: 132, Folder: 8
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. The majority of the correspondence is of a personal nature between Mrs. Davis and her husband, children and other family members. Though the bulk of this series is family correspondence it also includes a letters from Mary Custis Lee, Judah P. Benjamin, Lord Henry Percy, and a short note from Oscar Wilde.
Dates:
1823-1917
(Varina) to Banny., 1861 or 1862 September 22 Saturday
Item — Box: 132, Folder: 8
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. The majority of the correspondence is of a personal nature between Mrs. Davis and her husband, children and other family members. Though the bulk of this series is family correspondence it also includes a letters from Mary Custis Lee, Judah P. Benjamin, Lord Henry Percy, and a short note from Oscar Wilde.
Dates:
1861 or 1862 September 22 Saturday
Mary Ahern to Mrs. Davis., 1869
Item — Box: 132, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
-information supplied by Rice Univ.
Dates:
1869
V.J.D. to Friend., undated
Item — Box: 132, Folder: 8
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. The majority of the correspondence is of a personal nature between Mrs. Davis and her husband, children and other family members. Though the bulk of this series is family correspondence it also includes a letters from Mary Custis Lee, Judah P. Benjamin, Lord Henry Percy, and a short note from Oscar Wilde.
Dates:
undated
George Julian Zolnay to Mrs. Davis. 624 Madison Ace., approximately June 15
Item — Box: 132, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Thanks Mrs. Davis for the photograph of Jefferson Davis. Says that he is working on the statue. Tells her what share of the statue will be and also that of her daughters. He also mentions that he would like some letters of introduction to men in Raleigh.
Dates:
approximately June 15
Julia D. Grant to Mrs. Davis. Sherry’s Cottages., approximately June 28
Item — Box: 132, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Note inviting Mrs. Davis and Winnie to lunch.
Dates:
approximately June 28
Mary L. Long to Mrs. Davis. Big Island, Bedford Co., approximately July 20
Item — Box: 132, Folder: 8
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. The majority of the correspondence is of a personal nature between Mrs. Davis and her husband, children and other family members. Though the bulk of this series is family correspondence it also includes a letters from Mary Custis Lee, Judah P. Benjamin, Lord Henry Percy, and a short note from Oscar Wilde.
Dates:
approximately July 20
V. Davis to Parents., approximately Sunday, August 24
Item — Box: 132, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Writes in great haste as she is leaving for Baltimore where she will stay for about a week.
Dates:
approximately Sunday, August 24
Varina Jefferson Davis to Friends and Neighbors., undated
Item — Box: 132, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Thanks them for their kind resolutions and tells them that it grieves her to deny them the privilege of permanent guardianship of Jefferson Davis’s remains, but that Virginia has been selected.
Dates:
undated
V. Davis to unknown., undated
Item — Box: 132, Folder: 8
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. The majority of the correspondence is of a personal nature between Mrs. Davis and her husband, children and other family members. Though the bulk of this series is family correspondence it also includes a letters from Mary Custis Lee, Judah P. Benjamin, Lord Henry Percy, and a short note from Oscar Wilde.
Dates:
undated
Mother to Child. Beauvoir House., undated
Item — Box: 132, Folder: 8
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. The majority of the correspondence is of a personal nature between Mrs. Davis and her husband, children and other family members. Though the bulk of this series is family correspondence it also includes a letters from Mary Custis Lee, Judah P. Benjamin, Lord Henry Percy, and a short note from Oscar Wilde.
Dates:
undated
Varina Davis to unknown., undated
Item — Box: 132, Folder: 8
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. The majority of the correspondence is of a personal nature between Mrs. Davis and her husband, children and other family members. Though the bulk of this series is family correspondence it also includes a letters from Mary Custis Lee, Judah P. Benjamin, Lord Henry Percy, and a short note from Oscar Wilde.
Dates:
undated
V. Davis to unknown., undated.
Item — Box: 132, Folder: 8
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. The majority of the correspondence is of a personal nature between Mrs. Davis and her husband, children and other family members. Though the bulk of this series is family correspondence it also includes a letters from Mary Custis Lee, Judah P. Benjamin, Lord Henry Percy, and a short note from Oscar Wilde.
Dates:
undated.
Varins’s self life sketch., undated
Item — Box: 132, Folder: 8
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. The majority of the correspondence is of a personal nature between Mrs. Davis and her husband, children and other family members. Though the bulk of this series is family correspondence it also includes a letters from Mary Custis Lee, Judah P. Benjamin, Lord Henry Percy, and a short note from Oscar Wilde.
Dates:
undated
Mother to Baby., undated
Item — Box: 132, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Describes family. She is at Beauvoir.
Dates:
undated
Varina to unknown. , undated
Item — Box: 132, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Concerns Davis children. Billy is still alive (Davis is in Memphis at times during 1870’s)
Dates:
undated