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1Author:  University of Virginia. LibraryAdd
 Title:  The Byrd library  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Adams, Charles Francis, jr. Lee at Appomattox, and other papers. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin & company, 1902.
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2Author:  University of Virginia. LibraryAdd
 Title:  Eleventh annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1940-41  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: IN June 1940, when the disastrous Battle of France was running its course and invasion of Britain was impending, the President of the United States declared that a national emergency existed and Congress at his request voted large appropriations to launch a program of defense. A larger segment of the American people began to take the war seriously and some leaders in various fields of activity undertook to make preparations for any eventuality. Archivists and custodians of historical manuscripts were particularly fortunate in having the problem of preparedness brought to their attention by the president of the Society of American Archivists, Dr. Waldo G. Leland, at their fourth annual meeting held in Montgomery, Alabama, November 11-12. Dr. Leland spoke from long experience with archival problems at home and abroad and from his service as secretary of the National Board for Historical Service in Washington, D. C., during American participation in the first World War.1 1.Waldo G. Leland, "The National Board for Historical Service," American Historical Association, Annual Report for 1919 (3 vols., Washington, 1923-24), I, 161-89. In his presidential address on "The Archivist in Times of Emergency,"2 2.The American Archivist, IV, no. 1 (Jan. 1941), 1-12. he discussed the custodian's responsibility for the safety of the records in his establishment and for the preservation of materials produced during the emergency and basic for subsequent historical writing. As a result of certain specific suggestions made by Dr. Leland to the Society, four committees were appointed: one on the Protection of Archives against Hazards of War, another on Emergency Transfer and Storage of Archives, a third on the History and Organization of Government Emergency Agencies, and a fourth on Collection and Preservation of Materials for the History of Emergencies. These committees went to work promptly at their respective tasks, the first two conferring with the Historical Records Survey to obtain WPA labor for a survey of available depositories. The third committee began plans for the compilation of a handbook of federal World War agencies, including their organization, activities, and records, and requested the cooperation of the National Archives, where most of these records are housed.3 3.Ibid., IV, no. 3 (July 1941), 210.
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3Author:  University of Virginia. LibraryAdd
 Title:  Twelfth annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1941-42  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: SINCE the preceding report in this series was published, the United States has become a belligerent in the Second World War. The general recognition of Sunday, December 7, 1941, as a memorable date in American history was confirmed by the President of the United States the following day in his message to Congress. The formal declaration of war by Congress followed promptly in half an hour. Living, like many earlier neutrals, in a fool's paradise, the American people were rudely awakened from their delusion of peaceful escape from a world at war. The true significance of the much used term "total war," however, was not readily understood. That lesson was to be learned partially during the series of defeats in the first six months of belligerency, until the marshalling of our resources and power could begin to bear weight against the enemy. The Japanese attack ended abruptly the period of disunity and false security. Whatever followed was "after Pearl Harbor."
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4Author:  University of Virginia. LibraryAdd
 Title:  Thirteenth annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1942-43  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE introductory essay of this report represents a departure from the recent policy of surveying the year's activities of the Library in the field of manuscripts and other research materials in relation to problems and developments in archives and manuscripts throughout the nation. Instead, an exposition on the accession and arrangement of manuscripts and kindred materials in the Alderman Library has been undertaken. In aiming to show to what degree our system is orderly and practicable we anticipate and invite outside criticism. Such criticism may confirm and supplement our own in the light of experience during the past dozen years. We believe that archivists, curators, and their associates are interested in how the other fellow handles his professional stock-in-trade and how well the public may fare by his service. We hope that other institutions may be willing to provide a view from the inside. Written records on this subject are unfortunately few in number.
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5Author:  University of Virginia. LibraryAdd
 Title:  Fourteenth annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1943-44  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: WHEN an institution preserves historical records according to plan, we generally assume that they will be used sooner or later in research. Their usefulness depends to a large degree, of course, upon their accessibility. However slightly some custodians may feel their responsibility on this score, certain rudimentary controls and procedures can be established without great difficulty. The system need not be complicated—in fact, experience in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Division of the University of Virginia Library has shown that simplicity of arrangement, along with observance of a few sound archival principles, makes the records available in good order with a minimum of delay.1 1.Thirteenth Annual Report on Historical Collections, University of Virginia Library, for the Year 1942-43 (University, Va., 1943), pages 1-14. Once the records are within the walls of the library, they are readily susceptible to some control; but what is to be said about "system" and "control" while they are still outside?
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6Author:  University of Virginia. LibraryAdd
 Title:  Fifteenth annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1944-45  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: TO understand the pursuit of collecting historical materials, both manuscripts and imprints, four parties must be considered. They may regard their activities, under varying circumstances, as hard-headed business or a fascinating game. Certain parties may be intense rivals at one time, or loyal partners at another. Self satisfaction and altruism are often motivating forces that work hand in hand because, whatever the immediate gain or advantage, there is an ultimate cultural objective that cannot honestly be gainsaid. In this perennial pursuit is there a winner? And if so, are the cards stacked in anyone's favor?
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7Author:  University of Virginia. LibraryAdd
 Title:  General index to first fifteen annual reports on historical collections University of Virginia Library 1931-1945  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE completion of fifteen annual reports (the eleventh through the fifteenth with a cumulated index forming volume two) affords opportunity for us to pay a highly deserved tribute to the services rendered by Dr. Lester J. Cappon in the collection and preservation of historical materials.
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8Author:  University of Virginia. LibraryAdd
 Title:  General index annual reports on historical collections University of Virginia Library  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: This index will serve as a partial guide to the manuscripts acquired by the University of Virginia between 1 July 1945 and 30 June 1950 as briefly described in the Annual Report. It should be borne in mind that only the smallest of the collections received have been described in great detail in these pages, and the index furnishes only the names and subjects which appear in the printed description. For the larger collections, it is hoped that the names and subjects are at least representative; but the researcher who needs an exhaustive analysis of a collection will be obliged to visit the manuscript reading room to consult the card catalogue or the original manuscripts.
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9Author:  University of Virginia. LibraryAdd
 Title:  Annual report on historical collections University of Virginia Library  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE GIFT of the Richard Henry Lee Papers to Mr. Jefferson's uncompleted University Library one hundred and twenty-two years ago was the first of the many gifts which in the second quarter of the twentieth century have resulted in making the University a center for historical studies. In that first session of the University, the Founder was occupied in assembling for the library a collection of books which, though not the largest in America, would he hoped be second to none in value. Under his exacting supervision, funds for the original library were doled out only for the choicest editions; and even before his appropriation was fully spent, he began issuing in the newspapers appeals for library gifts. Acknowledging donations of books from "public spirited citizens" of Boston and London, as well as of Virginia, he assured prospective donors, in a notice of April 28, 1825, that "their talent shall not be hidden in the earth". It is to such public spirited citizens that the University owes the rapid expansion of its historical collections during the two years covered by this report.
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10Author:  University of Virginia. LibraryAdd
 Title:  Annual report on historical collections University of Virginia Library  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: WHY ARE so many of "our Virginia manuscripts" in North Carolina and California? Why is Princeton University publishing the Jefferson papers? These two questions are partly concerned with history, and the answers are in part a concern of this library. They recur with a certain monotony, and for this reason I have prefaced this guide to our new accessions not only with the usual report on our projects and development, but also with several comments on, if not complete answers to, these two questions and some library policies which relate to them.
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11Author:  University of Virginia. LibraryAdd
 Title:  Annual report on historical collections University of Virginia Library  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: TWENTY YEARS AGO when the first of these annual reports was issued, Harry Clemons, then in his fourth year as Librarian of the University, had recently set aside the southeast wing of Mr. Jefferson's Rotunda as a "Virginia Room," dedicated to the housing of and to research in Virginia manuscripts and related materials. Aided and abetted by the late John Calvin Metcalf, Dean of the Department of Graduate Studies, he was beginning his planning and campaigning for the Alderman Library building, which was to open its doors in 1938.
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