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Title
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Ethel Littlejohn Adams Collection 1847-1941
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Description
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This collection contains a variety of materials that belonged to Armistead Randolph Mott and Horace C. Littlejohn. A few items belonged to Ethel Littlejohn Adams. Much of the material from A. R. Mott concerns the operations of the drugstore and his medical practice. His day books contain lists of appointments, and the prescription ledgers are made up of prescribed compounds pasted to ledger pages. His material also includes three bills of sale of slaves, Mott’s oath of allegiance to the U.S. government, and an application for pardon after the Civil War. In addition, there is a farm book from Rokeby that contains payment accounts for several African American workers on the farm. Mott managed Rokeby in his wife’s name, who inherited it from her father.
Littlejohn’s material contains prescription ledgers and receipt books as well, but is primarily made up of information about the founding of Loudoun County Hospital, its management, and records from Littlejohn’s service as its treasurer. Also included are the minutes from the Leesburg chapter of the Children of the Confederacy, of which Ethel Littlejohn and her sister were charter members. Among the bound volumes is a ledger from Thomas C. Morallee “Merchant Tailor and Dealer in Men’s Furnishings, Goods, etc.,” a shop that operated in downtown Leesburg during the 1850s and 1860s.
There are seventeen visual items, thirteen photographs and four postcards. Twelve photographs depict scenes of Leesburg and one of Purcellville. Two of the photographs identify Underwood & Underwood as the photographer. The postcards depict scenes of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
