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Program for performance of a play, one of the actors of which is George C. Woodruff, son of George M. Woodruff.

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Papers about the estate of Oliver Wolcott, Jr. including an iInventory of real property, will, and correspondence about personal property from George Gibbs.

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Diary account of an accident occurring in an army barracks in Alexandria, which includes anecdotes of the racial conflict during the Civil War.

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This series contains newspaper clippings concerning, or of interest to, the Woodruff family. These include articles about Woodruffs; investments in which they were involved; and election results. The series has been arranged chronologically.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series has been divided into seven subseries to reflect Woodruff's diverse business and personal correspondence. The first subseries, law, consists primarily of correspondence from his law clients, for whom he worked in many cases as a debt collector, as well as from those he dunned for money. The second subseries represents his correspondence as postmaster of Litchfield. In addition to routine postal office business, including scheduling mail deliveries, inquiring about potential...

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Includes a promise not to drink alcohol and an acrostic poem on Grace Gates' name by William Henry Williams, who also writes of his ruin through alcohol.

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Primarily business letters concerning lawsuits and debt collection.

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Requests a pox vaccine.

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Letter to Morris Woodruff concerning a financial transaction.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains the correspondence of other members of the Woodruff family as well as third-party correspondence.  The series has been divided into several subseries by primary correspondent, and alphabetically in each subseries.  Each subseries provides a window into the primary correspondent's personal and business life.  For example, the first subseries contains both financial letters to Morris Woodruff as well as his letters to his wife Candace; and the ninth subseries contains...