 | Fifteenth annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1944-45 |  |
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
1 July 1944 to 30 June 1945
ALBEMARLE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY COLLECTIONS.
The manuscripts owned by the Society are kept in a special set of
locked files in the Manuscript Room of the Alderman Library. They
are available for purposes of research. For a list of acquisitions see the
archivist's report in the Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society,
published annually since March 1941.
AMBLER FAMILY PAPERS. 1777-1870. Ca. 525 items. Gift of
Thomas Francis Woods, Esq.
More papers of Col. John Ambler and Philip St. George Ambler of
Jamestown Island and Richmond, Va. The papers are principally concerned
with tobacco and corn sales and overseers' reports on slave labor
and farming operations. (See Annual Report, XI, 19; XIV, 19.) No.
2178.
ARMOUR, ALEXANDER W. COLLECTION. 1757-1859. 8 photoprints.
Gift of Alexander Armour, Esq.
A miscellaneous group of items of interest in Virginia including: LS,
William Pitt to [Robert Dinwiddie], 11 February 1757; a land grant
signed by John Tyler, Governor of Virginia, 13 December 1794; the
bond of Charles Carroll of Carrolton to John Stevenson, 5 May 1797;
ALS, H[enry] L[ee] (1756-1818) to [Charles] Carter [Lee], 30 September
1816; H[enry] Lee (1787-1837) to R. S. Garnett, 1 January 1824;
William Wirt, autobiographical ALS to [Mathew Carey?], 19 July 1825;
ALS, George Washington Parke Custis to Henry A. Wise, 15 October
1827; James Buchanan's pardon to Patrick Mulligan, 29 November 1859.
No. 2173.
BAILEY, JACOB WHITMAN (1811-1857). 1833-1852. 2 ALS.
Purchase.
A manuscript letter, signed W., to William M. Bailey, Providence,
R. I., written from Bellona Arsenal, Va., describing travels from Georgia
to Virginia, 11 April 1833. A letter, 27 July 1852, to Prof. William
Barton Rogers, Pottsville, Penna., recommending Prof. R. E. R. as a
candidate for the Chair of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania.
(See Annual Report, XIII, 15-16; XIV, 19.) Nos. 2049, 2126.
BALZ, ALBERT GEORGE ADAM. 1944-1945. 3 typescripts. Gift
and deposit of Professor Balz.
Address delivered before the Charlottesville Parent Teachers' Association
entitled "The School and Current Criticism". The original manuscript
of "Matter and Scientific Efficiency", Parts I and II. Typed copy
of his Descartes and Modernity, books 1-7. Nos. 2109, 2136.
BARTLETT, COMMANDER JOHN RUSSELL. 8 November 1892.
ALS. Transfer.
To Jed Hotchkiss on ocean soundings. No. 2184.
BERGLUND, ABRAHAM. Ca. 1900-1940. Ca. 350 items. Gift of
Mrs. C. E. Bryant.
Typed and manuscript items, price charts, post cards, clippings, maps,
record books, notebooks, and address lists, the papers of the late Doctor
Berglund, Professor of Commerce and Business Administration, University
of Virginia. No. 1984.
BEVERLEY FAMILY. 1910. Typescript, 113 pp. Purchase.
"The Beverley Family of the State of Virginia", by R. Beverley Herbert
and R. Beverley Sloan, Columbia, S. C. No. 2079.
BILL OF RIGHTS. 1789. Facsimile. Gift of Prof. Joseph Kent Roberts.
Facsimile of the manuscripts of the Bill of Rights presented to the
Library of Congress by Barney Balaban, engrossed in 1789 at Federal
Hall, New York City. No. 2068.
BLACKFORD, LANCELOT MINOR. 1858-1859. 3 items. Gift of
Dr. David C. Wilson.
Two manuscript notebooks in the School of Natural Philosophy of the
University of Virginia. One photograph of University of Virginia by
William Roads, Charlottesville, Va. No. 2065.
BROADSIDES.
The year just ended has seen considerable additions to the library's
holdings of broadsides, the bulk of which are uncatalogued. A limited
number of the rarer broadsides are filed chronologically, and a still
more limited number are fully catalogued. A notable broadside acquired
Proclamation for Setling the Plantation of Virginia, Whitehall, 13 May
1625. A broadside of 11 Sept. 1840 gives the order of procession and
other details of the Whig State Convention which met in Richmond,
Va., 5 Oct. 1840. Purchase. No. 2087. Two nineteenth century broadsides
are Hindu translations of the Ten Commandments and of St.
Paul's Sermon at Athens. No. 2064.
BROUN, MISS VIRGINIA M. 1927. 2 typescripts. Gift of Estate of
Miss Virginia Broun.
One typed copy of "The Evolution Theory vs. Christianity and Civilization,
A Woman's View of Evolution with A Plan to Promote it in
Humanity" by Psyche Dieudonne, pen name of Virginia M. Broun.
Typed copy of preface and notes for insertion in "Old Age, Its Cause
with a Remedy and Preventive", by Virginia M. Broun. No. 2103.
BUREAU OF INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF
VIRGINIA. 1921-1942. Ca. 200 items. Gift of Bureau of Industrial
Research.
A collection of various letters, statistics, articles, broadsides, and maps,
as follows: 53 typed letters, the correspondence of Michael C. Daly with
the Bureau of the Census in 1941; 77 typed and manuscript tables showing
wholesale distribution of commodities, 1929-1939; 4 compilations of
statistics showing retail distribution, 1929-1939, wholesale trade, 19291939,
construction industry, 1930-1940, and one untitled list of commodities,
1921-1929. Articles by Michael C. Daly: "The Theory of the
Location of Industry with Special Reference to the Location of the
Newer British Industries in the Southeast and Midlands"; "The Impact
of the Present Stage of the Mechanization of Industry Upon Further
Mechanical Progress"; "The Impact of the Mechanization of Industry
Upon the Structure of the American Economy"; "Work of the Industrial
Development Board in the Distressed Areas of Great Britain". Unsigned
articles: "Uses of Wood", "Regional Differences in the Propensity
of the Masses to Save, 1926-1937"; and one untitled rough draft. Articles
on Nova Scotia: "Some Phases of the Apple Industry in Nova
Scotia", by E. D. Haliburton; "Overseas Marketing of Nova Scotia Apples
up to the Outbreak of the War", by A. W. Macdonald; "Rural Dentistry
in Nova Scotia", by Warren C. Oxner; "Municipal Government
in Nova Scotia", anonymous; "An Inquiry Into Provincial Taxation",
anonymous; "Colonization in the Province of Quebec", by J. Ernest
Laforce, Deputy Minister of Colonization. No. 2091.
BURMA. 19th Century. Ca. 50 items. Gift of Lieut. John Cook
Wyllie.
Burmese manuscripts written in Pali on palm leaves, cloth, and paper.
Nos. 2044, 2094, 2114, 2142, 2155.
BUSH AND LOBDELL COLLECTION. 1834-1865. 28 items. Purchase.
Letters, giving an account of prewar coal mining and iron manufacturing
in northern Virginia and Delaware, addressed to the firm of
Bonny and Bush, later Bush and Lobdell, of Wilmington. Apparently
connected with this company was the firm of Joseph Marston and Company,
located in Richmond. From various mines in northern Virginia
and the Valley, these companies obtained pig; they manufactured and
sold locomotives, a drill machine for wheat cultivation, railroad parts,
etc. Mention is made of the C. & O. Canal, of steamer transport between
Virginia and Delaware, and of bank loans. No. 2177.
CABELL, JAMES ALSTON. 1890-1940. 17 items. Gift of Mrs.
James Alston Cabell.
Maps, albums, scrapbooks, account books, letter book, cards, and papers
of J. Alston Cabell, lawyer of Richmond, Va. No. 2159.
CAPPON, LESTER J. 1927. Bound Typescript volume. Gift of
Prof. Lester J. Cappon.
Bound typescript: "Bibliography of Southern United States History
Since 1865", Vol. II, Virginia. No. 2175.
CHANCELLOR, JAMES EDGAR. 1847-1874. 22 items. Gift of
Miss Betty Cocke.
Notebooks, broadsides, clippings, photographs, bills, and letters. Chancellor
lived in Spotsylvania County and Charlottesville, Va., and attended
medical lectures at the University of Va., 1865-1872. No. 2181.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., McGUFFEY SCHOOL. 1916-1930.
MS. volume. Gift of Dr. James G. Johnson.
Visitors' Register of the McGuffey School, 1916-1930. No. 2085.
CHINA, YUNNAN PROVINCE. 1919. 15 charts. Gift of Leander
McCormick Observatory.
"Postes météorologiques situé de Hapihong à Yunnanfou sur la ligne
du chemin de fer de l'Indochine et du Yunnan . . . ler Janvier 1919 au
31 Decémbre 1919." No. 2005.
CISCO, JAY GREY. Ca. 1800-1900. 1 volume of newspaper clippings.
Purchase.
"Counties and County Seats of Tennessee, Origin of Their Names and
Sketch of the Persons for whom they were Named." A series of newspaper
articles by Mr. Cisco. No. 1987.
CIVIL WAR COLLECTION. 1834-1908. 170 items. Gift of Mrs. E.
H. McPherson.
One large collection of letters and prints of men interested in or connected
with the South. The prints include some of John C. Breckenridge,
R. R. Butler, Henry Clay, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Wade
Hampton, Patrick Henry, A. P. Hill, George Houston, Andrew Jackson,
Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, George B. McClellan,
George G. Meade, Robert Morris, J. L. Petigru, James K. Polk,
John Randolph, J. Barnwell Rhett, Philip H. Sheridan, Edwin M. Stanton,
and Daniel Webster. The letters include introductions for appointments,
mostly political in nature, orders and requisitions of men in both
armies, quartermasters' records, a series of United States military telegrams,
miscellaneous autographs, including Stephen A. Douglas, Andrew
Johnson, Winfield Scott, and Thaddeus Stevens. There are several
letters to John A. Quitman, written in the fifties, and all concerned
with politics, from D. W. Adams, Albert Gallatin Brown, and General
Worth. Also included is an interesting and curious autographed note
of Maj.-Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, dated 13 January 1865, in which he admits
himself a coward. Also, two letters dated 10 June and 9 August 1863
from Suffolk and Yorktown, Va., from Capt. Joseph C. Brooks of the
Union Army to L. R. Cutter at Boston, Mass. They describe the Union
soldiers' reaction to the surrender at Harper's Ferry, to Copperhead
sentiment in the North, estimate of Grant as a general and of the draft
law. Also, trenchant comment on Negroes and the slavery question.
Program for Parade of the Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans, 23
October 1905, Petersburg, Va. "The Song of the Flags on their Return
to the States of the Confederacy", clipping autographed by S. Weir
Mitchell, the author, in 1908. Other clippings of William Cabell. Nos.
1992, 2010, 2081, 2088.
CLAY, HENRY (1777-1852). 1811-1847. 5 ALS. Purchase.
Letter dated 18 February 1811 concerning a judgment against a Mr.
Chambers and Clay's handling of the affair. To B. Storer, 8 August
1834, commenting on Whig elections in Ohio, Kentucky, and Louisiana.
Clay gives detailed instructions as to the stand to be taken on the queston
of the Bank of the United States. To Jonathan Tenney, 28 March
1842, complying with a request for his autograph. To Benjamin Balch,
20 November 1845, declining the proffered presidency of a proposed
"National Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts". To P. R. Fendall,
30 July 1847, expressing regret for inability to meet Fendall in Baltimore.
Nos. 2148, 2180.
CLEAVELAND FAMILY PAPERS. 1858-1901. Ca. 100 items. Deposit.
One account book of A. H. Cleaveland's Dry Goods Store in Charlottesville,
Va., 1858-1875. One scrapbook, clippings, recipes, personal
accounts, etc. of Miss Eva Cleaveland who taught music in Charlottesville.
Also, programmes, catalogues, pamphlets, and printed documents.
No. 1999.
COLE, TIMOTHY. 1896-1922. 3 ALS. Gift of Alphaeus P. Cole,
Esq.
Letters to "Erty", dated 9 March 1896 and 21 January 1897, describing
Cole's stay in England and his progress with engraving. Letter to
Alphaeus [P. Cole], 8 December 1922, describing a New York art show.
No. 2033.
COSWAY, MARIA (1753-1837). 1786-1790. 9 ALS. Photoprints.
Purchase.
Photoprints from Princeton University of nine letters to Thomas Jefferson,
dated 6 September 1786, 5 October 1786, 30 October 1786, 17 November
1786, 27 November 1786, 1 January 1787, 15 February 1787, 6
May 1788, and 6 April 1790. (See Annual Report, XIV, 23.) No. 2043.
DAME, WILLIAM MEADE (1844-192—) PAPERS. 1718 (18621876)
1931. Ca. 275 items. Gift of W. Page Dame, Jr., Esq.
Correspondence of William Meade Dame while he was serving in the
Confederate Army, while he was attending the Theological Seminary
of Virginia, and after his ordination and his marriage. Among the correspondents
are: A. H. Bayly, Anne C. Bentley, M. L. Brodnax, Ellen
Dame, George W. Dame, George W. Dame, Jr., Jonathan Dame, Mary
C. P. Mattocks, Carter Page, Lucy Page, C. C. Penick, William
Sparrow, and P. D. Thompson. Included are some interesting letters
written to George W. Dame as a minister and as a "brother Mason"
from Union prisoners of war, asking for his help in obtaining needed
food and clothing; a group of letters, 1920-1921, to William Meade
Dame, congratulating him on his recently published book, From the
Rapidan to Richmond; a portion of a cash account kept in 1718 and 1736;
compositions, receipts, and reports of William Meade Dame while he
was attending Danville Male Academy, Danville Military Institute, and
the Theological Seminary of Virginia; Gun Boat Subscription List, 1862;
manuscript copy of a poem composed by Robert Brydon on the death of
Mrs. Mary M. Dame, 11 Sept. 1895; and lists of communicants and pew
holders. No. 2145.
DASHIELL, MARGARET. 24 May 1944. ALS. Gift of Samuel B.
Love, Esq.
Letter to Samuel B. Love on personal and family matters. No. 1976.
DISMAL SWAMP. Early 19th century. MS. poem. Purchase.
Unsigned manuscript poem, "The Lake of the Dismal Swamp", written
at Norfolk, Va. No. 2126.
DRAPER-CAMPBELL CORRESPONDENCE. 1846-1872. 27 typescripts
and microfilm. Deposit.
Copies of correspondence between Lyman C. Draper of Baltimore,
Philadelphia, and Madison, Wis., and Charles Campbell of Petersburg,
Va. There are 16 letters written by Draper and 10 rough drafts of replies
by Campbell, chiefly regarding historical research for books being
written by Campbell and by Draper, and the collection of historical
material by Draper; a certificate of the honorary membership of Campbell
in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, dated 4 March 1854,
with an attached circular setting forth "the objects and wishes of the
Society." Among the names mentioned are Sir William Berkeley, Robert
Beverley, Daniel Boone, Col. William Byrd, George Rogers Clark,
Col. Alexander Spotswood Dandridge, [George W.] Featherstonhaugh,
Col. William Spotswood Fontaine, Nathaniel Harrison, William B. Harrison,
Samuel Kercheval, Benson J. Lossing, John Minor, Bernard Moore,
Jared Sparks, Gov. Alexander Spotswood, Lt. Henry Timberlake, and
Capt. Abraham Wood. No. 2137.
ENGINEERING SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. 19351940.
Ca. 1,000 items. Gift of Prof. Joseph L. Vaughan.
Correspondence, notes, and materials of the Committee of High School
and Preparatory School Visitation of the University of Virginia Engineering
School. Questionnaires filled out by first year students stating
why they chose the University of Virginia Engineering School. Files
of typed material on the investigation of instruction in English in Engineering
Schools throughout the country. Nos. 2098, 2107, 2116.
EPPES FAMILY PAPERS. 1790-1820. 5 items. Deposit and gift of
Christian Sixtus Hutter, Jr., Esq.
ALS, Elizabeth Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 23 May 1790, on
family matters. ALS, Francis Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 2 January
1793, concerning financial affairs. ALS, John Wayles Eppes to Thomas
Jefferson, 19 August 1820, regarding personal family finances. ALS,
Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 24 January 1817, mentioning
Francis Eppes at Monticello, work of slaves, and congratulations on reentering
public life as United States Senator. Copy of sale indenture
made between Francis and Elizabeth Eppes and William Cobb, selling
the latter the estate Poplar Forest in Bedford County, Va., dated 28
November 1828. Nos. 2014, 2143.
ERSKINE, DAVID MONTAGU (1776-1855). 1798-1799. Bound
MS. volume. Purchase.
Copybook of letters sent to his father in England by David Montagu
Erskine, describing the United States and his impressions. Erskine landed
at Norfolk, Va., 18 October 1798; then went to Richmond, Baltimore,
and Philadelphia, where on 1 January 1799 he addressed a long letter
to his father, describing that city and numerous notable persons. No.
2176.
EXTENSION DIVISION, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. 19321942.
Ca. 85 items. Gift of Extension Division.
Correspondence of the Extension Division with the Virginia Department
of Health, together with miscellaneous clippings, broadsides, and
mimeographed material, relating to social, civic, health, and educational
problems and activities in Albemarle County and in Virginia generally.
Nos. 2099 and 2100.
FAIRFAX, MRS. SARAH. 1792-1797. MS. volume. Purchase.
Rental book for the Fairfax lands in Virginia as kept by the agent
Battaile Muse. Notations in the front give the dates at which the accounts
the amount of land leased, the conditions of the lease, and the rent are
all recorded along with an account of rents collected and owed. Indexed.
No. 2011.
FAIRFAX PAPERS. Nineteenth Century. 3 MSS. Purchase.
"Index to the Deeds and other Documents of the Fairfax Family, 16471716",
"Index to the Fairfax Manuscript Letters from 1692-1791/1798/",
and "A Descriptive Index of the Fairfax Manuscripts in the Possession
of I. N. Hughes, Maidstone, 1535-1828". The latter is arranged under
these headings: 750 original letters, etc., from the years 1535 to 1700;
21 original letters relating to Lord Fairfax's American property; 13
original letters relating to the Ackroyd Scholarship Exhibition; 20 original
letters relating to the Cholmley Family; 23 original letters relating
to the Earl of Burlington and Lord Carlton; 130 original letters, miscellaneous;
38 manuscript deeds, etc., of the Fairfax Family; 75 miscellaneous
poems by Brian Fairfax; and 25 illustrations. No. 2080.
FITZHUGH AND MARYE, LAW OFFICES. [St. George?] Fitzhugh
and John L. Marye, Fredericksburg, Va. 1838-1868. 5 items.
Purchase.
Memorandum relative to Mrs. Charlotte Thornton's property, including
Negroes, sold conditionally to Mr. A. Glassell of Alabama, May,
1838. ALS, Dr. William G. Thornton to Capt. George Hamilton, 4 Mar.
[1838]. ALS, Moses D. Hoge to John L. Marye, 3 Aug. 1868. Copy of
letter of Bartholomew Labuzan to Charlotte Thornton, 14 Sept. 1847.
Draft for money, B. Labuzan on Capt. George Hamilton, Sr., 9 Jan.
1847. No. 2062.
FORESTRY. [1940]. Typescript, 12 pp. Gift of Mrs. Fred Pederson.
Paper read before the Society of American Foresters, entitled "The
Relation of the State to the Private Owner in the Practice of Forestry".
No. 2004.
GARLAND, THOMAS, PAPERS. Ca. 1820-1870. Ca. 1,500 items.
Purchase.
Business and personal papers of Thomas Garland of Charlottesville,
Va., and of related families and friends. The papers are mainly business
in nature, including receipts for purchases, tobacco and wheat
growing records, family letters. Correspondence with members of the
family living in Richmond and Henrico discuss economic matters, local
politics, and the Civil War, especially in Richmond. No. 2020.
GORGES, MRS. RAYMOND. 1944. LS. Gift of Mrs. Raymond
Gorges.
A letter signed by A. Lascelles, private secretary to the King of England,
thanking Mrs. Gorges for the copy of The History of a Family
Through Eleven Centuries and accepting it as a gift for the king. (See
Annual Report, XIII, 25-26.) No. 2111.
GRENFELL, SIR WILFRED. 11 March 1938. LS. Gift of Miss
Blanche Randolph.
A letter of acknowledgment to Miss Randolph. No. 2171.
GRINNAN FAMILY PAPERS. 1763-1907. Ca. 1,000 items. Gifts
from the heirs of the Rev. Randolph Bryan Grinnan through Miss
Isabelle R. Grinnan, Miss Nina S. Grinnan, and Mrs. Elizabeth
Grinnan Jackson.
Papers of the Grinnan family, including material on the Randolphs
of Turkey Island; letters of Joseph Bryan, Mrs. Francis Burnley, Joseph
C. Cabell, John Coalter, Andrew Glassell Grinnan, Daniel Grinnan,
Charles P. Howard, Fontaine Maury, Hugh Patton, John Randolph of
Roanoke, Beverley Tucker, Henry St. George Tucker, and William Wirt.
Of particular interest are the letters of the Rev. Randolph Bryan Grinnan,
who was in Japan 1886-1898 and wrote about the life of a Presbyterian
missionary from Kochi, Tosa Province, Tokyo, Nikko, Yokohama,
Kobe, Nagoya. Materials describing the Braidwood Institutions for the
Deaf and Dumb at Edinburgh are included. (See Annual Report, VII,
5; VIII, 7; XIII, 27.) Nos. 2048, 2096, 2112, 2118.
HENRY, PATRICK (1736-1799). 1791-1794. 2 items. Gift of Miss
Dorothy Amann.
ALS to Mr. [Fontaine], 2 October 1791. ALS to Mrs. Martha Fontaine,
4 February 1794. Both letters are concerned with the settlement
of the Fontaine estate. No. 2190.
HILLYER FAMILY PAPERS. Ca. 1790-1860. Ca. 350 items. Microfilm.
Letters exchanged between Asa Hillyer of Connecticut and his sons,
Asa, Jr., of New Jersey; Truman of Georgia; James of New York and
Maryland; Justin of Ohio; and, particularly, Shaler of Poplar Grove, in
Georgia. Shaler Hillyer married Rebecca Freeman in 1804, and there
are many letters written to her while he was on his annual trips north.
collection thus comprises a three-generation view of social and economic
conditions (particularly in Georgia) with special comment on
Federalist politics, plantation management, and family affairs. No. 2130.
HUBBARD, EUGENIE. (d. 1944). 5 items. Gift of estate of Eugenie
Hubbard.
Five manuscript notebooks, one from the Edgeworth School, Albemarle
County. No. 2069.
HUTTER FAMILY PAPERS. Ca. 1825-1880. Ca. 250 items. Deposit.
A group of family letters from Bedford County, Va., to Midshipman
Edward S. Hutter from his father, wife, brothers, and sisters. Inventory
list of the sale of the estate of M. S. Cobbs by J. N. Gordon, executor,
at Poplar Forest, Bedford County, Va. (See Annual Report, XIII, 29;
XIV, 26-27.) Nos. 2034, 2140.
HYDE, HENRY M. 1889-1943. Ca. 500 items. Gift of Henry M.
Hyde, Esq.
A member of the Chicago Tribune staff, its London correspondent, and
later Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, Mr. Hyde corresponded
with Henry L. Mencken (36 letters in the years 1934-1943),
John N. Garner (2), George H. Lorimer (2), Albert Ritchie (2), Sam
Rayburn, and Harry F. Byrd. Seven typescript original articles: "Backwoods
Butterfly", Dubuque, 1888-1890; "Whitechapel Club", Chicago,
1890; "The Cubs", Chicago, 1891; "Big Business", Dayton, O., 1896-1898;
"Man from Monkey", Dayton, Tenn., 1925; "Mysteries of Wall Street",
1933; and "The Wholesale Manufacture of Criminals". One scrapbook
on the Al Smith campaign and civic affairs in Baltimore. Programs and
press cards. Typed notes of a diary kept in Washington, D. C., 19191931.
Maps, postcards, prints, clippings, albums, scrapbooks, etc. Nos.
2083, 2123, 2167.
JACKSON, PHOEBE. 1843-1845. MS. account book. Purchase.
Account book of Phoebe Jackson of Petersburg, Va., chiefly for medical
services. No. 2120.
JAPAN. 1920-1935. 25 items. Gift of Miss Eliza Broaddus Jones.
Maps, scrolls, wall decorations, flags, postcards, and letters from Japan,
relating to ancient ceremonies and Christian settlement work. No.
2158.
JEFFERSON, ISAAC. (1772-ca. 1850). 2 items. Purchased for the
McGregor Library.
The life of Isaac Jefferson as dictated to Charles Campbell in 1847.
Isaac, one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves, was born at Monticello and
trained by Jefferson to run his nail factory. He stayed at Monticello
until about 1822, when he moved to Edgehill. The reminiscences concern
his life at Monticello, the company he saw there, his experiences
at Richmond and Yorktown during the Revolutionary War, and his
training as a tinsmith in Philadelphia. Daguerreotype of Isaac Jefferson.
No. 2041.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826) PAPERS. 1763-1945. 54 items.
Gift, purchase, and deposit.
The following additions to the Jefferson Papers are largely in the
form of letters to and from Thomas Jefferson. Other series of letters
listed under the names of the correspondents may be located by consulting
the index under Jefferson, Thomas, letters to.
Typescript of pedigree of the Jefferson Family. Gift of Paul Berghaus,
Esq. No. 2017. Photoprint of ALS to John Page, 15 July 1763. Gift
of George A. Ball, Esq. No. 2061. Photostat of letter from Perkins, Buchanan
and Brown of London, 2 October 1769, and invoice of books accompanying
letter. Gift of Virginia Historical Society. No. 2122. Microfilm
of Jefferson materials in the Coolidge Collection of the Massachusetts
Historical Society, 1774-1826. 21 reels. Purchase. No. 2144.
A group of 7 ALS, 1790-1811, including: from Maria Jefferson, 23
May 1790, concerning her studies and life at Eppington; to Martha Jefferson
(Randolph), 13 November 1791, on the relative value of Freneau's
and Bache's papers; from Maria Jefferson (Eppes), 21 June
1802, about her son Francis, her health, and her sister Martha; from
Martha Jefferson (Randolph), 31 May 1804, about her affection for her
father and her own poor health; from Wilson Cary Nicholas, ca. 1807,
relative to his appointment to the collectorship of Norfolk port; to
Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 7 December 1808, commenting on the art
of writing; from Charles L. Bankhead, 20 June 1811, relative to land
sales in Bedford. Deposit. No. 2143. Photoprint of ALS to Justin
Pierre Derieux, 3 January 1796, about a lawsuit and a sale of land. Gift.
No. 2006. ALS to Craven Peyton, 27 November 1803, requesting an extension
Bank facsimiles. Original letter-press copy is in Alderman Library.
Deposit. No. 1974. Photoprint of fragment of a letter to Derieux, ca.
1806, about egg plants. Gift of Dr. Dabney Lancaster. No. 2006. Photoprint
of ALS to Benjamin Rush, 5 December 1811, explaining his quarrel
with John Adams and his offer of reconciliation. Purchase. No.
2149. ALS to Richard Duke, 24 January 1819, asking him to be Proctor
of Central College. Deposit. No. 1968. Photoprint of ALS to George
Thompson, 23 June 1825, giving faculty news, description of the University
of Virginia, discussion of Jefferson's theory of limited government,
and his refusal to comment on politics of the day. Purchase. No.
2149. Photoprints of two advertisements of a lottery for the benefit of
Mr. Jefferson which appeared in the Richmond Enquirer on 25 April and
28 April 1826. Gift of Dr. J. D. Eggleston. No. 2105. Photoprint of
catalogue of the remaining portion of Thomas Jefferson's library as
sold by his grandson Francis Eppes at public auction from Poplar Forest.
Purchase. No. 2150. Typescript material relating to the discussion of
the question of the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson, Shadwell or Tufton,
13 April 1945. Participants included Dumas Malone, Chairman; Elizabeth
Page; Fiske Kimball; Marie Kimball; Thomas P. Abernethy; Bernard
Mayo; and Maude H. Woodfin. The decision declared that Shadwell
was the place of Jefferson's birth. Gift of Dr. W. Edwin Hemphill.
No. 2161.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS, MEMORIAL. 1935-1943. Ca. 1,000 items.
Gift of Gen. Jefferson Randolph Kean.
Papers of the commission directing the building of the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial in Washington, D. C. The memorial was dedicated by
President Roosevelt, 13 April 1943. No. 2169.
JOHNSON, JAMES GIBSON, COLLECTION. 1870-1944. Ca. 2,000
items. Gift of Doctor Johnson.
Manuscript and typescript materials, printed forms and documents,
data used by Doctor Johnson in writing the history of certain phases of
education in Virginia. Included are copies of letters of recommendation,
diplomas, teachers' certificates, contracts, examination blanks, during
the superintendency of William H. Ruffner, John L. Buchanan, R.
C. Stearns, John E. Massey, R. R. Farr, and Joseph W. Southall. Materials
relating to the State Teachers' Association. Nos. 2003, 2028.
KEAN, GEN. JEFFERSON RANDOLPH. 1943-1945. Ca. 50 items.
Gift of Dr. Harry Clemons.
Correspondence between Gen. Jefferson Randolph Kean and Doctor
Clemons for the years 1943-1945. No. 2110.
KEAN FAMILY PAPERS. 1824-1865. 3 items. Deposit.
Bill for medical services rendered from Dr. Andrew Kean to Thomas
Jefferson Randolph, 28 February-6 November 1824. ALS, George Wythe
Randolph to R. G. H. Kean, 26 November 1856, regarding pending legal
matters. Receipt by the Commanding Officer of the Military Sub-District
of Albemarle to R. G. H. Kean, 7 June 1865, for the public papers
of the Confederacy in his possession. No. 2143.
LAFAYETTE, MARQUIS DE. 1824. Bound photostat.
"Reception of General Lafayette in Albemarle, Charlottesville, November
10, 1824". Photostat from the reprint of the Charlottesville
Central Gazette in the Richmond Enquirer, 16 November 1824. No. 2055.
LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807-1870). 1 June 1859. Photostat.
Gift of Alexander W. Armour, Esq.
ALS to Col. S. Cooper, Adjut. Gen., U. S. Army, reporting Lee's change
of address from Arlington, Va., to Texas. No. 2160.
McHENRY, JAMES (1753-1816). 1784. 8 ALS. Purchase.
To his wife from Sweet Springs, Va., describing revival meetings,
experiments with spring waters, journeys to surounding places, a detailed
account of Botetourt County and of Bishop James Madison's lecture.
No. 2151.
MADISON, JAMES (1751-1836). 14 May 1782. ALS. Purchased
for the McGregor Library.
In Madison's hand and signed also by Theodorick Bland, Jr., addressed
to Gov. Benjamin Harrison of Virginia from Philadelphia, requesting
"full and precise instructions" as to what further action the Virginia
delegates to Congress should take in regard to the cession of Virginia's
Western Lands to the Confederation Government, and commenting
on the arrival of the British General Guy Carleton and his peace proposals,
the reported French victory over the British fleet in the West
Indies, the French alliance, the announcement of the birth of a Dauphin
in France, and the Virginia-Pennsylvania boundary dispute. No. 2019.
MAPS.
During the year 1944-45 the Library has acquired 1018 maps, bringing
the total holdings of separate maps to 13,036. Among those received,
maps of special interest to students of American history include H.
Moll's Map of Virginia and Maryland, London, 1732; H. Moll's Map of
Carolina, London, 1732; Ino Cary's An Accurate Map of the United
to the Treaty of Peace, London, 1783 (for the McGregor Library); and
Young's Map of Virginia, Philadelphia, 1823.
MAVERICK, MRS. ALBERT. 1945. Typescript, 3 pp. Gift of Mrs.
Maverick.
Recollections of Piedmont, the Maury home in Albemarle County, Va.
Comment is made on the University of Virginia, Monticello, Jefferson
and Lafayette, and the Civil War. No. 2129.
MENNIS, CALLOHILL (b. ca. 1800). 1767(1800)-1849. Ca. 552
items. Purchase.
Correspondence relating to Mr. Mennis' law practice at Liberty, Bedford
County, Va., from 1818-1849. In addition there are a few items
on slavery, and an interesting series of letters, 1816-1821, between
Mennis and a school friend, David Moore, who was attending Washington
Academy at Lexington, Rockbridge County, Va. Other correspondents
include Andrew and Robert Mennis, Callohill's brothers, and Edwin
Robertson, his brother-in-law. No. 1993.
MICROFILM.
In addition to microfilm copies recorded elsewhere in this report, the
Library has acquired from the Library of Congress a microfilm copy of
their manuscript Journal of the West Florida Convention, with letters
and memoranda relating to its activities, 1808-1810. No. 2121.
MONROE, JAMES (1758-1831). 1797-1823. 3 items. Purchased for
the McGregor Library.
ALS to Benjamin F. Bache, 13 November 1797, concerning a book
Bache was publishing. ALS to William Wirt, 30 January 1821, requesting
his opinion as to whether or not the pardoning powers of the Executive
extended to a dismissal of a suit before judgment had been given.
Notes in Monroe's hand on the State of the Union, ca. 1823. Nos. 2019,
2119, 2134.
MORTON, JEREMIAH. 27 December 1841. Photoprint. Purchase.
Deed of sale of slave Reuben to William Hume. No. 2183.
NEFF, JOHN HENRY. Ca. 1910. 3 bound MS. volumes. Gift of
Mrs. John H. Neff.
Notes on medical lectures at the University of Virginia. No. 2172.
NEVILLE COLLECTION. 1854-1865. Ca. 150 items. Gift of Mrs.
Walter H. Dey.
Letters from George Neville, CSA, from Portsmouth, Richmond, and
Norfolk to Miss Nellie Newman of Isle of Wight and James City counties
on personal affairs, politics, social activities, and war news. (See
Annual Report, XIII, 43.) No. 2024.
NEWSPAPERS.
In addition to files of the sixty Virginia dailies and weeklies preserved
by this library as its share under the cooperative arrangement among
Virginia libraries for the joint preservation of all currently published
Virginia newspapers, the University of Virginia Library has received
during the year subscriptions to a slightly smaller number of newspapers
published outside of Virginia. The Library's files, principally
of Virginia newspapers for earlier years, have also been enriched by exchanges,
and by gifts from G. A. Banks, Esq.; Lt. Comdr. Thomas M.
Carruthers; Miss Nancy Cochran; Miss Betty Cocke; Julian Fox, Esq.;
James W. Green, Esq.; Miss Elizabeth S. Hill; Alexander P. Hull, Jr.,
Esq.; Miss Eliza B. Jones; Mrs. E. H. McPherson; Dr. Franz Mohr; Dr.
W. A. Montgomery; Capt. Lyman S. Perry; Arthur Pforzheimer, Esq.;
Mrs. Lawrence G. Starkey; M. H. Tennis, Esq.; Mrs. Jason Westerfield;
Lieut. John C. Wyllie; and anonymous donors.
Among items acquired during the year are a number of issues not
recorded by Cappon: the Charlottesville Chronicle, 31 October 1833
(photos.); The Charlottesville (University of Virginia) The Big Tent, Vol.
I, 1914, and The University Forum, Vol. I, 1934; the Charlottesville Intelligencer,
19 Oct. and 16 Nov. 1870, and 25 Oct. 1871; the Charlottesville
Jeffersonian, 27 Apr. 1916; the Culpeper News, 17 March 1911; the
Portsmouth Weekly Prophet, 10 May 1929; and the Staunton Spy, 1
Feb. 1794.
NICHOLAS, WILSON CARY (1761-1820) PAPERS. 1751-(1820)
1850. Ca. 3,000 items. Gift of Miss Olivia Taylor.
The early part of this collection consists of papers relating to the case
of Macon vs. Ambler and includes dealings of John Norton, eighteen
of whose letters occur, Samuel Athawes, and Edward Ambler. Edward
Ambler's executor was Robert Carter Nicholas, Senior, member of the
the case as it continued into the nineteenth century.
The remainder of the collection reflects the varied interests of Wilson
Cary Nicholas (1761-1820); his support of his Alma Mater, William and
Mary College, in its lottery and finances; the Albemarle County Militia
(lists of 1795); his investments in western lands and associated interest
in the navigation of the James and Kanawha rivers; contracts for supplies
of pork to the U. S. Navy; papers of his term as collector of the
port of Norfolk, 1804-1806; accounts of his flour mill at Warren, Albemarle
County; agriculture and the Agricultural Society of Albemarle;
the subscription for Central College; and the branch Bank of the U. S.
in Richmond, of which he was president. Two of Nicholas' notes for
$10,000 each, endorsed by Thomas Jefferson (these fell to Jefferson to
pay, and contributed to his financial ruin) also appear. Correspondence
from John Nicholas, a brother of Wilson Cary Nicholas, describes politics
in New York in the early nineteenth century, while James Morrison's
letters give a view of Kentucky. The Alien and Sedition Acts
are condemned in a letter from Wilson Cary Nicholas to his brother
George Nicholas in Kentucky. Activities during the War of 1812, when
Nicholas was serving as Governor of Virginia, are also recounted.
Names and firms engaged in correspondence rendering accounts are:
John Adams; Richard Adams; Edward Ambler; John Ambler; Mary
Ambler; Anderson, Blair and Anderson; E. Anderson and Company;
Nathaniel Anderson; Richard Anderson; Thomas Anderson; Robert
Andrews; Theo. Armistead; Samuel Athawes; Richard Barbour; William
Bates; Thomas Bell; W. Berkeley; L. and T. Blain; John Blair;
Joseph Blake; James Breckinridge; William Breckinridge; D. C. Brent;
Benjamin Brown; Ira B. Brown; James Brown; Brown and Rives; James
Bruce; David Bullock; Robert Burton; R. Burton, Jr.; Nathaniel Burwell;
W. A. Burwell; Joseph Cabell; William H. Cabell; John Campbell;
Dabney Carr; Ellen Carr; Hetty Carr; Hollins Carr; Peter Carr; Sidney
Carr; Edward Carrington; William Caruthers; William Champe Carter;
Wilson Miles Cary; Benjamin Childres; Benjamin Clarke; Clinton and
Coles; James Cocke; J. H. Cocke; James Coleman; Samuel Coleman;
Francis Corbin; James Cox; Nathan Crawford; Cromwell and Dobbin;
B. Crump; A. I. Dallas; J. R. Dandridge; Peter V. Daniel; J. H. Daviess;
George Divers; Alexander Donald; William Douglas; Jonathan Dayton;
Peyton Drew; William Duane; Edward Duffield; G. Duvall; Samuel
Dyer; Ellis and Allan; Charles Ellis; Thomas N. Eubank; Charles Everette;
Ewell vs. Anderson; Ferdinando Fairfax; George William Fairfax;
John Farun; W. Fenwick; Alexander Finnie; John Austin Finnie; Col.
W. Finnie; W. Fitzhugh; C. P. Fontaine; Joshua Fry; Robert Gamble;
Gamble and Temple; Edward Garland; J. Garland; Alexander Garrett;
Ed. George; Gibson and Jefferson; Gilleat and Kirby; Francis Walker
Gilmer; Maximilian Godefroy; William B. Giles; John Graham; Philip
S. Grymes; John Hamilton; Benjamin Harris; Frederick Harris; John
Harrison; Peyton Harrison; Bartlett Hawkins; Joseph Hawkins; Peter
Haxall and Company; William Hay; Bennett Henderson claim; William
Waller Hening; Joseph Higbee; Higbee and Milnor; John Hollins; H.
Holmes; Harry Innes; Thomas Jefferson; George Washington Jeffreys;
Benjamin Johnson; C. Johnson; Charles Johnston; John W. Jones;
Joseph Jones; John Jordan; Charles Jouett; John Jouett; Robert Jouett;
Andrew Kean; John Kennon; Jacob Kinney; John Laird; Lamb and
Younger; Joseph Latil; John Leake; Benjamin Watkins Leigh; Henry
Lee; Addison Lewis; David Lewis; James Lewis; Thomas Lewis; Warner
Lewis; Yancey Lipscomb; E. Littell and brother; Edmund Logwood;
James Lyle; G. W. McCullock; Macdonald and Ridgeley; James McDowell;
John McDowell; L. M'Laughlin; Lauchlane M'Lean; Macon vs.
Ambler and Nicholas; W. H. Macon; Samuel McWilliams; John Marshall;
William Marshall; Hudson Martin; Moses Martin; George Marx;
Joseph Marx; William Mathews; James Maury, consul to Liverpool;
Thomas W. Maury; William Meriwether; F. W. Miller; Hugh Miller;
J. Minor, Jr.; John Moody; Moody and Price; Andrew Moore; Martin
Moore; Robert Moorman; Robert Morris; Robert Morrison; Perez Morton;
Samuel Murrell; Moses Myers; National Intelligencer subscription
list; Lewis Neill; H. Newman; George Nicholas; John Nicholas of Albemarle;
John Nicholas of New York; Lewis Nicholas; Mary Nicholas
(will, 1795); Nelson Nicholas; Philip Norborne Nicholas; Robert Carter
Nicholas; Wilson Cary Nicholas; Noble, Arbuthnott and Company; John
Norton; Thomas Norvell; H. M. Organ and Company; Thomas Deye
Owings; John Page; David Patteson; John Patterson; William Patterson;
John Peck; John Pendleton; William Pennock; Price Perkins; John M.
Perry; John Peyton; James and Elizabeth Phelps; Pickett, Pollard and
Johnson; W. H. Pleasants; Robert Pollard; John Preston; Alexander Pope
Price; Thomas Price; John Quarles; Edmund Randolph; Lewis Randolph;
Col. Richard Randolph; Thomas Randolph; Thomas Jefferson
Randolph; Thomas Mann Randolph; William Randolph; William Richardson;
Rives and King; Robert Rives; Daniel Robertson and Company;
William Robertson; E. W. Rootes; John Rose; David Ross; James H. Roy;
Frank Ruffin; Thomas Rutherfoord; A. C. Salaignac; Lewis Sanders;
Robert Saunders; Charles A. Scott; Thomas Scott; Joseph Selden; John
Shan; John Shelton; Nathaniel Sheppard; Lucy Singleton; J. Aug.
Smith; John Smith; John Smith, surveyor; Joseph Smith; S[amuel]
Smith; William Smith; Smith, Calhoun and Company; Robert Smith;
Alexander Smyth; Harold Smyth; Andrew Stevenson; George P. Stevenson;
William Stith; Alexander Stuart; L. Summers; Smith Tandy;
John Taylor; J. B. Taylor; Thomas Taylor; Henry Tazewell; Liston
Temple; John Thomas; J. Thompkins; John Thompson; William Thompson;
James G. Trotter; Henry St. George Tucker; Samuel Tyler; William
Walker; L. G. Watkins; William Weathered; Robert West; Jesse
White; John Wickham; John Wilkinson; William Wirt; J. Worthington;
No. 2343.
NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, VA. 1700-1800. 2 bound typescript
volumes. Gift of Mrs. Charles P. Benns.
Abstracts of wills, 1700-1749; notes and abstracts from original records,
1749-1800. No. 2157.
PANTOPS ACADEMY. 1888-1894. Ca. 38 items. Gift of Miss Mattie
Dunlop Spotswood.
Pantops Academy, Albemarle County: Certificates of Distinction and
medals won by Dandridge Spotswood; card view of Pantops and the
University; autograph album of Dandridge Spotswood; programs; invitation;
clipping; and letter from the institution. No. 2125.
PAXTON, ELISHA F., PAPERS. 1861-1863. 34 items. Deposit.
Letters from General Paxton to his wife, while he was in the Confederate
Army stationed near Harper's Ferry, Winchester, Gordonsville,
and in Fairfax County. The letters contain descriptions of battles, instructions
to his wife, who was carrying on the farming activities at
home, and religious and political comment. No. 2165.
PETERSBURG, VA. 1794-1897. 18 bound MS. volumes. Purchase.
Accounts, check and record books from Petersburg, Va., from various
merchants and general stores. No. 2135.
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA. 1853-1944. Typescript, 6 pp. Gift
of Mrs. James S. Jones.
Typescript history of Pittsylvania Court House at Chatham, Va., written
by C. Tom Garten. No. 2045.
POCKET PLANTATION PAPERS. Ca. 1740-1880. Ca. 3,000 items.
Purchased for the McGregor Library.
The business and personal records of Pocket Plantation, Pittsylvania
County, for a period of one hundred and thirty years, involving the two
families which were connected with the Pocket (so-called because the
winding of the Staunton River formed it into a peninsula). Extensive
records of tobacco growing, hemp growing, routine plantation activities,
iron manufacturing, and much that is typical of the dealings of planters
Smith, Jr., 1740-1776; Ralph Smith, 1776-1827; and the Clement family,
1827-1880.
John Smith, Jr., 1740-1776. This group contains legal and business
papers relating to Albemarle County. John Smith, Jr., was sub-surveyor
and sub-sheriff of Albemarle in the 1750's, and of Goochland
County in the 1760's. Papers relate to the estate of Col. Peter Jefferson
(d. 1757), and among them are twenty receipts and bills signed by Peter
Jefferson. Other early records concern the Cabell, Burke, Lewis, Lynch,
Madison, Randolph, and Taylor families. Early land surveys and some
official records, such as claims against the Albemarle Court for wolf bounties
in 1750, are included. Two miscellaneous items of general Virginia interest
are letters to Gov. Robert Dinwiddie from George Washington and
R. Orme, written from Ft. Cumberland, 18 July 1755, describing Braddock's
defeat. Detailed economic records concern trade in tobacco,
hemp, and other items with Callaway and Trent, Samuel Calland and
Company, Robert Cowan, John Ross and John Hook, James Lyle, Alexander
Burner, Archibald Byrne, and Alexander Stewart, mostly of
New London in Bedford County, Va. For the years 1763-1773, there is
a revealing correspondence with Alexander Spiers, tobacco merchant of
Glasgow, and his factor Alexander Banks who lived near Manchester,
Va.
Ralph Smith, 1776-1827. Revolutionary records pertain to Pittsylvania
and Bedford Counties, and include tables of money depreciation and
lists of requisitions for food and clothing for the Army. Records of
tobacco sales contain the names of James Callaway, John Hook,
Harry Innes, David Ross, and John Ward. Ten bound account books
of the Smith brothers record tobacco sales, slave records, and purchases
at the New London stores. Personal letters reflect social life.
Clement Family, 1828-1880. The Clement family became involved in
the Pocket by the marriage of Dr. George Clement to Stella Smith,
niece of Ralph Smith, and the bulk of the remainder of the collection
consists of the settlement of the Ralph Smith estate. Personal papers
of the Clement family include doctors' account books, overseers' agreements,
slave accounts, materials on the Gold Rush of 1849, and some
Civil War letters. No. 2027.
PRATT, AGNES ROTHERY, COLLECTION. 1944. 5 items. Gift of
Mrs. Harry Rogers Pratt.
The first draft of Central American Roundabout, four letters related
to its publication, and a colored chart of flags and coats of arms of
American republics. An addition to gifts recorded in previous issues
of the Annual Report. No. 2082.
PRINTS AND PICTURES.
The Library has received 1563 prints, photographs, and other pictures,
during the year, bringing to 12,277 the total holdings in the print
collections. (The pictures in the collections are chiefly historical, the
most valuable being the fine group of etchings and engravings constituting
the Rosenthal Historical Portraits.) An interesting engraving,
presented this year by Prof. Randall Thompson, is William Hogarth's
"England", published with a patriotic poem in 1799, when invasion rumors
were current. No. 2095. The McGregor Library has acquired
twelve aquatint engravings by C. Watson after Maria Cosway.
RANDOLPH, JOHN OF ROANOKE (1773-1833). 1811-1831. 4
ALS. Purchase.
Four letters from John Randolph of Roanoke: to his sister Fanny
Bland Coalter of Staunton, from Charlotte Court House, 19 August 1811;
to Dr. Brockenbrough, describing a session in the Senate, from [Washington],
10 February 1826; to John Randolph Bryan on personal affairs,
25 April 1827; and to John Randolph and Elizabeth T. Bryan, Eagle
Point near Gloucester Court House, Va., on his return from Russia, 19
October 1831. Nos. 2097, 2113.
RANDOLPH, THOMAS JEFFERSON (1792-1875). 7 December
1828. ALS. Gift of Ray L. Murphy, Esq.
To James Madison concerning Madison's preface to Randolph's memoirs
of Jefferson, and requesting that Madison superintend the return of
Jefferson's books from the University in order to help pay his debts.
No. 2162.
RANDOLPH, THOMPSON E. F. 1850-1851. Typescript, 2 volumes.
Gift of Miss Blanche F. Randolph.
Diary of a voyage on the sailing barque Cornelia from New York to
the Mediterranean and to England. Particular descriptions are made
of the Azores, Gibraltar, Marseilles, Toulon, Sardinia, Beirut, Tyre, Sidon,
Haifa, the monastery at Mt. Carmel, Acre, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Liverpool,
Chester, London, Malta, and Smyrna. Among other interesting experiences,
Randolph mentions seeing Jenny Lind, talking with Captain
Conover aboard the U. S. S. Constitution, and visiting an American
missionary and his family (the J. H. Smiths) in Beirut. No. 2187.
RANDOLPH, WILLIAM OF TUCKAHOE. 1742-1746. Typescript,
4 pp. Purchase.
Copy of the will of William Randolph of Tuckahoe in County of
Goochland and Parish of Saint James, dated 2 March 1742, recorded 19
November 1745; Codicil dated 20 July 1745, recorded 20 May 1746.
Deed and Will Book 5, page 73. Certified by Miss Margaret K. Miller,
Clerk, Goochland County, Goochland, Va. Contains instructions to
Peter Jefferson, the Rev. William Stith, and Beverley Randolph, executors.
No. 2093.
RANDOLPH FAMILY PAPERS. 1785-1856. 6 ALS. Deposit.
ALS, Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr., to Thomas M. Randolph, Jr., 23
December 1795. The latter was at the University of Edinburgh, and
the letter explains about his allowance. ALS, Mr. Higbee to Wilson
Cary Nicholas, 19 November 1795, regarding financial matters of Wilson
Cary Nicholas and Mr. Randolph. ALS, Thomas Ritchie to Thomas
Jefferson Randolph, April 1835. Two ALS, Thomas Mann Randolph
to Thomas Jefferson, 12 March 1798 and 27 April 1805, regarding local
elections, mule purchases, visit of Nicholas Trist, and Martha Jefferson
Randolph's health. No. 2143.
REED, JAMES (1710-1788). 1926. 3 items. Gift of Miss Texie
Preston Watts.
Letters to John Randolph Grymes and Charles Champe Taliaferro of
Orange County, Va., and a blue-print chart, all concerned with genealogical
data on James Reed and his descendants. No. 2016.
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO (1882-1945). 30 December
1944. LS. Gift of Mrs. Edwin Anderson Alderman.
To Mrs. Alderman, thanking her for her kind note of 26 December
and sending New Year's greetings. No. 2156.
SATTERLEE, HERBERT L. 17 March 1943. ALS. Gift of Dr. Guy
Hinsdale.
To Dr. Hinsdale, giving Mr. Satterlee's evaluation of J. Pierpont Morgan
and a description of his book, The Life of J. Pierpont Morgan, New
York, 1937. No. 2007.
SEAY, JOSEPH M. 1830-1900. Ca. 350 items. Gift of Miss Mary
Tyler Louthan.
These papers represent the efforts of Joseph M. Seay and William
T. Quarles, executors, to settle the estate of John Halkett of Caroline
County, Va. The finances of the Halkett family were involved with
the Redd family, particularly Stapleton Redd. Other items include
Civil War letters from Richmond, Va., and personal account books of
Joseph M. Seay. (See Annual Report, XIV, 35.) No. 2046.
SHAKELFORD FAMILY. 1945. MS., 6 pp. Gift of Miss Ora Tanquary.
Notes on the Shakelford family, written 9 April 1945. No. 2154.
SIMMONS, JAMES F. (1795-1864). 2 July 1841. ALS. Purchase.
To his wife, describing his maiden speech in the United States Senate
and Henry Clay's comments on it. No. 2186.
SOLOMON ISLANDS, ULFA ESTATE PLANTATIONS. 19231934.
3 MS. notebooks. Gift of Lieut. E. S. Overman, U.S.N.R.
Records of copra plantations on the Solomon Islands, indicating
weather, labor reports, finances, hired hands, and amounts of copra
shipped. No. 1975.
STODDERT, BENJAMIN. 20 July 1802. ALS. Purchase.
To James McHenry, mentioning Jefferson's interest in the Navy. No.
2073.
STONE PRINTING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY. 17741862.
3 photostats. Gift of Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company.
Writ summoning Daniel Boone and William Cowan before the Justices
of Fincastle County, signed by clerk John Byrd, May 1774. George
Washington's Answer to a Bill of Complaint exhibited against him by
William Owens, 15 February 1789. General order No. 14, charging Gen.
Robert E. Lee with conduct of military operations in the armies of the
Confederacy, under the direction of the President, addressed to Gen.
Albert Sidney Johnston, Decatur, Ala., 13 March 1862. No. 2117.
SUMMER, LELAND G. Ca. 1910. Typescript, 4 pp. Transfer.
"Names and Date of Families who Moved from South Carolina to
Virginia Between 1800 and 1850; Including Names of Those from Virginia
to South Carolina Before the Revolutionary War." No. 2076.
THORNTON, WILLIAM MYNN. 1894-1913. Typescript, 2 pp.
Transfer.
Bibliography of articles in the Alumni Bulletin of the University of
Virginia from 1894 to 1913 by Professor Thornton. No. 2077.
TURNER, HENRY. 1825-1840. Account book. Gift of Elmer I. Carruthers,
Esq.
Pasted in the back of the book are varieties of town, county, and
state money issued in Virginia and other southern states during the Civil
War, and some money and a bond issued by the Confederate Government.
Loudoun Co., Va. No. 2106.
UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. See BILL OF RIGHTS.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA COLLECTION. 1827-1944. 8 items.
Deposit, gift, and purchase.
Minute Book of University Division No. 74 Sons of Temperance,
Charlottesville, Va., 20 August 1847-27 February 1857. Microfilm. No.
1995. Minutes and reports of the Sub-Committee, University of Virginia,
on the Orientation and Education of Post War Veterans, 1944.
Typescript volume. Gift of Prof. Joseph L. Vaughan. No. 2026. Letter
from Dr. John Staige Davis, Sr., to Dr. S. G. Pedigo, 9 January 1883,
expressing regret that Davis is unable to provide Pedigo with a set of
bones, but that Davis has been unable to procure a complete set for
his own students. Gift of Dr. William B. Porter. No. 2029. Autograph
album of Fleming James, Jr., containing signatures of his classmates
from the University of Virginia in 1855. Purchase. No. 2032. Assorted
clippings and programmes of professional and social clubs and
conferences. Gift of Prof. Joseph L. Vaughan. No. 2072. Medical
notes by a University student, T. Baxter, Jr., dated 1833. Bound volume.
Purchase. No. 2120. Printed notice of Proctor's Account for
Thomas Barbour, 15 February 1827, with manuscript notes by A. S.
Brockenbrough. Gift of Charles Minor Blackford, Esq. No. 2133. Statement
of absences and grades of Thomas P. Shields, 1 November 1844.
Purchase. No. 2174.
VIRGINIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. 1901. 1 bound MS. volume.
Gift of the Rev. Wythe Leigh Kinsolving.
Bound volume of typed notes taken by H. H. Powell on lectures in
Apologetics given by the Rev. R. W. Micou, D.D. No. 2066.
WALKER, THOMAS. 13 July 1850. ALS. Purchase.
To his daughter Evelina Walker in King and Queen County, describing
crowded conditions at Hampton, Va., his health treatments, and
family news. No. 1992.
WEAVER, WILLIAM (d. 1863). 1830-1860. Ca. 129 items. Purchase.
Legal and business correspondence concerning Buffalo (Iron) Forge, in
Rockbridge County, Va., accounts of Reuben Grigsby, and a lawsuit over
various iron forges between John Jordan and William Weaver. (See
Annual Report, VIII, 35; XIII, 51.) No. 1993.
WOMENS' CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 1882-1910. 4 MS.
volumes. Deposit.
Minutes of Richmond, Va., W. C. T. U., 1882-1885, 1906-1909, 19071908,
1909-1910. No. 1996.
WOODS AND TAYLOR. 1877-1879. Letterbook. Gift of Capt. Robert
H. Woods, U.S.N.
Charlottesville, Va., clothing store records. No. 2147.
WORLD WAR I COLLECTION. Ca. 1916-1920. Ca. 600 items.
Gifts and deposit.
Film (300 ft. of 35 mm., 150 ft. of 16 mm.) of the Lafayette Escadrille,
taken in France late in 1916 and shown in this country as French
propaganda early in 1917. It includes pictures of James McConnell, two
of his friends, and some of the airplanes they flew. Gift of Mrs. Ralph
P. Truitt. No. 2104. Materials on the organization of the U. S. Ambulance
Corps in France, 1917-1919. Gift of Gen. Jefferson R. Kean. No.
2169. Photographs showing the activities of the U. S. Army Medical
Corps in France and Belgium during the war and immediately after.
Deposit. No. 2170.
WORLD WAR II COLLECTION. 1941-1945. Ca. 8,000 items. Deposit
and gifts.
Maps, diagrams, photographs, posters, arm bands, architect's plans,
pins, newspaper clippings, correspondence, business records, and applications
relating to observation posts for spotting airplanes in Charlottesville
and Albemarle County. Gift of C. Venable Minor, Esq. No. 2040.
Hospital relative to the activities of the University of Va. Medical School
and to the replicas of surgical instruments from Pompeii which the
Hospital is sending to the University Hospital. Typescripts. Gift of Dr.
H. E. Jordan. No. 2193. Photographs and typescripts on the activities
of the Eighth Evacuation Hospital. Deposit. No. 2170. Letters
and cards from University of Virginia service men to Professor Vaughan
telling of their experiences in training schools and in the Pacific. Gift
of Prof. Joseph L. Vaughan. No. 2153. Remarks made at V-E Day
service at St. Paul's Church, Charlottesville, Va. Typescript. Gift of
Prof. James Hart. No. 2185. History of the 3317th Service Unit, Army
Specialized Training Program, at the University of Virginia. Typescript.
Gift of Captain Benjamin F. Moomaw. No. 2192.
WYTHE, GEORGE (1726-1806). MS. item. Deposit.
Fragment of a manuscript of Chancellor George Wythe, being pages
3-12 of a legal opinion on the will of Patrick Henry. This manuscript
was found in the back of Wythe's personal copy of his Decisions. No.
2143.
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