Box Multi 01

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains a list of sixty raffle participants, at 5 dollars a ticket, for a painting of George Washington by Jane Stuart based on one by her father, Gilbert Stuart. Proceeds were to benefit “the Club” possible the Newport Reading Room. The raffle was held in Newport, Rhode Island in August 1868.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection contains a letter from Ezekiel Chambers to George Willis Esq., Secretary to the Board of Visitors & Governors of St. John’s College, regarding a circular he received about their reorganizing the college to “make it worthy of its patriotic founding.” He also talks about how Washington College has been striving to make itself a strong institution of higher education on the Eastern Shore. The dockets are from his time as a lawyer. The originals are housed at the...

Scope and Contents

Many of the letters discuss mutual friends and news. As the Civil War continues the letters discuss the war including soldiers in Chestertown. One letter is on Pro-Union stationary with “The Flag of a New Confederacy.” Showing Uncle Sam kicking Jeff Davis, though both Joseph and Francis seem to have supported the Confederacy.