 | Thirteenth annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1942-43 |  |
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS, SEPTEMBER 1, 1942 TO
AUGUST 31, 1943
ALBAYA, MARIA LUISA. 1916. 3 MS. vols. Gift of George B.
Zehmer.
Spanish notebook for the fifth grade. No. 1602.
ALBRIGHT, H. DARKES. 1942. 1 typescript, 133 pp. Gift of
the Extension Division of the University of Virginia.
"School and Community Drama in Virginia." No. 1558.
ALDERMAN, EDWIN ANDERSON (1861-1931) Collection. 19001930.
43 ALS. Gift of the President's Office, University of Virginia.
Resolutions from the University of North Carolina requesting Alderman
to stay at Chapel Hill, April, 1900. Correspondence of Alderman
with the alumni of Tulane, June, 1901. Letters from Alderman to
educational leaders and others concerning the progress of the University
of Virginia. Correspondents incl.: James Rowland Angell, Page M.
Baker, Paul B. Barringer, George Gordon Battle, John Stewart Bryan,
Harry Flood Byrd, W. E. Carson, Charles W. Dabney, Frank B. Dabney,
Abraham Flexner, J. P. Fishburne, J. C. Flippin, W. T. Hodges, James
L. Jarman, Charles T. Jones, William W. Laird, J. F. Larson, James Hamilton
Lewis, Hamilton W. Mabie, Murray M. McGuire, Edgar Gardner
Murphy, Walter Hines Page, Fred H. Quarles, Jr., John J. Raskob,
Theodore Roosevelt, Adelaide D. Simpson, E. Trinkle, R. B.
Tunstall, Cyrus Harding Walker, W. O. Watson, Lewis O. Williams, R.
Gray Williams. These supplement the Alderman Papers previously
acquired. (See Annual Report on Historical Collections, University of
Virginia Library. . . ., XI, 18-19; XII, 23.) Nos. 1551, 1576, 1736.
ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH. 1894-1942. 1 typescript, 2 pp.
Gift of Charles S. Miner.
Clara Robertson, "History of Antioch Baptist Church," in James River
District, El Como, Va., incl. names of original members, the ministers,
and the work accomplished. No. 1572.
BAILEY, JACOB WHITMAN (1811-1857). 1832-1846. 15 items.
Purchase.
Three ALS to his brother, William B. Bailey, from Fort Monroe, Old
Point Comfort, Va., Nov. 8, 1832, Bellona Arsenal, Va., Oct. 7, 1833,
I., to Fort Monroe, Va., Seminole Indian Wars, Joseph Bonaparte's residence,
National Hotel and other buildings in Washington, D. C., coal
mines near Bellona Arsenal, slave labor and bilious fever there, and
mention of Robert E. Lee as Superintendent at West Point. Four ALS
to his mother, Mrs. Jane Keely from Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort,
Va., Nov. 5, 1832, Bellona Arsenal, April, 1833, Feb. 26, 1834, and Romney,
Va., July 2, 1835, giving an unfavorable opinion of Virginia—"the town
of Richmond will, if nothing is done to the houses, tumble down in 5
years . . . ," detailed account of Fort Monroe, Augusta, Ga., and friends
there, preparations for the "Nullification War," trip north through the
Carolinas to Bellona Arsenal and description of Hanging Rock, Va. Four
ALS to Mrs. Sarah S. Cushing, from West Point, Nov. 12, 1844, June 22,
1853, July 26, 1853, April 2, 1855, with discussion of the Native American
party, rambles in the country about West Point, references to Jeb Stuart
as a cadet, Mrs. Winfield Scott's visits to the Baileys, Jefferson Davis's
(Sec. of War) appointment of cadets to West Point, and mention of
Robert E. Lee. One ALS June 6, 1874 from William B. Rogers, to
President James McCosh, Princeton University, recommending William
Whitman Bailey as a candidate for the Chair of Natural Science. One
ALS Oct. 28, 1876, James W. Green to William Whitman Bailey, concerning
the settlement of the Bailey estate. Manuscript poem by Sarah
Helen Whitman, April, 1876, to W. Whitman Bailey, entitled "Arbutus."
No. 1662.
BALL, WILLIAM H., AND BRADEN, OSCAR S. 1860-1874. 1
MS. vol. Gift of Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Day Book and accounts from Irene, Loudoun County, Va., concerned
mostly with personal affairs and settlements of family estates.
William H. Ball married Eliza Anne Braden, daughter (?) of Oscar S.
Braden. No. 1616.
BALZ, ALBERT GEORGE ADAM (1887- ). 1943. 1 typescript,
99 pp. Gift of Dr. Balz.
Manuscript for The Value Doctrine of Karl Marx, King's Crown Press,
(N. Y., 1943). No. 1615.
BARBOUR, JAMES (1775-1842). 1819, February 19. 1 ALS. Purchase.
To N. Frye, of the Paymaster's Department, concerning pension money
paid by Barbour to Mrs. Anderson. (See also Annual Report on Historical
Collections . . . , XII, 22). No. 1696.
BEARD, CHARLES AUSTIN (1874- ). 1943, April 1. 5
items. Gift of William H. Wranek, Jr.
Typescript, 17 pp. and mimeographed copies of speech delivered April
13, 1943 in Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, entitled "Thomas Jefferson"
on the occasion of Jefferson's two hundredth anniversary. Printed in
the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, September, 1943, XXX, 159-170.
Typescript, 2 pp. of remarks entitled "Thomas Jefferson: In Memoriam,"
spoken over Jefferson's grave on the same day. No. 1644.
CABELL, JAMES LAWRENCE (1813-1889). 1829-1837. 89
ALS. Deposit.
Correspondence with his uncle, Joseph C. Cabell (1778-1865) while
a pre-medical and medical student at the University of Virginia, Baltimore
Almshouse, and Paris. Excellent descriptions of student life and
expenses at Charlottesville and Baltimore. Mention of national politics,
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and trip to
Princeton and Philadelphia. Persons noted incl.: Eliza Cabell, Nancy
Carrington, Charles Bonnycastle, George Blaetterman, Robley Dunglison,
Thomas Jefferson Randolph, William Wertenbaker, William Brent,
Andrew Jackson, Thomas Emmett, John Hartwell Cocke, Conway
Robinson, Francis Walker Gilmer, St. George Randolph, Martin Van
Buren, Daniel Webster, Alexander M. Sheppard, James P. Tyler, and
Chapman Johnson. No. 1640.
CALDERON DE LA BARCA, PEDRO (1600-1681). [1682]. 2
MS. vols. Transfer.
"Autos sacrametales, alegoricas y historiales," Spanish manuscript, a
religious drama in pen and ink with illuminations in the text and on the
title page. No. 1600.
CAMPBELL FAMILY. 1612-1942. 1 typescript, 19 pp. Gift of
Leslie Lyle Campbell.
"Some Campbell Records compiled by Leslie Lyle Campbell, Feb.
1942," containing genealogical records of the Campbell family of Virginia
beginning with Duncan Campbell of Scotland and his descendants, particularly
James Campbell (1746-1817) of Stone House, Berkeley, W.
Va.; and Samuel Legrand Campbell (1766-1846) of Rock Castle near
Lexington, Va. Extensive genealogical records of related families are
also included, among them those of the Bell, Brown, Moore and Pancake
families. No. 1516.
CARTER-SMITH FAMILY PAPERS. 1726 (1790-1840) 1924.
ca. 2700 items. Deposit.
Materials on the Carter, Coles, Smith and Nicholas families are included
in these papers which center chiefly around General Samuel
Smith, his son, John Spear Smith, of Baltimore, Md., and his daughter
Margaret who married Robert Hill Carter of Redlands, Albemarle
County, Va.
The Carter Papers (ca. 1417 papers and 2 bound MS. vols.) contain
personal and family letters, the plantation accounts of Col. John Coles
of Enniscorthy, legal papers, indentures and deeds to lands in Mississippi
and Missouri, stages in a trip to Missouri in 1825, insurance policies,
receipts, merchandising accounts, land grants with signatures of Governor
Dinwiddie, Henry Lee and Patrick Henry, a presidential pardon
signed by Andrew Johnson and William B. Seward, permission to former
slaves to occupy lands in 1865, wills of Sarah Nicholas, Robert Carter
and Robert Hill Carter, and obituary and property schedule of Margaret
Smith Carter of Redlands. Other names occurring in the collection
are Rebecca Anderson, Robert Anderson, M. C. Brooke, Brown Rives Co.,
Edward Carter, Isaetta Carter, John C. Carter, John H. Carter, Margaret
N. Carter, Mary Carter, Mary Eliza Carter, Otwayanna Carter, Mrs.
Sallie Carter, Sallie Carter, Sarah Champe Carter, Catherine Coles,
Betsy Coles, Edward Coles, John Coles, Mary Eliza Coles, Polly Coles,
Rebecca Eliza Coles, Sarah Coles, Tucker Coles, Walter Coles, A. Drummond,
Charles Everette, Joshua Fry, F. W. Gilmer, Jane Hall, Virginia L.
Heth, Dolly P. Madison, George Nicholas, Robert Carter Nicholas, Wilson
Cary Nicholas, Alexander Rives, George Rives, Emily A. Rutherford,
Rebecca Tucker Singleton, Captain Campbell Smith, General Samuel
Smith, Sarah C. Stevenson, Martin Thacker, Henry St. George Tucker,
Mary Tucker.
The Smith Papers (ca. 1263 papers and 18 bound MS. vols.) include
materials collected by Cary Nicholas Fink for a biography of General
Samuel Smith, among them copies of letters from John Quincy Adams,
Aaron Burr, Albert Gallatin, Thomas Jefferson, General Lafayette, Wilson
Cary Nicholas, Martin Van Buren and Robert Smith. There are
short biographical sketches of Governor Wilson Cary Nicholas of Virginia,
George Nicholas in the political beginnings of Kentucky, John
Spear Smith and Robert Smith Carter. A few of General Smith's papers
relate to the Revolution, the activities of Smallwood's Regiment and
Griffith's Battalion. Others are the accounts of the firm of Smith and
Buchanan, letters and reports from its agents and captains and papers
concerning its failure. The Smiths' interest in the French Spoliation
Claims, arising from the ships lost by this firm, appears in the papers
also. Political affairs in the United States such as the authorship of
the Kentucky Resolutions, answers to charges that George and Wilson
Cary Nicholas were involved in the Burr Conspiracy, the attitudes of
Federalists and Republicans in the Mississippi Territory around 1807, the
Mobile Point, and DeWitt Clinton's control of New York are among the
topics discussed. There are patents, deeds, indentures, legal papers, the
wills of Christopher Hughes and Margaret Smith, relics of Samuel Smith,
and the obituary of Captain J. Louis Smith. Arrangements for the marriage
of Mary B. Smith, daughter of Gen. Samuel Smith, to John
Mansfield, son of Sir James Mansfield, Chief Justice of England, and
the letters the bride wrote home form an interesting chapter in the
manuscripts. Signatures of John Page, and Brook Walton, Lord Mayor
of London, appear on documents. There are autographed letters of
John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun, William H. Crawford, Sir James
Mansfield, Chief Justice of England, Robert Smith, Secretary of State,
Daniel Webster and William Wirt, and an opinion by R. B. Taney. Other
letter writers or names appearing in the papers are: Col. James Breckinridge,
William Buchanan, B. F. Butler, Frank P. Clark, John Deaver,
Alexander Contee Hanson, Laura S. Hughes, Christopher Hughes, Walter
Leake, Edward Livingston, John Mansfield, Thomas Newton, John
Nicholas, Wilson C. Nicholas, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Jr., John
Smith, John Smith, Jr., John Spear Smith, J. Louis Smith, Thomas Jefferson
Smith, Wilson Cary Smith, John Spear, William Spear, William
Tilghman, N. B. Tucker, Marquess Wellesley. No. 1729.
CHRIST CHURCH, ALEXANDRIA, VA. 1869-1930. ca. 50
items. Deposit, and gift of John W. Herndon.
Account book, receipts, attendance and treasurer's records of the
Christ Church Episcopal Sunday School, Alexandria, Va., as kept by
Edward Stabler Leadbeater and his son, Edward Stabler Leadbeater, Jr.
No. 1703.
CIVIL WAR COLLECTION. 1861-1865. 2 MS. vols., 1 MS. vol.
microfilm, 1 typescript, 3 broadsides, 1 pamphlet, 1 newspaper
clipping, 14 ALS. Purchase, deposit, gift.
Manuscript diary, (microfilm) ca. 58 pp., February 28-December 29,
1861, kept by an unknown Confederate soldier, who apparently lived
near Lynchburg, Va., describing the Confederate camp at Manassas, a
trip from Fairfax to Lynchburg, health, skirmishes, life in the Confederate
army, Alexandria, Va., weather, crop reports and his personal
cash account for the year 1861. Deposit. No. 1628. One ALS from Charles
Wellford to General D. Ruggles, May 24, 1861, concerning the exemption
of plantation overseers from military service, as calling them to the
army left large bodies of slaves unguarded. Purchase. No. 1663. One
broadside, July 25, 1861, militia and volunteer quotas of Virginia counties.
Purchase. No. 1664. One manuscript letter from an unknown Confederate
soldier to his family, September 16, 1861, from Camp Bee, Suffolk,
engagement with the foe is possible at any time"; "the influences that
surround in camp life, are anything else, but favorable to religion or
deep toned piety"; he speaks of his need for solitude and his hopes for
victory. Purchase. No. 1573. One ALS from Seth Laraby to a friend,
November 1, 1861, from Jaspar [Va.] with comments on the weather,
marriages and personal affairs. Purchase. No. 1724. One newspaper
clipping written by Milton Wylie Humphries entitled "A Narrative of
Military Operations and Campaigns in Fayettesville and Fayette County
during the War 1861-1863," printed in The Fayette Tribune, 1927, Fayettesville,
West Va. Deposit. No. 1578. Manuscript diary, ca. 200 pp.,
March 1862-April 1865 of Milton Wylie Humphries, of Co. A, 22nd
Regiment of the Virginia Volunteers, supplemented with remarks and
explanations written by the author in 1893, describing his life in the
Confederate army, his capture by the Union forces and his release,
camp conditions, skirmishes, his feelings on hearing the news of Appomatox,
etc. Deposit. No. 1578. Three ALS written in May and July 1862
from Williamsburg, Baltimore Cross Roads and Harrison's Landing,
Va., by a young officer in the Union Army, George—, to his
brother James—, including an eye witness account of the Battle
of Bull Run, criticism of Stanton, and the "dammed abolitionists, Wilson,
Sumner and Wade," and camp life. Purchase. No. 1611. Six ALS
from Sergt. William H. Girrell to his sister (?) from Yorktown, Charles
City [County] and Petersburg, Va., while a soldier in the Union Army
describing living conditions, preparations for battle and skirmishes. Gift
of Charles K. Davenport. No. 1618. One ALS from A. O. Lemon, at a
camp outside Culpeper, Va., July 27, 1863, to his father, Willis M.
Lemon, describing the aftermath of battle, camp life, and comment on
the Battle of Gettysburg. Purchase. No. 1587. One ALS from William D.
Strange, April 16, 1864, from Church Flats, S. C., to his brother
in Richmond, Va., care of Captain Rives, concerning furloughs,
and the abandonment of Church Flats by its inhabitants; "I must
close with the hope that this cruel war may soon be over. . . ."
Gift of Stanley Richard Swartz. No. 1592. One pamphlet by Milton
Wylie Humphries, "A History of the Lynchburg Campaign (2 May-18
June, 1864), Charlottesville, 1924, 74 pp. Deposit. No. 1578. Two broadsides,
one printed in Richmond, Va., entitled "Prison Bill of Fare,
By a Prisoner of War," complaining of the treatment of Union soldiers,
the other a notice of exemption of Aaron Sullen from military service
because of his employment in a ship yard at Atlanta, Ga., dated
January 19, 1864. Purchase. No. 1546. Manuscript diary, March 21, 1865April
1865, ca. 80 pp., entitled "The Personal Experiences of a Confederate
Surgeon during the retreat of the Army of Northern Virginia."
Purchase. No. 1720. One typescript, 12 pp. "Roster of Confederate
Soldiers buried in the University of Virginia Confederate Cemetery."
Gift of Miss Ella Francis Smith. No. 1675.
CLAY, HENRY (1777-1852). 1844-1847. 5 items. Purchase.
LS to Messers David S. Brown, Henry White et al, trustees appointed
under the authority of a public meeting in Philadelphia, March 17, 1844,
concerning the National Clay Club and its activities in Philadelphia.
LS, to the same, Sept. 19, 1844, concerning the Whig party and elections
in Philadelphia and mentioning the Whig Committee at Washington
headed by Garrett Davis and Willie Green. ALS to the same, December
16, 1845 thanking them for a book presented to him entitled "A Testimonial
of gratitude and affection to Henry Clay" and for a "casket of
rich jewels" presented to Mrs. Clay. ALS to the same, August 21, 1847
declining an invitation to attend a public dinner in Philadelphia. LS
to W. R. Prince, May 28, 1847, asking that some fir trees be sent Clay.
Nos. 1649, 1665.
COCKE, JOHN HARTWELL (1780-1866). 1850, June 3. 1 ALS.
Purchase.
To Lucian Minor, concerning Virginia and national politics, with comment
on Clay's compromise efforts and the state of the union. "I go for
Union as I believe a vast majority of the clearest heads and soundest
hearts of the Nation—North, South, East & West do." (See also, Annual
Report on Historical Collections. . . XII, p. 28). No. 1727.
COLES, EDWARD (1786-1868). 1845-1865. 14 items. Purchase.
Ten ALS from Edward Coles of Philadelphia to his brother-in-law
Col. Richard Singleton of South Carolina, incl. mentions
of installing gas in Coles' house in Philadelphia, in 1845; summer tour
of the North planned, "the fashionable points to touch at are, New Port,
Boston, Saratoga, Niagara, Quebec, Lake George. . ."; a recent visit
to Washington, 1846, where "I found Mrs. Madison as usual. All represent
her as being in great pecuniary difficulties. . ."; Martin Van
Buren; Mrs. Wade (Mary McDuffie) Hampton, granddaughter of Col.
Singleton. One ALS to Mrs. Mattie R. Singleton from her brother at
Vera Cruz, in which he describes the attack on that town, July 13, 1846,
"to our utter astonishment not a gun was fired." One ALS, Jan. 28,
1847 to Col. Singleton from Andrew Stevenson discussing Stevenson's
acute financial difficulties, and his decision to become a farmer. One
photoprint of a letter written from Liberty, Va., July 10, 1865 to
"Master Manual" from Isabella Sourtan, an ex-slave begging to be allowed
to return home, "I was as free while with you as I wanted to be."
One photoprint of a letter written from Manassas, July 26, 1861, to
Mrs. Mattie R. Singleton from her cousin James—, describing the
first Confederate victory at Bull Run with frequent mention of Col.
Wade Hampton. No. 1626.
COX, JOHN. 1816-1856. 4 items. Deposit.
Settlement of estate of John Cox of New London, Campbell County,
Va., Oct. 31, 1856, with appraisal of slaves, stock and household goods.
Division to heirs, Brackinridge, John and Samuel Cox; Samuel B. Thurman;
and Wade Luke, Jr. Two manuscript indices, probably related to
Cox estate, contain alphabetical lists of accounts and page references to
ledgers. Two check books, one for funds in Office of Discount and Deposit
of Bank of Virginia at Lynchburg, with stubs entered in 1816 to
S. & J. Anthony, Mr. Caruthers, B. Perkins, Robert Snoddy and B.
Thruston. Nos. 1513-1514.
CUSTIS, JOHN PARKE (1753-1781). 1790. 1 item. Gift of
Henry Thompson Louthan.
MS. record of John Parke Custis' estate, in account with John Hooe,
apparently general manager of the Custis plantation. An article by Mr.
Louthan concerning this manuscript was printed in The William and
Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, April, 1943, pp. 209-212.
No. 1692.
DAVIS, NOAH KNOWLES (1830-1910). 1899. 1 item. Gift of
Collins Denny.
Manuscript of An Essay in Ethics, (New York, 1899). No. 1718.
DUNMORE, JOHN MURRAY, EARL OF (1732-1809). 1744,
Sept. 17. 1 ADS. Purchase.
Concerns the Virginia-Pennsylvania boundary dispute; Dunmore, by
authority of the King, proclaims that all inhabitants in the Alleghanies,
west of Laurel Hill are subjects of Virginia—not Pennsylvania. No.
1668.
DU PONT DE NEMOURS, PIERRE SAMUEL (1739-1817). 1816,
Jan. 18. 2 photoprints. Transfer.
1 ALS and MS. article "Sur l'Agriculture et les Manufactures aux
Etats-Unis" sent to James Madison, President of the United States, with
the compliments of the author. No. 1622.
EGGLESTON, GEORGE CRAIG. 1943. 2 items. Gift of Miss
Mary Ann Guy.
Typescript copies of two letters to Miss Mary Ann Guy from George
author. No. 1743.
EPPES, JOHN WAYLES (1773-1823). 1814-1819. 10 ALS. Purchase.
Microfilm and prints of letters to his son Francis Wayles Eppes written
from Washington. The main topic is that of Francis' schooling, incl.
remarks on book purchasing, industry and application to studies, "for
the sooner shall I be able to place you at college. . ."; clothing which
was sent the young scholar at Charlottesville; subjects to which he
should pay particular attention, "Language, geography and arithmetic
are subjects to which I hope you will devote yourself. . . ." There are
passing comments on Thomas Jefferson and the following advice is
noted: "The elevated station held by your grand Father as a philosopher
and statesman ought to stimulate you to great exertion." Comment
is also made on Benjamin Franklin; David Hume; Count de
Tracy; Jefferson's report on Central College, Charlottesville; Lynchburg;
the Republican party; and the federal banking question, about which
John Wayles Eppes remarked, "I have done what an honest man alone
could do—closed my lips." (See Annual Report of the Archivist. . .IX,
14-15; Annual Report on Historical Collections. . .XII, 27. No. 1630.
ESSEX COUNTY, VA. 1870-(1880-1900) 1919. 10 scrap books.
Gift of Miss Edith Latané.
Scrap books kept by the clerk of the County Court, Essex, Virginia,
concerning local, state and southern politics, with particular mention
of William Mahone. No. 1575.
FAIRFAX, WILLIAM (1692-1782). 1768, July 12. 1 ALS. Purchase.
To Landon Carter, requesting quit rents due him by Robert Carter—
"some time ago promised when in Frederick [County] to settle but
neglected." No. 1605.
FREDERICKSBURG AND FALMOUTH, VA. 1727. 1 item, 4 pp.
microfilm of deposit.
Charters of incorporation of the cities. Printed in The Acts of Assembly,
now in force, in the colony of Virginia. . . . (Williamsburg,
printed by William Hunter, 1752.) p. 114. No. 1518.
FREIBERG, GERMANY. 1868, February 8. 1 ALS. Gift of Miss
Georgie Porter.
Letter from unknown person in Freiberg, Feb. 8, 1868, discussing life
in Germany and the growth and popularity of the iron and chemistry
industries. No. 1619.
FRY, J. J. 1841, Jan. 23. 1 ALS. Purchase.
To the Rev. Mr. Levensworth, concerning the founding of a Presbyterian
church weekly paper in Richmond, Va. This new paper to be
about the size of the Christian Observer, "avoiding as far as possible—
all controversy." No. 1621.
GAINES, FRANCIS PENDLETON (1892- ). 1933, May 25.
1 ALS. Transfer.
To Philip Alexander Bruce, commenting on a bulletin concerning
Robert E. Lee's presidency of Washington College now Washington and
Lee University at Lexington, Va. No. 1740.
GALLATIN, ABRAHAM ALPHONSE ALBERT (1761-1849).
1811, Feb. 27. 1 DS. Purchase.
Detailed account of John Smith, contractor for supplying the U. S.
Army with provisions. Having failed to carry out his contract, he is
registered as owing the Treasury $1766. Signed by Albert Gallatin as
Secretary of the Treasury. No. 1665.
GARNETT FAMILY PAPERS. 1861 (1900)-1918. ca. 20 items.
Purchase.
Papers of the James Mercer Garnett family of Baltimore, Md., incl.
James Mercer Garnett's diary for 1864, published in the Papers of the
Southern Historical Society (1899); a letter book of demands and orders
for armaments for the Confederacy; material of the Daughters of the
Confederacy and United Daughters of the Confederacy, recollections of
battles, methods of teaching Civil War history, a list of members of the
Kate Noland Garnett Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, in Albemarle
County, Va., and correspondence from the southern states on the
Civil War; University of Virginia material, sketches of alumni of the
University of Virginia who fell in the Civil War, by John Lipscomb
Johnson, papers of the Jefferson Literary Society, papers including the
correspondence of the Alumni Association, 1909-1916, printed descriptions
of the Rotunda fire, Oct. 28, 1895, and genealogical material of the
Mercer family. No. 1719.
GILMER, FRANCIS WALKER (1790-1826). [1815]. 1 ADS.
Gift of Arthur Pforzheimer.
Notes by Gilmer on a suit in Frederick County Court to force Henry
Boyle to pay just debts owed Hugh Holmes. No. 1591.
GILMER, THOMAS WALKER (1820-1844). 1841, July 7. 1
item. Purchase.
ALS to [Secretary of the Navy] with a recommendation for Moncure
Robinson as an engineer. No. 1646.
GORGES FAMILY PAPERS. ca. 1550-1930. ca. 3700 items. Gift
of Mrs. Grace Vernon Gorges.
This collection represents the bulk of the material gathered by Raymond
Gorges for his work on the Gorges family who have played a
significant part in the intellectual, social and political life of Great Britain
for six or seven centuries. The gift includes ca. 2700 manuscripts
and typescripts, 50 parchments of indentures, marriage contracts and
deeds; 20 manuscript notebooks about the Gorges family and their associates;
200 photostat letters and 7 volumes of copies of letters, 1850-1881,
of the genealogist Rev. Frederick Brown; 20 complicated and extensive
genealogical charts; 77 maps of England, Scotland, counties of Ireland,
England, Wales; provinces of France, Normandy, New England, and
Washington, D. C. In addition there are over three hundred prints and
photographic reproductions of famous paintings and sculptures in Italian,
French, and British galleries, several volumes of etchings of historic
country mansions in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the
French provinces. There are also beautifully colored reproductions of
English abbeys, and windows of the French cathedral of Chartres; rubbings
of the "brasses" in certain English churches, particularly Chelsea;
family portraits including that of Sir Edward Gorges, (1558-1625);
extensive information about heraldry and pedigrees of the Gorges,
Kelly of Cargon, and Kilbrew lines; and a typescript history of "Gorges
of Taverton in the Medieval Church." Among the most interesting of the
documents of the seventeenth century are: court rolls and records of
the manors of Killmoon, the Gorges estates in the county of Meath, Ireland,
1664-1779; legal materials on "the case on behalf of Hamilton
Gorges," 1614; indentures, including Samuel Gorges to Ralph Harwell,
1675, to Walter Dawson, 1680, to John Worth, 1661; feoffments, Edward
and Robert Gorges to Peter Hardwick, 1624, to Thomas Sandefond, 1642;
conveyance of the meadows, 1659; the last will of J. Thomas Baynard to
Fernando Gorges, 1683; signatures and deeds of Fernando (or Ferdinando)
Gorges of Eye, Herefordshire, 1693, Richard, Lord Gorges and his
seal, 1692, Edward, Lord Gorges, 1624, Sir Arthur Gorges of Chelsea,
Eighteenth century documents incl.: Henry Gorges of Mynde, Herefordshire,
1708; a lease of land to Patrick Gaynor of Dublin by Hamilton
Gorges from Richard Gorges, 1779; letter to Hamilton Gorges from
Gorges E. Howard, April 5, 1783, asking him not to sell Kilbrew; deed
to Hamilton Gorges from Jane Bomford, Feb. 28, 1761; case of the manor
of Killmoon, prepared by Henry Meredyth, 1770; two manuscript books
on the manor of Killmoon, 1761; the seal of Robert Gorges of Eye, 1720;
the lease by Robert and Henry Gorges of a cottage and garden in the
manor of Blagdon to Thomas Walker, 1726; lease of lands from Richard
Gorges to William Clarke, 1773. A large amount of the material of the
nineteenth century relates to Hamilton Gorges, of the county of Meath,
Ireland. Incl. in these are: a map and survey of part of his estate by
James and John Frain, 1812; a copy of "Memorial of Transfer of
Changes on Estate in the County of Meath to the Trustees of the Marriage
Settlement of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Gorges," 1844; policy of
Hamilton Gorges from the Life Assurance Society, 1851; valuation of the
Hamilton Gorges estate, 1817; material relating to the Copyhold Act,
1843; the marriage license of Hamilton Gorges and Gertrude Bennet,
for a wedding in St. George's Hanover Square, Aug. 3, 1839; material
relating to the settlement of the estate of Hamilton Gorges and legal
documents between his daughters Gertrude Frances, Eleanor Georgiana,
and Henry Boddington Webster, Fitzstephen French, Richard and Edmund
duCrane between the years 1872-1885. In addition there are two
letters to Mrs. Frances Gorges from the Duke of Wellington, May 28 and
June 1, 1836; and a manuscript account book for the years 1824-28, including
expenses, glebe surveys, labourers, and house accounts, wine
cellar inventories, steward accounts, diary of labour, inventories of
house furnishings and stock, of Chelsea, Ireland. Also papers of the Irish
Chancery Commissioners and the Irish Land Commission of 1911. Nos.
1641, 1686, 1740, 1759, 1781.
GRAY, M. R. 1822-1831. 1 MS. vol. Deposit.
Manuscript diary, and inventory book from Fredericksburg, Va.,
recording weather, social gatherings, inventories of chinaware, comments
on local events, sale of slaves, recipes for plum pudding, biscuits,
etc., bread accounts, and family matters. No. 1709.
GRIMKE, THOMAS SMITH (1786-1834). 1833, May 10. 1 ALS.
Purchase.
To Mr. H. Bernard asking him to deliver the accompanying letters
and parcels to John Marshall and James Madison. No. 1669.
GRINNAN FAMILY PAPERS. 1811-1899. ca. 650 items. Gift of
Mrs. Elizabeth Grinnan Jackson.
Business papers, account books, receipts, and correspondence of the
Grinnan family of Fredericksburg, Va. and related families, particularly
Charles Pitt Howard. These papers are distributed fairly evenly over
the period and contain much of interest for both economic and political
historians. Included are: papers and accounts relating to the estate of
Francis Burnley, and of John Howard; letters to Charles Pitt Howard of
Orange County, Va., from Howard Malcom describing a voyage to India
in 1835; references to abolitionists, and Garrison's Liberator, 1839; blacksmith's
books; papers of the Presbyterian Church of Fredericksburg;
politics, particularly national elections from 1840-1860; letters to Andrew
G. Grinnan containing mention of vaccinations, copper mining
projects, and the Spencer lens of 1848; materials relating to the medical
practice of Dr. Grinnan in Fredericksburg; land deeds and indentures
in Patrick, Carroll, Botetourt, Wythe, and Grayson counties in Virginia;
lands and titles in Minnesota, Iowa, and Kansas territory; coal mining
in Virginia; papers on Jordan Winn Iron Works in Rockbridge County,
Va.; Abraham Lincoln's election; secession of border states; prices in
Richmond and property difficulties in 1861; proposed invasion of Washington,
1861; business papers and letters of the Rev. Randolph Bryan
Grinnan, a missionary in Japan, describing members of his church,
Japanese food, customs, fear of Russia, etc., 1887-1897; material concerning
Georgetown College, Kentucky, Alton College, Illinois, and Franklin
Institute, Philadelphia. Correspondents include: A. D. Almond, James
Arthur, Charles Aunspaugh, Robert A. Banks, James Barbour, John H.
Bell, Thomas Black, A. R. Blakey, P. B. Borst, C. G. Brown, John
Cabell, Lady Emma Campbell, A. T. Caperton, Robert M. Clark, Mrs.
Eustace Conway, Jane A. Conway, John F. Cowan, N. N. Cramer, Nathan
P. Dodge, William L. Early, Daniel B. Ewing, John Fleming, Mattie A.
Garett, Ella M. Grinnan, Cornelia Grinnan, Daniel Grinnan, Georgia
Grinnan, Rev. Randolph Bryan Grinnan, Robert A. Grinnan, John K.
Gordon, A. M. Hamilton, Thomas Hanson, James C. Hart, Joseph Henry,
Charles P. Hill, Charles Pitt Howard, A. Alexander Little, Ellen Lomax,
Sydney C. Long, Andrew T. MacClintock, Howard Malcom, J. H. Roberts,
F. A. Slaughter, George A. Smith, G. S. Smith, Charles A. Spencer,
Britt Stovall, George J. Sumner, John S. Swann. (These have been added
to Grinnan papers previously acquired. See Annual Report of the
Archivist,. . .VII, 5; VIII, 7). No. 1716.
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804). 1794, Aug. 27. 1 ALS.
Purchase.
To Gov. Henry Lee of Virginia, concerning re-fortifications at Norfolk,
Va., and authorizing purchase of land on which to build them. No.
1637.
HARRISON PAPERS. 1831-1915. 12 items. Gift of Francis Burton
Harrison.
Seven postcards of Weimar, Germany, and Goethe's house there
Transcripts of letters from Jesse Burton Harrison to Ober-MedizinalRat
Ludwig F. von Froriep describing religious frenzy in Lynchburg,
Va., in 1831. Correspondence between Fairfax Harrison and Leonard L.
Mackell, describing Jesse Burton Harrison's visit in 1820 to Goethe at
Weimar including a typed extract of the diary of the visit and Harrison's
opinion of Goethe. (For other Harrison Family Papers see Annual
Report of Historical Collections. . ., XII, 33). No. 1631.
HENLEY, DAVID. 1805, Jan. 23. I ALS. Purchase.
ALS to John J. Watson, the historian, describing his life in Maryville
[Tennessee], farming, philosophy, etc. David Henley was a colonel in
the Revolutionary War, and one of the first settlers in Tennessee. A
friend of General Washington's, he was appointed by him to the first
Indian agency in that country. No. 1663.
HERNDON, JOHN W. (1870- ). 1943, April 9. Typescript
and reprint. Gift of Mr. John W. Herndon.
Two autograph copies of "Applications of Virginians for office during
the Presidency of George Washington, 1789-1797," printed in the William
and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, 2nd Series,
April 1943, XXIII, 162-205. No. 1681.
HIDEN, J. GEORGE. 1894-1898. 1 MS. item, 3 sets printed documents.
Gift of Mrs. Philip Wallance Hiden.
Farm Diary from Oct. 1, 1896, to Feb. 26, 1898, kept by George Hiden
in Orange County, Va., of daily farm operations. Three sets of printed
final examinations of the University of Virginia Department of Law for
1895-1896. No. 1519.
HUME, FANNIE PAGE (1838-1865). 1862. 1 typescript, 110
pp. and index. Gift of Miss Texie Watts.
Copy of a diary, dated "Selma," Orange County, Va., Jan. 1-Dec. 31,
1862, with comment on weather, family and personal affairs, the Confederate
and Union governments and the Civil War. During part of the
year Orange County was occupied by Union troops. No. 1713.
HUMPHREY, FOUNTAIN. 1819-1831. 1 MS. vol. Deposit.
MS. account book, incl; detailed weather records, day by day at
Spring Hills, Va., Jan. 1, 1828—Dec. 23, 1831; expense accounts, Sept. 1,
1819—Dec. 23, 1820, at Palmyra, Va.; health of his slaves and his own
time lost because of ill health, 1830-31; interspersed with farm notes on
corn, wheat, stock raising and truck gardening. No. 1623.
HUTTER, CHRISTIAN SEXTUS, JR. (1891- ). ca. 16001930.
ca. 70 items. Deposit, gift.
Miscellaneous land surveys of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
in Virginia. Five parchments, English land indentures, 1589-1728. ADS
Patrick Henry, May 17, 1786. Plan of the town of Lynchburg, February
11, 1805. ALS David Hume to Thomas Currie, August 25, 1798,
about his children, criminology, and his work. ALS Maria Edgeworth to
Mr. Hunter, April 25 [1818] asking his opinion on her work. Vestry
Book (1826-1839) of Russel Parish, Bedford County, Va. ADS Andrew
Jackson, February 25, 1832. ALS Henry Muhlenberg to C. J. Hutter,
February 25, 1832, regarding applications for appointments in the Navy.
ALS George Wycke to Edward S. Hutter, September 7, 1834, concerning
ship's discipline. ALS Jane Porter to—, December 30, 1835, concerning
David Garrick's birthplace. ADS Martin Van Buren, June 28,
1838. Three ALS from Edward S. Hutter to his wife, Emma, May 15,
[1841], September 8, 1841, and June 24, 1844. Two ALS Christian J.
Hutter to his son, Edward S. Hutter, June 17, 1844, and December 15,
1845, concerning health, personal affairs, religion. Account of Major
James Longstreet, Eighth Regiment, U. S. Infantry, for October, 1849.
Muster of Pay Roll of Company "D", First Artillery, U. S. Army from
March 1, 1852, to April 20, 1852. Account of James M. Booker with H.
R. Johnson and Co., relating to the baling and sale of cotton, June-July,
1864. Exemption of James M. Booker from military service in the army
of the Confederate States, November 18, 1864. ALS Henry James to
Mrs. Emma Hutter, January, 1910, thanking her for her Christmas gift.
Sketch of the life of Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1832-1899) printed in the
Dallas Morning News, May 13, 1929. List of subscribers to La Table des
Maréchaux, n. d. Miscellaneous items incl.: receipts, accounts, letters,
bills, indentures, etc. Nos. 1513, 1544, 1574, 1577, 1582, 1682, 1710, 1711,
1712, and 1721.
HUTTER, EDWARD S. (1812-1875). 1832-1876. 4 MS. vols. 10
ALS. Deposit.
Four log books kept by Midshipman Hutter. The first of the U. S. S.
Porpoise, James M. McIntosh, commander, begins Nov. 4, 1832 at the
Azores. The voyage from there was through the Azores, along the
Hutter reported for duty at the U. S. Navy Yard on Dec. 2, 1833. The
log of the U. S. S. Peacock opens with a list of the dimensions of the
masts and spars of the vessel; a list of the officers includes Edmund P.
Kennedy, commander-in-chief of the U. S. Naval forces in the East Indies;
G. K. Stribling, acting commander; Edward S. Hutter, midshipman;
passengers Edmund P. Roberts, envoy and bearer of presents to
the Emperor of China; Peter John Jacobs, interpreter; Jacob Caldwell,
second sailing master and pilot for the East Indies Seas. The voyage began
at Bombay, India, Dec. 4, 1835, and included the Arabian Sea;
Colombo Roads; Ceylon; Indian Ocean; Batavia, Java Sea; Straits of
Banca; China Sea; Gulf of Siam, and the record ends on Apr. 30, 1836. The
next log of the same ship begins May 1, 1836, and the Peacock is entered
as the flag ship to Commodore Kennedy. This record is not only the
routine of the ship, its bearings, the conditions of navigation, record of
sea burials, and ships' discipline, chiefly floggings for card playing and
other breaches, but is filled with minute description of coastal areas,
ports, landings, services held by missionaries, meetings with King Kaukiouli
of the Sandwich Islands, whalers and other ships encountered,
and fresh supplies loaded at various ports. The voyage included Cochin,
China; Macoo Roads; Monkey Island; North Pacific Ocean; Port William
Bonin; Oahu Island; Honolulu; Monterrey, Mexico; coast of California;
Cape St. Lucas; Mazatlan, Mexico; Gulf of California; Acapulco; coast
of Mexico; Cape Blanco; and Peru. The last entry is dated Apr. 5, 1837.
The last log does not carry the ship's name. The ship was commanded
by Capt. P. Johnson, and the voyage began on Jan. 1, 1876, at Valparaiso,
Chile; the last entry is Peru, July 21, 1876. There is very little in the
log but routine navigation data. Also nine ALS concerning the Peacock
and its officers, including invitations at Rio de Janerio, Honolulu,
and London, official appointment of E. S. Hutter as a midshipman, May
29, 1834, and other papers. Memorandum of work done for Mr. E. S. Hutter
on his house in Lynchburg by W. Cobb, Dec. 1845. No. 1512, 1555,
1609.
JACKSON, ANDREW (1767-1845). 1818, June 2. 1 ALS. Purchase.
To Mrs. Rachel Jackson near Nashville, Tenn., from Fort Montgomery,
Ala., telling her of his entry into Florida, the destruction of
Pensacola, and "having I trust put an end to indian hostilities for the
future. . . .I have destroyed the Babylon of the South." No. 1648.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826) PAPERS. 1779-1836. 101
items. MSS., photostats, typescripts, and prints. Gift, purchase
and deposit.
Substantial additions to the Library's collection of papers have been
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 ALS, 1779-1825, to Henry Remsen, William Wirt and Thomas
Sewall. Photostats, purchase. No. 1678. One ALS, October 5, 1781 to
Benjamin Franklin introducing James Monroe who had gone to Paris
to study. Photostat, gift of Julian P. Boyd. No. 1701. 10 items, 17861819;
being an extract from the account book of James Lee and Co.,
noting nursery stock purchased by Thomas Jefferson and nine letters;
Richard Peters to Thomas Jefferson, March 13, 1794; Luke O. Dio to
Thomas Jefferson, June 23, 1801; Lord Sheffield to Thomas Jefferson,
March 24, 1806; Thomas Jefferson to Col. Richard Skipworth, April 17,
1810; John Campbell White to Thomas Jefferson, August 13, 1816; Jefferson
to John Campbell White, August 24, 1816; Henry E. Watkins to
Jefferson, November 6, 1818; Jefferson to Henry E. Watkins, November
27, 1818; Silvestre to Jefferson, October 20, 1819. Typescript, gift of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture. No. 1676. One ALS, January 9, 1809,
from Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson introducing the Rev.
Mr. Richards who was interested in American Indians. Photostat, gift of
Randolph G. Adams. No. 1632. Fourteen ALS, being the correspondence
of Thomas Jefferson with George Jefferson and Patrick Gibson,
1810-1817. Photostats, gift of Virginius Dabney. No. 1633. One ALS,
September 12, 1811, Thomas Jefferson to John Shore, concerning smallpox
vaccine. Photostat, gift of Mrs. Cameron Duncan. No. 1687. One
MS. document, being the Garden Record at Poplar Forest, February 27,
1811- April 23, 1819, kept in Jefferson's hand. Purchase. No. 1539. One
manuscript document being an indenture between Thomas Jefferson,
Andrew Stevens and Bernard Peyton, September 15, 1819. Deposit. No.
1513. One manuscript letter to Joseph C. Cabell, Feb. 4, 1823, unsigned
and apparently never sent, being a discussion of the problems at the
University of Virginia. Purchase. No. 1741. One ALS Thomas Jefferson
to Dr. Horace Holly, April 5, 1825, describing the University of Virginia.
Purchase. No. 1671. Three ALS from Jefferson to Robley
Dunglison, 1825-1826 concerning the University of Virginia. Deposit.
No. 1608. One ALS December 7, 1825, Jefferson to Arthur J. Brockenbrough
asking him to show some visitors the tin roofs and gutters of
the public buildings at Washington, D. C. Purchase. No. 1524. One
ALS, May 5, 1826, Jefferson to [Ferdinand R.] Hassler, concerning the
textbooks to be used at the University of Virginia. Purchase. No. 1566.
One ALS, May 30, 1826, Jefferson to James Heaton, expressing Jefferson's
faith in the eventual right-thinking of public opinion. Photostat,
gift of Julian P. Boyd. No. 1733. One manuscript document, James T.
Barclay and Julia Ann, his wife of Albemarle County to Uriah P. Levy,
in consideration of $2700, deed to Monticello, 218 acres as described in
plat by A. Broadhead. Gift of Mrs. Amelia Levy Mayhoff in honor of
portraits of Jefferson and other Revolutionary leaders. Gift of the Jefferson
Bicentennial Commission. No. 1634.
JOHNSON, CATHERINE COYLE UNDERWOOD (1827-?).
1854-1857. 8 ALS. Gift of Meredith Johnson.
Written to her brother, John Ingle Underwood of Washington, D. C.,
and Charleston, S. C., describing social life in Indiana and her family
affairs. Accompanied by a letter from the donor containing biographical
material on the Underwoods. No. 1560.
JOHNSON, JAMES GIBSON (1871- ). 1900-1942. ca. 70
items. Gift of James G. Johnson.
Materials dealing with the public school system of Virginia, including
circular notices from the State Superintendent of Public Instruction; lists
of bills pending before the 1940 State Legislature having the approval
of the Virginia Superintendent's Association and the Virginia Education
Association; letters on the Virginia Rural Youth Survey conducted by
the United States National Youth Administration in 1941; and records
of the Superintendent of Schools of Charlottesville, Va. These are in
addition to other papers previously acquired. (See Annual Report on
Historical Collections. . .XII, 36). No. 1520.
KEAN, JEFFERSON RANDOLPH (1860- ). 1900-1943. 69
items. Gift of Jefferson Randolph Kean and transfer.
Extract from the Annual Report of the Secretary of War, Elihu Root,
being General Orders, No. 6, December 21, 1900. Photostat. No. 1617.
Memorandum concerning the base hospitals, World War I, written by
General Kean, 1918. No. 1580. Typescript. ALS Maj. Gen. M. W.
Ireland to Lt. Col. E. L. Ruffner, June 18, 1924. No. 1617. Three items
being a record of the presentation to Gen. Kean of the Gorgas medal at
the University of Virginia, Dec. 15, 1942; typescript of Gen. Kean's acceptance
speech, and the engrossed citation of the Gorgas medal. Nos.
1617 and 1580. Fifty letters, 1935-1943, being the correspondence of
Gen. Kean with Harry Clemons, Dr. Cary Grayson, Colvin Foddard, Dr.
Angus McLean, John J. Moran, and Albert E. Truby incl. comment on
the descendants of Thomas Jefferson, the campaign against yellow fever,
the work of William Crawford Gorgas, Walter Reed, and Carlos J. Finley
and miscellaneous files of the Military Surgeon. Nos. 1580 and 1617.
(This material has been added to the Kean papers previously acquired.
See Annual Report on Historical Collections. . . .XII, 36-7).
KELLAND, JOHN B. (1845-1920). 1862-1877. 27 microfilm letters.
Deposit.
John Kelland joined the 111th Regiment of the New York Volunteers
and fought with the Union forces during the Civil War, until injured
May 6, 1864 at the Battle of the Wilderness. Afterwards he was placed
in the U. S. General Hospital, West Philadelphia, Pa. The letters in
this collection are from Harper's Ferry, Va., August, 1862; Centerville,
Va., January-June, 1863; Warrenton and Rapidan, November, 1863;
and Stevensburg, Culpeper County, Va., February-March, 1864. They
are mostly to his grandparents, his brother and cousin (no names); also
incl. is his official discharge from the Union Army, 1864. A few of the
items date past the years of the War and include a description of Pittsburgh,
Pa., silk and fur hats industry and personal affairs. No. 1550.
KENT FAMILY PAPERS. 1856-1926. 4 MS. notebooks, ca. 50
MS. items. Gift of Kent Estate.
Manuscript German notebook (ca. 1856) possibly lectures under Professor
Maximilian Schele de Vere at the University of Virginia. Roll
book of Professor Francis H. Smith at the University of Virginia, (n.d.).
Manuscript list "Lynchburg Voters" 1871. Manuscript law notebook
(ca. 1919) kept by Edward W. Gamble, Jr. Manuscript law notebook
(ca. 1926) kept by Hampton P. Olney, Jr. Manuscript school notes, poetry,
broadsides and mathematical tables of a miscellaneous nature. No.
1571.
[KRATZER, JOSEPH]. 1773-1814. 1 MS. vol. Purchase.
Manuscript account book of [Linville? Rockingham County], Va.,
written partly in German, apparently of a country store. No. 1717.
LAFAYETTE, MARIE JOSEPH PAUL, MARQUIS DE (17571834).
1828. 2 ALS. Purchase.
Addressed to James Barbour, in November, 1828, at the Court of St.
James, England, where Barbour was minister plenipotentiary from the
United States. Lafayette introduces a Captain Lourette and inquires
about his American friends. No. 1691.
LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE. 1916-1917. 10 items. Gift of the
President's Office, University of Virginia.
Photographs and illustrated pamphlet concerning the Lafayette Escadrille,
and the monument in Paris erected in their honor by the
French government. No. 1561.
LEE, CHARLES (1731-1782). [1761] Nov. 5. 1 ALS. Purchase.
From St. Albans Store to Rt. Hon. Charles Townshend, War Office.
Mr. Wood who was recommended by Dr. [Peter?] Middleton for surgeon's
commission of regiment was not in government service but attached
to Horse Guards for two years. Although he is well qualified,
Lee would not have recommended him if aware of rule against it. No.
1531.
LEE, WILLIAM (1772-1840). 1806, February 7. 1 ALS. Purchase.
Dated from Paris and addressed to Mr. Rotch, requesting a loan of
five thousand or seven thousand francs. "I have applied to you thinking
it possible you might have some money laying idle." No. 1599.
LEWIS FAMILY PAPERS. 1734-1861. ca. 750 items. Gift of
Gordon Lewis.
Business papers chiefly small store and plantation, account of Warner
Lewis of Goldberry, Essex County, Va. These papers include
tax receipts, land grants, deeds, crop accounts, bills for general merchandise,
school books, blacksmith's work, carpentry, weaving, medical
services, and newspaper subscriptions. Miscellaneous items incl.: A
Revolutionary war pension, broadside for the presidential primaries of
1836 for the Republican Whig party, giving local candidates' names. A
list of taxable property for St. Anne's Parish, Essex County, Va., 1843.
A record of a transaction selling shares in a Chinese snake stone.
Records of speculations in Kentucky lands. A list of fines levied by
Virginia Militia and papers relating to the estates of Miss Nancy Burwell
and Dr. John Taliaferro Lewis. Correspondents and business associates
incl.: Cornelius Beazley, William S. Butler, Richard Clarkson,
Lewis Dix, William Gooch, Robert G. Haile, Erasmus Jones, W.
Latané, Mrs. Susanna Lewis, John Lumpkin, George Miller, William
Pollard, Archibald Ritchie, Robert B. Semple, Lewis Tabb, John Temple,
Reuben T. Thom, Robert Waring, Thomas Waring, Robert Weir, Joshua
Woodson and son. No. 1525.
McCULLOCH, RICHARD SEARS (1818-1894). 1877, January
24. 1 ALS. Transfer.
To Professor Francis H. Smith, University of Virginia, presenting him
with a copy of Mr. McCulloch's book, Treatise in the Mechanical Theory
of Heat and its Applications to the Steam Engine, (New York, 1876.) No.
1638.
McDOWELL FAMILY PAPERS. 1792-1866. ca. 500 items. Purchase.
Papers of the family of Col. James McDowell, of Fairfield, Rockbridge
County, Va., father of James McDowell, Jr., governor of
Virginia, 1843-46, and a member of the Rockbridge County militia.
These papers include much material on land speculation in Tennessee,
North Carolina, Kentucky and Ohio, with particular mention of Thomas
Hart Benton. Economic materials include indentures, deeds, accounts,
receipts, prices of farm produce, sewing of hemp, shipping of flour, and
the sale of slaves. The reaction in Rockbridge County to the War of
1812 and the burning of Washington are noticed. The usefulness of gun
boats is debated. Materials on education in Virginia include discussions
of Washington College, Lexington, and Washington Academy, Rockbridge
County, Va. Material on the location of the University of Virginia
with geographical statistics to prove that Lexington is really the
center of Virginia, and that if it were not for the immense influence of
Thomas Jefferson, the University would be located there, instead of at
Charlottesville. Politics in Rockbridge County, Va., and the United
States, with notice of the Federalists, the Whigs, the Democrats and the
Know-Nothing parties. Also comment on counterfeit money, collection
of taxes, religious revivals, turnpikes, and a visit to White Sulphur
Springs. Correspondents incl.: John B. Armistead, C. C. Baldwin,
Cyrus B. Baldwin, James Beaty, Thomas Hart Benton, Carter Beverly,
John Breckinridge, Robert Breckinridge, William D. Boaz, Joseph P.
Bowser, Daniel M. Bryan, George Cabell, George W. Campbell, John
Campbell, Isaac Carruthers, Grace Caskey, John Coalter, Samuel
Clarke, George Crogham, Joseph W. Culton, John G. Daniel, John Dickson,
Samuel Finley, N. Foster, Robert Gamble, Edward Graham, Isaac
Gray, Andrew Hamilton, H. St. George Harris, John Henderson, James
Hill, Daniel Hoffman, Ben A. Holmes, Henry Horn, George Junkin, John
Koontz, William M. Lockland, Andrew Leitch, John Letcher, Thomas
Lewis, William Linton, Philip Maphis, James M. Marshall, Isaiah McBride,
James McChesney, Charles McDowell, James McDowell, James
A. McDowell, Jr., John McDowell, Samuel McDowell, Mrs. Sarah McDowell,
David McGavock, Alexander McNutt, Andrew Morrison, George
Nicholson, John Paul, Bernard Peyton, Garnett Peyton, John H. Peyton,
Nathaniel Pope, John Preston, Susanna Preston, Thomas Preston, William
C. Preston, Ryland Rodes, Peter Salling, Henry Salling, James
Scott, R. G. Scott, Francis Smith, Thomas L. Smith, William P. Smith,
William Smith, Edgar Snowden, Archibald Stuart, Bennett Taylor, Robert
K. Taylor, William Taylor, William H. Terrill, William H. Torrance,
B. Washington, James D. Watts, Mathew White, William White, William
Willson, James L. Woodville, Ralph A. Yancey, and Mary Young. No.
1707.
MADISON, DOROTHY PAYNE TODD (1768-1849). 1794-1847.
33 ALS. Purchase.
Correspondence of Dorothy Payne Todd Madison, principally with
members of her family. These letters incl.: Catherine Coles to her
cousin Dorothy Todd, June 1, 1794, about James Madison's impression
of the young widow—" . . . he thinks so much of you in the Day that he
has Lost his Tongue. At Night he Dreams of you. . . ." P. Lyons, Jr., to
Mrs. Dorothy Todd, July 18, 1794 declaring his love for her. Anna
Marie Thornton to Mrs. Dorothy Madison, August 24, 1802, discussing a
visit of Gilbert Stuart. Thirteen ALS of Dolly Madison to her sister
Anna Payne Cutts, April 26, 1804-January 25, 1830 (nine undated) with
comment on the Madison family, Lucy Payne Washington's marriage to
Judge Thomas Todd of Kentucky, Payne Todd, James Madison's cold,
and Dolly's inflamed knee and rheumatic fever; also mentioned are the
death of Maria Jefferson Eppes, politics with particular reference to the
Federalists, the Quakers and Dolly's relief at being "so entirely from
their clutches," Aaron Burr's trial, Nicholas Trist, Sally Lowe, Nancy
Miflin, Betsy Pemberton, Montpelier and Orange County, Va. William
Bell to Mrs. Dolly Madison, January 24, 1806, seeking pardon from a
jail sentence. George Watterson to Mrs. Dolly Madison, March 10, 1809,
about the dedication of a comedy, "a bagatelle of fancy" to her. Three
ALS of Dolly Madison to her cousin Mrs. Maria Van Zandt, April 2,
1810, and two undated letters, discussing wigs, children and a visit to
Monticello, John C. Blount to Mrs. Dolly Madison July 18, 1813, telling
her about the attack of Admiral William Cockburn on the North Carolina
coast. Charles F. Grandison to Mrs. Dolly Madison, July 26, 1813,
telling her that he was an officer in the United States Navy who had
been unjustly dismissed and asking her to obtain for him a half hour
interview with the President. William Gambell to Mrs. Dolly Madison,
January 4, 1814, seeking employment in the ordnance service. George
Boyd to Mrs. Dolly Madison, inclosing a list of expenses and repairs on
the President's house, September 6, 1816. C. N. O'Brien to Mrs. Madison,
Dec. 27, 1819 concerning politics, international affairs, comment on the
Florida Purchase and the Missouri Compromise. Mrs. E. W. Wirt to
Mrs. Madison, October 9, 1837, asking her to return the letters James
Madison received from William Wirt. Mrs. Dolly Madison to her cousin
Mrs. Henry L. Cutts, October 8, 1838 telling of the arrival of a scarf and
the poor condition of Dolly's eyes. Dolly Madison to Richard Smith, December
10, 1840, concerning her bank account. Dolly Madison to James
Buchanan, Secretary of State, recommending a Mr. Corcoran for appointment
to either a military or a civil post. Three undated letters, one
a fragment of a letter from Dolly Madison to her sister, one to Anna
Marie Thornton describing a difficult trip to Montpelier because of the
impassable roads and swollen streams in Virginia, and one to Elizabeth
F. Harwood introducing William Dunlap, the artist. Nos. 1597, 1614,
1636, 1646, 1661, 1714.
MADISON, JAMES (1771-1836) Collection. 1782-1827. 6 ALS.
Purchase.
To the Auditors of the Commonwealth of Virginia, August 20, 1782,
asking for the balance due Madison as Virginia's representative to the
Congress of the Confederation. To Tench Coxe, May 8, 1804, concerning
the laws of the United States intended for Louisiana. To Mr. A. E.
Cutts, July 27, 1818, asking him to get a conveyance for the two letters
enclosed from the State Department. To an unknown person, November
25, 1818, about Tolovara wheat and experiments with it. To Joseph
Delaplaine asking him to send Madison some manuscripts. To G. I.
Cleveland, June 22, 1827 thanking him for the copy of Epitome of Grecian
Antiquities, (New York, 1827). Nos. 1595, 1661, 1714. (See Annual
Report on Historical Manuscripts. . ., XII, 38-9).
MADISON PAMPHLET COLLECTION. 1745. 1 item. Transfer.
Manuscript, copy seven, "Directions how to draw up a Company of
men for the military exercise." 10 pp. No. 1725.
MAPHIS, CHARLES G. (1865-1938). 1907-1931. ca. 1500 items.
Gift of the University of Virginia Education Department.
Correspondence, clippings, broadsides, and pamphlets, materials relating
to Annual Rural Life Conferences; Virginia State Teachers'
Association; Virginia accredited schools; accredited Virginia high
schools; coeducation at the University of Virginia; University of Virginia
Summer Quarter Records; Religious Education Association; International
Committee Y. M. C. A.; Virginia State Horticultural Society;
National League of Women Voters; Association of Colleges and Secondary
Schools of the Southern States; Southern Association of Colleges
and Universities; National Association of State Universities. Business
and personal papers relate to Covesville Apple Orchard; Old Dominion
Orchard Company; Tip-top Orchards; Terminal Refrigerating and
Warehousing Company; Rothwell Storage and Ice Company, Inc.; Direct
Cooperative Fruit Company, Ltd.; New York Insectide Company; National
Fruit Product Company; National Orchard Heater Company; H.
G. Linton and Company; John H. Heald Company; Jennings Brothers
and Easter; S. Cohen and Company; Burton and Briel; Brumby Fruit
and Produce Company; Virginia State Building and Loan Association;
Niagara Sprayer and Chemical Company; the Michie Company. Correspondents
incl. Horace M. Betts, Capt. William J. Brown, H. H. Hensly,
Edwin W. Maphis, Cleveland Abbe, Florence C. Baird, H. E. Bennett,
J. H. Binford, W. C. Blakey, James E. Boyle, G. A. Bricker, E. C. Bronson,
J. B. Burrows, Julian W. Burruss, T. N. Carver, A. B. Chamberlain,
Henry Frederick Cope, Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, Lewis Crenshaw, Joseph
Farrington Company, Duncann Fletcher, H. W. Foght, William E. Gardner,
Dr. Carolyn Geisel, Carter Glass, Armistead C. Gordon, George
Guy, Lee F. Hanmer, Harris Hart, Edwin M. Hopkins, D. F. Houston, J.
L. Jarman, James H. Kirkland, F. H. LaBoume, R. A. Lapsley, Albert H.
Leake, Mary Cooke Branch Munford, John Preston McConnell, J. E.
McCulloch, Frank L. McVey, Henry Read McIlwaine, William Louis Poteat,
Agnes Randolph, Walter Rauschenbusch, Paul Sargent, Frank
Selden, Thomas Slator Settle, C. Bascom Slemp, Hoke Smith, G. E.
Stayner, Anna Taft, William A. Webb, Walter Whatley, Ennion G. Williams.
MAP COLLECTION. 12 items. Purchase.
Additions to the Rare Book and Manuscript Division Collection of
Maps incl.:
New Map of Virginia, from the best authorities, by T. Kitchin. (London,
1755.) 8″ × 9-¾″. Scale: 60 miles equal 1½ inches.
A Map of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, for
R. Baldwin. (London, 1755.) 9″ × 11″. Scale: English statute miles,
69 to a degree.
A Plan of the Posts of York and Gloucester in the Providence of Virginia,
Established by his Majesty's Army under the Command of Lieut.
General Earl Cornwallis together with the Attacks and Operations of
the American and French Forces commanded by General Washington
and the Count of Rochambeau which Terminated in the Surrender of
the said Posts, and Army on the 17th of October 1781. Surveyed by
Capt. Fage of the Royal Artillery. (London, 1782.) 48″ × 30″. Scale:
1500 feet equal 3 inches.
The State of Virginia from the best authorities. (n. p., 1799.) 12-½″ ×
14-½″. Scale: 69-½ miles equal 1 inch.
Virginia. (n. p., ca. 1844.) 14″ × 12″. Scale: 30 miles equal 1 inch.
Map of Eastern Virginia including Delaware. (New York, 1862.) 15″ ×
18″. Scale: 30 miles equal 1 inch.
Campaign Map, Army of the Potomac, Map No. 3, White House to
Harrison's Landing. Prepared by command of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan,
USA. . . . (Washington, 1862.) 34″ × 30″. Scale 1½ miles equal
1 inch.
Richmond. E. and G. W. Blunt. (New York 1862.) 10″ × 15″. Scale: 6
miles equal 1½ inches.
Corrected Map of the Seat of War near Richmond, July 10, 1862. (New
York, 1862.) 30″ × 15″.
Military Map referring to the Campaign of the Army of the Potomac
in Virginia including the adjoining Parts of Maryland and Pennsylvania
expressly compiled from the latest and most reliable sources on record
for military and private use. By Gustavus R. Bechler. (Phila., 1864,).
40″ × 50″. Scale: 5 miles equal 1 inch.
Map of Richmond, Henrico Co. (New York, 1883.) 14″ × 17¼″.
Map of the City of Richmond from the U. S. Coast Survey Map of
1860. (Staunton, 1866.) 5″ × 5½″. Scale: 5 miles equal 1 inch.
MARTIN, THOMAS STAPLES (1847-1919). 1897-1916. 12 items.
Gift of Thomas Martin, Jr.
One ALS from William DeWolf Dimock about the proposed railroad
from Newport News to Washington, Nov. 8, 1916. One studbook, (n.
d.). Typescript of deed to Snowden, Scottsville, Va., Dec. 19, 1898.
Nine ALS correspondence of Sen. Martin with C. H. Harmon on the use
and manufacture of magnesium (1897-1898). (For further information
see: Annual Report on Historical Collections. . . ., XII, 41.) Nos. 1564,
1568.
MATTHERS, CURNOW. 1850, August 19. 1 ALS. Purchase.
To Capt. James Lanyon, Cheshire, New Haven County, Conn., discussing
mining and farming conditions in Fauquier County, Va.
No. 1593.
MAURY, DABNEY HERNDON (1822-1900). 1888, October 25.
1 item. Purchase.
To Gen.—Morgan requesting a position in a diplomatic post for
Capt. William J. Bradford. Mentions Gen. Andrew Jackson, William
Henry Harrison and the spoils system. No. 1646.
MAURY, WILLIAM LEWIS (1813-1878). 1853-1855. 3 MS.
vols. Deposit.
Three log books kept by Capt. Maury, U. S. N. on the U.S.S. Saratoga
and the U. S. S. Mississippi during Commodore M. C. Perry's expedition
to Japan. The first log entry is dated Hong Kong, China, April 7, 1853.
On Sept. 26, 1853, Maury assumed command of the Mississippi. The log
entries in addition to bearings and ships' routine contain a great deal of
valuable descriptive data of Pacific islands, the coasts of China and
Japan, encounters with natives during the Perry expedition, and various
episodes in the long negotiations by Commodore Perry with the
of Maury family papers. See Archivist Report, VIII, 6-7; Annual
Report on Historical Collections. . ., XI, 37-38; XII, 41.) No. 1522.
MEREDITH, REUBEN G. 1843. 1 MS. vol. Gift of Prof. George
W. Jeffers.
Notes taken under Professor William Barton Rogers in the courses of
materia medica and chemistry at the University of Virginia in 1843.
No. 1685.
MONROE, JAMES (1758-1831) Collection. 1792-1829. 9 ALS.
Purchase.
Monroe to Tench Coxe, April 13, 1792, regarding legislation concerning
the United States Treasury Department. Monroe to [Archibald
Roane], Governor of Tennessee, May 20, 1802, concerning the commission
appointed to draw the boundary line between Tennessee and
Virginia. Monroe to General John Mason, March 8, 1803, asking him to
have patience and as soon as Monroe's agent, Major James Lewis, sold
some of Monroe's land above Charlottesville and in Kentucky, he would
pay Mason the money owed him. Monroe to William Tudor, Jr., Jan.
17, 1809, concerning his unsuccessful attempt to settle the claim of
Madame de Vaudrueil, and offering to introduce Mr. Tudor to Henry
Clay. Monroe to Sir John B. Warren, April 16, 1813, concerning the exchange
of American and British prisoners of war. Monroe to an unknown
person, dated from Washington, June 2, 1814, advising the suppression
of a book that might create a bad impression politically. "It
would give consequence to the people whom it was intended to effect
in another way, and injure those it was intended to benefit." Monroe
to [Sir John Sinclair] July 18, 1822, declining to give his permission
for a book to be dedicated to him. Monroe to an unknown person
thanking him for the cauliflowers that were sent to his family, Dec. 10,
1828. Monroe to Mr. Agg, November 3, 1829, giving permission for an
article, appearing in the Engineers to be adapted for the Whig. Nos.
1654, 1661, 1714.
MORRIS, ROBERT (1734-1806). 1787, April 7. 1 item. Deposit.
Bill of exchange for one hundred and fifty pounds, signed by Robert
Morris. No. 1650.
MUNN, SILAS (1785-1872). 1820-1870. 1 MS. vol., 733 pp. 5
ADS. Deposit.
Diary of Silas Munn of Orange County, Va., incl. a brief autobiography,
comments on his parentage, family, illnesses and occupation, of
on weather conditions, county, state, national and international politics,
orations, anti-masonic meetings, prices of produce and lawsuits. Documents
include Silas Munn's (of New Jersey) election as First Lieutenant
in the New Jersey State Militia, June 17, 1813; and his election
as Captain of the same, May 29, 1820; Amos Munn's election as Captain
of the same, October 28, 1803; and an official description of uniform of
Bloomfield, N. J. Light Artillery Co., April 19, 1813. No. 1552.
NANKING UNION CHURCH PAPERS. 1916-1940. 13 vols.
Deposit.
Nanking Union Church Bulletin, I-IX; April, 1916-Jan., 1933; Nanking
Notes and Notices, 1933-1935; 1939-1940; a weekly paper circulated
among the English speaking community at Nanking, China, and
especially revealing of the recent dramatic occurences there. No. 1726.
NEW YORK STATE PLANNING. 1940, June. Typescript, 22 pp.
Transfer from the University of Virginia Bureau of Public Administration.
Typescript, "Studies of Industrial Problems in the State of New York
—Method of Analysis used by the Division of State Planning" with
mimeographed charts. No. 1598.
NEWSPAPERS.
Major acquisitions to the Library's file of newspapers by gift and purchase
include the following (unless otherwise indicated, the item was
purchased):
Virginia Papers
Charlestown, Virginia Free Press, 1835, March 5.
Charlottesville, Daily Progress, illustrated edition, 1906, June, 1 bound
vol. Gift of E. H. McPherson, Esq.
Fredericksburg, The Christian Banner, 1862, May 20.
Daily Star, 1913, Sept. 25.
Virginia Herald, 1830, June 19.
Harrisonburg, Rockingham Weekly Register, 1930, Nov. 6.
Leesburg, The Washingtonian, 1831, Nov. 19.
Lewisburg, Lewisburg Alleghanian, 1833, Nov. 8.
Palladium of Virginia and the Pacific Monitor, 1831, July 30.
Lexington, Lexington Gazette, Bicentennial Issue, 1738-1938.
Anonymous gift.
Lexington Gazette, 1889, March 14.
Rockbridge County News, 1895, March 14.
Liberty, Bedford Sentinel, 1882, April 14.
Lynchburg, Lynchburg Daily Virginian, 1879, March 5.
Martinsburg, Martinsburg Gazette and Public Advertiser, 1832, September
13.
Norfolk, Norfolk Herald, 1831, December 7.
Petersburg, Petersburg Index Appeal, 1885, January 15
Rural Messenger, 1886, March 13.
Richmond, Central Presbyterian, 1871, July 26.
Richmond Christian Advocate, 1868, May 28.
Commercial Compiler, 1831, September 23.
Richmond Enquirer, 1863, May 12. Gift of Mrs. Bertha C.
Deane.
Richmond Planet, 1909, March 20.
Staunton, Staunton Spectator, 1831, January 21.
Winchester, Winchester Virginian, 1831, December 7.
Out-of-state Papers
Augusta, Maine, Peoples Literary Companion, 1871, Jan. Gift of Prof.
John W. Wayland.
New York, N. Y., Index, 1942, Mar. 1-Aug. 23; 1942, Aug. 30- 1943, Feb.
1. Gift of the publishers of the Herald Tribune PM Daily,
1942, January 1-Feb. 28, 403 issues; 1943, March 1-June 30,
105 issues. Gift of Robert M. Musselman, Esq.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., The Poughkeepsie Journal, 1799, December 31,
facsimile.
Philadelphia, Pa., Sunday Republic, 1882, December 3. Gift of E. J.
Sutherland, Esq.
Houston, Texas. The Houston Chronicle, 1936, April 19. One Hundred
Years in Texas. Anonymous gift.
Foreign Papers
Manchester, Eng., The Manchester Guardian, 1942, January-April. Four
rolls microfilm, Harvard University.
Dublin, Ireland, United Ireland, 1891, October 12. Gift of Mrs. Raymond
Gorges.
PAGE FAMILY PAPERS. 1882. 1 MS. vol., 24 pp. 1 clipping.
Gift of Miss Mildred Page.
"Practical Lessons from the Bible, New York: 1882," presented by
Dr. R. Channing M. Page to his wife Mary Fitch Page, with Dr. Page's
bookplate. Clipping from The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va., of
reminiscences of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth (Lacy) Cox (1808-1893), recalling
James Monroe, early appearance of city of Charlottesville, Gen.
Lafayette's visit in 1824, and building of the University of Virginia. No.
1530.
PAULDING, JAMES KIRKE (1778-1860). 1837, May 24. 1
ALS. Purchase.
To Payne Todd (Madison's step son), of Montpelier, Orange County,
Va., about Paulding's proposed biography of James Madison and suggesting
that someone else should select and collate the necessary documents.
No. 1562.
PENALOSA, BRICENO DIEGO DIONESO, COMTE DE (ca.
1622-ca. 1687). ca. 1680. 1 MS. item, 12 pp. Purchase.
Comte de Peñalosa's manuscript, "Memorie pour la discouverte et la
conqueste des pays de Quivra. . .". (12 pages), urging King Louis XIV
of France to conquer and colonize New Mexico (which he describes),
rather than Canada. No. 1708.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN (1809-1849) Collection. 1817-1849. 15
photoprints. Gift and purchase.
Correspondence of Edgar Allan Poe with Mr. L. H. Sigourny, April
23, 1836, Joseph Herron, June 30, 1842, James Russell Lowell, Dec. 27,
1842,—Mackenzie, June 1843, John Keese, June 9, 1844, Mrs.
Jane E. Locke, May 19, 1848, and October, 1848, Bayard Taylor, June 15,
1848, George R. Putnam, May 18, 1849, Mrs. Lewes, Sept. 18, 1849, John
Keese, n.d., etc. Also a letter from John Allan to George Dehourg,
August 12, 1817, and a fragment of John Allan's diary, 1823. Poe to
Daniel Bryan, July 6, 1842. Topics commented on incl.: the Southern
Literary Messenger, finances, Poe's health, the philosophy of criticism,
literary contributions, and personal affairs. Purchase, gift of William
H. Koester. These letters have been added to other papers previously
acquired. (See Annual Report on Historical Collections. . ., XI, 43; XII,
47.) Nos. 1603, 1739.
PORTER, JANE (1776-1850). 1840. 4 items. Transfer from
Sadler-Black Collection.
MS diary, wallet style, for the year 1840. Two manuscript poems,
one ALS to Henry Robinson, Nov. 24, 1840, about the publication of
Scottish Chiefs. Subscription lists for building a proposed monument.
No. 1615.
RADCLIFFE, MRS. ANNE (1764-1823). 1794. 2 ADS. Transfer
from Sadler-Black Collection.
Original contract between Anne and William Radcliffe and George
Robinson for The Mysteries of Udolpho, (London, 1794) and receipt of
payment for the copyright. No. 1615.
RANDOLPH, THOMAS JEFFERSON (1792-1875). 1873-1874.
7 ALS. Purchase.
From Shadwell, Albemarle County, Va., to Nathan Caper (?) of
Massachusetts, discussing: the John Brown incident; the contrast between
Virginia and New England, in history, background and occupation;
characteristics of the northern states and statesmen; Kansas; the
tidewater aristocracy; eastern and western Virginia; union or secession;
the "Louisiana Embroglio"; religion of the north and south; and the
future. The last letter concludes. "The South will not in centuries recover.
The war of races looming in the dark future. Is there an instance
of races so dissimilar occupying as equals the same territory?
The struggle in Spain lasted 600 years." Mention is made of Austin
Blair, Winthrop Everett, Millard Fillmore, William Giles, Thomas Jefferson,
Abraham Lincoln, James Otis, William H. Seward, Philip Voorhis
and Daniel Webster. No. 1596.
RIVES, WILLIAM CABELL (1825-1889). 1866-1883. 3 ALS.
Purchase.
P. R. Fendall to Rives, February 7, 1866, about James Madison's supposed
statement giving Congress the constitutional power to regulate
the right of suffrage in the states. Rives to Mrs. William B. Rogers,
June 4, 1883, and Sept. 6, 1883, concerning a memorial to William B.
Rogers written by Rives. Mentions Rogers' work at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. (For other Rives papers see Archivist Report. . .,
VIII, 7; Annual Report on Historical Collections. . ., XII, 49.) No. 1670.
RIXEY, JOHN F. AND C. J. 1875-1902. 2 MS. vols., 671 pp., 288
pp. and index. Gift of Mrs. Philip Wallace Hiden as memorial to
Philip Barbour Hiden (1842-1915).
Ledger A with entries from October 21, 1875 to January 1, 1902, contains
several types of records, a farm labour record, two farm ledgers,
and daily records of a livery stable business. Ledger F, kept by John F.
and C. J. Rixey of Culpeper, Va., November 8, 1880—October 1, 1892, for
sale of "sundries", but chiefly of milk, butter and cheese. No. 1517.
ROBERTS, JOSEPH KENT (1889- ). 1832-1940. 39 ALS, 3
typescript items. Gift of Professor Roberts.
Thirty-nine letters to Dr. Roberts, in 1940, concerning vital statistics
of Virginia geologists used in Dr. Roberts' Annotated Geological Bibliography
of Virginia, (Richmond, 1942). Correspondents incl.: E.
Milby Burton, F. V. Cargill, R. W. Church, Julia M. Comstock, William
Couper, Paul L. Grier, Worth Hall, P. M. Hamer, Gertrude D. Hess, B.
F. Howell, W. Catesby Jones, Walter H. Robertson, Raphael Semmes, D.
P. Severance, W. D. Shipton, E. G. Swem, W. W. Taylor. Four page
typescript, Lieut-Col. Long, "Description of a Natural Tunnel in Scott
County, Virginia," printed in the Monthly American Journal of Geology
and Natural Science, February, 1832, I, No. 8, pp. 347-352. Seven-page
typescript, "A Useful Life—Fuller Sketch of the Life of Major Hotchkiss"
from the Staunton Daily News, January 19, 1889, vol. 8, No. 2306.
Three page typescript, R. P. Johnson, "History of Wythe County," (n.d.)
Nos. 1538, 1556.
ROGERS, WILLIAM BARTON (1804-1882). 1839-1903. 13 ALS.
Purchase.
The letters incl.: Rogers to William Cabell Rives, May 9, 1839 inviting
him to spend the following Saturday in the country. Rogers to
George Ticknor, October 10, 1844, concerning enrollments at the University
of Virginia and gossip about friends in Boston. Two ALS to Joseph
Lovering, Nov. 1, 1844, May 5, 1845, "Shall we not then indulge ourselves
from time to time in little friendly colloquies through the P. office. . . ."
comment on Maximillian Schele de Vere, riots at the University of Virginia
and Rogers' handling of them. Rogers to Asa Gray, June 7, 1845,
accepting his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Rogers to James Savage, explaining that the necessity of further observations
prevented Rogers from meeting him at Greenfield. Rogers to
his brother, Henry C. Rogers, Jan. 5, 1845, with a technical discussion of
the physics of "whirls". Rogers to George B. Hillard, October 2, 1845,
with a discussion of geology. Rogers to— February 20, 1847, introducing
Mr. Williams. Rogers to his mother, Mrs. James Savage, September
affairs and social customs in England. Charles W. Eliot to Rogers, September
18, 1867, describing life in Areachon, France, and mentioning the
Paris Exposition. Rogers to [Spencer Fullerton] Baird asking his aid
in electing Rogers' brother (Robert Empie Rogers) to the National
Academy of Science. Lyon G. Tyler to Mrs. William B. Rogers, May 1,
1903, accepting a picture of Dr. Rogers for William and Mary College,
Williamsburg, Va. Nos. 1657, 1659, 1706, 1722.
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO (1882- ). 1943, March
11. 1 DS. Gift of Edward W. Stettinius.
Framed document, being the extension of the Lend Lease Bill for one
year. No. 1704.
RUCKER FAMILY PAPERS. 1880-(1893)1900. ca. 1000 items.
Gift of Rucker Estate.
Papers, business and personal of Col. William Alexander Rucker;
assistant paymaster general, United States Army, whose death on
January 22, 1893, ended thirty years of service with the army. A captain
of the Union forces in the Civil War he was brevetted a Lieut.-Colonel,
March 13, 1865, for faithful and meritorious services. These papers
include those of his later years, when he was stationed in Chicago, Fort
Snelling, Minn., Fort Leavensworth, Kan., Lebanon, Mo., and Richmond,
Va. There is extensive correspondence with the Adjutant
General's office in line with his duties; papers of the Tongue River
(later called the Miles City) Irrigating and Ditch Co., Miles City, Mont.;
personal bills, receipts and deeds. Also included are a few items
of his son, William J. Rucker, including a diary kept from 1891-1893
and a child's composition book from Fort Snelling. A large portion of
the collection are letters of condolence addressed to Mrs. Rucker upon
the death of her husband, and business papers relating to the settlement
of his estate. Pictures, prints, miscellaneous items, such as invitations,
clippings, and insignia make up the remainder of the collection. No.
1565.
ST. GEORGE'S PARISH. 1726-1817. 2 MS. vols. Deposit.
Minute books, 1726-1745, 1746-1817, of the Vestry of St. George's Parish,
Fredericksburg, Va. No. 1639.
SHAW, WILLIAM D. 1832-1836. 1 MS. vol., 484 pp. Purchase.
Day book of shoemaker's shop kept in Alexandria, Va., names of customers,
type of work and charges for same. No. 1526.
SMITH, MRS. JACOB HENRY (1836-1924). 1814-1884. ca. 90
ALS, microfilm. Deposit.
Letters of Mrs. Jacob Henry Smith (neé Mary Kelly Watson), to
members of her family, principally her sister Miss Hortense Hay Watson,
and her father Egbert Reid Watson. Also included are a few letters
of Jacob Henry Smith to his wife. The majority of the letters, addressed
from Greensboro, N. C., are very revealing of the life of the Persbyterian
minister and his family. Especially noteworthy are those of the
Civil War period, written to the Watson family at Charlottesville, Va.
Included also are comments on politics, religion, family affairs, slaves,
wars, favorite resorts and springs of Virginia. Some of these letters have
been published in Susie M. H. Smith, The Love that Never Failed,
(Charlottesville, Va., 1928). No. 1624.
SPEIDEL, CARL (1895- ). 1941-1942. 22 items. Gift of
Atcheson Laughlin Hench.
Letters from Dr. Hench, clippings and prints explaining, listing and
recording the work of Dr. Carl Speidel, Professor of Anatomy, University
of Virginia Medical School. Dr. Speidel received an Honorary Degree
of Doctor of Science from his alma mater, Lafayette College, Easton
Pa., on Oct. 23, 1942. No. 1577.
THOMAS AND HURT FAMILY PAPERS. 1820(1840-1860) 1876.
ca. 1000 items. Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Hurt Louthan.
Bills and receipts of James Thomas, Sr.; of Benjamin Hurt; Thomas
Hurt (son of Benjamin and Frances Richeson Hurt) of Richmond, Va.;
and Ira Lomax Thomas of Clarksville, Va. Papers include railroad
freight receipts, for shipment of tobacco and other crops, checks, deeds,
bills and receipts for subscription to the Richmond Whig and Richmond
Enquirer. James Thomas, a commission merchant in Richmond was
also the collector for the Richmond Whig, Richmond Enquirer, Richmond
Times and the Southern Literary Messenger. Correspondents and
business associates incl.: G. W. Atkinson, Jeter and Peters Co., Jones
and Blair, Bridges McKinney and Co., Ed Thweatt, S. H. Gordon Co.,
Chas. deFords Co., Hectar and White Co., Lewis and Snydor, D. Griggs,
and R. F. Lester. No. 1527.
TRIMBLE, W. W. 1832, Aug. 25. 1 ALS. Purchase.
To—, asking that one of his pupils, Oakley—, return to
Presbyterian High School at Brownsburg, Rockbridge County, Va. A cut
of the school is on the letter head. No. 1636.
TRIST, NICHOLAS P. (1800-1874). 1828, Dec. 1. ALS. Purchase.
To Henry Clay concerning Trist's connection with the Virginia Advocate,
his changed opinion of Clay, the election of 1824, and his personal
affairs, with mention of Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia
and Thomas Mann Randolph. No. 1727.
TROUBETZKOY, AMELIE RIVES (1863- ). 1887-1927. 3
items. Purchase.
ALS to W. B. Chilton, May 1, 1887, thanking him for his appreciation
of her sonnets and referring him to a short story she wrote, A Brother
to Dragons. ALS to Miss— Scott, April 26, 1927, concerning Princess
Troubetskoy's recent illness and naming Augustine the Man, The SeaWoman's
Cloak and The Ghost Garden as her favorites among her own
writings. Also a manuscript poem entitled "A Sonnet," (n.d.) Nos.
1586, 1714.
UNITED STATES WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION OF
VIRGINIA. 1936-1941. ca. 1500 items. Deposit.
Long version of Virginia, A Guide to the Old Dominion (New York,
1941) and "The Negro in Virginia" (unpublished). Files of ballads,
folksongs, superstitions and tall tales. (See also Annual Report on Historical
Collections. . ., XII, 54.) No. 1547.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA COLLECTION. 1829-1943. 264
items, MS. vols., prints, typescripts, etc. Gift and purchase.
In addition to acquisitions separately listed, the Library has acquired
various manuscripts relating to the University. Among them are the following
items: Circular letter issued by Robley Dunglison, Chairman
of the Faculty, Feb. 7, 1829, concerning the epidemic of fever at the University
and announcing the suspension of lectures until March 1, 1829.
Purchase. No. 1664. Invitation from the Philomathean Society (literarydebating
society), April 5, 1849, to attend an anniversary celebration.
Gift of Mrs. Howard R. Billson. No. 1673. Letter from Charles Bigelow,
January 11, 1853, a student, to his cousin, Elvira Woodson, describing
Christmas spent at the University and hunting in Albemarle County, Va.
Purchase. No. 1653. One manuscript volume being the journal, 1861-64,
of Socrates Maupin, Chairman of the Faculty, describing the University
during the Confederacy under military occupation with General Sheridan
in command. Printed in the Papers of the Albemarle County Historical
Society, III (1942-43), 56-69. Gift in memory of Socrates Maupin
through the Baltimore Chapter No. 8, United Daughters of the Confederacy
and Miss Sally Washington Maupin. No. 1559. Programs for
Society, 1869, 1870. Gift of Miss Rosalie Thornton. No. 1693.
Printed progress report, Jan. 15, 1875, of the University by James F.
Harrison, Chairman of the Faculty, addressed to Dr. R. E. Nelson, of
Columbia, S. C., concerning the grades, deportment, etc., of John J.
Nelson. Purchase. No. 1677. Typed poem, by Charles Trotter Lassiter,
entitled "Schele DeVere," November, 1892. Letter from Maximillian
Schele de Vere to the Ladies' University Book Club, May, 1894, thanking
them for their gift to him. Printed poem, "The Head Master" by
Armistead C. Gordon, April 13, 1903, in honor of Capt. William Gordon
McCabe. Gift of Miss Rosalie Thornton. No. 1693. Records of the
University Volunteer Unit, "The Dawn Patrol," 1942-3, including applications
for membership and attendance records. Gift of Nathaniel
Mann. No. 1688.
[UNTERMEYER, LOUIS] (1885- ). n. d. 1 ANS. Transfer.
Initialed note mentioning Rockwell Kent, Raymond Knight and the
New Yorker. No. 1666.
VALENTINE FAMILY PAPERS. 1842-1916. ca. 55 items. Gift
of Mrs. Everard Meade.
Business papers, bills, accounts, receipts, clippings and letters of
Thomas J. Valentine, Virginia and Bess Walker, and Albert E. Walker,
with particular reference to coal business, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad,
sales materials and illustrative sales talks for the Robinson Cabinet
Manufacturing Co., of Toledo, Ohio, Sitz Bath Tubs, and to Charlottesville,
Va. Correspondents incl.: B. F. Dabney, Edwin M. Fowles,
D. H. Grigg, L. O. Moser, Rosewell Page, Francis H. Smith, Henry Timberlake
and R. L. Turman. No. 1583.
VIRGINIA BANKERS' ASSOCIATION. 1942. 6 items. Gift of
E. A. Kincaid.
Printed material, broadsides, membership lists and material on the
Fifth Virginia Bankers' Conference, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
Sept. 1942. No. 1604.
WALDMAN, EMERSON (1912- ). 1940. ca. 15 items. Gift of
Emerson Waldman.
Typescript copy of Beckoning Ridge, (N. Y., 1940), and manuscripts
of several unpublished short stories by the donor. No. 1549.
WALKER FAMILY PAPERS. 1753 (1816-1853) 1876. ca. 1300
items. Purchase.
Business and personal papers of the Walker family of Rockbridge
County, Va., and St. Louis, Mo. Account books of Samuel A.
Walker, 1864-1872, W. W. Walker, 1842-1868, Mrs. Hetty J. Walker,
1835-1850, and William Walker, 1869-1874; receipts, bills, inventories,
militia lists, personal letters, a diary of James Walker while a student
at Washington College, Lexington, Va., 1835-1839. Letters discuss
slavery, emancipation, iron works of Rockbridge County, Va.,
early settlers' opinion of Missouri and the new West, Thomas Hart Benton
on western migration, religious sects, land speculation in Missouri
and Kentucky, scarcity of money in middle West, the Missouri Compromise,
religion, college in St. Charles, Mo., elections, the Mexican War
and President James K. Polk, gold rush, western railroads, Civil War letters,
Virginia Military Institute's efforts to rebuild after the war, and
Edmund V. Valentine's equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee. Also a
series of land grants signed by early Virginia and Kentucky governors
incl.: James Barbour, Robert Brooke, William H. Cabell, Francis Fauquier,
Henry Lee, John Letcher, James Monroe, William Nelson, Wilson
Cary Nicholas, James Pleasants, Thomas Mann Randolph, John Tyler,
James McDowell. Among the chief correspondents are: Thomas Hart
Benton, Richard Bland Lee, Brig.-Gen. Andrew Moore, Brig.-Gen.
W. N. Pendleton, Gen. John Preston, William Cabell Rives, Alexander
H. H. Stuart, Alexander Walker, Hugh Walker, James A. Walker, John
K. Walker, Joseph Walker, W. A. Walker. No. 1532.
WAR OF 1812. 1812-1814. 3 items. Purchase and gift of the
Maryland Historical Society.
General Orders, Office of Adjutant General, Richmond, Va., July 12,
1814, "in compliance with a requisition of the President of the United
States," listing the numbers of officers and enlisted men for each division,
and naming the general officers of Virginia who were to hold themselves
in readiness to take to the field at a minute's notice. Two manuscript
drafts of the military structures on Craney Island, Va. Nos. 1643,
1664.
WAYLAND, JOHN W. (1872- ). 1902-1922. ca. 800 items.
Gift of John W. Wayland.
Correspondence to John W. Wayland re history and genealogy of
German families of the Valley of Virginia, with emphasis on their geographical
origin in Germany and the present dispersal of the families.
Much of the correspondence is the result of a circular sent out by Prof.
Wayland requesting specific information for his books The German Ele-
of Rockingham County (Dayton, Va., 1912). No. 1529.
WEAVER, WILLIAM (d. ca. 1863). 1824(1859)-1863. ca. 1000
items. Purchase.
Letters and business records of William Weaver of Rockbridge County,
Va., incl. speculation in Illinois and other western lands; information
about Weaver's iron industry, its capacity, prices, products made,
number of employees (slave and free). Among the records are those for
the Bath Iron Works, 1828-1829, Liberty Furnace, 1831, Etna Furnace,
1845 and Bath Forge, 1851. These papers supplement eighty volumes of
Weaver's Iron Works business ledgers previously acquired. Letters
from Brownlee and Robertson, James Campbell, Caruthers and Alexander,
Chamberlain, Carlton & Co., Robert L. Coleman, J. D. Davidson,
Henry Davis, James D. Davis, George W. Dawson, Peter Dudley, George
Eskridge, Charles Gorgas, George W. Johnson, James H. Luck, John
Luster, Henry A. McCormick, Samuel S. Miller, John H. Price, John W.
Schoolfield, William Taylor, Lewis Webb, Benjamin Young. (See
Archivist Report, VIII, 35.) No. 1590.
WEDDELL, ALEXANDER WILBOURNE (1876- ). 1942,
October 24. 10 pp. typescript. Gift of Alexander W. Weddell.
"Remarks on the occasion of the Unveiling of a Tablet in the Law
School of the University of Virginia," incl. biographical sketches of
John Archibald Weddell, Alexander Watson Weddell and Virginius
Loraine Weddell, soldiers in the Confederate Army. No. 1553.
WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837-1925). 1898. 7 ALS. Purchase.
Four ALS, James H. Wilson, Union General in the Civil War, to G. P.
Putnam & Sons, February 3-March 6, 1898, asking that the libelous statements
against Wilson's character, which appeared in Henry A. White's
Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confederacy (N. Y., 1898) be withdrawn.
The statement contained the charge that during a campaign
around Petersburg, 1864, Gen. Wilson allowed his men to pillage and
steal, and that he himself stole the communion plate of St. John's
Church, Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg, Va. Four ALS from Henry A.
White of the faculty of Washington and Lee University, Feb. 7—March
8, 1898, answering the charges, substantiating his statements and citing
references. One two-page typescript, February 12, 1898 to Henry White
from W. Gordon McCabe, upholding White's statements. No. 1690.
WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION RECORDS.
1911-1939. 2 MS. vols. Gift and deposit.
Manuscript notebook of minutes and report of the Secretary, Albemarle
County W.C.T.U., 1934-39. Gift of Mrs. E. H. McPherson. Manuscript
volume, Bridgeport, Va., W.C.T.U. Minutes, April 27, 1911 to
August 23, 1917, including the Constitution and By-laws. Deposit Nos.
1585, 1607.
WORLD WAR I COLLECTION. 1914-1923. 9 items, typescripts,
volumes and 123 posters. Gift.
Carbon copies of the Official Reports and Records of the Inter-Allied
Rhineland High Commission (1919-1923), the originals of which are
now in the State Department, Washington, D. C. Gift of Col. Manton
Davis. Posters of World War I (1914-1918). Gift of Mrs. W. R. Trigg.
Nos. 1715, 1735.
WORLD WAR II COLLECTION. 1939-1943. 196 posters, 58 MS.
microfilm letters and 2 pamphlets. Deposit and gift.
World War II posters, gift of Edward R. Stettinius. Fifty-eight letters
signed from students, alumni and friends of the University of Virginia,
now in the battle areas, addressed to Dr. Carlisle S. Lentz, incl. some
from the University of Virginia Eighth Evacuation Hospital Unit while
stationed in North Africa, deposit. Excerpts from the correspondence of
men serving with the British and Free French in the Middle East Armies,
entitled American Field Service Letters, July 1942 No. 4; articles
and comments by the same men entitled American Field Service News,
July, 1942, I, No. 1. Gift of Cecil Garlick. Nos. 1535, 1647, 1730.
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