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0014: Virginia Wiley Papers, 1896-1901, Marshall University Special Collections
0014: Virginia Wiley Papers, 1896-1901, Marshall University Special Collections
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Mason County, West Virginia, schoolgirl. Papers consist primarily of letters received while she was a student at the Virginia Female Seminary, Staunton, Virginia, and at Mont de Chantal Academy, Wheeling, West Virginia. Included are items addressed to her father, Rankin Wiley, lawyer and former legislator in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
0044: George Wallace Letters To M. P. Shawkey, 1935, Marshall University Special Collections
0044: George Wallace Letters To M. P. Shawkey, 1935, Marshall University Special Collections
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Huntington, West Virginia, attorney and author. Letters to Morris Shawkey, president of Marshall College, concern the early history of the school.
0053: John Gibson Papers, 1842-1887, Marshall University Special Collections
0053: John Gibson Papers, 1842-1887, Marshall University Special Collections
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Description of a tour of Karlee Cave in India in 1842; letters from a British soldier stationed in India in 1843 and from Grover Cleveland thanking Mr. Gibson for the gift of a paperweight (1887).
0054: Aleshire Family Papers, 1862-1889, Marshall University Special Collections
0054: Aleshire Family Papers, 1862-1889, Marshall University Special Collections
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The Aleshire Family Papers consist mainly of correspondence dating from 1863 to 1888. Many of the letters are written by various members of the family to Joseph Aleshire as he traveled the Midwest, buying wheat for the family flour mill. Most of these letters concern fluctuations of the wheat market and other business matters.
There are a number of letters from Mary Aleshire to her parents and brothers, dating from 1863 to 1878. These describe her life at college in Cincinnati, and later, upon her return to Gallipolis, her involvement with social and family matters.
The letters from Charles Aleshire …
0162: William Maccorkle Letter, Marshall University Special Collections
0162: William Maccorkle Letter, Marshall University Special Collections
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William MacCorkle letter to Rankin Wiley, on West Virginia Executive Mansion Letterhead.