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[Identification of item], in the James A. Walker Papers, #852, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Caldwell, M. M., Mrs.
• Lawyers--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Legislators--United States--Correspondence.
• Love-letters--History--19th century.
• Politicians--Virginia--Biography.
• Pulaski County (Va.)--History.
• Republican Party (Va.)--History--19th century.
• United States. Congress. House--History--19th century.
• University of Virginia--Students--History--19th century.
• Virginia--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Walker, James A. (James Alexander), 1832-1901.
• Wythe County (Va.)--History.

James Alexander Walker (1832-1901) was a lawyer, Confederate brigadier general, Democratic state official, and Republican United States representative, 1895-1899, of Virginia.

The collection includes scattered papers of and about Walker, including a small amount of Walker's own correspondence: letters to his fiancee in the 1850s while he was at the University of Virginia and practicing law in Pulaski County, Va., and personal and political letters in Wythe County, Va., when he was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives in the 1890s. Other papers include 1870s manuscript speeches, correspondence and clippings about Walker, and a typescript biography by his daughter, Mrs. M. M. Caldwell.