Inventor Name
Cabell, Nathaniel Francis
Repository
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219-8000
804-692-3888 (Archives Reference)
URL: http://www.lva.lib.va.us/
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Physical Description
.625 cu. ft.
Summary
Papers, 1722-1879, collected by Nathaniel Francis Cabell (1807-1891) of County, Virginia, to be used in a work on the history of Virginia agriculture. Papers consist of bibliographies, constitutions, correspondence, diaries, essays, indexes, memorandums, minutes, patents, recipes, reports, resolutions, testimonials, and transcripts; and concern agriculture in Virginia from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Topics include agriculture, mainly tobacco, wheat, corn, and peas; livestock, mainly cattle, horses, sheep, and swine; farm implements like threshers, circular saws, mill equipment, and other tools; and manures for fertilizers. Some papers relate to the Agricultural Society of Albemarle and to the Virginia Agricultural Society. One letter comments on the possible sale of Mount Vernon in the 1850s. Papers include a letter of 21 January 1856, T. F. Nelson to Nathaniel Francis Cabell, [Nelson County], concerning Nelson's invention of a guano attachment to a wheat drill and the theft of the idea from him in Box: 1, Folder: 583 p.
Finding Aid
http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/lva/vivadoc.pl?file=vi00740.xml