9.33 cubic feet. Papers pertaining to the Bodley and related families primarily in Ky., Miss., Mo., and Va. include personal and business correspondence, business, legal, land, and military papers, and genealogical materials.
Personal correspondence, 1776-1920, revolves around Thomas Bodley, his son Wm. Stewart Bodley, and his son Temple Bodley and includes topics such as Kentucky Politics; Henry Clay and other prominent Ky. political families such as the Breckinridges, Crittendens, and Wickliffes; presidential elections and candidates; Afro-American colonization efforts; agriculture in Kentucky and the South; banking; California history and the gold rush; cholera outbreaks; churches; land speculation in Ky., Wis., the mid-west and Tex.; health resorts in Ky. and Ohio; North American Indians; Kentucky history and description; lawyers in Ky. and Miss.; Louisville history and politics; the Mexican War; Miss. history and politics; the Burr conspiracy; railroad and road development; the Civil War; state's rights; reconstruction; slavery; religion and religious thought; St. Louis history and description; U.S. history, politics, foreign relations, and army; schools in Ky., Va., Ohio, and Miss.; Va. history; the Whig Party; World War I.
There are also three diaries (1770-1811, 1814-1815, 1863-1865) and numerous speeches, 1791-1939, primarily written by Temple Bodley in the early 20 th century.
Land papers, 1783-1912, contain information on lands in Ky., Ind., Mo., and Miss.
Business papers, 1781-1936, relate to the Bodley family, the Shiell family, and Hite family and include ship inventories, insurance papers, and receipts.
Military papers, 1788-1852, include muster rolls and payment ledgers.
There are also several newspaper clippings, diplomas, passports, minutes from the Transylvania Debating Club (1825-1827) as well as early, hand-painted maps of Georgia and Alabama.
Finally, the collection contains genealogy on numerous families such as the Bodleys, Clarks, Croghans, Bullocks, Crittendens, Fosdicks, Gwathmeys, Hites, Innes, Pearces, Pindells, Shiells, Taylors, and Thrustons.
Included within this collection is the Clark-Hite-Shiell Papers of the Bodley Family Papers. Also, six items related to William Clark originally included in this collection have been placed in the related Jonathan Clark Papers-Temple Bodley Collection. For, more information on this collection, please contact the curator of Special Collection.
Papers, 1844–1907, ca. 3 ft. Anti-slavery leader and U.S. minister to Russia, 1861–62 and 1863–69. Includes 21 letters he wrote from St. Petersburg in the course of his ministry there. They contain references to prominent Russian personalities and detail Clay's diplomatic work as well. (NUCMC 65–22)
Robert Carter Richardson
Papers (1858-1897). 0.33 cubic ft. (15 items). Correspondence, drafts of essays and poems, printed reports from delegates to the Convention of Border Slave States (Frankfort, Ky., 1861), scrapbook of clippings containing political, legal, and genealogical information, and other papers. Includes invitation to Cassius Marcellus Clay to address a meeting in Covington, Ky., on the death of Czar Alexander II, explanation of its cancellation, and printed text of the proposed speech, and letter to A.C. Quisenberry replying to his request for information concerning Humphrey Marshall (1760-1841), his part in the Virginia Constitutional Convention (1788) to ratify the federal constitution, and election to the U.S. Senate (1795).
