Date range: June 1948–August 1948
Overview of contents: Restoration document; Red Hill property management and land use document; financial correspondence; correspondence with and regarding Robert Meade; Red Hill property management and land use correspondence; correspondence regarding annual May 29 meeting; mortgage correspondence; meeting scheduling correspondence; donation and fundraising correspondence; electricity at Red Hill correspondence; commemorative Patrick Henry stamp correspondence; correspondence regarding Edmund H. Eitel’s foundation report and his role in the foundation; Lynchburg fundraising campaign correspondence; correspondence regarding foundation case book; foundation as a living memorial correspondence; correspondence regarding Caravati issue; donation and fundraising correspondence; correspondence with and regarding potential trustees; correspondence regarding Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry rivalry; Patrick Henry memorial coin correspondence; correspondence with Colonial Dames of America; correspondence with Robert Meade; as well as Virginia lawyers fundraising campaign correspondence and documents.
Collection
Papers of James S. Easley (1885–1965)
Archive Details
Creator
Easley, James S.
Date(s) of Creation
1/1945 - 12/1965
Archive Size/Extent
Six boxes
Archive Items Details
Title
Folder 14
Creator
Easley, James S.
Date(s) of Creation
6/1948 - 8/1948
Provenance
Notes
This collection encompasses the papers of James Stone Easley, the first president of the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation. The collection primarily includes correspondence between Easley and other individuals connected to Red Hill, as well as maps, brochures, meeting minutes, financial documents, contracts, newspaper clippings, and blueprints from the early years of the foundation and its efforts to reconstruct Red Hill. The papers in this collection, dating from 1945 to 1965, were donated to the foundation by Mr. Easley in 1965.
