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Correspondence and property records concerning the Talbot family, primarily Richard Ely Talbot. Correspondence includes circa 80 autograph letters, signed, between Richard Ely Talbot, Anna Louisa Trowbridge Talbot, and their daughters Elizabeth Talbot Anderson and Anna Louisa Talbot Shell while students at Abbot Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, 1865-1867. Topics include the family's ranch in Georgetown, Texas, the Chisholm trail, an outbreak of yellow fever in New Orleans, the Civil War, and Richard Ely Talbot's involvement with the Republican Party. Includes documentation of Richard Ely Talbot's interactions with the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, including the impressment of ten of Talbot's mules and an interrogation about transactions involving enemy property, 1862-1864. Property records include deeds, land grants, surveys, and titles concerning land in Texas relating to Richard Ely Talbot, Thomas Talbot, John W. Talbot, Joseph W. Talbot, Elias W. Talbot, Peter Kinsey, and Sarah Gilleland Kinsey Tone, 1838-1877. Includes three manuscript and printed maps of the Talbots' properties in Texas. Collection also includes report cards from the Abbot Academy for Anna Louisa Talbot Shell and Elizabeth Talbot Anderson. Genealogical material consists of five issues of the Williamson Country Genealogical Society newsletter containing articles about the Talbots and Andersons.