Henry Wise
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English
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"No one innocent. No one free. Nothing sacred. After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. Impoverished and abandoned, this remote land of tobacco plantations, razed forests, and boarded-up homes seems stuck in the past in a state that is trying to forget its complex history and...
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English
Description
Papers primarily concerned with Heiss' career as a newspaper editor and business manager and his services as diplomatic agent for Nicaragua when William Walker was in power in that country. Consists of correspondence, editorials, dispatches, legal documents, and two scrapbooks on Nicaragua. A primary concern of Heiss was cultivation of cotton in Central America and he was very interested in development of the cotton gin. Numerous letters of David...