Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains two letters from Thomas J. Matthews, surveyor for Kanawha County, West Virginia. The first letter, written by Matthews from Kanawha Court House to W. W. Gitt, discusses and describes coal lands south of Brownstown, West Virginia, on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, at Coal River and Cabin Creek. In the second, undated letter (which may be merely a postscript to the first), Matthews writes that prior claims on the land were not noted on the Swann map and that it...