 | Eleventh annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1940-41 |  |
MANUSCRIPT ACQUISITIONS
September 1, 1940 to September 1, 1941.
AKERMAN, AMOS TAPPAN (1821-1880). 2 vols., autograph
letter press copies, July 1871-Dec. 1876, 697 pp., and May 1874Jan.
1876, 1015 pp. Gift of Alfred Akerman.
Official and unofficial letters of Akerman, while serving as attorney
general in Grant's administration, July 1870-Dec. 1871, and letters after
his resignation. His official letters deal with the appointment of territorial
judges; suppression of the Ku Klux Klan; amnesty for Confederate
soldiers; advancement of the Republican Party in the South; and means
to insure Negro votes for the Republican Party. Many personal letters
in addition to his correspondence with such men as William W. Belknap,
B. F. Butler, Charles E. Butler, George S. Boutwell, D. T. Corbin, George
William Curtis, C. Delano, Thomas F. Fullock, James A. Garfield, O. O.
Howard, H. R. Hulburd, Edwin Parsons, John D. Pope, John Sherman,
Alphonso Taft, D. A. Walker, J. K. H. Wilcox. (On Akerman see Dict.
of Amer. Biog., I, 133-134.) No. 1165.
ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1744-1936. ca. 500 items,
incl. typescripts. Gift of Mrs. Robert T. Taylor.
MS. notes on the history of Albemarle County, Va. 1744-1936,
prepared by the late Robert T. Taylor under the Work Projects Administration,
[Virginia] Historical Inventory. Contains descriptions of towns,
homes, schools, churches, taverns, rivers, and creeks with brief sketches
on the following estates: Bellair, Belvoir, Blenheim, Bloomfield, Castle
Hill, Cedar Grove, Colle, Dunlora, Edgehill, Ellerslie, Hampstead, Locust
Hill, Monticello, Oak Lawn, Old Woodville, Round Top, Shadwell, Tallwood,
Viewmont, and others. Also information on some of the leading
families of Albemarle: Clark, Fry, Jefferson, Lewis, McGuffey, Maury,
Meriwether, Randolph, and many others; sketches of Claude Crozet, Jack
Jouett, and Walter Reed. Also data on Tarleton's Oak, the Three Notched
Road, birthplaces of eminent men of Albemarle County, etc. No. 1135.
ALBEMARLE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY COLLECTIONS.
The manuscripts owned by the Society are kept in a special set of
locked files in the Manuscript Room of the Alderman Library. They are
available for purposes of research. For a list of acquisitions see the
archivist's report in the Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society,
published annually in March (1941- ).
ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS.
1934 et seq. 56 items. Gift of Mrs. L. Dee York.
Rivanna Garden Club. Minutes of meetings of committees planning and
producing a charity frolic, Nov. 23, 1934, for the benefit of the University
Hospital League and the Women's Committee on Relief. Brief history
of Hospital League. A zoology notebook, a few photographs, and other
miscellany. No. 925.
ALDERMAN, EDWIN ANDERSON (1861-1931). ca. 2000 items.
Gift of Mrs. Edwin A. Alderman.
This addition to the Alderman Papers consists of letters, pamphlets,
pictures, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and clippings, chiefly for the
years 1900-31, and covering the period of Alderman's presidency of Tulane
University, 1900-04, and of the University of Virginia, 1904-31. Many
personal letters and considerable correspondence with leading educators
in the North and South. In addition to a number of letters from Theodore
Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the collection includes letters from the
following: Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams, Felix Adler, E. P.
Alexander, Viscountess Astor, James B. Aswell, Charles B. Aycock, Irving
Bacheller, Joseph W. Bailey, Stringfellow Barr, George Gordon Battle,
Kempt T. Battle, Poultney Bigelow, Edward W. Bok, Charles J. Bonaparte,
Sydney J. Bowie, Robert S. Brookings, John S. Brown, William
Garratt Brown, John Stewart Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, James
Bryce, Lady Bryce, Lady Winifred Burghclere, Nicholas Murray Butler,
Wallace Buttrick, Harry Flood Byrd, George W. Cable, W. A. Candler,
Wm. Carmichael, Andrew Carnegie, D. H. Chamberlain, Winston
Churchill (American novelist), Grover Cleveland, Calvin Coolidge, Locke
Craig, Lewis D. Crenshaw, S. M. Cullom, J. L. M. Curry, John W. Daniel,
Josephine Daniels, John Staige Davis, Westmoreland Davis, John Dewey,
James Hardy Dillard, William E. Dold, P. E. DuPont, William Harrison
Echols, Charles W. Eliot, Charles S. Fairchild, Charles E. Fenner,
Edward A. Filene, John H. Finley, W. W. Fuller, Charles B. Galloway,
Wendell P. Garrison, J. B. Gilder, R. W. Gilder, Basil Gildersleeve,
Ellen Glasgow, Carter Glass, Frederick Greeley, Arthur T. Hadley, Warren
G. Harding, William R. Harper, W. J. Harris, Charles C. Harrison,
Henry Sydnor Harrison, Hilary A. Herbert, John Grier Hibben, Walter
B. Hill, George F. Hoar, Richmond Hobson, Herbert Hoover, David F.
Houston, William Dean Howells, Charles Evans Hughes, William James,
J. J. Jusserand, Grace King, Robert Lansing, William Laurence, Fitzhugh
Lee, E. J. Lilly, Walter Lippmann, Seth Low, A. Lawrence Lowell,
William G. McAdoo, W. Gordon McCabe, Alexander K. McClure, Anne
O'Hare McCormick, Robert S. McCormick, A. T. Mahan, Theodore Marburg,
Edwin Markham, Thomas S. Martin, S. Weir Mitchell, Andrew
Jackson Montague, John T. Morgan, John S. Mosby, Hugo Munsterburg,
George Foster Peabody, Ashton Phelps, Alexander L. Phillips, Thomas
R. Price, Henry S. Pritchett, Whitelaw Reid, W. A. Remsen, Abby Rockefeller,
John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Thomas Fortune Ryan, B. A. Sands, J. M. Schofield,
Albert Shaw, George Bernard Shaw, Alfred E. Smith, Charles Alphonso
Smith, Edgar F. Smith, Francis H. Smith, Hoke Smith, William W. Smith,
J. L. Spalding, Cornelia P. Spencer, Lady Stanley, Eugene Stevenson,
W. E. Stone, Henry Carter Stuart, Ruth McEnery Stuart, William Howard
Taft, James M. Taylor, Katrina Trask, William Peterfield Trent, Frederick
Jackson Turner, Oscar W. Underwood, Henry van Dyke, Augustus Van
Wyck, Oswald Garrison Villard, George E. Vincent, Alfred Moore Waddell,
Booker T. Washington, Thomas E. Watson, Benjamin I. Wheeler,
Andrew D. White, E. D. White, John Sharp Williams, C. B. Wilmer,
Edith Bolling Wilson, John M. Wilson, George T. Winston, John S. Wise,
Owen Wister. No. 1001.
ALDERMAN, EDWIN ANDERSON (1861-1931). ca. 400 items.
Gift of Dumas Malone.
Letters, copies of letters, genealogical data, and miscellaneous notes
used by Dr. Malone in preparing his biography, Edwin Anderson Alderman
(New York, 1940). The materials relate chiefly to Alderman's career
as president of the University of North Carolina, 1896-1900; of Tulane
University, 1900-04; and of the University of Virginia, 1904-31. They
supplement the Alderman Papers previously acquired. No. 941.
AMBLER FAMILY. ca. 1790-ca. 1860. ca. 500 items. Gift of
Thomas Francis Woods.
Personal and business papers of the Ambler family of Jamestown
Island and Richmond, Va., especially Col. John Ambler (1762-1836) and
Philip St. George Ambler. Supplements the Ambler and Barbour Papers
previously deposited. (See Annual Report of the Archivist, University
of Virginia Library . . . , IV, 4.) No. 1140.
ANDERSON, FRANCIS G. 1849. 2 ALS, microfilm and typescript
of originals in Francis T. Anderson Papers, Duke University.
Gift of Lester J. Cappon.
Letters from Edward Crabb, Jan. 10, 1849, from Carlyle, Clinton
County, Ill., about a legacy left by his great-grandfather, Francis Thomas;
from Edward Crabb's mother, Mary Thomson, addressed to "dear Cousin"
at Fincastle, Va. Mentions Col. William Anderson, John Anderson, son
Henry Crabb who volunteered for service in Mexico and died in 1848,
son's lack of education. No. 976.
ARIMA, T. n. d. 1 typescript. Gift of Miss Eliza Broaddus Jones.
Translation by T. Arima from the Japanese article "A Snake's Gold
Crowned Teeth", by Yoshida, concerning South America. No. 1145.
AUTOGRAPHS, AMERICAN. 1906-1940. 6 ALS. Gift of Raymond
Gorges.
Letters of Phyllis Bentley, Winston Churchill (American novelist),
Winston Churchill (British statesman), Hamlin Garland, Walter Lippmann,
Owen Wister. No. 1098.
AUTOGRAPHS, AMERICAN. ca. 1930-1941. 26 items. Gift of
Meredith Johnson.
Miscellaneous autographs of Jane Addams, Elmer Ellsworth Brown,
Calvin Coolidge, Amelia Earhart, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Richmond P.
Hobson, Charles A. Lindbergh, C. H. Mayo, W. J. Mayo, John J. Pershing,
Alice Hegan Rice, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Smith. No. 1082.
BAILEY, JACOB WHITMAN (1811-1857). 1841 April 25. 1 ALS.
Gift of John Cook Wyllie.
Letter from J. W. Bailey, professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and
geology at the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, to William B. Rogers,
professor of natural philosophy at the University of Virginia, concerning
Rogers' discovery of the Infusorial Stratum. Includes several illustrations
of various geological specimens and mentions use of microscope
in examination. No. 1153.
BALL, REV. RICHARD H. (ca. 1818-1870). 1824 (1850-1860)
1905. 203 items, 4 printed. Microfilm. Gift of Miss Ruth Wylie.
Ball was a Methodist circuit rider on the Virginia "Northerneck Circuit";
principal of Northumberland Academy in Heathsville, Va., 183840
and 1849-51. In the interim, 1840-49, he was in Baltimore, Md., lecturing,
preaching, and teaching. In 1851 he was made president of Madison
College, Uniontown, Pa., and in 1854 was appointed president of
Central Female Academy, Culloden, Ga. In 1857 he was summoned to
defend himself before an assembly of ministers on charges of misconduct,
was dismissed, and subsequently worked as a clerk in the U. S. Treasury
Dept. in Washington. The letters are a valuable source of information
on circuit riding, early Methodist educational institutions, and church
discipline. A diary kept by his daughter, Miss Katie M. Ball, Aug. 1869Feb.
1870, gives a picture of Methodist activities and other events in
Washington, D. C. No. 1177.
BANKARD, E. H. 1911. 3 items. Gift of M. H. Bankard.
Personal letter, July 6, 1911, from R. F. Bankard, officer of Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad, to E. H. Bankard of Baltimore concerning the transportation
problem in Pittsburgh, with two attached clippings from the
Pittsburgh Dispatch containing an editorial and a part of Mayor William
A. Magee's message to the city council on the traction problem. The following
concerns were involved in the question of communication: Allegheny
County Light Company; Allegheny Heating Company; Consolidated
Gas Company; Philadelphia Company; Pittsburgh Railways Company;
Pittsburgh Street Railways Company. No. 1063.
BAYNES, ERNEST HAROLD. 1725 (1900)-1928. 40 items. Gift
of Raymond Gorges.
Collection of letters written mainly to Ernest Harold Baynes, secretary
of the American Bison Society and director of the zoo in Meriden, N. H.,
concerning the preservation of buffalo in America and other zoological
subjects. Letters from the following are included: Carl E. Akeley, George
H. Barnard, Aaron Burr, John Burroughs, the Rev. S. Parkes Cadman,
Grover Cleveland, Dr. Harvey Cushing, Timothy Edwards, Sir Edward
Grey, Edward Everett Hale, W. T. Hornaday, James Russell Lowell, Maxfield
Parrish, Stephen Parrish, Admiral Robert E. Peary, John J. Pershing,
Gifford Pinchot, Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest T.
Seton, V. Stefansson, William H. Taft, Abbott H. Thayer, and Woodrow
Wilson. (See Ernest Harold Baynes, Naturalist and Crusader, Boston,
Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1928, by Raymond Gorges.) No. 1125.
BOOK LIST FOR VIRGINIA. 1812-1822. 15 pp. Typescript.
Gift of Miss Himena V. Hoffman.
List of 299 books advertised in Virginia newspapers, chiefly the
Richmond Enquirer and Norfolk Herald, 1812-22. No. 1179.
BOTTS, JOHN MINOR (1802-1869). 1854 Feb. 27. 1 ALS. Purchase.
From Richmond, to Messrs. Gales and Seaton of Washington on the
publication in their paper (the National Intelligencer) of an article on
the Nebraska Bill. No. 1080.
BROWN FAMILY. 1736-1914. 600 items, incl. 15 vols., letters,
papers, 12 bundles newspaper clippings. Deposit.
Westmoreland County, Va., business affairs, social life, naval affairs,
slavery, politics, horse racing and horse breeding at Mt. Airy, Methodist
objections to dancing, life at the University of Virginia, and family matters.
T. Brown, Thomas Brown, Col. Thomas Brown, C. B. Thomas Brown;
after 1870 of Thomas Brown, Jr., E. C. Claybrook, R. H. Beale, Hon.
Thomas Brown, Thomas M. Arnest of Nomini Hall, and Westmoreland
County schools. No. 1169.
BUCK, RICHARD BAYLY (1844-1888). 1861-62. 36 items.
Typescripts. Gift of George G. Buck.
Collection of letters of Richard Bayly Buck of Front Royal, Warren
County, Va., second lieutenant of Company "B", 17th Virginia Regiment,
Army of Northern Virginia, during the Civil War, written from Harper's
Ferry, Manassas, Jamestown, Camp Pickens, camp near Centerville, and
Fairfax Court House with references to Generals [Joseph E.] Johnston,
[G. T.] Beauregard, [James] Longstreet, [P. St. George] Cocke,
[T. J.] Jackson, and [A. P.] Hill. (For other records of the Buck Family
see Archivist Report, X, 15.) No. 1091.
CABELL CORRESPONDENCE. 1837-1889. 4 ALS. Typescript.
Gift of Miss Elvira Cabell.
Summary of Joseph C. Cabell's (1778-1856) debts, compiled in Williamsburg,
Va., Jan. 19, 1837. Three letters of Robert Skipwith in 1889
to William D. Cabell regarding a letter written by Thomas Jefferson,
Aug. 3, 1771, to Robert Skipwith, and typewritten notes concerning it.
No. 1154.
CAMPBELL, MRS. WILLIAM R. ca. 1860-1870. 3 items. Gift
of Mrs. William R. Campbell.
Manuscript and printed fragments of connubialities, witticisms, and
other verses as "There was a little girl and she had a little curl", etc. No.
1150.
CAREY, MATHEW (1760-1839). 1 ALS. 1812 Feb. 22. Gift of
John Cook Wyllie.
From Philadelphia, to George Poe asking him to collect note on Cramer,
Spear & Eichbaum. No. 1022.
CARR-CARY PAPERS. 1785 (1810-1829) 1839. 509 items. Purchased
for the McGregor Library.
This collection of intimate family letters between the closely related
members of the Carr, Cary, Randolph, Nicholas, Jefferson, and Stevenson
families of Albemarle and Fluvanna counties, and other places in Virginia,
not only gives an excellent picture of plantation life, but yields
letters to and from Thomas Jefferson: one series from his nephew Peter
Carr, concerning his education at the College of William and Mary and
subsequent law practice; Jefferson's correspondence with his brother,
Randolph Jefferson, of Snowden, over family finances, agriculture, spinning
jennies and the latter's domestic difficulties; a third series of letters
to and from John Garland Jefferson concerning his education and preparation
for law; a bill from Jefferson to Peter Carr for nails and brads
made at Monticello; letters of Wilson Miles Cary asking Jefferson's advice
on the education of his grandsons. Jefferson's prospects of election
in Kentucky in 1800, the Callender affair, a memorandum concerning a
proposed public subscription for the financial relief of Thomas Jefferson
in 1826, prospectus of Thomas Jefferson Randolph's proposed publication
of Jefferson's writings; letter of George Washington to [John] Langhorne,
Oct. 15, 1797, on the John Nicholas-Thomas Jefferson controversy
of that year are of additional interest. Other letters mention Henry
Clay's orations in Richmond; duels in Richmond in 1803; problems
involved in the sale of a large estate consisting of slaves; growing interest
in bank stocks in Virginia; the financial crisis after 1819; William
Wirt's eulogy on Peter Carr, 1815; and commercial intercourse between
Virginia and Maryland. Among the writers of the letters are: Ellen P.,
Hetty, Dabney S. and Peter Carr; Wilson J. and Wilson M. Cary; Louisa
and John H. Cocke; John W. Eppes; John Garland, Thomas, and Randolph
Jefferson; Gov. Wilson Cary Nicholas; Mary Monroe Peachy of Williamsburg;
Edmund, Jane Hollins, and Martha (Jefferson) Randolph. Nos.
1174, 1231.
CHAMPNEYS, CAPT. J. T. 1861-1863. 8 items, incl. 1 vol. Purchased
for the McGregor Library.
Letterbook, with six loose letters and a clipping. This Confederate officer
served during 1862 and early in 1863 as ordnance officer (with
major's rank) of Artillery District No. 2, Chattanooga, Tenn. In 1863 he
returned to his regular duty as Captain of Engineers, and was placed in
charge of the defenses of Fort Sumter, Charleston, S. C. The letterbook
(pp. 38-140) contains copies of 79 letters and reports of Champneys, with
several sketches, covering his work on the fortifications at Fort Sumter,
Sept. 12th to Oct. 28th, 1863. Most of these are addressed to Maj. W. N.
Echols, Chief Engineer of S. C., at Charleston. The first 31 pages of the
volume record supplies issued by a quartermaster to the companies of
a regiment, April-December 1862. Loose enclosures: newspaper clipping
on the Federal evacuation of St. Simon's Island; 1862 Oct. 23, ALS, Major
Champneys to Brig. Gen. [Benjamin H.] Helm, withdrawing charges
against John Day; 1862 April 16, Confederate War Dept., General Orders
No. 24, on ordnance officers; 1861-63, four letters to Champneys from
W. A. Ramsey, J. H. Reed, Thos. W. Bartlett, and M. S. L. No. 992.
CHURCH PRAYERS. 17th cent. 1 vol., illuminated MS., vellum
bound. Gift of Robert K. Black.
Two MSS. written by the same scribe: the first, in a Gothic hand, is a
group of prayers collected by Pope Urban and Bernard of Charivaugh
[Clairvaux?]; the second, in an Italian cursive hand, is a collection of
benedictions for morning, penitential psalms, prayers of Master Gregory,
vespers for the dead. No. 1031.
CIVIL WAR LETTER. 1862 Apr. 18. AL. Purchase.
Letter by a Union soldier of New York, written from Yorktown, Va.,
describing camp life and rations. No. 1021.
CLAY, HENRY (1777-1852), COLLECTION. 1813-1849. 23 ALS.
Purchased for the McGregor Library.
Addressed chiefly to his brother-in-law, James Brown, U. S. minister
at Paris, and to James Madison, A. Peirse, Nathan Sargent, George Stone,
Joseph Story, A. W. Stow, concerning postmastership at Lexington, Ky.;
instructions to U. S. minister at Paris for negotiating French claims;
Adams-Jackson campaign and Bank of U. S.; Oregon boundary dispute;
cholera epidemic; "indiscretions" of abolitionists and probable effect of
British abolition; Van Buren; President John Tyler; marriage and death
of Henry Clay, Jr.; Free Soilers; A. Peirse's wish to be governor of
California. No. 991.
CLAY, HENRY (1777-1852). 1821-1842. 3 ALS. Purchase.
From Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 7, 1821, to Thomas Dougherty on personal
finances and presidential election of 1824; from Ashland, May 26, 1842, to
—? on details of his participation in peace conference at Ghent in
1814; from Washington, Nov. 25, 1827, to Mrs. Stephen Decatur on political
and social matters. Nos. 1087, 1109, 1113.
COBB, OLIVER W., M. D. 1940 Oct. 3. 1 ALS. Gift of Mrs. Paul
B. Barringer.
To Dr. Paul B. Barringer from Easthampton, Mass., regarding the settlement
of Hessian troops in America after the Revolution. No. 1192.
COLLINS, WILLIAM. 1788. 1 ADS. Gift of Alexander Davidson.
Receipted bill to Mr. Moore for Thomas Jefferson's Notes on Virginia.
No. 1096.
CONFEDERATE STATES HOSPITAL RECORD. Hanover
Junction, Va. 1863-1864. 1 vol. Purchased for the McGregor
Library.
Invoice book of the Confederate States Army Hospital at Hanover
Junction, Va., containing records of patients and a list of medical supplies
and instruments issued to Samuel H. Moffett, surgeon-in-charge, by the
medical purveyor in Richmond and by surgeons W. A. Carswell, Z. B.
Herndon, Joseph E. Clageth, E. W. Johns, and others. Included in the
same volume is a docket of a Virginia or West Virginia circuit court,
1867-68, with various court records and fees paid to the clerk. No. 1159.
COTTON, SIR ROBERT (1571-1631). 1599. 1 AD. Purchased
for the McGregor Library.
"A breife Abstract of the Question of Precedency between England
and Spaine . . . ." (For a sketch of this episode and Sir Robert Cotton's
relation to it, see Dict. of Natl. Biog., XII, 308ff.) No. 1011.
COXE, DR. DANIEL (1640-1730). ca. 1720. 1 MS, 10½ pp. Purchased
for the McGregor Library.
Memorial on Carolina, tracing the history of ownership from Sir Robert
Heath's grant in 1630 until the territory came into Coxe's own
possession. Includes also record of Coxe's attempt to settle the province,
his relation with the regency and the Board of Trade, and his plan to
surrender his Carolina claims to the crown. No. 1178.
CRAIG, REV. JOHN (1709-1774). 1740-1749. Microfilm.
Diary of Rev. John Craig, Presbyterian minister in Augusta County,
Va., containing lists of children baptized, cures for various ailments, and
other miscellaneous information. No. 1054.
CRESAP, MICHAEL. 1847 Nov. 25. 1 typescript. Gift.
Letter from Cresap in western Va., to Lyman C. Draper of Baltimore
concerning improvements made by George Rogers Clark to lands on
which Cresap resided, and disputed title to same. Mentions military land
warrants; Wheeling Creek; Judge Alexander, John, and Joseph Caldwell;
William Crawford; Patrick Cree; Edward and Joseph Dorsey; David
Rogers; Wallace; Archibald Woods; Col. Ebenezer Zane. No. 1023.
CULVER, EDWIN WEBSTER (1809-185-). 1850-1854. 34 items.
Gift of Meredith Johnson.
Letters, chiefly to his wife, Mrs. Margaret Crabbs Harris Culver, of
Centreville, Wayne County, Ind., on journey through Memphis, New
and cholera among immigrants on plains, quartz mining; Oregon territory;
Sandwich Islands and missionaries there. Culver family genealogy.
No. 1073.
DANIEL, JUSTICE PETER VYVIAN (1784-1860). 1839-1866. 1
vol. with 110 letters, photographs, clippings, etc. Deposit.
Correspondence among members of the Daniel family, chiefly between
Judge Daniel, his wife, and his daughter, Elizabeth, concerning life and
leading personalities in Washington, D. C., 1840-60; travels in America and
the West, 1840-60; California gold rush; John Q. Adams' funeral; burning
of capitol in Washington, 1851; social life at Virginia springs and Newport,
R. I.; S. T. Mason on investing of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1847; Edward Bulwer,
Lord Lytton; Zachary Taylor's cabinet; Millard Fillmore; Thomas
J. Jackson; R. E. Lee; F. D. Moncure; Edmund Randolph; Martin Van
Buren; death of Matthew Fontaine Maury; Confederate poems from
Southern Opinion. No. 1120.
DE LANUX, PIERRE. 1941 Apr. 14. 2 copies of address delivered
at the grave of Thomas Jefferson. Gift of Atcheson L. Hench.
No. 1103.
DESTUTT DE TRACY, COMTE ANTOINE LOUIS CLAUDE
(1754-1836). 1 ALS, 4 vols. (incl. 2 published), with MS. notes by
Thomas Jefferson. Purchased for the McGregor Library.
A published English translation with the original manuscript in French
(215 pp.) of A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws
. . . (Philadelphia, William Duane, 1811) with an autograph note by
Thomas Jefferson regarding it. The second MS. vol. (215 pp.) is A Treatise
on Political Economy, original published in Georgetown in 1817[1818]
by Joseph Milligan. With this is an autograph letter, Dec. 23, 1813, of
William T. Woodman to William Duane on Woodman's translation of the
work, which Duane never published. No. 1072.
DOBIE, CAPT. DAVID F. (1840- ). 1862-1865. 56 items. Purchase.
Letters of Captain Dobie, infantry officer in the 118th Regt., N. Y.
Volunteers, to "My dear Friend Hattie", a school teacher in his home
town, Plattsburg, N. Y. Largely personal but contain many accounts
of army life and personalities, court martial duty, progress of military
operations, books read, etc. Written successively from Virginia camps of
in 1863, Suffolk, Gloucester Point, Newport News, Williamsburg, and
Yorktown; in 1864, Fort Monroe, Petersburg, Bermuda Hundred, and
Chapin's Farm; in 1865, Petersburg and Manchester. In the spring of
1865, Dobie was attached to headquarters of the 2nd Brig., 1st Div., 18th
Army Corps (later to the same brigade, 3rd Div., 24th Army Corps) as
judge advocate general. Two letters addressed to Dobie are from his
brother, James, who served in the Navy, and from William Leahy. (For
other groups of Federal soldiers' letters from Virginia see Archivist Report,
V, 7; VIII, 7-8; X, 15-16.) No. 989.
DRAMA, "ELMA." 19th cent. 1 MS. vol., 114 pp. Exchange.
A tragedy in three acts, written perhaps by some student at the University
of Detroit, about Druids, beginnings of Christianity, the Roman
conquest of England. No. 1012.
DUANE, MAJ. JAMES CHATHAM (1824-1897). 1864-1865. 2
vols. Purchased for the McGregor Library.
Letterbook containing a copy of the correspondence of Major Duane,
later brigadier-general, and his original pocket field book of carbon
copies of dispatches sent as chief engineer of the Army of the Potomac,
U. S. A. Includes letters from Lt. W. H. H. Benyaurd, Gen. U. S. Grant,
Gen. George G. Meade, Capt. G. H. Mendell, and many others. No. 1182.
EPPES FAMILY. 1722-1841. 57 items. Deposit.
Deeds, store accounts, surveys in City Point and Prince George County,
Va., inventories of animals sold, records of slaves, plantation affairs,
student letters at Princeton, 1785, student life at medical college in
Philadelphia in 1804, and correspondence among members of the Eppes
family and others, including Batte, Blackwood, Carter, Cocke, Friend,
Gilliam, Gilmer, Poythress, Riddell, Robertson, Taylor, Watkins, and
Woodbury. (An addition to previous deposits, Nos. 464, 465, 519. See
Archivist Report, IX, 14-15.) No. 974.
FAGG, JUDGE THOMAS JEFFERSON CLARK (1822-1916). 1
item, 44 pp. Microfilm.
Fragmentary autobiography of Judge Fagg of the Missouri Supreme
Court, who was born at The Barracks, Albemarle County, Va. Includes
comments on Thomas Jefferson, economic and social life of Virginia in
1830-40, recollections of childhood and school life in Albemarle County,
University of Virginia, journey to Missouri in 1836. No. 1158.
FAIRFAX AND LEE PAPERS. Virginia. 1753-1808. 51 items.
Purchased for the McGregor Library.
Attachments, deeds, depositions, marriage bonds, leases, and other legal
papers of the Lee and Fairfax families. Among names included are:
George Allen; Samuel Baker; William Baylis; Jennings Beckwith; George
Bond; James Bruce; Alexander Pitt Buchanan; Robert Burges; Dugald
Campbell; Wilson Miles Cary; Nicholas and Robert Claubough; Rawleigh
Colston; William Darke; Mary David; James Dunlap; Richard Eastin;
George Eskridge; Denny, Ferdinando, George William, Louisa, and
Thomas Fairfax; Elizabeth Fendall; Jeremiah Ferguson; William Ferguson;
Foster & May; George Graham; John Hardin; Gabriel Hayes; Catherine
and George Hite; William Holliday; David Holmes; Moses Hunter;
Col. John Jamison; Joseph Jones; David Kennedy; James Lawson; Catherine,
Charles, Flora, Francis Lightfoot, Henry, James, Launcelot, Mary,
Mathilda, Philip, Philip Ludwell, Richard Bland, Richard Henry, Theodorick,
and Thomas Ludwell Lee; John Lindsey; William McGuire; Archibald
Magill; Charles and John Marshall; Thomas Bryan Martin; James
Monroe; William Morton; Battaile Muse; George Noble; Benjamin Oden;
John D. Orr; John, Matthew, Robert, and William Byrd Page; Philip
Pendleton; John Peyton; Edmund Randolph; Ricketts & Norton; Nicholas
Roper; Peter Rust; Robert and Thomas Rutherford; William Sanford;
Charles Simms; Edward and John Smith; Adam Stephen; Josiah Swearingen;
Bushrod Taylor & Co.; Albion Throckmorton; Fairfax, John, and
Warner Washington; Alexander White; John Wormeley; John Wood; John
S. Woodcock; and many others. No. 1106.
GARLICK, SAMUEL. 1765. 1 microfilm.
Will, July 14, 1765, King William County, Va. Mentions Edmund
Berkeley; Robert Pollard; sons John, Samuel, and Camm Garlick; wife
Mary; mother Hannah; brother Edward; Rev. John Camm; Dr. John
Carter; Mrs. Alice Bullock. No. 1067.
GILMER, FRANCIS WALKER (1790-1826). 1817. 2 items. Gift
of Arthur Pforzheimer.
Two legal documents covering suits in Frederick County, Va., involving
Robert G. Hite, Hugh W. Wormeley, Augustine Green, Mr. Lee, and Mr.
Slaughter. No. 1200.
GOOCHLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA. Public Schools. 1871-1900.
1 vol. Purchase.
Minutes of the Board of [Public School] Trustees, Byrd District No. 3,
Goochland County, Va. No. 1032.
GOODMAN FAMILY BIBLE RECORDS. 1816-1913. Microfilm.
Records of the Goodman and Dyerlee families, Campbell County and
other places in Virginia. No. 1025.
GRAYSON, THOMAS FITZHUGH. 1860-1861. 1 vol. Gift of
Arthur C. Thomson.
Bohn's Album and Autographs of the University of Virginia (Washington,
1859), owned apparently by Grayson, and containing autographs of
his friends. No. 971.
GRAYSON, WILLIAM (1736?-1790). 1771-1790. 18 items. Purchased
for the McGregor Library.
Bonds, notes, legal papers from Prince William County, Va., and a few
letters dealing with Grayson's business affairs. Mention Jesse Anderson,
William Carr, Colin Dunlap & Son, Richard Foote, Francis Graves,
S. W. Grayson, John Peyton Harrison, Joseph Holmes, John Kercheval,
D. Norton, Leven Powell, James Ritchie, Col. John Smith. The letters
deal with the management of Grayson's land in Frederick County, Va.,
and his grist mill, one series being written from New York where he
was attending Congress. No. 1106.
GREEN FAMILY GENEALOGY. ca. 1670-1940. 1 chart. Purchase.
Genealogical chart of the Green family of Culpeper County, Va.,
descendants of William Green of Northamptonshire, England, and his
son Robert, who came to America in 1710. No. 1102.
HALLER, DR. JACOB. 1828-1870. 68 items, incl. 9 vols., printed
fragments. Gift of Marvin Walker.
Records of Dr. Jacob Haller, of Wytheville, Va., but include some
records of visits, prescriptions, and medical services of Dr. E. C. Haller,
and a memorandum that Dr. Beverley Tucker commenced practice
[with them?] on Jan. 29, 1867. Records of medical services under the
auspices of the Overseers of the Poor for Wytheville Township. Broadside,
"Oration delivered by Francis Scott Key, Esq., in the Rotundo [sic]
of the Capitol of the U. States, on the 4th of July, 1831." Miscellaneous
records include store accounts and livery stable charges, perhaps kept
by some other member of the family in the medical records. No. 981.
HANCOCK, W. SCOTT. 1895. 1 item: 2 pp. typescript. Gift of W.
Scott Hancock.
Excerpt from notes made at the University of Virginia on the burning
of the Rotunda in October 1895. Mentions professors A. R. Cocke, W. D.
Dabney, Charles W. Kent, Raleigh C. Minor, Francis H. Smith, W. M.
Thornton, Charles S. Venable, and librarian Frederick W. Page. No.
1146.
HASKINS, JOHN W. (d. 1859). 1811-1887. 18 items, incl. 1 typescript.
Deposit.
Mostly business papers of Haskins who practiced law in Buckingham
County, Va.; plats, deeds, bonds, receipts, and other legal papers of his
own and for his clients. Correspondence mentions tobacco seeds; osage
oranges; two live bears sent from Scott County, Va.; lands in Mississippi;
and a letter from a school teacher, 1866, recalling life at Derby in Buckingham.
Among the names mentioned are: Dibrell & Johnson of Richmond,
William S. Legrand, Austin and Lucy Ann Morgan, Benjamin
Moseley, Jordan Taylor, Branch J. Worsham, and the Slate River Company.
No. 1173.
HUDNUT, JOSEPH. 1926. 5 items. Purchase.
Original pen and ink sketches used to illustrate article by Fiske Kimball
on "Jefferson the Architect," in the Forum, June 1926. No. 969.
HUNDLEY FAMILY. 1833-1900. 59 items, incl. 26 vols. Deposit
and microfilm.
Daybooks (17 vols.) kept at Larkin Hundley's general store at Montagues
P. O., Essex County, Va., 1833-47; ledgers, account books, and letter
books dealing with same. An invoice book shows the goods purchased
for the store from Baltimore and New York. Diary of James H. Hundley
of Rose Hill, 1855-58; trustee's account of Larkin Hundley, 1841-58;
a few records of a school opened in Feb. 1862 by James H. Hundley at
Rose Hill and continued for some years. Letters relate in part to a
school at Montagues in 1852 and the school at Rose Hill conducted during
the 1860's by the Rev. J. Hervey Hundley, D. D. (1830-1903);
biographical data on Dr. Hundley's career of fifty years as a clergyman
successively in the Baptist and Episcopal churches. Nos. 1141, 1205.
HUNGERFORD, WILLIAM SUMNER (1854-1904). 1 item: 2 pp.
Gift of Joseph K. Roberts.
Biographical sketch of Hungerford by his daughter, Ruth S. Hungerford.
A native of Connecticut, he had a distinguished career as a mining
and as superintendent of iron works in Virginia (Low Moor Iron Company)
and New Jersey. (On records of the Low Moor Iron Co., see
Archivist Report, X, 18.) No. 1034.
INGRAM, JOHN H. (1849-1916). 1874-1902. 34 ALS. Purchase.
Letters to Ingram in London on literary subjects: two from Émile
Lauvrière, professor of College St. Barb, Paris, on Edgar Allan Poe;
others from Davenport Adams, Mathilde Blinde, H. Buxton Forman, Anne
Gilchrist, S. C. Hall, V. Paget, W. M. Rossetti, G. Barnett Smith, A. J.
Symington, May Thomas, and others on various literary topics and
figures, including Poe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mme. de Staël, Mirabeau,
Mary Lamb, and Madame Roland. No. 1081.
IRBY, RICHARD (1825-1901). 1804 (1844-1865) 1901. 500 items,
incl. 5 vols., 4 pamphlets. Microfilm.
Correspondence, chiefly family letters, from Nottoway County, Va.;
group of students' letters at Randolph-Macon College, 1844-46; letters
written on southern trips, 1846-64, and during military campaigns, 1861-65,
by Capt. Richard Irby, C. S. A. Also a history of Methodism in Petersburg;
recollections of Richard Irby, 1845-1900; recollections of Richmond,
1845-65; agricultural survey of Nottoway County, 1854, 18 pp.
of valuable scientific agricultural data; recollections of Ralph Walton
Sydnor; Alabama resources, 1861; sketch of Dr. Robert E. Blackwell; Irby
and Fitzgerald family history and genealogy; data on early history of
Randolph-Macon College—cf. Irby's History of Randolph-Macon College,
Virginia . . . (Richmond, Va. [189-?]). Volumes include Edmund
Irby's record of slaves, 1805 et seq.; plantation record, 1847, 1854-56, of
farm activities, slaves' accounts, inventories of household, kitchen, and
farm equipment, crops, agricultural methods, operation of iron foundry,
overseer's daily record, tobacco culture, brickyard, fertilizing. Constitution
and By-laws of Volunteer Company formed at Blacks and Whites
(now Blackstone), Va., 1861, to which are added names of volunteers,
battles, campaigns, casualty lists, incidents, prisoners, 1861-65, Army of
Northern Virginia. No. 1194.
JACKSON, REV. J. EDWARD. 1861-1894. 282 items. Gift of Mrs.
Louise Bowly Rouse.
Collection of sermons preached by the Rev. Mr. Jackson, Episcopal
clergyman, in Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri,
and South Carolina. In most cases the date and place of delivery are
given. Also brief notes on Weston's Jewish Antiquities. No. 1170.
JACKSON, GEN. THOMAS JONATHAN (STONEWALL) (18241863).
1853 Dec. 28. 1 ALS. Photostat.
To Judge J. J. Allen, applying for a vacant chair of mathematics at the
University of Virginia. No. 939.
JAMES, F. CYRIL. 1930 Aug. 23. 1 item. Gift of E. A. Kincaid.
Letter from London, addressed to Dr. Kincaid elucidating points
in James's recent book [The Economics of Money, Credit and Banking
(N. Y., Ronald press, c1930)] in reply to Dr. Kincaid's queries. No.
1008.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1778-1799. 4 AD. Microfilm.
Four indentures, 1778, 1782, 1783, and 1799 in the autograph of Thomas
Jefferson, covering his purchase and sale of the lands of the Elk Hill
plantation in Goochland County, Va. Those concerned are: Henry and
Anne Skipwith, Edward Smith, Judith Smith, Reuben Smith, Sally
Smith, Thomas Augustus Taylor. No. 1162.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1801 Mar. 27. 1 ALS.
Photostat.
From Washington, D. C., to John W. Eppes, Bermuda Hundred, Va.
Comments on political and foreign affairs and on family matters. No.
1115.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1803 Nov. 27. ALS facsimile,
two copies. Gift of Clarence A. Neff, Jr., and of Mrs.
Helen Bullock.
From Washington, D. C., to Craven Peyton. Nos. 1013, 1058.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1805 Mar. 13. 1 DS. Gift
of Miss Lelia Cocke.
Clearance papers for schooner Fair Trader, John Simpson, master,
signed by Jefferson and James Madison. No. 1027.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1813 Apr. 24. 1 ALS. Purchase.
From Monticello, to Rodolphus Dickinson, acknowledging receipt of his
View of Massachusetts Proper, congratulating him on its factual character.
No. 1043.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1817-1819. 2 ALS. Purchased
for the McGregor Library.
From Monticello, Aug. 4, 1817, to Hon. Thomas Newton; from Monticello,
June 17, 1819, to A. S. Bulloch, Savannah, Ga. Nos. 1097, 1143.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1821 Sept. 11. 1 ALS. Purchase.
From Monticello, to [Daniel Brent], Washington, D. C., on box of ores
sent from Brazil, and request for copies of busts of James Monroe and
James Madison by Italian artist, Cardelli. No. 1041.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1 vol. with MS. notes.
Deposit.
Book of Common Prayer . . . of the Church of England. (C. Corrall,
London, 1796) said to have belonged to Jefferson. Notes by Mrs. Trist
and Thomas Mann Randolph. No. 1028.
JEFFERSON PAPERS. 1775-1826. 215 items, incl. microfilm,
photostats, facsimiles, clippings.
In addition to recently acquired Jefferson manuscripts separately
listed, the Library has enlarged its reference holdings of Jefferson papers
as follows: account book, 1775, in Virginia Almanack of 1775, microfilm
from the Henry E. Huntington Library, 960; 65 letters, 1790-1817, microfilm
from the Library of Congress, 961; certain manuscripts relating to the
Declaration of Independence, microfilm, 1142; letter to Charles Hammond,
1821 August 18, typed copy, gift of the University of the South, 1062;
78 University of Virginia student essays on Jefferson, gift of Bernard
Mayo, 1084; 30 letters, 1791-1826, to and from David Baillie Warden,
microfilm from the Maryland Historical Society, 1089; letter to Mr.
Hazard, 1791 Feb. 18, facsimile, gift of Julian P. Boyd, 1092; scrapbook
of Jefferson clippings, 1119, with two acrostics, gift of Horace C. Carlisle,
1137; Jefferson's insurance policy on Jean Antoine Houdon's life, 1785
Oct. 21, photostat from Virginia State Library. (See also Destutt de
Tracy, 1072; Thomas Jefferson, 1013, 1027, 1028, 1041, 1043, 1058, 1097,
1115, 1143, 1162; and Carr-Cary Papers, 1174, 1231).
JENINGS, EDMUND. 1767-1769. 4 items. Gift of Mrs. L. C.
Thomas.
Early copies of original letters to Richard Henry Lee, from London,
Nov. 10, 1767, Nov. 1, 1768, Aug. 15, 1769, and n.d., on portraits of
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and Charles Pratt, Earl of Camden, for
the Westmoreland County Court House. Description of Lord Chatham's
portrait and sketch of artist, Charles Willson Peale. No. 967.
JONES, GEN. CALVIN (1775-1846). 1815. 1 item: typed copy,
8 pp. Gift of Joseph K. Roberts.
Letter from Botetourt County, Va., to —, North Carolina,
describing Weyer's Cave (now Grand Caverns), Augusta County, Va.,
with sketch map; Natural Bridge and Madison's Cave with comments on
Thomas Jefferson's description of them; saltpetre manufacturing. No. 973.
LADIES' CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 18901907.
2 vols. Deposit and microfilm.
Minutes of the Ladies' Confederate Memorial Association of Charlottesville,
Va., and the University of Virginia, containing records
of the association, a list of University students killed in actual military
service of the Confederacy, and various letters relating to the business
affairs of the society. No. 1090.
LANG, ANDREW (1844-1912). Dec.-Jan.,—. 4 ALS. Purchase.
From Alleyne House, St. Andrews, Scotland, to Mr. Richards with refence
to writing an introduction to an edition of Edgar Allan Poe's tales.
No. 1081.
LANIER, MARCELLUS VOLNEY (1818-1905) ca. 1850-1900. 1
vol. Gift of Alexander Sidney Lanier.
Original poems of Marcellus Volney Lanier, LL.D., and his translations
of some of the works of Goethe, Herder, Jean Paul Richter, Schiller, and
others. No. 1167.
LARIMER, M. WINTHROP, U.S.N., DIARY. 1917-1918. 4 vols.
Deposit.
Diary of his service on U.S.S. Cummings, Destroyer 44. No. 963.
LEE, GEN. ROBERT EDWARD (1807-1870). 1830-1839. 34 ALS.
Deposit.
Most of the letters, addressed to his brother, Charles Carter Lee, deal
with family business matters and personal affairs. They offer information,
however, on Lee's activities at Cockspur Island, Ga.; fortifications;
gales in Georgia; orange crop; balls, dinners, and social life of Savannah;
artillery school; Old Point, Va.; cholera in 1832; lands owned by
Lees in Patrick, Harrison, and Hardy counties, Va.; brother's new home
at Spring Camp, Floyd County, Va.; machine for making shingles; "fashionables"
of Washington, D. C.; criticism of engineering corps; Life of
Warrenton and White Sulphur Springs; Sparks' Life of Washington; dismissal
of Gen. [Charles] Gratiot; Lee family coat of arms and family
tree; George W. P. Custis. No. 1085.
LEE, GEN. ROBERT EDWARD (1807-1870). 1840-1860. 20 ALS,
1 photostat. Gift.
Chiefly family letters to Charles Carter Lee, W. H. F. Lee, Mrs. M. C.
Lee on politics; Napoleon Bonaparte; Gen. Winfield Scott and Mexican
campaign; water power; Fort Hamilton; student affairs at West Point;
army orders in Texas; overseers in Virginia; Gen. A. S. Johnston; Henry
A. DuBois; Capt. Stoneman; Edward C. Turner; Major Earl Van Dorn.
No. 990.
LEE PAPERS. 1775-1794. 100 ALS. Microfilm. Purchase.
Richard Henry Lee letters in the Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and
Monroe papers at the Library of Congress. (Supplements this Library's
collection of original Lee MSS.). (See also Fairfax and Lee Papers, 1106).
Nos. 1004, 1042.
LEGAL PAPERS, MISCELLANEOUS, VIRGINIA. 1799-1802. 12
items bearing U. S. revenue stamps. Gift of Arthur Pforzheimer.
Accompanying letter supplies information concerning the several issues
of the stamps. Documents from Alexandria, Frederick, and Warren
counties, bearing the names of: Samuel Baker, Benjamin Bank, Lemuel
Brent, Dd. Castleman, Jr., Josiah Craig, Sr., Samuel Craig, William
Davison, George Eskridge, Daniel Haner, Frederick Haner, Peter Heiskell,
Thomas Jackson, Nicholas Lightfoot, James MacDonald, Robert McMan,
Charles Magill, Charles T. Martin, Ann Mentges, Anthony Moore, Jacob
Myers, George Noble, Mary Ann Noble, Jno. Ship, Edward Shoemaker,
John Sowers, Susannah Stuart, Henry Stubblefield, Bushrod Taylor,
Charles Minn, Thruston, James Tidball, Joseph Tidball, Richard Vietch,
John Wickham, Elisha Williams. No. 966.
LEONARD PAPERS. ca. 1826-1890. 1047 items, incl. 1 vol., pictures,
advertisements, mail order literature. Gift of Bascom
Leonard.
Chiefly business papers, accounts, and letters from Chilhowie, Smyth
County, Va. Among them: blacksmith's records, 1843-57; "Town House"
accounts of Daniel Lindamood; household accounts, 1826; accounts of
Robert Porterfield and John Cunningham for mill work and carpentry,
1834; promotional literature of Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad for Missouri
lands; commission house records of W. E. & F. W. Leonard;
attack on Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's gubernatorial candidacy, 1881; full
record of Wytheville District Conference of M. E. Church, South, Marion,
Va., 1892. Nos. 1016, 1071.
LEWIS, MERIWETHER (1774-1809). 1799 Oct. 31. Photostat.
Gift of Ven. Henry J. Geiger.
Certificate creating him a Royal Arch Mason in the Staunton, Va.,
Lodge. Signed by William Chambers, Joshua Parry, Robert McDowell,
Vincent Tapp. No. 1193.
LEWIS FAMILY GENEALOGY. ca. 1700-1940. 1 chart. Purchase.
Lewis family of Virginia, descendants of William Lewis who emigrated
from Wales to Northumberland County, Va. No. 1102.
LUSK FAMILY GENEALOGY. ca. 1721-1920. 1 item. Gift of
Mrs. W. W. King.
Scroll recording the descendants in Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky,
and Illinois, of the Lusk family who settled in Pennsylvania early in the
eighteenth century. No. 972.
McGREGOR LIBRARY MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS.
The McGregor Library has been enriched during the year by notable
manuscript source materials in all periods of southern history from
early colonial times to the Civil War. See separate entries as follows:
Carr-Cary Papers, 1174; Capt. J. T. Champneys, 992; Henry Clay, 991;
Confederate States Hospital, 1159; Sir Robert Cotton, 1011; Dr. Daniel
Coxe, 1178; Destutt de Tracy, 1072; Maj. James Chatham Duane, 1182;
Fairfax and Lee Papers, 1106; Willam Grayson, 1106; Thomas Jefferson,
1097, 1174; Marshall Family, 1106; George Mason, 990; Hugh Mercer, 990;
Thomas Nairne, 1178; William Strachey, 1123; Virginia Militia Order
Book, 993; Virginia-North Carolina Road Maps, 1112; Wormeley Family
Papers, 1106.
MAGRUDER, JULIA (1854-1907). 1896 Feb. 20. 2 items. Purchase.
Autograph letter by the American novelist and short story writer from
Castle Hill, Cobham, Va., to Mr. Hopkins. Steel engraved portrait of
Julia Magruder. No. 942.
MARSHALL FAMILY. 1763-1829. 38 items. Purchased for the
McGregor Library.
Surveys, writs, petitions, complaints, ejectment suits, administrator's
bonds, depositions, deeds, agreements, and other legal documents of the
Marshall family, northern Virginia, many of them in the autograph of
John Marshall (1755-1835) or with MS. notations by him. Among the
persons concerned are: Mary Ashby; Edward Carrington; Charles Chinn;
Rawleigh Colston; John Conrad; Cornelius Conway; Denny Fairfax; William
Fleming; John Gordon; Garrett Hammersley; Frederick Havely;
Henry Heth; John Joliffe; Samuel Kercheval; Thomas Lawson; Charles,
Daniel, and Henry Lee; Peter Lyons; James McCallister; Angus McDonald;
Edward and William McGuire; James Mackie; John Macrae; Charles,
James, Louis, Thomas, and William Marshall; Philip Martin; John Milton;
John Moffett; John Newman; George Noble; Elizabeth Opie; Thomas
Parker; John Peyton; Burr Powell; Edmund Randolph; Joshua Singleton;
Col. George Stubblefield; John B. Taylor; Joseph Thompson; James Ware;
Lawrence A. Washington; Elisha Williams; and others. Places mentioned
chiefly are Winchester, Va., the counties of Loudoun, Fauquier, Frederick,
Shenandoah, and the Northern Neck. No. 1106.
MASON, GEORGE (1725-1792). 1779-1787. 2 ALS. Purchased for
the McGregor Library.
From Williamsburg, Va., 1779 June 4, to [Richard Henry Lee] concerning
Virginia politics and military activities in the South. From
Philadelphia, 1787 May 21, to Arthur Lee on the federal convention he
is attending; also a memorandum in Lee's handwriting of seven amendments
to the Articles of Confederation. No. 990.
MAURY FAMILY. 1710 (1790-1865) 1927. ca. 3,000 items. Deposit.
This extensive and valuable family correspondence was collected and
preserved during the lifetime of Ann Maury (1803-76), and after her
death by her niece and foster-daughter, Anne Fontaine Maury (1832-90),
and the latter's husband, Capt. William Lewis Maury (1813-78),
and their descendants. The earliest portion of the collection
contains letters, diaries, and sermons by members of the Fontaine and
Maury families, whose kinship began in 1716 with the marriage of
Matthew Maury (d.1752) of Castle Mauron, Gascony, and Anne Fontaine
(1690-1755) who emigrated to Virginia in 1718. John Fontaine (b.1693),
a Huguenot exile in England, came to Virginia, and in 1714 joined
Governor Alexander Spotswood's famous trans-montane expedition. A
copy of his diary for 1710-18 was made in 1840, and letters of the
Maury and Fontaine families in England and Virginia were collected
and published by Ann Maury in The Memoirs of a Huguenot Family, Being
the Autobiography of Rev. James Fontaine, 1658-1722 (New York, 1853).
Sermons and letters by Rev. James Maury (1717-69), rector of Fredericksville
and Bishop James Madison, include those dealing with the Conventions
of the Virginia Clergy which were held at the College of William
and Mary, Williamsburg, and with the famous "Parson's Cause" in
which he was plaintiff and Patrick Henry an attorney for the defense.
The bulk of the correspondence for 1790-1865 is that of James Maury
(1746-1840), who served as U. S. Consul at Liverpool, 1790-1829, until
removed by President Jackson, with his business associates; his wife
Margaret (Rutson) Maury (1764-1830); their children, James Sifrein
Maury (1797-1864), William Maury (1799-1849), Matthew Maury (180077),
Rutson Maury (1805-82), and Ann Maury (1803-76).
Excellent material on early mercantile relations between Liverpool and
New York, South Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, Ohio, and Mississippi;
social history in those sections; slavery; early abolitionist movement in
the South as well as the North; descriptions of early American cities and
towns; speculation in tobacco, cotton, and wheat; early steamboats, railroads,
and other means of transportation; life at the Virginia springs;
manufactures and conditions in southern manufacturing places; party
politics of the era. Valuable diary kept by Ann Maury of trips on Atlantic
packet boats and through New York, Pennsylvania, and the
southern states, 1827-32. Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-73), the
oceanographer, was a grandson of the consul, and maintained an extensive
correspondence with the family, particularly with his cousin, Ann.
Correspondence of William Lewis Maury, distinguished U. S. and Confederate
naval officer, with his wife, Anne Fontaine Maury (1832-90)
who was in Milton, N. C., during the war, and their letters to Ann Maury,
then in New York, are sources on war conditions in Virginia and North
Carolina, on Confederate and naval history, and on the reconstruction
era. Family letters on New York life, 1860-88. Correspondence of Sarah
Mytton (Hughes) Maury (1801-49), author of Statesmen in America
(London, 1847) and An English Woman In America, (London, 1848), including
original letters for her books from the following: John Q. Adams,
Chester A. Arthur, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Jefferson Davis,
Rutherford B. Hayes, Thomas Jefferson, George III, Rufus King,
Lafayette, Robert E. Lee, John Letcher, James Madison, Duke of Norfolk,
Lord Overstone, Sir Robert Peel, Commodore M. C. Perry, Thomas
Pinckney, William Pinckney, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Samuel Rogers,
Winfield Scott, William H. Seward, Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord Stanley,
John Taliaferro, George Washington, N. Wiseman, and others. Correspondence
of Ann Maury, 1850-60, collecting data from members of
the Fontaine and Maury families on their ancestors and descendants,
and published in the form of a Maury family chart. Selected letters, a
revised genealogy, and excerpts from the diaries have been printed in
Anne Fontaine Maury's Intimate Virginiana; A Century of Maury
Travels by Land and Sea (Richmond, 1941). (There is another collection
of Maury papers owned by the University, for which see Archivist Report,
VIII, 6-7.) Nos. 931, 949, 1138.
MEAD, DR. 1861-1865. 1 vol. Purchase.
Memoir of Dr. Mead, medical officer in Hunton's Brigade, Pickett's
Division, Army of Northern Virginia. Contains vivid descriptions of the
conditions of the soldiers and brief accounts of several campaigns, mainly
in Virginia where Pickett's Division was active around Petersburg and
Appomattox near the close of the war. Also references to Generals
[Joseph E.] Johnston, Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, and others. No.
1183.
MERCER, GEN. HUGH (1720-1777). 1767-1774. 2 ALS. Purchased
for the McGregor Library.
From Fredericksburg, Va., June 22, 1767, to Daniel Morgan concerning
a proposed land scheme and a suggested correspondence with a medical
society; Mar. 24, 1774 to — concerning the refusal of Virginia's Governor,
John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, to grant land warrants to officers
out of Virginia. No. 990.
METCALF, JOHN CALVIN. 1940. 2 items. Gift.
Typed copy of address delivered at Virginia Library Association annual
banquet, Oct. 4, 1940, in Charlottesville, Va., on "Virginia Libraries in
Retrospect." Also MS. of address by Robert Henning Webb introducing
Dr. Metcalf. No. 996.
MINOR FAMILY. 1812-1849. 5 ALS. Deposit.
Letters of Henry, John B., and John D. Minor of Clarksville, Tenn., and
Albemarle County, Va., to John Mundell or John Smith, John Smith,
Jr., and Lucius H. Minor concerning disputed property; railroads; politics;
Richmond newspaper politics; fire in Charlottesville tavern; killing
game from western stage; mention of Col. Fontaine, Miss McGuffey,
Sally Fontaine Maury, Miss Morrison, Rives, Timberlake, Col. Woolfolk,
and others. No. 1052.
MOFFETT FAMILY GENEALOGY. Typed MS. 27 pp. Microfilm.
"The Moffetts of Augusta County, Virginia", by Lucy Irvine Moffett.
No. 1164.
MOORE, AMMISHADDAI. ca. 1813-1850. 1 MS. vol. Purchase.
Account book of Moore, a preacher of Jefferson County, Va. No. 1160.
MORTON, REV. WILLIAM J., COLLECTION. 1893-1940. 25 items,
incl. typescript, clippings, MSS., 2 notebooks. Gift of William J.
Morton.
Materials collected by Mr. Morton, the rector of Christ Church, Alexandria,
Va. Clippings of series of letters by Right Rev. A. Cleveland
Coxe, Bishop of Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Western New York to
Right Rev. Francesco Satolli, Archbishop of Lepanto, Ablegate, etc.,
reprinted from a Buffalo paper of 1893-94 in Boston Daily Standard.
Article on Governor Harry Byrd of Virginia, clipping. Sermon, Nov.
14, 1900. Paper by Rev. R. T. Knox of Fredericksburg, Va., on Anglo-Israel
Theory, Nov. 6, 1900. Papers on Virginia diocesan affairs, budgets,
elections. Carbon copy of Rev. Philip Slaughter's History of St.
George's Parish, Spotsylvania Co., Va. Dedication of James Monroe
Shrine, Fredericksburg, Va., program, April 28, 1928. Historical data on
Christ Church. Clippings on George Washington, including a series dealing
with his religious beliefs. Letter by F. B. Sanborn of Concord, Mass.,
Feb. 15, 1910, enclosing his article, "John Brown's Sacrifice", from
Alexander's Magazine, Boston, on the Pottawotamie affair, 1856. No. 932.
MT. SOLON, VIRGINIA. 1850-1859. 4 vols. Purchase.
Daybooks kept in a general store in Augusta County, Va., first by
James T. Clarke & Co., and later by Henry Blakemore. Separate records
were kept of the post office operated in connection with the store. One
daybook, 1850-54, kept by James T. Clarke & Co., lists sales of dry goods,
hardware, and postage accounts. Postage accounts for 1851-54 for magazines,
periodicals, and newspapers are tabulated by subscriber's name,
name of publication, and postage charges; and a series of subscription
lists in various portions of the post office account. The daybook kept by
Henry Blakemore, 1853-59, contains similar store and postage accounts;
also his ledger, 1852-57, and an account book ca. 1859. No. 1015.
NAIRNE, THOMAS (d. 1715). 1708 May 10. 1 ALS, 5 folio pp.
Purchased for the McGregor Library.
To the Right Honorable Charles, Earl of Sunderland, giving a general
description of South Carolina, his designs on the French and Indians on
the Mississippi, and plans for future English settlements in South Carolina.
(Nairne was Indian agent for South Carolina and the author of A
Letter from South Carolina, [London], 1710). No. 1178.
NELSON FAMILY BIBLE RECORDS. Albemarle County, Va.
1764-1908. 4 pp. Photostats. Gift of Mrs. James C. Bardin. No.
1049.
NEWSPAPERS.
Civil War Papers: more than 160 issues, including copies of The Richmond
Dispatch (35), Daily Richmond Enquirer (84), Daily Richmond
Examiner (7), Daily Richmond Whig (21), and miscellaneous papers,
1861-65. Purchase.
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland: 15 Virginia
papers on exchange, including Alexandria Gazette for Jan. 18, 1858 and
Apr. 2, 1874; The Academy Journal, Alexandria, for June 1885; and The
Norfolk and Portsmouth Union for Nov. 13, 1861. Also 47 issues of the
Northern Neck News, Warsaw, for 1884-87.
Harper's-Ferry Free Press: 77 issues, 1821-24. Purchase.
Leonard Collection: 1181 papers, gift of Bascom Leonard, Chilhowie,
Va., added to previous gift of 4130 items. (See also separate entry for
Leonard Papers). Includes long runs of southwestern Virginia and Richmond
papers for 1870's, 1880's, 1890's, and early decades of the 20th century,
among them The News, Bristol, 1880-92 (135 issues); Conservative
Democrat, Marion, 1881-89 (90 issues); The Marion Democrat, 1892-1900
(22 issues); The Patriot and Herald, Marion, 1887-95 (160 issues); Times,
Marion, 1887-88 (32 issues); Southwestern News, Marion, 1889-95 (75
issues); Weekly News, Marion, 1896-1918 (100 issues); Weekly Dispatch,
Richmond, 1873-99 (138 issues); Richmond Whig, 1874-88 (125 issues);
Semi-weekly Times, Richmond, 1889-1900 (256 issues); Weekly Times,
Richmond, 1901-02 (50 issues); The Virginia Patron, Richmond, 1875-78
(52 issues); The Republican, Tazewell, 1896-1905 (90 issues); and The
Patriot Herald, Wytheville, 1887-95 (74 issues). Among the papers are
these which previously have been listed as `no copy known': Grayson
Journal, Independence, for March 15, 1888; The Marion Journal for June
1, Sept. 1, 1880; South and West, Mechanicsburg, for Oct. 12, Nov. 16,
1878; Southwest Republican, Pulaski, for Jan. 6, 1899; The Virginian,
Staunton, for Feb. 3, 1899; and Mountain Index, Tazewell, for Sept. 1,
1887.
Also long runs of out-of-state papers for the same period, including
the Baltimore Herald, 1883-91 (45 issues); Weekly Gazette, Cincinnati,
1888-1903 (200 issues); Holston Methodist, Knoxville, 1874-80 (170 issues);
Journal and Tribune, Knoxville, 1886-1900 (52 issues); Press and
Messenger, Knoxville, 1871-75 (35 issues); Christian Advocate, Nashville,
1861-1940 (395 issues); Midland Methodist, Nashville, 1909-17 (160
issues); Weekly Tribune, New York, 1884-1900 (332 issues); Tri-weekly
Tribune, New York, 1900-05 (205 issues); The Weekly Sun, New York,
1877-85 (274 issues); Weekly Press, Philadelphia, 1890-1902 (153 issues);
Toledo Blade, 1879-1905 (187 issues); Willamette Farmer, Salem, Ore.,
1875-80 (75 issues); National Republican, Washington, D. C., 1886-92 (93
issues); and Washington Post, 1897-1901 (80 issues).
Maryland Gazette, Annapolis: 25 reels covering the years 1821-39.
Microfilm. Purchase.
New York Daily Evening Mirror and New York Evening Mirror for
Oct. 1844-Feb. 1845; also New York Mirror for 1844-47. Microfilm. Purchase.
North Carolina Papers: 29 miscellaneous issues, 1870's and 1880's.
Purchase.
Orange (Va.) Observer: 135 issues, 1895-1936. Purchase.
Recent Papers, gifts; 1069 issues of American Banker, U. S. Daily, U. S.
News, and Wall Street Journal from Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond;
ca. 430 miscellaneous issues from Mrs. Sally Hamilton, Charlottesville,
Va.; 315 issues from H. T. Louthan, Duane, Va.; 300 issues, including a
current run of La Prensa, New York, from Miss Florence Newcomb,
Greenwood, Va.; 221 bound volumes, including The New York Times
for 1913-24 and various Richmond papers from Richmond Public Library;
41 issues, local papers and McCurtain County American (Smithville, I. T.)
for June 29, 1907, from Mrs. Agnes Symmers, Charlottesville, Va.; 15
bound volumes and 3 unbound volumes of Virginia papers, including
The Union Star, Brookneal, 1935-39, Crewe Chronicle, 1937-39, and Waynesboro
News-Virginian, 1935-39, on exchange from Virginia State
Library; ca. 100 issues of current literary supplements from the Ven.
William Wyllie, Chestertown, Md.
Virginia Gazette (Purdie ed.): 1 bound volume for 1775. Photostats.
Purchase.
NORTH CAROLINA, MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION. 18131918.
100 items. Purchase.
Letters from Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, and Florida collected
by a dealer, bear little relation to one another, except correspondence
between members of the VanVleck and Jarratt families. Church
and Sunday School activities, particularly of the Moravians and Methodists;
tracts purchased and distributed by the Salem, N. C., Auxiliary
of the American Tract Society in 1837; and letters to and from the following
persons: Hampton Bynum, Francis Fries, John A. Gilmer, John
Hill, J. Jarratt, John Raine, R. J. Reynolds, Gen. Samuel Simpson,
James G. Stanley, Col. John Tillory, Rev. John Witherspoon. No. 1030.
OWENS-GRUBBS GENEALOGY. 1609-1941. 1 vol. Typescript.
Gift of Lockwood Barr.
Genealogical charts with notes on the individual members of the
Owens-Grubbs and allied families of Virginia and Kentucky. No. 1121.
PERKINS-CLOPTON GENEALOGY. 1609-1941. 1 vol. Typescript.
Gift of Lockwood Barr.
Genealogical charts with notes on the individual members of the
Perkins-Clopton and allied families of Virginia and Kentucky. No. 1121.
PICKENS, A. L. 1 ALS. 1838 Jan. 5. Purchase.
To Col. Samuel Pickens of Greensborough, Green County, Ala.,
from University of Virginia, on studies in law school, Prof. [John A. G.]
Davis, new gymnasium. No. 975.
PLAUTUS, TITUS MACCIUS (ca. 254-184 B. C.). 1 MS. vol., calf
on wooden boards. Gift of John Cook Wyllie.
Fifteenth century copy, in a clear upright humanistic hand, of five
comedies of Titus Maccius Plautus: Amphitrio, Assinaria, Aulularia,
Captivi, and Curculio. Initials rubricated in Amphitrio; rubrication
incomplete in others. Also notes on ecclesiastical laws. From the library
of Ascanius Migninus. No. 1134.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN (1809-1849) COLLECTION. 1829-1851.
205 items, incl. microfilm, facsimile. Purchase and gift.
Chiefly film copies of letters to, from, and about Poe. Letters from
the Griswold Manuscripts, Boston Public Library, 938; letters of J. R.
Lowell to Charles F. Briggs, 1107, George R. Graham to John Neal, 1127,
from the Harvard College Library; copy of "The Nucleus of Our Planet",
1003, from the Henry E. Huntington Library; "Marginalia" and letters
from the Ellis-Allan, O. W. Holmes, and George Watterston Papers in
the Library of Congress, 980, 1116; miscellaneous facsimiles, 947,
958; letters to and from Poe, 1836-49, in the New York Public Library,
1157; Poe letters to H. Haines, from the Poe Foundation, Richmond, Va.,
1176; essays on "Religion" and "Fancy", Poe's authorship disputed, from
Arthur Hobson Quinn, 1136; autograph of Gabriel Harrison (original MS.),
gift of Albert Stackman, 1095; Poe's reviews of the poems of Margaret
and Lucretia Davidson, from the University of Texas, 1048; autograph
letter (original MS.) of Mathew Carey to George Poe, gift of John Cook
Wyllie, 1022.
PORCELAIN MAKING IN AMERICA, 1738-1743. Typed essay, 4
letters, typescript copies. Gift of Mrs. W. B. Gilmer.
Essay, 25 pp., by R. P. Hommel on "The History of Andrew Duche [17091778],
Huguenot potter of Georgia and Virginia. First maker of transparent
white porcelain in America, 1738-1743," supplemented by letters
on ceramics in America by Mrs. W. B. Gilmer, F. Hurlburtt, E. MacAlister,
and Rudolf P. Hommel. No. 1105.
POUND, EZRA. 1935 Dec. 13. 1 LS. Gift of John Cook Wyllie.
From Rapallo, Italy, to John Cook Wyllie, Charlottesville, Va., expressing
a difference of opinion on some points of Jeffersonian criticism.
Mentions John Adams, Flaubert, Carter Glass, Andrew Jackson, Lenin,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stalin, Trotsky, Martin Van Buren. No. 1078.
PRATT, MRS. HARRY ROGERS (1888- ). 1929-1930. ca. 200
items. Gift of Mrs. Pratt.
Manuscript, with notes, clippings and other miscellany of Mrs. Pratt's
(Agnes Rothery) travel volume, South America, the West Coast and the
East (New York, 1930). This gift supplements the library's already
large collection of manuscripts and notes by this author, of articles,
travelogues, and books, principally on Virginia and the Scandinavian
countries. Nos. 946, 948.
PRATT FAMILY GENEALOGY. 63 B. C.-1930 A. D. Microfilm.
Genealogies of the Pratt and Moseley families, and of the related families
of Crawford, Fearn, Harding, Perkins, Trabue, Trent, and Wilson. No.
1100.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. West Hanover Presbytery, Synod of
Virginia. 1746 (1905-1936) 1940. 1 MS. vol., typescript copy. Gift
of Mrs. James E. Irvine.
"West Hanover Presbytery's Church Histories," gathered under the
direction of Mrs. James E. Irvine, historian of the Woman's Auxiliary.
Contains histories of Presbyterian churches in the following towns of Virginia:
Afton, Amherst, Appomattox Court House, Arvonia, Buckingham
Court House, Charlottesville, Covesville, Crozet, Cumberland Court
House, Curdsville, Farmville, Greenfield, Gum Spring, Hampden-Sydney,
Holladay, Ivy Depot, Keswick, Louisa, Madison Heights, Massie's Mill,
Monroe, New Canton, Orange, Prospect, Rapidan, Rice, Rockfish, University
of Virginia. Also includes sketches of outstanding ministers and
laymen in several of the churches of the Presbytery. No. 959.
RANDOLPH, BLANCHE F. 1875-1911. 1 autograph album and 2
ALS. Gift of Miss Blanche F. Randolph.
Autograph album kept in Columbia, S. C., in 1875. Contains signatures
of D. S. Babcock, B. H. Bristow, D. H. Chamberlain, Charles T.
Conant, Hamilton Fish, U. S. Grant, James L. Orr, Edwards Pierrepont,
George M. Robeson, A. J. Willard, and others. Also letters from General
O. O. Howard and Teresa Carreno; and a broadside with an Englishman's
cure for lockjaw. Nos. 1149, 1184.
ROSS, JOHN. 1807. 1 ALS, 1 typed letter. Deposit.
From Logan County, Ky., to father, Peter Ross, and to Reuben Crewdson,
Fluvanna County, Va., on crops, prices current, excitement in Kentucky
and Tennessee over Aaron Burr's plot, and on cattle drovers en
route from Virginia to Kentucky. No. 1185.
ROSSER, GEN. THOMAS LAFAYETTE (1836-1910). 1860-1913.
123 items, incl. 72 lantern slides, 2 maps, 2 scrap books, 40 MS. letters,
and 7 miscellaneous items. Gift of Mrs. Thomas L. Rosser,
Jr., and Miss Barbara Rosser.
The lantern slides consist of portraits, battle scenes, maps, and camp
scenes of the Civil War; religious hymns and paintings; and scenes from
three playlets. The two maps, one printed, one MS., are of a part of
area south of James River and a portion of western Virginia and the
Valley, by Jed Hotchkiss. The scrapbooks contain Civil War clippings,
post-war discussions of battles, and press notices of lectures by Thomas
Lafayette Rosser, General in the Confederate States Army; also accounts
of Rosser's controversy with Gen. Jubal A. Early and clippings of several
letters written by Rosser to various newspapers while on an expedition
in the West for the Northern Pacific Railroad. Correspondence of
or references to J. P. Benjamin, General S. Cooper, John W. Daniel,
Jefferson Davis, J. A. Early, Wade Hampton, Sam Houston, Gen. J. E.
Johnston, Fitzhugh Lee, Robert E. Lee, L. L. Lomax, George W. Randolph,
Theodore Roosevelt, J. E. B. Stuart, D. D. Wheeler, and others.
(For a brief sketch of the life of Rosser, see Dict. of Amer. Biog., XVI,
181.) Nos. 1086, 1181.
RYAN, MICHAEL. 1783-1798. 3 items. Purchase.
Land Office Treasury Warrant to Michael Ryan for 10,000 acres of land
in Virginia, with endorsements of William Haymond, surveyor of Harrison
County, and assignments of land by Ryan, Thomas Graham, Charles
Ferry, and Daniel Ferry. Issued by John Harvie, Register of the Virginia
Land Office. No. 1108.
SCOTT, JOHN WAVERLY (b. 1858). 1877-1879. 5 items. Gift of
Buford Scott.
Five certificates of proficiency awarded by the University of Virginia
to John Waverly Scott. No. 1094.
SHAVER, REV. DAVID. ca. 1831 or 1832. 1 ALS. Purchase.
Memorial to the president and members of the Council of Lynchburg,
Va., by the Rev. David Shaver, Baptist minister, protesting against the
No. 1122.
SLAUGHTER FAMILY GENEALOGY. ca. 1870-1930. 223 items,
incl. 8 printed vols., 2 envelopes, clippings, 183 letters, 2 charts, 1
coat of arms, 21 pictures, 6 miscellaneous. Gift of Charles
Slaughter.
The letters are chiefly from the correspondence of Judge William A.
Slaughter of Mount Holly, N. J., with Miss Jane Slaughter and various
members of the family in the United States. The clippings are largely
birth and death notices of the family. No. 1006.
SLAVERY IN VIRGINIA. 1843-1864. 22 items. Gift of Mrs. Paul
B. Barringer.
Receipts and bills of sale for hire and purchase of slaves. Most of the
transactions involve George Hannah and others include: Martha B. and
Ro. E. Bouldin, C. Clements, Isaac C. Carrington, Ro. R. Dickenson,
Thomas Flournoy, R. I. Gaines, Richard P. Graves, Andrew Hart, William
Harvey, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Lipford, John Morton, J. A.
Patillo, Thomas Pugh, and others. Some lists of evaluations of slaves are
given. No. 970.
SMITH, CHARLES ALPHONSO (1864-1924). 1901-1924. ca. 15,000
items, incl. letters, clippings, pamphlets, fragmentary diaries. Deposit.
A full record of Smith's wide interests in English and American literature,
philology, belles lettres, Virginia folklore, Anglo-Saxon, Old
English, and American dialects. Official and private correspondence with
outstanding educators throughout the country, leading contemporary
figures, many publishers of text books and other literary works, and
editors of scholarly and literary journals to which he was a prolific
contributor. Lecture notes for a German lecture series and for class
work; compilations of data from which he prepared lectures on poetry,
balladry, American authors, grammar, and honor systems in American
colleges. Material on O. Henry for his biography includes some original
O. Henry manuscripts; extensive records of the Virginia Folk Lore
Society which he founded in 1913 to collect Virginia folk ballads; a
biographical sketch of Matthew Fontaine Maury, in pamphlet form,
which he had hoped to expand into a full biography. Official and
private correspondence for 1911 is filled with the diplomatic crisis which
was precipitated by Dr. Hugo Münsterberg of Harvard during Smith's
Berlin lectureship. A collection of photographs, prints, and views of
buildings and works of art in places in Europe and England which he
Arthur K. Davis, Jr., in Dict. of Amer. Biog., XVII, 245-246.) No. 924.
SONS OF TEMPERANCE. Mt. Crawford Division, No. 19, Rockingham
County, Va. 1846-1892. 62 items, incl. 12 ledgers, 50 MSS.
Purchase.
Bound volumes of minutes of meetings, 1846-57; membership lists, 1882
and undated; treasurer's records 1846 et seq., 2 volumes arranged alphabetically,
and by dates of meetings, 1858-69, 1874-87. The membership
lists give occupation of member, and reason for expulsion, chief of which
was violation of Article II of the Constitution against buying, selling or
using spirituous liquors in any form. A list for 1846-48 gives this information
for seven divisions of the Sons of Temperance. A pamphlet, 21
pp., gives the Constitution and By-laws, indicating fraternal and social
activities. Miscellaneous materials include a 15 pp. MS. on pneumonia
submitted by E. C. Haller as a master's thesis in 1869 to the Medical College
of Virginia; some copy books; some accounts with a few letters ca.
1820. No. 1014.
STACKMAN, ALBERT. 1941. 4 items, incl. 1 ALS, 1 post card.
Gift of Albert Stackman.
Autograph of Gabriel Harrison and a photograph of the Fireman's
Memorial in Greenwich Village. Letter concerns various works on
Edgar Allan Poe. No. 1095.
STAPLES-PERSINGER PAPERS, 1850-1935. ca. 300 items, incl.
letters, 3 albums, 4 ledgers, pictures. Purchase.
A collection of intimate family papers from Patrick County and
Roanoke, Va., including an autobiographical sketch of Judge Samuel
Staples (b. 1821) and list of his slaves; letters of D. W. Persinger to his
mother, Mrs. M. E. Martin, from Randolph-Macon Academy at Front
Royal and the University of Virginia, 1894-96; letters of Daniel DeJ.
Staples and Mrs. Mary (Waugh) Staples, 1878-1900; papers concerning
Judge Waller R. Staples; bills, accounts, deeds, and insurance policies on
real property; two broadsides dealing with proposed unification of
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, with the church in the North, 1924.
No. 1000.
STONE, ORMOND. 1886 May 10. Press copy of an ALS. Gift of
Leander McCormick Observatory.
From University of Virginia to J. Karr regarding tools needed at
Leander McCormick Observatory. No. 1144.
STRACHEY, WILLIAM (ca. 1567-1628). ca. 1615-1628. 1 vol.
Purchased for the McGregor Library.
Original commonplace book and subject-index of William Strachey,
historian and first secretary of the Virginia Colony, containing his private
thoughts and references to various books published during his time. Also
contemporary notes evidently by another person, both of which are
marred by supplementary comments in nineteenth century shorthand.
References are made to John Earle's Microcosmography; Samuel Purchas'
Hakluytus Posthumus; Thomas Hariot's Briefe and True Report of
Virginia; Christopher Besolde; William Browne; Caspar Donavins; Erasmus;
Jean Baptiste Grammage; Richard Shirrye; and others. No. 1123.
STRIBLING, FRANCIS T., M.D. 1830-1869. 20 items, incl. 9 student's
tickets, 11 letters. Gift of Miss Louise Powell.
Tickets for classes as a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania,
1830-31. Correspondence with J. C. Bowyer and Judge John A.
Meredith during reconstruction period in 1869, as superintendent of the
Lunatic Asylum (now Western State Hospital) at Staunton, Va., concerning
his petition to remove his political disability. Letter from H. E.
Smith of Richmond to Gen. B. F. Butler, Feb. 17, 1869, asking for denial
of petition of Judge Meredith of Richmond Circuit court, and of Dr.
Stribling, for intensifying opposition to Congressional reconstruction, and
Republican men and measures. (Supplements earlier gift of Miss Powell,
see Archivist Report, X, 13.) Nos. 668, 1020.
SULLY, ROBERT M. 1832. 1 item. Gift of Miss Julia Sully.
Pencil sketch of the University of Virginia made in 1832 by Robert
M. Sully. No. 1117.
TOBACCO WAREHOUSE RECORDS, Lynchburg, Va. 1793-1796
and 1805-1806. 2 vols. Gift of Miss Evelyn Moore.
These accounts give the planters' names, method of conveyance, shippers'
marks, notes or charges against the tobacco. Both books are
indexed and contain the names of hundreds of persons transacting business
with the warehouse, including the following: George Cabell, Samuel
Calland, Hartwell Carter, John Dowdy, William Fleming, William
Galt, Samuel Harrison, Daniel Henderson, Alexander and Thomas Jefferson,
Charles and John Lynch, James Moseley, Achilles Noonan, John
Robinson, Samuel Scott, Spencer Shelton, William Short, John Smith,
Richard Stith, Charles Terrell, William Tucker. No. 1156.
UNITED STATES ARMY, 24th CORPS, RECORDS. 1864-1865.
44 items, MS. and printed. Purchase.
Papers include general orders issued by Generals A. H. Terry and B.
F. Butler; court martial reports, monthly returns of clothing, camp, and
garrison equipage of 118th New York Volunteer Infantry for May, July,
Oct., 1864, at Petersburg, Va.; ordnance records; quarter-masters' invoices;
orders signed by Brig. Gen. Charles Devens, Lt. Abel A.
Leavenworth, Col. J. H. Potter, and others. No. 1066.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. 18381921.
77 items, incl. 7 bound vols. Deposit.
Records of the University of Virginia Society of Alumni and the
Alumni Association. Loose papers include proxies for meetings, resolutions,
resignations, proposed charter amendments, treasurers' reports. No.
1053.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, ca. 1860-1940. ca. 300 items.
In addition to acquisitions separately listed, the Library has acquired
various manuscripts relating to the University (some of which are not
open to examination): Hospital Circle records, 925, 983; lectures in the
Madison Hall Theological Series, 999, 1064; Bruce Library records, 944;
Bohn Album, 971; Philosophy Club minutes, 1009; records of the PageBarbour
lecture series, 1033; address of Prof. A. K. Davis, Jr., before the
English Faculty, 1940, announcing the forthcoming publication of
Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf, 1036; records of
"Romania" lectures, 1037; notebooks of the late Prof. Francis Abbott,
1037; minutes of the Academic Faculty, 1046; records of the McIntire
Concerts series, 1093, 1099; list made by Prof. Francis H. Smith in 1898
of the University's chemical apparatus, 1124; printed forms relating to
student registration under the Selective Service Act of 1940 (the Library
has the records of the University's Student Army Training Corps of
1917-19), 1130; essay by Raymond Uhl on the power to amend, 1168;
Proctor's receipt book and bank book, 1825-27 and 1866-67, 1152, 1198;
private files of various University organizations; miscellaneous University
printed items; honors papers; theses and dissertations accepted for
graduate degrees during 1941 (detailed list published in the annual
Abstracts of Dissertations); examinations given in University courses,
943. (See also more detailed separate entries as follows: Edwin Anderson
Alderman, 941, 1001; Jacob Whitman Bailey, 1153; Francis Walker Gilmer,
1200; W. Scott Hancock, 1146; Ladies' Confederate Memorial Association,
1090; John Waverly Scott, 1094; Charles Alphonso Smith, 924;
Staples-Persinger Papers, 1000; Ormond Stone, 1144; Robert M. Sully,
1117; University of Virginia Alumni Association, 1053.)
VIRGINIA MILITIA. ORDER BOOK. 1775-1780. 1 vol. Purchased
for the McGregor Library.
Record of the Dinwiddie Militia regiment kept by Lieut. Col. Joseph
Jones (1749-1824), 1775 Aug. 2-1780 Nov. 28. Daily regimental orders;
records of courts martial; extracts from orders of Generals Muhlenberg
and von Steuben; extract of Governor Jefferson's letter of Dec. 1780; copy
of intercepted letter, Gen. A. Leslie to Cornwallis, Nov. 4, 1780; orders
for the regiments in the 1st and 2nd brigades, Virginia Militia (the
Dinwiddie Militia was a part of the 1st Brigade). Recorded at Williamsburg,
1775-77; Portsmouth and Artillery Camp, 1777; Cabin Point,
Stoner's mill, Everett's Mill, Nelson's Tavern, and Surry Church, 1780.
No. 993.
VIRGINIA-NORTH CAROLINA ROAD MAPS. 1779. 1 paper
bound vol. of 25 MS. maps. Purchased for the McGregor Library.
The maps show chiefly roads, rivers, meeting houses, and a few plantations,
towns, and ordinaries, with a few diary notes made along the road
from Rowan County, N. C., to Leesburg on the Potomac River, Loudoun
County, Va. Made by a member of the Stockton or Eddy family, of
New Jersey, escorting a wagon with passengers (and army supplies?)
from North Carolina to New Jersey. Among the places shown are Salisbury,
N. C.; Yadkin River; Surry County, N. C.; Guilford Court House,
N. C.; Andrew Vannoy's house; Dan River; Pittsylvania County, Va.;
Halifax County, Va.; Prince Edward County, Va.; Appomattox River;
Carter's Ferry on James River; Orange County, Va.; Culpeper County,
Va.; Fauquier County, Va.; Prince William County, Va.; Noland's ferry
on Potomac River. No. 1112.
WALDMAN, EMERSON (1912- ). 6 items. Gift of the author.
MS. notes, original MSS., and printer's proofs of two novels, Broad is the
Way (N. Y., Farrar & Rinehart, c1939) and Beckoning Ridge (N. Y., H.
Holt, c1940), supplementing previous gifts of his earlier novels in similar
form. No. 1065.
WALKERTON, VIRGINIA, ACCOUNT BOOKS. 1798-1800. 2
MS. vols. Gift of Mrs. Carroll M. Sparrow.
The first volume is a collection of medical notes on directions for
administration of medicines in certain illnesses, diet, treatment, kept
ca. 1800 by Dr. [Robert Wellford?]. The other is a store daybook from
Walkerton, King and Queen County, and contains accounts for dry goods,
hardware, and general merchandise for: John Bagby; Carter Braxton;
Pryor Broaddus; Richard and William Burke; Richard Byrd; Francis
Carr; Edward and William Chamberlayne; Ambrose Davis; John Dudley;
Thomas Gresham; William Gwathmey; Edward and Richard Hill; Joseph
Hillyard; John Houtchins; Bartlett Lipscomb; William B. Magruder;
William Mann; Joseph Maury; Montague family; Laurence Muse; Benjamin
Pendleton; Henry and Robert Pollard; John Roane, Jr.; Josiah Ryland;
John Segar; Humphrey and William Temple; Cuthbert, Leonard,
and Richard Tunstall; Thomas Walker; Benjamin Waller; Ralph Wormeley,
Jr.; and others. No. 1070.
WATSON, JUDGE EGBERT R. 1847-1856. 17 items. Microfilm.
Letters of Judge Egbert R. Watson of Charlottesville, Va., to his wife
and daughter, chiefly from Richmond, Va., during his term in the General
Assembly. Mention: Thomas Garland, J. H. Gilmer, Nathan C. Goodman,
Alexander Rives, Conway Robinson, French Strother, and many
others. No. 1002.
WICKHAM-FANNING PAPERS. 1754-1810. 6 items. Microfilm.
Include letter of Edmund Fanning to Mrs. Hannah Wickham, Mar. 16,
1778; same to John Wickham, Mar. 1778; Edward, Duke of Kent (Queen
Victoria's father) to Gen. Edmund Fanning, Mar. 2, 1810; same to same,
Mar. 19, 1810; certificate of ordination of William Fanning as Deacon, Mar.
10, 1754; Ensign's commission to John Wickham, Dec. 25, 1782. No. 928.
WISE, JOHN. 1796 et seq. Microfilm.
Ledger kept by John Wise as owner of the Virginia Gazette and the
Phoenix, Staunton, Va., newspapers. Also included is a separate item
containing an account with a postrider. No. 1155.
WOOLSEY, JUDGE JOHN M., COLLECTION. 1790-1824. 14 items.
Gift of Judge Woolsey to the Univ. of Va. Law School. Microfilm
in Alderman Library.
Autograph and signed legal documents of Samuel Chase, Charles Lee,
John Marshall, James Monroe, Edmund Randolph, and George Wythe.
Included also are signatures of John Quincy Adams, Henry St. George
Tucker, and references to Col. John Smith, Nathan Skinner, and Mrs.
Throckmorton. No. 1172.
WORMELEY FAMILY PAPERS. 1782-1814. 39 items. Purchased
for the McGregor Library.
Bonds, bills of exchange, protests, deeds, agreements, other legal papers,
and a few letters of the Wormeley family of Rosegill, Middlesex County,
Va. Names mentioned include: Robert Brent; Robert C. Burwell; Callender
Samuel Kercheval; Samuel Love; David Lynn; Burr and Leven Powell;
Peter Rust; Bushrod Taylor; James, John, and Ralph Wormeley; and many
others. No. 1106.
WORTHINGTON'S BOOK STORE COLLECTION. 1789-1937. ca.
300 items. Purchase.
Miscellaneous manuscripts left among the stocks of the Green Bookman,
Charlottesville, Va., bookshop of the late Charles L. Worthington.
State and county records, including: N. C. land grant, 1789, signed by
Sam Johnston (1733-1816); evidence in the case of N. C. vs. the Southern
Railroad, 1914; land survey, Prince George's Parish, S. C., 1799; Penna.
land grant, 1797; Fauquier County, Va., land deeds, 1833, of William
Striblen and others; Washington, D. C., account book [of William Noland,
Commissioner of Public Buildings?] covering sale of public lots, ca. 1840;
Washington Navy Yard receipts, 1854; naval rules governing seamen,
1856; marriage records of Shenandoah County, Va., 1838, of Franklin
County, Va., 1863, and of Erie County, N. Y., 1891; West Virginia, a few
records of Randolph County, some papers in Fayette County's suit regarding
location of county seat, 1898; Loudoun County, Va., deeds, ca. 1850-60;
Culpeper County, Va., court order regarding trial of William Morton
Chambers. Business records: merchant's daybook, Cartersville, Va., 179395;
railroad inspector's notebook, 1855. Students' notes: elocution notes
of Alexander P. Pendleton, Martinsburg, W. Va.; analytical geometry
notebook of James H. Fitzgerald, Hampden-Sydney College, 1836; a
"Short Treatise of the Principal Heads of Divinity"; copybook of Fanny
E. Graves, Louisa County, Va.; Thomas Leonard Watson's petrography
notes, Cornell University, 1895-; law notes of McLane Tilton, Jr., University
of Michigan; and sundry other notebooks, copybooks, etc. Correspondence
and miscellany: letters of the Fulkerson and Vance families
of Abingdon, Va., and Tenn., ca. 1820-50; papers of James L. Stringfellow,
of Stevensburg, Culpeper County, Va., ca. 1850-60; MS. of an unidentified
19th century novel; fragmentary diary, 1871; book of clippings relating to
Long Beach, N. J.; letter of Emerson W. Chase, March 2, 1880; Washington,
D. C., personal visiting book, 1898-99. Nos. 982, 1101, 1118, 1166.
WRIGHT, DAVID McCORD. 1940. 1 vol., typescript, carbon copy.
Gift of David M. Wright.
His doctoral dissertation on "The Creation of Purchasing Power," presented
to Harvard University in 1940 and awarded the David A. Wells
prize in 1941. No. 1132.
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