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Series X. Bound Volumes (1838-1919)

Scope and Contents note

The bound volumes include Fox's letters (many to his future wife's uncle and aunt, Isaac O. and Hannah Woodbury Barnes) and journals from cruises on various vessels, a scrapbook about him collected by Virginia Woodbury Fox, a scrapbook of clippings created by a Blair or Fox family member, household accounts and records of the Foxes' stock and property holdings, two letter books (one containing letter press and one carbon copies), a writing portfolio that was a gift from Levi Woodbury, a relief map of New Hampshire's White Mountains, and the edited editions of Fox's correspondence published by the Naval History Society.

Virginia Woodbury Fox's notes in Volume 1 indicate that she erased or deleted various sections that she deemed to be "too personal." Her note in her scrapbook documents its importance to her and to any future biographer of her husband.

Letters, Cruise to China and Russia, 1838-1851

Volume: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Scrapbook of newspaper clippings concerning Gustavus Vasa Fox, collected by his wife, Virginia L.W. Fox", 1852-1903

Volume: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Household Account Book, Expenses in Lawrence/ Expenses in Lowell/ Expenses in Boston", 1855-1876

Volume: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Property Book: Stocks and bonds held by Fox, and Virginia L. Woodbury before and after their marriage, 1855-1882

Volume: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Diary, Russia, 1866 June - December

Volume: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Letter book, 1869-1878

Volume: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, [1860s]

Volume: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Letter book, 1878-1879

Volume: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scrapbook of clippings: "Matrimony and its happy results; Chronique scandaleuse", [1870s]

Volume: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Relief Map of the White Mountains, New Hampshire, [1870s]

Volume: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Leather writing portfolio, Undated

Volume: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Confidential correspondence of Gustavus V. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1861-1865, edited by Robert Means Thompson and Richard Wainwright, Vol. I. New York: Naval History Society", 1918

Volume: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Confidential correspondence of Gustavus V. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1861-1865, edited by Robert Means Thompson and Richard Wainwright, Vol. I. New York: Naval History Society", 1918

Volume: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Confidential correspondence of Gustavus V. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1861-1865, edited by Robert Means Thompson and Richard Wainwright, Vol. II. New York: Naval History Society", 1919

Volume: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Confidential correspondence of Gustavus V. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1861-1865, edited by Robert Means Thompson and Richard Wainwright, Vol. II. New York: Naval History Society", 1919

Volume: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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