Includes several letters from New York City, Buffalo, and Michigan. Those from Michigan were sent by George W. Earle, Robert's former legal mentor.

Includes letters from Robert A. Bright, Laura D. Lovett, and a letter informing Bright of his election as an honorary member of the Phoenix Literary Society.

Includes letters from Robert A. Bright, James Roper, Joseph P. McCullen, and Henrietta B. Wyeth. Also included is an 1895 pocket calendar sent by S. Lippincott from Haden Hall in Atlantic City, N.J.

Includes letters from Robert A. Bright, a ten-page letter from William Taliaferro, and a list of the publications of the Virginia Historical Society.

Personal and business correspondence

Includes letters from R.A. Bright, a letter from R.P. Lore that contains a transcription of a letter by J.P. Morgan, and other letters from Lore regarding business dealings with Morgan & Co.

Includes a letter by William Roper, one from A. de Beelen Lovett (Geneva, N.Y.), and a letter and poem about the Battle of Santiago de Cuba sent by Professor J. Leslie Hall of the College of William and Mary (7 pp.). Also included is a five-page letter of response from Bright to Hall, regarding the poem.

Includes letters from R.A. Bright, William Roper, and Lyon G. Tyler, president of the College of William and Mary. Also included are receipts, a check, and correspondence concerning Bright's payments of his father's debts to the estate of J.D. Moncure.

Includes letters from Robert A. Bright, several letters from an individual in the Netherlands, minutes from a special meeting of the Vestry of Grace Church in Mt. Airy (1900), and a letter from A.J. de Souza in Shanghai, China (1900). This last letter also includes a photograph.

Includes a copy of a book review of Beverly B. Munford's Virginia's Attitude Towards Slavery and Secession (1910); two copies of the publisher's advertisement for this book; a letter from the State Central Committee of the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania; and other correspondence.

Includes various personal and business correspondence.

Includes a letter from the National Bureau of Analysis in Chicago, regarding medical tests performed on Robert Bright (1930); a report of the tests' findings; correspondence regarding the death and estate of Caroline Bright; and financial correspondence.

Includes several letters from Robert A. Bright and [J]. D. Lovett.

Most of these letters were written in the summer and autumn of 1895, only months before the two were married, and are essentially of a personal nature.

Much of this is business and financial correspondence, but also included is a letter in French from "Beelen," sent from Pittsburgh, and dated to 1877.

These typed and hand written letters were sent from Stoddard's villa on Lake Como, in Italy, and contain reflections on contemporary Italian society, socialism, politics, and personal anecdotes. Also included are several printed copies of poems which Stoddard sent and dedicated to Bright, entitled "Youth and Age," and "The Pagan Past."

Includes stock certificates, correspondence from companies to shareholders, receipts, and accounts of Bright's portfolio. Also included is a four-page copy of a Deed of Trust from Henry W. Biddle to the Fidelity Trust Company (1920). Most of Bright's financial business was transacted through A.A. Housman & Co.

Includes stock certificates, receipts, correspondence, lists of securities, and accounts of Bright's portfolio. Thomas A. Biddle & Co. was the brokerage firm handling the bulk of the business in this folder, for both Robert and Caroline Bright.

Includes stock certificates, receipts, correspondence, and accounts for Robert and Caroline Bright. Also included are annual prospectuses for the Electric Auto-Lite Co., the Zonite Products Corp., and Mack Trucks, Inc.; and notices of annual meetings from various companies in which they owned stock.

Most of these were contracted either by Robert or Caroline Bright. Included are policies for fire insurance from the Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Company (1897), and the Spring Garden Insurance Company (1896); for theft insurance from the Fidelity and Casualty Co. (1898); for property insurance from the Commercial Union Assurance Co., limited (1933), the Insurance Company of North America (1933), the Virginia Home Insurance Company (for W.H.E. Manecock, 1878), and the Insurance and Trust Company of Philadelphia (for Catherine Shacklett, 1892, and Louisa D. Lovett, 1915); and a life insurance policy issued by the Treasury Department (1918). Also included are nine copies of liability insurance policies issued to Caroline Bright by the Maryland Casualty Company (1931-1933), and correspondence from the St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company (1931).

Included are accounts for the estates of Mary M. Smylie, Daniel V. Allen, Charlotte Bostwick, and Catherine M. Shacklett. Robert Bright was either the trustee or administrator for most of these individuals.

Robert Bright was the executor of her estate, and co-executor of her will, along with the Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Company of Philadelphia. Included are one typed and three hand written copies of her will; correspondence from Tradesmens National Bank and Trust Company, and the law offices of Roper and Caldwell (1930); general correspondence; and an audit of estate accounts.

Papers relating to the establishment of this company, of which Robert Bright was elected Secretary. Included is a 23-page Articles of Agreement with the state of Maine, which lays out the company's by-laws. Also included is a two-page Certificate of Organization of a Corporation under the General Law, signed by the Attorney General and Secretary of the State of Maine.

Includes two leases from the Brooklyn Home for Aged Men to Robert Bright (1903 & 1904), and a lease for several law offices from the City of Philadelphia to Robert S. Bright, William W. Roper, and J. Gaven Roper (1915).

For goods purchased and services rendered.

Includes financial correspondence from Thomas A. Biddle & Co.; and statements from the Tradesmens National Bank and Trust Co., the Augusta Trust Co., and the Fidelity Philadelphia Trust Company. These statements are for accounts of both Robert S. and Caroline Bright.

Accounts established with R.S. Bright, including accounts for the estate of Catherine M. Shacklett, general accounts, and fee accounts for his legal work. The fee accounts span the entire period of the ledger, and are listed in chronological order according to year and date. The book is bound in a hard cover, and was manufactured by William Murphy's Sons, Co. of 509 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia. There is an index on the first page.

Signed by both Robert S. and Caroline Bright, and drawn off of the Equitable Trust Co., the Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co., the Fidelity Insurance Trust and Safe Deposit Co., the National Bank of Germantown and Trust Co., the Germantown Trust Co., the Tradesmens National Bank and Trust Co., and the Augusta Trust Co.

A record of amounts loaned to Richard Cook, with his signature indicating that the account was paid in full. The book was issued by the Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Co. of Philadelphia.

Includes a certificate of birth (August 1896); a letter from the U.S. Marine Corps regarding appointment of Douglas to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant (1917); nine letters of recommendation on behalf of Douglas; a letter of rejection by the U.S. Marine Corps (June 1917); a letter of acceptance to take an exam for the Signal Officers' Reserve Corps (1918); a letter from the Signal Corps, War Department; a letter by Douglas Bright to his father and two sets of photocopies of this letter (n.d.); various business correspondence; and receipts.

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Includes correspondence; financial accounts; receipts; a certificate of life membership to the Virginia State Agricultural Society (1871); a notice of selection by the Conservative State Committee of Virginia to the post of canvasser against the proposition for black suffrage; a bond to Gilbert Enley (1886); a certificate of life membership to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical Society (1893); and a letter from a War Department commission for the erection of monuments and memorials for Confederate soldiers on the field of Gettysburg (1899).

Includes personal and business correspondence. Half of the letters were written by W.W. Vest, with others from G.W. Bassett, G.W. Ward, Edward Buckley, William Duval, Warren Jones, and Helen M. Anderson to Peyton S. Southall, and James Brickhead to H.M. Anderson.

Most of these items are receipts, but also included is a record of the division of the G.W. Southall estate; a bond between Henry and Furman Southall and William Barnes (1792); promissory notes; and memos.

Includes certificates of distinction in English, Virginia History, Jr. Class Physics, Sr. Class Physics, Latin, General History, United States History, and Mathematics, presented to Robert S. Bright by the College of William and Mary. Also included is a report card from the fall semester of 1890.

Includes a speech entitled "Pocahontas and Other Colonial Dames of Virginia," given in Geneva, New York (22 Feb 1906); a hand written speech on John Randolph of Roanoke, entitled "Hamlet of American Politics," given before William & Mary alumni (1908); a speech given on behalf of Democratic congressional candidate Vance McCormick, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (8 Sep 1914); and a speech on Nathaniel Bacon and his rebellion, given before the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (n.d.).

Includes a program for a Jackson Day Dinner (10 Jan 1923), sponsored by the Democratic City Executive Committee of Philadelphia; two copies of a memorandum from the Ways and Means Committee of the Liberal Party (7 Oct 1930); a typed transcript of an interview with Robert Bright by the Chairman of the Bankers and Brokers Committee of the Liberal Party (20 Oct 1930); and a letter from the Pennsylvania division of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (6 Jun 1930). Pierre S. DuPont was the Chair of the National Executive Committee in this association.

Includes a wide variety of items, such as correspondence and legal notes, as well as : - a signed statement by Caroline Lane - transcripts from several law journals - a report card for H.M. Bright from the College of William & Mary (1894) - a typed letter from Samuel Maddox, P.A. to Charlotte B. Lovett (1898) - a deed between Ashton S. and Harriet Tourison and Louisa D. Lovett (1915) - an 18-page speech to the Board of Directors of the Fidelity Insurance Trust & Safe Deposit Co. (1898/99, author unknown) - a list of rules for the "Philadelphia Alumni Association of Kappa Sigma" - blank letterhead of the Pulaski Club of Williamsburg, on which Judge Frank Armistead and Robert S. Bright are listed as members - a memorandum of A.M. Bright (brother of Robert S. Bright) - a blank income tax form for 1929.

Includes invitations from the Lawyer's Club of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Club, and the Philobiblon Club, wedding invitations, an invitation to a Christmas day dinner, and to other social gatherings. Also included are RSVPs to a party hosted by Robert Bright and his wife (dated 1934).

Includes Christmas cards, an Easter card, Valentine cards, several get-well cards, and a frame made from cardboard and ringed with tissue paper, a small portrait of George Washington having been pasted in the center. Also included are envelopes, several of which are artistically decorated. These were all addressed to Robert S. Bright.

Includes calling cards and business cards from Robert Bright's friends and business associates. Also included is a 16-page address book; a church bulletin, "The Parish Intelligence," from Christ Church in Macon, GA; "Common Speech," a newsletter of the English-Speaking Union of the United States; a postcard; and three Christmas stamps from 1942.

This case concerns a dispute between the two parties over the administration of the estates of William Langborne and William Dandridge. Included is a copy of the will of William Langborne (1821); a list of the defendants and plaintiffs in the case; several orders of summons issued to the Sergeant of the City of Williamsburg, Virginia; a notice of deposition; and other legal documents.

This belonged to Caroline Bright, and includes transcriptions in her own hand of the works of notable poets (such as George Elliot, Shelley, Browning), as well as newspaper clippings of poems that were pasted onto a few of the pages. In addition, several photographs of an unidentified building were laid into the pages of the book.

A leather-bound journal. On the first page is inscribed, "Cape May NJ / The Summer of Nineteen Twenty Three / Caroline de Beelen L. Bright / Some Thoughts in Verse." Many of these are original poems written by Caroline Bright during a holiday at Cape May, and a few of the later poems were written at Monhegan Island, Maine, in 1932. Several pages have been torn out from the front of the book.

This is by far the largest category of photographs, including images of individuals and animals, the interiors and exteriors of houses, and natural locations on the island. There are a number of duplicates (including 3 copies of a photograph entitled "Woods in Winter"), and several of the photographs are significantly larger than the rest.

Most of these photographs were taken at professional studios (listed where appropriate), and are matted. They likely date from the late nineteenth century, except for a small cameo photograph, which may date from earlier in the century. Only a portrait of Caroline Bright, as a child, has been identified for certain. - Robert Bright? (hand-painted) - Young man in uniform, poss. Douglas Bright (4 items) - Caroline de Beelen Lovett as a child (D. Hinkle, 4739 Main St., Germantown) - Portrait of a woman (D. Hinkle) - Portrait of a man (C.M. Bell, 463-465 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington DC) - Portrait of a woman (C.M. Bell) - Portrait of a young man (Scannell, 814 Arch St., Philadelphia) - Portrait of a woman (Kehrwieder's Studio, 4905 Main St., Germantown, PA) - Portrait of a woman (Fred Robinson, photographer, Geneva, NY) - Portrait of a woman (small cameo photo pasted on square matting) - Photo of a woman with a dog - Photo of a man holding a hat - Photo of a woman arranging flowers

Images from various locations, including Monhegan Island (Lorimer E. Brackett, Photocards); Boothbay Harbor, Maine (The Labbie Picture Shop); and Mansfield, England (Sherwood Photographic Company). - "Surf at Gull Rock" - "Studio -- Monhegan, Maine" - Cathedral Woods in Winter - "Cathedral Woods" - "Winter Home" - [studio] - Portrait of a woman - Town - "Newstead Abbey" - "Fog Bound, Monhegan, ME" - "Ascott House"

Includes photographs that do not fall in any of the above categories. Only the photos of the couple and the schoolgirls are matted, and the photo of the child in the tub is badly damaged. - Photo of a restaurant sent to R.S. Bright by Walker Cox (1929) - Group photo at the beach - Small child in tub - Photo of house (hand-painted) - Unidentified couple (mounted in a cardboard folder) - Group photo of schoolgirls - Photo negatives (2 items)