Collection Search

to: Sam Chapman

upcoming elections, specifically mentioning Revercomb, Slemp, Hoge, Parker, and Roosevelt.

GLC03921.07

to: Sam Chapman

anxious to see Willie; no news about the Aborigines.

GLC03921.13

to: Joseph Bryan.

recent trip to Boston including a visit to Plymouth Rock; southern sentiments about forgiving the Yankees.

GLC03921.15

to William A. Chapman

Willie's post-earthquake arrival in San Francisco; banquet given by the Middlesex Club in honor of Grant's birthday.

GLC03921.16

to: Sam Chapman

requesting news of San Francisco from Willie's friend; impending death of Col. Smith and his obituary.

GLC03921.18

to: Sam Chapman

Cousin Alice's visit to Covington, Va.; speculation about the Robertson family (from San Francisco); work on his book Stuart's Calvary in the Gettysburg Campaign.

GLC03921.20

to: Messrs. Moffat Yard & Co.

Defense of his book Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign, with enclosed copy of a reader's opinion of the book.

GLC03921.22

to: Sam Chapman

Taft's upcoming speech to the Virginia Republicans; Maj. Swift's appointment as head of the Army War College.

GLC03921.23

to Sam Chapman

article about Lincoln in Cosmopolitan: "It is the best thing I have seen about Lincoln & confirms what I wrote you that Lincoln offered to the South compensation of their slaves when the Confederacy was in its last gasp & even then we rejected it."

GLC03921.25

to: Sam Chapman

Taft's Supreme Court appointees; dining with Col. Charles Francis Adams.

GLC03921.26

to: Sam Chapman

"correspondence & reports about burning & robbing cities in Vols.: 43 parts I & II- Shenandoah campaign". [Perhaps a reference to Official Records, published in 1908.]

GLC03921.28

to Sam Chapman

Defense of Stuart's absence at Gettysburg, prompted by a newspaper article; treason case against Jefferson Davis.

GLC03921.30

to: Sam Chapman

Assistant Attorney General, Jack Russell [his nephew].

GLC03921.32

to: Sam Chapman

free mail delivery; forthcoming article in the New York Herald: "It tells how Fitz Lee saved Pope's Army."

GLC03921.33

to: Sam Chapman

travels through various towns in Virginia.

GLC03921.34

to Sam Chapman

Theodore Roosevelt's run on a third party ticket: "Teddy has knocked out Taft in one of the most surprising phenomena of history;"

GLC03921.36

to: Sam Chapman

intention to vote for Taft: "If Wilson is elected…the Bull Moose will be buried forever."

GLC03921.37

to: Sam Chapman

hopes to get out of the hospital in time to vote.

GLC03921.38

to: Sam Chapman

Free transportation to Gettysburg for Confederate veterans.

GLC03921.40

to: Sam Chapman

voted for Henry Stuart; ride in an automobile with Mrs. Julie Keith; plans to travel to Baltimore.

GLC03921.41

to: Sam Chapman

Lecture at a Toronto military institute; plans to spend time in New York.

GLC03921.42

to: Sam Chapman

Suggests Chapman visit Wilson over the Easter holiday; Mosby has completed his speech.

GLC03921.43

to: Sam Chapman

suggests Chapman try to obtain a post as chaplain in a regiment on the eve of war with Mexico.

GLC03921.44

to: Sam Chapman

speech well received; "royal" reception in Canada; receiving social invitations in New York.

GLC03921.45

to: Sam Chapman

artist would like to paint a group portrait of Confederate officers, including Chapman.

GLC03921.47