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TR 07ROBERT CARTER PAPERS, 1760-1793. 3 volumes. TR 07.1-4.Papers of Robert Carter (1728-1804) include letterbooks(1760-1793), Nomini Hall account book (1784-1785), and a listingof books in Carter's library.Letterbooks (1760-1769) owned by CWF include letters tomerchants in London, Glasgow, Leghorn, Madeira, New York City andPhiladelphia, ordering goods for his family, slaves, andplantations, and transacting other financial business. Also,letters regarding the estates of Lt. Gov. Francis Fauquier (1703-1768), and Benjamin Tasker of Maryland, Carter's father-in-law;and letters on various subjects to relatives, overseers, andothers. Prominent recipients of the letters include Sir JefferyAmherst, Samuel Athawes, Cary & Co., Col. Charles Carter, LandonCarter, Daniel Dulany, Capel and Osgood Hanbury, Pringle, Cheap &Co., Edward Ransdell, and John Ridout. Note: first entries can befound in original at the Virginia Historical Society.*Microfilm copy available (M-114).Letterbooks (1772-1793) extracts from Duke Universityincludes letters written to Burgess Ball, Robert Bladen Carter,Augustine Davis, Dudley Diggs, John Dixon, Lord Fairfax, FrancisFauquier, Jr., William Fitzhugh, William Holt, [?] Hunter, ThomasJefferson, Dr. Walter Jones, Francis Lightfoot Lee, William Lee,Warner Lewis, Bishop James Madison, William Nelson, John Pinkney,Joesph Prentis, Robert Prentiss, Alexander Purdie, PeytonRandolph, Mrs. Anne Tasker, Henry Tazewell, John Tazewell, GeorgeTurberville, William A. Washington, and George Wythe. Subjects ofletters include Lord Dunmore, Richard Bland Lee, George Mercer andWilliam Small; the estate of Roger Dixon; church plate forYeocomico Church; speech of Robert Carter to slaves concerningDunmore's proclamation; gradual manumission of his slaves; care ofillegimate children and the disabled by the parish; ordering goodsfrom England; sale of an organ. Other subjects include weightsand measures, description of dwelling house, cornhouse, andkitchen to be built at "Old Ordinary," [Westmoreland Co., Va.];two volumes from library of Council of Virginia; and work done atMoratico Baptist Church; and engraving to be done by WilliamWaddill of Williamsburg.*Virginia Historical Society has 1760 entries in original, the