 | Twelfth annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1941-42 |  |
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS, SEPTEMBER 1, 1941 TO
AUGUST 31, 1942
ALDERMAN, EDWIN ANDERSON (1861-1931). 18 photographs,
1 item, 10 ALS. Gift of Mrs. Edwin Anderson Alderman.
1 ALS. Gift of Charles Rosen.
Photographs lent to Dr. Dumas Malone for Edwin A. Alderman, A Biography,
(New York, 1940). Proofsheet of Dr. John H. Finley's memorial
address on Dr. Alderman. Letters addressed to Mrs. Alderman from
Richard Evelyn Byrd, Carter Glass, Lord Lothian, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
and others. Letter to Rosen from Dr. Alderman, July 7, 1904, on
resignation from presidency of Tulane University to accept presidency of
University of Virginia. These supplement the Alderman Papers previously
acquired. (See Annual Report on Historical Collections, University
of Virginia Library . . ., XI, 18-19). Nos. 1229, 1315, 1375, 1457.
ALLEN, REV. BENJAMIN. 1811-1828. 20 ALS. Deposit.
To and from Allen, rector of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church,
Philadelphia, on church affairs; his brother Thomas' entry into the
ministry; services as chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania; and
work as director of the schools for education of children at public
expense in First School District of Pennsylvania. No. 1319.
BARBOUR, JAMES (1755-1842). 1829, Apr. 22. 1 ALS. Purchase.
From London, to Thomas W. White, Richmond, thanking him for copy
of novel which he presented to Sir Walter Scott as first example of
novel writing in Virginia. No. 1460.
BARBOUR FAMILY. 1793-1940. ca. 3000 items. Purchase.
Bills, accounts, receipts, bonds, indentures, personal and business
papers, and account books. The bulk of the papers are those of James
Barbour (1775-1842), who was a member of the Board of Visitors of the
University of Virginia, and contain a large amount of data on that
subject; others are of Benjamin Johnson Barbour (1821-1895), who was
Rector of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia; members of
the latter's family particularly his daughter, Carrie, later Mrs. T. H.
Ellis. Included in the collection are; Webster's Speech in Senate, Feb.
16, 1833; land grant to James Barbour, 1835; account book, 1839-1842;
ballot sheets, 1848; account book, 1866-1883; drawings, land purchases,
1882; letters of sympathy on death of Benjamin Johnson Barbour, 1894,
and of Dr. T. H. Ellis, 1902; letters to Mrs. Ellis at the Martha Jefferson
ledgers and account books of various dates having notes on the family
by Caroline H. Barbour Ellis, notebooks and scrapbooks. Among the
principal persons mentioned in the letters and accounts are: Stephen
Adams; Benjamin Johnson, Carrie H., James, Jr., and Thomas Barbour;
Charles Page Bryan; J. L. Cabell; S. S. Cox; George Culleton; William
Dabney; Lyman Draper; R. M. Duke; Mrs. Carrie (Barbour) and Dr. T.
H. Ellis; C. D. H. Fauntleroy; James Garnett; Charles Haskins; James
A. and Randolph Harrison; Willard Hunt; Hoover G. Hutchinson; Thom.
L. Johnson; James D. Jones; Fitzhugh and Thomas Lee, Sr.; Seth Low;
J. W. Mallet; John I. Marye; Charles Minnigerode; Dabney H. Maury;
John R. Page; W. H. Payne; Thomas Pendleton; Rebecca Pepper; W.
Peter; T. J. Peyton; John S. Preston; Thomas R. Price; John Riddell; G.
L. Rives; William J. Robertson; Frank Ruffin; John C. Rutherford; M.
Schele de Vere; H. G. Scott; J. H. Slaughter; S. V. Southall; Ormond
Stone; Erasmus and J. Ashley Taylor; O. H. D. Terrell, Jr.; Mary E.
Towles; Charles L. Venable; D. M. Voorhees; R. S. Walker; Miss Caroline
Watson; William Wertenbaker; John H. and William H. Wheeler.
No. 1486.
BEALL, CAPT. JOHN YATES, C.S.A. (1835-1865). 1865-1935.
Typescript 12 pp. Gift of George H. Sullivan.
Capt. Beall was arrested for privateering on the Great Lakes, tried and
condemned to hang. His letters to Mrs. Mary Mitchell Sullivan, wife of
Algernon Sydney Sullivan, deal with his imprisonment at Governor's
Island, her efforts on his behalf and last messages to his family and
fiancée in Tennessee; those to Albert Ritchie, an attorney, with business
and personal affairs. A copy of a newspaper article from the World-Telegram,
New York, Jan. 3, 1935, on his execution and his ghost. No.
1462.
BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, COLLECTION. 1752-1922. 7
typescripts. Gift of J. L. Davidson.
Lists of Bedford County Revolutionary soldiers. Genealogical sketch
of the Jeter family. Four papers on local history compiled by the
Research Committee of the Bedford County Pageant Association, 1922:
Peaks of Otter; Bedford's Part in the War of the States; General Andrew
Lewis; The Baptist Church of Bedford County. No. 1311.
BERKELEY, LEWIS. 1817-1836. 27 ALS. Deposit.
To his wife, Frances Callendar (Noland) Berkeley, of Aldie, Loudoun
County, Va.; his niece Elizabeth Edmonia Church Berkeley, of Airwell,
Hanover County, Va., on family and neighborhood affairs. One letter to
Rev. John Cooke. This is supplementary to a large collection of Berkeley
Virginia Library ..., III, 4; VI, 6; IX, 3, 15; X, 26.) No. 1344.
BIBLE HOUSE TRACTS, n. d. 32 broadsides. Gift of Dr. and
Mrs. Peyton Hundley.
Tracts issued by the Protestant Episcopal Society for the Propagation
of Evangelical Knowledge. No. 1284.
BIRCKHEAD, MRS. MILDRED. 1839-1891. 40 ALS. Purchase.
Family letters chiefly addressed to Mrs. Birckhead, from Staunton, Va.,
St. Louis, Mo., Corinth, Miss., and Philadelphia, Pa. News of Negro
slaves taken out to Missouri from Virginia; deaths, bankruptcies, and
hard times in Missisippi in 1867. The correspondents include Edward F.
Birckhead; G. H. Dear; A. H. Faris; Susanna F. Messerley; M. L. Moore;
Mrs. Sallie A. and Thomas G. Payne; Mrs. Amy Stewart; and M. Taliaferro.
No. 1492.
BRECKENRIDGE, JAMES MALCOLM. 1941-1942. 1 typescript,
7 pp. Gift of author.
Sketch of Henry Wilcox (1800-1864) of Missouri, with genealogical
data on his descendants, including records of the Breckenridge, Bryan,
Carter, Lacy, and Pernot families. No. 1419.
BRISCOE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 1274 - - -. 1 chart. Gift of
R. C. Todd. No. 1396.
BROWN, RALPH MINTHORNE. 1941, June 21-Aug. 1. 1 MS.
vol., 56 pp. Microfilm of deposit.
Diary, "The South American Quest," kept during trip along both coasts
of South America prior to outbreak of World War II, ornithological
notes, description, personalities in Cristobal, Panama Canal, Salinas,
Callao, Arica, Tocopella, Valparaiso, Viña del Mar, Santiago, Antofagasta.
No. 1316.
BURNET, DAVID G. 1836-1865. Microfilm.
Series of newspaper articles by Houston Wade reprinted from [Fort
Worth?] Telegraph and Texas Register, 1936-1937, during Texas Centennial,
based upon early letters of Burnet. Subjects include runaway
slaves; Santa Anna; Negroes in Texas; massacre at San Antonio, 1842;
Burnet's administration as president of Texas; blockades and Civil War
activities. Among those mentioned in the letters or to whom letters
were addressed are: William Cook, John Damon, William Hardin, Capt.
Gen. Menucan Hunt, John R. Jones, William Lawrence, David Macomb, R.
Mills, Col. James Morgan, Gen. Thomas J. Rusk, Antonio Lopez Santa
Anna, Gen. Samuel S. Swartwout, David Thomas, Thomas Toby, Amasa
Turner, Col. J. W. Webb, Hervery Whiting, Charles R. Williams, and
Robert Wilson. No. 1288.
CABELL, JOSEPH C. (1778-1865) 1 ALS. 1802, Apr. 2. Purchase.
From Charlotte, Va., to Peter Ayrault, Charleston, S. C., acknowledges
courtesies to him during recent visit, describes trip home marred by ill
health of brother and self, impressed by singular manners of Society of
Moravians. No. 1495.
CALIGRAPHY. 1767-1914. 78 items. Deposit.
Miscellaneous English marriage licenses, selected as examples of handwriting.
No. 1425.
CAMPBELL, WILLIAM. 1831, Sep. 4. 1 ALS. Purchase.
From Norfolk, Va., to Col. Baldwin, Charlestown, Mass., describing Nat
Turner's slave revolt, in Southampton County, Va. No. 1441.
CAPPON, LESTER J. 1941, Oct. 23. 1 typescript, 17 pp. Gift
of author.
Copy of Goldwin Smith lecture delivered at Cornell University, "The
University Library's Opportunities for Collecting Research Materials."
No. 1320.
CARRINGTON FAMILY. 1723 - - -. 1 typescript vol., 494 pp.
Gift of Charles V. Carrington.
"Data Concerning the Carrington Family of Virginia," edited by Henry
C. Riely from material gathered by Peyton R. Carrington. A detailed
genealogy of the descendants of Col. George Carrington, who came to
Virginia from the Barbados in 1723; with notes on the Mayo, Cabell,
Venable, and other allied families. No. 1343.
CARTER, C. W. ante 1815. 1 MS. vol., 219 pp. Gift of Mrs.
Samuel T. Nicholson, Jr.
Notes taken by Carter on lectures on Materia Medica, delivered by Dr.
Benjamin S. Barton (1766-1815), at the University of Pennsylvania Medical
School. No. 1266.
CARY, ARCHIBALD (1721-1787). 1782, May 25. 2 items. Microfilm
from Library of Congress. Purchase.
Letter to George Washington, enclosing resolutions of Virginia General
Assembly, opposing separate peace treaty by any state. No. 1247.
CARY, ARCHIBALD (1815-1854). 1836-1843. 10 ALS, 9 typescripts.
Gift of Francis Burton Harrison.
To his sisters, Mrs. Orlando Fairfax, Martha J. Cary, and Mrs. Edward
D. Smith, from the University of Virginia, Memphis, Tenn., Grand Gulf,
Miss., New York City, Wheeling, Va., and Port Gibson, Miss. Also
typed copies of letters to his brother, Wilson Miles Cary, from Port
Gibson, Miss., and Lexington, Ky. Describe travel through the country,
a visit to New York, and the development of Mississippi while Cary
was there in law practice with William Randolph. No. 1308.
CARY, CLARENCE (1845-1911). 1861-1865. 1 MS. vol. Microfilm
of deposit.
Diary of Archibald Cary (1815-1854), continued by Clarence Cary
while a midshipman in the Confederate Navy. There is a copy in the
Department of State, used in connection with the Alabama claims. No.
1416.
CARY, WILSON MILES (1838-1914), MEMORIAL COLLECTION.
1839-1914. ca. 2000 items. Gift of Mrs. Fairfax Harrison,
Francis Burton Harrison, and Guy Cary.
Papers of the Cary family of Virginia, and of Wilson Miles Cary of
Baltimore, Md., who collected a large amount of genealogical data. The
1820-1840 correspondence is chiefly of the Carr family of Albemarle
County, Va. A group of letters written by Cary from the University of
Virginia, 1856-1857, his expenses there, receipt for fees paid, letter from
Launcelot Maury, 1859, on life at the University. His correspondence
with his sister Hetty (wife of General John Pegram, C.S.A.) and his
cousin, Clarence Cary (1845-1911), midshipman, C.S.N. Later papers
include family correspondence from England, Europe, Maine, and Virginia.
Fairfax family genealogy. Family chronicle written in New York,
1863-1864, by Mrs. Jane Blair (Cary) Smith (1808-1888), copied and
amended by her nephew, Wilson Miles Cary. Diaries, 1857-1911, of Cary,
and one of Sidney Carr Cary (1845-1896); account books, 1879-1905, and
other business papers. Appeal to Carr family to erect suitable tomb in
Monticello burying ground to Dabney Carr (1743-1773). (For other CarrCary
Papers, see Annual Report on Historical Collections ..., XI, 22-23.)
Nos. 1312, 1321, 1378, 1415.
CARY FAMILY GENEALOGY. 1 MS. vol. Microfilm of deposit.
Genealogies of the Cary, Carr, Jefferson, Randolph, Harrison and related
families, chiefly in the handwriting of Wilson Miles Cary. No.
1312.
CHARLOTTE COUNTY, VIRGINIA. ca. 1865. 1 broadside. Purchase.
"Lands for Sale in Virginia by the Eastern Virginia Land Agency,
Wylliesburg, Charlotte Co., Va.," giving acreage, description of properties,
prices, and terms of sale. No. 1352.
CHRIST CHURCH, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA. 18201923.
2 views, 3 vols. (incomplete). Microfilm.
Interior and exterior view of Old Christ Church built ca. 1820. The
Parish Register, Oct. 1918-Apr. 1923. No. 1350.
DEFENSE BROADSIDES. 39 items, pamphlets, broadsides, circular
letters. Gift of Atcheson L. Hench.
Manual for Regional Defense Councils issued by Virginia Defense
Council, Commonwealth of Virginia, Richmond, 1941 (14 sections).
Prospectus for Minute Men of '40, University of Virginia. Defense savings
plan. University of Virginia and the war. Air Observation Post
of University of Virginia. No. 1306.
CIVIL WAR LETTERS. 1862-1864. 88 ALS. Purchase.
From a Federal soldier, Robert —, to his wife Priscilla, in Lynn,
Mass., describing garrison duty in Forts Albany, Runyan, and Tillinghast
near Washington, D. C. Frequent denials of any Confederate raid or
threat to Washington, reports on capture of New Orleans, Yorktown,
Lee's retreat, anticipated fall of Richmond, Union deserters. No. 1242.
COCKE, JOHN HARTWELL. (1780-1866). Collection. ca. 6500
items. Deposit.
Not open to investigators until further notice.
CONFEDERATE WAR SONGS. 1861-1865. Broadside. Compiled
by F. C. Vaden, Manchester, Va.
Eleven songs, without music, with such titles as, "Lee and Grant," "On
Guard," "The Bonnie Blue Flag and a Letter," "Southern Girl's Reply to
a Federal Officer," "Lee's Surrender," "Good Old Rebel." No. 1330.
COURTENAY, EDWARD H. (1803-1853). 1845, June 8. 1 ALS.
Gift of Mrs. John Miley.
From professor of mathematics, University of Virginia, to Capt. A.
Mordecai of U. S. Ordnance Department, Washington, D. C., on latter's
experiments on gunpowder; the summary and effectual suppression of
student "difficulties" at the University; the Texas-Oregon question. No.
1329.
DANIEL FAMILY. 1852-1885. 2 MS. vols. 280 pp. Microfilm
of deposit.
Diary of William T. Daniel, Orange County, Va., 1852-1885 on tobacco
market, plowing methods, farming, family and daily and social life. Notebook
of Elizabeth (Randolph) Daniel (d. 1879) of literary items,
obituaries, genealogical notes on the Randolph and Daniel families, speech
on Negroes and voting, some historical notes. No. 1434.
DAVIS, ISAAC. 1787-1850. 78 items. Purchase.
Business papers consisting chiefly of bills, receipts, wolf bounties, deeds
and surveys. The letters show conditions in Kentucky, particularly in the
matter of confused and disputed land titles; effect of War of 1812 in Kentucky;
letter of Feb. 26, 1828, from George S. Blakey on bitterness of
Jackson campaign in Frankfort gives history of Federalist abuses back
to Alien and Sedition Acts. One broadside, "Culpeper Presidential Meeting,"
March 19, 1827. One leaflet, "Major Downing's Commission to the
Cabinet," 1833. Among correspondents are: James Barbour, Lt. Thomas
Davis, Charles Goodall, Fontaine Maury, Thomas Rutherfoord, Sarah
Sanford, Enoch Smith, James Twyman, and Robert Wickliffe. This supplements
previous acquisitions of Davis Papers. (See Archivist Report,
IX, 8.) No. 1423.
DAVIS, JOHN W. (1840—?). 1861, March 3. 1 ALS. Purchase.
From a student at the University of Virginia to his brother describing
strong secessionist spirit among students, secessionist activities in the
Virginia General Convention, departure of large number of students
armed with pistols, planning to attend Lincoln's inauguration in Washington
and take part in any violent action. No. 1393.
DEAVER, JOHN A. June 1942. 1 bound typescript, 26 pp.
Prize-winning essay on "Equality before the law in Virginia, 16191776,"
in University of Virginia student contest for medal awarded by
the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia. No. 1463.
DENNETT, WILLIAM S. U.S.A. 1861-1864. 41 ALS., 1 item.
Purchase.
Received by William S. Dennett, U.S.A., from Federal officers in Washington
and Virginia, including George B. Elmore, Joel H. Gaylord,
Lewellyn Libbey, A. H. Mayo, Thaddeus K. Pendleton, and Samuel W.
Richardson. Gaylord's letter of Dec. 20, 1863, describes the fire and
explosition of the powder magazine at Yorktown, Va. "W. S. Dennett's
Chronological Memoranda of personal events during his service in the
War of the Rebellion," listing briefly his movements and observations
in Virginia with Co. "B", U. S. Engineers. Nos. 1255, 1358.
EDDINS FAMILY. 1847-1863. ca. 160 items. Purchase.
Family letters, accounts, tax returns, records of property sales of
members of the family in King George County, Va., Eastern Shore of
Virginia, Madison, Va., and Richmond, Va. A few letters are from
Chapultepec, Mexico. Civil War letters deal with the Peninsula campaign,
particularly in Yorktown and New Kent. Interest in the California
gold fields. Correspondents include E. H. S. Benton; Betsey Brock;
James T. Butler & Co.; John F. Carpenter; J. D. Craig; Millie C. Douglass;
A. M. B., Mr. May Burton, Thomas J. D. Eddins; Mrs. C. M. (Benton)
Finks; Sarah M. Fray; William C. Graves; James Saunders; and Joseph
B. Webb. No. 1469.
FAIRFAX, FERDINANDO. 1792, Feb. 28-Sep. 11. 1 MS. vol.,
80 pp. Deposit.
Diary of travels in Virginia, kept by the son of Rev. Bryan Fairfax,
Baron of Cameron, of Mt. Eagle, Fairfax County, Va. An excellent
source of descriptive data on taverns, ordinaries, the Virginia countryside
and roads, and visits to distinguished old families. Among the
Virginia places visited are: Alexandria, Byrd's Ordinary, Culpeper, Dumfries,
Fauquier Court House, Fredericksburg, Hampton, New Kent Court
House, Richmond, Staunton, Warm Springs, Williamsburg, and Yorktown.
A long sojourn at the springs is recorded, some of the politics of
the tavern companies, and an exaggerated report to an apprehensive
traveler on the Virginia custom of gouging, warning him that the custom
was so much more prevalent in North Carolina that they had an iron
gouging tool perfected. A visit to Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, and
social calls on members of the Blair, Carter, Cary, Griffin, Maury, and
Nicholas families. No. 1385.
FITZHUGH, WILLIAM (1651-1701). 1674, Aug. 26. DS. 3pp.
Photostat. From Westmoreland County, Deeds, Contracts, etc.,
1665-1677. Gift of Miss Patricia Holbert.
Property settlement of slaves and household goods on Sarah Tucker,
from Westmoreland County, Va., daughter of Rose Garrard, widow, on
her marriage with Fitzhugh. No. 1402.
FONTAINE, WILLIAM MORRIS (1835-1913). 1874-1878. 27
ALS. Gift of Wilbur A. Nelson. 28 MSS. vols., 3 Maps. Gift.
Letters addressed to Fontaine while he was professor of geology at
the University of Virginia. His correspondents were the leading state
and university geologists of that day who wrote on geological researches
in Virginia and in other areas. A series of letters, including reports
by various specialists, deals with the resources of West Virginia in 1876.
Among the correspondents are: E. B. Andrews; Charles A. Ashburner;
C. M. Borst; R. K. Cantley; J. H. Diss Debas; Persifor Frazer, Jr.; William
Glenn; G. Guttenberg; Luther Haymond; H. P. Jones; W. C. Kerr; J.
Peter Lesley; Spencer C. McCorkle; M. McDonald; F. B. Meek; Carlile P.
Patterson; A. A. Perry; William Barton Rogers; C. F. and Eugene A.
Smith; John J. Stevenson. Geology note-books kept by Fontaine, and
maps of Cuba & Central America (N. Y. 1873), Western United States,
n.d., and Mexico, ca. 1870. Nos. 1227, 1459.
GARNETT FAMILY. 1870-1879. 16 DS. Gift of Mrs. Marie (Garnett)
Venn.
Diplomas issued to Alexander Yelverton Peyton Garnett, Henry Wise
Garnett, and Jennings Wise Garnett by Columbia University, the University
of Virginia, and the College of William and Mary. Also certificates
of H. W. Garnett's admission to the bar of the U. S. Court of
Claims, Washington, D. C., and the U. S. Supreme Court. No. 1345.
GILMER, FRANCIS WALKER (1790-1826). 1814-1816. 48 ALS.
Microfilm, from Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis.
To Thomas Jefferson, on educational, literary and philosophical matters;
later letters deal with the establishment of the University of Virginia,
and Gilmer's trip to Europe to enlist European professors for the
faculty. No. 1338.
GIRARDIN, LOUIS HUE (1771-1825). 1798, July 21. Printed
prospectus, 4 pp. Purchase.
Proposal for establishment of academy at Dumfries, Va., under Mr.
of teaching and of fees. No. 1271.
GORDON, ARMISTEAD C. (1855-1931). 1874-1925. 164 items.
Gift of Armistead C. Gordon, Jr.
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly printed, broadsides, clippings, programs,
political pamphlets, with emphasis on state politics, World War I, Democratic
National Committee fund campaigns, correspondence with U. S.
Treasury Department staff, Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1903, Jamestown
Exposition of 1906, Virginia guide books, free text books for Negroes,
Virginia Schools for the Blind. The collection includes a series of letters
from Frank P. Brent, Harry F. Byrd, Robert L. Preston, Charles E. Simpson
and others. Another collection dealing with the University of Virginia
is listed separately under that title. Nos. 1404, 1498.
GRYMES, JOHN RANDOLPH (d. 1817). 2 typescripts. n.d.
Gift of Miss Texie P. Watts.
Biographical sketch of Grymes and descriptive account of Capo di
Monti, Va., by Benjamin Grymes. No. 1496.
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804). 1790, Sep. 30. 1 LS.
Microfilm of deposit.
To Thomas Smith, Commissioner of Loans for the State of Pennsylvania,
on payment of indents on Loan Office certificates. No. 1252.
HANOVER COUNTY, VIRGINIA, RECORD. [1789?]. D. 1 p.
Gift of Richard Clough through C. W. Taylor.
Sheriff's land tax record, showing names of landowners from "D" to
"K", acreage, valuation, and amount of tax at 1½ percent. No. 1259.
HARRISON, CONSTANCE CARY (1843-1920). 1897-1910. 14
ALS. Purchase.
To W. H. Rideing, from New York, N. Y., Bar Harbor, Me., Washington,
D. C., and Fauquier County, Va., concerning stories and essays written
for the Youth's Companion, and other literary matters. No. 1417.
HARRISON, JESSE BURTON (1805-1841). 1829-1830. 1 MS.
vol. Gift of Francis Burton Harrison.
Diaries of travels in Germany and Italy during a period of study at
Göttingen. Describe in detail visits to Weimar, Jena, Leipzig, Dresden,
Munich, Venice, Ferrara, etc. and interview with Goethe. No. 1325.
HARRISON FAMILY. 1712-1910. 26 items. Gift of Francis Burton
Harrison.
Letters (including originals and typed copies) of William Byrd, Col.
Wilson Miles Cary and members of the Harrison family on personal and
family affairs, yellow fever in Philadelphia, Williamsburg in 1736, and
philosophy. Three letters, 1832-1833, from J[ohn] Harrison, New Orleans,
to Jesse Burton Harrison on Hunt-Conrad duel, yellow fever in
New Orleans, trip to Memphis, river boats on the Mississippi, Mississippi
aristocracy, state banks, law profession in Virginia. Typescript of entries
copied from Bible owned by William Nash Beverley bought from Blandfield,
Essex County, Va., being the family Bible of the Carys of Ampthill,
with records of the Bolling, Meade, Page, and Randolph families, 17121846.
Among the chief correspondents are: William Byrd; Archibald,
Ellen R., Martha (Patsy) J., Col. Wilson, and Wilson Miles Cary; Sally
Daingerfield; Mrs. Elizabeth (Cary) and Mrs. Orlando Fairfax; Jesse
B. Harrison; Richard Launcelot Maury; John Randolph; Mrs. Edward
D. Smith; W. G. Stanard; J. K. Stauffer; and John Tulany. (For other
materials on the Harrison and related families see Carr-Cary Papers,
Annual Report of Historical Collections . . . XI, 22-23.) Nos. 1289, 1461.
HEMPHILL, REV. J. E., 1912 - - - .- ca. 50 items, broadsides,
pamphlets, typescripts, clippings. Gift of W. Edwin Hemphill.
Sermons and other materials collected in connection with his work in
the ministry of the Presbyterian church. Two envelopes of annotated
clippings of sermons preached by the evangelist, Billy Sunday. No. 1497.
HOOE, R[ICE]. 1784-1786. 9 ALS. Purchase.
Merchant of Alexandria, Va., of firm of Hooe & Harrison, to John and
Leonard de Neufville in Amsterdam, Richmond, Va., and Boston, Mass.
showing difficulties of shipping and exchange, problem of shipping under
American colors in this period. Data on bounty claims. No. 1334.
HOOK FAMILY. 1772-1829. 17 items. Gift of American Antiquarian
Society.
Miscellaneous papers from Bedford and Franklin counties, Va., including
statement of Patrick Henry in suit of John Calloway vs. John Thompson;
papers in appeal of suit of Hook vs. Ross; architectural drawings for
store in New London, Va., with bills for carpentry and joinery for same;
legal documents mention P. R. Gilmer, William Lewis, and Cornelius Pate.
No. 1250.
HORD FAMILY GENEALOGY. 1623 - - -. 1 vol. Photoprints. Gift
of the compiler, Rev. Arnold Harris Hord.
Table of the English ancestry of the Hord family of Virginia, with
estate of Thomas Hord of Cote House, Oxfordshire. Two heraldic shields.
No. 1264.
HUDGINS FAMILY. ca. 250 items. Gift of Mrs. W. E. Callender.
Letters, clippings, and miscellaneous printed matter, all being genealogical
data used in the compilation of Mrs. Callender's Hudgins Family
of Virginia and Their Kin (Rosslyn, Va., 1912). Include much D.A.R.
material and items about the Grant and Jett families in Virginia. No.
1337.
HUNTER FAMILY. 1770-1865. 131 items. Gift of Mrs. J. Clayton
Mitchell.
Business letters and papers of James T. Hunter, Jr., merchant of
Fredericksburg, Va., and Stone, Hunter & Co. of Norfolk. A valuable
source of data on trade between Boston, Mass., the West Indies, and
France during the Revolution. Hunter served as Commissioner of
Stores during the war, and much of his correspondence in that period
is with members of the Virginia State Committee of Safety, and with
officers calling upon the public stores for supplies. An account of the
sloop Defiance with the public store at Fredericksburg. An earlier collection
of invoices for transactions with London tradesmen includes a
large number of engraved trade cards for linen drapers, hosiers, mercers,
toymen, etc. Three letters from Robert M. T. Hunter (1809-1887) were
written from the University of Virginia at its first session, 1825-1826.
A Journal kept by Fenton Hunter, at Font Hill, 1833; R. M. T. Hunter's
letter to President Andrew Johnson is an application for pardon; and a
long essay by the latter deals with the financial conduct of the Civil War.
Among the chief correspondents are: William Aylett; Henry Banks;
George Baylor; Capt. Bondit; Griffin Bougham; Preeson Bowdoin; Isaac
Bowe; Carter Braxton; William Buckner; Blundel & Crosbie; William
Call; William Carr; Paul Carrington; John Corrie; Edmund Custis;
Clement Cutler; John Dawson; Dudley Digges; James Dunne; Faulk &
Birkhead; Christopher Gordon; James Hawkins, Jr.; Mr. Hendor; John
Herndon; William Hopson; John and William Hunter; Duncan Ingraham
& Co. of Boston; Col. John Kendall; Roe Latimer; Thomas Ludwell Lee;
Gen. Andrew; Col. Fielding and William Lewis; Lacklin Mackintosh;
Charles Massey; James Mercer; John Page; Edmund Pendleton; Capt.
Alexander Philips; William Pierce; Capt. Joseph Rivers; Roe Latimer &
Co.; Isaac Thorowgood Smith; Johnston Smith & Co.; George Spence;
John Strode; James Swan; John Tabb; Hay Taliaferro; John Welch; and
Charles Yates.
These papers supplement a previous gift of Hunter Papers which have
been calendared and indexed. (See Archivist Report ..., VIII, 6; X, 11.)
No. 1262.
IRBY FAMILY. 1848-1870. 15 ALS. Microfilm of deposit.
Most of the letters are from Mr. and Mrs. John W. Irby of Pleasant
Hill, Nottoway County, Va., to their son Dr. John W. Irby in Panola City,
Miss., with neighborhood and family news. These supplement the large
collection of Richard Irby papers previously filmed. (See Annual Report
on Historical Collections..., XI, 39.) No. 1194.
JEFFERSON, PETER (1708-1757). 2 typescripts. 19 pp. Purchase.
Will, returned July 13, 1757, from Will Book No. 2, Albemarle County,
Va., pp.32-34. Inventory of estate returned April 13, 1758, ibid., pp. 41-47.
No. 1364.
JEFFERSON, RANDOLPH (1755-1815). 1799-1815. 13 items.
Photostats from Virginia State Library. Gift of Bernard Mayo.
Materials collected by Dr. Mayo for use in Thomas Jefferson and His
Unknown Brother Randolph published by the McGregor Library, 1942.
Includes tax and land records from Albemarle and Buckingham Counties,
Va., on Snowden, and a copy of Randolph Jefferson's militia commission,
1794. No. 1292.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826), PAPERS. 1779-1829. 134
items. MSS., microfilms, photostats. Gift and purchase.
Substantial additions to the Library's collection of papers have been
made in the past year in the form of letters to and from Thomas Jefferson
including the following chronological list, and certain long series of
letters listed under the name of the correspondent, which may be located
by consulting the index under Jefferson, Thomas, letters to.
Four letters, 1779-1806, to Samuel Huntington and John Trumbull;
from William Goforth and William Philips. Photostats from Yale University
Library, No. 1413. Twenty-six letters, 1780-1825, to John Campbell,
William Carmichael, Count d'Aranda, Brig. Gen. Robert Lawson,
and John Rutledge, Jr. Microfilm from Duke University, No. 1448. Ten
autograph letters, 1783-1803, purchased for the McGregor Library, to
Maria (Jefferson) Eppes and John Wayles Eppes, No. 1223. Eight items,
1785, from Henry E. Huntington Library, drawings and specifications for
the Virginia State Capitol, Richmond, No. 1246. One letter, 1789, from
Massachusetts Historical Society, to his brother, Randolph Jefferson,
No. 1269. Nine letters, 1789-1826, from Mrs. Maria (Hadfield) Cosway,
from Massachusetts Historical Society, No. 1278. Twenty-seven letters,
1790-1803, to Thomas Mann Randolph, from Henry E. Huntington Library,
No. 1374. Twenty-four letters, 1790-1823, to and from Jefferson, microfilm
from American Antiquarian Society, of: American Antiquarian Society,
Edward E. Bangs, Bank of U. S., Washington Boyd, William Bentley,
L. Kesteloot, Emmor Kimber, Kimber & Conrad, A. Kneeland, J. B.
Kurshudt, Levi Lincoln, James Madison, Poggi & Trumbull, Speaker
Wise, No. 1447. One document, 1800, declaration of Assurance on
Monticello with Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia, from Virginia
State Library, No. 1249. One letter, 1811, to Wilson J. Cary, gift of Mrs.
Fairfax Harrison, No. 1312. Three letters, 1816-1823, to Francis Walker
Gilmer, microfilm from Massachusetts Historical Society, No. 1505. One
letter, 1819, to Mr. Chandon, microfilm gift of Ollinger Crenshaw, No.
1243. Two letters, 1821, to Richard Rush, gift of Mrs. Kate Blatterman,
No. 1407. Four letters, 1822-1824, to Joseph C. Cabell, from Virginia
State Library, No. 1224. One letter, 1824, to Clement P. McKennie, gift
of Armistead C. Gordon, Jr., No. 1421. Three letters, 1824, to William
Hilliard of Boston, purchase, No. 1251. One photostat, Jan. 1, 1829, notice
from Daily National Intelligencer, (Washington, D. C.) announcing sale
of last library collected by Jefferson, gift of Edward B. Stettinuis, Jr.,
No. 1318. "Exhibition of Prints, Maps & Surveys of the University of
Virginia and Monticello by Dr. E. M. Betts, at University of Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, April 13-May 1, 1938," 7 mimeographed copies
describing 114 items. Gift of Dr. Betts, No. 1453.
JOHNSON, JAMES G. 1894 (1900-1811) - - -. ca. 300 items.
photostast, mimeographed reports, documents. Gift of Dr. Johnson.
Materials dealing with the public school system of Virginia, including
circular notices from the State Superintendent of Public Instruction;
data on requirements for teachers' certificates, 1907-1911; Minutes of the
meetings of the State Board of Education, 1910-1911; early copies of the
Virginia School Journal. No. 1501.
KEAN, DR. JEFFERSON RANDOLPH. 1824 (1896)-1942. 132
items. Gift of Dr. Jefferson Randolph Kean.
Early items include letter from the botanist and chemist John Torrey
(1796-1893) to Amos Eaton, Aug. 23, 1838; an undated memorandum
from James Monroe, Secretary of State; a letter from George I. Pillow,
Brigadier General and Commissioner of Prisoners, C.S.A., on possible
exchange of Federal prisoners in Andersonville prison to Jacksonville,
Fla., and report on same. An extensive correspondence among army
medical authorities, medical scientists, entomologists and paleo-botanists
on yellow fever. A citation from Elihu Root, Secretary of War, to Major
Walter Reed, Major William C. Gorgas, Dr. Kean, Dr. James Carroll,
and Dr. Jesse W. Lazear (who died in the course of the experiments) for
their excellent work in ridding Cuba and the Canal Zone of yellow fever.
Later correspondence and extensive memoranda by Dr. Kean contribute
a great deal of information on Major Reed's work, and the others who
Director General of Military Relief for the American Red Cross, 19161917.
Letters, confidential reports, and other documents dealing with
American base hospitals, work for relief of prisoners, the work of Dr.
Alexis Carrel in war hospitals in France, and of American Red Cross
activities in German hospitals immediately after the Armistice offer a
detailed view of this work. Among the leading scientists, medical and
army authorities, and others whose correspondence forms part of the
collection are: Edwin A. Alderman, Newton D. Baker, Dr. William
Beaumont, A. P. Clark, E. H. Crowder, Prof. Amos Eaton, Hon. James A.
Farley, Charles Février, Surgeon-general of the French Army, Dr.
Charles J. Finlay, Calvin Goddard, William C. Gorgas, Dr. Cary T. Grayson,
Harvey J. Hill, L. O. Howard, Col. M. W. Ireland, Major R. G. H.
Kean, C.S.A., Dr. W. W. Keen, J. Warren Keifer, Dr. Howard A. Kelly,
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, Dr. J. A. Lopez del Valle, Dr. Joseph Lovett, Surgeon-general
C.S.A., Major William Lyster, Col. W. D. McCaw, Dr. Angus McClean,
Col. C. C. McCulloch, Dr. John R. MacDill, John J. Moran, Charles
E. Mugoon, Major Robert Noble, Charles D. Norton, Major E. E. Persons,
Major General Walter Reed, Major Frederick F. Russell, A. C. Seward,
William Howard Taft, George H. Torrey, John L. Torrey, Oscar W. Underwood,
Dr. G. Vincety, E. M. Weaver, E. Wheeler, Day Allen Willey, Dr.
William H. Wilmer, Lt. Col. Francis A. Winter, Major General Leonard
Wood, and Mason Young. Nos. 1331, 1361, 1439.
KING, RUFUS (1755-1827). 1825. 15 ALS. Deposit (with letter
of gift from Charles R. King, Feb. 14, 1901).
Correspondence, as agent of the University of Virginia; with Thomas
Jefferson and George Canning, on case of Professor Charles Bonnycastle,
who forfeited a bond to the British government by leaving an English
University to teach at the University of Virginia. Some discussion of
purchase of scientific apparatus and equipment for the University. No.
1235.
KINSOLVING, REV. WYTHE LEIGH (1878-). 24 items. Gift of
author.
Music composed by Dr. Kinsolving, copies of hymns. Printed pamphlet,
The River of Thought and Other Verses with manuscript additions. Prospectuses
for two books later published as Tapestry, and Violets, a Song.
Both by the author, New York, 1929. No. 1353.
LATANE, JAMES A. 1849-1851. 2 MS. vols. 5 items. Gift of
Mrs. Carroll Mason Sparrow.
Two student notebooks at the University of Virginia, 1850-51, one in
mathematics taught by Prof. Edward H. Courtenay, the other in moral
money (Virginia and C.S.A. notes). No. 1440.
LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1794-1865). 1824, Apr. 7. 1 ALS. Purchase.
To Carey and Lea concerning details of the publication of the Memoir
of the Life of Richard Henry Lee (Philadelphia, 1825). No. 1387.
LEIGH, BENJAMIN WATKINS (1781-1849). 1820-1844. 1 item,
31 ALS. Gift of B. W. Leigh.
Letters to Leigh from John Calhoun, Henry Clay, William Henry Harrison,
James Madison, John Marshall, William C. Preston, and Daniel
Webster on business and politics. Early letters deal with legal problems
of Henrico County, lands belonging to George Clay, deceased brother of
Henry, and other fiduciary difficulties. Virginia-Kentucky boundary
dispute, Whig politics, and a pamphlet, Some serious considerations on
the present state of parties, with regard to the presidential election; with
the authors own case fairly stated . . . by Christopher Quandary [of
Essex County]. (Richmond, printed by Thomas W. White, 1827). 24 pp.
Nos. 1395, 1403.
LEWIS, IVEY F. 1935. 1 typescript, 12 pp. Gift of Ivey F. Lewis.
Article, "A Short Survey of the Miller School of Biology," compiled
by Dr. Lewis and Charles F. Young. No. 1340.
LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879). 1862-1868. 2 typescripts. Gift of
B. Youngblood.
Copies of two letters, dated in England, July 14, 1862, and Aug. 27,
1868, to Henry Tutwiler, Greene Springs, Hale Co., Ala., discussing the
Civil War and the English attitude toward the Confederate States. No.
1230.
McGREGOR, TRACY W. (1869-1936). 1933. 9 ALS. Gift of
Wilson Gee.
Correspondence between Mr. McGregor and Dr. Gee arranging to
meet in Charlottesville, Va., or Washington, D. C., to discuss problems in
rural sociology. No. 1248.
MADISON, JAMES (1751-1836), COLLECTION. MS. n.d. 3 pp.
in writing of Anna Payne. Purchase.
Proposed plan of organization of Madison's writings: "The Writings
of Mr. Madison are arranged to be divided into volumes of five or six
Confederation; Virginia Constitution; administrations of Washington and
John Adams; correspondence with foreign ministers, heads of departments
and others during Jefferson and Monroe's administrations; letters
and writings on the U. S. Constitution; essays and letters on political
economy, international law, judicial and natural history; and miscellany.
No. 1342.
MANN, WILLIAM HODGES (1843-1927). 1876-1909. 6 items.
Deposit.
Commonplace book of poetry copied by Mrs. Mann (née Etta E. Donnan)
in 1876; typed copies of newspaper articles and editorials dealing
with events and controversies during the administration of Gov. William
E. Cameron of Virginia, 1882-1883, which include a series of the problems
of white and Negro schools, and a long record on the Norfolk city
charter of 1882; scrapbook of clippings on the gubernatorial race between
Mann and Harry St. George Tucker; response by Mann as governor to
toast, "Virginia." No. 1327.
MANNING, COL. RICHARD I., C.S.A. 1837, Dec. 6. 1 ALS.
Purchase.
To Mrs. Emma Cantley of Camden, S.C., written soon after his matriculation
at the University of Virginia. He was the son of Richard Irvine
(1789-1839), who was governor of South Carolina, and father of Richard
Irvine (1859-1931), who also served as governor. No. 1296.
MAP COLLECTION. 26 items. Gift and purchase.
Additions to the McGregor Library Collection of maps include:
A Map of the [Most] Inhabited part of Virginia containing the Whole
Province of Maryland with Part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North
Carolina. Drawn by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson in 1751.
"Engrav'd and Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by Thos. Jefferys
Geographer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at the Corner of
St. Martins Lane, Charing Cross, London."
31 by 50 inches. Scale: 30 miles to 2 7/8 inches. Philadelphia and
Curratuk Creek are 0° Longitude.
This copy, one of two known, of the first edition of the map drawn by
Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, father of Thomas, was recently purchased
by the Tracy W. McGregor Library.
The title is within a scroll, including an engraving of a tobacco warehouse
and wharf. Below the title and engraving is the following dedication:
"To the Right Honourable, George Dunk Earl of Halifax First Lord
Commissioner and to the Rest of the Right Honourable and Honourable
Commissioners for Trade and Plantations. This map is most humbly Inscribed
devoted humble servt., Thos. Jefferys."
The first edition differs in important respects from later ones; the
mountains and rivers (the New and the Ohio particularly) and the western
section being inaccurately and incorrectly located. These errors are
corrected in the 1755 and later editions. The major error, however, is the
placing of the base of Lake Erie far south of its actual site; on the 40°
Latitude in this instance.
Some of the rivers and boundary lines are colored.
Nothing is known of its provenance.
A new accurate map of the English plantations in America and of
the Louisiana and River Mississippi. (London, ca: 1703-1710.) 12⅞″
by 11[fraction 15 by 16]″, 60 English miles to degree, 300 miles=2[fraction 5 by 16]″.
Virginia, Marylandia et Carolina. By Johann Homann. (Nürnberg,
ca. 1720.) 22⅞″ by 19[fraction 3 by 16]″.
New map of the North part of America claimed by France. By Hermann
Moll. (London, 1720.) 40⅜″ by 24[fraction 3 by 16]″.
An accurate map of the English colonies in North America bordering
on the River Ohio [and with text on either side describing French encroachments
and Washington trip.] (London, ca. 1756.) 12¼″ by
13[fraction 11 by 16]″, 69 English statute miles to a degree, 200 miles=2″.
North and South Carolina. By H. Mouzon. (London, 1775.) 56[fraction 15 by 16]″
by 40⅜″, 69½ English miles to a degree, 60 miles=7½″.
A chronological map of the province of New York, by Claude Joseph
Sautier. (London, 1779.) 55⅝″ by 72⅞″ about 69⅝ English statute
miles to a degree, 40 miles to 7⅝″.
A plan of the entrance of Chesapeake Bay and James and York
Rivers. ([London], Nov. 26, 1781.) 20¼″ by 16″, 10 miles=2[fraction 9 by 16]″.
Geographical, statistical, and historical map of Florida, by F. Lucas,
Jr. Engraved by Young and Delleker. (Philadelphia, 1882.) 9½″ by
11[fraction 9 by 16]″, 69½ miles to a degree, 110 miles=2[fraction 1 by 16]″.
Military maps illustrating the operations of the Armies of the Potomac
and James, May 4, 1864-April 9, 1865. A collection of 16 maps: Antietam,
Va. 25¼″ by 21[fraction 13 by 16]″, scale, 3″ to 1 mile. Appomattox Court House, Va.
21[fraction 9 by 16]″ by 30″, scale, 3″ to 1 mile. Bermuda Hundred, Va. 28¼″ by
18⅝″, scale, 1½″ to 1 mile. Chancellorsville, Va. 24″ by 32[fraction 9 by 16]″, scale,
3″ to 1 mile. Cold Harbor, Va. 32⅛″ by 19[fraction 5 by 16]″, scale, 3″ to 1 mile. Fredericksburg,
Va. 21″ by 3¾″, scale 3″ to 1 mile. Gettysburg and Appomattox
Court House, Va. 26[fraction 3 by 16]″ by 43[fraction 2 by 16]″ (two plates) scale, 2¼″ to 10
miles. Harper's Ferry, Va. 26⅞″ by 34[fraction 1 by 16]″, scale, 3″ to 1 mile. High
Bridge and Farmville, Va. 29[fraction 9 by 16]″ by 20[fraction 15 by 16]″, scale, 3″ to 1 mile. Jeterville
and Sailors Creek, Va. 33[fraction 7 by 16]″ by 19[fraction 5 by 16]″, scale, 3″ to 1 mile. North Anna,
Va. 18[fraction 1 by 16]″ by 15[fraction 1 by 16]″, scale, 3″ to 1 mile. Petersburg and Five Forks, Va.
33[fraction 1 by 16]″ by 21[fraction 1 by 16]″, scale, 1½″ to 1 mile. Richmond, Va. 32[fraction 11 by 16]″ by 21¼″,
scale, 1½″ to 1 mile. Spottsylvania Court House, Va. 30[fraction 3 by 16]″ by 19[fraction 3 by 16]″,
scale, 3″ to 1 mile. Totopotomoy, Va. 32[fraction 5 by 16]″ by 19[fraction 11 by 16]″, scale 3″ to 1 mile.
The Wilderness, Va. 17[fraction 3 by 16]″ by 29[fraction 1 by 16]″, scale, 3″ to 1 mile.
Map of North America, by Hermann Moll. (London, n.d.). 37[fraction 11 by 16]″
by 22[fraction 5 by 16]″.
MARTIN, SENATOR THOMAS S. (1847-1919). 1902-1916. 2
scrap books. Deposit and microfilm.
Clippings and miscellaneous material connected with his public career.
No. 1502.
MASON, JAMES M. 1867, Mar. 30. 4 items. Gift of Arthur
Pforzheimer.
Advertisements, sheriff's notices, etc., of sale of his lands in Winchester,
Va. No. 1472.
MASON FAMILY. 1776-1899. 73 items. Deposit.
Business and legal papers of the Mason family of Sussex County, Va.
Sales of Negroes and real estate. Will of John Mason of Albemarle
Parish, Sussex County, 1796. Will of Thomas Hunt (early copy, with
John Wickham's legal opinion on it). Inventories of estates of members
of these families. Legal opinion of William Broadnax. Confederate
cotton coupon loan. Speech of Hon. T. H. Bayley of Virginia in U. S.
House of Representatives on Slavery in the Territories, May 16, 1848; and
one by Hon. Gilbert C. Walker of Virginia on Counting Electoral Votes,
Jan. 25, 1877. Among the correspondents and those engaged in business
transactions are: Augustin Bishop; George Richard Blow; Dr. Thomas
Brown; Johnson Brownley & Co.; Henry Christian; Lucy M. Downman;
Lawrence Gibbons; Anselm and Benjamin Dunn Gilliam; Michael Wall
Hancock; William S. Hopkins; Thomas Hunt; Robert H. Jenkins; James
and William Johnson; John and William H. Mason; Col. William Murray;
D. R. Newsom; Patterson & Mills; James Peters; Putney & Watts; Stebbins
& Pullen; Michael Wall; Joseph Williamson; and William Wycke. No.
1228.
MAURY FAMILY. 1710-1856. 4 items. Deposit.
Two bound manuscript cook books, one compiled by Mrs. Margaret
(Rutson) Maury (1764-1830). Genealogical chart of the Maury and Fontaine
families prepared by Ann Maury (1803-1876) in 1850-1860. The
latter's copy of her kinsman's book, Matthew Fontaine Maury's The
Physical Geography of the Sea (New York, 1856). (These have been
added to the large deposit of Maury Papers. See Annual Report on
Historical Collections, XI, 37-38.) Nos. 1237, 1433.
MENCKEN, HENRY L. (1880- ). 1 broadside. Purchase.
Brief critical essay, "Mr. Cabell of Virginia," discussing the work of
James Branch Cabell. No. 1394.
MERCER, CHARLES FENTON. 1 ALS. 1804, Aug. 10. Purchase.
From Dumfries, Va., to John Thompson Mason, Georgetown, bills of
exchange and boundary dispute over their adjoining property. No. 1471.
MICHIE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 1552 - - -. 3 typescripts, 90 pp.
Gift of compiler, Thomas Johnson Michie.
Revised account of the Michie family in Scotland and in Virginia, with
brief sketches of the related Johnson and Watson families. No. 1401.
MINOR, JAMES (1785-1828). 1801-1817. 81 items. Deposit.
Correspondence and other papers of Dr. Minor of Sunning Hill, Louisa
County, Va., chiefly letters to and from Peter Minor, and George Watson
(whose sister Mary married Minor) during their study of medicine at
the universities of Pennsylvania and Edinburgh, and in the early years
of their practice. The letters offer valuable data on early methods of
instruction in medical schools, problems concerning public feeling against
dissection, the admiration of his students for Dr. Benjamin Rush, and
keen student interest in contemporary politics, at the College of William
and Mary and elsewhere. Among the correspondents are: James
Alexander; Mrs. Mary Anderson; Robert Briggs; Lea Crutchfield; John
Downing; Thomas B. Gray; S. T. Hay; John and R. Lewis; Robert Miller;
Elizabeth, Garrett, Mary, and Peter Minor; Morton Pannill; John and
Pryor Quarles; John Scott; Dr. W. Wardlaw; J. Skelton Watson; W. Wilson,
Jr.; and R. Yancey. No. 1214.
MITCHELL, SILAS WEIR. 1847. 2 ALS. Purchase.
From Thomas T. Byrd, Jan. 31, 1847, describing a gay Christmas in
Virginia. From St. George Tucker, Nov. 7, 184—, at the University of
Virginia, expressing great friendship. No. 1384.
MONROE, JAMES (1758-1831), COLLECTION. 1806-1823. 16
items. Gift of Frank C. Littleton.
Copies of the wills of Joseph Jones (1727-1805), uncle of Monroe, and
of Monroe himself. Inventory of President Monroe's estate in Loudoun
County, Va., taken in 1823. Historical data on Oak Hill includes note
from Jefferson sending his sketch plan for the building; carpenter's bills
to the architect, James Hoban; ground floor plan. Report on inspection of
wheat machine on Monroe's farm, 1822. No. 1300.
MORGAN, COL. WILLIAM A., C.S.A. 1853-1889. 25 items. Gift
of Arthur Pforzheimer.
Correspondence chiefly during the Civil War with Jubal A. Early, Fitzhugh
Lee, Robert E. Lee, John Letcher, wife Mrs. Anna Morgan,
Thomas T. Munford, George L. Peyton, Gen. Thomas L. Rosser, and
others. Letter from Daniel A. Morgan, 1863, dated from prison camp
acknowledges food and letters. Those from camps around Winchester,
Va., to Mrs. Morgan describe campaign in that area, Stuart's cavalry;
others tell of battles and campaigns at Manassas Junction, Fairfax
Station, Camp Longstreet, Camp Cooper, Headquarters of Rosser's Brigade,
and Bedford County, Va. A history of the Union Theological
Seminary, Prince Edward, Va., is given in connection with an appeal for
funds tracing its services, 1824-1866. No. 1275.
MUSIC PUBLISHED IN CHARLESTON, S.C. 1819-1831. 36
items. Purchase.
Airs and songs by Jacob Eckard, Jr., Charles Gilpert, E. Guilbert, F. C.
Hoffman, and others, printed at the Music Warehouse of John Siegling.
The Siegling Publishing Company is the oldest continuous music publishing
house in America and is still owned by the same family. No.
1399.
NELSON, FRANCIS K. 1840-1845. 1 MS. vol. Deposit.
Farm diary kept at Belvoir, Albemarle County, Va. 1840-1845. Commonplace
book of Robert W. Nelson of Episcopal High School, describes
excursion to Mount Vernon, July 16, 1840, and gives drawing of tomb
of Washington. No. 1254.
NEVILLE COLLECTION. 1834-1863. 6 ALS., 1 D., 1 clipping.
Gift of Mrs. Walter H. Dey.
Letters from George Neville, C.S.A., from Portsmouth, Richmond and
Wythe County, Va., to Miss Nellie Newman of James City County and
Smithfield, Va., on personal affairs, social activities, Federal raids in
Wythe County, and war prices. Marriage settlement, Dec, 31, 1834, reserving
dower right to eight slaves of Eliza Daughtry, widow, who is to
marry John L. Haynes, both of Nansemond County. Clipping from
Southern Argus, Norfolk, Jan. 30, 1858, on opposition of Jefferson
[Literary] Society, University of Virginia, to appointment of Henry W.
Davis. No. 1291.
NEWSPAPERS.
By gift, purchase, and deposit, the Library has added substantially to
its file of newspapers. Major acquisitions include the following:
Virginia Gazette. Williamsburg and Richmond, 1766-1782. 1 bound vol.
27 issues. Purchased by the McGregor Library. The starred
issues are not available in the photostatic volumes issued by the
Massachusetts Historical Society; the Williamsburg edition represents
a continuous publication under successive editors, the
Richmond publication an entirely different edition. 1766 (William
Rind, editor), Nov. 27*, Dec. 4*, 11*, 25*. 1770 (Purdie &
Dixon, editors), Sep.[20]*, Oct. 18. 1775 (Alexander Purdie,
editor) Mar. 24, Apr. 14 and supplement, May 5, June 16, 23* and
supplement*. 1777 (Alexander Purdie, editor), June 13*, 20*
and supplement, Aug. 1* and supplement*, 22*, 29*. 1778 (Alexander
Purdie, editor), Oct. 16*, 23*. 1782 (Nicolson & Prentis,
editors) published in Richmond, Nov. 30*, Dec. 7*, 21*, 28*.
Glass Deposit. Files from the newspaper office of the Lynchburg papers
edited by members of the Glass family, deposited by Powell
Glass. The file contains 202 bound volumes and 210 loose papers.
Some of the volumes are incomplete, others are duplicates:
Lynchburg, Daily Advance, 1893-1934.
Daily News, 1866, 1874, 1883, 1887-1889, 1891, 1893-1894, 1896, 1899,
1900-1934.
Tri-Weekly News, 1867, 1876, 1878.
Weekly News, 1907, 30 issues; 1908, 30 issues.
Richmond, Times-Dispatch, 1896, Oct.—1897, Aug.; 1899, May-June, Dec.—
1900, Mar.
Washington, D. C., The United States Daily, 1931-1932, 150 issues.
Virginia Papers
Fredericksburg, Virginia Herald, 1815, July 1—1816, June 29. 1 vol.
Deposit.
Leesburg, Washingtonian, 1852, Mar. 19. Purchase.
Orange, Review, 1939-1941, 3 bound vol. Gift of James M. Green, editor
and publisher.
Petersburg, Trench and Camp, 1917, Dec. 1—1918, Nov. 20, 36 issues. Gift
of Dr. Clarence S. Brigham, American Antiquarian Society.
Richmond, The Dispatch, 1901 June—1902, June. 8 vols. Gift of Mrs.
A. Caperton Braxton.
The Examiner, 1799, Jan. 25 supp. Exchange, Enoch Pratt Free Library.
Southern Opinion, 1868-1869, 18 issues. Purchase.
The Virginia Patriot (later Richmond Daily Mercantile Advertiser),
1802, Jan. 5—1809, Dec. 19. Microfilm, Virginia State Library.
The Virginian Gazette and General Advertiser, 1790-1809. 9 rolls of
microfilm, Library of Congress and Virginia State Library.
The Evening Whig, 1865, Apr. 7. Exchange, Enoch Pratt Free Library.
Out-of-state Papers
New York, N. Y., Pour la Victoire. Journal Français d'Amerique. 1942.
Mar. 28 (first issue)—Sep. 26. Purchase.
La Voix de France, 1941, Sep. 15. Gift of Lawrence Lee.
Philadelphia, Pa., Daily News, 1859, 1 issue. Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth B.
Ritchie.
Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1789. 21 rolls microfilm, Historical Society
of Pennsylvania.
Washington, D. C., The Constitution (daily), 1859, Apr. 16—Dec. 30 (lacks
9 issues). Purchase.
Facsimile copies. Gift of Arthur Pforzheimer
Annapolis, Md., Maryland Gazette, 1745, Jan. 17.
Baltimore, Md., Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser, 1773, Aug.
20; 1775, Apr. 19.
Boston, Mass., Boston Gazette and County Journal, 1770, Mar. 12.
Kingston, N. Y., Ulster County Gazette, 1800, Jan. 4.
New York, N. Y., New York Morning Post, 1783, Nov. 7.
Philadelphia, Pa. Christmas Box for the Customers of the Pennsylvania
Journal, 1773, Dec. 24.
Pennsylvania Gazette, 1729, Sep. 25, Oct. 2; 1799, Dec. 24; 1800, Jan. 15.
Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser, 1776, Jan. 10.
Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, 1784, Sep. 21.
Public Ledger, 1838, Mar. 25.
Foreign Papers
Andenach, Germany. The Watch on the Rhine, 1919, Mar. 9. Gift of
estate of Philip Alexander Bruce.
Manchester, Eng. Guardian, 1941, May-Dec. Three rolls of microfilm,
Harvard University.
Paris, France. The Stars and Stripes, 1918, Feb. 22, Mar. 15, 22, 29,
Apr. 5, 17, 26, May 10. Gift of Mrs. Archibald Bolling Shepperson.
Le Temps, 1938-1940. Four rolls of microfilm, Harvard University.
Rome, Italy. Il Giornale d'Italia, 1938-1940. Four rolls of microfilm, Harvard
University.
OVERSEER'S ACCOUNTS, ORANGE COUNTY, VA. 17441757.
72 pp. Microfilm of deposit.
These accounts were recorded by several overseers who kept store for
a proprietor believed to be James Madison, Sr. Benjamin Winn kept the
accounts until 1745, Jeremiah White in 1747-1748, and Francis Dabney
in 1750. Among the tenants are Thomas Dabney, V. Brockmann, and
Jeremiah White. The overseers kept the records of the owner's corn
and tobacco crops, and the sales of goods from the store, chiefly gunpowder,
shoes, needles, groceries, fiddlestrings, brandy, china, and hardware.
Among those having substantial accounts with the store are:
James Barbour; William Brockmann; John Buford; Charles Blunt; James
Bulckley; John Busby; Thomas Chew; John Cocke; Francis Conway;
Henry Fry; Mrs. Francis and William Francis Madison; John Nicholas;
Erasmus Taylor; James Walker; John Willis; and Capt. Richard Winslow.
No. 1457.
PILSEN FAMILY. 1792 (1819)-1880. 432 items. Purchase.
Business, college, and personal papers chiefly belonging to John Pilsen
of Albemarle County, Va., and his brother, Matthew, of Augusta County,
Bills; receipts; land grants; administrator's papers; lawsuit over a mill;
Revolutionary pensions; records of the overseers of the poor; copy of
landgrant to Thomas Walker of Albemarle, 1772; farm implements; list of
subscribers to Mountain Plain [Presbyterian] meeting house, 1822; letter
on life in Athens, Tenn., March, 1824; inventory of estate of Richard
Wallace; list of subscribers to E. A. Philip's school at Christian Creek,
1848; report cards from Augusta Female Academy for Elizabeth and
Martha Pilsen; road building; tax bills; series of letters on the Howardsville
and Rockfish Turnpike Co. Among the chief correspondents are:
James H. Bailey; Philip P. Barbour; James Jr., Joel, and John Black;
James Brooks; Francis and John Browning; William Cabell; Edward
Carter; J. Churchman; Oliver Cleaveland; J. Coffman; John Doake; Samuel
Finley; Thomas Fitzpatrick; Alexander C. and Bernard Franklin;
Robert Gamble; Alexander Garrett; David Hays; Wallace Hudson;
Andrew and Matthew Hunter; Cornelius McFall; Jacob Moon; James
and Matthew Pilsen; William Ramsay; Joel Smith; Lucinda and William
Scott; Robert L. Slaughter; Alexander Trent; Thomas Walker; Michael,
Richard and Samuel Wallace; John Wilkerson; and Joel Yancey. No.
1326.
POE, EDGAR ALLEN (1809-1849), COLLECTION. 1831-1849. 78
items. Photostat and microfilm. Gift and purchase.
Chiefly letters to and from Poe and several published items. Five
letters, 1831-1845, to Joseph B. Boyd, Matthew Carey, William Duane
(2), and William Gwynn, from Pennsylvania Historical Society, No. 1400.
One letter, 1835, to Thomas White, from Poe Foundation, Richmond, Va.
No. 1464. Six letters, 1835-1849, to [Matthew?] Carey, Philip P. Cooke,
George W. Eveleth, Laughton Osborne, William Poe from N. Y. Public
Library, No. 1324. Thirty-five letters, 1835-1869, to Maria Clemm, George
Poe, Neilson Poe. Others about Poe addressed to Maria Clemm from
Gabriel Harrison, O. W. Holmes, Henry W. Longfellow, Sarah H. Whitman,
N. P. Willis, and others, from Enoch Pratt Free Library, No. 1307.
Two letters, 1836-1844, to Harrison Hale and Joel P. Sutherland, from
Haverford College, No. 1451. Five letters, 1839-1848, from William
Burton, Mrs. Ellet (2), John H. Hopkins, Jr., S[ocrates] Maupin from
Harvard College Library, No. 1324. One letter, July 4, 1841, to Frederick
W. Thomas, from New York Public Library, No. 1426. Letter, Sep. 18,
1841, to Lewis J. Cist, gift of Nelson F. Adkins, No. 1332. Letter, Nov.
26, 1841, to Frederick W. Thomas, from Dumbarton Oaks Research
Library, No. 1410. Two letters, 1841-1842, to Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney,
from Connecticut Historical Society, No. 1418. One article by Poe "Notes
on English Verse," from Pioneer, March, 1843, from Yale University
Library, No. 1437. Nine letters, 1841-1849, to Judge Robert T. Conrad,
George W. Eveleth, Horace Greeley, Susan Ingram, Annie Richmond, J.
Augusta Shea, Joseph E. Snodgrass, John R. Thompson, from the Morgan
Library, No. 1408. Two letters, 1843, to Peter D. Bernard and Miss Lucy
D. Henry, from the Virginia State Library, No. 1409. Two letters, 18431849,
Frederick W. Thomas to Robert Tyler, introducing Poe; from Georgia
Lippan to Rufus Griswold about Poe, from Boston Public Library, No.
1411. Letter, Nov. 27, 1847, to Mrs. S. A. Lewis, from Yale University
Library, No. 1297. Two letters, 1849, to Rufus W. Griswold, from the
University of Texas, No. 1392. Prospectus for The Stylus, a monthly
journal of general literature to be edited by Poe and published by Clarke
& Poe in Philadelphia, printed in the Philadelphia Saturday Museum
March 4, 1843, No. 1456. Poe's "Marginalia" in The United States Magazine
and Democratic Review, XIX, 30-32, gift of DeWolfe Miller, No.
1360. Copy of reprint of article by John W. Ostrom on two unpublished
Poe letters, 1836-1840, No. 1473. These have been added to other papers
previously acquired. (See Annual Report on Historical Collections . . .
XI, 43).
POLK FAMILY GENEALOGY. 1744-1938. 1 typescript. 15 pp.
Gift of William L. Porter.
Notes entitled "Descendants of Captain William Polk (1744-1835) of
Accomac Co., Va." No. 1217.
PRATT, MRS. HARRY ROGERS (1888- ). 1941-1942. ca. 175
items. Gift of Mrs. Pratt.
Typed manuscript drafts; galley proofs, correspondence with publishers,
Dodd Mead & Co., for two books published under the name of Agnes
Rothery, Washington Roundabout (New York, 1942), a guide to Washington,
D. C.; and Family Album (New York, 1942). Nos. 1366, 1388.
PRENTIS FAMILY. 1744-1825. 2 typescript volumes. Gift of
Robert Henning Webb.
Copies of papers of members of the Prentis and related families, of
Williamsburg, Suffolk, and the Eastern Shore of Virginia, dealing with
family and legal affairs; and a series of letters from David Meade, formerly
of Maycox, Prince George County, Va., dealing with his migration to
Lexington, Ky., and the development of his plantation, Chaumiere des
Prairies. In the first group the correspondence is from Carter Braxton to
Robert Prentis; Robert Carter to Joseph Prentis; John Tyler to Joseph
Prentis; Eliza Prentis to Joseph Prentis and others; James Monroe and
Joseph Prentis; Burwell Bassett to Joseph Prentis and Joseph Prentis, Jr.;
and John Wickham to Joseph Prentis. The series of letters from David
Meade are to John Driver, 1782-1796; Judge Joseph Prentis, 17961808;
Joseph Prentis, Jr.; and from David Meade, Jr., to Judge Joseph
Prentis and Joseph Prentis, Jr., 1801-1802; and Richard Meade to the
preceding, 1809-1832. No. 1452.
PUGH FAMILY. ca. 1830 (1865)-1900. ca. 3272 items. Gift
of W. S. Pugh.
Large collection of business papers of the Pughs who kept the store at
Madisonville, Charlotte County, Va. Includes store accounts and receipts,
crops and tobacco liens, insurance papers, land papers, business correspondence,
and papers dealing with the affairs of the many citizens for
whom the Pughs acted as agents and administrators. [Note, this collection
is now being processed and will be described in full in the next
annual report.] No. 1253.
RANDOLPH, THOMAS MANN (1768-1828). 1813-1822. 7 ALS.
Microfilm from Duke University. Purchase.
To Joseph C. Cabell on political, agricultural, educational and military
affairs. Militia officers, War of 1812, books on agriculture and gardening,
Randolph's views on teaching religion to young people. No. 1314.
RAUSCH, FREDERICH. 10 items. Gift of Archibald A. Hill.
Sound charts (placards) by Rausch and David Jones. Also musical
version of song "Summer is A-coming In," with two explanations. No.
1432.
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. [POLICE] GUARD RECORDS. 18341843.
1 MS. Daybook. Purchased for the McGregor Library.
Daily reports of robberies, runaway slaves, stolen goods and other
routine police matters, a valuable source of data on residents of the city,
crime, and police administration for the period. No. 1481.
RILEY, J. H. 1898-1901. 35 items, incl. 9 MS. notebooks, 1
photograph album, 18 maps, 1 scrapbook, 9 LS. Bequest.
Notes on oölogical and orinthological matters, field trips, catalogues of
collections of birds and bird eggs, and correspondence with other collectors.
Acknowledgments of gifts to the Smithsonian Institution, and to
the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Pictures of Puerto
Rico, maps of eastern coast states. Correspondence with Donald A.
Cohen of California over collecting problems. Letter from D. R. Hand,
consular agent at Bocas del Toro, Panama, on field trip in Central
America. No. 1406.
RIVES, WILLIAM CABELL (1793-1864). 1862, May 23. 1 ALS.
Purchase.
From Castle Hill to son Alfred on strategy and troop movements preceding
the Battle of Richmond. (For other Rives papers see, Archivist
Report . . . , VIII, 7.) No. 1273.
ROBINSON, BERTHA (d. 1941). 1876-1936. ca. 300 items. Purchase,
and gift of C. J. Carrier.
Business and personal papers of the editors of the Orange (Va.) Observer,
Robert Newton Robinson and Miss Robinson, including subscription
lists, advertising lists, correspondence with contributors. A series
of letters from James A. Robinson (1875-1881) from Oxford, N. C., where
he was editor and publisher of The Torchlight, "A spicy, humorous, North
Carolina weekly"; and from Winston, N. C., where he published The
Winston Leader, gives information on the history of journalism in that
state. Nine volumes of accounts and various lists of the Orange Observer.
Nos. 1222, 1295.
ROBINSON, MAGNUS L. 1894-1905. 13 ALS., 2 D. Gift of
Dr. Clarence S. Brigham, American Antiquarian Society.
Chiefly letters to Robinson, a Negro newspaper editor of Alexandria,
Va., from John M. Langston, a contributor. Record of transaction with
Taliaferro & Co. of Richmond, Va., 1867. No. 1499.
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA, COLLECTION. 1779-1889.
35 items. Purchase.
Legal papers, including two broadsides on cattle fairs; the Constitution
of the Central Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society (New Market,
1853); a bond of the New Rawley Springs Company, 1880; a free
Negro's certificate; papers dealing with schooling of orphans; lunacy
commissions; checks drawn on First National Bank of Harrisonburg by
prominent citizens, 1873-1874. Those chiefly concerned in the papers
are Robert and William Campbell; Daniel Cokely; Richard P. Fletcher;
Peachy Harrison; Stephen Harrodsberger; Joseph Hyden; Joseph H.
Jones; George W. Kemper. No. 1362.
SAGE, CAPT. AUGUSTUS B., U.S.A. 1862, Dec. 20. 1 ALS. Purchase.
From Newport News to Miss G. B. Sage in New York, describing
Norfolk during the Civil War and the theatre there. No. 1341.
SCRUGGS, PHILIP LIGHTFOOT. 1942. 1 typescript, 518 pp.
Gift of author.
Manuscript of historical novel dealing with Bacon's Rebellion, Man
Cannot Tell (Indianapolis, 1942). No. 1390.
SIVELY FAMILY. 1876-(1899)1917. ca. 100 items. Purchase.
Family correspondence, chiefly centered in Alleghany, Bath, and Highland
counties, Va. George L. Sively's activities as justice of the peace,
his dry goods business and farm rentals. Miss Sally Sively's correspondence
from Hollins Institute, and various matters at Augusta Classical
and Military Academy, Augusta Male Academy, Virginia Agricultural
and Mechanical College. Letters from members of the family in Alderson
and Barboursville, West Virginia, and Hazelton, Kansas, give some
picture of local conditions and describe the settlement of the Cherokee
Strip. Correspondents include: Samuel Carpenter, H. P. Cosby, M.
Figgot, S. L. Gibson, J. D. Hamilton, G. M. Handy, Benjamin Hull, A. F.
Laird, William M. McCallister, McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., O.
T. Rogers, Sidney Ruckman, E. B. Skeen, and S. L. Stephenson. No. 1277.
SMALL, H. L. 1910 - - -. 3 MSS. 32 geologic maps. Gift of Mrs.
H. L. Small.
Problems and lecture notes on metallurgy. No. 1910.
SMITH, DANIEL P. (1812- ?) 1861-1867. 31 ALS., 4 MS. vols.,
1 printed vol. Deposit.
To members of his family in Prattville, Ala., many of them written
while he was a prisoner at Camp Butler, Springfield, Ill.; four diaries
kept by Smith during the campaigns in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee,
describing army life, his capture, imprisonment, and exchange. Unbound
copy of his Company K, First Alabama Regiment, or Three Years
in the Confederate Service (Prattville, Ala., 1878), and six letters from
friends thanking him for copies of it. Some data on the Prayer Book
Homily Society, and letters of John L. Alexander; George L. and Eugene
A. Smith; and J. S. W. Stedman. No. 1319.
SMITHFIELD TURNPIKE CORPORATION RECORD. 1827,
Nov. 20. 1 item. Gift.
Share No. 245 of the Capital Stock of the corporation, made out to
Abigail Greene of Smithfield, Va., and signed by Truman Beckwith,
Treasurer. No. 1367.
STONE, J. L. 1937. 1 typescript, 64 pp. Gift of author.
"Plato: His Life and Educational Beliefs," with particular attention
given to philosophy and educational scheme as set forth in the Republic.
No. 1386.
STONE FAMILY. 1839-1865. 4 ALS. Gift of Charles W. Porter.
Miscellaneous personal letters found in books: Thomas Ritchie to
[William J. Stone?], n.d.; Thompson & Spalding to Maj. William B.
Stone, Nov. 30, 1839; J. G. Chapman to Miss M. G. Stone, May 27, 1864;
L. L. Stevenson, postmaster of Staunton, Va., to the Postmaster General,
Nov. 24, 1865. No. 1241.
TABB, J[OHN?] (1846-1921). 1867-1911. 2 MS. vols. Deposit.
Law note book kept by Tabb, of Gloucester County, Va., with later
notes by William Hodges Mann, Jr. No. 1351.
TAXATION DATA. 1920 - - - ca. 35 items, including 7 typescripts,
newspaper clippings, mimeographed sheets, broadsides.
Gift of T. R. Snavely.
State and national tax materials including reports of the School of
Public Affairs, University of Virginia, Round Table conducted in 1927
and 1928 by Mark Graves, New York State tax commissioner; records
from twentieth conference of National Council of State Legislatures
which met in Toronto, Canada, in 1927. Nos. 1466, 1485.
TAYLOE FAMILY. 1791-1834. 1 MS. vol. 147 pp. Microfilm of
deposit.
"Race, and Horse-Medicine-Book", with stud records of the Tayloe
family horses at Mt. Airy, Richmond County, Va. Issue of American
Stud Book for 1837 with signature of Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, June 1863.
No. 1333.
TAYLOR, CREED (1766-1836). 1791-1823. 416 items, including
33 ALS. by purchase, remainder gift of the late A. F. Howard,
through Mrs. F. H. Stuart.
Papers from Taylor's home, Needham, Cumberland County, Va., on
business, legal, personal, and political affairs. As a lawyer and judge,
Taylor was active in teaching law, and in all matters of concern to the
Republican party interests in the state and nation. His letters from
John Taylor of Caroline on Patrick Henry and James Madison in 1799,
on the Virginia-Kentucky boundary dispute of 1803, and on Taylor's
opposition to a Bank of Virginia and state banks, are valuable sources of
data on these matters. Other subjects include the division of Fincastle
County, Va., in 1799; trips to Warm Springs; recommendations of deserving
party members to important public offices; suit of the Commonwealth
of Virginia vs. William Waller Hening; proposed law school to be directed
by Taylor, and some of his correspondence with pupils and young lawyers;
long controversy with William B. Giles calling on him to deny
rumors he had reflected on Col. James Monroe involving publication in
newspapers of Taylor's refutation under name of "Gasca" which he
acknowledges to Giles, and Monroe's corrections on documents in controversy;
endorsement of medical treatise by Dr. Jennings, The Married
Lady's Companion, or Poor Man's Friend; full reflection of social life
between two large plantations, Bizarre and Needham with letters from
various members of the Randolph family; horse racing; violence of party
factions shown in riots at Fairfield Seminary in series of letters from
nephew, Samuel; and long correspondence with John Randolph of
Roanoke. Among the chief correspondents, or subjects of letters, are:
John Blanton; William H. Cabell; Daniel Call; Robert M. Chapman;
James Clapham; Ch. Clarke; William Cowan; William and Woodson
Daniel; Thomas T. Davis; Moses Fisk; James Fretwell; Thomas Gibson;
Richard Gordon; John W. Green; Philip Grymes; Edmund Harrison;
Benjamin Hatcher; Wal. Holcombe; Thomas Jefferson; Meriwether Jones;
Edwin Knickerbocker; William P. Law; Benjamin Watkins Leigh; Mr.
Michaux; James T. Morehead; Josiah Morton; Capt. William Murray;
William G. Pendleton; Robert Pleasant; Mrs. A., Col. Beverley, David
Meade, John of Roanoke, Judith, Martha, Richard J., Thomas, and
William Randolph; Col. [Thomas] Read; T. B. Robertson; Abraham Sandefur;
Eldred Simkins; Archibald Stuart; Samuel (brother of Creed), Samuel
Jr., and Thomas Taylor; R. N. Venable; Bushrod and Mrs. Mary
(Ball) Washington; Henry E. Watkins; Thomas Watson; John Wickham;
William Wirt; Seymour Wright; Gov. James Wood; Blake B. and John
Woodson. Nos. 1232, 1398.
TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA. 1834. 1 vol., 24 pp.
Deposit.
Seventh annual report of the Temperance Society of Virginia, with
the Proceedings of the annual meeting held at the Capitol in Richmond
on the 25th of February, 1834, and an address to all Temperance Societies
in the State. (Richmond, printed by J. MacFarlan, 1834.) No. 1260.
TERRY, CAPT. WILLIAM, C.S.A. 1861 Sep. 14. 1 ALS. Purchase.
From Camp Harman, near Centerville, Va., to Gov. John Letcher,
recommending promotion of Capt. Robertson. No. 1381.
THURMOND FAMILY. 1796-1878. 25 items, including 2 MS.
vols. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Thurston.
Business and personal papers of the Thurmond family of Nelson County,
Va., and of Lynchburg, Va., account books for 1840-1850 and 1875-1878;
tax receipts; administrators' records on Benjamin Thurmond's estate,
1848; records of lands in Amherst County, Lynchburg, and Nelson
County, Va.; letters from White Hall Academy; plot showing roads between
Scottsville, Charlottesville and Lynchburg, including the Staunton
turnpike; letter from T. J. Moore, 1862, from Charleston, Va., to Capt.
Thurmond on Confederate victory in battle of Fayette Court House;
letter from Fort Washington Barracks, 1899, from James F. Bailey,
U.S.A. The correspondents are, Mason Coles & Co.; Matthew Harris; Kate
Jones; Michael Morrison; Ralph A. Thomas; Ann E., John, John A.,
Martha P., Mary J. Thurmond; and Jesse Wood, Jr. No. 1490.
TWYMAN FAMILY. 1755-1846. 15 items. Gift of Miss Margaret
Huff.
Legal papers including deeds, surveyor's plats, sales of Negroes, legal
opinions on chancery disputes rendered by Philip P. Barbour and Thomas
Walker Gilmer on transactions of members of Twyman family. Most of
County, Ky. Among those chiefly concerned in the transactions are:
Nelson Barksdale; James Dudley; Anna and Charles G. Goodman; James
Hines; Burwell and Molly (Purvis) Levell; David Mills; James Purvis;
Abraham, George, and Joseph W. Twyman; David Watts; Isaac and
Nancy Wren. This supplements a previous deposit of Twyman Papers,
(See Archivist Report . . . . V, 6) No. 1261.
U. S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1940. ca. 150 items
mounted. Gift of John L. Cheney.
Campaign buttons used in the Roosevelt-Willkie contest. No. 1376.
U. S. WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION OF VIRGINIA.
VIRGINIA WRITERS' PROJECT. Three transfer cases of uncut
MSS. Deposit.
Manuscript notes, rough and revised drafts, etc., for two volumes, one
unpublished, The Negro in Virginia, the other, Virginia, a Guide to the
Old Dominion (New York, May, 1941.)
U. S. WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION OF VIRGINIA.
1936-1941. ca. 237 items, gift and deposit.
One file contains data on Hanover County, Va., from 1720, on homes,
mills, churches and taverns, with other historical records, guide books,
pamphlets, rough pencil sketches of old homes. No. 1500. Collection
of 37 mimeographed bulletins, 1936-1937 from State Office giving directions
on procedure and projects in the state. No. 1505.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, BUREAU OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION.
1934-1942. 64 items, incl. 26 broadsides, 11 charts, 4
typescripts, 2 maps, 1 photostat. Gift of the Bureau of Public
Administration.
Miscellaneous material on public administration, including national
political campaign propaganda (1940), data on taxation, notes on a
conference held at Farmington Country Club, Charlottesville, Va., on
the national security program (1935), and copies of the White Paper
issued by the Bureau, Jan.-March, 1942. No. 1339.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA COLLECTION. 1857-1938. 190
items, MS. vols., blueprints, typescripts, etc. Gift, purchase,
deposit and transfer.
One document, n.d. [1845?], Sep. 10. From a group of alumni recommending
to Board of Visitors signed by John L. Caskie, John Alfred Jones, William
Ritchie, James A. Seddon, and J. B. Yonge, No. 1460. One autograph letter,
1857, Feb. 18, from Governor John B. Floyd, Abingdon, Va., to
George F. Holmes, congratulating him on appointment to professorship
of history. Purchase, No. 1488. Six miscellaneous papers, 1866-1900, including
letters from Socrates Maupin to William M. McCallister, April 12,
1866; letter from John B. Minor to McCallister, Sep. 9, 1867; monthly student
report, Nov. 1, 1868, with letter from his mother to McCallister on
verso; Eugene Davis to McCallister about election to Society of Alumni,
July 24, 1869; Law School broadside, 1866; James E. Phillips' broadside
appeal to the Virginia Legislature for payment for plumbing work on
University buildings, ca. 1900, No. 1245. Program of the final celebration
of the Jefferson Society, June 30, 1868, including a copy of Commencement
program of events, Ugly Society, Washington Society, dedication
of Thomas Jefferson statue and address by Hugh Blair Grigsby,
anniversary of the Y. M. C. A. Letter from Grace H. Dodge, n.d., to Mrs.
Murphy on building of Madison Hall. Gift of Rev. William K. Smith,
No. 1484. Key to Confederate cemetery at the University, 1 MS. vol., and
minutes of the Board of Visitors (rough draft) 1857-1861, 1 MS. vol., No.
1235. Seven diplomas and certificates awarded to John Beale Gordon
1875-1877. Gift of Armistead C. Gordon, Jr., No. 1221. One blueprint,
1897, "Cross-section thru Rotunda domes, showing original scheme for
inner dome and inner dome as constructed shown in dotted lines," with
correction made Dec. 1941. Gift of R. Guastavino Co., No. 1322. Blueprint
from 160 original drawings, 1897 et seq. of buildings designed and
erected by McKim, Mead & White, architects, including Proposed Law
Library, Mechanical Building, Rotunda, Physical Laboratory Building,
Academical Building, Refectory, Boiler House, Presidents' House, No. 1414.
Six letters and five items, 1900-1907, to Armistead C. Gordon on phases
of the University from Thomas H. Carter, Dr. J. A. C. Chandler, John
T. Harris, John B. Moon and Edwin A. Alderman; also prospectuses for
summer sessions, notices of books. Gift of Armistead C. Gordon, Jr., No.
1498. Paper, Between Convoys, No. 1, Dec. 1918, describing activities
of Base Hospital 41 in the United States and France. Gift of Mrs. Walter
Scott Chisolm, No. 1371. Copies of The Yellow Journal, College Topics
and other miscellaneous University publications, 1925-1935. Gift of
Jack Dalton. No. 1391. Three papers, 1928-1931, by Charles T. Cate, and
one chart by Cate and Joseph K. Roberts showing geological formations
in certain regions of Virginia between Rockfish Gap and Staunton. 4
items, gift of Dr. Roberts, No. 1294. Minutes of the Research Committee
of the University, including correspondence of faculty members, applications
for grants, etc., 1932-1938, 2 typed vols., deposit, No. 1238. Lectures,
1941-1942, on Founder's Day and other occasions such as alumni
luncheons, by Virginius Dabney, Pierre de Lanux, Dr. Ray Flannigan,
Dixon Ryan Fox, Dr. H. E. Jordan, President John L. Newcomb and
Lewis C. Williams. Also memorial to Dr. Paul B. Barringer. 7 typescripts,
gift of William Wranek, No. 1504.
VIRGINIA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. 1901-1902. 1
vol. Transfer.
Portraits and autographs of members of the Convention. No. 1369.
VIRGINIA LETTERS COLLECTION. 1816-1855. 16 ALS. Microfilm
of deposit.
A collection including letters of Dabney Carr to Dabney Minor, of
George Tucker of the University of Virginia to Carey & Hart for an
atlas, A. C. Finley from Sweet Springs on life there, others from the
neighborhood of Charlottesville and Scottsville, Va., on University affairs,
recruiting for the Mexican War, land transactions, life at the Virginia
springs, land claims in Illinois, and book orders. Among the chief
correspondents are: Abel, Bibb & Fry; Thomas J. Boyd; E. Boyden;
Jacob T. Caldwell; W. H. Campbell; Carey & Hart; Cornelius & Co.;
Farish, Jones & Randolph; A. C. and Mrs. Ruth Finley; William L. Goggin;
William F. Gooch; Shelton Leake; William W. Minor; Matthew Pillson;
D. Reamer; Hugh W. Sheffey; R. R. Stringfellow; Robert Tinsley; Dr. A.
J. Walker; Rice W. Wood; Yancey & Son & Bro. No. 1317.
WASHBURN, E. B. 1874, June 17. Microfilm of deposit.
To John L. Winston describing scene of surrender of General Robert
E. Lee at Appomattox, and subsequent events. No. 1487.
WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799). 1775-1783. 1 facsimile
vol. Gift of Wilbur P. Morgan.
Washington's accounts with the United States, showing balance due
him, July 1, 1783, £16311.17.1. No. 1370.
WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799) 1798, Oct. 5. 1 ALS. Deposit.
To Landon Carter of Sabine Hall, an ancestor of the Blackford family
on visit of Carter, health, and the use of medicine. No. 1445.
WAYLAND FAMILY. 1856-1875. 25 items. Gift of John W.
Wayland.
Letters of members of the Wayland family of Rockingham County, Va.,
written from Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa describing life there in the middle
nineteenth century. Confederate tax assessment for Rockingham
County, 1864, for "Tax in kind"; impressment of horses; activities of
Capt. John Winfield, C.S.A. Correspondence between J. K. Walls and
Myra Hanks Rudolph, 1924-1926, on ancestry of Nancy Hanks. Chief
correspondents are: Catherine, Mattias and William D. Bowman; John
and Philip P. A. Moore; Abraham, Hannah J., and Sarah Neff. No. 1422.
WHITE, CRAWFORD. 1796, Feb. 29. 1 MS. vol. Deposit.
Latin grammar lesson book, kept at Strasburg, Va. No. 1346.
WOOD, JAMES (1750-1813). 1794 Sep. 30. 1 ALS. Purchased
for the McGregor Library.
From the acting governor of Virginia to Brig. Gen. [Allen?] Jones in
regard to the Whiskey Rebellion. No. 1309.
WOODS, MICAJAH. 1874-1902. 18 MS. vols. Gift of Capt.
Robert H. Woods.
Letter books kept by Woods' law firm in Charlottesville. Personal
scrapbook, mostly newspaper clippings about reunions of Confederate
veterans, the University of Virginia, deaths of prominent citizens, and
other local news. Nos. 1379, 1444.
WORTHINGTON, HENRY HORACE (1804-1859). 1826, July 5.
1 ALS. Gift of Miss Gladys George.
To Reuben B. Hicks, Lewisville, Branch County, Va., from the University
of Virginia. Describes the University grounds and buildings in
detail; the curriculum; the death and funeral of Thomas Jefferson. No.
1368.
WYLLIE, JOHN COOK (1908- ) 1940. 1 typescript, 76 pp.
Deposit.
"Index to Poe's Criticisms in the Virginia Edition." [The Complete
Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Virginia Edition, edited by James A. Harrison.
17 vols. (New York, 1902.)] No. 1446.
YONGE, SAMUEL H. 1883-1938. ca. 1600 items, including 900
ALS., 250 photographs, blueprints, photostats, maps, drawings,
notebooks, personal memoranda, account books. Purchase.
Collections of material on the Yonge and Atkinson genealogies. Data
dealing with Yonge's career as a civil and marine engineer includes
Missouri River Commission surveys; James River Bridges; erosion control
project at Jamestown Island, with extensive data on archaeological
excavations of the early cities on the island and data on the Jamestown
Exposition of 1907; data on Williamsburg, Va.; aquacate mine in Costa
Rica. A paper on the Berber war of 1800-1805, and some correspondence
substantially represented are: Lutie R. Archer; Arthur T. Brice; Blair
and Catherine (Yonge) Easter; Hayne family; Catharine Humphreys;
Mrs. Charlotte (Yonge) Stringfellow; A. H. Weber; John Wrenshall, Jr.;
and Allen M. Yonge. No. 1299.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, TEXAS, RECORDS.
1917-1927. 17 items. Gift of R. N. Watts.
Miscellaneous mimeographed, printed, and typed material on Y.M.C.A.
activities conducted in Texas and by the office of the General Secretary.
Includes scrapbooks and folders of data on administration, building
campaigns, educational work, publicity efforts, religious work, etc. No.
1328.
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