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NOTES TO VI. 1925-1950. THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE SECOND CENTURY.
The abbreviations indicated below are used for the materials which are
most frequently referred to in the foot notes for this section.
Alumni News. University of Virginia Alumni News. Vol. 1(1913)- present.
Annual Library Reports. Annual reports of the University Libraries, 19271944.
There is a file in the General Office of the Alderman Library.
Board of Aldermen Minutes. Typewritten minutes of meetings of the Board of
Aldermen dating from September 1938. A file is located in the General
Office of the Alderman Library.
Downs. Downs, Robert B., ed. Resources of Southern Libraries. Chicago,
American Library Association, 1938.
Faculty Library Committee Minutes. Typewritten minutes of meetings of the
Faculty Library Committee, beginning in 1907. These are located in the
General Office of the Alderman Library.
Survey. Clemons, Harry, comp. A Survey of Research Materials in Virginia
Libraries. Charlottesville, Alderman Library, 1941.
University Catalogue. Issued annually from 1825. Began as A Catalogue of
the Officers and Students of the University of Virginia. Now appears as
University of Virginia Record: Catalogue.
Visitors' Minutes. Typewritten minutes of meetings of the University of
Virginia Board of Visitors. These are among the University Archives in
the Alderman Library.
1. GRAPHS OF THE UNIVERSITY AND OF THE LIBRARY
588. Alumni News, vol. 19, no. 8, May 1931, pp. 171-173; vol. 19, no. 10,
July-August 1931, pp. 227-255.
589. Alumni News, vol. 21, no. 1, October 1933, pp. 1-3.
590. Alumni News, vol. 35, no. 8, May 1947, pp. 1-3, 18.
591. The printed reports of President Darden to the Board of Visitors for
the four years 1947-1951 give indications of this purpose. See especially
pages 3 and 4 of the report for 1948-1949.
2. BEGINNING OF REORGANIZATION.
592. University Catalogue, session 1925-1926, page 313. The seven full
time members were:
| John Shelton Patton | Librarian |
| Mary Louise Dinwiddie | Assistant Librarian |
| Olive Dickinson Clark | In Charge of Circulation |
| Lucy Trimble Clark | Assistant in Circulation |
| Ella Watson Johnson | Medical Librarian and Cataloguer |
| Agnes Atkinson McIlhany | Assistant in Periodical Section |
| Catherine Lipop Graves | Law Librarian |
593. The figure 131,422 is taken from College and University Library
Statistics, published by the Princeton University Library in 1947. See
footnote 383.
A list of the thirteen separate collections is given in footnote
385. In the statement in the 1925-1926 University Catalogue, page
313, two collections, the Graduate House and Y.M.C.A., are omitted.
594. Alumni News, vol. 14, no. 6, February 1926, p. 138.
595. Alumni News, vol. 14, no. 3, November 1925, p. 55.
596. Visitors' Minutes, 27 April 1926.
597. Visitors' Minutes, 27 April 1927 and 2 November 1928.
598. Alumni News, vol. 14, no. 10, June-July 1926, p. 245; University
Catalogue, session 1926-1927, pp. 339-341. The Institute for Research in
the Social Sciences was established by a five year gift totalling $137,500
from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation. See also Visitors'
Minutes 5 November 1926.
599. See Section II, pages 15 and 16 of this history.
600. Among those who are known to have declined offers of the position
are Dr. Earl Gregg Swem, Librarian of the College of William and Mary,
and Dr. Henry Bartlett Van Hoesen, who was then Assistant Librarian at
Princeton and who shortly after became Librarian at Brown University.
601. A detailed account of the Nanking Incident of March 1927 is given
on pages 163-165 of the Americana Annual for 1928. Alice Tisdale
Hobart's Within the Walls of Nanking, 1928, tells the story from the
point of view of the foreign business community in Nanking. The story
from the missionary viewpoint is told in William Reginald Wheeler's
John E. Williams of Nanking. The story is briefly outlined in the
article in the Dictionary of American Biography on John Elias Williams,
the Vice President of the University of Nanking who was killed during
the looting of the University. In the manuscript collection in the Alderman
Library are contemporary personal accounts by Jeannie and Harry Clemons.
602. The information to Chairman Metcalf seems to have come from a circular
letter concerning Clemons which was signed by Herbert Putnam, Librarian
of Congress, William Warner Bishop, Librarian of the University of Michigan,
and Andrew Keogh, Librarian at Yale University.
603. The conference with President Alderman and Chairman Metcalf occurred
early in July 1927. The appointment was approved by the Board of Visitors
on 11 November 1927.
604. The course at Columbia was a special one in Library Administration,
open to a selected group of Librarians and conducted by Dr. Azariah Root,
Librarian of Oberlin College. Clemons's admission to the course was
arranged by Dr. Charles Clarence Williamson, Director of the Columbia School
of Library Service, as a result of the circular letter mentioned in footnote
602.
605. The academic record and library experience were as follows: student
at Wesleyan University 1897-1903 (B.A., 1902; M.A., 1905), graduate student,
Scribner Fellow, at Princeton University, 1903-1904 (M.A., 1905); Jacobus
Fellow of Princeton in residence at Oxford Unversity, 1906-1907; library
assistant at Wesleyan University 1902-1903; reference librarian, Princeton
University, 1908-1913; librarian, University of Nanking, 1914-1927.
606. He had been the official representative of the American Library Association
in charge of library war service, 1918-1919, for the American
Expeditionary Force in Siberia, and he had held appointment as special cataloguer
for the Chinese Section in the Library of Congress for several months
in 1922 while he was on a furlough from the University of Nanking. A
pamphlet of his letters, The A.L.A. in Siberia, was edited by Dr. Henry
Van Hoesen and published by the A.L.A. in 1919.
607. Annual Library Report, 1927, pp. 4,5.
608. The count was made in December 1927, and the total was announced at a
staff party — the first Christmas party.
609. A considerable portion of the McCabe gift received in 1922 was still
unpacked; the accumulation on the dome floor evidently dated back to the
return to the Rotunda after the 1895 fire, since in it were later found a
number of books from the original Jefferson library collection.
607A. Hubert Douglas Bennett was a college student in 1927. In 1950 he
was a lawyer and political leader in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
Joseph Lee Vaughan was a graduate student in 1927. In 1950 he was
Director of the Institute of Textile Technology, Charlottesville, while
on leave as Professor of English, Department of Engineering, University
of Virginia.
608. The count was made in December 1927, and the total was announced
at a staff party — the first Christmas party.
609. A considerable portion of the McCabe gift received in 1922 was still
unpacked; the accumulation on the dome floor evidently dated back to
the return to the Rotunda after the 1895 fire, since in it were later
found a number of books from the original Jefferson library collection.
610. A Survey of Libraries in the United States... Chicago, American Library
Association, 1926. Four volumes. Attention was centered chiefly on volume
two.
611. Annual Library Report, 1930, p. 1.
612. The meeting was held 28 October 1930.
613. The volume of typed minutes of meetings of the Senate contains, at the
beginning, a statement of the organization of that representative body,
The location of that volume of minutes has varied, apparently for reasons
of convenience, being at times kept by the Registrar, by the University
Dean, or by the Secretary of the Senate.
614. Prof. William Harrison Faulkner was Secretary of the Senate in 1930.
His minutes of the October 28th meeting was as follows:-
"Present: President Alderman, Deans Lile, Metcalf, Flippin,
Newcomb, Manahan, Maphis, Assistant-Dean Ferguson, and Professors
Eager, Faulkner, Jordan, Lewis, Luck, Rodman, Royster,
Wilson(J.S.), and the Librarian of the University, Mr. Clemons.
President Alderman presided...
"On request of President Alderman, with enthusiastic approval of
the Senate, the Librarian of the University, Mr. Clemons, read to the
Senate an able, informing, and encouraging paper on the reorganization,
the work, and the plans for the future of the University Library.
"(It is the Secretary's opinion that this paper should be recorded
in the minutes of the Senate, and he hereby requests the transcriber
of these notes to obtain the copy from the Librarian if it is available.
This request was presented to the Librarian, who stated that
the paper was not in an available form for this purpose, since he
spoke from notes only.)
"After the applause following Mr. Clemons's paper, the Senate, on
motion duly made and seconded, adjourned."
615. Examples of such attempts were those made by Professors Balz for
Philosophy, Fraser for Archaeology, Hill, Mellor, and Wood for Philology,
Hyde for Economics, and Uhl for Public Administration.
616. The purposes and personnel of the various subcommittees were as
follows:-
1931. On Specifications for New Building: Dean Metcalf, Chairman,
President Newcomb, Professors Jordan and Rodman, Librarian Clemons.
1931. On Preparations for Moving: Dean Metcalf, Chairman, Professors
Berglund, Dobie, House, Sparrow, Webb, Librarian Clemons.
1938. On Transfer of Department and School Libraries and Special
Collections to New Building: Dean Rodman, Chairman, Dean Metcalf,
Librarian Clemons.
1938. On Allotment of Faculty Studies, Seminar Rooms, and Stack
Carrels: Professor House, Chairman, Deans Jordan and Metcalf,
Professor Webb, Librarian Clemons.
1938. On Selection of Books for Browsing Room: Librarian Clemons,
Chairman, Dean Metcalf, Professor House.
1944. On Extension of Alderman Library Building: Professor House,
Chairman, Deans Lewis and Wilson, Professor Webb, Librarian Clemons.
617. Report on the 1942 survey by Chairman Webb, Chairman Emeritus Metcalf,
and Librarian Clemons was made at a Faculty Library Committee meeting on
13 December 1944.
618. Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 11 December 1939.
619. Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 1 and 18 April 1940. The resolutions
adopted at the second meeting were approved by the whole committee,
as indicated in the minutes of 13 December 1944.
3. THE ALDERMAN LIBRARY BUILDING
620. See page 25, Section II, this history.
621. See pages 48-50, Section III, of this history.
622. See pages 86-87. Section IV, of this history.
623. The traditional objection to removal from the Rotunda is discussed in
Alumni News, vol. 20, no. 5, February 1932, pp. 103, 104.
624. There seems to have been no fixed date at which agreement on the site
was reached. In the late 1920's a joint committee of faculty and
architeets marked the site of the Alderman Library as "reserved for an
important future building." Several members of the Committee had in mind
a general library. The fact that half a dozen individuals claimed to
have made the original suggestion of that site doubtless expedited its
tacit acceptance.
Among other sites suggested were that of Cabell Hall, of Madison Hall,
and of the President's house. These, however, would have meant the
removal of existing buildings.
625. A letter requesting suggestions was sent to members of the Faculty
on 7 September 1935. There is a file of the replies in the General
Office under the heading Alderman Library Building — Suggestions.
626. The Dartmouth records covered minutes and reports covering a period
from 1912 to 1926 and leading to the erection of the Baker Library.
The Princeton records contained rather revolutionary studies made in
the early 1930's by a committee headed by Prof. Charles Rufus Morey.
627. The Librarian at Dartmouth College was at that time Dr. Nathaniel
Lewis Goodrich; the Librarian at the University of Rochester was Donald
Bean Gilchrist.
628. In the summer of 1932 Dean Metcalf visited the libraries at Dartmouth
College, Williams College, and Yale University, and reported concerning
those libraries at a meeting on 13 October 1932 of the subcommittee on
specifications for a new library building.
629. Careful and constructive replies were received from the Librarians
of the University of Cincinnati, Dartmouth College, Iowa State College,
the University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Princeton University,
and the University of Rochester.
630. Gerould, James Thayer. The College Library Building, its Planning and
Equipment, New York, Scribner, 1932.
631. A copy of those specifications is in the rare book collection of the
Alderman Library.
632. See page 87, Section IV, of this history.
633. This was at a meeting of the Faculty Library Committee held on 15
October 1929.
634. Alumni News, vol. 19, no. 8, May 1931, pp. 175, 176.
635. President Alderman was representing State Universities at the inauguration
of Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase. Doctor Chase had been President of
the University of North Carolina from 1919 to 1930. He left the University
of Illinois in 1933 to become Chancellor of New York University.
636. When the new medical group was dedicated in 1929, Dean Flippin stated
privately that the use of President Alderman's name for the medical
building had been considered, but that it had been deemed more appropriate
to reserve his name for a new general library building. That the library
should be a memorial to him was stated by President George H. Denny of
the University of Alabama at a Finals address to the Alumni in 1931
(Alumni News, vol. 19, no. 9, June 1931, p. 198) and by Dr. John Huston
Finley at the Alderman memorial address in Cabell Hall on 18 November
1931 (Alumni News, vol. 20, no. 3, November-December 1931, pp. 52-57).
When the federal grant was received in 1936, P.W.A. regulations prevented
the naming of the building until its completion. (Faculty Library
Committee Minutes, 26 January 1937.)
637. See pages 3, 4, Section I, of this history.
638. "If you squeeze a cork, you will get but little juice." This was
number 2791 in Thomas Fuller's Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs, London
1732. This Thomas Fuller was a doctor of medicine (1654-1734), not the
more famous doctor of divinity (1608-1661).
639. Shakespeare's I Henry IV, act 2, scene 3, line 11.
640. Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 31 May 1935.
641. Visitors' Minutes, 10 June, 12 August 1935.
642. Alumni News, vol. 24, no. 1, September-October 1935, pp. 1, 4, 5.
Faculty Library Committee, 7 October 1935.
643. Visitors' Minutes, 26 October 1935.
644. For Frederic William Scott, see Alumni News, vol. 28, no. 1, September-October
1931, p. 5 and Who Was Who in America, 1897-1942, p. 1094.
He had had one college year at Princeton, but had not been a student at
the University of Virginia. He was appointed a member of the Board of
Visitors in 1920, and in 1930, upon the death of Cyrus HardingWalker, he
was elected Rector. Scott Stadium was donated by him that year, 1930.
645. Visitors' Minutes, 26 June 1936; 16 January 1937. A library fee of
twenty dollars a session was to be collected over a period of thirty years.
646. See footnote 642. A copy of the original drawing is filed with the
specifications.
647. Alumni News, vol. 24, no. 1, September-October 1935, p. 10.
648. Visitors' Minutes, 26 June 1936.
649. Alumni News, vol. 24, no. 1, September-October 1935, pp. 4, 5. This
article is illustrative of material prepared by Mr. Wranek and also of
editorial comment in the newspapers of the State.
650. Senator Glass was reported to have vigorously stated to Secretary Ickes
that he (Senator Glass) disapproved of many of the P.W.A. grants for sewers
and such, and that this one — which would be his sole request — would
bring honor to the Public Works Administration. Professor Sparrow, a member
of the Faculty Library Committee, later commented: "The Senator put
all his begs in one ask-it."
651. The successful bids for the Alderman Library were as follows:
| 11 Nov.'36 Excavation - G. G. Waugh Co., Culpeper | 6,250.00 |
| 24 Nov.'36 Foundation - G. G. Waugh Co., Culpeper | 14,475.00 |
| 15 Jan.'37 General building - Doyle & Russell, Richmond | 586,223.00 |
| 15 Jan.'37 Heating - Reliance Engineering Co., Charlotte, N.C. | 35,553.00 |
| 15 Jan.'37 Plumbing - Williams Co., Norfolk | 22,868.00 |
| 15 Jan.'37 Electric work - L. T. Washington, Washington, D.C. | 19,500.00 |
| 21 Apr.'37 Elevators - Westbrook Elevator Manufacturing Co., Danville |
14,519.00 |
| 21 Apr.'37 Book conveyer - Snead & Co., Jersey City, N. J. | 15,222.00 |
| 15 Feb.'38 Screens, Schedule N - Goode Engineering Sales Co., Lynchburg |
54.00 |
| 15 Feb.'38 Weatherstripping, Schedule O - Goode Engineering Sales Co., Lynchburg |
1,298.00 |
| 15 Feb.'38 Venetian blinds, Schedule P - Gilmore, Hamm & Snyder, Charlottesville |
1,650.00 |
| 15 Feb.'38 Shades, Schedule Q - Flower School Equipment Co., Richmond |
745.51 |
| 15 Feb.'38 Walks, roads, drains, Schedule R - Charlottesville Lumber Co., Charlottesville |
8,220.00 |
| 15 Feb.'38 Landscaping, Schedule S - James F. Williams, Lynchburg |
1,770.00 |
| 15 Feb.'38 Yard wall, Schedule T - Charlottesville Lumber Co., Charlottesville |
5,954.00 |
| 734,301.51 |
649A. The Embree article ("In Order of Their Eminence: An Appraisal
of American Universities") appears on pages 652-664 of the June 1935
issue of the Atlantic Monthly, vol. 155, no. 6. It is based in part
on a study by the American Council on Education, the results of which
were published on pages 10-26 of the January 1934 number of The
Educational Record, vol. 15, no. 1.
The Scott Stadium was erected in 1930, 1931. See note 644.
649B. There is in the Alumni News, vol. 24, no. 4, January 1936, an
illustrated account of the "banquet" held in the Mayflower Hotel in
Washington on the evening of 31 January 1936.
| Force account, Moving. University Buildings and Grounds |
3,380.00 |
| 7 Sept. `38 McGregor Room - John C. Knipp & Sons, Baltimore | 18,200.00 |
| The McGregor Fund Report 1950-51, p. 51, records McGregor Room costs as $26,425.00 plus $6,000.00 for Salisbury portrait |
32,425.00 |
| The Report of the President 1950-51, p. 15, records the total cost of the Alderman Library as $965,877.00. That total did not include the McGregor Room. |
652. Statements from the largest contractor, Doyle and Russell, were an
example of the enthusiasm.
653. Visitors' Minutes, 23 October 1937. The dates for moving were announced
in Alumni News, vol. 26, no. 4, January 1948, p. 76.
654. Virginia, Acts of the General Assembly, Extra Session 1936-1937,
chap. 4, pp. 28-30.
655. The eight additional collections which "came into being" between 1925
and 1938 were:-
Colonnade Club collection - Pavilion VII, West Lawn
Current newspaper files - Madison Hall
Extension collection - Extension building
Extension drama collection - Extension building
Institute for Research in the Social Sciences - Old medical building
Music collection - Music room, West Range
Public Administration collection - Old medical building
Rural Social Economics collection - Old medical building
656. The subcommittee "on the transfer of department and school libraries
and special collections to the new building" was composed of Dean Rodman,
Chairman, Dean Metcalf, and the Librarian. Its report was recorded in
Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 8 February 1938.
657. The eight separate collections from which some books, but not all, were
transferred to the Alderman Library were the Astronomy, Fine Arts, Geology,
Law, Mathematics, Music, Physics, and Public Administration Libraries.
658. The calendar of the moving was as follows:-
| April 20 Wed. Fair. Rotunda, public documents | 11 loads |
| April 21 Thurs. Showers. Rotunda, documents, Virginia collection | 14 loads |
| April 22 Fri. Showers. Rotunda, documents, Virginia collection | 22 loads |
| April 23 Sat. Fair Rotunda, documents, Virginia collection | 27 loads |
| April 25 Mon. Fair Rotunda, documents, Virginia collection Minor Hall |
24 loads |
| April 26 Tues. Fair Minor Hall | 27 loads |
| April 27 Wed. Fair Clark Hall, newspapers | 27 loads |
| April 28 Thurs. Fair Rotunda, periodicals, newspapers; Minor Hall office |
23 loads |
| April 29 Fri. Fair Rotunda, periodicals, newspapers, Reference office |
30 loads |
| May 2 Mon. Fair Rotunda, periodicals, lower hall | 29 loads |
| May 3 Tues. Fair Rotunda, periodicals, lower hall | 27 loads |
| May 4 Wed. Fair Rotunda, periodicals, Clark Hall, newspapers | 24 loads |
| May 5 Thurs. Fair Rotunda, exchange material; Cabell Hall, Virginia documents |
28 loads |
| May 6 Fri. Fair Rotunda, Exchange material, national catalogues; Cabell Hall, Virginia documents; Museum, Ryan books |
21 loads |
| May 19 Mon. Fair Peabody Hall material | 22 loads |
| May 10 Tues. Fair Rotunda, reference and reserved books | 21 loads |
| May 11 Wed. Showers. Rotunda, books; Biology collection | 23 loads |
| May 12 Thurs. Fair Rotunda, books | 29 loads |
| May 13 Fri. Fair Rotunda, books | 23 loads |
| May 16 Mon. Fair Rotunda, books | 24 loads |
| May 17 Tues. Fair Rotunda, books | 24 loads |
| May 18 Wed. Rain Rotunda, books | 16 loads |
| May 19 Thurs. Fair Extension Library, Madison Hall collection | 28 loads |
| May 20 Fri. Fair Extension collection, Extension drama collection |
14 loads |
| May 23 Mon. Fair Astronomy Library, Classical Library, Public Administration Library |
19 loads |
| May 24 Tues. Showers. Rotunda, Miss Dinwiddie's office, Classical, Geology, Physics, and Public Administration Libraries |
20 loads |
| May 26 Thurs. Rain. Graduate House, Bruce Library | 3 loads |
| 600 loads |
the number of books in a box.
659. Alderman, Edwin Anderson. Woodrow Wilson. Memorial address
delivered before a joint session of the two houses of Congress December
15, 1924, in honor of Woodrow Wilson, late President of the United States.
Washington, Government Printing Office, 1925. The address was also published
as a book by Doubleday, Page & Company in 1925, An account of the
circumstances surrounding the address is given in Dumas Malone's Edwin
A. Alderman: a Biography, New York, 1940, pages 339-345.
660. Alderman, Edwin Anderson. Virginia: address delivered in response
to the toast "Virginia", at the banquet given by the citizens of Petersburg,
Va., to the President of the United States and the Governor of Pennsylvania
on May 19, 1909. Charlottesville, The Michie Company, 1909. This was also
published, in 1916, by Charles Scribner's Sons. There is mention of it in
the Malone biography, pages 262, 263.
661. Dumas Malone was Associate Professor of History at the University of
Virginia from 1923 to 1926 and Professor of History from 1926 to 1929.
During the last session, 1928-1929, the title was Richmond Alumni Professor
of History. He was a member of the Faculty Library Committee for the
whole period, that is, from 1923 to 1929. In 1944 (Visitors' Minutes,
27 May 1944) he was named Honorary Consultant in Biography.
662. There is a fuller description in the Alumni News Special Issue on
the Alderman Library, vol. 26, no. 10, which appeared in the summer of
1938.
663. Examples were the addition of a partition in order to form the
McGregor Room in 1938 and the addition of a partition to form an entrance
to the Taylor Room in 1949.
664. Architect R. E. Lee Taylor's original drawings and those developed
in 1944 and 1945 are preserved in the General Office of the Alderman
Library; so are the minutes of a subcommittee of the Faculty Library Committee
which in 1944 and 1945 discussed the proposed additions.
665. The seven feet, six inches, is the distance between the top of one
floor to the top of the next floor. The thickness of the floor should
therefore be subtracted in order to ascertain the actual open space.
666. That "cardinal aim" is indicated in the specifications prepared for
the use of the Architect. See footnote 631.
667. For the effect on one visitor see page 268 of "The Alchemy of Books"
by Lawrence Clark Powell in A.L.A. Bulletin, vol. 46, no. 8, September
1952.
668. An account of the Garnett Library, with photographs of "Elmwood" in
Essex County, by William H. Wranek, Jr., was printed in the Alumni News,
vol. 26, no. 7, April 1938, pp. 138, 139.
669. There were fourteen seminar or conference rooms and twenty-seven
studies.
670. As previously stated (on page 131) the preliminary study "stressed
both needs and economy."
671. The pressure for stack space became increasingly heavy not only for
processed books and manuscripts but also for shelving of unprocessed gift
materials and for exchange materials.
672. The Chemical Library had acquired new space in the additions to the
Cobb Chemical Laboratory in 1932. Remodeling of Fayerweather Hall in
1938 had expanded the space for the Fine Arts Library. With the acquisition
of Adolph Lomb collection on Optics in 1934 (Visitors' Minutes,
7 November 1934) there came additional equipment.
673. Professor Gee had made application to President Newcomb for the
second floor in Minor Hall when that building was vacated by the Department
of Law. His request, however, had been about an half hour after the
request from the Library for the same space! Therefore when the Library's
"nucleus" collection was moved to the Alderman Library in 1938, Professor
Gee was able to transfer to the Minor Hall second floor the collections
for both the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences and the School
of Rural Social Economics.
674. A collection of books for the nurses was actively carried on by
Miss Josephine McLeod, Superintendent of Nurses, about 1930, and an effort
to catalogue the collection was made by an extension class in cataloguing
conducted by Miss Dinwiddie. It was in 1944, however, that a special
room and appropriate equipment were secured, and at that time Miss Mabel
Cook Wyllie, Medical Librarian, single handed catalogued the whole collection.
675. The transfer of the books in Music was made not long after the opening
of the Alderman Library. The transfer of the collection of the Bureau
of Public Administration was effected in 1948, books to be borrowed back
temporarily as needed.
676. Extensive additions to Clark Hall were made in 1950 and 1951.
4. THE CATALOGUE
677. See pages 6 and following of Section I of this history.
678. See pages 16-18, Section II, of this history.
679. See page 29, Section II, of this history.
680. Wertenbaker retired in 1881. He was followed by Page, 1881-1882,
Winston, 1882-1886, and Baker, 1886-1891. For the cataloguing problem at
that time see pages 44 and 45 of section III of this history.
681. The third stage, the "involved attempt to achieve maximum utility
with minimum cost", may be said to have followed the publication in the
Library Quarterly of October 1941 (vol. II, no. 4, pp. 393-411) of Andrew
Delbridge Osborn's "The Crisis in Cataloging."
682. See page 44 of Section III of this history.
683. Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 28 February 1929; Annual Library
Report for 1929, page 3. The report seems to be in error in giving
October 1929 instead of February 1929 as the date of the adoption of the
Library of Congress classification. There is a rather frivolous comparison
of the Dewey and Library of Congress classifications in "D.C. Versus
L.C." in Libraries, vol. 35, no. 1, January 1930, pp. 1-4.
684. Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 1 May 1930. For the use of the
portion of the Humanities Fund which was allotted to the Library, see the
Supplement on funds which follows these notes.
685. Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 15 October 1929.
686. Annual Library Reports, for 1931, p. 3; for 1931-1932, p. 4.
687. Annual Library Report for 1932-1933, p. 4. For the Hertz collection,
see page 63, Section IV, of this history.
688. See page 64, Section IV, of this history, and footnote 259.
689. Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 25 October 1932, for Minor Hall.
Alumni News, vol. 22, no. 3, December 1933, p. 52 and Visitors' Minutes,
24 March 1933, for gift of Alderman books.
690. Annual Library Report for 1934-1935, p. 8; Visitors' Minutes, 7
November 1934.
691. Annual Library Report for 1934-1935, p. 8.
692. Annual Library Report for 1937-1938, p. 7.
693. Annual Library Report for 1937-1938, p. 5.
694. See note 693 and the volume of College and University Library Statistics
1919/20 to 1943/44 compiled at the Princeton University Library.
695. For data concerning Mrs. Bailey, Miss Carver, and the Misses Clark see
page of this section (VI) of this history.
696. See page 125 of this section (VI) of this history.
697. Osborn, Andrew Delbridge, "The Crisis in Cataloging", Library Quarterly,
vol. 11, no. 4, October 1941, pp. 393-411. See note 681. See also Board
of Aldermen Minutes for April, June, and November 1949.
698. See page 18 of Section II of this history.
699. As complete secrecy as was possible was maintained concerning that wartime
use of space at the University of Virginia. But on pages 47, 48 of
his annual report for 1944 the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Archibald MacLeish,
made grateful reference to it.
700. Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 11 October 1928. See also page 9
of the Annual Library Report for 1928.
701. Works, George Alan, College and University Library Problems, Chicago,
American Library Association, 1927. Extra copies of this, and later of
James Thayer Gerould's The College Library Building: Its Planning and
Equipment, New York, Scribner, 1932, were purchased for use by the members
of the Faculty Library Committee.
702. Alumni News, vol. 26, no. 7, April 1938, pp. 149-152; vol. 27, no. 2,
November 1938, pp. 29, 30. Those are references to the Barringer report.
For the McConnell survey see Alumni News, vol. 28, no. 6, March 1940,
pp. 102, 103.
703. See the alumni contributions of expendable funds during 1925-1950 as
listed in the supplementary notes on funds.
704. Alumni News, vol. 33, no. 1, October 1944, p. 9; Annual Library Report
for 1942-1943, p. 16.
705. Alumni News, vol. 27, no. 2, November 1938, p. 29. This was in appreciation
of Mrs. Graves's services at the close of twenty-five years. Her
actual retirement came at the end of the 1944-1945 session.
706. Annual Library Report for 1943-1944, pp. 22, 23.
707. See preceding note; also Alumni News, vol. 33, no. 1, October 1944,
pp. 9, 18.
708. Library of Congress Information Bulletins for 9-15 August and 27 September-3
October 1949 rank the University of Virginia notably high in contributions
to the Union Catalogue. Reports of those rankings appeared in
the Board of Aldermen Minutes for September and October 1949.
709. A standing Pamphlet Committee was in operation for the last fifteen
years or so of this period, 1925-1950. Statements of its conclusions
and of the procedures determined upon are filed in the Preparations Division
and in the general office of the Alderman Library. The most elaborate
statement was prepared by Mrs. Hinman in 1942 and is headed "Supplementary
Notes on Pamphlet Cataloguing."
710. The figure 40,893 is taken from the sheet entitled "Size of Collections,
30 June 1950." The statement "about 36,000 volumes" may be found on page
55 of the University Catalogue for the session of 1880-1881.
5. THE COLLECTIONS
711. The acquisitions figures for the sessions from 1925 to 1930 are
recorded in College and University Library Statistics 1919/20 to 1943/44
as published by the Princeton University Library in 1947. The figures
for the sessions from 1945 to 1950 are given in the tables entitled
University of Virginia Libraries, Size of Collections, which are issued
annually at the General Office of the Alderman Library.
712. The count by bibliographic units grew out of investigations and discussions
by two successive committees of the Association of Research
Libraries, the record running through the minutes of meetings during 1940
to 1950. By 1950 the Universities of Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan
and Cornell, Northwestern, and Duke Universities were among those which
had adopted the new method of enumeration.
713. These items are taken from the 1950 table of Size of Collections.
Of the 1,553 film reels, 232 were of newspapers, 528 of manuscripts, and
793 of books, the last figure comprising 8,043 book titles.
714. See Section II, pages 21, 22, of this history.
715. Annual Library Report for 1929, p. 6.
716. It is difficult to separate state and gift appropriations in the 19251926
budget — which may be found in the folio volume of Visitors' Minutes
in the library vault. Combining the general and law library appropriations,
the total library appropriation for the session 1925-1926 was $21,170, of
which $10,704 apparently came from the State and $10,466 from endowment
income. In 1949-1950 the total appropriation was $311,432, of which
$267,062 came from the State and $44,370 from endowment income and gifts.
The comparisons in total appropriations would therefore be:-
But for the purchase of books, the total for the session 1925-1926 was
1925-1926
1949-1950
Increase
Total appropriations
$21,170
311,432
14.7 times
From State
10,704
267,062
24.9 times
From Gifts
10,466
44,370
4.2 times
$7,075, of which $3,796 seems to have come from the State and $3,279 from
endowment income. In 1949-1950 the total for books was $59,370, of which
$37,500 came from the State and $21,870 from endowment income and gifts.
The comparison in book appropriations would therefore be:-
Considering the salary appropriations separately, the comparison would be:-
1925-1926
1949-1950
Increase
Book appropriations
7,075
59,370
8.4 times
From State
3,796
37,500
9.9 times
From Gifts
3,279
21,870
6.7 times
| 1925-1926 | 1929-1950 | Increase | |
| Salary appropriations | 12,245 | $208,592 | 17 times |
The pertinent conclusions in connection with the text are that while in
these twenty-five years the general library appropriation was increasing
14.7 times and the salary appropriations were increasing 17 times, the
increase in the book appropriation was 8.4 times; and that while the overall
appropriation from the State was increasing 24.9 times, the book appropriation
from the State was increasing 9.9 times.
717. See pages 145 and 146, Section VI, of this history.
718. The last extension of hours, from 92 to 98, with closing on six evenings
at 11:00 o'clock, was put into effect in 1948.
719. The largest library group affected by the 1942 Personnel Act was the
clerical staff which had had a salary range from $840 to $1,200. The
latter figure became the minimum.
720. Automatic "cost of living" adjustments upward were put into effect as
follows:-
| Clerical Staff | Professional Staff |
| 1946 July | 1946 July |
| 1948 July | 1948 July |
| 1949 July | 1949 September |
| 1950 December | 1950 July |
| 1951 March | 1951 March |
| 1952 September | 1952 December |
721. Because of the second world war, the range in total resident enrollment
was from 1,175 to 5,119. The following record was supplied by the
Registrar's office. During 1944-1947 there were continuous sessions, and
the record gives the figures by semesters. The enrollments are the totals
for all departments.
| 1940-1941 | 2,992 |
| 1941-1942 | 2,599 |
| 1942-1943 | 2,170 |
| 1943-1944 | 1,733 |
| 1944, first semester | 1,345 |
| 1944, second semester | 1,335 |
| 1944-1945, first semester | 1,322 |
| 1944-1945, second semester | 1,175 |
| 1945-1946, first semester | 1,226 |
| 1945-1946, second semester | 1,942 |
| 1946, first semester | 2,733 |
| 1946, second semester | 2,168 |
| 1946-1947, first semester | 4,388 |
| 1946-1947, second semester | 4,342 |
| 1947-1948 | 5,119 |
| 1948-1949 | 5,082 |
| 1949-1950 | 4,964 |
722. For a discussion of support of research by the federal and state governments,
see pages 3-9 of President Darden's printed report to the Board of
Visitors for the session 1950-1951.
723. Careful search has so far not been able to locate this saying in any of
President Alderman's addresses or writings.
724. See page 132 of Section VI of this history.
725. See the tables of endowment and expendable funds which are supplementary
to these notes. The totals for books are as follows:
| 1825-1925 | 1925-1950 | |
| Endowment funds | $84,275.00 | $190,091.74 |
| Non-Endowment funds | 14,825.00 | 284,987.47 |
| Totals | 99,100.00 | 475,079.21 |
726. To the extensive gifts of books during 1925-1950 may be added over three
million manuscripts.
727, The specially designed bookplates include those for Alderman, the
Bibliographical Society, Byrd, Cabell, Far Places, Harbison-Neff, Hispanic-American,
Holmes, International Studies, Jabberwock, James F. Lincoln Arc
Welding Foundation, Lefevre, Luck, Mackay-Smith, Metcalf, Morton, Rushton,
Simpson, Sparrow, Stone, Taylor, Tunstall, and Wyllie.
728. Among the bookplates representing earlier gifts were those for Charles
Baskerville, Governor Holliday, Gaetano Lanz, Wilbur P. Morgan, Thomas
Randolph Price, and Barnard Shipp.
729. The books of President Alderman were presented by Mrs. Alderman. See
Alumni News, vol. 22, no. 3, December 1933, pp. 51, 52; Visitors' Minutes,
24 March 1933; also page 146, Section VI, of this history.
President Newcomb donated a large portion of his private library shortly
after his retirement.
Mrs. Charles William Kent in 1929 presented many of the books which
had been in the combined collections of her husband and of Professors
Gessner Harrison and Francis Henry Smith, and had been housed in the middle
pavilion on West Lawn. See Visitors' Minutes, 20 April 1929.
Books from the private libraries of John Barbee Minor and Raleigh
Colston Minor were presented by Mrs. Raleigh C. Minor and her son, Mr. C.
Venable Minor, in 1932. See Visitors' Minutes, 13 June 1932.
The gift by Mr. Collins Denny, Jr., of the extensive private library
of his father, Bishop Collins Denny, has extended over a number of years.
Correspondence concerning the books started in 1943, the books began to
arrive in 1944, and consignments were still being received in 1951.
A selection from the books of Walter Hines Page was presented to the
Library in 1948 by his daughter, Katharine Page Loring (Mrs. C. C. Loring),
and his two sons, Arthur Wilson Page and Frank Copeland Page.
730. The Elizabeth Cocke Coles Fund of $50,000 (reduced by tax to $47,616)
was bequeathed in 1938 by Walter Derossett Coles. See Alumni News, vol.
27, no. 5, February 1939, pp. 85, 86 and Visitors' Minutes, 21 January
1939.
An endowment fund for books to be purchased in memory of Dean John
Calvin Metcalf was being raised in 1949-1950, and had by the end of that
session reached the amount of $1,398.50.
In memory of the late Urban Joseph Peters Rushton, the members of his
family in 1950 established a fund for the purchase of books, especially
in the subject of literary criticism, the initial amount being $1,000.
See Visitors' Minutes, 14 July 1950.
731. The quotation is from Laurence Binyon's "For the Fallen", pages 40
and 41 of The Cause: Poems of the War, Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1917.
In the International Studies Collection there were forty-four
memorials, eight being endowments. The list follows:
Berkeley, William Noland, Jr.
Clemons, Henry Jenkins
Ellett, Henry Guerrant, Jr.
Green, Thomas Jefferson
Hamm, James Douglas
Morton, William Wylie
Scott, John
Young, Thomas Taggert
International Studies Fund, Endowment Memorials
Acree, John White
Allen, Geroe Cox
Breed, William Henry
Broome, Roger Grenville Brooke
Connelly, Sam Roth, Jr.
Curry, Charles, II
Dayton, Donald Kuykendall
Deputy, Louis James
Eisner, Jacques Rodney
Fleming, Carl, Jr.
Fowlkes, Paschal Dupuy
Goodwin, William Archer Rutherford, Jr.
Hannabass, James Wilbur, Jr.
Harbison, Clinton McClarty, Jr.
Hardy, John Gardiner, Jr.
Harris, John Daniel
Hover, Thomas Strode
Leonard, Edward Madison
McGuire, James Mercer Garnett
Mattes, Merwin Bogen
Mead, Frank Roberts, Jr.
Miller, John Henry
Motley, James Coleman, Jr.
Neff, John Henry, Jr.
Nottingham, Severn Marcellus, Jr.
O'Donoghue, James Francis, Jr.
Palmer, James Meehan
Smith, Louis Amonson
Stafford, Richard Marshall
Straus, Raymond I., Jr.
Suhling, William Gerhard, III
Taylor, Quintard, Jr.
Triplett, Charles Hector III
Turner, Frank Edward
Wilde, Robert Michael
Wonson, Charles Fred
Non-Endowment Memorials
732. The McGregor Room, a memorial to Tracy W. McGregor, was opened in
1939 (Alumni News, vol. 27, no. 6, March 1939, p. 117 and no. 8, May 1939,
pp. 159-162, 169-172, and Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 14 February
1939). The opening of the Garnett Room, containing the home library of
Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett, was coincident with the dedication in
1938, pp. 138, 139). There was an informal opening of the still unfurnished
Taylor Room, containing the collection of American fiction
gathered by Mrs. Robert Coleman Taylor, in June 1950.
733. The little collection of college books used by Robert Carter Berkeley
at the University of Virginia between 1857 and 1861 was presented by his
daughter, Frances Berkeley Young (Mrs. Karl Young). Mrs. Young paid for
the bookcase in which the collection is contained.
734. The Cabell family library was presented to the University of Virginia
in 1949 by Hartwell Cabell.
735. Alumni News, vol. 26, no. 7, April 1938, pp. 138, 139. See footnote
732.
736. See pages 24 to 29 of Section II of this history.
737. See pages 77, 78 of Section IV of this history.
738. See page 34 of Reports of the Deans and the Librarian to the President
of the University of Virginia 1949-1950 (mimeographed).
739. Alumni News, vol. 35, no. 4, January 1947, pp. 2, 3.
740. Alumni News, vol. 31, no. 2, November 1942, p. 14.
741. Alumni News, vol. 37, no. 9, June 1949, p. 4.
742. The establishment of a Harry Clemons Publication Fund was revealed in
May 1950 by the appearance of a facsimile of the Peter Jefferson-Joshua
Fry map of Virginia, 1751, published by the Princeton University Press
and accompanied with historical notes on Peter Jefferson by Dumas Malone
and a bibliographical memorandum by Coolie Verner.
743. John Calvin Doolan (1868-1947) was a graduate in 1890 of the University
of Virginia Department of Law and a leading lawyer in Louisville, Kentucky.
His map collection was presented to the University of Virginia by his
widow in 1948. See Board of Alderman Minutes, April 1948.
744. In the Alumni News, vol. 26, no. 10, special Alderman Library issue,
there is on page 221 a statement concerning Mr. McGregor's interest in
cosmography and early geography.
745. The University of Virginia Library was named a depository of the Army
Map Service in 1945. See Board of Aldermen Minutes for November and
December 1945 and January and February 1946.
746. In North Carolina there was a vigorous competitive campaign in manuscript
collecting being waged between Prof. William Kenneth Boyd of Duke
of North Carolina. Both of those collectors were openly making inroads
on privately held material in Virginia.
It is a bit of inside history that a scathing criticism of the
lethargy at the University of Virginia, made by Mr. Herbert Anthony Kellar,
Director of the McCormick Historical Association of Chicago, to a group
assembled in President Alderman's office in 1929, was the immediate stimulus
of the awakening that led to the Thornton broadside. It so happened
that the University Librarian had not been included in that group. But
Mr. Kellar and he had conferences together directly before and directly
after the meeting.
747. Copies of the Thornton broadside are on file in the Rare Book and
Manuscript Division of the Alderman Library.
748. William Mynn Thornton was then Professor of Applied Mathematics. He
retired from active teaching in 1931. He had been Chairman of the Faculty
from 1888 to 1896 and Dean of the Department of Engineering from 1904 to
1925. There is reference to his skilled pen on page 112 of Section V of
this history, in connection with the biographical sketch of James Biscoe
Baker.
749. The signatures were as follows:-
Edwin Anderson Alderman, President of the University.
Cyrus Harding Walker, Rector of the Board of Visitors.
William Mynn Thornton, Professor of Applied Mathematics.
Richard Heath Dabney, Professor of History.
John Calvin Metcalf, Dean of the Graduate School.
Harry Clemons, University Librarian.
750. See page 21 of Section II of this history.
751. See page 37 of Section III of this history.
752. This was monograph number five of the publications of the University
of Virginia Institute for Research in the Social Sciences. It was done
under the direction of Prof. Dumas Malone. The full title was Cappon,
Lester Jesse, Bibliography of Virginia History Since 1865, University,
Virginia, The Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, 1930.
753. Prof. Wilson Gee and the Librarian early in 1930 made application in
Washington to Dr. Waldo Gifford Leland, Director of the American Council
of Learned Societies, and Doctor Leland persuaded Dr. Frederick Paul
Keppel, then President of the Carnegie Corporation, to make the initial
grant of $5,000 for the archival project at the University of Virginia.
See Alumni News, vol. 18, no. 10, June-July 1930, p. 246.
754. For several years after 1930 Professor Gee generously carried Doctor
Cappon's salary on Institute funds. In 1936 Doctor Cappon's Virginia
Newspapers 1821-1935 was published on Institute funds both as Institute
Monograph number twenty-two and as Guide to Virginia Historical Materials,
part one. Doctor Cappon's monograph on the History of the Southern Iron
Industry was, if completed, to be an Institute Monograph.
755. This text is taken largely from "Lester J. Cappon: An Appreciation",
pages 3-8 of General Index to First Fifteen Annual Reports on Historical
Collections, University of Virginia Library, 1931-1945.
756. Doctor Cappon was Secretary of the Society of American Archivists from
1942 to 1950. In the American Association for State and Local History he
was made a Councilor in 1942 and was continuing as such in 1950.
757. Microphotography is a hundred years old. There are said to be examples
of miniature texts photographically reproduced dating from 1852; and there
was some use of the process during the Franco-Prussian War. But the
development into utilization for business and industry and libraries did
not get under way until the 1920's. The current encyclopaedias carry
articles on Microphotography.
758. Alumni News, vol. 19, no. 7, March-April 1931, pp. 151-154. This
article by Doctor Cappon on "Survey and Collection of Manuscripts in
Virginia" is illustrated by a photograph of the southeast wing of the
Rotunda buildings before the Virginia Collection was moved into it. The
article was reprinted as a supplement to The First Annual Report of the
Archivist.
759. The twenty-seven counties which were surveyed are given below, the
dates in parentheses being the dates of survey. The survey of Culpeper
County was made by Dr. W. Edwin Hemphill. The others were by Doctor
Cappon.
Albemarle (1930-31)
Amherst (1932-33)
Augusta (1931-32)
Botetourt (1931-32)
Brunswick (1933-34)
Charlotte (1932-33)
Culpeper (1934-35)
Cumberland (1932-33)
Essex (1930-31)
Fauquier (1932-33)
Frederick (1930-31)
Goochland (1931-32)
Halifax (1933-34)
Isle of Wight (1931-32)
Lancaster (1932-33)
Montgomery (1932-33)
Norfolk (1931-32)
Northampton (1930-31)
Orange (1931-32)
Pittsylvania (1930-31)
Russell (1933-34)
Stafford (1931-32)
Surry (1932-33)
Washington (1931-32)
Westmoreland (1932-33)
Wythe (1930-31)
York (1931-32)
760. See Sixth Annual Report of the Archivist, University of Virginia
Library, page 2.
761. Doctor Cappon was State Director for Virginia of the Historical Records
Survey for 1936-1937. The first volume for Virginia issued under the
national supervision was the inventory of the archives of Chesterfield
County, and this was published by the University of Virginia in August 1938.
762. The manual was issued by the Social Science Research Council in
October 1942 with the title "A Plan for the Collection and Preservation
of World War II Records."
763. Visitors' Minutes, 10 November and 29 December 1945.
764. Doctor Cappon received the B.A. degree in 1922 and the M.A. degree in
1923 from the University of Wisconsin; he received the M.A. degree in 1925
and the Ph.D. degree in 1928 from Harvard.
765. Francis Lewis Berkeley, Jr., received the B.S. degree in 1934 and the
M.A. degree in 1940 from the University of Virginia.
766. Beginning in December 1944 a series of gifts at Christmas time came
from Mr. Clifton Waller Barrett. The majority of the items were books,
but manuscripts were also included. References to that series are as
follows:-
First, 1944. Alumni News, vol. 33, no. 5, February 1945, p. 2; no. 6,
March 1945, p. 6; Board of Aldermen Minutes, January 1945.Second, 1945. Board of Aldermen Minutes, January 1946.
Third, 1946. This gift included a number of literary manuscripts and
papers. Alumni News, vol. 35, no. 5, February 1947, pp. 15, 18;
Board of Aldermen Minutes, January 1947.Fourth, 1947. This included a letter from Jefferson to John Griscom
concerning the building of the University. Board of Aldermen
Minutes, January 1948.Fifth, 1948. Manuscript material was included with this gift. Board
of Aldermen Minutes, January 1949.Sixth, 1949. Board of Aldermen Minutes, January 1950. Mr. Barrett
donated also $1,000 towards the purchase of the Peter Jefferson
Prayer Book and of a manuscript list of articles at Monticello.
Mr. William Andrews Clark presented both books and manuscripts which he
had purchased for the University of Virginia. The books included the presentation
copy to Lafayette of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia.
The manuscripts included Jefferson's specifications for the university
buildings, Jefferson's diplomatic cipher codes, and a group of Jefferson-Cocke
letters.
Mr. William Sobrieski Hildreth presented in 1948 a group of letters
from Jefferson to General Samuel Smith. Alumni News, vol. 36, no. 5,
February 1948, p. 15.
Mr. Robert Coleman Taylor in 1938 presented a group of Jefferson-Cabell
letters for which he paid $3,700. Alumni News, vol. 27, no. 5, February
1939, pp. 35, 36; no. 7, April 1939, pp. 137-139; Visitors' Minutes,
21 January 1939.
767. Mr. Robert Hill Carter in 1947 contributed $150 toward the purchase of
Virginia historical materials. Board of Aldermen Minutes, June 1947.
Col. Joseph M. Hartfield in 1938 joined with Messrs. T. Catesby Jones,
Cazenove Gardner Lee, John Powell, and Robert Coleman Taylor in a contribution
of funds for the purchase of various Jefferson letters. See Alumni
News, vol. 27, no. 3, December 1938, p. 5. In 1949 he donated $220. for
the purchase of a Jefferson letter to Samuel Taylor. Board of Aldermen
Minutes, December 1949.
Mr. T. Catesby Jones joined in the purchase recorded in Alumni News,
vol. 27, no. 3, December 1938, p. 5.
Mr. Cazenove Gardner Lee's contribution in that group action was a
set of fourteen letters written by French officials to Arthur Lee in 1777
and 1780. Mr. Lee also made several other money contributions for the purchase
of Lee family letters.
768. There were 2341 items in The Jefferson Papers of the University of
Virginia: A Calendar, compiled by Constance E. Thurlow & Francis L.
Berkeley, Jr., Charlottesville, University of Virginia Library, 1950.
769. An excellent and much more detailed statement is given by Mr.
Berkeley in his article "The University of Virginia Library" in Autograph
Collectors' Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, winter 1952, pp. 32-37.
770. See that same article by Mr. Berkeley, pages 35, 36.
771. From the effort to locate educational and philanthropic and church
records, for the proposed Guide to Virginia Historical Materials, there
resulted the transfer of a fair number to the Alderman Library. In some
cases, photostat or microfilm copies were made for this Library or for
some other Library in Virginia. Bibliographies of church records, wherever
located, were appended to the fourth, fifth, and seventh Annual Reports
of the Archivist, University of Virginia Library.
772. See supplement (compiled by Mr. Berkeley) to the eighth Annual Report
of the Archivist, University of Virginia Library.
773. The number "over three hundred" comes from a count of the families
listed in the indexes I to XV and XVI to XX of the Annual Reports on
Historical Collections.
774. The introduction to the Thirteenth Annual Report on Historical Collections
gives an exposition of the methods of handling manuscripts at the
University of Virginia Library.
775. Tenth Annual Report of the Archivist, University of Virginia Library,
for the year 1939-40, pages 17, 18.
776. Eleventh Annual Report on Historical Collections, University of Virginia
Library, for the year 1940-41, pages 30, 31, under the heading Hungerford,
William Sumner (1854-1904).
777. The southeast wing was vacated by the School of Romance Languages in
1929 when that School moved to the Romance Pavilion on East Lawn. See
Alumni News, vol. 19, no. 7, March-April 1931, pp. 151-154.
778. Miss Harshbarger was a B.A. of Bridgewater College and an M.A. of the
University of Virginia.
779. For the McGregor Library see the main text which follows; also footnote
732. For the Stone collection see Alumni News, vol. 26, no. 10, Alderman
Library special issue, p. 215.
780. Copies of Mr. McGregor's will and of the indenture and deed of gift of
the McGregor Library are on file in the general office and in the office
of the Rare Book and Manuscript Division of the University of Virginia
Library. These are notable for clear statement of intention and for
avoidance of possibly crippling limitation in means of administration.
781. The address on Tracy W. McGregor which was given by Judge Hulbert on
the occasion of the dedication and opening of the McGregor Room on
14 April 1939 was printed in full in Alumni News, vol. 27, no. 8, pp.
160-162, 169-172, and was afterwards issued as a separate. A much briefer
sketch, abridged and adopted from Judge Hulbert's address, and approved
by him, serves as an introduction to a Description of the Tracy W.
McGregor Library, University of Virginia, which appeared as a folder in
1951. The quotation in the text is taken from the abridged form. The
fuller statement in the address is "a quiet, unassuming Christian gentleman,
with high spiritual attributes, a tower of civic strength, and one
who felt deeply his responsibilities to the community in which he lived."
782. Alumni News, vol. 26, no. 10, Alderman Library special issue, pp. 220221.
783. The expenditures by the Trustees of McGregor Fund for furnishing the
McGregor Room, as recorded in the printed reports issued by the Fund,
were as follows:-
It is not clear whether the Salisbury portrait was a charge against the
1938-1939.
Furnishings of McGregor Room
$26,425.00
1938-1939.
Salisbury portrait
6,000.00
1940
Additional furnishings
315.00
1941
Additional furnishings
295.00
$33,035.00
Fund or a special gift.
784. The grand total of the contributions from the Trustees of McGregor
Fund to July 1950, including the Salisbury portrait, were as follows:-
| Annual grants from July 1938 to July 1950 | $90,000.00 |
| Binding Mather books, 1945 to 1948 | 4,000.00 |
| Furnishings for McGregor Room, 1938-1941 | 33,035.00 |
| Publications ($500 in 1942, $160 in 1949) | 660.00 |
| $127,695.00 |
785. See page 65 of Section IV of this history.
786. Alumni News, vol. 2, no. 5, February 1939, pp. 85, 86; Visitors'
Minutes, 21 January 1939. The bequest establishing the Coles Fund was
for $50,000.00. This was reduced by tax of $2,384.00 to an endowment of
$47,616.00.
787. The group became known as the "Fives Society." It began operations
before the second world war and was then composed of Mr. Wyllie, Professors
Abernethy, Cappon, and Mayo, and the Librarian. After the war the
group was composed of Mr. Wyllie, Curator of the McGregor Library and of
Rare Books, Professors Abernethy, Mayo, and Younger, Miss Savage,
Acquisitions Librarian, Mr. Berkeley, Curator of Manuscripts and University
Archivist, and the Librarian. Monthly meetings were held during the
summer, and to these there were invited Summer Quarter Professors of
American History.
788. Alumni News, vol. 32, no. 2, November 1943, p. 7. This is an article
in appreciation by Dean Metcalf.
789. Alumni News, vol. 32, no. 6, March 1944, p. 7; vol. 34, no. 9, June
1946, p. 7; vol. 37, no. 5, February 1949, p. 8. For a number of years
Mr. Parrish paid for a book a month on South America and later also on
Poland, to be selected and ordered at the Library. He also created an
endowment fund of $1,000 (in two contributions of $500 each) for the
purchase of books on Poland.
790. Alumni News, vol. 36, no. 1, October 1947, p. 11; vol. 37, no. 5,
February 1949, pp. 8, 9.
791. Alumni News, vol. 32, no. 9, June 1944, p. 7; vol. 37, no. 5. February
1949, p. 9.
792. The recommendation that started the fund and led to the School first
appeared in Alumni News, vol. 32, no. 3, December 1943, p. 2, in the form
of an editorial by Branch Spalding, the Editor of the Alumni News.
793. Alumni News, vol. 34, no. 2, November 1945, p. 7; no. 3, December 1945,
pp. 3, 18.
794. See page 157 Section VI, of this history.
795. Alumni News, vol. 32, no. 3, December 1943, p. 12; Board of Aldermen
Minutes, 20 January 1943.
796. For Barnard Shipp's gift, see page 64 of Section IV of this history,
and footnote 263. For the gift from William Elliott Dold, see Alumni
News, vol. 24, no. 5, February 1936, p. 103.
797. Eighteen sessions of the School of Military Government were held at the
University of Virginia between 1942 and 1945. The commandants were, first,
Brigadier General Cornelius Wendell Wickersham and, second, Brigadier
General Edward Raynesford Warner McCabe.
The School of Geography began with the session 1946-1947, with Prof.
Sidman Parmelee Poole as its Chairman.
798. Dr. E. S. C. Handy is the President of Genethnics, Inc. The special
bookplate used for the Far Places Collection was the result of a prize
competition by students of the School of Fine Arts.
799. The grants from the General Education Board had been received as follows,
the total amount being $22,600:-
To Economics, in 1941, $5,000 (Visitors' Minutes, 15 February 1941); in
1943, $5,000 (Visitors' Minutes, 27 March 1943).
To Political Science, in 1937, $3,600 (Visitors' Minutes, 28 January
1938); in 1940, $3,000 (Visitors' Minutes, 24 April 1940).
To Rural Social Economics, during 1939-1940, $3,000; during 1940-1941,
$3,000.
800. Henry Harford Cumming, Jr., was Assistant Professor of Political
Science from 1939 to 1945. He died of infantile paralysis in Italy on
10 July 1945, being at that time Assistant Chief of Staff of the American
Fifth Army Base Section, with the rank of Colonel. (Alumni News, vol. 34,
his widow in 1949.
Bruce Williams was Professor of Political Science from 1920 to 1929.
He died in the summer of 1929. (Alumni News, vol. 18, no. 3, November
1929, pp. 60, 61)
801. William Franklin Willoughby was a graduate of John Hopkins University.
He had been Director of the Institute of Government Research from 1916 to
1932, and it was on retiring from that post that he made his gift to the
University of Virginia. (Visitor's Minutes, 24 March 1933.)
802. The Economics Books Fund amounted during the years 1929 to 1947 to a
total of $1,475.75. See Alumni News, vol. 18, no. 6, Feburary 1930, p. 32;
Visitors' Minutes, 17 March 1931. The record of the contributions by
sessions was as follows:
| 1929-30 | $258.50 | 1933-34 | $133.50 | 1940-41 | $41.50 |
| 1930-31 | 126.00 | 1934-35 | 67.10 | 1942-43 | 5.00 |
| 1931-32 | 357.56 | 1935-36 | 60.00 | 1946-47 | 50.00 |
| 1932-33 | 83.59 | 1939-40 | 23.00 | $1,475.75 |
803. See page 127 of Section VI of this history.
804. For the McKeldin Fund see page 123 of Section VI of this history and
footnote 595. See also Visitors' Minutes, 14 November 1925.
Professor Balz donated in 1950 an endowment fund of $1,000 for the
purchase of books in Philosophy. The income had not become available by
July 1950.
Albert Lefevre was Professor of Philosophy from 1905 until his death
on 18 December 1928. See Alumni News, vol. 17, no. 6, February 1929, p. 143;
vol. 18, no. 3, November 1929, pp. 60, 61.
805. See page of Section VI of this history.
806. Alumni News, vol. 39, no. 1, October 1950, p. 13. The total of the
Metcalf Fund was in 1952 reported as $1,390.50.
807. Visitors' Minutes, 9 June and 14 July 1950. The initial donation by
the members of the Rushton family was $1,000. There is a tribute to
Peters Rushton by Prof. Daniel Silas Norton in Alumni News, vol. 38, no. 4,
January 1950, p. 21.
808. The gift in memory of Asher Hinds was $100, and was given by Professor
Rushton in the session 1948-1949. In the article by Professor Norton
mentioned in the footnote above, Asher Hinds is described as "a brilliant
teacher of criticism on the Princeton Faculty who died young."
809. The gift in memory of Donald Randolph Reed was of $210, in two payments
made in 1945-1946 and in 1947-1948. In the article by Professor
Norton mentioned in footnote 807, Reed is described as "a student under
Peters Rushton... who was killed as a naval aviator." See Visitors'
Minutes, 21 May 1948.
810. The gift from Professor Johnson was of $100, and it was given in the
session of 1947-1948.
811. Alumni News, vol. 35, no. 5, February 1947, p. 18. This is a statement
concerning the O. Henry Collection. Toward that fund Mr. Barrett
gave $100 in 1946-1947 and $250 in 1947-1948. For a general estimate of
Mr. Barrett's donations see Alumni News, vol. 33, no. 5, February 1945,
p. 2, and footnote 766.
812. See page 81 of Section IV of this history.
813. Board of Aldermen Minutes, 6 May 1942. A paper describing the origins
of the Sadleir-Black Collection was read before the University of Virginia
Bibliographical Society on 12 May 1949 by Mr. Robert Kerr Black, and was
later distributed by the Society in mimeographed form.
814. Mr. Linton Reynolds Massey bought and contributed several volumes to
the Sadleir-Black Collection. Mr. Massey has been President of the
University of Virginia Bibliographical Society and a generous supporter of
its publications.
815. See page 80 of Section IV of this history, and footnote 365.
816. Mr. Barrett's most important donations to the Poe collection came after
1950.
817. Alumni News, vol. 24, no. 5, February 1936, p. 108.
818. See footnote 766.
819. Mr. Samuel Merrifield Bemiss succeeded Dr. Robert Baylor Tunstall as
Chairman of the Virginia State Library Board, and Ambassador Alexander
Wilbourne Weddell as President of the Virginia Historical Society. See
The Commonwealth, vol. 20, no. 3, March 1953, p. 20. He presented a number
of valuable books, including certain incunabula, to the University of
Virginia Library in 1950 and later. Alumni News, vol. 39, no. 2, November
1950, p. 11; Visitors' Minutes, 13 October and 10 November 1950.
820. Annual Library Report for 1933-1934, pp. 3, 4. A list of the
Christmas books, special editions printed by John Henry Nash, which were
presented by Mr. William Andrews Clark to the University of Virginia
Library is as follows:-
Shelley, Adonais, 1922.
Poe, Tmberlane and Other Poems, with an Appreciation by James
Southall Wilson, 1923.Wilde, Some Letters... to Alfred Douglas, 1924.
Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard, 1925.
Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1926.
Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, 1927.
Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1928.
Dryden, All for Love, 1929.
Stevenson, Father Damien, 1930.
Gray, Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude, 1933.
821. Alumni News, vol. 38, no. 10, July 1950, pp. 5, 15.
822. Dr. Henry Trautmann was a student at the University from 1912 to
1916, and a graduate of the Department of Medicine. He had been a
student assistant in the University Library, and in grateful memory
donated a score or more of volumes of the Limited Editions Club's publications.
823. This was a cooperative project of which Dr. William Warner Bishop
of the University of Michigan was one of the chief sponsors, the microfilming
being done by Edwards Brothers of Ann Arbor. The other thirteen
libraries which subscribed at the beginning were the Library of Congress,
the Boston, New York, and Toronto Public Libraries, and the Libraries of
Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, Rochester, Michigan, Chicago, Illinois,
Califronia, and Duke Universities. The project was later extended to
books printed before 1640, and it was still in progress in 1950, other
Libraries having joined the original fourteen. At the University of
Virginia gift funds have been used for many of the annual subscriptions,
but not all. See Annual Library Report for 1936-1937, page 2.
824. See page 145 of Section VI of this history.
825. Professors Fraser, Hill, Mellor, and Wood were additions to the Faculty
made possible by the Humanities Fund. After 1935 they were continued on
State funds. Professor Mellor died in 1941. Professor Carrier was
appointed to the Faculty in 1942.
826. Alumni News, vol. 28, no. 3, December 1939, p. 44.
827. A few of Professor Wilson's books came from him by gift, but the
majority were purchased by the Library about 1948.
828. Professor Faulkner's working library in Germanic languages was presented
by him after his retirement in 1944. There are bookplates both
for Professor Wilson's and for Professor Faulkner's books.
829. Visitors' Minutes, 13 December 1946.
830. See page 63 of Section IV of this history.
831. Annual Library Report for 1929, page 8.
832. Visitors' Minutes, 17 November 1931. The books from Professor Peters'
library were donated by his sons, Dr. Don Preston Peters of Lynchburg and
Mr. James White S. Peters of Washington.
833. Alumni News, vol. 37, no. 8, May 1949, p. 10; Visitors' Minutes, 9
June 1950. By June 1950 the amount of the Montgomery Fund was reported as
$608.00, of which $500.00 was designated as endowment.
834. The fund for Professor Webb was raised in 1952, and was reported in
March 1953 to have reached the sum of $1,460.00. The income had of course
not yet become available.
835. Alumni News, vol. 21, no. 7, March-April 1933, p. 152; vol. 32, no. 10,
July 1944, p. 7. Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 25 October 1932.
836. Bruce, vol. I, pp. 35-44.
837. Bruce, vol. I, p. 242.
838. See pages 16-18 of Section II of this history.
839. Section twenty-nine contained material that would be used by a School
of English Literature. But no such School was established until 1882.
840. Bruce, vol. V, p. 152.
841. See page 81, Section IV of this history, and footnote 379.
842. Alumni News, vol. 16, no. 8, April 1928, p. 177; Visitors' Minutes,
25 April 1928.
843. Edmund Schureman Campbell became Professor of Art and Architecture
in 1927. He died in 1950.
844. Arthur Fickenscher became Professor of Music in 1920 and retired in 1941.
845. Fiske Kimball, the first Professor of Art and Architecture, 1919-1922,
started the collection of material on Jefferson as an Architect. Professor
Kimball's Thomas Jefferson Architect had been published in 1916.
846. See page of Section VI of this history, and footnote 741.
847. Board of Aldermen Minutes, 7 July 1948. A special university appropriation
of $7,500, approved by the Governor, was obtained for this purchase,
an equal amount being contributed by Mr. Alexander McKay Smith.
848. Downs, p. 159; Survey, pp. 41, 42.
849. See page 17 of Section II of this history. In the 1783 form of the
Bacon-Jefferson classification there were forty-six specific classes, in
the 1815 form forty-four, and in the 1825 form forty-two.
850. The student-librarian was of course William Wertenbaker. See page 17
of Section II and 92 and 93 of Section V of this history, and footnotes
79 through 83. The Professor of Mathematics was Thomas Hewett Key, and
the Professor of Medicine was Robley Dunglison.
851. Charles Fenton Mercer was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates
in the period of the founding of the University of Virginia. See Bruce,
vol. 1, pp. 86, 89, 90. His "Discourse on Popular Education" was
delivered at Princeton on 26 September 1826.
852. The three works in German were by Poelitz, Richter, and Voss. The
entries in the 1828 catalogue are here quoted, each entry being followed
The 1828 Richter copy survived the Rotunda fire and is still in the
University Library.
"Poelitz, on Education, German, Leipsic, 1824, 4 vols., 8°." (Page
99 of 1828 catalogue.) Poelitz, Karl Heinrich Ludwig. Practisches
Handbuch zur Statarischen und Cursorischen Erklarung der Teutschen
Classiker für Lehrer und Erzieher.
"Richter, (John Paul) on Education, Ger. Stuttgart, 1814, 3 vols., 12°."
Richter, Jean Paul. Lavana oder Erziehlehre.
"Voss, Essay on Education, German, Halle, 1799. 2 vols., 12°."
Voss, Christian Daniel. Versuch über die Erziehung für den Staat.
853. In the University Catalogue for the session of 1919-1920, page 105,
it is stated that Jefferson's proposal for instruction in Architecture was
the earliest in any American university.
854. Bruce, vol. 5, pp. 198-211.
855. See page 78 of Section IV of this history, and footnote 350.
856. Alfred William Erickson donated $3,000 altogether, $1,000 in 1922,
$1,000 in 1923, and $1,000 in 1926. Alumni Bulletin, third series, vol. 16,
no. 3, July 1923, pp. 209, 219; Alumni News, vol. 11, no. 5, December 1922,
p. 109; Visitors' Minutes, 29 November 1922 and 27 April 1926.
857. The Bursar's annual reports record that the educational fraternity
Phi Delta Kappa donated $423 in 1940-1941 and $215 in 1941-1942, a total
of $638.
858. Board of Aldermen Minutes, 18 December 1940; 8 February 1941.
859. Dr. Reaumur Coleman Stearnes was Superintendent of Public Instruction
in Virginia from 1913 to 1918. He died in 1945.
860. Joseph Dupuy Eggleston was Virginia State Superintendent of Public
Instruction from 1906 to 1913, President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute
from 1913 to 1919, and President of Hampden-Sydney College from 1919 to
1939. A doctoral dissertation on Doctor Eggleston as subject was accepted
from Edward Franklin Overton in 1943. Material for this was deposited
in the University of Virginia Library. Doctor Eggleston died in 1953.
861. See footnote 58.
862. The Law Faculty and Alumni developed and maintained the advantage of
separate appropriations for law books. The Visitors' Minutes demonstrate
this in the records of annual budgets. For example, the minutes for 29
June 1882 state book appropriations of $250 for the general library and
$250 for the law library. In the minutes for 13 October 1898 there is a
law library book appropriation of $525, in the minutes for 12 June 1900
a law library appropriation of $500, and in the minutes for 15 June 1904
a law library appropriation of $1,000, while in all three years there was
no appropriation for the general library aside from the income from
endowments — which did not reach $1,000 in those years.
863. See page 51 of Section III and page 84 of Section IV of this history.
864. The Law Library total of volumes reached 100,000 early in 1953.
865. Downs, p. 243.
866. See page 149 of Section VI of this history.
867. Donations by Herbert W. Burdow, begun in 1944-1945, had by 1950
amounted to $1,100.00. Visitors' Minutes, 9 June 1950.
868. The Dancy-Garth endowment fund began in 1935-1936, and by 1950 amounted
to $11,858.33.
869. The endowment fund donated by Thomas Carroll Smith in 1927 amounted to
$10,000. Visitors' Minutes, 22 April 1927; 2 November 1928.
870. The recorded alumni donations for law amounted to $5,559.08, as follows:
1943-1944, $2,142.08; 1944-1945, $2,182.00; 1946-1947, $1,235.00.
871. Visitors' Minutes, 10 September 1948. The amount of the James Gordon
Bohannon bequest was $1,000.
872. Alumni News, vol. 21, no. 5, February 1939, p. 86; Visitors' Minutes,
21 January 1939. The amount of the Memorial Welfare Association grant
was $1,000.
873. Alumni News, vol. 29, no. 5, February 1941, p. 92. The amount of the
H. Dent Minor donation was $10,000.
874. See page 82 of Section IV of this history and footnote 382. The
donations from Minor Inn of Phi Delta Phi reached a total of $1,543.03
in 1937, the amounts being reported as follows:-
1923- $700.00
1926- 143.00
1930 - $200.00
1932 - 200.00
1934 - $250.00
1937 - 50.00
875, Visitors' Minutes, 9 July 1948. There were gifts from the Sigma Nu
Phi law fraternity of $100 for 1947-1948 and of $150 for 1948-1949.
876. There were contributions from Robert Coleman Taylor to the Law Library,
of $2,000 in 1939-1940 and of $370 in 1942-1943. These were apart from
his 1938-1939 contribution of $3,700 for the purchase of manuscripts.
See footnote 766.
877. Visitors' Minutes, 14 September 1942. It was agreed that balances
from the William H. White lectureship fund might be used to establish a
collection on Constitutional Law. The balances (those were war years)
were recorded as follows:
| 1942-43 | $3,617.87 | 1945-46 | $546.00 |
| 1943-44 | 592.00 | 1946-47 | 4.00 |
| 1944-45 | 571.00 | $5,330.87 |
878. Visitors' Minutes, 31 October 1930.
879. Alumni News, vol. 38, no. 6, March 1950, p. 5. Mr. Field secured
for the Law Library a complete set of the Nevada Session Laws.
880. Alumni News, vol. 28, no. 6, March 1940, p. 103. The gift from
Colonel Hartfield consisted of 2,200 volumes, a complete set, of New York
case and statutory laws.
881. Alumni News, vol. 36, no. 9, June 1948, p. 8. This was Mr. Lauck's
private law library of approximately 5,000 volumes, "rich in documents and
periodicals." Board of Aldermen Minutes, 7 April 1948.
882. Visitors' Minutes, 13 June 1932. This gift from the law books of
J. B. and R. C. Minor came from Mrs. Raleigh Colston Minor and her son,
Mr. Charles Venable Minor.
883. Alumni News, vol. 34, no. 8, May 1946, p. 5; vol. 35, no. 5, Febnuary
1947, p. 14; Board of Aldermen Minutes, 1 May 1946. See page 78 of
Section IV of this history and footnote 351 for earlier notices of the
John Bassett Moore Collection on International Law.
884. Visitors' Minutes, 26 September 1941. These came on bequest from
Charles B. Samuels, an attorney of Front Royal, Virginia, and New York City.
885. Alumni News, vol. 15, no. 2, October 1926, p. 36; Visitors' Minutes,
5 November 1926.
886. Alumni News, vol. 30, no. 3, December 1941, p. 56. This gift included
three commissions, signed by Woodrow Wilson, appointing Justice McReynolds
to offices he had held.
887. Alumni News, vol. 29, no. 10, Midsummer 1941, p. 205. These were
donated by Judge Woolsey in honor of Mr. T. Catesby Jones, and included
items by Samuel Chase, Charles Lee, John Marshall, James Monroe, Edmund
Randolph, and George Wythe.
888. Graduate studies in law were first announced for the session of 19451946.
889. See page 59 of Section IV of this history, and footnote 245.
890. University Catalogue, session of 1925-1926, p. 297.
891. Annual Library Reports, for 1930, page 1; for 1931, page 10. The
Henle Collection was purchased in Leipzig. It was "especially rich in
journals and pamphlets."
892. Dr. William James Crittenden's medical books were presented by his
daughter, Mrs. Bess Crittenden Davis of Raccoon Ford, Virginia. She later
became Mrs. Bess Crittenden Johnson of Winston, Virginia.
893. John Staige Davis was Professor of the Practice of Medicine, a member
of the Medical Faculty from 1899 to his retirement in 1928. His medical
books were presented by his children.
894. James Carroll Flippen was a member of the University's Medical Faculty
from 1902 until his death in 1939. From 1924 to 1929 he was Dean of the
Department of Medicine.
895. William Hall Goodwin was a member of the University's Medical Faculty
from 1910 until his death in 1937.
896. Board of Visitors, 15 April 1932.
897. The medical books of Dr. Rudolf Weiser Holmes were presented by him
and by Mrs. Holmes (Maria Baxter Holmes) as memorials to their mothers,
Paula Weiser Holmes and Sarah Moore Baxter.
898. Alumni News, vol. 24, no. 5, February 1936, p. 103. This gift was a
set of The Military Surgeon, of which General Kean had for a time been
editor.
899. David Russell Lyman had since 1903 been Medical Superintendent of the
Gaylord Farm Sanatorium, Wallingford, Connecticut.
900. Kenneth Fuller Maxcy was Professor of Public Health and Primitive
Medicine at the University of Virginia from 1929 to 1936.
901. Henry Bearden Mulholland has been a member of the Medical Faculty at
the University of Virginia since 1922.
902. John Henry Neff was a member of the University of Virginia Medical
Faculty from 1917 until his death in 1938.
903. Marshall John Payne was an alumnus of the University of Virginia and
a physician in Staunton, Virginia. His medical books were given by his
son.
904. Lawrence Thomas Royster was Professor of Pediatrics at the University
from 1923 to 1942. He presented his books on Pediatrics at the time of
his retirement; all his library came to the University of Virginia after
his death in 1953.
905. Visitors' Minutes, 15 April 1932.
906. Visitors' Minutes, 27 January 1940; 28 January 1942; 23 Secember 1944,
The amounts donated were $10,000 in 1940, $5,000 in 1942, $5,000 in 1944,
$9,157 in 1950 making a total of $29,157.00.
907. Visitors' Minutes, 27 January, 24 April 1940. The amounts donated
were $13,432.43 in 1940, $29,993.95 in 1944, and $16.56 in 1945, a total
of $43,443.14.
908. Visitors' Minutes, 10 March 1950.
909. From 1937 to 1950 the contributions of the general Medical Alumni
(entered in Bursar's reports as Alderman Medical) amounted to $9, 452.18.
The record by sessions was as follows:
| 1937-38 | 18.00 | 1941-42 | $1,676.05 | 1946-47 | $1,321.05 |
| 1938-39 | 184.00 | 1942-43 | 769.25 | 1947-48 | 100.95 |
| 1939-40 | 1,057.50 | 1943-44 | 1,363.00 | 1948-49 | 104.50 |
| 1940-41 | 1,369.38 | 1944-45 | 1,488.50 | $9,452,18 |
910. In the same period, 1937 to 1950, the contributions of the New York
Medical Alumni (not included in the amounts given in footnote 909) amounted
to $1,900.50, and were recorded by sessions as follows:
| 1937-38 | $66.00 | 1943-44 | $200.00 |
| 1938-39 | 128.50 | 1945-46 | 100.00 |
| 1939-40 | 600.00 | 1946-47 | 406.00 |
| 1940-41 | 260.00 | 1949-50 | 100.00 |
| 1941-42 | 40.00 | $1,900.50 |
See Alumni News, vol. 27, no. 2, November 1938, p. 34; Visitors' Minutes,
9 June 1950.
911. Miss Addie Cintra Cox contributed $1,000 in 1943-1944.
912. Board of Aldermen Minutes, 4 January 1939. Dr. W. Dan Haden contributed,
through Dr. D. C. Smith, the sum of $565 for the purchase for the Medical
Library of a set of twenty-three volumes bound in forty-one. The cost was
$540 plus $25 for transportation.
913. Board of Aldermen Minutes, 7 December 1949. The donations from Dr.
Francis Henry McGovern of Danville were $500 for 1944-1945 and $250 for
1949-1950.
914. Visitors' Minutes, 12 November 1948. The contribution from Dr.
Frederick Henry Wilke was of $200.
915. See page 83 of Section IV of this history. Downs, page 267, and
Survey, page 76, give the situation midway of this period.
916. See page 65 and 83 of Section IV of this history, Downs, page 264,
states that "The most notable astronomy library in the southern states
is at the University of Virginia." A detailed statement of the condition
of the astronomy collection in 1936-1937 is given in Survey, pages 73 and
74.
917. Alumni News, vol. 31, no. 9, June 1943, pp. 2, 3, 14; Visitors'
Minutes, 7 November 1934. Number seven of the University of Virginia
Bibliographical Series was a Catalogue of the Adolph Lomb Optical Library
at the University of Virginia, with Introduction by James P. C. Southall.
918. Board of Aldermen Minutes, 16 November 1938.
919. Alumni News, vol. 33, no. 8, May 1945, p. 9; no. 9, June 1945, p. 7;
no. 10, July 1945, p. 8. The contributions to the fund for purchasing
additions to the Lomb Library were made by Lincoln Milton Poland, Anchor
Company. Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company, May Oil Burner Corporation,
Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, Richard Blackburn Tucker, Zenith
Optical Company. The amount contributed was $1,100.00
920. Alumni News, vol. 21, no. 7, March-April 1933, pp. 152, 153; Faculty
Library Committee Minutes, 25 October 1932; Visitors' Minutes, 27 March
and 9 June 1943. A biographical sketch of Joseph Harvey Riley by Alexander
Wetmore was published in The Auk, vol. 60, January 1943. An unusually
full run of The Auk was among the books given by Mr. Riley, and a permanent
subscription for the University Library was after his death placed by one
of his sisters, Kathleen Maude Gage (Mrs. Charles Ellsworth Gage). By
his will, Joseph Harvey Riley's home at Falls Church and 8.312 acres of
surrounding real estate will eventually become the property of the University
of Virginia, the proceeds to be used as the nucleus of a fund to found
a School and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.
921. Alumni News, vol. 37, no. 10, July 1949, p. 9. For the Darwin collection
the cost was apparently $25,000, this contribution coming from an
anonymous donor.
922. The contribution from Mr. Welles was of $200, and was given in the
session of 1938-39.
923. The work at Blandy Farm started in 1927, at Mountain Lake in 1930, and
at the Seward Forest in 1941.
924. Beginning in the summer of 1948, Miss Marjorie Dunham Carver spent
several weeks each June and July in organizing the pamphlet collection at
Mountain Lake.
925. Alumni News, vol. 23, no. 4, January 1935, p. 91; Visitors' Minutes,
12 January 1935.
926. The figure 17,079 is from the 1950 table of Size of Collections.
927. The alumni contributions for Engineering from 1940 to 1949 amounted to
$1,864.34. The record was as follows:-
| 1940-41 | $4.34 | 1945-46 | $267.00 |
| 1942-43 | 162.50 | 1946-47 | 488.00 |
| 1943-44 | 194.00 | 1948-49 | 5.00 |
| 1944-45 | 743.50 | $1,864.34 |
928. Alumni News, vol. 33, no. 10, July 1945, p. 8; Visitors' Minutes, 14
January 1949. There were two gifts, $2,500 in 1945 and $1,500 in 1949.
By agreement with the donor, a portion of each year's income is to be added
to the principal.
929. See page 81 of Section IV of this history.
930. Alumni News, vol. 38, no. 7, April 1950, p. 5; Visitors' Minutes, 13.
October 1950.
931. The Streeter Collection became almost immediately useful in connection
925A. Bruce, vol. 4, pp. 63-69.
925B. Bruce, vol. 5, pp. 86-103.
925C. Abernethy, p. 41.
925D. Abernethy, p. 42; Alumni News, vol. 32, no. 9, June 1944, pp. 8, 9, 19.
925E. Doctor Quenzel held B.S. (1931) and M.A. (1933) degrees from the
University of West Virginia, a Ph.D. degree (1938) from the University of
Wisconsin, and a B.S. in Library Science (1940) from the University of
Illinois. At the end of the first session as a coordinate college, 19441945,
there was reported for Mary Washington College a total of 45,000
volumes; at the end of the 1949-1950 session the total was 80,016 volumes —
an extraordinary growth in five years. The figures are from Statistics
of Virginia Public Libraries issued yearly by the Extension Division of
the Virginia State Library.
with certain Southern Railway investigations conducted by Mr. Charles
W. Davison.
932. The text used on the bookplate was composed by Mr. Robert B. Tunstall
of the Alumni Board of Trustees.
933. To reach the number "a score or so" the following names (of donors
or of subjects) may be suggested: Barrett, Byrd, Coles, Glass, Hertz,
Ingram, Jefferson, T. Catesby Jones, Lomb, McGregor, Madison, McKay-Smith,
John Bassett Moore, Randolph, Sadleir-Black, Stettinius, Stone, Streeter,
Taylor, Victorius.
934. The most detailed record concerning the "Farmington Plan" is to be
found in the minutes from about 1942 of the Association of Research
Libraries. The immediate connection of the University of Virginia Library
is noted in Faculty Library Committee Minutes for 13 December 1944 and
31 January 1945.
935. The University of Virginia's sole assignment under the "Farmington
Plan" was the History of Poland.
936. See page 129 of Section VI of this history.
937. See page 131 of Section VI of this history.
6. THE STAFF
938. See footnote 592 for a list of the seven full time members. The student
assistant was Charles Louis Knight, a graduate student in Economics.
939. The figures for the end of June 1950 were from the statistics prepared
at the general office in the Library and supplied to Princeton and
Louisiana State Universities and to the Virginia State Library. Of the
sixty-six full time members of the staff, twenty-six were of professional
status. Of the firty-five student assistants, twenty-four were employed
at the general library, ten at the Engineering Library, eight at the Law
Library, and three at the Medical Library.
940. The heads of divisions at the Alderman Library who had received
appointment during 1925-1950 were Miss Savage, Acquisitions; Miss Land,
Circulation; Mr. Dalton, Reference; Mr. Berkeley, Manuscripts; Mr. Wyllie,
Rare Books.
941. See pages 125, 143, and 144 of Section VI of this history.
942. See page 145 of Section VI of this history.
943. During the peak year, 1940-1941, there were fourteen projects at the
Alderman Library and twelve in other Libraries. A list follows, the
Directors being designated for the projects at the Alderman Library.
| Acquisitions Division | Miss Savage |
| Archival Section | Dr. Cappon |
| Circulation Division | Miss Land |
| Document Collection | Miss Smith |
| Duplicates Collection | Miss Dinwiddie |
| Extension Service | Miss Copps |
| General Office | Mr. Clemons |
| National Catalogues | Miss Digges |
| Newspaper Collection | Dr. Hoyt |
| Preparations Division | Miss Deane |
| Rare Books Division | Mr. Wyllie |
| Reference Division | Mr. Dalton |
| Reserved Book Room | Miss Cox |
| Serials Section | Mrs. Driscoll |
Blandy Farm Library
Chemistry Library
Engineering Library
Fine Arts Library
Geology Library
Law Library
Mathematics Library
Medical Library
Music Library
Public Administration Library
Rural Social Economics Library
Vocational Guidance Library
Federal Relief Staff Projects in Other University Libraries,
1940-1941.
944. Records are given in detail in the Annual Library Reports for the
session from 1933 to 1943. The summary by sessions is as follows:
| Session | Number of Persons | Hours Worked | Wages |
| 1933-1934 | 108 | 17,678 | $7,378.19 |
| 1934-1935 | 87 | 23,555 | 9,521.00 |
| 1935-1936 | 131 | 28,949½ | 11,768.21 |
| 1936-1937 | 87 | 24,308 | 9,965.23 |
| 1937-1938 | 116 | 27,312½ | 10,801.31 |
| 1938-1939 | 143 | 36,697 | 14,406.73 |
| 1939-1940 | 140 | 37,770 | 14,862.77 |
| 1940-1941 | 156 | 50,673½ | 21,232.10 |
| 1941-1942 | 105 | 25,747 | 10,999.68 |
| 1942-1943 | 46 | 4,390½ | 1,794.90 |
| Totals | 1,119 | 277,081 | $112,730.12 |
945. The Virginia Certification Law is stated in section 363 of Chapter 84
of the Arts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia in
the session which commenced 8 January 1936. Three "Service and
Explanatory Announcements" were issued by the State Board for the Certification
of Librarians, dated respectively 15 December 1936, 15 October
1937, and 3 January 1939.
946. Mr. Clemons was a member of the Certification Board from 1936 to
1948, Mr. Dalton from 1948 on.
947. The Virginia Personnel Act is stated in chapter 370 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the session
which commenced 14 January 1942.
948. See page 153 of Section VI of this history.
949. There are standardization problems for example when positions like
that of Circulation Librarian are compared for Sweet Briar College, the
State Library, and the University of Virginia.
950. The "widespread impression" concerning the Staff at the University
of Virginia Library is only in part based on documentary evidence, such
as the letters received by the Faculty Library Committee in 1950 from
some twenty or thirty Librarians who were consulted concerning a successor
to Mr. Clemons. It is in part based on conversations with visitors
to the Alderman Library, or with Librarians met by Mr. Dalton in the
latter's 1949 and 1950 visits to leading American libraries.
951. The Reference Division was started in 1929 by the appointment of Mr.
Wyllie as Assistant Reference Librarian. The Rare Book and Manuscript
Division was formally started in 1938, in this case also Mr. Wyllie being
the first head, as Director. The Virginia Collection which had been
organized in 1928 was, however, a predecessor of the Rare Book and Manuscript
Division. Of this Miss Harshbarger was the first head, followed
by Mr. Wyllie.
952. The first meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held on 28 September
1938. Beginning with 6 October 1943 the meetings were held monthly.
953. Biographical data concerning Miss Farmer were obtained from the files
in the office of the Department of Law. Details concerning the others
were found in the files of the general office of the Alderman Library.
Filed under the heading "McGregor Library, Curator Biographies," are somewhat
fuller sketches of Miss Savage, Mr. Berkeley, and Mr. Wyllie. These
were prepared at the request of the McGregor Advisory Committee. There
are data concerning twelve of the fourteen (omitting Miss Farmer and
Miss Koiner) in Who's Who in Library Service, edited by C. C. Williamson
and Alice L. Jewett, Second Edition, New York, The H. W. Wilson Company,
1943.
954. See pages 149 and 150 of Section VI of this history.
955. See page 84 of Section IV and page 149 of Section VI of this history.
956. See page 142 of Section VI of this history. Just prior to the
removal of the Medical Library to the new medical buildings in June 1929,
the Medical Librarian had been Mrs. Ella Watson Johnson. Slightly fuller
data for the nine Medical Librarians who followed are given below:-
1929, June to September. Margaret Otto (Mrs. Paul Otto). Her husband
was an Assistant Professor of Physical Education at the University.1929-1931. Anne Ashhurst Gwathmey (Mrs. George Tayloe Gwathmey, Jr.).
Her husband was a medical student who left Charlottesville after taking
his doctor of medicine degree.1931-1934. Caroline Hill Davis. Miss Davis had been a member of the
Reference Division at the Columbia University Library. In 1934 she
suffered a stroke and had to resign.1934, March to June. Dora Mitchell Browning (Mrs. Henry Paul Browning).
Her husband was a medical student who left Charlottesville after taking
his doctor of medicine degree.1934-1936. Miriam Thomas Buchanan (Mrs. Scott Buchanan). Her husband
was a Professor of Philosophy at the University who resigned to become
Dean of St. John's University at Annapolis.1936-1943. Anne Lewis Morris (Mrs. Francis Johnson Duke). Her husband
is an Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at the University.1943-1944. Mary Elizabeth Mayo (Mrs. Frank Wilson Shaffer). Her husband
is a clergyman in Pennsylvania.1944-1947. Mabel Cook Wyllie (Mrs. Douglas Wyllie). Her husband is
a business man living in Scotland.1947- Elizabeth Frances Adkins.
957. Action was taken by the Faculty Library Committee on 9 February 1928
permitting extension loans as a part of this cooperation, for which Mr.
George Willard Eustler, Associate Director of the Extension Division, was
the active agent. Reports on the progress and extent of this service by
the University of Virginia appears in successive Annual Library Reports.
958. See pages 73, 74 of Section IV of this history.
959. In addition to the data concerning Miss Dinwiddie in Who's who in
Library Service, there are sketches of her career in Alumni News, vol. 38,
no. 9, June 1950, pp. 9, 16, and in College and Research Libraries, vol.
11, no. 4, October 1950, p. 387.
960. See page 153 of Section VI of this history.
961. The expert Cataloguer who was in 1937 retiring from the Staff of the
Library of Congress was Miss Jessie McLeish Watson. Details of the
incident can be found, under her name, in the general office files.
962. The files in the general office and in the Preparations Division contain
a really appalling amount of correspondence with the Library of
Congress over classification details.
963. The first edition of the Union List of Serials was published in 1927.
To it there were added Supplements dated 1931 and 1933. It was for these
that contributions from the University of Virginia Library began. The
great second edition, bringing the record down to 1940, was issued in 1943.
Two supplements, the first coverning the years 1941 to 1943 and the second
the years from 1944 to 1949, have been in progress since then.
964. The General Chairman of the Centennial Committee was Dr. John Lloyd
Newcomb, See page 85 of Section IV of this history.
965. See page 146 of Section VI of this history.
966. See page 177 of Section VI of this history.
967. Miss Lucy Clark was for the years 1948 to 1950 one of the four members
elected to the Council of the University of Virginia Bibliographical
Society.
968. Miss Koiner and Miss Byrd ranked respectively first and second in the
certification examinations for 1947.
969. Miss Land received A's in all her courses at the University of Michigan
and was the sole member of the Library Science group to be elected to the
honorary scholastic society of Phi Kappa Phi.
967A. Miss Bertha Cornelia Deane was Acting Head of the Acquisitions
Division in 1932-1933. In 1950 she was a Cataloguer in the Preparations
Division.
968. Miss Koiner and Miss Byrd ranked respectively first and second in the
state certification examinations for 1947.
968A. Miss Virginia Cloud Jacobs was Assistant for Circulation in 19271928
and was in charge of the Circulation Division for 1928 to 1934.
In 1950 she was living in New York City.
968B. Miss Elizabeth Dillard Waterman was Assistant for Circulation 19381941
and 1943-1947. During the session of 1941-1942 she studied Library
Science at Columbia University, she was acting head of the Circulation
Division during the absence of Miss Land in 1942-1943, in June 1947 she
received an M.A. degree from the University of Virginia, and later that
year she married Mr. Robert Hunt Land, Librarian of the College of William
and Mary.
969. Miss Land received A's in all her courses at the University of Michigan
and was the sole member of the Library Science group to be elected to
the honorary scholastic society of Phi Kappa Phi.
970. Mr. Dalton took his B.S. degree in 1930 and his M.S. degree in 1935.
His graduate work was mainly in English.
971. Mr. Church was Assistant Reference Librarian at the University of
Virginia during 1933-1934, Assistant State Librarian 1934-1936, and State
Librarian from 1947.
971A. Mr. Anthony Vincent Shea, Jr., was Acting Assistant Reference
Librarian during the session of 1935-1936. In 1950 he was Vincent Shea,
University Bursar, Assistant to the President, and Secretary of the
Board of Visitors.
972. In 1930 Dr. Lester J. Cappon was appointed as a member of the Library
Staff, but it was understood that his title was University Archivist.
This title, with the alternate title of University Records Administrator,
was officially recognized by the State in 1949, after Mr. Lloyd S.
Myer, State Records Administrator, had had surveys made of the records
of state institutions by the Washington firm of Records Engineering,
Inc. In 1949, therefore, Mr. Berkeley officially became University
Archivist or University Records Administrator.
973. See page 161 of Section VI of this history.
974. The following is Mr. Berkeley's statement in the McGregor Library
Curator Biographies: "Employed at Okinawa principally in making smoke
screens to protect various battleships. Also shot down one Kamikaze
plane... Sailed without damage, with my Task Unit, through the center of
the Fifth of June Typhoon, adjacent to Admiral Halsey's Task Force, which
on this occasion suffered more damage than in any engagement of the war."
See The Caine Mutiny for a vivid story of a vessel not under Lieutenant
Berkeley's command!
975. The promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Commander came in 1953.
976. See page 180 of Section VI of this history.
977. The use of the title Assistant Reference Librarian was a bit of salary
strategy. It was hoped that when the title Reference Librarian came to
be used, the salary could be advanced.
978. Alumni News, vol. 22, no. 2, November 1933, p. 37.
979. Alumni News, vol. 30, no. 5, February 1942, p. 106; no. 10, August 1942,
pp. 27, 28; vol. 31, no. 1, October 1942, p. 22; no. 6, March 1943, p. 15;
vol. 33, no. 3, December 1944, pp. 11, 12; no. 5, February 1945, p. 5. Mr.
Wyllie began with the American Field Service under British command in North
Africa. He there rose from private to lieutenant. He next served with
the American forces in Burma. He had again enlisted as a private and had
again been promoted to commissioned rank. He was finally attached to the
Chinese army as an American liaison officer.
980. Alumni News, vol. 37, no. 2, November 1948, p. 5.
981. This citation was read by President Darden at the Class Day Exercises
in 1948.
982. The Staff Association's committee roster for the years from 1942 to
1950 is as follows:
| 1942-1944 | Jack Dalton, Chairman Lucy Clark Louise Savage Bertha Deane, Treasurer |
| 1944-1945 | Roy Land, Chairman Grigsby Bailey Marjorie Carver Mary Culbertson, Treasurer |
| 1945-1946 | Alicia Flynn, Chairman Polly Brooks Virginia Earhart Bess L. Eager, Treasurer |
| 1946-1947 | Nora Fraser, Chairman Ruth Byrd Evelyn Dollens Bess L. Eager, Treasurer |
| 1947-1948 | Clarice Snead, Chairman Francis Berkeley Katherine Beville Bess L. Eager, Treasurer |
| 1948-1949 | Ella Frances Smith, Chairman Mabel Talley, Secretary Helena Koiner Elizabeth Pleasants, Treasurer |
| 1949-1950 | Muriel Hill, Chairman Emma Digges, Secretary Charles E. Moran, Jr. Violet Dollens, Treasurer |
983. See page 72 of Section IV and page 118 of Section V of this history.
984. Annual Library Report for 1929, pp. 9, 10.
985. Annual Library Report for 1930, p. 10: Faculty Library Committee
Minutes 1 May, 4 November 1930, 21 April 1931; Virginia Libraries (published
by the Virginia State Library), vol. 4, no. 1-2, April-July 1931, p. 35.
986. Annual Library Reports, for 1931, p. 12; for 1932, p. 14; for 1933,
p. 15; for 1942-43, p. 18. These library science courses were credited by
the Southern Association on 20 May 1933.
987. There had been a degree conferring School started at the College of
William and Mary, but that also was a war victim.
988. Records of the summer quarter, extension, and Mary Baldwin College
Courses in Library Science are given in the Annual Library Reports. Of
the extension courses there were in 1935-1936 two in Charlottesville, both
given by Miss Dinwiddie; in 1936-1937 there were two in Charlottesville
by Miss Dinwiddie; in 1937-1938 there were one in Charlottesville and
two in Ashland, all given by Miss Savage.
7. PHASES OF THE LIBRARY SERVICE
989. See page 160, Section VI, of this history.
990. See, for examples, page 7 in Section I and page 16 in Section II of
this history.
991. During the session 1949-1950 the regular schedules of open hours per
week called for ninety-eight for the Alderman Library, eighty-eight for
the Engineering Library, 108½ for the Law Library, and ninety-seven for
the Medical Library.
992. The proverb is familiar, but its origin is apparently not known. See
Putnam's Complete Book of Quotations, p. 851b.
993. Faculty Library Committee Minutes for 13 December 1944.
994. "And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain."
King James version of Matthew 5:41.
995. Alumni News, vol. 37, no. 9, June 1947, p. 4.
996. From about 1948 on the subjects of exhibitions were regularly reported
to the Board of Aldermen and are listed in the minutes of that Board.
The same is true of the special class meetings held in the McGregor Room,
for which exhibition material was prepared.
997. There had been fifteen McGregor Seminars held up to July 1950. A
list of the dates, subjects, and speakers follows:-
1. 5 December 1946. The Poetry of William Butler Yeats, by Donald
A. Stauffer, Professor of English, Princeton University.2. 16 January 1947. The Work of James Joyce, by Edwin Berry Burgum,
Professor of English, New York University.3. 21 March 1947. The Poetry of T. S. Eliot, by Willard Thorp, Professor
of English, Princeton University.4. 16 May 1947. The Poetry of W. H. Auden, by Theodore Spencer, Professor
of English at Harvard University.5. 31 October 1947. Poetry in the Age of Anxiety, by Cleanth Brooks,
Professor of English at Yale University.6. 27 February 1948. Poetry and Freedom, by W. H. Auden, English poet.
7. 2 April 1948. Literature and Ideas, by René Wellek, Professor of
Comparative Literature, Yale University.8. 7 May 1948. The Work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, by Arthur Mizener,
Professor of English, Carleton College.9. 5 November 1948. The Value of Literary Study Today, by Basil Willey,
Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University.10. 18 February 1949. Some Theological Aspects of Contemporary Poetry,
by A. T. Mollegen, Professor of Christian Ethics, Theological
Seminary, Alexandria.11. 21 April 1949. Modern Poetry in the Modern World, by Stephan Spender,
English poet and critic.12. 6 May 1949. William Faulkner's Legend of the South, by Malcolm
Cowley, American critic.13. 18 November 1949. Freudianism in Contemporary Literature, by Lionel
Trilling, Professor of American Literature, Columbia University.14. 3 March 1950. The Lion and the Honeycomb, by R. P. Blackmur,
Professor of English, Princeton University.15. 5 May 1950. The Use of Metaphor in Prose Fiction, by Caroline
Gordon, author, and Lecturer at Columbia University.
998. Board of Aldermen Minutes, 6 November 1946 and 5 March 1947. The
initial meeting of the University of Virginia Bibliographical Society was
held in the McGregor Room on 12 October 1946, at which Dr. Chalmers L.
Gemmill read a paper on John Baskerville. The Society was formally
organized at a meeting on 26 February 1947, at which a Constitution was
adopted and the following officers were elected: President, Dr. Chalmers
L. Gemill; Vice-President, Dr. Fredson T. Bowers; Secretary-Treasurer,
Mr. John C. Wyllie; Councillors, Miss Lucy T. Clark, Mr. Linton R.
Massey, Mr. Charles W. Smith, and Dr. Hugh M. Spencer. Lists of the
"Papers which have been read before the Bibliographical Society" are
given in the Studies in Bibliography, vol. I, p. 206, vol. II, p. 212, vol.
III, p. 305.
999. Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society, vol. I, pp. 40-42.
The Society developed from a meeting held in the office of the Archivist
in the Alderman Library on 23 February 1940. An organization meeting was
held in the Court House on 4 April 1940, and the first regular meeting,
also at the Court House, convened on 23 May 1940. The first officers
were: President, Mr. Henry B. Goodloe; Vice-President, Mrs. C. Nelson
Beck; Secretary, Mr. Glenn Curtis Smith; Treasurer, Dr. Atcheson L. Hench;
Editor, Dr. Lester J. Cappon; Executive Council, the five officers and
Mrs. James C. Bardin and Mr. L. Gordon White; and Archivist, Mr. Francis
L. Berkeley, Jr.
1000. The Studies in Bibliography supplied a much needed outlet for research
in bibliography; and the excellent quality of the papers, of the editorial
work, and of the printing won quick recognition both in the United States
and in Great Britain.
1001. The Virginia World War II History Commission was created by act of
the General Assembly in 1944, and was organized in October of that year.
Dr. Lester J. Cappon was the first Director, and headquarters were established
at the Alderman Library. Dr. W. Edwin Hemphill was Assistant
Director, and followed Doctor Cappon as Director in 1945. See Papers of
the Albemarle County Historical Society, vol. V, p. 81. Mr. Rachal was a
member of the headquarters staff.
There is a record of the meetings of the Albemarle
County Historical Society in the section "Historical
Notes" in the first five volumes of the Papers of the
Albemarle County Historical Society.
1002. The Reading Guide was started in 1946, and five volumes had been
issued by 1950. Its distribtuion was free.
1003. Of the twenty annual reports from 1930 to 1950, the first ten bore
the title Annual Reports of the Archivist, University of Virginia Library,
and the second ten the title Annual Reports on Historical Collections,
University of Virginia Library. Of the whole series of twenty, Doctor
Cappon compiled the first fifteen with the exception of the ninth, which
was the work of Dr. W. Edwin Hemphill, and Mr. Berkeley compiled the last
five. The sixteenth and seventeenth were issued in one volume and the
eighteenth and nineteenth in one volume.
Doctor Cappon's introductions to the fourteen reports which he compiled
give statements of the original planning, details of survey and collecting
activities, year by year records of the expansion of archival
undertakings throughout the nation, a manual for collectors (fourteenth
and fifteenth reports), and a description of the method of handling manuscripts
in the Alderman Library (thirteenth report).
In supplements to some of the earlier reports were contributions towards
the guide to Virginia historical materials. There were, for example,
"Parish Records of the Diocese of Virginia, 1653-1900" (compiled by Doctor
Cappon and published as an appendix to the fourth annual report), "Parish
Records of the Diocese of Southern and of Southwestern Virginia, 1648-1900"
(compiled by Dr. W. Edwin Hemphill for the fifth annual report), a
"Bibliography of the Unprinted Official Records of the University of
Virginia" (compiled by Doctor Hemphill for the sixth annual report), a
"Bibliography of Original Baptist Church Records in the Virginia Baptist
Historical Society, University of Richmond" (compiled by Doctor Cappon for
the seventh annual report), a "Checklist of Bound Business Records in the
Manuscript Collections of the University of Virginia Library" (compiled by
Mr. Francis L. Berkeley, Jr., for the eighth annual report), and a "Checklist
of Newspapers to 1821 in the Alderman Library, University of Virginia"
(compiled by Dr. Glenn Curtis Smith for the ninth annual report).
1004. The nine numbers (to July 1950) of the University of Virginia Bibliographical
Series were as follows:
1. A Survey of Research Materials in Virginia Libraries, 1936-37. Compiled
by Harry Clemons... with the cooperation of many Virginia Librarians.
Charlottesville, Alderman Library, 1941. Printed at the University of
Virginia Press.2. Annotated Geological Bibliography of Virginia. Compiled by Joseph
Kent Roberts... Charlottesville, Alderman Library; Richmond, The Dietz
Press, 1942.3. Early English Books at the University of Virginia: A Short-Title
Catalogue compiled by C. William Miller... Charlottesville, Alderman
Library, 1941. Printed at the Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company,
Roanoke, Virginia.4. Check List of Letters to and from Poe. Compiled by John Ward Ostrom...
Charlottesville, Alderman Library, 1941. Issued in mimeographed form.5. New Market, Virginia, Imprints, 1806-1876. A Check List. Edited by
Lester J. Cappon and Ira V. Brown... with the Cooperation of the
Historical Records Survey... Charlottesville, Alderman Library, 1942.
Printed at the University of Virginia Press.6. 1828 Catalogue of the Library of the University of Virginia. Reproduced
in Facsimile with an Introduction by William Harwood Peden...
Charlottesville, Alderman Library, 1945. Lithoprinted by Edwards
Brothers, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan.7. Catalogue of the Adolph Lomb Optical Library at the University of
Virginia, with an Introduction by James P. C. Southall... Charlottesville,
Alderman Library, 1947. Lithoprinted by Edwards Brothers, Inc., Ann
Arbor, Michigan.8. The Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia. A Calendar compiled
by Constance E. Thurlow & Francis L. Berkeley, Jr. With an
appended Essay by Helen D. Bullock on the Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
Charlottesville, University of Virginia Library, 1950 (Published with
assistance from the Research Council of the Richmond Area University
Center.)9. The Papers of Randolph of Roanoke: A Preliminary Checklist of his
Surviving Texts in Manuscript and in Print. By William E. Stokes, Jr.,
and Francis L. Berkeley, Jr. Charlottesville, University of Virginia
Library, 1950. (Published with assistance from the Research Council of
the Richmond Area University Center.)
1005. The eight publications which by 1950 had been issued by the Tracy W.
McGregor Library are listed below. The presses which performed the printing
are indicated.
Dunmore's Proclamation of Emancipation. With an Invitation to the McGregor
Library [by John Cook Wyllie] & An Account by Francis Berkeley of the
Publication of the Proclamation. Charlottesville, Tracy W. McGregor
Library, 1941. Printed at the Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company,
Roanoke, Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson and his Unknown Brother Randolph. Twenty-eight letters
exchanged between Thomas and Randolph Jefferson... during the years 1807
to 1815... together with an Introduction by Bernard Mayo [Professor of
American History at the University of Virginia]. Charlottesville, Tracy
W. McGregor Library, 1942. Printed at the Stone Printing and Manufacturing
Company, Roanoke, Virginia.
More News from Virginia: A Further Account of Bacon's Rebellion.
Reproduced in Facsimile with an Introduction by Thomas Perkins Abernethy
[Professor of American History at the University of Virginia]. Charlottesville,
Tracy W. McGregor Library, 1943. Printed at the Stone Printing and
Manufacturing Company, Roanoke, Virginia.
A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina On the Coasts of Floreda.
Reproduced in Facsimile with an Introduction by John Tate Lanning [Professor
of History at Duke University]. Charlottesville, Tracy W. McGregor
Library, 1944. Printed at the Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company,
Roanoke, Virginia.
Iron Works at Tuball: Terms and Conditions for their Lease as stated by
Alexander Spotswood on the twentieth day of July 1739. Together with an
Historical Introduction by Lester J. Cappon of the University of Virginia,
and a Map of Virginia showing Germanna in 1738. Charlottesville, Tracy W.
McGregor Library, 1945. Printed at the Stone Printing and Manufacturing
Company.
By the King: A Proclamation for Setling the Plantation in Virginia.
With an Introduction by Thomas Cary Johnson, Junior. [Professor of
History at the University of Virginia] and an Essay on the Printing of
the Proclamation by John Cook Wyllie. Charlottesville, Tracy W. McGregor
Library, 1946. Printed by the Dietz Printing Company of Richmond, Virginia.
A Plea for Federal Union, North Carolina, 1788. A Reprint of Two Pamphlets,
with an Introduction by Hugh T. Lefler, Professor of History, University
of North Carolina. Charlottesville, Tracy W. McGregor Library, 1947.
Printed by the Journalism Laboratory Press, Washington and Lee University,
Lexington, Virginia.
Jefferson's Ideas On a University Library. Letters from the Founder of
the University of Virginia to a Boston Bookseller. Edited by Elizabeth
Cometti, Associate Professor of History, Marshall College. Charlottesville,
Tracy W. McGregor Library, 1950. Printed at the University of Virginia
Press.
1006. Of the majority of these publications eleven hundred copies were printed;
and of the majority of them, there was free distribution to members of the
Southern Historical Association who made application.
1007. A statement concerning the reading list and the certificates to be
awarded for fulfilling certain requirements is given in the printed report
of the President of the University to the Board of Visitors for the year
1949-1950, pages 22, 23, and also in the mimeographed report of the
Librarian to the President for the same year, page 33.
1008. See page 160 of Section VI of this history.
1009. Tenth Annual Report of the Archivist, University of Virginia Library,
1939-1940, page 24; Wilson, Louis Round, and Tauber, Maurice F., The
University Library, pages 348, 349.
1010. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Annual Reports on Historical Collections.
University of Virginia Library, page 247. This is a list of the newspapers
being presented to the University Library for preservation.
1011. Doctor Cappon's Virginia Newspapers was published in 1936 by the
Appleton-Century Company as Institute Monograph No. 23 and as Guide to
Virginia Historical Materials, Part 1.
1012: The three numbers of the Virginia Imprint Series which had been
issued in preliminary, mimeographed form by 1950 were the following:-Number
1. Preliminary Checklist for Abingdon, 1807-1878. Compiled by
various heads and edited by John Cook Wyllie. Richmond, Virginia State
Library, 1946.
Number 4. Preliminary Checklist for Fredericksburg, 1778-1876. Compiled
by various hands and edited by Carrol H. Quenzel, Librarian, Mary
Washington College of the University of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia State
Library, 1947.
Number 9. Preliminary Checklist for Petersburg, 1786-1876. Compiled
by various hands and edited by Edward A. Wyatt IV of Petersburg,
Virginia. Richmond, Virginia State Library, 1949.
On page 8 of the typed report of Curator Wyllie to the McGregor Advisory
Committee at a meeting held on 1 November 1947 it was stated that the
pattern of this imprint inventory was "being initiated and followed in
both Florida and Pennsylvania."
1013. See pages 148-150 of Section VI of this history.
1014. See page 8 of the typed report of Curator Wyllie to the McGregor
Advisory Committee at a meeting held on 1 November 1947; and also the
supplementary statement on cooperative projects which was attached to the
minutes of a meeting of that Advisory Committee held on 18 April 1953.
1015. Mr. Coolie Verner's A Further Checklist of the Separate Editions of
Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, a mimeographed 1950 publication
of the University of Virginia Bibliographical Society, mentions in
its Introduction and text the holdings at the University of Virginia
Library.
1016. There is a detailed statement concerning this checklist in the
article entitled "Thomas Jefferson Papers" by Mrs. Helen Duprey Bullock
which appeared first in The American Archivist, vol. 4, no. 4, October 1941,
pp. 238-249, and was reprinted on pp. 279-291 of The Jefferson Papers at
the University of Virginia, compiled by Constance E. Thurlow and Francis
L. Berkeley, Jr. The relation of the checklist and the Princeton edition
of the writings of Thomas Jefferson is discussed on pages 99-101 of the
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Annual Reports on Historical Collections,
University of Virginia Library.
1017. See page 18 of Section II of this history.
1018. Dr. Julian Parks Boyd, Editor of the Princeton Jefferson, has
expressed by letter and publicly his appreciation of the attitude of the
University of Virginia Library.
1019. The 1825 list of books has been referred to, beginning on page 6 of
Section I, a number of times in the course of this history.
1020. The liaison group is explained on page 127 of Section VI of this
history.
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