 | Fourteenth annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1943-44 |  |
Foreign Papers
Algiers, Algeria, Tam, l'hebdomadaire de l'empire, 5 June 1943. Gift of
Mrs. John Flynn.
Sidney, Australia, The Sun, 12 May 1944. Gift of Middleton Freeman.
Vienna, Austria, Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 1 March 1939. Gift of Mrs.
Elizabeth G. Jackson.
London, England, Daily Mail, from 29 March—17 May 1944. Gift of Harcourt
Parrish.
Deutsche Zeitung, 10 December 1938; 13, 20 May 1939. Gift of Mrs.
Elizabeth G. Jackson.
Funf Jahre Reichfrauenfuhrung, 4 March 1939. Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth
G. Jackson.
London Times, 8 June 1939. Gift of Mrs. Sally Hamilton.
Manchester, England, The Manchester Guardian, 1941, August 1—September
15; 1942, September 16—October 31; 1943, February—
May, September—December; 1944, January—February. Eight
rolls microfilm, Harvard University.
Manchester Guardian Commercial, 19 July 1923, 2 July 1925, and
Special Section 29 July 1926. Gift of Federal Reserve Bank
of Richmond.
Dublin, Ireland, United Ireland, Special Issue, 12 October 1891. Gift of
Mrs. Raymond Gorges.
Casablanca, Morocco, Paris, le grand hebdomadaire de la liberation,
14 June 1943. Gift of Mrs. John Flynn.
Le Petit Casablancais, 12 June 1943. Gift of Mrs. John Flynn.
The Stars and Stripes, Casablanca Daily, 14 June 1943. Gift of Mrs.
John Flynn.
La Vigie Marocaine, 27 January 1943. Gift of Dr. Leon R. Culbertson.
Panama City, Panama, Panama-American, 7 June 1944. Gift of Middleton
Freeman.
PAXTON, ELISHA F. (1828-1863). 1944. 1 newspaper clipping.
Gift of Greenlee D. Letcher.
Clippings from the Lexington Gazette, 2 February and 9 February
1944, being the biography of the Confederate Brigadier-General Elisha
F. Paxton, as read at a meeting of the Rockbridge County Historical
Society, 31 January 1944. No. 1899.
POOLE, WILLIAM F. (1821-1894). 2 January 1892. 1 ALS. Transfer
from Reference Division.
A letter to —, explaining some corrections in the 1882 edition
of Poole's Index. No. 1952.
PRENTIS FAMILY PAPERS. 1767-1851. 98 typescript letters and
3 typescript volumes. Gift of Robert H. Webb.
Copies of business and personal letters of the Prentis family, their
friends, and associates, from Norfolk, Petersburg, Richmond, Suffolk, and
Williamsburg, Va., concerning trade with Trinidad, some mention of
American politics, and legal affairs. Correspondents include: Samuel
Athawes, John Blair, William Browne, Jr., Miles Cary, Joseph Davenport,
Benjamin Day, Arthur Jkin, William Nelson, John Norton & Sons,
George Pitt, Joseph Prentis, Jr., Joseph Prentis, Sr., Mary Brooke Prentis,
Randolph, Catherine Russell, Robert Saunders, Jr., James Semple,
Thomas Shrimpton, Alexander Spotswood, Peterfield Trent, St. George Tucker, Richard Wall, and George Wythe. (See Annual Report on Historical
Collections . . . , XII, 48.) Nos. 1801, 1932.
RANDOLPH, JOHN (1773-1833). 1805-1832. 3 MSS. volumes.
Purchase and gift of Mrs. J. Clayton Mitchell.
One volume contains copies of several speeches (ca. 1805-1810) of John
Randolph of Roanoke in Congress on such topics as the Yazoo land
claims, impeachment of Judge Samuel Chase, the death of George
Washington, and the development of the American Navy. These speeches,
apparently recorded by Randolph's secretary, contain much material that
was suppressed or omitted when they were published. The other two
volumes comprise the correspondence of John Randolph with James
Mercer Garnett, his political friend and ally, during the significant
period 1806-1832. There are 211 letters from Randolph and 132 letters
to him, discussing agriculture, county politics, and national issues. Also
included are two broadsides, one by Garnett in 1809, at the end of his
political career; the other by Randolph in 1812 attacking Speaker Henry
Clay; and letters from John Brockenbrough, William Leigh, and W. W.
Seaton. The use of this material is restricted. Nos. 1883, 1893.
RANDOLPH, THOMAS MANN (1768-1828). 16 February 1824.
1 ALS. Purchase.
To Henry Remsen requesting a loan and discussing the possibility of
Randolph's being appointed Port-Master at Richmond. No. 1754.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR COLLECTION. 27 February 1766. 1
photoprint. Gift of Robert J. Kennedy.
Facsimile reproduction of "The Association in Westmoreland County,
Virginia, to prevent the execution of the Stamp Act." No. 1891.
ROANOKE, VIRGINIA. 1944. Ca. 20,250 items. Deposit.
United States Public Health Survey of the population of Roanoke, Va.,
made in 1944, and including economic and social statistics. No. 1943.
ROTHERY, AGNES PRATT COLLECTION. 1943-1944. Ca. 500
items. Gift of Mrs. Harry R. Pratt.
Manuscript of, other materials for, and correspondence relating to
Miss Rothery's latest books, Ports of British Columbia (Doubleday
Doran, 1943) and A Fitting Habitation (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1944). Nos.
1795, 1886.
SABINE HALL PAPERS. 1659 (1740-1860) 1897. Ca. 700 items.
Deposit.
Manuscript diary of Landan Carter (1763-1778). (Not open to investigators
until further notice.) The rest of the collection is made up of the
papers of Robert Carter (1663-1732), Landon Carter (1700-1778), Landon
Carter (1760-1800), Robert Wormeley Carter (d. 1861), and related
members of the Carter family. The earliest papers are largely legal in
nature and include manuscript maps and drawings, land patents and
deeds, indentures, bills of sale, receipts, and accounts relating to the
Sabine Hall Estate in Richmond County, Va. Early eighteenth century
material includes personal and family letters on births, marriages, and
deaths, and such plantation accounts as tobacco sales, wheat thrashing,
wine making, purchase and sale of slaves, collection of quit rents, corn
shucking, shipping difficulties, garden vegetables, and the health of the
family and friends. From the year 1765 the papers take on an increasingly
political aspect. Landon Carter was deeply concerned with governmental
changes brought on by the Revolution in Virginia. There are letters
telling of the Stamp Act, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker
Hill, the various county committees of Public Safety, the Virginia
Convention, etc. Included are special articles and letters Landon Carter
and others wrote to the Virginia Gazette. The material in the nineteenth
century becomes again the record of a family, with special interest in
state banking, White Sulphur Springs, and social life in Virginia and
Washington, D. C. There are account books for the Sabine Hall Estate
from 1858-1879 and much material on the settlement of the estate of
Robert Wormeley Carter (d. 1861). The papers of A. N. Wellford date
from 1867-1897. Among the correspondents are: Edward Athawes, Nelson
Berkeley, Robert Beverley, William Brockenbrough, Charles Carter,
John Carter, Landon Carter, Robert Carter, Robert Wormeley Carter,
Richard Corbin, G. W. Fairfax, Moore Fauntleroy, William Fitzhugh,
Isaac W. Giberne, Walter Jones, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Robert E. Lee,
William Lloyd, Daniel McCarty, Thomas B. Martin, John Minor, Robert
C. Nicholas, John Page, Peter Pelham, Alexander Purdie, John Rice,
William Rind, Benjamin Rust, John Taylor, John Tyler, A. N. Wellford,
John Wellford, Elizabeth Wormeley, and Ralph Wormeley. Nos. 1795,
1959.
SEAY FAMILY PAPERS. 1840-1900. Ca. 200 items. Gift of Rev.
Henry T. Louthan.
Business receipts, bills, and legal documents of Richmond and Caroline
Counties, Va. No. 1800.
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR (1899-1901) COLLECTION. 18991943.
1 typescript. Gift of Wilbur E. McClenny.
Report of the Department Historian of Virginia to the United Spanish
War Veterans State Encampment, held at Richmond, Va., 26 June 1943,
entitled, "Activities of Spanish-American War Veterans in Virginia
1899-1943." No. 1752.
SPOTSWOOD, ALEXANDER (1751-1818). 16 November 1775. 1
photostat. Gift of Alexander W. Armour.
To Edmund Pendleton concerning the relief of our "poor distrest
countrimen" in the "Lower Parts." No. 1858.
STOCKTON, FRANK R. (1834-1902). 1881-1904. 7 items. Purchase.
Manuscript of an article by Frank Stockton, "Alligator Hunting."
written in Charlottesville, Va., ca. 1881. Five letters concerning its
publication in the St. Nicholas Magazine in 1904. No. 1889.
TAYLOR, ROBERT COLEMAN (1863-1942). 1890-1905. Ca. 500
items. Gift of Mrs. Robert Coleman Taylor.
Letters, papers, briefs, etc., of Robert Coleman Taylor. Mr. Taylor represented
the interests of the University of Virginia in the legal dispute
over the will of Daniel B. Fayerweather. No. 1852.
THOMPSON, RANDALL (1899- ). 13 April 1943. 1 bound MS.
volume. Gift of Randall Thompson.
The composer's original manuscript of "The Testament of Freedom."
"A setting of four passages from the writings of Thomas Jefferson. Composed
for and dedicated to the University of Virginia Glee Club, in
memory of the Father of the University." The premier performance of
this work was presented on April 13, 1943 at a special Founder's Day
concert held at Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, in honor of the
bi-centennial of the birth of Thomas Jefferson, and was broadcast over
a national network. Recordings were made of the performance by the
United States Office of War Information and were broadcast to the
armed forces overseas. With this manuscript are the composer's arrangements
of several other works presented on the same occasion. The
Charms of Lovely Peggy, (words att. to David Garrick, broadside, 1740);
Duet: "Tacite Ombre" from Songs and Duets composed by [Maria]
Cosway (1759-1838); and Hail Liberty the Sweetest Bliss, a Quick Step
to the New President's March. (Printed and sold by G. Willig, Philadelphia,)
[1801].
TYLER, JOHN (1790-1862). 1861. Ca. 107 items. Purchase.
Manuscripts, clippings, broadsides, photographs, and notes, largely in
the handwriting of John Tyler, concerning the Convention held in
Washington, D. C. in 1861, in an attempt to prevent Civil War. John Tyler
was president of the Convention, and this material shows that he
labored sincerely, although unsuccessfully, to maintain peace. No. 1942.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA COLLECTION. 1827-1943. MSS.
letters, note-books, typescripts, printed items, and photographs.
Deposits, gifts, and purchases.
In addition to acquisitions separately listed the Library has acquired
various items relating to the University. Among them are the following
items: manuscript album (1827-1832) of autographs and poetry belonging
to Lucy G. Gratton, and including "Impromptu on the University
uniform by a student of the Uni . . . y." Purchase. No. 1885. Notebook of
law lectures at the University of Virginia, 1833. On blank sheets of the
same volume are notes and a diary of Jennett A. Tavennor, ca. 1857-1862.
Gift of Roy B. Cook. No. 1916. One manuscript item dated 24 September
1835, a takeoff on a mathematics lecture of Dr. Charles Bonnycastle, signed
by John S. Davis, James P. Wilson Eyre, and other students. Deposit.
No. 1845. Manuscript notebook for the year 1841, the accounts of William
Thornton. Transfer from Exchange Division. No. 1906. Invitation to the
Washington Society Valedictory Oration, 1 June 1853, given by Henry
A. Carrington of Charlotte County, Va. Gift of Mrs. Dabney Coffman.
No. 1780. Manuscript notebook of Peyton Horatio Skipworth, Jr., of
lectures in Latin at the University, 1865-1866. One manuscript geology
examination dated 26 June 1866, signed by John R. Yonree. Gradebook
of F. H. Smith for the course in Natural Philosophy dated 1878. Gradebook
of James R. Thornton for the courses in Latin and English dated
September 1881. Transfer from Exchange Division. No. 1906. Invitation
dated 24 June 1883 to the final celebration of the Washington Society.
Gift of Mrs. Walter H. Page. No. 1772. Ca. 50 photographs, being views
of the Engineering School during its construction and as it is at the
present time. Gift of Joseph L. Vaughan. No. 1775. A contract for student
waiters at the University Commons, 1 October 1919. Letter of J. E.
Johnson to College Topics, 17 January 1920, concerning co-education.
Gift of J. Edward Johnson. No. 1950. List of members and associates of
the Virginia Chapter of Sigma Xi, 1924-1943. Gift of Joseph K. Roberts.
No. 1787. Copy of the prayer given by William M. Forrest, 20 December
1928, at the funeral of Albert Lefever, former University professor.
Gift of William M. Forrest. No. 1877. Two typescript volumes, copies of
the History of Philosophy outlines used in Philosophy B-1 course at the
University of Virginia, 1930-1940. Gift of Albert G. A. Balz. No. 1881.
VIETT, GEORGE F. (1868-1943) COLLECTION. Ca. 1900-1943.
Ca. 15,000 items. Gift of B. A. Banks, Charles H. Consolvo, and
S. K. Rubiaz.
Clippings, letters, poems, articles, photographs, maps, scrap books,
albums, broadsides, ledgers, and plates, comprising the literary collection
of the late Mr. Viett, and including comment on events of the early
twentieth century, World War I, literary criticism, scientific fields, and
politics. No. 1960.
WALKER, DUGALD S. 1935-1937. Ca. 30 items. Gift of Rev. Henry
T. Louthan.
Letters to Rev. Louthan of Richmond, Va., concerning certain religious
poems and bookplates created by Walker. No. 1800.
WELLFORD, P. A. (1834?-1909). 1882-1885. 1 MS. letter book.
Gift of Mrs. Sally Hamilton.
Letter book and index of P. A. Wellford. Most of the letters are dated
from Richmond, Va., and concern business affairs, legal practices, and
Virginia railroads. No. 1848.
WERTENBAKER, THOMAS GRADY (1839-1862). [1862]. 2 items.
Gift of Mrs. John Flynn.
Manuscript and typescript of a letter of Thomas Grady Wertenbaker to
his mother, written during the Civil War and describing the grievances
of the Confederate soldier. A one-page typescript of a biographical
sketch of T. Grady Wertenbaker. No. 1791.
WINCHESTER, VA. 1 November 1839. 1 item. Gift of C. J. Carrier.
Uncut sheet of paper money. No. 1909.
WOMENS CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 1878-1944. Ca.
35 items. Deposit and gift of Mrs. E. H. McPherson.
Three-page typescript history of the Virginia W. C. T. U., 1878-1920.
One twenty-two page manuscript, "History of Central Union (18921917),"
by Mrs. Gertrude B. Ross. One two-page manuscript, a biographical
sketch of Mrs. Edith Smith Davis. One four-page typescript, "Look
Backward with Central W. C. T. U. (1892-1942)," by Mrs. Edith Smith
Davis. One manuscript volume, minutes of Central Union, W. C. T. U. of
Roanoke, Va. (1912-1915). Ca. twenty-five programs of the Virginia W.
of prize essays from Virginia High Schools, won in a W. C. T.
U. contest ending 1 July 1943. Local Union Directory, W. C. T. U. of Virginia,
1943-1944. Nos. 1750, 1756, 1763, 1823, 1853.
WORLD WAR I (1914-1918) COLLECTION. 1917-1919. Ca. 110
items. Gift of Miss Rose E. McDonald.
Letters and cards from American soldiers overseas in World War I
to Miss McDonald, then chairman of Alexandria, Va. Red Cross Canteen.
Correspondents include: Pvt. Eli Dulger, Lt. J. E. Fosick, Capt. B. H.
Kyle, Chaplain W. Byrd Lee, Lt. M. W. McDonald, Capt. Geo. M. Mott,
Maj. T. D. Stirling, and Pvt. James Wood. No. 1748.
WORMELEY FAMILY PAPERS. 1773-1802. Ca. 25 items. Deposit.
One manuscript copy book, containing ca. 212 letters, both "fair copies"
and extracts, the letters of Ralph Wormeley concerning business,
legal, and personal affairs during the years 1783-1802. Much of the
correspondence is with English merchants and prominent Virginia political
leaders. The loose manuscript items include correspondence with
Backhouse & Rutson (tobacco merchants of Liverpool), John Banks, Robert
Beverley, William Byrd, Nathaniel Foy, J. Gell, Hugh James, G.
Mackay, C. M. Napier, William Quincy, Mann Page, Jr., Edmund Pendleton,
William Strickland, William Tryon, and N. Welch, Jr., during
the years 1773-1799, and comment on Ralph Wormeley's family and
personal affairs, the Revolutionary War, particularly the Battle of Bunker
Hill, loyalists in Virginia, trade with the West Indies, and new conditions
concerning the tobacco sales. No. 1939.
YANCEY, R. A. Ca. 1910-1933. 11 MSS. volumes. Gift of Mrs.
Richard A. Yancey.
Eleven account books from the general store of R. A. Yancey, Yancey
Mills, Albemarle County, Va. No. 1760.
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