University of Virginia Library

NOTE

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.

Because of the prominence of Virginia material in the library's collections, many
Virginia subjects appear as main entries, with relatively few occurring as sub-headings
under "Virginia". Place names should be assumed to be in Virginia unless
otherwise identified—the motive for this arrangement being frugality rather than
vanity. Information on cities of recent origin and the smaller towns should be sought
also under the name of the county. The persistence in Virginia families of the
same Christian name is partly to blame for the occasional failure of the index to
distinguish between two persons of the same name.