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JOHN SHELTON PATTON

574, Data about John Shelton Patton have been culled from Barringer-Garnett-Page,
vol. 2, p. 22; Bruce, vol. 4, p. 322, and vol. 5, pp. 219, 396; Who
Was Who in America 1897-1942, p. 944; and information supplied by his
granddaughter, Miss Polly Brooks.

575. Cappon, Lester J., Virginia Newspapers: A Bibliography with Historical
Introduction and Notes, New York, 1936, pp. 202 (Roanoke Times, 1881-1882),
65 (Jeffersonian Republican), 65, 55 (Daily Progress).

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576. Visitors' Minutes, 10 October 1899.

577. Alumni Bulletin, new series, vol. 3, no. 3, July 1903, p. 145.

578. Barringer-Garnett-Page, vol. 2, p. 22; Who Was Who in America 18971942,
p. 944.

579. Alumni Bulletin, third series, vol. 9, no. 1, January 1916, p. 30.
The topics of the lectures on general library subjects were: The Library
and the State, The Old Order and the New in Library Purpose, Books and
Booklings.

580. A number of Patton's annual reports on the Library were printed in full
or in abstract in the Alumni Bulletin. For the Library Bulletin see section
IV, page 75, and footnote 330. The same reference and footnote 331
apply to the handbook, The Library: An Invitation. Among the bibliographical
data compiled by Librarian Patton was the pamphlet on the Byrd
Library. See Alumni Bulletin, third series, vol. 7, no. 3, July 1914,
p. 387.

581. The Alumni Bulletin ceased publication in 1924 and the Virginia
Quarterly Review was started. Prof. James Southall Wilson was the last
Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin and the first Editor-in-Chief of the
Quarterly.

582. An item in which James H. Lindsay and John S. Patton collaborated was
the pamphlet printed by the Progress Publishing Company in 1904 entitled
The McCue Murder. In an article entitled "New Light in Philology" Patton
contributed to the South Atlantic Quarterly an exposition of the theories
of Prof. Thomas FitzHugh as stated in the latter's Bulletin of the School
of Latin, University of Virginia.

583. The Metcalf review of the Poems of John A. Thompson appeared in
Alumni Bulletin, third series, vol. 13, no. 2, April 1920, pp. 193-195.
The Bruce review was printed in the same publication, third series, vol.
13, no. 4-5, August-October 1920, pp. 333-336.

584. The publishers of these volumes are indicated in the following list:-

  • Patton, John S., and Doswell, Sallie J. The University of Virginia:
    Glimpses of its Past and Present.     Lynchburg, J. P. Bell Company, c1900.

  • Patton, John S., Doswell, Sallie J., and Crenshaw, Lewis D., eds.,
    Jefferson's University: Glimpses of the Past and Present of the University
    of Virginia.     Charlottesville, Michie Company, c1915.

  • Patton, John S. Jefferson, Cabell and the University of Virginia.
    New York, Neale Publishing Company, 1906.

  • Kent, Charles William, and Patton, John S., editors. Book of the Poe
    Centenary.     Charlottesville, University of Virginia, 1909.

  • Thompson, John R. The Poems of John R. Thompson... Edited by John
    S. Patton. New York, Scribner, 1920.

  • Patton, John S., and Doswell, Sallie J. Monticello and its Master.
    Charlottesville, Michie Company, c1925 and 1930.

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  • Patton, John S. Love and Mistress Annabel and Other Verses.
    Charlottesville, J. S. Patton, 1927.

585. The present regulations on retirement are stated in the Virginia Code,
1950, vol. 7, p. 238 (81-97). These are based on the Virginia Code of
1919.

586. President Alderman died 29 April 1931.

587. Visitors' Minutes, 22 April 1927 (resolutions at time of Patton's
retirement); 28 October 1932 (at time of his death).

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