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• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id147757
  Correspondence
  1885- 1886
  Scope and Contents

  Between Harriet Ann James and her son Cyrus Rosser James concerning family news, health, taxes, and money; poor health of Harriet and Ann James emphasized (See also oversize file).

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id147759
  Deed
  11 December 1892- 10 January 1893
  Scope and Contents

  Released deed of trust from Geo[rge] E. Hopkins to Mrs. H[arriet] A[nn] James: note of clerk of York Co., Va.: original deed found in York Co. Deed Book No. 21, page 67.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id147760
  Correspondence of Reverend Cyrus Rosser James and wife Annie Shield James
  1892-1902
  Scope and Contents

  Letters between each other; R.N. Crooks, insurance agent, Anna Crowther describes her trip to Germany; Zeriah Gillion's reaction to sermons by Reverend James, citing several specifically; Reverend W.R. Smithy: and Arthur James, son of Cyrus Rosser and Annie James: includes Cyrus Rosser James' certificate as Elder in Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 4 id147761
  James Family Correspondence
  1903
  Scope and Contents

  Of Cyrus Rosser James and wife Annie Shield James with their children Arthur, Alfred, and Clara and cousin Sue Errors [?] concerning family health, gardening, money, Methodist conferences, sermons, schooling, especially Randolph Macon College.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 5 id147762
  James Family Correspondence
  1904
  Scope and Contents

  Of Cyrus Rosser James and wife Annie Shield James and daughters Annie and Clara to Alfred James at Randolph Macon College: topics emphasized are the scarcity of money, James family, temperance movement, conference (Methodist) news, family social news, Rhodes scholarship, personal news.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 6 id147763
  Correspondence to and from Alfred James at Randolph Macon College
  1905
  Scope and Contents

  Mostly from Cyrus Rosser and Annie Shield James, his parents: also his sisters Lillie and Clara: family news mostly with talk of the whiskey problems, church conferences, money, gardening, social life, football, and religion.

• Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 7 id147937
  James Family Correspondence
  1906
  Scope and Contents

  Correspondence between Alfred James and his mother and father, sisters Clara and Annie, brother Arthur, Aunt Tizzie [?]. Emmet B. Faison, L.E. Mumford, H.M. Breech, Harry Gavey; mostly family news and Alfred's school and work, his debate at school, money, conferences, salary of father, Rhodes scholarship, religion, parents moving to Petersburg, Virginia.

• Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 1 id147939
  James Family Correspondence
  1907
  Scope and Contents

  Mostly between Alfred and his parents Annie and Cyrus James, brother Arthur, sisters Lillie and Annie and cousin E. Marshall [?] concerning family and local news. Rhodes scholarship, the actual application process and congratulations. CR moved to Petersburg, Va; change in payment-- now paid weekly.

• Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 2 id147940
  Correspondence from Europe of Alfred P. James to his family in Virginia
  1908
  Scope and Contents

  Alfred was at Oxford for the Rhodes Scholarship; tells of touring England, France and Italy, scholarly achievements, health-- he was very ill for a few months; lengthy letters, come are incomplete; also letters to Alfred James from Grandmother Matilda Collins Shield.

• Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 3 id147942
  Correspondence from Alfred P. James in Europe to family in Virginia
  1909
  Scope and Contents

  James describes daily scholarly routine in Oxford as well as trips in England, France, Switzerland and Italy; trips are describes in great detail, Bruges, Florence, Ghent, Brussels, Milan, Rome, Mt. Vesuvius, Pisa, Genoa, Paris; also letters from Lillie James to Alfred about her music and voice lessons Alfred paid for. 12 items.

• Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 4 id147943
  James Family Correspondence
  1910- 1914
  Scope and Contents

  Alfred returned from England and entered school in Chicago; Arthur worked on Panama Canal; Clara tells of money problems; and Annie Shield James gave Christmas news to her mother Matilda Shield and also to Alfred James.

• Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 5 id147945
  James Family Correspondence
  1915
  Scope and Contents

  Alfred James traveled around in Wisconsin; Lillie wrote about family news and how she likes the Concord, Va. home better than Batesville, Va; Arthur James needed money to pay expenses so he could get out of Chicago; Benjamin Rosser James needed moeny to pay for schooling at the College of William and Mary, and Annie Shield James writes about family news from Concord, Virginia.

• Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 6 id147946
  Correspondence
  1916
  Scope and Contents

  mostly to Alfred James from family members; Benjamin rosser James wrote while attending the College of William and Mary mostly reporting good grades and need for money; Annie Shield James wrote her son on family news and congratulating for his marriage to Mabel Williams; Cyrus Rosser James who performed the ceremony wrote thank you letters; sisters Lillie, Leah, and Annie all wrote about the marriage; brother Arthur wrote from the army where he was in the cavalry stationed in Virginia and moving to Brownsville, Texas; Also included are letters from Albert Teaching Agency and Ohio Wesleyan University trying to get Alfred James a position; also lyrics to two songs, "Nora O'Neal" and "The Sun-Bright Clinic" sent by S.H. Johnson.

• Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 7 id147948
  Family Letters
  1917
  Scope and Contents

  Alfred James involved in two controversies; one, his job at Ohio Wesleyan was claimed by Albert Teaching Agency to be a result of their recommendation, and they wanted a commission. Alfred did not think they helped him get the job; two, Alfred rented a house in Arkansas from Prof. David Thomas and had a dispute over rent, settled by arbitration; still awaiting news from draft; took over a life insurance policy; Arthur was in army and wrote of experience especially training with Negro units; relating family news were Lillie, Annie Shield James and a poem by Alfred.

• Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 1 id147950
  World War I Letters
  1918
  Scope and Contents

  From Arthur James, an artillery officer in France and Italy; tells of his combat experience, relationship with other officers and French people, Negro officers, peace and casualties; also letter of Benjamin Rosser James, Lieutenant of Infantry who was not in Europe but was training when war ended; also letters of Alfred James who was offered and accepted teaching job at the University of Pittsburg for $1500.

• Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 2 id147951
  Letter of Sympathy
  1919
  Scope and Contents

  For loss of her son from F.B. Adams, Kensington, Maryland. Benjamin Rosser James gets out of army and ends up in West Virginia working for United States Steel Corporation starting in coal mines, became shipping clerk; Mabel and Alfred James tell of experiences in Pittsburgh where money is tight but Alfred doing well as professor at University of Pittsburgh; they have a son, William; Mabel was taken care of by obstetrician, Dr. Zogler, and knew of the sex of the child before it was born; Annie Shield James writes to her mother Matilda Collins Shield.

• Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 3 id147954
  Letters of James Family
  1920-1922
  Scope and Contents

  Arthur James writes from Richmond asking for family news; Benjamin Rosser James writes from West Virginia where he is working for Solvay Collieries Company, tells of woman, Julia Neal, whom he marries in 1920; also tells of true religious conversion-- became a true believer in the Northern Methodist Church with Julia Neal; Alfred James and wife Mabel write of Alfred's work as Professor of History at Pittsburg, hard time with small salary and high expenses such as housing and family health; also Christmas card of Clara James sent to her grandmother Shield and birth announcement of John Maxwell Hendrix, Jr., Lillie James Henrix's son; Annie Shield James writes to her mother Matilda Collins Shield.

• Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 4 id147955
  Family Correspondence
  1924-1929
  Scope and Contents

  Mostly communication of family news, such as health, visitation, and news of children; specific topics: William, son of Alfred and Mable James was seriously ill; Mother's Day cards; money, college loan at the College of William and Mary for Leah James; Alfred's insurance at Provident Mutal, Philadelphia, Pa; Benjamin Rosser James was given a Methodist circuit at two churches, Ravenwood and Ripley in West Virginia; detailed description of the churches and town of Ravenwood as well as salary and housing; Clara James marries Golden Carruthers, 1926; wedding details and backgroud of Golden, a deep sea fisherman who had been divorced; also a pamphlet on Charis clothiers- women's lingiere; those writing were Reverand and Mrs. Cyrus Rosser James, Leah James, Julie Neal James, Annie James Apperson, Arthur James, Clara James Carruthers, Lillie James Hendrix, Benjamin Rosser James, Alfred James, Mabel Williams James, and William James.

• Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 5 id147956
  Family Correspondence
  1932-1937
  Scope and Contents

  Annie Shields James writes her children about family news and their health and death of husband; Nellie James Land writes to Alfred James for missing big family event and needs clothes, hard times; Benjamin Rosser James is happy in his life's work of serving God; Clara James Carruthers writes from Florida in 1934 where her husband is physically and emotionally drained and in 1937 writes of a house they are going to rent in Virginia on the bay where they can fish.

• Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 6 id147957
  Family Correspondence
  1938
  Scope and Contents

  Annie Shield James to Alfred telling him family news as how even a year after his death she misses her husband; she moved to North Carolina with daughter Leah; Arthur James writes of graduate school in University of Chicago Social Service Administrative; tells many of his ideas and qualifications as well as the work he is doing in the social service area: Arthur also writes his will leaving everything to a sister Leah: Benjamin Rosser James writes about his Methodist Ministry career; Alfred James tells about his teaching and family-- learning how to drive a car; Nellie James Land bought a house for sister Clara Caruthers in Virginia; also family news; political news-- Hitler and Mussolini and a newspaper clipping of the death of Mrs. Irving Messick.

• Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 7 id147958
  Letters
  1939
  Scope and Contents

  from Arthur James about graduation with M.A. degree in social science from University of Chicago; also letter about Arthur's wrtitings from Douglas S. Freeman, Richmond, Va.; Benjamin Rosser James writes from his new church in Clarksville, West Virginia.

• Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 8 id147959
  Family Letters
  1940-1965
  Scope and Contents

  From Annie Shield James to Alfred James; several letters for each year: usually at Christmas and February, Alfred's birthday; family news as each letter tells about the activities of the family; Annie Shield James broke her shoulder and arm in 1942; moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, circa 1946; one letter from Lillie James Hendrix.

• Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 9 id147960
  Article
  1961
  Scope and Contents

  Two copies of C. Rosser James' article "An Untold Incident of McClellan's Peninsular Campaign" in volume 44, No. 2, June 1961, Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine.

• Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 10 id147961
  Correspondence
  undated
  Scope and Contents

  from Annie Shields James, Alfred P. James, Arthur James, Clara James, Annie James, and Mabel James; family news and daily activities; Alfred's letters from England, Arthur from Harvard.

• Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 1 id147964
  School Materials
  undated
  Scope and Contents

  Examination questions, District conference, unsigned, topics: arithmetic, grammar, English history, history of Greece, spelling, Roman history, history of United States, geography.

• Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 2 id147965
  Receipts and Accounts
  1836-1849
  Scope and Contents

  Of Cyrus Wesley James and Cyrus B[asye] James.

• Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 3 id147966
  Receipts and Accounts
  1850-1859
  Scope and Contents

  Of Cyrus Basye James and Cyrus Wesley James; accounts dealing with personal needs, timber industry, slaves, land and taxes.

• Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 4 id147967
  Receipts and Accounts
  1860-1869
  Scope and Contents

  Of Cyrus Wesley James; death of Cyrus Wesley James reported by Sabbath School Society of Zion Church in York District, Va., possibility of suicide yet he was a good man and Christian; subjects of receipts were medical bills, personal needs, livestock, taxes, and slavery.

• Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 5 id147968
  Receipts and Accounts
  1870- 1879
  Scope and Contents

  Of Harriet Anne James and Cyrus Rosser James; tax recipts from Grofton Township; Cyrus Rosser James certified teacher in York County, Virginia.

• Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 6 id147970
  Receipts, Deeds and Bonds
  1883- 1888
  Scope and Contents

  Of Harriet Ann James and Cyrus Rosser James; deeds of land granted Cyrus Rosser James from R.W. Dawson and Victoria James Dawson; receipts for various items such as legal services, taxes, books, grave digging; certificate that Arthur Shield was Confederate soldier and was permanently wounded; Cyrus Rosser James was certified to teach in York Co., Va.: last will and testament as well as list of property of Harriet Ann James; other bonds and receipts included.

• Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 7 id147973
  Receipts and accounts
  1891- 1899
  Scope and Contents

  Of Cyrus Tosser James, both personal and for management of property, of Harriet Ann James, his deceased mother; receipts from Singer Manufacturing company, Albion [?] Simmons, Ogburn and Petty-- dealers in General Merchandise and Homier and Clark, artist and photographers, Richmond, Va.

• Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 8 id147974
  Receipts and Bills
  1900-1914
  Scope and Contents

  Of Cyrus Rosser James, receipts from medical, dental, candy, clothing, and department stores, a letter from White House in response to a letter by Cyrus Rosser James; Arthur James report from Chesapeake Male and Female Academy; billing information from Blackstone Female Institute.

• Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 9 id147976
  Receipts and Accounts
  undated
  Scope and Contents

  Of Cyrus Wesley James, Harriet Ann James, Alfred James, Cyrus Rosser James.

• Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 10 id147977
  Envelopes
• Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 11 id147978
  Envelopes
• Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 12 id147979
  Envelopes

• Mixed Materials Box: 5 id147981
  Notebook on Weather
  1831- 1864
  Scope and Contents

  Reports the weather with scattered entries, ususally on monthly basis; written possibly by Cyrus Basye James, includes family listings of Cyrus Basye James and Mary White James, birth dates of eight children and Thomas James and Betsy James-- birth dates of their 11 children. Also listed as MsV 1.

• Mixed Materials Box: 5 id147982
  Account Book
  1889-1890
  Scope and Contents

  C[yrus] R[osser] James, Buckingham Charges, Va. Conference, accounts received and paid, preacher's salary, collections, list of children baptised, accounts kept by names of churches. Indexed by church name. Also listed as MsV 2.

• Mixed Materials Box: 5 id147983
  Account Book
  Scope and Contents

  Contains only this note in 3 p. pad: "Aug[ust] the 21st 1870. Bro. Bray at Buckingham Parsonage. Where will he be at next year this same." Also listed as MsV 3.

• Mixed Materials Box: 5 id147984
  Account Book
  1890-1892
  Scope and Contents

  C[yrus] R[osser] James, North Mecklenburg Circuit, Va. Conf[erence]. Accounts received and paid, travelling expenses, pastor's salary, missions, accounts received for other purposes. Table of contents by church. Also listed as MsV 4.

• Mixed Materials Box: 5 id147985
  Account Book
  1891- 1898
  Scope and Contents

  C[yrus] R[osser] James, North Mecklenburg Circuit, Va. Conf[erence]. Accoutns received and paid, travelling expenses, pastor's salary, missions, accounts received for other purposes. Table of contents by church. Also listed as MsV 5.

• Mixed Materials Box: 5 id147992
  Account book
  1892- 1893
  Scope and Contents

  C[yrus] R[osser] James, North Mecklenburg Circuit, Va. An. Conf[erence], accounts received for benevolent assessments, conference collections, missions, parsonage salary, other. Also lists of those baptised. Indexed by church and type of payment. Also listed as MsV 6.

• Mixed Materials Box: 5 id147993
  Account Book
  1893- 1894
  Scope and Contents

  C[yrus] R[osser] James, North Mecklenburg Circuit, Va. Conf[erence]. Accounts received and paid, travelling expenses, parson's salary, assessments, missions, cash receipts and books sold. Also listed as MsV 7.

• Mixed Materials Box: 5 id147994
  Account Book
  1894- 1895
  Scope and Contents

  C[yrus] R[osser] James, Heathsville Circuit Va. An. Conf[erence] accounts paid and received, travelling expenses, salary, assessments, benevolent calls, marriages, baptisms, missions, other subjects. Also listed as MsV 8.

• Mixed Materials Box: 5 id147995
  Account Book
  1895- 1897
  Scope and Contents

  C[yrus] R[osser] James, Heathsville Circuit, Va. Conf[erence] accounts received for salary, missions, benevolent assessments, other objects. Also listed as MsV 9.

• Mixed Materials Box: 6 id147999
  Account Book
  1896- 1897
  Scope and Contents

  C[yrus] R[osser] James, Heathsville Circuit, Va. An. Conf[erence]. Accounts received and paid for salary, benevolent collections, missions, other objects, expenses of church. Listed by Churches. Also listed as MsV 10.

• Mixed Materials Box: 6 id148002
  Account Book
  1897-1898
  Scope and Contents

  C[yrus] R[osser] James, Heathsville Circuit, Va. Conf[erence]. Accounts received from salary, missions, benevolent collections, other objects. List of those deficient and unbaptised. Also listed as MsV 11.

• Mixed Materials Box: 6 id148006
  Account Book
  1898- 1900
  Scope and Contents

  C[yrus] R[osser] James. Whitestone Circuit Va. Conf[erence] accounts received and paid, travelling expenses, money raised for Virginia Bible Society, unpaid collections. List of baptised, married, and those joining the church. Also listed as MsV 12.

• Mixed Materials Box: 6 id148007
  Account Book
  1899- 1901
  Scope and Contents

  C[yrus] R[osser] James, Whitestone Circuit, Va. Conf[erence]. Accounts received for salary, missions, benevolent collections, other collections, education, list of baptised and stewards of churches. Listed by churches. Also listed as MsV 13.

• Mixed Materials Box: 6 id148010
  Account Book
  1900- 1901
  Scope and Contents

  C[yrus] R[osser] James, Whitestone Circuit, Va. Conf[erence]. Accounts received and paid, salary of pastor and elders, benevolent collections for conference, education, church extension, missions, travelling expenses, list of stewards and temperance meetings. Listed by church. Also listed as MsV 14.

• Mixed Materials Box: 6 id148012
  Record of Sermons
  1910- 1915
  Scope and Contents

  Sermons preached by C[yrus] R[osser] James, Bedford Circuit, lists date, place, topic of sermon and time of service. Also listed as MsV 15.

• Mixed Materials Box: 6 id148013
  Account Book
  after 1900
  Scope and Contents

  C[yrus] R[osser], Buckingham Circuit, Va. Conf[erence] accounts received for salary, missions, benevolent collections, list of stewards. Also listed as MsV 16.

• Mixed Materials Box: 7 id148142
  Scrapbook
  Scope and Contents

  Containing mementoes of service in Richmond Light Infantry Blues. 1914-1917. Arthur W. James. Includes pictures, newspaper clippings, brochures on the infantry, honorable discharge certificate. Also listed as MsV 17.

• Mixed Materials Box: 7 id148143
  Scrapbook
  Scope and Contents

  Containing newspaper clipping of Arthur W. James and welfare agency, hundreds of articles. Also listed as MsV 18.

• Mixed Materials Box: 7 id148144
  Scrapbook
  Scope and Contents

  Of Arthur W. James containing thousands of articles. Most deal with James and the welfare agency. Also listed as MsV 19.

• Mixed Materials Box: 8 id148172
  Framed Photographic Print
  undated
  Scope and Contents

  3" x 4 1/4", black and white, of Cyrus Basye James and his wife Mary White James.

• Mixed Materials Box: 8 id148173
  Framed Photographic Print
  undated
  Scope and Contents

  2 1/2" x 3 1/2", black and white, of Cyrus Rosser James and his older sister Victoria (James) Dawson as child.

• Mixed Materials Box: 8 id148174
  Framed Ambrotype
  circa 1860
  Scope and Contents

  2 1/4" x 2 3/4", black and white, of Cyrus Rosser James at age 5.

• Mixed Materials Box: 8 id148175
  Framed Ambrotype
  circa 1850
  Scope and Contents

  1 3/4" x 2 1/4", black and white, of Cyrus Wesley James.

• Mixed Materials Box: 8 id148176
  Framed Ambrotype
  circa 1860
  Scope and Contents

  2" x 2 1/2", black and white, of Harriet Ann James holding a book.

• Mixed Materials Box: 8 id148177
  Framed Ambrotype
  circa 1860
  Scope and Contents

  1 1/2" x 2", black and white, of Arthur Henry Shield in Confederate uniform.

• Mixed Materials Box: 8 id148178
  Photographic Print
  undated
  Scope and Contents

  In frame, 2" x 2 1/2", black and white, of unidentified woman.

• Mixed Materials Box: 8 id148179
  Post Cards
  1903-1954
  Scope and Contents

  Mostly to or from Alfred Hictor James.

• Mixed Materials Box: 8 id148180
  Survey and Plat
  undated
  Scope and Contents

  12" x 14 1/4", of the land of the heirs of Edw[ard] Wright, Sen[ior]. Mentions Chisman's Creek, York Co., Va.; [?] James: Edw[ard] Wright, Jun[ior]; and [?]. Belvin.