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General Index To First Fifteen Annual
Reports On Historical Collections
University Of Virginia Library

1931-1945

This index will serve as a partial guide to the University's
archives; to the manuscripts, newspapers, and broadsides in the
University's collections; to the parish records of the three Episcopal
dioceses in Virginia, the main depository of which is the
Virginia State Library; and to the Baptist association records
located in the Virginia Baptist Historical Society, at the University
of Richmond. It supplants the general index issued in 1940
for the first ten annual reports, and includes the appendices
covering church records, bound business records, and University
archives, which were omitted from that index.

Index entries to each annual report by number, as well as
by page, are made necessary by the lack of continuous pagination,
and it should be noted that in the case of the appendices, numbers
refer to items, and not to pages.

Since materials pertaining to Virginia predominate in the
University's manuscript collections, Virginia subject headings
appear as main entries, with relatively few appearing as subheadings
under "Virginia." Place names should be assumed to be
in Virginia unless otherwise identified. Information on towns and
cities, especially those of recent origin, should be sought also
under the name of the county. Parish names are in general not
identified by county. Such information is readily available in
other sources, and the Virginia counties were formed from the
parishes, hence the same parish may belong to more than one
county. Italics are used for titles, for names of ships, and for
names of country estates. Abbreviations are those in common use.

Like the annual reports, this index is the joint product of
the staff of the Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts. I have
read it critically, and am responsible for its faults.