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1Author:  Alexander James 1804-1887Requires cookie*
 Title:  Early Charlottesville  
 Published:  2005 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: The author of these sketches was born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 4, 1804, the eldest son of James Alexander and Elizabeth Williston, his wife. In Memoirs which he prepared for his descendants he states that he came of early colonial stock. His maternal greatgrandmother was Ann Brown McMillan, a direct descendant of John(?) Brown who came over in the Mayflower in 1620. This early ancestor served as town crier for the village of Boston and his descendants are buried in the old Copps Hill Cemetery, "from the first settlement of that place."
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2Author:  Dabney Virginius 1901Requires cookie*
 Title:  Mr. Jefferson's University  
 Published:  2005 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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3Author:  O'Neal William BainterRequires cookie*
 Title:  Jefferson's Fine Arts Library  
 Published:  2005 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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4Author:  unknownRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Book of the Poe Centenary  
 Published:  2005 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE University of Virginia has nothing with which to reproach herself in her treatment of Edgar Allan Poe. Through ill report and good he was followed with her maternal solicitude and misgivings, but never with her reproof or wrath. In his college days she may have been too lenient, but in the days of his fame she is not constrained by any hobgoblin of consistency to withhold her praise. She has, therefore, had peculiar pride in witnessing his universal acclaim as a man of genius and as a singularly forceful agency in compelling international recognition of our American literature. Her anxiety is no longer lest he be not recognized at his real worth, but lest, in the ardor of revived enthusiasm, his real merit, however high, be overrated and his rightful place, so tardily won, jeopardized by claims too sweeping and superlative.
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5Author:  University of Virginia.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921  
 Published:  2005 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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6Author:  Clemons Harry 1879-1968Requires cookie*
 Title:  Notes on the Professors for Whom the University of Virginia Halls and Residence Houses Are Named  
 Published:  2005 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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7Author:  O'Neal William BainterRequires cookie*
 Title:  Jefferson's Fine Arts Library for the University of Virginia  
 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.
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8Author:  Minor Berkeley 1842-1930Requires cookie*
 Title:  Legislative History of the University of Virginia as Set Forth in the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, 1802-1927  
 Published:  2005 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: While the University of Virginia, eo nomine, was not, legislatively speaking, started until 1817, several statutes that may be considered as leading in that direction, and laying what afterwards proved to be the foundation or beginnings of the University, were enacted several years earlier.
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9Author:  University of Virginia LibraryRequires cookie*
 Title:  General Index to First Ten Annual Reports of the Archivist Library of the University of Virginia 1930-31 to 1939-40  
 Published:  2005 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: This index will serve as a partial guide to the manuscript and newspaper collections in the Alderman Library of the University of Virginia. The archivist's annual reports do not include some of the smaller collections and numerous single items. Information on these is available in a card index in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Division of the Library. The annual reports contain, however, considerable material on developments and problems in the closely related fields of archives, manuscripts, and libraries during the 1930's, and this material is quite fully indexed.
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10Author:  University of Virginia LibraryRequires cookie*
 Title:  First Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1930-31  
 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.
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11Author:  University of Virginia LibraryRequires cookie*
 Title:  Second Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1931-32  
 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:
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12Author:  University of Virginia LibraryRequires cookie*
 Title:  Third Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1932-33  
 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.
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13Author:  University of Virginia LibraryRequires cookie*
 Title:  Fourth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1933-34  
 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.
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14Author:  University of Virginia LibraryRequires cookie*
 Title:  Fifth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1934-35  
 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.
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15Author:  University of Virginia LibraryRequires cookie*
 Title:  Sixth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1935-36  
 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.
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16Author:  University of Virginia LibraryRequires cookie*
 Title:  Seventh Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1936-37  
 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.
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17Author:  University of Virginia LibraryRequires cookie*
 Title:  Eighth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1937-38  
 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.
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18Author:  University of Virginia LibraryRequires cookie*
 Title:  Ninth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1938-39  
 Published:  2005 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE NINTH year since the establishment of the Archivist's office has been distinctive in two respects. The Archivist, Dr. Lester J. Cappon, has been on leave of absence by virtue of a grant from the University's Institute for Research in the Social Sciences; and it coincides with the first twelvemonth of occupation by the University Library of ample quarters in the new Alderman Memorial Library building. The former of these two facts has conditioned, and the latter has in very large measure enhanced, the progress of the University's archives during the past year under the guidance of an Acting Archivist.
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19Author:  University of Virginia LibraryRequires cookie*
 Title:  Tenth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1939-40  
 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.
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