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121Author:  Randolph, W.C.N.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from W. C. N. Randolph to A. Gordon, Jan. 13, 1896 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I enclose you some papers that will be rather a shock to you but that will speak for themselves. It makes me more and more convinced that we can't safely undertake this task which is upon us without having a thoroughly trained inspector and not only that but a supervising architect. Men who will be entirely in our interests and who will be paid by ourselves and who will be making us frequent reports. Neither Thornton or Echols are fit for this sort of thing; they haven't the practical experience nor are either of them very practical men. We ought to take the whole affair out of the hands of the buildings and grounds, except as to the transference of money. As you are probably aware I have been very much dissatisfied with the character of the work that has been done in the reconstruction of the two terraces, but being very distrustful of my own knowledge of such things I could never shape it in such a way as to prove to myself that I was not making a mountain of a mole-hill. The whole thing has made me right sick. If we are to undertake this work with an architect who makes all sorts of errors in his strain sheets; with a superintendent like Echols, who has not verified any calculations; and another superintendent like Thornton who accepts the architects loose ideas of weights and strains and deems safe what, when brought to the tables of experienced facts, proves to be unsafe and another superintendent like the venerable Rector who has neither the time nor the tables nor probably the capacity to make reliable calculations the result will be that you and McCabe will be damned and properly damned for the balance of your lives and the venerable Rector will probably be hung & properly hung. As you may remember as I said before may Heaven bless all mixed Committees and save me the trouble of having so far to force my conscience as to bless them. Do pray burn this letter; it is written in such bad temper. I started in good humor enough but as the thing has worked upon me my gall has risen. I shall expect you on Friday and you and I and McCabe must talk these things over where we can do it without any feeling that we are treading upon other peoples toes and possibly finding fault where fault is not due. Send the papers back to me at once please. Mr. McDonald has not turned up here yet but we are expecting him every day.
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122Author:  Randolph, W.C.N.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from W.C.N. Randolph to Mr. Gordon, Jan. 24, 1896 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I enclose you a letter from McCabe to myself and a copy of my reply thereto. I hope that you will give it a good deal of thought. To my mind it is exceedingly important. I received yours this morning. I am glad to hear the good account that Colonel Cutshaw and Colonel Douglas give of Mr. Whitely; and still with the impression that Thornton and Echols have, it might be dangerous to appoint him. This question of an Inspector is filled with many difficulties. General Craighill advises that we should leave the whole matter to the architect; Green Peyton who you & I trust very much thinks an Inspector would be a mistake; and yet I am perfectly certain that we ought to have somebody in charge of this work on behalf of the University. In fact in any building at the University there should be someone, an officer of the Institution, who would be responsible for it. Suppose Green Peyton were Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, how much trouble would you and I give ourselves about this matter? Not a bit! So I come to the point. Our Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds who is one of the finest fellows in the world, and a man of splendid intellect, is from habit, character of mind, and training, unfit for his position. He takes no interest in it; never can be found and is not doing his duty. Now I am not writing this with any harshness at all. I am just stating to you what I know to be facts. In addition, the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds is the proper Inspector of the work that goes ont at the University and if he was the best one in the world, he ought not to hold the dual position of member and servant of the Building Committee. I think, if you all two agree with me, that the solution of this matter is an easy one. I am satisfied that Echols is more than willing to give up the place as Superintendent; that he intends to do so at the end of the session and that he would be glad to do it now. Then it seems to me, that the wisest thing we can do is to select with great care an Inspector and when the Board meets let us then accept Mr. Echols' resignation and I think I can arrange that it will be offered, and let us select an appointee as Inspector Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. This seems to me to do away with all the objections to the appointment of a special Inspector. Now I myself, would be perfectly willing to take blindly and I don't I often say that, any man that H.D. Whitcomb, Colonel Cutshaw and Colonel Douglas, from a professional stand-point, knowing these facts, would recommend to us. Think this matter over; we cant take Thornton into our confidence about it. In the first place, no man can ever tell when he has an axe to grind for himself and then every thing filters through him to the Faculty and leads to lack of harmony between us. Mr. Davis came to me about the Ott matter today. I want to have a talk to you and McCabe about it when you come over. Please give this matter of Inspector a great deal of thought. I am perfectly satisfied that the master-wheel of this reconstruction machinery is sound; but there is a grating cog in a wheel that will be always worrying us and may bring us to a disgraceful break-down. Mary tells me to say to you, that if you come over on Saturday morning you must bring Margaret with you and let her spend the day with the baby. However, you must come on Friday evening as we must have a long talk.
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123Author:  Randolph, W.C.N.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from W.C.N. Randolph to Mr. McCabe, June 22, 1896 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: A knowledge of your intention to visit Great Britain this summer has induced me to request that you will undertake a matter for the University of Va. By the recent fire, as you are aware, our library was almost a total loss; to replace our buildings lost at the same time has strained our finances to the utmost. We will have a sum left totally inadequate to supply our need of books — Our sister institutions in this country aided us from their own libraries to the extent of their power. It has occurred to me that Oxford and Cam- bridge actuated by the same motives of kinship and interest might aid us in getting the syndicates that control the Claren- don and Pitt presses to turn over to us some of their publications as a donation.
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124Author:  Smith, Mary StuartRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Mary Stuart Smith to Rosalie Thornton, May 3, 1896 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I have been wanting to write to you ever so long, but will not take up limited time and space with uninteresting excuses. I have simply overburdened myself, and have to cry "Mea Culpa!" in regard to many, many omissions of duty. I know you will be glad to hear that I got old Mr Cummings again at work upon our sections in the cemetery & it looks so neat and clean, walks all around it, included, that I only wish you could see it before the summer drought spoils everything. Of course I had to resow grass seed, for it just seems as if grass will not retain its hold there, on account of too much shade and the inevitable summer droughts.
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125Author:  Smythe, A. M.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Mrs. A. M. Smythe to her cousin, Feb 17, 1837 concerning the sale of a family of slaves. [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I must beg a favor of you which I trust you will grant. at March court our little all will be sold for debt. You know how much I am attached to Sally and her children. attached to them because they are the best of slaves. I never knew so faithful and valu able a family of negroes. you have it in your power to pur chase them. if you do so I can leave the country with peace of mind. the first of April we will set out for the North Western territory, a howling Wilderneſs.
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126Author:  Thornton, W. M.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from W. M. Thornton to Carter Thornton, April 14, 1896; [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I sent off a long letter to mamma on yesterday. Tonight I hear that her second draft has come and so I shall scratch this note off for you and begin to think that you are really coming home again, when the money for your steamer tickets has to be sent on. I shall surely be glad to see you. The two troubled, sorrow- ful years seem very long and very lone- ly and I wonder now that I could brave a second and a worse one after the unhappy first. Today real dig- ging began for our new buildings. The other contracts are not yet let out and will not be until May. But it makes us all feel more cheerful to have any actual work going on. Jack had a card from Mrs. Stapleton this even- ing announcing her safe arrival at Hamburg. She is with you long since, of course, and you have extracted all her news. I trust she is more cheerful under the German skies and that the climate and life will be good for her. She is fond of music and will enjoy that, I know; and I think she will be glad to be with your mamma and Janet once more. Is it not queer how your mamma's little canary has perked up since he got home? He never sang a note from the day he left the UVa on his journey to Montana. A few days after I got him back I heard him apparently trying his throat, and now he wakes me almost every morning, warbling away as soon as the skies brighten— not so sweetly as of old, but still real singing again. He would be a little buzzard, however, if he did not sing now. The Spring is fairly opening, the air is soft and mild, and the mocking birds are fluting away for dear life. This little fellow is ashamed to be left out of the concert. I shall send your mamma two announcements which will inter- est and amuse her — one of Becnel's graduation as Doc- tor of Medicine at the Tulane (I told her of meeting him there) — the other of Mayberry's marriage to Miss Rhett of Charleston. I think that is doing pretty well for both of our old friends. The Dramatic Club had to postpone their Easter entertainment because of Jennie Randolph's illness. They telegraphed for Lizzie Harrison to take her place and Lizzie is to come; but she will need some time to learn the part and rehearse thoroughly and so the play was put off for two or three weeks. Mary Stuart went off yesterday to Roanoke on a visit and to be for a time under her Uncle Willie's professional care. The poor little child looks badly and I am afraid no doctor can do a great deal for her. Her cheerfulness and high spirit are undaunted however; she is always bright and gay and full of interest in life. Dearest love to all of you from the Doc up to mamma. Write me a line when you can. We are all well, and the various invalids of our community are all doing nicely.
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127Author:  Thornton, John T.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from John T. Thornton to Mrs. E. Rosalie Thornton, Oct. 27, 1895 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I write to let you know of a most fearful calamity which has befallen the dear old University. This morning I heard cries of fire and found that the Annex was in flames. Everyone was running to the Rotunda and soon a large crowd was assembled. No water could be gotten as high as the flames, only a miserable little stream of water about six feet in length came from the hose when at the level of the ground. In response to telegrams, Lynchburg and Richmond sent their engines by special trains, but the Lynchburg engine was delayed in the road and did not arrive within an hour of the expected time. I received a telegram from Richmond when the fire had been almost put out & wired back not to send the engine. Their was nothing to do but to try to keep the fire from Buckmaster's and Tuttle's houses and to save all that was within the Rotunda and annex. They tried to blow up the portico between the Annex and the rotunda in the hope that, if the engine should arrive in time, the lib Rotunda might be saved But all to no purpose. Soon the flames had gained possession of the Rotunda and nothing is now left standing but the bare and ruined walls. The boys worked like fiends to save all that was possible. Kent estimates that only 1/10 of the books was saved but he is wrong—In my opinion at least 1/3 or over were saved. The Austin Collection was lost entirely. The statue of Jefferson, Minor's bust, the pictures were saved in fairly good condition. The School of Athens was lost. Uncle Frank's valuable physical apparatus was carried out but the greater part so broken as to be practically useless. Only 25000 insurance wh. no where near covers the loss. Is estimated that 75000 will scarcely rebuild the rotunda and annex to say nothing of loss in books and instruments. No change in lectures which will continue as usual, the classes meeting in Wash Hall, Temperance Hall, Museum and Professor's offices. Papa is back in his old room — 5 W.L. where the chairman's office will be. Papa is so busy that he cannot write to you to night and told me to let you know of the loss. Am so exhausted myself that I cannot write much. The Professors are taking it bravely — not lamenting the past but making plans for the future. You can imagine how distressed everyone is. I myself, now that the excitement has worn off, am getting more and more miserable every minute and I can't expressed to you my sorrow. I love this old University with all my heart and if I who am comparatively young am so grieved what must be the distress of those old professor's who have worked for the University so long and lectured so often within those now ruined walls! What a number of blows have struck this University within the year you have been away! Misfortune after misfortune has crippled its usefulness and now that this crowning glory of the University, this building planned and built by Jefferson, this splendid library, our so famous copy of the School of Athens, the dear old clock that never kept time, should be destroyed seems the seems to be the crowning evil and the worst that this Nemesis who pursues us could let fall on our heads. Horrible! horrible! horrible! The things gets worse the more I think about it. However lamentations do no good. We can only depend on state aid and the generosity of our alumni. Have just opened a telegram from Geo. Anderson of Richmond saying that he wanted to start a subscription immediately. Telegrams of sympathy come from all sides. O'Ferral seems especially interested. That is a good sign that the state will help us. Some taking a cheerful view of the situation say that in the end it will benefit the U Va. by bringing her more before the people. Cannot offer any opinion on that subject. Thank you very much for the beautiful pair of gloves and more especially for thinking of me and of my 20th anniversary. Had intended to write you a special letter of thanks to-day but am too tired and miserable. Love to the children and yourself. Excuse hasty scribble, & believe me
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128Author:  Wallace, G. B.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Slave Purchases and Breeding: Unruly Slave [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I write for the purpose of letting you know that I have a very unruly negro girl of whom I am anxious to dispose of as soon as possible and supply her place. Will you be so good as look out for me a breeding negro woman under twenty years of age? Also a young acting negro man. If you cannot meet with the slaves aforesaid I will be willing to purchase a young or middle aged negro man with his wife and chil dren. I shall be glad to hear from you immediately as the negro of whom I wish to dispose is a ver dangerous character
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129Author:  Watson familyRequires cookie*
 Title:  Slave account entries  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: Jim
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130Author:  Williams, Jane ERequires cookie*
 Title:  Slave bill of sale from Jane E Williams  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: For & in consideration of the sum of one Dollar to me in hand paid by Jared Williams Junr. the Rect. whereof I do hereby acknowledge I have contracted & sold and by these presents do contract & sell and deliver to the said Jared Williams Junr. one Negro Woman named Nancy and the increase of her body which said negro woman nancy I do hereby warrant and forever defend by these presents to the said Jared Williams Junr. and his hiers executors administrators and assigns against myself my hiers executors and administrators and all and every other person or persons whatsoever, In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 27th Day of June in the year of our Lord 1816
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131Author:  Williams, RandolphRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Randolph Williams to Miss Mary-Stuart, Oct. 31, 1895 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I might sit down and at great length tell you of the sorrow that has felled my very soul at the thought of the ruin at the beloved old place and then I might for a long time tell of my heartfelt sympathies with you dear people to whom if possible, the destruction of the sacred place means more than to us who have dwelt there for but a term of years — yet but half would be told, so I will not begin feeling assured that you know well enough my feelings of sympathy and sorrow. So bright, however, is the prospect for speedy relief and the rebuilding of the old place that our sympathies may be turned to congratulations. Of course you have seen of the good work in Richmond and other cities. Here in Baltimore Markham Marshall and I are stirring things up and hope to have a good report before long.
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132Author:  Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888Requires cookie*
 Title:  Scarlet Stockings  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: "COME out for a drive, Harry?"
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133Author:  AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  "St. Elmo" and its Author  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: In the rush to keep any sort of pace with the lighter and noisier literature of the day it is pleasant and worth while occasionally to spend a few minutes looking over the publishers' lists at the ends of the popular novels of thirty odd years ago, and from them to contrast the tastes of the past and the present generations—a contrast which is very far from being entirely flattering to the readers of to-day. At the head of such lists we may be sure to find the names of those writers who corresponded with the authors of what are now known as "the best sellers"—we realise the claims that Mary J. Holmes and Ann S. Stevens and Augusta J. Evans and May Agnes Fleming then had to popular attention. We recognise many laudable ambitions in the advertisements of books dealing with "the habits of good society," with "the nice points of taste and good manners, and the art of making oneself agreeable," with "the art of polite conversation," and the forms in which letters of business, of friendship, of society, of respectful endearment should be couched. At first sight all this is likely to provoke rather contemptuous amusement. And how unjustly! The forms may be quaint and obsolete, but the sentiments are homely and praiseworthy, and in similar literature of to-day there are just as many platitudes, just as much that is silly and not nearly so much that is sincere. The average highly successful novel of that time was no more literature than is the average highly successful novel of to-day, and the old was generally marked, it must be acknowledged, by an airiness and pedantry that to-day would not reach the public without pretty severe editing. On the other hand, however, the old novels almost always had stories to tell, and they told them in a manner to make them from end to end vitally interesting to that class of readers to which they were designed to appeal.
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134Author:  Jewett, Sarah Orne: review: anonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Miss Jewett  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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135Author:  AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  A Slave's Story  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: SIR:—I send you a sketch of a slave who died lately at my house, and who was once my property.
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136Author:  AntibiastesRequires cookie*
 Title:  Observations on the slaves and the indented servants, inlisted in the army, and in the navy of the United States.  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE Resolve of Congress, for prohibiting the importation of Slaves, demonstrates the consistent zeal of our rulers in the cause of mankind. They have endeavoured, as early and as extensively as it then was in their power, to reform our morals, by checking the progress of the general depravation, which, sooner or later, proves the ruin of the countries, where domestic slavery is introduced. From the liberal spirit of that resolve, which, soon after, was most cheerfully supported by their constituents, it is natural to infer that, had not the necessity of repelling the hostilities of powerful invaders so deeply engaged the attention of the several legislative bodies of our Union, laws would, long since, have been made, with every precaution, which our safety might have dictated, for facilitating emancipations. Many Slaves, however, too many perhaps, are incautiously allowed to fight under our banners. They share in the dangers and glory of the efforts made by US, the freeborn members of the United States, to enjoy, undisturbed, the common rights of human nature; and THEY remain SLAVES!
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137Author:  Austin, MaryRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Last Antelope  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THERE were seven notches in the juniper by the Lone Tree Spring for the seven seasons that Little Pete had summered there, feeding his flocks in the hollow of the Ceriso. The first time of coming he had struck his axe into the trunk meaning to make firewood, but thought better of it, and thereafter chipped it in sheer friendliness, as one claps an old acquaintance, for by the time the flock has worked up the treeless windy stretch from the Little Antelope to the Ceriso, even a lone juniper has a friendly look. And Little Pete was a friendly man, though shy of demeanor, so that with the best will in the world for wagging his tongue, he could scarcely pass the time of day with good countenance; the soul of a jolly companion with the front and bearing of one of his own sheep.
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138Author:  Austin, MaryRequires cookie*
 Title:  Jimville: A Bret Harte Town  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: WHEN Mr. Harte found himself with a fresh palette and his particular local color fading from the West, he did what he considered the only safe thing, and carried his young impression away to be worked on untroubled by any newer fact. He should have gone to Jimville. There he would have found cast up on the ore-ribbed hills the bleached timbers of more tales, and better ones.
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139Author:  Austin, MaryRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Little Coyote  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: WITHOUT doubt a man's son is his son, whether the law has spoken or no, and that the Little Coyote was the son of Moresco was known to all Maverick and the Campoodie beyond it. In the course of time it became known to the Little Coyote. His mother was Choyita, who swept and mended for Moresco in the room behind the store, which was all his home. In those days Choyita was young, light of foot, and pretty,—very pretty for a Piute.
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140Author:  Austin, MaryRequires cookie*
 Title:  Frustrate  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: I KNOW that I am a disappointed woman and that nobody cares at all about it, not even Henry; and if anybody thought of it, it would only be to think it ridiculous. It is ridiculous, too, with my waist, and not knowing how to do my hair or anything. I look at Henry sometimes of evenings, when he has his feet on the fender, and wonder if he has the least idea how disappointed I am. I even have days of wondering if Henry isn't disappointed, too. He might be disappointed in himself, which would be even more dreadful; but I don't suppose we shall ever find out about each other. It is part of my disappointment that Henry has never seemed to want to find out.
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