Dates: 1892
Collection Number: MS 11
Physical Location: Archive Room File Cabinet
Extent: 1 folder; 3 leaves.
Access Restrictions: Collection is open to research.
User Restrictions: No restrictions.
Preferred Citation: Blakey Correspondence, MS 11, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information: Gift, University of Virginia Library, Reference Division, 1976, August 16.
Biographical/Historical Information: James Blakey (1853-1897) was an attorney in Charlottesville and the editor of The Jeffersonian Republican (Charlottesville, Virginia) from 1886-1894.
Scope and Content: Photocopy of autographed letter signed (ALS) from James Blakey of The Jeffersonian to Honorable B. Johnson Barbour, 17 March 1892, seeking information about the Barbour family for a publication of sketches of the lives of prominent men of the Piedmont region.