 | Thirteenth annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1942-43 |  |
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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