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A Guide to the James H. Dunn Family Papers
Collection documents the lives of the extended family of Dr. James H.
Dunn and his wife Rebecca Micheaux who filed for bankruptcy in Virginia in 1873
and subsequently moved to Texas where they and their children lived in various
parts of the state.
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Personal and business correspondence including financial and legal
papers, postcards, greeting cards, domestic material, newspaper clippings, and
photographs, arranged chronologically by subject. .
Collection includes
letters written by Dunn's sons and daughters and their aunts, uncles, and
cousins still residing in Virginia, especially those from the Micheaux
(sometimes spelled Michaux) and Dickinson branches of the family, make up the
bulk of the collection. Included is material dealing with postbellum life on
the Virginia plantation (Cork) belonging to the Micheaux family; the affairs of
Hampden-Sydney College and the town of the same name in Prince Edward County,
Virginia; land concerns in Texas relating to crops, rentals, and oil leases;
alcohol and drug addiction treatments; and the daily affairs of life and death.
In addition the papers include letters from a West Point cadet
(1874-1875), from members of the Dunn family during a stay in Los Angeles, and
from cousins who have emigrated to northern California (1870-1884).
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| Subjects (Persons) |
| | Anderson family. |
| | Dickinson, Robert M., family. |
| | Dunn, Henry T. |
| | Dunn, James C. |
| | Dunn, James H. d. 1893. |
| | Dunn, Jessie. |
| | Dunn, Mary Marshall. |
| | Dunn, Rebecca Micheaux
1822-1901. |
| | Dunn, Shuggie (Henriette M.) |
| | Michaux, Robert V., Jr. |
| | Micheaux, Jennie (Virginia), d.
1897. |
| | Woods, Evelyn Micheaux. |
| Subjects (Organizations) |
| | Hampden-Sydney College
(Va.) |
| | Texas Ensor Remedy
Company. |
| | United States Military
Academy. |
| Subjects |
| | Alcoholism--Treatment--Texas. |
| | Decedents' estates. |
| | Farm life--Virginia. |
| | Farm life--Texas. |
| | Land titles--Virginia. |
| | Manners and customs. |
| | Medicine--Practice. |
| | Oil and gas leases--Texas. |
| Places |
| | Abingdon (Va.) |
| | Charlie (Tex.) |
| | Cork Plantation (Prince
Edward County, Va.) |
| | Darlington Heights
(Va.) |
| | Handley (Tex.) |
| | Petrolia (Tex.) |
| | Prince Edward County
(Va.) |
| | Washington County
(Va.) |
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James H. Dunn Family Papers, Center for American History, The University
of Texas at Austin.
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| 2J84 | | | Correspondence: |
| | | | Rebecca and James H. Dunn correspondence, 1843-1886, and undated |
| | | | Letters to Henriette (Shuggie) and Mary Dunn,
1868-1932, and undated |
| | | | Letters from Mary Dunn, 1877-1929, and undated from
Virginia, and unspecified |
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| 2J85 | | | | Letters from Mary Dunn, undated, from Texas and
California |
| | | | Letters from Henrietta (Shuggie) Dunn, 1876-1920, and undated |
| | | | James C. Dunn correspondence, 1872-1927 and undated |
| | | | Henry T. Dunn correspondence, 1870-1920 and undated |
| | | | Letters from Jessie Dunn and family, 1871-1903 and undated |
| | | | Letters from land managers |
| | | | | W. G. Eustis (Charlie, Texas), 1903, 1914-1919 and undated |
| | | | | I. J. Tinney and E. R. Cummings (Charlie, Texas),
1916-1921 and undated |
| | | | | T. J. Wells (Petrolia, Texas), 1912-1928 |
| | | | Dunn family legal affairs, 1849-1898 and undated |
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| 2J86 | | | | Dunn family financial affairs: Dr. James H. Dunn's bills
and notes, 1845-1876 and undated; Miscellaneous, 1892-1931 and undated
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| | | | Robert M. Dickinson family correspondence, 1874-1908 and undated |
| | | | Virginia (Jennie) Micheaux correspondence, 1873-1897 and undated |
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| 2J87 | | | | Evelyn Micheaux Woods correspondence, 1875-1912 and undated |
| | | | Letters from Robert V. Micheaux, Jr., at West Point,
1874-1875 |
| | | | Letters from the Anderson family in California to the
Dunn sisters, 1870-1884 |
| | | Invitations and programs, 1868-1925 and undated |
| | | Miscellaneous memoranda and cards, undated |
| | | Newspaper clippings, 1877-1896, 1930 and undated |
| | | Domestic affairs, 1880-1920 and undated |
| | | Poems, songs, essays, undated |
| | | Greeting cards, 1909-1932 and undated |
| | | Miscellaneous correspondence, 1875-1908 and undated |
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| 2.325/V5 | | | Oversize deeds, 1856 and 1857 |
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| 3Y27 | | | Photographs |
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| 3S119d | | | Postcards |
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