| 23 | Author: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Berkeley papers ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 2005 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | I promised to write to you from our dear Brothers, hoping
that by my stay here my spirits would be better than when
at home & I could write a more interesting letter. But oh how
uncertain are all we promise ourselves on Earth. The Lord in
his wisdom has seen fit to take poor, dear little Frank to
himself & many hearts are sad like my own. Oh he looks so sweet,
so much like a little angel. Oh I think so much of the joy in
Heaven. Our dear Father has I trust met with his son, & his
little grandson, & they with those who went before them are now
praising that Saviour who bought them with his precious blood.
May all of us prove faithful & finally meet them is my prayer. | | Similar Items: | Find |
24 | Author: | Hall
James
1793-1868 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Legends of the West ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 2006 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | The beautiful forests of Kentucky, when first
visited by the adventurous footsteps of the pioneers,
presented a scene of native luxuriance, such as has
seldom been witnessed by the human eye. So vast
a body of fertile soil had never before been known
to exist on this continent. The magnificent forest
trees attained a gigantic height, and were adorned
with a foliage of unrivalled splendour. The deep
rich green of the leaves, and the brilliant tints of the
flowers, nourished into full maturity of size and
beauty by the extraordinary fertility of the soil,
not only attracted the admiration of the hunter, but
warmed the fancy of the poet, and forcibly arrested
the attention of the naturalist. As the pioneers
proceeded step by step, new wonders were discovered;
and the features of the country, together with
its productions, as they became gradually developed,
continued to present the same bold peculiarities and
broad outlines. The same scale of greatness pervaded
all the works of nature. The noble rivers,
all tending towards one great estuary, swept through
an almost boundless extent of country, and seemed
to be as infinite in number as they were grand in
size. The wild animals were innumerable. The
forests teemed with living creatures, for this was the
paradise of the brute creation. Here were literally
“the cattle upon a thousand hills.” The buffaloe,
the elk, and the deer roamed in vast herds, and
all the streams were rich in those animals whose fur
is so much esteemed in commerce. Here lurked
the solitary panther, the lion of our region, and here
prowled the savage wolf. The nutritious fruits of
the forest, and the juicy buds of the exuberant
thickets, reared the indolent bear to an enormous
size. Even the bowels of the earth exhibited stupendous
evidences of the master hand of creation.
The great limestone beds of the country were perforated
with spacious caverns, of vast extent and
splendid appearance, many of which yielded valuable
minerals; while the gigantic bones found buried
in the earth, far exceeding in size those of all known
animals on the globe, attested the former existence
in this region, of brutes of fearful magnitude. | | Similar Items: | Find |
27 | Author: | O'Neal
William Bainter | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Jefferson's Fine Arts Library for the University of Virginia ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 2005 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | It was Thomas Jefferson who originally selected and arranged
for the purchase of the fine arts books at the University
of Virginia. A few of the very volumes acquired by
Jefferson for the University's library have survived the
ravages of time and fire, and in recent years an effort has
been made to replace all books in the original group that
have not survived. Books ordered but never acquired are
also being searched for. Limited funds and limited opportunities
have left a list of works needed that is still a long
one, but a report on the projected reassembly is in order
for several reasons. | | Similar Items: | Find |
30 | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Requires cookie* | | Title: | First Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1930-31 ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 2005 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | A YEAR ago, as a preliminary step to beginning the inventory of
manuscript materials in Virginia, the newly appointed archivist
interviewed a number of historians and librarians in the State to
discuss the general situation regarding depositories, public and semipublic,
and the possibility of gaining access to private collections. An
outline of the various sources of historical materials was subsequently
drawn up1
1.A copy of this outline, "State Survey of Historical Materials" is appended
to this report, page 8.
and submitted to these same individuals and others within
and outside the State for criticism. Their comments were helpful and
encouraging and it is gratifying to find that, at the end of the year's
work, the outline, with a few additions, has measured up to actual conditions
as found in widely separated counties in the State. | | Similar Items: | Find |
31 | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Second Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1931-32 ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 2005 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | THE survey and collection of manuscript materials in Virginia,
now completing the second year of work, have followed the general
method of procedure outlined in the first discussion of the
project,1
1.First Annual Report of the Archivist . . . 1930-31 (University, Va.,
1931), pages 12-14.
and the list of new counties to be covered, as indicated on the
map published in last year's report,2
2.Ibid., page 3.
has varied only slightly in the
actual execution of the program. By geographic divisions, the following
counties have been surveyed during the year: | | Similar Items: | Find |
32 | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Third Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1932-33 ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 2005 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | THE momentum gained from the two preceding years' work in
surveying and collecting historical materials in Virginia has been
an appreciable factor in facilitating the progress during the year
just completed. As prolonged economic distress has resulted in increasing
demands upon research organizations and special and general
libraries of all kinds, albeit with incomes drastically reduced, so the
need for preserving the raw materials in manuscript and printed form
is more generally recognized. While the specific task must rest upon
the local agency, adapted to the peculiar conditions and problems of the
region, it is encouraging to find the preservation of social science source
materials advocated on a nation-wide scale by the American Library Association
and to see quickened the perennial interest of the Public
Archives Commission, under the direction of the American Historical
Association, as evidenced by its report on the preservation of local
archives.1
1.The Preservation of Local Archives. A Guide for Public Officials. Prepared
by the Public Archives Commission [A. R. Newsome, Chairman] under
the direction of the American Historical Association (Washington, D. C. 1932).
"There is evidence," as one scholar observes, "that in
America we have come to the end of an era, and it is desirable that the
period that is closing be as completely documented as possible."2
2.A. F. Kuhlman in American Library Association, Bulletin vol. XXVII no.
3 (Mar. 1933), page 130. | | Similar Items: | Find |
33 | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Fourth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1933-34 ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 2005 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | THE movement for the preservation of research materials, sponsored
by the Social Science Research Council in 1929, is steadily
becoming national in scope, and the report of another year's work
in Virginia affords good evidence for this contention. While the project
for the survey and collection of social science source materials in
this State originated with the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences
and the Library of the University of Virginia, its inception was
made possible by the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Materials
for Research of the SSRC and the American Council of Learned
Societies;1
1.Cf. First Annual Report of the Archivist . . . 1930-31 (University, Va.,
1931), page 7.
and during the past two or three years the activity of other
national and local organizations along the same line has further demonstrated
its fundamental importance for all related fields of scholarship. | | Similar Items: | Find |
34 | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Fifth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1934-35 ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 2005 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | AN ANNUAL stock-taking in archival work during this era of
rapid change gives pause for reflection. Expansion and planning,
with wide variation in the modification of each by the other,
may be said to characterize these recent years. The sudden expansion
of research activity in the social sciences and related fields, quickened
by the World War debacle, created a heavy demand for the necessary
raw materials. Since economic and social planning were the crux of
the new viewpoint in research, scholars called for every kind of published
or unpublished material bearing upon human relationships, and
those librarians in closer contact with this research took up the challenge
to accomplish the impossible. | | Similar Items: | Find |
35 | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Sixth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1935-36 ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 2005 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | IT IS a commonplace observation that we are living in an age of
rapid change. The statement needs no further confirmation; we
meet with countless examples of it in our highly integrated society
which in itself is an accelerating force. We are not surprised to find
that intellectual as well as material movements, however local their beginnings,
quickly become national in interest and scope, and common
problems are solved through regional and national associations. Despite
forebodings in certain quarters, the trend of the times has led us
rather to expect that the state, whether the individual commonwealth
or the federal government, will play an important part in financing or
at least in administering these problems. | | Similar Items: | Find |
36 | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Seventh Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1936-37 ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 2005 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | IT HAS been the practice in previous reports of this series to relate
archival developments at the University of Virginia and in the Commonwealth
to those in other states and in the nation at large, in order
to keep abreast with the national movement in this field of scholarship.
Events of the past year point to a new era in the science of archives in
the United States, to large-scale co-operation in providing guides to archives
and manuscript collections of all kinds, and to a journal for discussion
of problems and policies. In the care and administration of
their archives some states can boast of notable accomplishments reaching
back several generations; others have undertaken their responsibility
during the present century; and all have had the opportunity of seeking
the counsel of the Public Archives Commission of the American Historical
Association.1
1.Cf. American Historical Association, Annual Report for 1922 (Washington,
1926), I, pages 152-60.
It was the pioneering of this Commission that led
to the founding of the Society of American Archivists during the meeting
of the American Historical Association at Providence, R. I., December
29, 1936; and it is also significant that the first annual meeting of the
new society, June 18-19, 1937, was held in the National Archives Building,
Washington, D. C. | | Similar Items: | Find |
37 | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Eighth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1937-38 ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 2005 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | SOMEWHERE between the librarian and the historian (or the social
scientist, it may be argued) stands the archivist. Just what his status
is among the professionals or how it is to be arrived at in this country
has not yet been determined. That he is already here complicates the
situation but at least keeps practical considerations to the fore. By
many people of recognized intelligence he is classified with genus antiquarium
because some of his kind are known only as guardians and
preservers of ancient records from use. Like the physician emerging
from the barber's trade in colonial days, the archivist aspires to professional
dignity in his own name. In some states where he has the
title, he is virtually an artisan doing odd jobs of reference and serving
as scrivener for the legislators, or his quasi professionalism may be
that of a politician among politicians. Among county and city clerks
the title of archivist is unknown as applied to their position. In Virginia,
for example, where the county clerks of colonial and ante bellum
times were generally men of prestige and considerable culture, and
where respect for this office has been preserved in some measure, training
for the duties of office, if any, may be acquired occasionally as deputy,
but the job is chiefly one of daily routine in recording current entries. | | Similar Items: | Find |
39 | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Tenth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1939-40 ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | Published: | 2005 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | THE CLOSE of a decade of activity in the field of manuscripts
and related historical materials by the University
of Virginia offers the temptation to review briefly the
developments in Virginia during the period and to relate them
to the progress of this movement in the South and the nation
at large. It seems especially fitting to do so because the
1930's have been a time of unprecedented advance in manuscript
and archival work. If this progress has been particularly noteworthy
in the southern states, it may be argued that this appears
to be the case only because so little had been accomplished hitherto
in this region. Undoubtedly the renaissance in southern literature,
historiography, and higher education since the World War
has created an increasing demand for the basic source materials
essential to scholarship. Southern research repositories have
profited by the experience of historical agencies of renown in
New England, the Middle Atlantic states, and the Middle West.
Even the "depredation" of private manuscript collections in the
South by northern agents and collectors in the past has resulted
in a net gain to research: the manuscripts that were carried off
were, in most instances, more safely preserved in northern libraries
than in southern attics; resentment over the loss of these
records eventually moved southerners to take positive steps
towards preservation of the abundant materials that remained;
and in so doing, they found much that had been not only undiscovered
or overlooked, but even rejected because of the narrow
viewpoint of an earlier generation. | | Similar Items: | Find |
40 | Author: | University of Virginia.
Library | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Eleventh annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1940-41 ![](https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/icons/default/i_tei.gif) | | | 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. | | Similar Items: | Find |
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