Box Misc. MS Box 1

from JuBelle (AEF’s daughter-in-law), Julia Belle Stansbury Ficklen), at Belmont, to AEF. Letter of gratitude for a letter and check AEF sent her grandchildren.

(1904 May 28), from Frances B. Goohick, to EFC, both of Fredericksburg. Letter of consolation to Edmo concerning the death of her husband, J.P. Corbin. With envelope.

E(dmund) Blunden (EB), University, Hong Kong, to Julian B. Ficklen (JF), 29 West Range – University, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. Photocopy. EB answered an apparent inquiry about a Wilfred Owen book. (EB had published a 1921 edition of Wilfred Owen’s poetry.) EB mentions Professor D(ennis) Welland of Nottingham University, who was preparing an edition of Owen’s poetry and a critical and biographical memoir.

from JF to Conway (Ficklen), CF, Typescript, JF informs CF that he has deposited some of JBF’s letters in the Manuscripts Room of Alderman Library, (University of Viriginia).

from Edmo Corbin Lee, 804 Prince Edward Street, Fredericksburg, VA, to JF, Box 3, Station #1, Charlottesville, VA, with stamped and hand cancelled envelope. A listing of relatives’ names, addresses, and pertinent dates.

The Weekly Independent, Fredericksburg, VA, Vol.1, No. 29, Friday morning. Appears to be the front page. Contains advertisement for barrels of Bridgewater Family Flour and Belmont XX Extra Flours, manufactured by J.B. Ficklen & Sons of Fredericksburg, VA. Laminated in three pieces.

Indenture of sale of land from Elizabeth and John Hamilton, Sr., to John Hamilton Jr., all of Bracken County, Kentucky. Document has scalloped upper edge. Laminated.

Indenture of sale of land from John Hamilton, Sr., to several Hamilton relatives. Notes that his wife Deborah, relinquishes her dower rights to this land.

Document certifying that a Kentuckian (name lost) served as a private in the Army of the Revolution and therefore was eligible for a lifetime pension of $53.33 a year, payable semiannually.

Will of John Hamilton, Sr., giving his wife, Deborah, one-third of the estate, and designating which slaves were to be free at what age. His son John O. Hamilton, was to be executor, in charge of dividing the remainder of the estate among the relatives listed. Laminated.