James Dodson Barbee and David Rankin Barbee papers
Contributors: Barbee, David Rankin, 1874-1958; Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 1809-1877; Plitt, George
Language: eng
Number of pages: 5000
Subjects: Correspondence; Religious literature; Publishers and publishing; Religious aspects; Slavery; Cleveland Park Memorial Library; All Souls Memorial Episcopal Church (Washington, D.C.); Methodist Publishing House; Claims; South Methodist Episcopal Church; African Americans; Methodist Church; History
Description: Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts of sermons, notes, notebooks, account books, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, Tenn., and to claims of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, growing out of Civil War property confiscations.  Subjects include the All Souls Memorial Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.; Cleveland Park Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.; Jefferson Davis; and slavery.  Correspondents include John Whitfield Cunningham, Virginius Dabney, Collins Denny, Waddy T. Duncan, William Wallace Duncan, E.E. Hoss, John Christian Keener, James Craik Morris, Elbert C. Reeves, and members of the Barbee family.

The Historical File includes the papers of George Plitt consisting chiefly of correspondence of or concerning James Buchanan and the papers of Albert Taylor Bledsoe.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition of George Plitt papers available, no. 4,471.

Microfilm edition of Albert Taylor Bledsoe papers available, no. 18,651.

Microfilm reproduced from originals in private hands. [S.l.]

Microfilm of originals in the University of Virginia (Charlottesville). [S.l.].

Private

Virginia: University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Gift, David Rankin Barbee, 1946-1956.

Reproduced with permission, David Rankin Barbee, 1932-1982.

Methodist clergyman in Tennessee and Alabama and publishing agent; father of David Rankin Barbee (1874-1958), journalist.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.