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MATERIALS ACQUIRED
1 July 1945 to 30 June 1947
ADAMS, PLACIDIA. 1840 Feb. 12. 1 ALS. Deposit. No. 2427.
To Philip Pendleton Barbour, containing reminiscences of social life
in Washington in the 'twenties with observations on Clay, Calhoun,
J. Q. Adams, and other political figures.
ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1847-1853. 1 vol. Gift of
Christian S. Hutter, Jr. No. 2371.
Ledger of country store [on Mechum's River?] containing accounts
with various Albemarle County people: James G. Alexander, Jonathan
Barksdale, John S. Cocke, Dr. John B. Garrett, Capt. Thomas Jarman,
Ambrose Maupin, L. G. Maupin, Fleming Maury, Capt. James Michie,
John E. Michie, Dr. A. H. Rogers, William Woods, Zachariah Woods,
and others.
ALBEMARLE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY COLLECTIONS.
The manuscripts owned by the Society are kept in a special set of
locked files in the Manuscript Reading Room. They are available for
research. For a description of accessions see the annual report of the
archivist in the Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society,
published annually since March 1941.
ALBEMARLE COUNTY ORDER BOOK. 1744-1746. Photostat. Gift
of Albemarle County Historical Society. No. 2416.
Text published in Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society,
vol. VI, 1944-45.
ALDERMAN, EDWIN ANDERSON (1861-1931). 1902-1907. 5,000
items. Transferred to Archives from the President's Office. No. 2636.
Official and personal files of Doctor Alderman as President of Tulane
University, 1902-1903; his acceptance of the presidency of the University
of Virginia and installation in office, 1904; academic and administrative
problems of his first three years at Charlottesville, 1904-1907;
and his activities on the Southern Education Board, 1903-1905. This
collection supplements the Alderman Papers previously reported. Other
archives of the President's Office are separately entered under University
of Virginia.
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA. 1808-1897. 19 items. Coles Collection.
No. 2668.
Letters and business papers dealing with banking, canal building,
and the affairs of the Taylor, Page, and Morris families. Contracts and
mortgages of the Bank of Potomac, which financed canals and turnpikes,
1808-1824; a financial report of work on the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal, 1832; letters of William A. Taylor to his mother, Mrs.
Robert I. Taylor, 1844; a letter from William Allen Taylor to his
cousin, Harriet, describing a trip to Texas, 1851. Persons mentioned
include Nicholas Campbell; James Keith, Jr.; John Lloyd; George
Morris; Charles Page; Cuthbert Powell, Mayor of Alexandria, 1841-43;
Hugh Smith; Julian Taylor; Robert I. Taylor; and Jonah Thompson.
ALLMOND, MARCUS BLAKEY (1851-1909). 1930-1945. Letterbook.
Gift of Allen E. Allmond. No. 2697.
Correspondence of Allen E. Allmond with various institutions and
individuals regarding poetical works of his father, Marcus Blakey
Allmond.
ANDERSON, SHERWOOD (1887-1942). 1940 Dec. 13. 1 ALS. Gift
of Kenneth Seaman Giniger. No. 2567.
Letter from Houston, Texas, to Gertrude Carrick, literary agent,
informing her that he was committed to Scribner's.
AUTOGRAPHS. 1687-1875. 19 items and 2 vols. Deposit. Nos. 2259,
2413, 2604.
Album of C. M. Vilas, containing approximately 300 signatures of
notable Americans of the post-Civil War period, including Fisher Ames,
Nathaniel P. Banks, Banjamin F. Butler, George Washington Cable,
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Schuyler Colfax, Edward Everett, Thomas
Nast, and Theodore Thomas. Album of Fred S. Pulling of Exeter
College, Oxford, entitled "The Results of Unparalleled Impudence,"
and consisting of replies to Pulling from Lord Aberdeen, Robert
Browning, Joseph Chamberlayne, Wilkie Collins, Gerald du Maurier,
W. M. Rosetti, William Stubles, and Anthony Trollope, regarding
their views on the use of tobacco, 1875. Separate pieces include miscellaneous
manuscripts penned or signed by Christopher, Duke of Albemarle;
Robert Burns; Aaron Burr; John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough;
Charles Dickens; Albert Gallatin; Sidney Godolphin; Victor
Hugo; Lawrence Hyde; Charles Lamb; Marshal Michael Ney; Armand,
of Wellington.
BACON, NATHANIEL (ca. 1620-1692). 1674 Mar. 27. 1 LS. Photostat.
Coles Collection No. 2204.
Note acknowledging £500 indebtedness to Thomas Ballard, signed
by President Bacon, the "rich and politic kinsman" of the young rebel;
original in Virginia State Library.
BAILEY, P[ENDLETON] N. 1880 Aug. 27. 1 ALS. Gift of Whitman
Bailey. No. 2576.
To his fiancé, describing a trip to Boston to attend the twenty-ninth
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Mentions Professor [William Barton] Rogers.
BALZ, ALBERT G. A. 1943-1946. 8 items. Gift of Professor Balz.
Nos. 2218, 2284.
Typescript draft of Professor Balz's "Descartes and Modernity",
Parts I-VII; draft of article, "Nature, Knowledge, and Myth" (printed
in the Journal of Philosophy, May, 1946).
BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST. 1808 July 23. 1 ADS. Gift of
Stephen D. Tuttle. No. 2590.
Ordination certificate of Luke Bird as minister of Baptist Church of
Christ, signed by William Davis, John Ashworth, Wilson Turner, and
John Black of the presbytery; given at Moody's Meeting House, Staunton,
Va.
BARBOUR, JAMES (1775-1842). 1825 Oct. 24. 1 LS. Coles Collection.
No. 2610.
To the Governor of Mississippi, Walter Leake, concerning surveys for
the National Road to New Orleans, requesting cooperation of state
surveyors in Mississippi.
BARBOUR, PHILIP PENDLETON (1783-1841). 1826-1852. 12 items.
Deposit. Nos. 2604, 2259, 2349.
Correspondence relating chiefly to Barbour's candidacy for the Democratic
nomination as vice-president in 1831-2, including letters from
John Overton and C. W. Gooch. An ALS of Roger Brooke Taney to
James Barbour, expresses sympathy at the time of Philip Pendleton
Barbour's death, 1841. ALS, D. F. Slaughter to Barbour, regarding
14 Dec. 1832; broadside advertising auction of slaves belonging to
Barbour's estate, Orange Court House, Va., 8 Dec. 1841.
BARRETT LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION. 1819-1918.
32 items. Gift of Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 2587.
Autograph letters, poems, stories, and other manuscripts of modern
British and American authors as described elsewhere in this report. See
William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, Arthur Conan Doyle,
John Galsworthy, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Oliver
Wendell Holmes, William Dean Howells, Washington Irving, Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Nelson Page, James K. Paulding,
William Sidney Porter (under the pseudonyms "O Henry" and "James
L. Bliss"), William H. Prescott, Bayard Taylor, and Nathaniel Parker
Willis.
BARRY, WILLIAM TAYLOR (1785-1835). 1798-1835. Letterbook,
typescript. Coles Collection. No. 2569.
Letters of the Kentucky statesman and Postmaster General (18291835)
to his family, principally his daughter, Susan Taylor; his wife,
Catherine (Mason) Barry of Roseberry Plain, Loudoun County, Va.; and
his brother, Dr. John Barry of Philadelphia. Includes letters written as
a student at the College of William and Mary and Transylvania College.
Material on Kentucky politics and legal matters, social life in
Lexington, Burr's conspiracy, national politics during Andrew Jackson's
administration, the Peggy Eaton affair, the "Spoils system", the
"kitchen cabinet", the bank issue, and Nullification. Mentions John C.
Calhoun, Henry Clay, John Eaton, Amos Kendall, Bishop James Madison,
Peggy O'Neill, Governor Isaac Shelby, Martin Van Buren, of
Kentucky, and other contemporary figures. Contains a description of
Monticello in 1832 as in "dilapidation and ruin" and interesting only as
the depository of Jefferson's memory.
BAYLOR FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1768-1905. 1600 items. Deposit.
No. 2257.
Correspondence, family Bible, and other papers of the Baylor family
of Newmarket, Caroline County, Va., including Col. John Baylor; John
Baylor, Jr.; George Baylor; Dr. John Roy Baylor, Jr., of Greenwood,
Albemarle County; James Bowen Baylor; and Marie Roy Baylor. The
manuscripts of John Roy Baylor (1830-1890) include his student notebooks
Micajah Wood and William J. Robertson of Charlottesville, Va.; with
the Bruce family of Staunton Hill, Charlotte County, Va.; letters and
manuscripts of Armistead Gordon and Thomas Nelson Page. The
papers of James Bowen Baylor consist of notebooks and ledgers, dealing
mostly with his work with the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey,
particularly work on the Virginia-Tennessee boundary, the U. S.-Canadian
boundary, and coastal surveys of Tangier Sound, Va. and Mobile
Bay, 1870-1905.
BEARD, DANIEL CARTER. 1939 June 7. 1 ALS. Gift of Dr. Halstead
S. Hedges. No. 2620.
The founder of the American Boy Scouts regretfully declines an
invitation.
BELLONA ARSENAL, VIRGINIA. Ca. 1850. 1 item. Coles Collection.
No. 2430.
Pencil drawing of Bellona Arsenal.
BERKELEY, SIR WILLIAM (1606-1677). 1675-1677. 4 items. McGregor
Library. No. 2596.
Documents pertaining to Berkeley's second term as Governor of
Virginia, 1662-1677: to Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby, Lord High
Treasurer of England, protesting the royal grants (1673) to Thomas,
Lord Culpeper, and Henry, Lord Arlington, of proprietary lands in
Virginia, with comments on the revenue system of the colony, 1 Feb.
1674-75; contemporary copy [by Gideon Macon] of Berkeley's writ dissolving
the House of Burgesses and calling for a new election, in answer
to complaints against his administration, 10 May 1676; Macon's commentary,
"Memorels relateing to Present state of Virga", on the writ,
declaring it to be motivated by Berkeley's concern in the popular grievances,
and not from fear of Bacon; document signed by His Majesty's
Commissioners of Virginia (Herbert Jeffreys, John Berry, and Francis
Moryson) to the Earl of Danby, forwarding correspondence with Berkeley
and petitions of the inhabitants of Virginia, 27 March 1677.
BERKELEY FAMILY OF BARN ELMS. 1704-1827. 2 vols. Deposit.
No. 2667.
Family Bibles of Edmund Berkeley (1704-1767) of Barn Elms, Middlesex
County, Va., and his grandson, Carter Burwell Berkeley of Barn
and deaths from 1704-1770; the second (Philadelphia, 1805), similar
records, 1770-1827. Added to the large collection of papers of this family
already on deposit.
BERKELEY MANUSCRIPTS. 1618-1628. 1 vol. Deposit. No. 2574.
A volume of extracts (Phillipps, number 8668) made between 1798
and 1800 by the Newcastle historian, John Brand (1744-1806) from
manuscripts in the Muniment Room of Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire.
The extracts are chiefly from the manuscript history of the family
and of the hundred and town of Berkeley, 1066-1618, written by John
Smyth of Nibley, steward of Berkeley, antiquarian, and entrepreneur in
the settlement of Virginia. Smyth's manuscript, based on the family
archives which are still preserved at Berkeley, was not published until
nearly three centuries after its preparation (The Berkeley Manuscripts:
Lives of the Berkeleys, lords of the honour, castle and manor of Berkeley,
in the county of Gloucester, from 1066 to 1618; with a description
of the hundred of Berkeley and of its inhabitants, by John Smyth of
Nibley. Ed. by Sir John Maclean, Gloucester, 1883-85).
BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH. 1777-1845. 1 vol. Microfilm.
No. 2256.
Parish register of Bethany Lutheran Church, Waynesboro, Va.,
earlier entries in German.
BIGELOW, MOSES. 1920-1946. 6 items. Gift of Joseph Kent Roberts.
No. 2334.
Report of a survey of the lime deposits in the Shenandoah Valley,
Va., in 1920, with information of shipping rates for ore. Includes two
maps and two blueprint charts, also correspondence with President
John L. Newcomb, of the University of Virginia, relating to this
material.
BLACKFORD FAMILY. 1842-1885. 32 items and 5 vols. Deposit.
No. 2221.
Letters and papers of William M. Blackford (1801-1864), American
diplomat; his wife, Mary B. Blackford; and his son, William W. Blackford.
The elder Blackford's correspondence to his family from Bogotá,
Columbia, 1842-44, and the diary of his diplomatic mission to New
Granada, Columbia, 1843-45, with introductory notes by his son; 31
Bogotá with his father, 1842-43; 3 notebooks of William W. Blackford,
containing copies of various poems and Confederate songs, 1860-70.
BOOKER FAMILY. 45 items. Gift of Christian S. Hutter, Jr. No. 2481.
Personal and business correspondence of John M. Booker, Lynchburg,
Va., tobacco merchant, with Wingfield Griffin, Salem, Va.; Ann
M. Keen; Decatur Miller, Baltimore, Md.; and William A. Read, and
others, chiefly on business matters. Includes comments on Hayes-Tilden
campaign and its effect in Baltimore, and on gubernatorial campaign
of John Warwick Daniel in 1877.
BOSHER, CHARLES. 1764. 1 vol. Deposit. No. 2680.
Manuscript arithmetic book of Charles Bosher of King William
County, Va. Contains rules, formulae, and problems in division,
decimals, fractions, and cube-root. Illustrated by hand colored sketches
of Aesop's Fables, animals, birds, ships, etc., and ornamental titles heading
each lesson.
BOTTS, JOHN MINOR (1809-1884). 1844 Mar. 7. 1 ALS. Coles Collection.
No. 2289.
To Daniel C. Baker, corresponding secretary of the Lynn Clay Club,
accepting honorary membership in that Whig organization, and announcing
his determination to support Henry Clay in the 1844 election.
BROADSIDES. Coles Collection; and the Byrd, McGregor, and general
libraries. No. 2308.
Printed broadsides were important to America's cause in the Revolution,
and historians have long regretted that so few of Virginia's have
survived. This year the McGregor Library has acquired a significant
one from the descendants of a signer. This is the broadside of 31 May
1774, which has previously been known only through a reference to it
in the Virginia Gazette of 2 June 1774. Printed in letter form, and
addressed to members of the recently dissolved House of Burgesses, it is
a sequel to the Association of 27 May 1774 (copy preserved in the Library
of Congress), and summons members to the Virginia Convention
of August 1774, which elected representatives to the First Continental
Congress. It is signed by twenty-five of the burgesses: Peyton Randolph,
Robert C. Nicholas, Edmund Pendleton, William Harwood, Richard
Adams, Thomas Whiting, Henry Lee, Lemuel Riddick, Thomas Jefferson,
Wormeley Carter, George Washington, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Thomas
Nelson, Jr., Robert Rutherford, John Walker, James Wood, William
Langhorne, Thomas Blackburne, Edmund Berkeley, John Donelson,
Paul Carrington, and Lewis Burwell.
Among the large number of broadsides acquired in the two-year
period just ended (and in addition to those separately entered in this
report under World War II), the following may also be noted: General
orders to the Virginia Militia, dated 20 July 1814; an organization table
for the Virginia Militia, 1814; two pastoral letters of the Rev. William
Holland Wilmer, Rector of Christ Church, Alexandria, Va., 1 Jan.
1814 and 1 Jan. 1816; an announcement of the impending opening of
the Virginia Museum, Richmond, Va., 4 March 1817 (for the fate of
the museum, see John P. Weeks' History of Richmond, pp. 132-135),
signed by James Worrel and Richard Lorton, and addressed to Ezra
Ames, a portrait painter, of Albany, N. Y.; a Whig campaign poster of
1828, Some Account of the Bloody Deeds of General Jackson; a Democratic
sample Presidential election ballot, Virginia, 1840; an Extra of
the Louisville, Ky., Chronicle and Sentinel, 22 July 1861, carrying news
of the Battle of Bull Run; a satirical poem by a soldier in New York's
130th Volunteers, Longstreet's Retreat from Suffolk, 1863; program of
the unveiling of the Monument in the Confederate Cemetery, University
of Virginia, by Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, June 1893.
The bulk of the broadsides acquired annually remain uncatalogued.
A few of the rarer and more important are fully catalogued, and a somewhat
larger number are filed chronologically.
BROCK, ROBERT ALONZO (1839-1914). 1880-1895. 15 ALS. Coles
Collection. No. 2668.
To the Reverend Aaron Titus, concerning Brock's work as secretary
of the Southern Historical Association and of the Virginia Historical
Society, especially his editing of historical documents for publication by
these societies.
BROOKE, ROBERT (1761-1799). 1795 Dec. 24. 1 ADS. Coles Collection.
No. 2556.
To the Governor of Georgia (George Matthews) enclosing a copy of
resolutions by the Virginia Assembly proposing the Eleventh Amendment
of the Constitution, and suggesting concurrent action by the
Georgia Legislature. This amendment had been suggested in Congress
of Chisholm vs. Georgia, but was not ratified by the states until 1798.
BROWN, CAPTAIN SIR SAMUEL (1776-1852). 1802-1852. 8 items.
Deposit No. 2556.
These papers of the Scottish naval officer and engineer include a
letter to him from H. Tappel, conveying a commendation from Lord
Minto, First Lord of the Admiralty, for Brown's plan for improving
the port of Leith, 1831; two letters to Brown from John Ross, concerning
a ship for Arctic exploration, 1852; a poem, The Roses, signed
S. Brown, and a fragment of a poem, signed "Moore", addressed to
Lady Brown.
BRUCE, WILLIAM CABELL (1860-1945). 1918-1945. 500 items and
15 vols. Gift of David K. E. Bruce and James Bruce. No. 2596.
Material relating to Bruce's term as U. S. Senator from Maryland,
1923-29, and his biographical and historical works, together with the
draft of his unpublished life of Jefferson. Four scrapbooks and 500 loose
typescripts, clippings, etc., concern his activity in the Senate; two scrapbooks
contain reviews and correspondence on his Benjamin Franklin
Self-Revealed and other books; seven notebooks and scrapbooks contain
source material for the unfinished biography, Thomas Jefferson
Self-Revealed.
BRUCE FAMILY OF BERRY HILL. 1769(1802)-1863. 33 vols. Deposit
No. 2692.
Letterbooks, journals, and account books of James Bruce (1763-1837)
and his son, James Coles Bruce (1806-1865) of Berry Hill, Halifax
County, Va. An indenture of Benjamin Harrison of Berkeley, conveying
part of the original tract to Isaac Coles in November, 1769, is
drafted in the hand of Thomas Jefferson. The journals and account
books cover the operations of one of Virginia's great plantations, and
shed light on land speculation, especially in Tennessee; relations with
northern commercial firms; internal improvements; and tobacco culture.
Much of the correspondence concerns loans made by the Bruces
to leading members of the Whig Party in Virginia and others. Representative
correspondents are Thomas Biddle, John Booker, Watkins
Booker, John Brown, Mayo Cabell, Edward Carrington, Tucker Carrington,
Walter C. Carrington, William Clarke, Philip St. George
Cocke, Rev. Elias Dickinson, William Echols, William O. Goode,
H. Kelley, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, Fielding B. Lewis, Samuel
Marx, Jeremiah Morton, Hunter H. Marshall, Hugh Nelson, Hopkins
Nowlin, William Pannill, J. H. Pleasants, Thos. Rawlins, D. Samuel
Rawlins, Charles D. Slaughter, William J. Smith, William H. Wilson.
BRUCE FAMILY OF STAUNTON HILL. 1801-1902. 1 vol. Gift of
David K. E. Bruce and James Bruce. No. 2614.
Private deedbook containing transcripts of legal papers and correspondence,
constituting a history of the Charlotte County, Va., seat
of the Bruce family (Charles Bruce and his descendants), Staunton Hill.
BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN (1794-1878). [1840]-1884. 2 items.
Gift of Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 2587.
Poem, "To The Evening Wind", ca. 1840 (printed in Keese's edition
of Bryant's poems) with a letter from J. Redfield, the New York printer,
referring to author's changes in the manuscript.
BRYCE, JAMES (1838-1922). 1912 Nov. 26. 1 ALS. Coles Collection.
No. 2644.
To Canon Hardwicke Drummond Raunsley, concerning his impending
retirement as Ambassador to the United States. "It is indeed a
hopeful sign for the U. S. that for the first time, so far as I know, it
should have a Wordsworthian for President . . . [President Roosevelt]
used to tell me about the Nibelungen Lied, and would not admit that
there was too much bloodshed in it."
BURNLEY FAMILY. 1830. 1 vol. Gift of Miss Carrie Burnley. No.
2322.
Notebook and commonplace book of James Burnley of Albemarle
County, Va., consisting largely of mathematical problems and "promiscuous
questions".
BURROWS, WILLIAM WARD. 1800 Oct. 8. 1 ALS. Coles Collection.
No. 2643.
Letter from Burrows, first Commandant of the United States Marine
Corps, to Jonathan Williams, discussing the presidential campaign of
1800, describing violence and trickery used by the Democrats, and
social life in Washington, "a very gay place for young people".
BUTLER, LUCY WOOD. 1859-1863. 1 vol. Deposit. No. 2695.
Typescript copy of diary of Lucy Wood of Locust Hill, Albemarle
County, and correspondence with her husband, Washington B. Butler
(1840-1863) of Fernandina, Florida, student at the University of Virginia,
1856-1859, and captain in the Confederate Army. The letters of
Butler contain observations on secession in Florida, while those of his
wife, as well as her diary, give a picture of the impact of the Civil War
on Charlottesville and the University. The diary ends with the death
of Captain Butler at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
CABELL, JOSEPH CARRINGTON (1778-1856). 1802-1806. 8 vols.
Deposit. No. 2453.
Volumes one to seven are the diary kept by Cabell during his residence
in Europe, 1802-1806, chiefly at various universities in England,
Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, France, and Italy, where he studied
methods of education in preparation for his long partnership with
Jefferson in the founding of the University of Virginia. He spent particularly
long periods in Paris, Bordeaux, Rome, and Naples, and also
visited Padua, Milan, and Florence, studying at the universities of
Paris and Montpelier. In addition to routine entries on travel expenses,
etc., the diaries contain notes on books, art, and architecture, as well as
shrewd observations on the life of the people, their morals, social customs,
political and cultural characteristics. Mention is made of James
Monroe, then Minister to France; Washington Irving; Joel Barlow;
Dupont de Nemours; John Mercer, Monroe's Secretary; and Count
Constantin Volney, all of whom Cabell met while on his travels. One
volume is bound in the Italian fashion; the others have French bindings,
the binders having used for the purpose mediaeval vellum manuscripts
looted from the library of Louis XVI. Vol. 8 is a paper-bound
notebook, "Courses on Study in Various Subjects", containing a reading
course on legal and political writings compiled by St. George
Tucker, professor of law at William and Mary College, who spent
his last years at Cabell's home, Edgewood; sections "on various subjects
recommended to a young man", compiled ca. 1800 by Thomas
Jefferson; and a course of history compiled by Joseph Priestley. This
volume was later used by Cabell's nephew, Dr. James Lawrence Cabell
(1813-1889).
CABELL PAPERS. 1772-1840. 52 ALS. Deposit. No. 2529.
Correspondence of American statesmen with Joseph C. Cabell and
others, including: John Quincy Adams, William Brent, Jr., William
Cabell, John C. Calhoun, Edward Carrington, Henry Clay, George
Clinton, Peter V. Daniel, Walter R. Daniel, Jabez Hammond, John
Jay, Thomas Livingston, James Madison, John Marshall, James Monroe,
Gouverneur Morris, Richard Morris, John Randolph, Philip
Schuyler, Matthias B. Tallmadge, Abraham Van Broeck, Robert
Van Renssalear, J. H. Wallace, George Washington, William Wirt,
Abraham Yates, and Robert Yates. The more important letters in the chronology: 1772 Sept. 3, Jefferson to William Cabell on the case of
Dickey vs. Cabell; 1776-1781, ten letters to Governor George Clinton,
of New York, from Jay, Morris, Van Broeck, and others, on the military
situation in the Mohawk Valley, New York politics, and land
speculation; 1778 Feb. 17, Arthur Lee to R. H. Lee on the military and
diplomatic situation in Europe and the Silas Deane affair; 1780 Oct. 8,
William Lee to Arthur Lee on the British government's attitude towards
the Revolution and the British capture of Henry Laurens; 1797
June 26, George Washington to Col. Edward Carrington on threshing
machines and Jefferson's interest in agricultural machinery; 1804 Sept.
27, James Monroe to J. C. Cabell, an invitation; 1809 Oct. 10, George
Clinton to Matthias B. Tallmadge on Indian relations, land speculation
in western New York, and a cure for the whooping cough; 1822, two
letters of William Wirt recommending William Brent, Jr. for a judiciary
clerkship; 1824 Jan. 8, John Randolph of Roanoke to William
Brent, Jr.; 1824 Mar. 27, J. Q. Adams to William Wirt, authorizing use
of official documents; 1824 Nov. 22, John C. Calhoun to Dr. J. H.
Wallace in defense of direct election of Presidential electors; 1824 Dec.
20, William Wirt discusses his duties as Attorney General in a letter
to William Brent, Jr.; 1824 Dec. 30, Edward Livingston to Brent, advocating
direct election of the President; 1824-1840, fourteen letters to
Brent from Peter V. Daniel and Walter R. Daniel, discussing Virginia
and national politics and appointments, and the statesmanlike qualities
of Andrew Jackson; 1826 Jan. 25, James Madison to J. C. Cabell in
regard to the law professorship at the University of Virginia; 1831
April 13, Henry Clay to Jabez Hammond, commenting on the probable
reelection of Andrew Jackson in 1832 and the candidacy of John C.
Calhoun; 1833 Sept. 17, John Marshall to J. C. Cabell, discussing the
James River and Kanawha Canal project. These letters have been
deposit.
CABELL-CARRINGTON MANUSCRIPTS. 1776(1817-1866)1890.
1,000 items. Deposit. Nos. 2447, 2450.
Letters, legal documents, and other papers of the Cabell and Carrington
families of Virginia and their relatives. Letters from Governor
William H. Cabell and his wife, Agnes, to their daughter, Louisa;
their son-in-law, Henry Carrington; and their grandson, William Cabell
Carrington; letters from William Cabell Carrington, editor of the
Richmond Times, to his wife, family and friends; correspondence between
Joseph C. Cabell and John A. Lancaster on the affairs of the
James River and Kanawha Canal, 1841-1851; correspondence between
Maria S. Carrington, wife of William C. Carrington, her father, John
B. Dabney, and her grandmother, Agatha Towles, as well as miscellaneous
Dabney and Towles papers, the latter falling in the Revolutionary
period; correspondence between the Cabells and Carringtons
and Richard and Francis Taylor, military surveyors of Kentucky, concerning
lands of Abram Cabell on the Tennessee River. This collection
is rich in details of social history and the inter-relations of these distinguished
families, but is only moderately useful for a view of state
and national affairs of the period covered, although the latters of Agnes
Cabell create a good picture of life in Richmond during the Civil War.
William C. Carrington's letters contain observations on heroes of the
Mexican War, particularly Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, and John
C. Fremont, as well as comments on his editorship of the Richmond
Whig during the late 'forties. There are also scattered references to
William Wirt and Laura Wirt; letters from Hugh Blair Grigsby and
B. J. Barbour; William C. Carrington's record book, containing a copy
of the will of Beverley Randolph of Powhatan, 21 August 1838; miscellaneous
clippings; copies of poems and proverbs; and a newspaper
sketch of William Cabell, Sr., of Union Hill. See also the Wirt-Carrington
letters separately entered.
CALMES FAMILY. 1706-[1812]. 1 Typescript. Gift of Walter H. Buck.
No. 2428.
"Notes on the Virginia Huguenot family of Calmes," of Frederick
County, Va.
CAPPON, LESTER JESSE. 1922-1945. 50 items and 3 vols. Gift of
Professor Cappon. No. 2501.
Typescript drafts of his "History of Alabama during the Civil War",
and of his "History of the Southern Iron Industry to the Close of the
Civil War"; clippings, broadsides, and typescripts describing source materials
and research projects at the University of Virginia and elsewhere
dealing with various aspects of Southern history.
CARMICHAEL, WILLIAM, 1780 Sept. 15. 1 ALS. McGregor Library.
No. 2280.
To Richard Harrison, an American agent at Cadiz, from San Ildefonso,
Spain, advising him of the progress of the Revolutionary War,
and commenting on American morale as a result of successes in New
Jersey and the operations of American privateers against Britain's
Quebec fleet.
CARPENTER FAMILY. 1902. 2 items. Coles Collection. No. 2329.
Notes made in 1902 by W. E. Connelly of the reminiscences of William
Carpenter (b. 1827) of Braxton County, W. Va., with typescript
revision. Contains many anecdotes of Carpenter's grandfather, Jeremiah,
an early settler in Braxton County and the Elk River country;
his experiences as a captive of the Shawnees; descriptions of border
warfare with the Indians, exploits of Jesse Hughes, the famous Indian
fighter; and comments on the Virginia deer.
CARR, H. A. 1862 Feb. 1. 1 ALS. Photostat. Gift of Miss Lula Marshall.
No. 2670.
To Miss Minnie Martin, from Manassas, on personal matters, including
his promotion to assistant adjutant on Col. [William?] Smith's
staff.
CARRINGTON, RICHARD WATKINS (1889-1933). 1911-1933.
50,000 items. Deposit (restricted). No. 2705.
His correspondence and legal and business papers as a law student
at the University of Virginia, 1907-1910, and as a prominent corporation
lawyer and civic leader in Richmond, Va.
CARTER, LANDON (1700-1778). 1751-1758 and 1772-1777. 2 vols.
Deposit (restricted). Nos. 2570 and 2658.
Diary and farm record of Landon Carter, planter and public servant
of Richmond County, Va. Contains notes and observations on agricultural
Carter properties; activities as a justice of the peace; and political
activities in the House of Burgesses during Dinwiddie's administration
and later during the pre-Revolutionary period. (These volumes supplement
the Landon Carter Papers and the diaries for 1763-1764 and 17701778,
reported in the Fourteenth Annual Report, and the diary for
1766-1767 owned by the William L. Clements Library.) Deposited with
the diaries are two copper plates: St. Memin's miniature of Landon
Carter (1757-1820) and the bookplate of Carter's son, Robert Wormeley
Carter (1797-1861).
CARTER FAMILY. 1800-1885. 71 items. Deposit. No. 2704.
Letters of the Carter family of Redlands, Albemarle County. Include
letters of Robert Hill Carter, Mary Eliza Coles Carter, Isaetta Carter,
Sally Carter Randolph; also correspondence of the Noland family of
Loudoun County, Va., and of Dr. Benjamin F. Randolph, concerned
mostly with family affairs. (Supplements previous deposit of Carter-Smith
papers reported in the Thirteenth Annual Report).
CARY-HARRISON MANUSCRIPTS. 1795(1870)-1930. 150 items. Gift
of Mrs. Charles Baird, Jr., and Mrs. Gerhard Dicke. Nos. 2484 and 2536.
Letters of Peter Carr, 1795-1799; letter of Wilson Cary (1702-1772) to
Mrs. Brian Fairfax, 24 May 1763; letters of Jefferson Davis to Burton
Harrison and his wife Constance Cary Harrison, 1866-1889; correspondence
of Fairfax Harrison, 1925-1930, on the election of 1928,
Virginia portraiture, and the history of the Northern Neck of Virginia;
photostatic copy of the Vestry Book of Dettingen Parish, Prince William
County, Va., 1744-1802; typescript by the Rev. E. L. Goodwin, "Virginia
Parish Lines"; portraits of Wilson Miles Cary (1734-1817) of
Ceelys, of Thomas Mann Randolph (1740-1793) of Tuckahoe, and of
John Randolph of Roanoke.
CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY SCHOOL COLLECTION. 1890-1940.
100 items and 30 vols. Gift of Dr. James G. Johnson. Nos. 2254 and
2486.
Personnel, financial, and administrative records of the Charlottesville
City School Board, 1890-1940, including correspondence of Superintendents
Frank Massie and James G. Johnson, together with minutes
of the Charlottesville Education Association, 1906-1910; minutes of
the Charlottesville Grammar School Teachers [Association], 1903-1909.
CHARLOTTESVILLE MASONIC LODGE. 1875 Dec. 10. 1 DS.
Photostat. Gift of H. M. Burruss. No. 2541.
Charter of Charlottesville Lodge, issued by William H. Lambert,
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Virginia.
CHARLOTTESVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 1836-1947.
53 vols. Deposit, and gift of the Rev. John Grey. Nos. 2457, 2627,
and 2688.
Records of the Charlottesville, Va., Presbyterian Church, formerly
known as the South Plains Presbyterian Church, including the session
records, 16 vols., 1836-1947; minutes of congregational meetings, 2 vols.,
1877-1914; records of the Board of Deacons, 8 vols., 1892-1943; minutes
of special conference regarding meeting of the Synod of Virginia, 19091910;
unidentified history of Presbyterianism in Madison County, Va.,
from the colonial period to 1889, 50 pp. Subscription ledgers of the
Charlottesville Presbyterian Church, 25 vols., 1891-1945.
CIVIL WAR. 1862 and 1926-1927. 4 items. Coles Collection. Nos. 2236
and 2519.
Letter from George [Barlow], a Union soldier camped near Fredericksburg,
Va., 17 May 1862, describing camp life, skirmishes with
Confederate pickets, and fugitive slaves; letters of Sam M. Hendricks,
engineer of Sheperdstown, W. Va., regarding military operations in
Jefferson County, and describing historical markers at battle sites
around Sheperdstown.
CLAY, GREEN. (1757-1826). 1808 May-July. 14 ADS. Acquired for the
McGregor Library. No. 2291.
Certificates by members of the Kentucky legislature defending General
Clay against charges of prejudice against settlers south of the
Green River in controversy over debts and militia service. The signers
are: James Barnett, J. Caldwell, Jesse Ford, Andrew Kennedy, Thomas
Kennedy, Asa R. Lewis, Hector P. Lewis, John May, J. Mercer, William
Morrison, John Porter, David Walker, Philemon Waters, and Robert
Wells.
CLAY, HENRY (1777-1852). 1836-1849. 15 items. McGregor Library,
Coles Collection, and gift of Clem D. Johnston. No. 2196.
Letter to John Harvie, introducing Richard D. Cutts, nephew of
Dolly Madison, 11 Feb. 1836. To Alexander Hamilton, regarding the
1838-1842, dealing with the duel between Jonathan Cilley of
Maine and William J. Graves of Kentucky, at Washington, 24 Feb.
1838, and Clay's supposed instigation of the affair, together with statements
by Reverdy Johnson and Charles King, 1842; ALS, William J.
Graves to Clay, 10 Feb. 1842. To David Gardner, 7 July 1840, replying
to an inquiry regarding Clay's views on South American relations and
referring Gardner to the Panama instructions of 1829. To Joel Poinsett,
Secretary of War, 25 Mar. 1840, regarding disposition of arms belonging
to the State of Kentucky which had been taken by the general
government; to Richard Henry Wilde, concerning a law suit, 21 June
1847. To O. T. Keller, regarding a proposed bankruptcy law, 19 July
1841. Brief in Clay's hand, 1845, relating to the suit of Joseph Ray,
former consul at Pernambuco, Brazil, against the Brazilian government,
mentioning John C. Calhoum and Henry A. Wise, then U. S.
ambassador to Brazil. Photostat of letter of 30 June 1849 to M. B.
Stevenson, commenting on Thomas Hart Benton, Zachary Taylor, the
Whig Party in Ohio, and the "Loco-Focos". To George Stone, 15 May
1847, on the death of Clay's son at the battle of Buena Vista, Mexico.
COCKE, JOHN HARTWELL (1780-1866). 1810-1860. 182 items.
Deposit (restricted). No. 2433.
Papers added to the large collection of manuscripts of the co-founder
of the University of Virginia already on deposit in the library. For
earlier additions to the Cocke Manuscripts, see the twelfth and thirteenth
volumes of this Annual Report.
COCKE, PHILIP ST. GEORGE (1809-1861). 1847-1861. 67 items.
Deposit (restricted). Nos. 2280 and 2433.
Correspondence of General Cocke relating to the Virginia Agricultural
Society and to Confederate military operations; his military
despatch books, April-July, 1861; letter to Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard
suggesting placing of artillery at the Stone Bridge at Manassas, 14 July
1861; letters from Beauregard, Joseph C. Cabell, Robert E. Lee, and
William Cabell Rives.
CONWAY FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1806-1880. 3 items and 3 vols.
Gift of Miss Julia Conway Clark. No. 2485.
Records of lands and farms of the Conway family in Orange and
Madison counties, Va., including surveys of lands of Capt. Catlett
Catlett Conway, and his descendants, [F.] Conway, John Conway, and
Gibbon Conway, 1806-1880.
COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851). 1839-1842. 4 items. Gift
of Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 2587.
Author's draft of his article on Richard Somers (1778-1804), American
naval hero, together with the printed text as it appeared in
Graham's Magazine, October 1842; ALS, 11 November 1839, Cooper to
J. P. Ogden, regarding a libel suit against J. W. Watson; ALS, 6 September
1842, of Rufus Griswold to Robert Balmanno, presenting the
Cooper manuscript.
CORNWALLIS, CHARLES, LORD (1738-1805). 1780 Nov. 21. 1 AL
(incomplete). McGregor Library. No. 2517.
General Cornwallis commends his logistics chief, Lt. Col. Nisbet
Balfour (1743-1823), commandant at Charleston, S. C., for his work
in expediting the flow of supplies from the Carolina coast to the British
armies in the field, mentioning Col. Banastre Tarleton, ". . . where
Tarleton is things will go well."
COVES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 1747-1909. 1 typescript. Gift
of John Grey. No. 2657.
Historical sketch of the Coves Church, Coversville, Albemarle County,
Va., with material on early Presbyterian pastors and assemblies in the
county, and lists of the various pastors and elders of the Coves Church
from its beginnings until 1909.
COX, E. M. 1862-1863. 1 vol. Deposit. No. 2223.
Memorandum book of E. M. Cox, Co. D, 1st Regiment, containing
diary entries, 1862 Jan. 14, Feb. 18, regarding military movements from
Richmond to Nag's Head, N. C.; bombardment and capture of Roanoke
Island; capture and release; expenses of trip from Petersburg to
Waynesboro, Va., 1863.
COX, JOHN. 1792 April 12. 1 ALS. Coles Collection. No. 2297.
To Jonathan Drayton, referring to a tailor's bill. Cox was a resident
of Alexandria and Georgetown during the late 18th century, and a
colonel in the Continental Army.
CRENSHAW, LEWIS DABNEY (1884-1947). 1917-1936. 2000 items.
Gift of Mrs. Lewis D. Crenshaw. No. 2681.
World War I records of University of Virginia Alumni: correspondence,
pictures, card files, and service records assembled by Mr. Crenshaw
as head of the University's European Bureau in Paris, 1917-1919;
as director of the Veterans Association, 1932-1936, in planning a history
of the University at war; and in corresponding with Dr. William Goodwin,
Adolph S. Ochs, Jr., Ernest R. Schoen, and others, regarding a
veterans' reunion; together with a "University Calendar" for 1919, containing
autographed messages from University and Charlottesville
friends at Christmas, 1918.
CRENSHAW, WILLIAM G. 1847-1910. 2000 items. Gift of Lewis D.
Crenshaw. No. 2198.
Manuscripts, account books, farm records, weather books, inventories,
and ration accounts of Hawfield Farm, Orange County, Va.
CROFT, SIR HERBERT (1751-1816). 1794-1814. 5 items. Deposit.
No. 2477.
Correspondence and manuscripts of the British author and critic,
regarding his capture by the French during the Napoleonic Wars, with
a letter from Paris to Lord Castlereagh regarding preliminaries to the
Congress of Vienna.
CURRENCY. 1775-1776. 3 items. Deposit and gift. Nos. 2342 and 2346.
Twenty-shilling note, issued by the Colony of Virginia in accordance
with ordinance of 17 July 1775; eight-pound note issued 1 Sept. 1775
by the Virginia James River Bank, both signed by Robert Carter
Nicholas, treasurer of Virginia. Gift of Mrs. James Etheridge: Note for
eight dollars in Spanish currency, Virginia, 1776.
CURTIS, GEORGE WILLIAM (1824-1892). 1881 Nov. 27. 1 ALS. Gift
of Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 2587.
To W. J. Bacon, acknowledging receipt of Bacon's address on the
Continental Congress, and commenting on the work of the Oneida
Historical Society.
CUSTIS, MARY LEE. Ca. 1830. 1 vol. Coles Collection. No. 2584.
Copy book kept by Mary Lee Custis (1788-1853) of Arlington (daughter
of William Fitzhugh of Chatham, wife of George Washington
popular poems of the early nineteenth century, especially those of Mrs.
Felicia ("Casabianca") Hemans.
DABNEY, RICHARD HEATH (1860-1947). 1858(1895)-1936. 2000
items. Gift of Mrs. Dabney. No. 2533.
Correspondence and miscellaneous manuscripts and records of his
long educational career, chiefly covering his studies at the University
of Heidelberg, 1882-1885; his professorship of history at the University
of Virginia, 1889-1936, and his work as the University's first Dean of
Graduate Studies; his travels, especially in Europe. A small group of
papers, 1858-1865, of Eugene Davis, are included; for others see the
Davis Family Manuscripts, separately entered. Professor Dabney's gift
of his extensive personal correspondence with Woodrow Wilson was
reported in the ninth volume of this Annual Report.
DANIEL, JOHN WARWICK (1842-1910). 1859-1899. 3 items. Deposit,
and gift of William M. E. Rachal. Nos. 2604 and 2662.
ALS to James H. Langhorne, describing life at Gessner Harrison's
school at Locust Grove Academy, Albemarle County, in 1859; excerpt
from a letter of Langhorne referring to Daniel as a brother officer at
Harper's Ferry in June 1861; ALS to C. S. Hutter, 1899, regarding an
Army commission for Francis Wharton Griffin. These supplement the
Daniel Papers previously acquired; see especially the seventh, eighth,
and ninth volumes of this Annual Report.
DARDEN, COLGATE WHITEHEAD, JR. 1947 May 17. 1 item.
Gift of Randolph Bean and Martin B. Hiden, Jr. No. 2679.
Transcript (phonograph record) of a student radio interview with
the President-elect of the University of Virginia on plans and policies.
DAVIS, JEFFERSON (1808-1889). 1853-1870. 3 items. Gift and deposit.
Nos. 2413, 2454, and 2698.
ALS, 4 Oct. 1853, to Commodore Charles Stewart, regarding the warship,
St. Marys; ALS, 15 June 1870, commending Col. William Norris,
former chief of the Confederate Signal Corps, and recommending him
as military advisor to the Khedive of Egypt. Gift of Miss Texie P.
Watts: facsimile of Davis' bail bond, 13 May 1867, signed by Horace
Greeley and others.
DAVIS, JOHN STAIGE (1824-1885). 1863 Sept. 22. 1 ALS. Gift.
No. 2289.
To Surgeon J. E. Chancellor regarding prescription records at the
Confederate General Hospital, Charlottesville, Va.
DAVIS, NOAH KNOWLES (1830-1910). 1876-1886. 7 items and 4 vols.
Gift of Collins Denny, Jr., and Valentine Davenport Denny. No. 2672.
Lecture notes of Collins Denny, student under Davis at the University
of Virginia, 1876-1877, and later a bishop in the Methodist
Church; lecture notes by Charles Whittlesey; other materials include
drafts of essays by Davis on psychology and the history of philosophy,
and a letter to Harper Brothers, 1879, regarding publication of his
works.
DAVIS MANUSCRIPTS. 1818(1837-1888)1928. 300 items. Gift of
Mrs. John S. White. No. 2483.
Correspondence and other papers of John A. G. Davis, Eugene Davis,
and James M. M. Davis, of Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Va.,
mostly letters to Eugene Davis, Confederate Army sergeant, from his
family and from Northern relatives and friends during the Civil War.
Includes material on the Confederate military hospital at Charlottesville;
Turner Ashby's funeral; and religious life of the Confederate
soldier; monetary inflation; the Albemarle Relief Association (for
needy Confederate veterans); Reconstruction; and genealogical data on
the Davis, Minor, Overton, Terrell, and Watts families. Principal correspondents
are Lucy Minor Davis, James M. M. Davis, M. T. Davis,
James Minor, and Robert Saunders.
DEALE, THEOPHILUS N. 1862-1864. 10 ALS. Deposit. No. 2664.
From a Confederate soldier to his parents, describing war and camp
experiences during the Valley campaign of 1862, and prison life at
Port Lookout, Md., where Deale died in November, 1864.
DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN (1859-1930). 1894 May 6. 1 ALS. Gift of
Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 2587.
The creator of Sherlock Holmes thanks an unidentified friend for
reminding him to attend the annual Edinburgh University Dinner.
DULANEY MEMORIAL LIBRARY. 1937-1942. 5 vols. Gift of University
of Virginia Y. M. C. A. No. 2647.
Account books and ledgers of the textbook lending library and cooperative
bookstore established in memory of Thomas Carter Dulaney,
University of Virginia student who died in 1924.
DUNMORE, JOHN MURRAY, EARL OF (1732-1809). 1773 June 15.
1 DS. Gift of Public Library, Ypsilanti, Michigan, through Mrs. Atwood
B. McAndrews. No. 2393.
Land grant to Roger Atkinson for one-half acre in the town of Blandford
[now Petersburg], Prince George County, Va.
EDISON, THOMAS ALVA (1847-1931). 1911 Nov. 2. 1 LS. Gift of
Robert M. Jeffress. No. 2656.
To Henry Holladay, in regard to a proposed contract.
EDWARDS, AMORY. 1856 Aug. 27. 1 ALS. Deposit (restricted).
No. 2220.
To Dr. George L. Brent, giving directions on the location of buried
treasure off the Argentine coast.
ELI BANANA SOCIETY. 1886-1914. 350 items and 1 vol. Deposit and
gift. Nos. 2473 and 2653.
Archives of this University of Virginia society, 1894-1914, including
correspondence, membership lists, constitution, petitions to the faculty,
and records of the reunion of 1913. Gift of Mrs. Robert C. Taylor:
photograph of members, ca. 1886, James Harrison, Robert Coleman
Taylor, and others.
ELLIS-MUNFORD MANUSCRIPTS. 1789(1820-1882)1940. 350 items.
Deposit. No. 2516.
Manuscripts of the Ellis and Munford families of Richmond, Va.,
and the Young family of Fredericksburg, Va. Mercantile correspondence
of James Young with George Murray & Co., of Norfolk, and with
Murray, Grinnan & Co., of Fredericksburg, 1803-1805; transcripts of
letters of John Allan of Richmond to his business partner, William
Ellis, discussing Allan's foster son, Edgar Allan Poe, 1817-1825; correspondence
of William Munford and his son, John D. Munford, with
English and American publishers seeking publication of William's
translation of the Iliad, 1822-1846; letters of Powhatan and Charles
Ellis from England in 1850-1851; materials on operations of the 2nd
T. Munford; transcripts of letters of George Wythe Munford to his
son Thomas Munford, 1867-1882, made by Charles Talbott from the
originals, now at Duke University; materials on George Wythe Munford's
campaign for governor of Virginia, 1863; letters of Edward
Everett, John Pegram, William C. Preston, William Cabell Rives,
Thomas Ritchie, and Henry A. Wise.
EMMERSON, LOUISA (1819-1907). 1 vol. Gift of John H. Emmerson,
Jr. No. 2267.
Sketches of Portsmouth, Va., in the nineteenth century. A typescript
volume, indexed and illustrated by John H. Emmerson, Jr., containing
biographical accounts of the Rev. Arthur Emmerson (1743-1801),
Captain Arthur Emmerson (1778-1842), his wife, Mary Ann (Herbert)
Emmerson and their children, Louisa and John; descriptions of the
fire of 1821, the yellow fever epidemic of 1855, old houses and churches
of Portsmouth and Norfolk County, trips to New York (1853), the
Eastern Shore of Virginia (1847), and to Natural Bridge, Weyer's Cave,
the Peaks of Otter and White Sulphur Springs.
FAIRFAX, GEORGE WASHINGTON. 1780 May 8. 1 ALS. Deposit.
No. 2384.
From Bath, to John Boylston, Ludgate Hill, London, regarding business
and social affairs.
FAULKNER PAPERS. 1829(1860)-1929. 3000 items. Deposit. No. 2524.
Official, personal, and business correspondence of Charles James
Faulkner (1806-1884), congressman, diplomat, and soldier of Martinsburg,
Va. (now West Va.), and his son Charles James Faulkner, Jr.
(1847-1929), United States Senator from West Virginia, 1887-1889,
railroad lobbyist, and attorney of Martinsburg. The portion of the
papers dealing with the elder Faulkner include legal and business letters
and documents, personal letters, and his official correspondence
as United States minister to France, 1860-1861; also letters to Lewis
Cass, William Seward, and Jeremiah Black (1810-1883), Attorney General
and Secretary of State under Buchanan. The largest group of
papers deals with the business affairs of the younger Faulkner, with
emphasis on his activities as counsel for the following railroad companies,
during the period 1905-1917: Atlanta and West Point; Atlantic
Coast Line; Baltimore and Ohio; Central of Georgia; Chicago, Burlington
Hudson; Erie; Illinois Central; Louisville and Nashville; Missouri
Pacific; Mobile and Ohio; New Haven and Hartford; New York Central;
Norfolk and Western; Pennsylvania; Richmond, Fredericksburg,
and Potomac; Rock Island; Southern; Southern Pacific; Union Pacific.
This section also includes material on the Adamson Bill; Elkins Bill;
Hepburn Bill; Interstate Commerce Commission; Bureau of Railway
Economics; American Railway Association; and the Special Committee
on Relation of Railway Operation to Legislation; as well as letters
from C. J. Faulkner, Jr., to Judson Clements (1846-1917), congressman,
judge, chairman of I. C. C.; Stephen Benton Elkins (1841-1911), United
States Senator from West Virginia, 1895-1911; Stuyvesant Fish (18511923),
railway executive and banker; Fitzhugh Lee; Henry Cabot
Lodge; and William Collins Whitney (1841-1904), financier and Secretary
of the Navy.
FAWCETT, JOSEPH. 1840. 1 vol. Coles Collection. No. 2372.
Journal of a trip from Wheeling, Va., down the Ohio and Mississippi
to New Orleans, and from New Orleans by sail to Boston. Ports along
the rivers are described in interesting detail, as is a ten-day visit in
New Orleans. There is a full account of the voyage to Boston; and the
journal closes abruptly at the end of the railroad trip from Boston to
Philadelphia.
FISHBURNE, CLEMENT DANIEL. 1827-1926. 3 items and 2 vols.
Deposit. No. 2341.
Memoirs of C. D. Fishburne, containing Fishburne family history
and Fishburne's own boyhood in Albemarle County, Va.; student life
at Washington College; professorship at Davidson College, N. C.;
student life at the University of Virginia; war experiences with the
Army of Northern Virginia; post-war life and law practice in Charlottesville.
The memoir is continued in a third volume (location unknown).
Also two letters from Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson, 25 May and 8 June
1857, and one from Gen. D. H. Hill, 12 Dec. 1854.
FISKE, MINNIE MADDERN. 1921 and 1929. 2 items. Gift of Robert
M. Jeffress. No. 2656.
Letters to Robert M. Jeffress from the actress and her husband,
Harrison Grey Fiske, regarding use of the Fiskes' summer camp.
FLYNN, JOHN. 1946. 2 vols. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Flynn. Nos. 2207
and 2545.
Scenario of screenplay, "Pursued", by Niven Busch, in which Mr.
Flynn had a role; radio script of Sidney Howard's "Yellow Jack" as
presented by the Theatre Guild of the Air.
FOY, CAPTAIN NATHANIEL. 1 ALS. 1774 Mar. 2. McGregor Library.
No. 2290.
To Edward Hand of Pennsylvania, then an officer in the Royal Irish
Regiment, outlining Lord Dunmore's land policy, and procedure for
acquiring a land grant in Virginia. Foy, a British Army officer, was
Dunmore's secretary.
FRANKLIN COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1790-(1820)1890. 30 items. Deposit.
No. 2471.
Mainly business papers of John Hook of Franklin County and his
brother, Robert (1790-1820); several letters and accounts of William
Holland.
FREEDMEN'S LABOR CONTRACTS. 1865-1867. 2 ADS. Deposit.
No. 2602.
Contracts made by George C. Hannah, of Charlotte County, Va.,
with his former slaves, 31 December 1865 and 1 January 1867, engaging
their labor for the years 1866 and 1867.
GAINES, ROBERT H. 1871-1880. 1 vol. Microfilm. Gift of Hunter
Marshall Gaines. No. 2425.
Farm journal kept at Roxabel, Charlotte County, Va.
GALSWORTHY, JOHN (1867-1933). 1907-1918. 10 ALS. Gift of
Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 2587.
Correspondence with his literary agent, F. Whelan, concerning the
stage production of Strife, The Eldest Son, The Silver Box, and other
plays.
GARNETT, MUSCOE RUSSELL HUNTER (1821-1864). 1842 July 4.
1 item. Gift of Mrs. J. Clayton Mitchell. No. 2434.
Diploma issued to Garnett by the University of Virginia. For descriptions
of the Garnett Library and the Hunter and Garnett family manuscripts,
see the eighth, tenth, eleventh, and fourteenth volumes of the
Annual Report.
GILLIAM FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1830-1890. 2000 items. Coles
Collection. No. 2608.
Papers of William Gilliam and his son, John W. Gilliam, of Dinwiddie
County, Va., mostly concerning business affairs, and including
tax receipts; deeds; land transactions; various legal papers; household
and clothing bills; a small but interesting group of letters and broadsides
pertaining to the Readjustor party; and material on slavery.
Source material for economic and social history of Dinwiddie, Lunenburg,
and Brunswick counties, and Petersburg, Va.
GIST, CHRISTOPHER (1706-1757). 1 vol. Gift of Luther F. Addington.
No. 2422.
"Virginia's Frontier Trail Blazer, or The Great Scout", biographical
sketch, 196 typescript pages, by Luther F. Addington, 1945.
GORDON, ARMISTEAD CHURCHILL (1855-1931). 1925-1928. 3
items. Gift of Miss Anna Barringer. No. 2429.
2 ALS to Dr. Paul B. Barringer regarding poetry and sketches; manuscript
of his poem, "Virginia to England, (August 3, 1914)".
GRAVEL HILL MANUSCRIPTS. 1804-1888. 1500 items. Deposit.
No. 2320.
Farm and store accounts of the Hannah family of Gravel Hill, Charlotte
County, Va. The manuscripts include: material on tobacco; blacksmith
records; farm products, fertilizer; insurance; household bills;
physicians' account books; and printed matter, mostly agricultural publications.
The collection is valuable for a detailed picture of farming
operations and country life.
GREELEY, HORACE (1811-1872). 1864 January 6. 1 ALS. Coles
Collection. No. 2355.
To William R. Prince, recalling [Thurlow] Weed's part in the defeat
of Henry Clay, and the nomination of Zachary Taylor as the Whig
Presidential candidate in 1848.
GRIFFITH, DAVID. 1770-1778. 4 photostats. Gift of Llewellyn G.
Hoxton. No. 2554.
Ordination papers of David Griffith as deacon and priest of the
Church of England, with seal of the Bishop of London, 19 and 24 Sept.
1770; note, General Cornwallis to his aide, A. Ross, regarding a safe-conduct
for Mr. Griffith, surgeon in Washington's army, who was providing
Griffith, regarding the above and an order of lemons for the ill soldiers.
GRINNAN FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1709(1795-1820)1930. 530
items. Gift of St. George Tucker Grinnan and Miss Nina Grinnan.
Nos. 2321 and 2390.
Consists mostly of mercantile correspondence and papers of Daniel
Grinnan and John Mundell, of Murray, Grinnan and Mundell, flour
merchants of Fredericksburg, Va., 1795-1820, including letters from
George Murray, merchant of Norfolk, and merchants in Richmond;
Alexandria; New York; Kingston, Jamaica; Liverpool; and Glasgow-Genealogical
data on the Carr, Grinnan, Holladay, Lewis, Nicholas,
and Randolph families. Miscellaneous letters and documents of John
Randolph Bryan, James Buchanan, Richard Chapman, John Coalter,
Andrew Glassell Grinnan, Cornelia Grinnan, Georgia Bryan Grinnan,
William Waller Hening, Herbert Hoover, Robert Edward Lee, Matthew
Fontaine Maury, Hugh Mercer, Thomas Nelson, John Randolph
of Roanoke, Thomas Mann Randolph, John Tyler, Col. Lewis Willis,
and Henry A. Wise. For earlier installments of this large collection,
see the seventh, eighth, thirteenth and fifteenth volumes of this Annual
Report.
HALLECK, FITZ-GREENE (1790-1867). 1858-1863. 2 items. Gift of
Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 2587.
Poem, beginning "He hath been mourned as brave men mourn the
brave", 4 October 1858, and note of acknowledgement to George McLaughlin,
31 December 1863.
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804). 1791-1793. 2 items. Deposit,
and gift of Clem D. Johnston. Nos. 222 and 2586.
To William Webb, of Massachusetts, regarding unlicensed trading
vessels, 10 June 1791; 13 Nov. 1793 (photostat) to Governor Henry
Lee, concerning balances owed by Virginia to the United States
Treasury.
HANDY-CRAIGHILL POSTCARD COLLECTION. 18,000 items.
Deposit. No. 2663.
Postcards and photographs (with 51 travel guides) of various parts
of the world, especially the Far East, assembled as a nucleus of a "Far
Places Collection".
HARRISON, GESSNER (1807-1862), 1 item. Gift of Mrs. W. H. Echols.
No. 2208.
Biographical sketch of Gessner Harrison, professor of Ancient Languages
at the University of Virginia, 1828-1859, anonymous, ca. 1890.
HARRISON-SMITH-KENT MANUSCRIPTS. 1810 (1850-1880) 1920.
1,000 items. Gift of Mrs. Edward Gamble. Nos. 2470 and 2589.
Material pertaining to the history of the University of Virginia as
reflected in the papers of three closely related faculty families; chiefly
correspondence and other papers of Professors Gessner Harrison (18071862),
Francis Henry Smith (1829-1926) and Charles William Kent
(1860-1917). Includes correspondence of the Harrison, Smith, and Kent
families, especially D. G. Smith, J. Howard Smith, Summerfield Smith,
and George W. Green; Francis H. Smith's notebooks in chemistry and
physics; Charles W. Kent's correspondence with George W. Cable, John
Fox, Jr., and other literary figures.
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Ca. 1920. 1 vol. Microfilm. Deposit. No. 2226.
Notebook on Hawaiian legends and folklore, in Hawaiian with English
translation.
HAXALL FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1868-1881. 1800 items. Gift of
Mrs. James M. Ball. No. 2548.
Letters, legal papers, and business accounts of the Haxall family of
Richmond and Gordonsville, Va.; correspondence of R. B. Haxall of
Gordonsville, Va., with his son, Philip Haxall of Richmond, Va., pertaining
to farming, loans, bonds, horses, wheat, flour, and operations
of the Haxall-Crenshaw Co., Haxall Mills, Va.
HAYNE, PAUL HAMILTON (1830-1886). 1885 Mar. 30. 1 Holograph.
Gift of Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 2587.
Author's draft of poem, "The Broken Battalions", 5 pp., composed
at Copse Hill, South Carolina.
HERNDON, BRODIE STRACHAN (1810-1886). 1847-1886. 7 vols.
Deposit. No. 2563.
Diary of Dr. Brodie Strachan Herndon of Fredericksburg, Va., in six
volumes, with a typescript index, and a commentary on Herndon family
genealogy, by John Waterhouse Herndon of Charlottesville, Va. Diaries
include accounts of Herndon's medical practice in Fredericksburg before
service, and a visit to relatives in Scotland in 1878.
HERNDON COLLECTION. 1724-1840. 2,000 items. Gift and deposit
of John Waterhouse Herndon. Nos. 2593, 2597, and 2642.
Pictures, clippings, notes, and other records on the history and architecture
of Alexandria, Va., and especially Christ Church; some similar
material for Tarrytown and West Point, N. Y.; Philadelphia; Gettysburg;
Jamestown; Newport News; and Richmond. Extensive genealogies
on "The Hansbrough Family" and "The Herndon Family",
compiled by Mr. Herndon, together with family Bible records and
other source material on these and on the Waterhouse family. Many
single items, such as a broadside reporting President Garfield's death,
and an ALS, 18 Jan. 1864, of Gen. Dabney Herndon Maury to Gen.
Edward Higgins on the defenses of Mobile and Confederate intelligence
service.
HINSDALE COLLECTION. 1915-1945. 17 items. Microfilm. Gift of
Guy Hinsdale. No. 2452.
Letters of acknowledgment to Doctor Hinsdale from Herbert Hoover,
Charles Evans Hughes, Cordell Hull, John J. Pershing, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Booth Tarkington, John Wanamaker, and Woodrow
Wilson.
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL (1809-1894). 1885. 1 Holograph. Gift
of Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 2587.
Author's draft of poem, "The Flower of Liberty", Boston, 24 Mar.
1885.
HORNER ACCOUNT BOOKS. 1789-90 and 1838-41. 2 vols. Coles
Collection. No. 2319.
Store journal kept by William Horner, merchant of Fauquier Court
House (now Warrenton, Va.); later merchandise ledger kept by Benjamin
Horner, of the same place, with index. Supplements Horner
manuscripts reported in the Ninth Annual Report.
HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN (1837-1920). 1869-1891. 2 Holographs.
Gift of Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 2587.
Author's draft of poem, "Presentiments", written at Cambridge, 1869,
and essay, "The Editor's Study", 60 pp., 2 November 1891.
HUMPHREYS, MILTON WYLIE (1844-1928). 5 vols. Gift of William
J. Humphreys.
Autobiography (typescript) of the great classical scholar, including
genealogical notes, childhood in Greenbrier County, Va., education at
Washington College before and after the Civil War, graduate study in
Germany and travels in Europe, service in the Confederate Artillery
under Gen. Jubal A. Early, and teaching career in Washington College,
Vanderbilt University, the University of Texas, and the University of
Virginia. For descriptions of his Confederate War Diary and a group
of autobiographical letters, 1915-1919, see the thirteenth volume of
this Annual Report.
HUTTER COLLECTION. 1300-1900. 2,000 items. Deposit. No. 2604.
Historical and literary manuscripts, British and American, chiefly
pertaining to Virginia. Notable groups are briefly described in this
report under the following headings: Placidia Adams, Albemarle
County, Autographs, Philip P. Barbour, Booker family, Sir Herbert
Croft, Hutter family, Thomas Jefferson, the Earl of Kent, the Marquis
de Lafayette, La Villebeuve family, Philip Mazzei, Napoleonic Wars,
Francis Nicholson, Micajah Perry, Beverley Randolph, Thomas Mann
Randolph, St. Stephens Church, Samuel Francis Smith, United States
Post Office, and Herbert George Wells.
HUTTER FAMILY. 1830-1838. 2 ALS. Deposit. No. 2347.
Letter, Christian J. Hutter to his son, E. Sixtus Hutter, Mount Airy
College, Germantown, Pa., 11 Dec. 1830; George C. Hutter to brother,
"Passed Midshipman" E. S. Hutter, regarding Army matters, and removal
of the Creek Indians, written from camp on Appalachicola,
22 Nov. 1838.
IRBY FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1804(1848)-1878. 75 items and 4 vols.
Deposit. No. 2665.
Letters, business papers, and farm records of William B. Irby, of
Nottoway County, Va., and correspondence of John William Irby,
1848-1878, with material on social and economic conditions, farming
methods, and the slave system. Included in the deposit are a group of
business papers of Dr. Sterling Neblett of Lunenburg County, Va.,
later a cotton planter in Bolivar, Mississippi, with material on land
patenting in the Mississippi delta, 1835-1861; two pocket diaries of
Norman M. Neblett, one kept during the Civil War, 1861, the other
cotton planter during Reconstruction, 1867. The Irby manuscripts
supplement previous deposits, chiefly papers of Richard Irby. See the
eleventh and twelfth volumes of the Annual Report.
IRISH CREEK SCHOOL. 1912-1920. 33 items. Gift of Joseph D.
Eggleston. No. 2699.
Sketches, reminiscences, and pictures of the school and its founder,
Sally Bruce Dickenson, and of the Irish Creek community in Rockbridge
County, Va. Authors of sketches: Ethel Brown, Herbert V.
Carson, Mrs. T. Wharey Daniel, Joseph D. Eggleston, Mrs. George H.
Rector, and T. S. Settle.
IRVING, WASHINGTON (1783-1859). 1857. 3 items. Gift of Clifton
Waller Barrett. No. 2587.
Two ALS of 2 June and 12 September 1857 to Charles A. Davy, concerning
Davy's ballad, "The Royal Yacht Club", together with a broadside
printing of the ballad.
JAY, JOHN (1745-1829). 1795 Feb. 5. 1 ALS. Coles Collection. No.
2196.
To James Monroe, commenting on American relations with England,
and the effect of Jay's treaty on Franco-American relations.
JEFFERSON, RANDOLPH (1755-1815). 1796 Aug. 31. 1 ALS. Photostat.
Coles Collection. No. 2204.
To Peter D. Bernard from Jefferson's younger brother, relative to a
suit over land titles; original privately owned.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1774-1820. 10 items and 1 vol.
McGregor Library. No. 2288.
Volume containing extracts in Jefferson's hand (ca. 1774?) of proceedings
of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1651-1652, from original
records subsequently destroyed; 1788 Feb. 2, ALS to John Rutledge, Jr.,
from Paris, discussing the Warren Hastings trial, the adoption of the
Constitution of the United States, and the superiority of American institutions
and viewpoints; 1790 Jan. 25, ALS to the Governor of New
York [George Clinton], enclosing the Judiciary Act for Rhode Island;
1796 Oct. 2 and Dec. 4, two ALS to Josiah Donath regarding window
glass for Monticello; 1809 Feb. 28, ALS to Dr. James Wallace of Fauquier
29, ALS to Gibson & Jefferson, Richmond merchants, regarding the
settlement of accounts in New York and Philadelphia; 1812 Oct. 18,
ALS to Peter Minor, arranging for the purchase of a work horse; 1813
Dec. 28, ALS to Charles Clay concerning the visit of a Mr. Forbes, a
salesman of wool and cotton carding machines; 1819 Nov. 7, ALS to
Return Jonathan Meigs, Postmaster General of the United States, recommending
Thomas Eston Randolph for the postmastership of Richmond,
Va., saying that his neighbor, the President (James Monroe),
will also vouch for Randolph; 1820 Oct. 21, a list in Jefferson's hand
of books on the Anglo-Saxon language.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1776-1826. 74 items and 1 vol.
Deposits. No. 2288.
Jefferson's index of his account book for 1776-1778; 1790 Apr. 6,
LS to William Short on the French debt, the Leyden Gazette, and a
shipment of rifles; 1799 Oct. 1, ADS, an indenture with Craven Peyton
for the lease of the Shadwell farm, Albemarle County, Va., specifying
methods of crop rotation; 1801 June 10, DS, clearance papers for the
sloop Maria, of New York, in English, French, Spanish, and Dutch;
1802 July 2, ALS to Maria Eppes on personal matters and the epidemic
of measles at Edgehill; 1820 Mar. 12, ALS to John Vaughan of Philadelphia
regarding the salary to be paid to Dr. Thomas Cooper as a professor
at the University of Virginia; 1824 June 24, ALS to Stephen T.
Mitchell, Lynchburg, regarding newspaper subscriptions; undated
"Prognosis of the Weather" in Jefferson's hand, showing his methods
for weather forecasting; 1825 Mar. 9, ALS to George Tucker regarding
his appointment to the professorship of moral philosophy in the University
of Virginia; 66 manuscripts from the papers of Mary Stuart
Harrison Smith, including copies of 62 Jefferson letters, 1793-1825,
made by George Tucker when preparing his biography of Jefferson,
1835-1837; Jefferson's copy of Blackstone's Commentaries, Philadelphia,
1771, with Jefferson's signature and marked passages; undated notes
by William H. Faulkner on the Leipzig (1788) edition of Jefferson's
Notes on Virginia.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1784-1826. 4 items. Coles Collection.
No. 2288.
Two pages from the daybook, ca. 1784, of an Annapolis merchant
(probably John Davidson), showing purchases by Jefferson and by
which engravings of President Jefferson were struck by David Edevin,
Robert Field, Thomas Gimbrede, Thomas Knight, Fevret St. Mémin,
Edward Savage, Gen. Michael Sokolniki, and Cornelius Tiebout, representing
portraits by themselves and by Gen. Thaddeus Kosciuszko,
Rembrandt Peale, and Gilbert Stuart; 1806 Apr. 11, contemporary copy
of President Jefferson's address to chiefs of the Osage, Missouri, Sioux,
Kansas, and other Indian tribes, visiting the Great White Father in
Washington; 1812 June 10, DS, an order to [James] Leitch, Charlottesville,
Va., merchant, for blue nankeen and trimmings for a coat, a hair
broom, and a cake of wax; contemporary broadside printing of Jefferson's
last letter, 1826 June 24, to Roger C. Weightman, Mayor of
Washington, D. C., declining an invitation to an Independence Day
celebration.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). [1790 and 1826]. 2 items. Gift
of William S. Hildreth. No. 2260.
A list in Jefferson's hand, on two large folio pages, of his principal
tracts of land to the year 1790, numbering the tracts by letter from A
to N, and sketching the history of the patents and conveyances of Monticello,
Shadwell, Portobello, the Natural Bridge property, Pounceys, and
other lands inherited and purchased, chiefly in Richmond and in Albemarle
and Rockbridge counties; a list of slaves, farm animals, and implements
at Monticello, prepared by Nicholas Trist in connection with
the settlement of Jefferson's estate.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1817 and 1819. 2 ALS. Gift of
Linwood Lehman. No. 2573.
Jefferson's master copy of his letter of 4 Aug. 1817 to James Pleasants,
John Wayles Eppes, William Branch Giles, Thomas Newton, William
A. Burwell, Archibald Thweatt, and Randolph Harrison, soliciting
their support of Central College, subsequently the University of Virginia;
letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, explaining his duties and privileges
as a member of the University of Virginia faculty, written 10 Nov.
1819 before Presbyterian opposition forced Jefferson to forego having
Cooper as the "Cornerstone" of the institution.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1822 Jan. 19. 1 ALS. Gift of
Miss Louise Savage. No. 2509.
Order on Mr. [James] Leitch, Charlottesville, Va., merchant, for a
sifter and ten pounds of rice for Monticello.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826) Transcripts. 1769-1826. 428 items.
Gifts, deposit, and the Coles Collection. No. 2225.
The University's own collection of some 2,000 original manuscripts
of Jefferson is supplemented by a very extensive collection of transcripts,
including photographic copies of the great Jefferson collections
at the Library of Congress and the Massachusetts Historical Society, as
well as photostats and microfilm from many of the lesser repositories of
Jefferson's papers, and from hundreds of private owners of individual
manuscripts. The conspicious gap in our transcripts collections is the
great body of material at the National Archives which is now being
filmed for the use of Dr. Julian P. Boyd and his associates in the editing
of Jefferson's writings.
For students of Jefferson and his times the University's most useful
tool is the Jefferson Checklist, a card file, chronologically arranged,
listing more than 50,000 Jefferson papers in print and in manuscript.
The Checklist was begun twelve years ago as a reference tool, and to
make possible a more complete publication of Jefferson's writings, a
project which was visualized as a cooperative one among the Jefferson
libraries, supported by Congress, to mark the Jefferson Bicentennial in
1943. World War II intervened. The generous support of the New
York Times has now revived the project, and the editorial work goes
forward at Princeton University, where no Jefferson manuscripts exist,
but where a collection of photostats even more extensive than our own
is being assembled. Through the cooperation of the Editor and his
associates, our Jefferson Checklist will be enlarged and made available
also at the Library of Congress and at Princeton.
Photostats recently received by this library come from the collections
of the American Embassy in Paris, Mrs. Alfred R. Berkeley, Jr., Newton
B. Drury, Wayne M. Hart, Robert G. Hopkins, the Henry E.
Huntington Library, Mrs. Gamble Latrobe, Jr., the Library of Congress,
Francis V. Lloyd, Arthur W. Machen, the Massachusetts Historical
Society, Mills Miller, Thomas D. Murphy, Dr. Mary Parmenter,
Mrs. Laird U. Park, the Polish Roman Catholic Union, Charles Porter
III, Garnett Ryland, and James B. Twyman.
Among the new photostats are an extensive group of architectural
drawings for Monticello, Poplar Forest, and the Virginia State Capitol;
portraits and cartoons of Jefferson; views of Monticello; scenes in Jefferson's
life; a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence and its
signatures; Joseph Boze's miniature of Martha Jefferson in the American
Embassay at Paris; a survey of Jefferson's lands in Albemarle
bill of sale, 1829, for the books from Jefferson's library purchased at the
Poor Sale, in Baltimore, by L. H. Machen; 1780 Sept. 1, grant by
Governor Jefferson to Martin Wetsell of land in Augusta County, Va.;
1795 Sept. 16, letter to Josiah Donath on window glass for Monticello;
1801 July 29, order by President Jefferson for certain changes in U. S.
revenue districts; 1801-1825, four letters to Gen. Henry Dearborn,
Jeremiah Goodman, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Gen. Samuel Smith;
1802 Jan. 1, letter to Levi Lincoln and the Danbury Baptist Church on
church and state relationships; 1802 June 22, letter to James Dinsmore
on carpentry work at Monticello; 1802 Dec. 11, letter to John W.
Eppes; 1803 Mar. 6, letter to Benjamin H. Latrobe; 1805 May 2, letter
to James Oldham on construction of Corinthian columns and doorways
at the University of Virginia; 1805 May 10, letter to Lafayette
regarding lands in Orleans Territory; 1807 June 9, patent to William
Phoebus for a "salivating device"; 1812-1818, six autograph letters and
documents on the harmful effect of banks, and efforts to relieve the
financial difficulties of the Polish soldier-patriot, Thaddeus Kosciuszko;
1816-1829, letters regarding the election of members to state political
conventions, from Samuel Kercheval's Mr. Jefferson's Letters on the
Subject of Conventions, 1829; 1820 June 22, letter to Robert Mills;
1824-1825, two letters to Charles and Lydia H. Sigourney, with a letter
of introduction from John Adams.
JOHNSON, JAMES GIBSON, COLLECTION. 1942-1945. 4 items.
Gift of Dr. Johnson. No. 2272.
Two broadsides and two typescripts regarding the role of the schools
in war and defense activities, added to the collection reported in the
fifteenth volume of this Annual Report.
JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1780-1850). 1827 March 10. 1 ALS.
Coles Collection. No. 2628.
To Richard Smith, requesting that he secure the approval of Governor
[James] Barbour for a draft for $1,000.
JOHNSON, ROBERT UNDERWOOD. 1915 Dec. 3. 1 ALS. Coles
Collection. No. 2296.
To a Mr. Stewart, regarding a dinner to be given by the Century
Association, mentioning Lawrence Abbot, Hibben Finley, Myron Herrick,
and Brand Whitlock.
JOHNSTON, JOSEPH EGGLESTON (1807-1891). 1858 Feb. 17. 1
ALS. Coles Collection. No. 2232.
To John B. Floyd, Secretary of War, recommending G. M. Plympton
for a commission, written when Johnston was a lieutenant-colonel in
the First Cavalry, U. S. Army.
JOHNSTON, MARY (1870-1936). Ca. 1935. 1 typescript. Deposit (restricted).
No. 2482.
Draft, 262 pp., of "A Far Country", an unfinished and unpublished
novel by Mary Johnston with a synopsis of the unwritten concluding
chapters.
JONES FAMILY OF FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA. 1790-1820.
53 items. Gift of Walter H. Buck. No. 2428.
Bills, receipts, and legal documents of Isaac and Thomas Jones, merchants;
legal documents of William True, John Spillman, and Henry
Lewis.
JOUETT, JACK (1764-1822). 1947 June 4. Gift of James G. Johnson.
No. 2694.
Address on Jouett and his descendants by Herbert H. Evans to the
Jack Jouett chapter of the D. A. R., Charlottesville, Va.
JUSSERAND, JEAN ADRIEN ANTOINE JULES (1855-1932). 1928
June 10. 1 ALS. Gift. No. 2649.
From the retiring Ambassador to President Alderman of the University
of Virginia describing furniture from the French Embassy for
the University's Romance Pavilion.
KASSON, JOHN ADAM (1822-1910). 1842-1843. 5 ALS. Gift of Miss
Eunice Wead and Frederick W. Wead. No. 2685.
To his brother, Charles D. Kasson, and his sister, Maria H. Kasson,
of Burlington, Vt., describing his life as a tutor for the Taliaferro
family at Hagley, near Fredericksburg, and the family of Isaac White
of Keelona, Albemarle County. Comments on social life and customs,
anti-abolitionist sentiment, farming methods, the pronunciation of
Monticello, contemporary politics, student and faculty life at the University
of Virginia, the Virginian habit of command and the sources of
Southern political greatness, as observed by an intelligent New Englander.
References to James Buchanan, Robert Hill Carter, John Coles,
George Tucker, and Martin Van Buren.
KEAN, JEFFERSON RANDOLPH. 1881-1935. 500 items. Gift of
General Kean. No. 2381.
Correspondence of General Kean with Gen. M. W. Ireland, Gen.
Leonard Wood, and Maj. Walter Reed; pamphlets, notes, and clippings
relative to the Army Medical Service, 1906-1923; personal papers and
correspondence, 1881-1933; miscellaneous cards, clippings, and souvenirs.
For other papers of General Kean, including material on the
National Jefferson Memorial, see the twelfth through the fifteenth volumes
of this Annual Report.
KELLER, HELEN. 1946 Feb. 21. 1 LS. Gift of George B. Zehmer.
No. 2277.
Appeal to Dean George B. Zehmer of the Extension Division of the
University of Virginia, on behalf of a Committee on the Deaf-Blind
of the American Foundation of the Blind.
KENT, CHARLES W. (1860-1917). 1900-1901. 1 vol. Deposit of Mrs.
Edward W. Gamble and Mrs. Leslie Buckler. No. 2258.
Manuscript notes on the poems of John Milton, made by Charles
W. Kent, professor of English Literature, University of Virginia, for
his English class, 1900-1901.
KENT, EARL OF. 1397. 1 item. Deposit. No. 2604.
Copy on vellum of the will of Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, 1397.
KIMBALL FAMILY. 1849-1863. 2 vols. Gift of Miss Lucy Kimball.
No. 2534.
Farm diary kept by a Mr. Kimball, near Mount Jackson, Va., and
continued by his wife during the Civil War period. Notes on farming
conditions, crop prices, social and church affairs, military movements,
etc., in the lower Shenandoah Valley. Mentions Gen. Thomas Jonathan
("Stonewall") Jackson. A scrapbook of Confederate newspaper clippings
on battles, Confederate generals, and patriotic poetry.
KINCAID, ELBERT ALVIS. 1935-1936. 350 items. Gift of Professor
Kincaid. No. 2690.
Correspondence and other papers of Professor Kincaid of the School
of Commerce of the University of Virginia as a member of the subcommittee
appointed by Governor George Peery in 1935 to make recommendations
for the banking legislation adopted in 1936.
KLIPSTEIN FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1823-1868. 55 items. Coles
Collection. No. 2234.
Chiefly correspondence of Dr. Philip Klipstein, physician, artist, inventor,
and politician of Fauquier County, Virginia, with material on
the Baptist Church, the Baltimore Colonization Society, Nullification
and national politics, Martin Van Buren, and William Henry Harrison,
and land development in Mississippi; correspondents include Thomas
Bell, of Culpeper, Va.; W. E. Bell, of Front Royal, Va.; Robert W.
Carter, of Richmond; Charles H. Hunton, of Front Royal, Va.; Louis
Klipstein, of Winchester; W. R. and William B. Klipstein, of Washington,
D. C.; Elijah Thornhill, of Caton, Mississippi; and John W.
Williams, of Washington, D. C.
KROGH, AUGUST. 1921 Jan. 21. 1 ALS. Gift of Alfred Chanutin.
No. 2678.
From the Danish Nobel Prize winner to Dean Theodore Hough of
the University of Virginia Medical School, on capillary pressure.
LAFAYETTE, MARQUIS DE. 1827 Nov. 21. 1 ALS. Deposit. No.
2384.
To a Mrs. Douglas, from La Grange regarding electioneering for
deputy in France, which resulted in Lafayette's election as the deputy
from Meaux; and his opinion of the electoral college in France.
LAND GRANT, WEST FLORIDA. 1842 June 9. 1 ADS. Photostat.
Coles Collection. No. 2703.
Patent, signed by John Tyler, confirming the claim of Colin Mitchell
and others to 1,427,289 acres in West Florida between the St. Marks
and Appalachicola Rivers, comprising grants by the Spanish government
to Panton, Leslie, and Co., in 1804 and 1806, and to John Forbes
and Co., in 1811. The patent contains a history of the original grants
and of the litigation arising out of it, involving the validity of the
original Spanish grants and Colin Mitchell's suits in the Florida territorial
courts and the Supreme Court of the United States. Includes
two maps of the lands.
LATIN AMERICAN TRADE RELATIONS. 1945 Nov. 23. 1 Typescript.
Gift of Dr. Charles Lyon Chandler. No. 2431.
Radio address in Portuguese by Dr. Chandler on trade relations between
Brazil and the United States, 1802-1875, with English translation.
LATIN ORATION. 1819 July 28. 1 item. Gift of Joseph William
Chinn, Jr. No. 2248.
Latin oration delivered by Joseph William Chinn, "with the approval
of the College" [of William and Mary?].
LAURENS TRANSCRIPTS. 1778-1780. 75 pieces. McGregor Library.
No. 2298.
Nineteenth century copies of public papers of Henry Laurens of
South Carolina during his service in the Continental Congress, with
many references to foreign and domestic loans, currency, credit, and
other financial problems; notes made by Laurens of correspondence of
Arthur Lee with the Committee for Foreign Affairs. Among many
persons mentioned are Robert Howe, Gouverneur Morris, Joseph Reed,
John Rutledge, John Sullivan, and William Wilkinson.
LA VILLEBEUVE FAMILY. 1843-1867. 36 items. Deposit. No. 2604.
Correspondence of the La Villebeuve family of New Orleans, in
French and English, chiefly between J. U. La Villebeuve of New
Orleans and his son, E. Farault La Villebeuve, a student at Mt. St.
Mary's Academy, Emmitsburg, Md., with material on social life in
New Orleans and student activities at Mt. St. Mary's; also accounts of
the son with French and English merchants during and after the Civil
War.
LEACH, SARAH GORDON. 1861-1872. 1 vol. Deposit. No. 2603.
Diary (and recipe book) describing social and religious life at
Hampden-Sydney College, in Farmville and in Cumberland County,
1861, and the impact of the Civil War on Southside Virginia, 1865.
Miss Leach's father, the Rev. James Henry Casden Leach, was the
Presbyterian minister at Hampden-Sydney.
LEBANON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 1824-1870. 6 vols. Gift of
Miss Emily W. Dinwiddie. No. 2625.
Session-book of the Lebanon and Mountain Plain Presbyterian
Church, near Greenwood, Albemarle County, Va., from 1824 to 1870,
containing lists of members; minutes of meetings of the Session, and
school library record, 1870-74; minutes of Lebanon Ladies Society,
1875-76; church account books, 1879-97, and 1906-1910; transcript of
"Proceedings of Hanover Presbytery, 1755-1786". For other material
on this Church, see the tenth volume of this Annual Report.
LEE, ARTHUR (1740-1792). 1777-1778. 2 ALS. McGregor Library.
No. 2281.
To Captain Cleveland regarding goods purchased in Amsterdam for
shipment to the Colonies, Paris, 6 April 1777; to an unnamed agent in
Amsterdam, regarding a proposed Dutch loan of a million pounds
sterling, Chaillot, 12 Nov. 1778.
LEE, HENRY (1756-1818). 1781-1798. 3 ALS. Coles Collection, deposit,
and gift of Clem D. Johnston. Nos. 2222, 2357, and 2384.
On military operations in South Carolina, 1781; inter-state action to
curb commerce with Philadelphia and the spread of yellow fever, 1793;
and personal finances, 1798; with mention of the Marquess of Hastings
and Mr. John [McMaster].
LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794). 1779 Aug. 12. 1 ALS. McGregor
Library. No. 2523.
To his brother, Arthur Lee (1740-1792), at Paris, on the Silas Deane
affair; also refers to Hezekiah Ford, Arthur Lee's secretary; the arrival
at Philadelphia of John Adams and the French minister, the Chevalier
de la Luzerne; and the affairs of William Lee, another brother in the
diplomatic service. Printed in Ballagh, II, 116; supplements the extensive
collection of papers of the Revolutionary Lees presented to the
University in 1825.
LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807-1870). 1865 July 28. 1 ALS. Gift of
Miss Betty Cocke. No. 2433.
To John B. Cocke acknowledging Cocke's care of his horse, and
mentioning the illness of Agnes Lee.
LEFEVRE, ALBERT (1873-1928). 1927-1930. 15 items. Gift of Albert
G. A. Balz. No. 2629.
Letters to and from Professor Balz regarding a portrait and memorial
book plate for Lefevre, Corcoran Professor of Philosophy, University of
Virginia, 1905-1928.
LEWIS, MERIWETHER (1774-1809). 1791-(1812)1901. 8 items. Gift
of John Bakeless. Nos. 2520 and 2580.
Typescript copies of manuscripts pertaining to Lewis and his family
in Albemarle County, Va., especially his mother, Mrs. Lucy Marks;
Benjamin Lewis; Reuben Lewis; John Marks; John Hastings Marks;
and Julia Hancock Clarke, wife of his associate, William Clarke; with
material on family lands in Kentucky, a journey to Kentucky in 1808,
and Lewis' death in Tennessee. A letter of Mrs. Sally Anderson, 1901,
to Eva Emory Dye, discusses Albemarle traditions about Lewis.
LEWIS, THOMAS. 1746-1750. 1 vol. and 1 ALS. Gift of Hanson S.
Lewis. No. 2300.
Journal of Lewis' expedition to survey the southwestern boundary
of the Fairfax grant of the Northern Neck of Virginia, from the headwaters
of the Rappahannock to the headwaters of the Potomac, commenting
on surveying problems and life in the wilderness, 10 Sept. 1746
to 15 Feb. 1747. ALS to [Col. Alexander Stewart] asking his assistance
in procuring servants in Ireland for Lewis and transporting them to
Virginia, 15 Nov. 1750.
LEWIS FAMILY. 1827-1828. 2 ALS. Deposit. No. 2666.
Lawrence Lewis to his sister, Mrs. Betty (Lewis) Carter, concerning
family news, his wife's "mad" trip to Cincinnati, and farming plans at
Audley, Frederick County, Va., 11 July 1827: E[leanor] P[arks] (Mrs.
Lawrence) Lewis to Mrs. Carter, about family affairs and vacation plans,
28 June 1828.
LEWIS FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1768-1824. 110 items. Deposit.
No. 2345.
Letters of the Lewis family of Culpeper and Essex counties, consisting
mainly of letters of Joseph J. Lewis from Stevensburg, Culpeper County,
Va., to his mother, Mrs. Susanna Lewis and his brother, Warner Lewis
of Essex County, Va., concerning personal affairs, plantation management,
and the exporting of wheat and tobacco. Correspondents include
James Gildart, commission merchant in Liverpool; William Latané;
George Lewis; John Lewis; George McCall; James Maury, American
Consul at Liverpool; John Strode; and John Thom.
LILLARD, EDWARD N. 1878-1943. 50 items and 4 vols. Coles Collection.
No. 2553.
Personal letters and other papers as ship's doctor and as physician
and mayor of Madison, Va., especially his journal as medical officer of
the S. S. Achilles, in Panama and vicinity, 1915-1919; official papers as
mayor; material relating to Dr. R. W. Sturgis and other teachers at the
Virginia Medical College, Richmond; and minutes of the Temperance
Society of Madison, 1878.
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH (1807-1882). 1875 Mar. 13.
1 Holograph. Gift of Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 2587.
His draft of poem, "Daybreak".
LOUISA COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1860-1863. 1 vol. Gift of James Hart.
No. 2374.
Ledger of a general store in Jackson District, Louisa County, Va.
LUCK, JOHN JENNINGS (1883-1938). 1909-1930. 1500 items. Gift
of J. Malcolm Luck. No. 2361.
Personal and professional manuscripts as professor of mathematics
at the University of Virginia, including lecture notes, correspondence,
announcements, and other material relating to university social life and
his professional work.
McGUFFEY, WILLIAM HOLMES (1800-1873). 1870 June 3. 1 ALS.
Coles Collection. No. 2312.
From the University of Virginia, to "My Young Friend", regarding
a work on moral philosophy on which Professor McGuffey was engaged.
McHENRY, JAMES (1753-1816). 1779 November 24. 1 ALS. Coles
Collection. No. 2362.
To Col. [Jonathan Bayard] Smith (1742-1812), concerning progress
of the War in the South, the evacuation of Rhode Island by General
Clinton, and military movements in New York.
McKENNEY, THOMAS L. (1785-1859). 1832 May 14. 1 ALS. Photostat.
Gift of Mrs. Thomas P. Govan. No. 2460.
To Nicholas Biddle, concerning publication of McKenney's book on
the Indians of North America, which was finally issued in 1846; the
fine printing and engraving work for the volume proposed; Mr. King's
portrait illustrations.
McKENNIE, CLEMENT PYNES (1799-1856). 1793-1860. 23 items.
Deposit. Nos. 2246 and 2691.
Correspondence of the Charlottesville, Va., printer, newspaper publisher,
and bookseller, and his wife, with Ann Downing, William
Woods, Mary Ann Harper, Mary McKennie, and Marcellus McKennie,
regarding McKennie's University of Virginia bookstore; trips to Winchester,
Va., Alabama, and Tennessee; and social life in England and
in Charlottesville. A cook-book of Mrs. McKennie contains traditional
Southern recipes.
MACLEISH, ARCHIBALD. 1940. 3 LS. Gift of Kenneth S. Giniger.
No. 2567.
To Mr. Giniger, regarding production and publication of the ballet,
Union Pacific.
MACON, NATHANIEL (1758-1837). 1798-(1837)1894. 25 items. Gift
of Miss Carolyn Martin. No. 2618.
Typed transcript of correspondence of or about Macon, including
such subjects as the Federal judiciary, the United States Bank, party
politics, Nullification, the Embargo, John Randolph's mission to Russia,
the tariff, Georgia, William H. Crawford, and Indian removal.
Correspondents include Roderic Bigelow, Gen. William Blount, Bedford
Brown, Albert Gallatin, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, John
Randolph of Roanoke, George Troup, Henry St. George Tucker, and
Martin Van Buren.
MADISON, DOLLY PAYNE (1768-1849). 1834-1837. 2 ALS. Coles
Collection. Nos. 2378 and 2432.
Concerning Mrs. James K. Paulding, the marriage of Mary Paulding,
and the catalogue being made of Madison's library, which was a
bequest to the University of Virginia. See also the thirteenth volume
of the Annual Report.
MADISON, JAMES (1751-1836). 1803-1842. 14 items. Coles Collection,
McGregor Library, and gift of W. W. Scott. No. 2237.
Letters of Madison, together with several items regarding his death
and estate. Subjects and correspondents include the American Colonization
Society; British and French spoliation claims; French capture of
the Brig, Philanthropist; gardeners for Montpellier; Niles' Weekly
Register; Jefferson's Writings; the University of Virginia law school;
A. G. Dade; Thomas Jefferson; George Lynham; W. M. McLain;
Dolly P. Madison; Mr. Moore, courier to France; Thomas Morris;
James Gordon Palfrey; Benjamin Randolph; T. J. Randolph; Fulwar
Skipwith; and James Wallace.
MAPS. Gifts, deposits, Coles Collection; Byrd, McGregor, and general
libraries.
The map collections of the University in the immediate post-war
years have taken several new directions. There has been a very large
expansion not only in size but in interests. Formerly centered almost
exclusively around historical studies, the expansion of the University's
curriculum in both foreign affairs and in advanced geographical studies
has demanded new map collection developments. The Library has become
one of the chief depositories of the Army Map Service and received
in the period from 1945-1947 from this agency 17,722 maps; from
the U. S. Weather Bureau 14,935; from all sources 35,544, bringing the
total holdings to 48,580 maps.
The historical interests have not, however, been neglected, and two
of the most significant historical additions of the period were maps,
both to the McGregor Library. One of these, Christopher Colles' A
Survey of the Roads of the United States of America, 1789, was the
first American road map; it covers the east coast area between New
York and Virginia in 83 sections, showing the post routes, taverns, etc.,
of the day. The copy is an exceptionally fine one, including the prospectus,
and may be the most perfect one surviving. The other very
exceptional item is the first edition of the famous Bishop Madison map
of Virginia, a map so rare that Swem in 1914 had seen no copy and
had the title only from the Harvard copy.
Other Virginia maps acquired for the Coles Collection and the McGregor
Library include: Virginia item et Floridae, Mercator and
Hondius, [1638]; Virginia Partis Australis, Montanus, [1671]; Carte
Particuliere de Virginie, de Fransche Neptunus, [1700]; Partie Meridionale
de la Virginie, Covens and Mortier, [1729]; A Draught of Virginia
from the Capes to York in York River and to Kuiquotan or
Hamton in James River, Mark Tiddeman, [1755]; Carte de la Louisiane,
Maryland, Virginie, Caroline, Georgie, avec un Partie de la
Floride, Covens and Mortier, 1758; Carte Generale des Costes dé
l'Amerique . . . Ruyter (after Covens and Mortier), 1760; Carte de la
Patoumac . . . de la Sartine, 1778; Virginia, Maryland and Delaware,
Improved to 1825, by H. S. Tanner, Philadelphia, 1825; Virginia, Maryland,
and Delaware, [by T. G. Bradford], Boston, 1835.
And for other southern states, the chief McGregor Library additions
include: Plan of New Orleans, Thomas Jeffreys, 1759; A Plan of the
Attack on Fort Sullivan (Charleston, S. C.), Faden, 1776; A N. E. View
of the Fort on the Western End of Sullivan's Island, Faden, 1776; A
Plan of the Town, Bar, Harbour & Environs of Charleston, South Carolina,
Faden, 1780; A Map of South Carolina and a Part of Georgia,
Faden, 1780; A Plan of the Harbor of St. Augustin in the Province of
Florida, Des Barres, [1780]; A Chart of the Bay and Harbor of Pensacola,
Des Barres, [1780]; Map of the United States . . . , Samuel Mitchell,
1836.
MARSHALL, JOHN (1775-1835). 1810-1885. 8 items. Coles Collection,
and gift of Mrs. Katherine Makielski. Nos. 2472 and 2592.
Deed of land in Albemarle County, Va., to Marshall from Henry
and Susannah Williams, 1810; correspondence of Marshall's nephew,
George D. Fisher of Richmond, with Charles C. Soule, containing information
on accuracy and location of Marshall portraits.
MARSHALL, CAPT. JOHN. 1856-1857. 1 vol. Microfilm. Gift of
Hunter Marshall Gaines. No. 2425.
Farm journal kept at The Hermitage, Prince Edward County, Va.
MARYLAND. 1780-1789. 6 items. Deposit. No. 2384.
Attested copies by C. Downes of papers in the cases of Lambden vs.
Conde and Hamilton vs. Lum, in Queen Anne County and Cecil, Maryland,
regarding detention of slaves for debt.
MAZZEI, PHILIP (1730-1816). 1778 May 24. 1 ALS. Deposit. No. 2351.
Letter to John Page, Williamsburg, Va., regarding vineyards of
northern Europe and Italy and the progress of vineyards planted at
Colle, Albemarle County, Va., with much technical data on the effect
of the weather.
MINOR, PETER. 1813 Aug. 13. 1 ALS. Coles Collection. No. 2493.
From his home, Ridgeway, Albemarle County, Va., to Thomas Jefferson,
accepting a position as assessor for which Jefferson had recommended
him.
MINOR FAMILY CHARTS. 2 items. Gift of William E. Dold, Jr.
No. 2671.
Manuscript chart of the Minor and Terrill family trees.
MONROE, JAMES (1758-1831). 1794-1829. 20 ALS. Coles Collection
and the McGregor Library. No. 2315.
Letters to John Armstrong, Peter Early, Dr. Charles Everett, George
Jay, Richard Henry Johnson, Robert Morris, Timothy Pickering,
Spencer Roane, J. Seaton, Thompson Smith, Samuel Southard, Edward
Thornton, Dr. James Wallace, and others, concerning a visit to Albemarle
County, 1823; Anglo-American relations; trial and exoneration
of Midshipman Campbell, 1820; rebuilding of the Capitol, 1818; Pierre
S. du Pont's manufacture of clothes for his slaves; Georgia and the
Creek Indians' lands; the Treaty of Indian Springs; French reaction to
Jay's Treaty; Lawrence Kartwright's estate; Lafayette's visit; President
James Madison's illness; Charles Fenton Mercer; Michie's Tavern,
Charlottesville; military preparedness for the War of 1812; Oak Hill,
Loudoun County; the Rio La Plata affair; David Porter's unauthorized
attack on Fajardo, Puerto Rico; John Taylor of Caroline; the University
of Virginia; and William Wirt.
MOORE, RICHARD CHANNING (1762-1842). Ca. 1821. 1 ADS.
Coles Collection. No. 2278.
The second Bishop of Virginia recommends the American edition
(Philadelphia, 1819-21) of Rees' New Cyclopedia; co-signers include
Governor Thomas Mann Randolph and other state officers.
MOSBY, JOHN SINGLETON (1833-1916). Ca. 1910. 1 typescript.
Coles Collection. No. 2355.
Severe criticism of Confederate General Henry Heth's "false" account
of the Gettysburg campaign.
NALLE-DOUGLAS MANUSCRIPTS. 1895-1918. 320 items and 9 vols.
Gift of Mrs. Charles B. Payne. No. 2399.
Business correspondence, invoices, bills, receipts, ledgers and day
books of the general merchandise firm of Nalle and Douglas, Elkwood,
Culpeper County, Va.; personal letters of George E. Douglas.
NANSEMOND COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1820(1849)-1946. 31 items.
Deposit. No. 2337.
Typescript articles by William E. MacClenny on various phases of
the history of Suffolk and Nansemond County: Baptist, Methodist,
War travels; Negroes in Nansemond County; peanut culture; with a
copy of the Suffolk town ordinances of 1859.
NAPOLEONIC WARS. 1801-1802. 1 vol. Deposit. No. 2604.
Pocket diary of British army officer during the Egyptian campaign
of 1801-1802. Describes siege of Alexandria and Aboukir, under Gen.
John Haly-Hutchinson, General Lord Abercromby, and Eyre Coote.
Also description of Alexandria, the pyramids, Cairo, Nile valley, Gizeh,
Egyptian life, the desert. Return by Malta, Minorca, Gibraltar.
NEGROES, FREE. 1814. 1 item. Coles Collection. No. 2376.
List of free Negroes and mulattoes in the lower district of Lunenburg
County, Va., giving the residence and occupation of each.
NEWSPAPERS. Coles and Stone collections; Byrd, McGregor, and
general libraries.
Virginia's cooperative program for the preservation of currently published
Virginia newspapers, maintained jointly by newspaper publishers
and libraries in the commonwealth, has been supported by the
University Library during the past two years through the preservation
and cataloguing of sixty-five dailies and weeklies. Many of these, as in
the case of the titles for which the Virginia State Library and other
libraries are responsible, come to the library as gift subscriptions from
the publishers. Last year, following an adverse ruling by a postal inspector,
a number of these free subscriptions were cancelled. The
ruling was subsequently reversed by the Postmaster General, and most
of the free subscriptions have since been renewed. A list of newspapers
regularly received by this library as the publishers' contribution to this
project is appended at the end of this report.
A slightly smaller number of out-of-state and foreign newspapers
come to the library by subscription. Old and rare issues of Virginia
newspapers are acquired occasionally for the Coles Collection and the
McGregor Library. Participation in some of the numerous post-war
microfilming projects has added to our files for research, and files have
also been received by exchange and on deposit. Editors' files, deposited
for safekeeping, are catalogued and made available for research in all
cases where that is authorized by the owners.
Old and rare issues of newspapers of great historical value have recently
been received from Edward Barksdale, Garland R. Barksdale,
Dabney, Miss Marie Dickaré, Waverly N. Dickson, Miss Mary L. Garland,
Carter Glass, Jr., Claude Harrison, John W. Herndon, William
M. Jones, W. H. Lennis, W. E. MacClenny, Charles E. Moran, Jr.,
Mrs. Robert L. Page, Harry R. Pratt, Mrs. Cabell Smith, F. Sparkman,
D. W. Thomas, Robert B. Tunstall, and John Cook Wyllie.
Complete runs of the tri-weekly National Intelligencer, Washington,
D. C., for 1801 and 1834-1861, and nearly complete runs for 1803-1826
and 1828-1831, were obtained last year.
The notable gift of the Barksdale family, an almost complete run
of the Petersburg, Va., Virginia Gazette for the year beginning 9 Dec.
1796, came to the McGregor Library just in time for Dr. Clarence
Brigham to force his printers to insert it in the page proof of his revised
Bibliography. Other recently acquired newspapers are listed below
only in cases of issues not located in any library by Brigham's or
Cappon's bibliographies.
Abingdon, Virginia
Fincastle Democrat, 1858 July 30 (title unknown to Cappon).
Charlottesville, Virginia
Charlottesville Chronicle, 1865 July 26; 1895 Oct. 28.
Charlottesville Review, 1860 Dec. 7.
Jeffersonian Republican, 1849 Oct. 11.
Univ. of Va., Chameleon, 1831 May 2 (no issue recorded; New York
Historical Society has broken file, 1831 Apr.-Dec.)
Lynchburg, Virginia
Jeffersonian Republican, 1830 June 24.
Lynchburg Virginian, 1838 Mar. 22.
News Herald, 1899 July 27 (title unknown to Cappon).
Lynchburg Star, 1807 Oct. 29.
Tri-Weekly Virginian, 1878 Aug. 10, 12; 1880 Dec. 13; 1881 Sept. 2,
5, 7, 9, 11, 16, 18, 25, Oct. 2, 26; 1882 July 19; 1889 July 4.
Weekly Memorandum, 1868 Nov. 7 (title unknown to Cappon).
Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk & Portsmouth Herald, 1805, Feb. 19, 21, 23, 26, 28; Mar. 9,
12, 16, 19, 21, 22, 30; Apr. 6, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27, 30; May 2, 4, 7, 9, 11,
14, 16, 18, 21, 23, 25, 28, 30; June 1, 4, 6, 8, 11, 13, 15, 18, 20, 22, 25,
1855 Jan. 11.
Petersburg, Virginia
Petersburg Intelligencer, 1800 July 15.
Richmond, Virginia
Richmond Enquirer, 1819 July 27.
Evening State Journal, 1872 June 11 (title unknown to Cappon).
State Journal, 1872 Nov. 27.
Virginia Argus, 1799 May 3, 7, 17; June 14, 18, 21, 25, 28; July 5, 19.
Virginia Gazette, 1860 Jan. 20 (title unknown to Cappon).
Suffolk, Virginia
Christian Sun, 1869 Oct. 15; 1877 Feb. 23.
Suffolk Daily Progress, 1890 June 3 (only issue known).
Suffolk Gem, 1876 Oct. 15 (title unknown to Cappon).
Suffolk Herald, 1926 Dec. 10.
Suffolk Intelligencer, 1849 Nov. 27 (only issue known).
Paris, Kentucky
Western Citizen, 1808 Sept. 1 (only issue known).
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Packet, 1779 Mar. 25.
Charleston, South Carolina
South Carolina Gazette, 1795 Jan. 14.
NICHOLSON, FRANCIS (1655-1728). 1691 April 18. 1 ADS. Deposit.
No. 2303.
Land grant by Governor Nicholson to John Custis for 2600 acres in
Northampton County, Va.
NORRIS, JEFFERSON DAVIS. 1846-1900. 600 items. Gift of Mrs.
Dudley Cotton. No. 2562.
Correspondence and other papers of Col. William Norris, chiefly for
his career as chief of the Confederate States Army Signal Corps, but
including later service as military advisor to the Khedive of Egypt;
letters of Richard Norris as a U. S. Naval officer in the South Pacific,
1875-1876; miscellaneous papers of Jefferson Davis Norris, grandson of
William Norris, and kinsman of the two famous Naval opponents, Captain
correspondents are Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard, Jefferson Davis, and Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston.
NOTTOWAY COUNTY, VIRGINIA, SCHOOL RECORD. 18341866.
I Vol. Gift of Joseph D. Eggleston. No. 2665.
Account book, typescript copy, of Miss Betty Walker, teacher in Nottoway
County, Va., 1834-1866, containing lists of pupils and employers,
including the Fitzgerald, Fuqua, Lipscomb, Riddick, and Wootton
families.
ORANGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1765-1883. 5 items. Miss Mary
Jones and Dr. Russell Jones. No. 2469.
Legal documents of Joseph Davis, Edmund Henshaw, Thomas S.
Jones, of Orange County, Va., conveying a tract of land; surveyor's
plat of the tract made in 1765 by James Madison, father of the President;
also diploma of the University of Virginia School of Medicine
granted in 1832 to James L. Jones.
OSLER, WILLIAM. 5 items. Estate of Dr. Lewis Holliday. No. 2683.
Letter to Dr. Lewis Holliday on treatment of a patient for gravel;
four notes of Dr. Holliday, concerning diagnosis and questions on
treatment.
PAGE, THOMAS NELSON (1853-1922). 2 holographs. 1891. Gift of
Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 2587.
Author's draft of essay, "Literature in the South since the War", 47
pp., bound with the printed text as it appeared in Lippincott's Magazine,
December 1891; poem, "Uncle Gabe's White Folks", 4 pp., also in
the author's hand.
PAGE, FAMILY. 1769 May 25. 1 ALS. Coles Collection. No. 2493.
From Robert Andrews, Page family tutor at Rosewell, Gloucester
County, Va., to Page, later governor of Virginia, 1802-1805, twitting the
latter concerning his interest in astronomy. Actually Page had serious
scientific interests, studied eclipses and the formation of dew, and corresponded
with Jefferson on scientific subjects.
PATTERSON, THOMAS LEIPER. 1904 April 24. 1 ALS. Coles
Collection. No. 2622.
To S. Weir Mitchell, reminiscing about Patterson's boyhood; describing
a Westmoreland legend on the birth of George Washington.
PAULDING, JAMES KIRKE (1778-1863). 1839 Mar. 24. 1 ALS. Gift of
Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 2587.
To H. C. Cary, replying to an inquiry regarding the numbers of
Revolutionary "pensioners" still alive.
PAYNE FAMILY. 1832. 2 items. Gift of Mrs. Waddy Wood. No. 2468.
Sketch of the genealogy of the Payne family of Fauquier County, Va.,
with special mention of Col. William Payne (ca. 1725-1800), and Gen.
William Payne, C.S.A.; ALS, Judge Richard Parker to Miss Lomax,
31 Jan. 1832.
PENDLETON, EDMUND (1721-1803). 1776 May 3. 1 DS. Coles Collection.
No. 2362.
Order, as senior member of Virginia's Committee of Safety, for the
exchange of prisoners between the British and the Americans.
PENDLETON, JOHN STROTHER (1802-1866). 1846-1851. 6 ALS.
Coles Collection. No. 2617.
Letters of the Whig leader, and Minister to Argentina, from Redwood,
Culpeper County, Va., concerning the claims of Eliphalet Smith
against the Peruvian government, 1849; the iniquity of Walker's low
tariff of 1846; and other matters.
PERKINS-BOOKER MANUSCRIPTS. 1813(1836-1870)1934. 100
items. Deposit. No. 2317.
Business, legal, and personal manuscripts of the Perkins, Dabney and
Booker families of Buckingham and Albemarle counties. Day book of
George Booker's general store, 1872-74; correspondence of Benjamin M.
Perkins regarding land transactions in Mississippi, 1836-37; Texas
land agency affairs, 1857; genealogical sketches. Correspondents include
George Booker, Charles Cocke, William Gordon, Benjamin M. Perkins,
James D. Perkins, and Mildred Perkins.
PERRY, JOSIAH. 1862-1864. 100 ALS. Coles Collection. No. 2215.
Letters of Josiah Perry, 33rd Massachusetts Regiment, to his parents,
wife, and sisters, from the Northern Virginia and Tennessee battlefronts,
1862-1864, with a detailed description of the Battle of Fredericksburg.
PERRY, MICAJAH. 1706 Dec. 5. 1 ALS. Deposit. No. 2604.
From the great London merchant, friend and agent of many leading
Virginia planters, to John Custis (1678-1749), wishing him happiness in
his recent marriage to the daughter of Lieut. Gen. Daniel Parke (16691710),
discussing family indignation in regard to it, and defending himself
for his own good offices. "Your ffather is angry: Coll. Hill is more
than angry: I must endure both." (General Parke was apparently the
angriest of all. For his services to Marlborough at Blenheim, and for
bearing the news of the victory to Queen Anne and the Duchess, Parke
was given the governorship of the Leeward Islands, where he was
murdered in the rebellion of 1710. The unhappiness of Custis' subsequent
married life at Arlington is as legendary in Virginia as his lack of
gallantry; among other evidences, his tombstone records that his only
happy years were the seven he spent as a widower.)
PEYTON FAMILY. 1756. 1 item. Coles Collection. No. 2479.
Legal document regarding lawyer's fees in the case of William Powell
vs. John Peyton, 1756.
PHI DELTA PHI SOCIETY. 1946. 1 item. Microfilm. No. 2601.
Script of the "Libel", a skit show presented annually by this legal
fraternity, lampooning faculty members in the Department of Law.
PHILOSOPHY, TEACHING OF. 1937-1943. 300 items. Gift of Albert
G. A. Balz. No. 2262.
Correspondence of the American Philosophical Association's Committee
on the Teaching of Philosophy with teachers of philosophy in
America, concerning the status of philosophy in the curricula of American
universities, and a survey of requirements in educational philosophy
for public school teachers.
PIERCE, FRANKLIN (1804-1869). 1853 March 9. 1 item. Photostat.
Deposit. No. 2247.
Letter of G. F. Rhodes, Washington, D. C., to Cassius C. Dulaney,
Saint's Hill, Va., describing Pierce's inauguration.
PIERSON, GEORGE. 1825 Nov. 2. 1 ALS. Gift of Thomas J. Wertenbaker.
No. 2326.
To his brother Albert, criticizing Jefferson's educational ideas, and
the rowdy conduct of the students at the University of Virginia.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN (1809-1849) COLLECTION. 1824-1909. 99
items. The Byrd Library, the Coles Collection; gifts of institutions and
of Josiah K. Lilly, Bradley Martin, Mrs. Sherburne Prescott, and Albert
Stackman. No. 2204.
Photostats from private and public collections added to the University's
collection of Poe transcripts. Items of special interest from the
Virginia State Library concern Poe's service in a militia company, the
Richmond Junior Volunteers, and its part in the reception of Lafayette
in 1824.
POPE, COL. ALBERT A. (1843-1909). 1862-1865. 1 vol. Deposit. No.
2243.
Journal (typescript copy), describing his Civil War experiences with
the 35th Massachusetts Regiment; campaigns in Virginia, 1861-62, including
an account of the Battle of Fredericksburg; and in Tennessee
and Mississippi, 1863-64, with an account of the siege of Vicksburg and
Sherman's march.
PORTER, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1862-1910). [1909-1910]. 3 Holographs.
Gift of Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 2587.
Author's draft of three short stories: "The Street of Lies", 17 pp.;
"The Hypothesis of Failure", 25 pp., signed "James L. Bliss", a Porter
pseudonym less famous than "O. Henry", (published in Whirligigs,
1910): and "Confessions of a Humorist", 31 pp. (published posthumously
in Waifs and Strays, 1917).
PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA. 1812-1815 and 1863-1865. 2 vols. Gift
of John C. Emmerson. No. 2499.
Data on the Portsmouth area during War of 1812 and the Civil War,
compiled from original sources by Mr. Emmerson. "War in the Lower
Chesapeake and Hampton Roads Area, 1812-1815" consists of transcripts
of articles and editorials from the Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald
and the Norfolk Gazette and Publick Ledger; it also contains copies
of documents relating to the military career of Arthur Emmerson (17771842)
in the War of 1812. The second volume, "Some Aspects and Incidents
of Military Rule in Portsmouth, Va., 1863-1864", contains a
transcript of the letterbook of Captain Daniel Messinger, U.S.A., who
was provost marshal of Portsmouth during the period of occupation;
also included in this volume is material on Arthur Emmerson, Jr.
(1817-1870), clerk of the city court during the Civil War.
POWELL, JOHN. 1921. 1 item. Microfilm. Gift of G. Schirmer, Inc.
No. 2696.
Manuscript score of the Virginia Composer's Rhapsodie Négre, first
played in Paris, France, 1921.
PRESCOTT, WILLIAM HICKLING (1796-1859). 1857 June. 1 ALS.
Gift of Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 2587.
To George Ticknor, in regard to a letter from Mrs. Henry Milman
(wife of the Dean of St. Paul's), concerning Ticknor's order of books
for Harvard University.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1731-1794. 9 items. Coles
Collection. No. 2669.
Legal documents of Prince William and Louisa counties and Alexandria,
Va., including deeds and plats for lands, court orders, and indentures.
Among the names mentioned are Edward Ambler, William
Digges, John Sunday, John Graham, Benjamin Grayson, John Griffin,
Thomas Harrison, Edmund Jennings, Hugh Lenox, John Lewis,
Scarlet Maddin, Francis Peyton, Ann Richard, Thomas Richard, Jonah
Thompson, Peter Wagonor.
PRINTS AND PICTURES. Gifts; deposit; the Coles Collection; Byrd,
McGregor, and general libraries. No. 2624.
The print and picture collections of the library are divided into three
major categories for purposes of handling: artistic, historical, and documentary.
These overlap very considerably and are not represented separately
in the statistical reporting of the librarian, whose figures for
the years 1945-1947 show accessions of 22,659 pictures, bringing the
total holdings to 34,936.
Of the 22,000 items acquired in the two-year period, the largest
group is documentary, and the bulk of these are accounted for by a
deposit of picture post cards and photographs of foreign places totalling
18,000, and by a group of World War II propaganda pictures. Other
outstanding, though smaller, groups of documentary pictures include
the Herndon photographs of old Alexandria, Va., houses, in a larger
Alexandria collection described elsewhere in this report; photo copies
of 100 snapshots showing views at the University of Virginia and in
Washington, D. C., ca. 1900, gift of Miss Anna Barringer; a photograph
of the Rotunda, ca. 1870, showing the cupola which was destroyed in
the fire of 1895, Byrd Library; and a very important document in the
Rotunda, done probably by Cornelia Randolph, Jefferson's granddaughter,
before construction began, ca. 1823, the gift of Mr. Hartwell
Cabell.
The chief artistic acquisitions were also of primary historical interest.
The oils included William Dunlap's portrait of Edmund Pendleton,
Jr. (b. 1774), gift of Mr. Paul Manheim; portraits of Wilson Miles
Cary (1838-1914) and Thomas Mann Randolph (1740-1793), gift of Mrs.
Charles Baird and Mrs. Gerhard Dicke; and a portrait of Barnard
Shipp (1813-1903), donor of the University's Shipp Collection of
Travels, the gift of Mr. D. O. Holt. The item of chief interest among
the engravings was the deposit of the original copper plate for St.
Mémin's Landon Carter (1757-1820) of Sabine Hall. Thirty-two of
Edwin Forbes' engravings of Civil War army life were presented by Mr.
Thomas Francis Woods. Some photographic copies of special interest
may also be included in this group: of St. Mémin's crayon portrait of
Capt. Henry Heth, Revolutionary officer and early Virginia ironmaster,
gift of Dr. Douglas Vanderhoof; and of Joseph Boze's minature of
Martha Jefferson, the original of which is in the American Embassy in
Paris, gift of Dr. Julian Boyd.
Of the historical prints, notable accessions included two rare early
American items in the McGregor Library: a colored engraving of "Peter
Francisco's Gallant Action with Nine of Tarleton's Cavalry in Sight of
a Troop of Four Hundred, Amelia Court House, 1781"; and a caricature
by William Charles entitled "Johnny Bull and the Alexandrians",
an attack on appeasement-minded Virginia merchants during the War
of 1812. An important group of engraved portraits of literary figures,
the gift of C. Waller Barrett, should also be mentioned in this group:
these are of prominent American writers including Fitz-Greene Halleck,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Dean
Howells, James Kirke Paulding, William Hickling Prescott, and Bayard
Taylor (in Oriental dress), also a photograph of George William Curtis.
QUINBY, UPSHUR BALDERSTONE, MANUSCRIPTS. 1778-1909.
1300 items. Gift of the Quinby family through Mrs. Charles G. Evans.
No. 2338.
Personal papers of the related families of Upshur, Richardson,
Sturgis, Teackle, and Quinby, of the Eastern Shore of Virginia; letters
of Abel P. Upshur, James Madison, and Henry Clay; letters of Upshur
University of Virginia, 1860-61, with records of his Accomac County
school, Onancock Academy; letter books of Littleton D. Teackle concerning
his commercial relations with Great Britain and the West
Indies, 1805-07; personal correspondence of Ann Upshur Eyre, Aaron
B. Quinby, Elizabeth U. T. Quinby, and Elizabeth Upshur Teackle.
RANDOLPH, BEVERLEY (1754-1797). 1789-1790. 2 ADS. Deposit.
Nos. 2604 and 2676.
Land grants to Joseph Howard for 1,000 acres in Harrison County,
Va., on the west fork of the Little Kanawha River, and to Andrew
Howes for 780 acres on the Cowpasture River in Augusta County.
RANDOLPH, JOHN, OF ROANOKE (1773-1833). 1817-1828. 4 ALS.
Coles Collection, deposit, and gifts of Robert M. Jeffress and Clem D.
Johnston. No. 2656.
To Edward Booker, on his retirement from Congress, 2 April 1817;
to Middleton Rutledge, "his only friend", 2 Aug. 1817 (photostat of Mr.
Johnston's original); on his friendship with the Carrington family, 1818;
to Mrs. Stephen Decatur, acknowledging a picture of her husband for
his godson, Joseph Bryan of Georgia, a would-be naval cadet, 7 April
1828.
RANDOLPH, SARAH NICHOLAS (1839-1892). 1887 Oct. 25. 1 ALS.
Gift of Robert Hill Carter. No. 2206.
In a letter to Professor Schele de Vere, University of Virginia, the
author of the Domestic Life defends her grandfather against charges of
heresy and atheism; with unsigned ms. notes in another hand on the
same subject.
RANDOLPH, THOMAS MANN (1768-1828). 1795 and 1801. 2 ALS.
Coles Collection and deposit. Nos. 2439 and 2604.
From Monticello, to James Brown, merchant of Richmond, Va.,
concerning sale of Randolph's tobacco, 11 June 1795; to Thomas Jefferson
on family activities and farming operations at Monticello, 3 Jan.
1801.
RANDOLPH-HUBBARD CORRESPONDENCE. 1840-1861. 46 items.
Microfilm. Deposit. No. 2424.
Personal correspondence of Isaetta Randolph, daughter of Benjamin
Franklin Randolph of Richmond, and Albemarle County, Va., and
her husband, James L. Hubbard of Buckingham County. Correspondents
J. W. Flood, Robert T. Hubbard, Benjamin F. Randolph,
George W. Randolph, Lucy N. Randolph, Sally C. Randolph.
RANSDELL, JOHN H. 1840-1865. 1 vol. Microfilm. Gift of Mrs. Mary
H. David. No. 2607.
Diary and commonplace book of John H. Ransdell concerning politics
and the Civil War in Louisiana.
REVOLUTIONARY PRISONERS, 1777-1779. 1938. 1 typescript. Gift
of Oliver W. Cobb. No. 2335.
Sketch, "The Convention Troops", tracing the journey of the Hessian
prisoners captured from the British at Saratoga to the detention
camp near Charlottesville, Va., 1777-1779.
RIDDICK FAMILY. 1739-1890. 68 items. Microfilm. Deposit, and
gift of Fillmore Norfleet. Nos. 2227, 2240, and 2241.
Volume containing the report of the executor of the will of Robert
Moore Riddick (d. 1819), probated 1827, including copy of will and
inventory of slaves, and records of their hire, 1819-1827; transcripts of
deeds, indentures, family Bible entries, and other documents concerning
the Cunningham, Norfleet, and Riddick families of Nansemond
County, Va., including papers, 1739-1890, of Jackson Brinkley, John
Duke, Humphrey Griffin, Christopher Gwin, John Harrell, Thomas
Jennings, Norfleet Jones, John T. Kilby, Abraham Norfleet, Christopher
Norfleet, Elisha Norfleet, Elizabeth Norfleet, Hezekiah Norfleet,
John Rawls, Edward Riddick, and Joan Riddick.
RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB (1849-1916). 1903-1904. 17 items. Byrd
Library. No. 2405.
Letters from Alfred Russell Wallace to Ernest Marriott, concerning
the authorship of the poem, "Leonainie", attributed to Poe but actually
written as a hoax by Riley (ca. 1870) in deliberate imitation of Poe.
RIVES FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1781 (1840)-1908. 4000 pieces. Gift
of Miss Landon Rives. No. 2313.
Personal correspondence and private business papers of three generations
of the Rives family of Castle Hill, Albemarle County, Va., particularly
William Cabell Rives (1793-1868); his wife, Judith Page
Walker Rives (1802-1882); their sons, William Cabell Rives (1825-1899),
and Alfred Landon Rives (1830-1903); and his daughter Amélie Rives
concern his Congressional and diplomatic career, the commercial treaty
with Bremen, proposals for a national fiscal agency, and petty politics;
they include a draft of volume three of his life of Madison, together
with copies of Madison's letters, and a paper by John Taylor of Caroline
on Virginia's war finances, prepared in 1781, and account books
for the years 1819 to 1825. Numerous accounts cover the periods of
family residence in Washington, 1841-1845, and in Paris, 1849-1853.
Mrs. Rives' manuscripts include reminiscences of her travel to England,
France, and Switzerland, 1829-1831, with comments on the court of
Charles X, and an account of a meeting with Charles Dickens, and the
manuscript of her Tales of an Ancestor. Papers of the younger W. C.
Rives concern private business, farming and building operations at
Castle Hill, and Grace Church, Cobham, Va., in the 'eighties. A very
large proportion are papers of Col. Alfred Landon Rives, the engineer,
his education at The Ecole des Pontes et Chausées, Paris, 1848-1850; the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company; the Panama Railroad and the
Panama Canal; the Columbia River; mining in Oregon and Washington;
El Ferrocarril de Vera Cruz al Pacificó, 1885-1900; and many
other activities; about 500 plans and drawings are included. A small
group of papers concern Amélie Rives, the bulk of whose papers are
separately entered in this volume of the Annual Report, under Troubetzkoy.
Among the correspondents are Carl A. Anderson, T. M. R.
Bankhead; B. E. Beasley, Judah P. Benjamin, A. M. Bonnycastle,
Henry Brooke, A. C. Brown, Alexander Brown, R. S. Byrd, A. Canfield,
Dabney S. Carr, Lewis Cass, Edward Coles, Robert Y. Conrad, William
Cook, W. S. Crawford, Charles Augustine Davis, Richard Duke, Charles
Duncombe, Robley Dunglison, Samuel Dyer, L. Eaton, George Field,
Francis J. Grind, T. W. Hampton, John L. Horner, William Ingram,
Chapman Johnson, J. M. Jones, Abbott Lawrence, Hugh S. Legare,
John Letcher, W. B. Lewis, R. W. Lindsay, R. O. Loving, Charles
Nichols, Robert Carter Page, James Parsons, Richard Pollard, Caleb
Reed, Thomas Ritchie, J. W. Robbins, Maximilian Schele de Vere,
W. G. Singleton, Francis O. J. Smith, S. C. Sneed, George W. Spotswood,
R. M. Whitney, H. B. Wright
ROBERTS, JONATHAN (1771-1854). 1818 Nov. 22. 1 ALS. Coles
Collection. No. 2196.
To President James Monroe, urging the promotion of Lieutenant
Chancey, USN. Roberts was then a Senator from Pennsylvania.
ROCKFISH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 1746-1946. 1 item. Gift of
Reverend John H. Grey. No. 2605.
Typescript history of Rockfish Presbyterian Church, Nelson County,
Va., from its founding to the present, compiled and written by J. Tinsley
Coleman, Lovingston, Va., ruling elder of the present church.
RODMAN, WALTER SHELDON (1883-1946). 1909 March-April. 12
items. Gift. No. 2632.
Manuscript notes pertaining to experiments with steam and air
pressure, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the late Dean
of Engineering, University of Virginia.
ROGERS, ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1820-1862). 1838. 1 vol. Gift
of George S. Wallace. No. 2507.
His notes on mathematics and chemistry lectures at the University
of Virginia, 1838-1839. Rogers was later an Albemarle County physician.
ROGERS, WILLIAM BARTON (1804-1882). 1850-1853. 7 ALS. Coles
Collection. No. 2496.
To Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1888), American zoologist and assistant
secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, concerning Rogers' work
as professor of natural history at the University of Virginia; his activities
in connection with the geological survey of Virginia; his publications
in cooperation with his brother, Robert Empie Rogers (18131884);
and his reasons for leaving the University.
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO (1882-1945). 1933-1945. 2 record
albums. Gift of the National Broadcasting Corporation. No. 2306.
Recordings of key portions of Roosevelt's most important radio
addresses and fireside chats, mostly those made during World War II.
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE (1858-1919). 1917. 2 items. Gift of Carrol
M. Quenzel. No. 2498.
Copy of a letter from C. J. Niehaus to Roosevelt, soliciting his support
for a statue to Democracy which Niehaus was planning to erect
in New York City, 1 June 1917, with a copy of Roosevelt's reply, refusing
support, and suggesting the need of Niehaus' services "on the fighting
line", 6 June 1917.
ROTHERY, AGNES. 1944-1948. 30 items and 2 vols. Gift of Mrs.
Harry Rogers Pratt. No. 2707.
First and second drafts (typescript) of Mrs. Pratt's book, Maryland
sources, and eight pen-and-ink drawings for South America Roundabout.
ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. 1825-1837. 1 vol. Deposit. No. 2604.
Vestry minutes and register of St. Stephen's Church, Russel Parish,
Bedford County, Va., 1825-1837, kept by Nicholas Cobbs, secretary of
the Vestry.
SALTONSTALL, ROS. 1808 Jan. 2. 1 ALS. Coles Collection. No.
2564.
To Thomas Jefferson, from New York, advising a strong policy
against England and Spain, and attacking the Methodists as Anglophiles.
SCANLAND MANUSCRIPTS. 1817-(1849)1874. 30 items and 1 vol.
McGregor Library and the Coles Collection. Nos. 2458 and 2462.
Family letters and a journal by John Scanland of his trip through
the "Western states and territories" during the winter and spring of
1817. Mentions the Blue Ridge mountains; the Shenandoah River;
the Big Capon River; the Big Savage River; Bridgewater, Va.; Clarksburg,
Va.; Marietta and Chillicothe, Ohio; Limestone, Ky.; Illinois
Territory; St. Charles and St. Louis, Mo.; Kaskaskia, Ill.; Wabash
River; Vincennes, Ind.; and Louisville, Ky. Observations on scenic
beauty, bird and plant life, types of soil, methods of cultivation, crops,
houses, manners, and social customs; letters of Nancy Scanland, Pike
County, Mo., to her cousin, Daniel Scanland, Loudoun County, Va.,
1849-1852, describing life in Missouri and the departures of the California
Wagon Trains; letter to Daniel Scanland from his wife during
the Civil War, discussing Mosby, Yankee raiders, and hardships of the
non-combatants; ALS, to Scanland, from A. C. H. Smith describing
Reconstruction in Savannah, Ga., 25 April 1866.
SCHELE DE VERE, MAXIMILIAN (1820-1898). 1866 and 1887. 2
items. Coles Collection, and gift of Robert Hill Carter. Nos. 2651 and
2677.
Letter to a publisher from the University of Virginia teacher, concerning
an article on the "Four Seasons", 9 Oct. 1856; letter from
Ellie A. Miles of Blacksburg, Va., to Mrs. M. (Lucy Rives) Schele
De Vere, 8 April 1887.
SEAY FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1773(1840-1870)1936. 2000 items.
Gift of Henry T. Louthan. Nos. 2385, 2506, and 2599.
Bills, receipts, business correspondence, election tickets, court orders,
warrants, etc., of the Seay family of Caroline, Charlotte, Chesterfield,
and Hanover counties, chiefly of Joseph M. Seay, deputy treasurer and
later treasurer of Caroline County in the mid-nineteenth century, and
of his mother, Elizabeth Seay. An account book contains subscription
records of the Richmond Whig, 1836-1842. Earlier gifts of these manuscripts
are reported in the fourteenth and fifteenth volumes of this
Annual Report.
SEIBEL, FREDERICK OTTO, ARCHIVE. 1929-1945. 1130 original
drawings. Gift of Mr. Seibel. No. 2531.
Opened with a special exhibit of political cartoons, and brief addresses
by Mr. Seibel and others, on 1 December 1946, the Seibel
Archive will ultimately consist of more than 3,000 original and 8,000
printed copies of drawings by the famous cartoonist, whose daily pictorial
commentary on current events has been featured on the editorial
page of the Richmond Times-Dispatch for more than twenty years.
Mr. Seibel's cartoons for this and other newspapers have been exhibited
at the Chicago Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and
elsewhere; his work has won him the Harmon Award; and his cartoons
are more frequently reprinted in Editor and Publisher than those of
any other artist. His work not only constitutes a graphic transcript of
Virginia life for the past generation, but ranges over the fields of national
politics and international affairs. The Archive of his drawings
will some day be enriched by Mr. Seibel by the addition of his correspondence
with many celebrated personalities, especially those of the
Hoover and Roosevelt eras, the New Deal and the period of World
War II. Small collections of the Seibel drawings are preserved at the
Princeton and Huntington libraries, but more of them are in the
hands of private persons and of public figures who have sought from
the artist his caricatured portraits of them. It is hoped that many of
these widely scattered originals will gradually be presented to the
master collection at the University.
SHERMAN FAMILY. 1865-1909. 3 items. Deposit. No. 2331.
Parole of Lt. John H. Wright, Third Virginia Infantry, C. S. A.,
given at Richmond, 18 April 1865; 2 ALS from Walter J. Harris,
former slave of the Sherman family, to Hiram Sherman, near Charles
his old age. Napa, Calif., 1909.
SHIELDS, ALEXANDER, 1817-1829. 3 ALS. Coles Collection. No.
2287.
Correspondence with his brother, David Shields, concerning the disposal
of family property in Rockfish, Nelson County, Va., and the
medical education of David's son at the University of Pennsylvania.
SHIPS' PAPERS. 1799-1817. 53 DS. Coles Collection, and gift of Mrs.
Lester Annas. Nos. 2230 and 2420.
Ships' manifests and clearance papers for cargoes shipped to Suffolk,
Va., from New York, Philadelphia, Perth Amboy, N. J., Baltimore,
and New Bedford, Mass.
SINCLAIR FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1846-1880. 12 items. Gift of
Mrs. J. C. Quarles. No. 2488.
Pertaining to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, including
2 ALS each of Professors John B. Minor (1813-1895) and Noah K.
Davis (1830-1910); 3 letters to Shelton F. Leake (1812-1884), former
lieutenant-governor of Virginia, on local political matters, 1856-1857;
notebook of Samuel G. Sinclair, student at the University of Virginia,
1854-55, containing notes on William Holmes McGuffey's senior class
in Moral Philosophy, Francis Henry Smith's class in Geology and
Mineralogy, and Socrates Maupin's class in Chemistry.
SMEDES, SUSAN DABNEY (1840-ca.1930). 1886-1907. 20 items. Deposit.
No. 2655.
Letters to Mrs. Smedes from various authors, agents, and public
figures, commenting on her Memorial of a Southern Planter, a memoir
of her father, Richard Dabney. Correspondents include J. A. Froude,
William Gladstone, Augustus Hare, Andrew Lang, John Murray,
and Charles Dudley Warner.
SMITH, CHARLES ALPHONSO (1864-1924). 1913 Oct. 18. 1 ALS.
Gift of William Elbert. No. 2513.
To Mr. Gilbert, concerning the organization and first meeting of
the Virginia Folklore Society. The large collection of Smith's papers
on deposit in the library is described in the eleventh Annual Report.
SMITH, GENERAL SAMUEL (1752-1839). 28 items. 1789-1835.
Deposit. No. 2686.
Letters to and from General Samuel Smith, soldier and businessman
of Baltimore, Secretary of the Navy under Jefferson; ten letters from
Aaron Burr discuss political appointments, the reduction of the navy,
recommendations for naval commissions, and New York state politics,
mentioning George Clinton, William Few of Georgia, Albert Gallatin,
Levi Lincoln, and Commode Thomas Truxton, 1800-1801; eight letters
from Thomas Jefferson to Smith concern Smith's appointment as Secretary
of the Navy, naval affairs, political appointments, and whiskey
taxes, 1801-1823 (See also Jefferson); six letters from Smith's brother-in-law,
George Nicholas, refer to Nicholas' emigration to Kentucky,
financial affairs, life in Kentucky, the hemp industry, transportation
difficulties, General Harmar's expedition against the Shawnees, 17891791;
letter of introduction from Lafayette, Paris, 26 April 1829, to
Charles Oldham, regarding the Revolutionary War record of his father,
George Oldham; account with P. Levering.
SMITH, SAMUEL FRANCIS (1808-1895). 1 item. 1832. Deposit. No.
2384.
Manuscript of "America", signed by the author.
SOUTH CAROLINA. 1756-1850. 2 ADS. Deposit. No. 2490.
Grant by Gov. William Henry Lyttleton of 200 acres in Craven
County, S. C., on the Peedee River, to Buckingham Keene, 1756; survey
of a tract of 501 acres on Bull Swamp, Marion District, S. C., made for
Zachariah Phillips in 1850.
SPARROW, CARROLL MASON. Gift of Walter Alexander Montgomery.
No. 2364.
Typescript of Professor Montgomery's revision of the late Professor
Sparrow's translation of St. Augustine on the Free Will, De Libero
Arbitrio Voluntatis.
STEARNES, REAMUR COLEMAN (1866-1945). 1887-1940. 20,000
pieces. Gift of Mrs. Stearnes. No. 2547.
Chiefly Stearnes' personal and official correspondence as Secretary
of the Virginia State Board of Education, 1906-13, and Superintendent
of the Public Instruction, 1913-17. Includes material on Virginia's public
schools and on secondary education generally; state text book selection;
dental boards. Among the correspondents are: Edwin A. Alderman,
Paul B. Barringer, F. W. Boatwright, William Cabell Bruce, T. A.
Cairns, Arthur Kyle Davis, George S. Denny, Murray T. Edwards,
J. Taylor Ellyson, Hal D. Flood, Minetre Folkes, E. C. Glass, W. S.
Gooch, Garrard Harris, W. E. Hatcher, J. L. Jarman, W. H. Keister,
J. P. McConnell, H. R. McIlwaine, Thomas Staples Martin, Mary
Newton Stanard, and Claude A. Swanson.
STETTINIUS, EDWARD REILLY, JR. 1946. 20 items. Deposit. No.
255.
Drafts of his addresses at Convocation exercises, University of Virginia,
12 Oct. 1946, and at the installation of Dr. George Modlin as
President of the University of Richmond, 16 Nov. 1946, with letters
from Robert Kent Gooch, Dumas Malone, and President John Lloyd
Newcomb of the University of Virginia.
STORY FAMILY. 1911. 1 item. Gift of Mrs. Annie Belle Story Breckinridge.
No. 2367.
Life and genealogy of Elisha Story (ca. 1670-1820) of Boston, and his
descendants, compiled by Perley Derby, with additions by Frank A.
Gardner and Miss Breckinridge.
STRANGE, COLONEL ALVIN W. (1823-1892). 1941. 1 item. Gift
of Miss Margaret Martin. No. 2268.
Partial list of books in the personal library of Colonel Strange,
Palmyra, Va., and Lynchburg, Va.
STUART, ALEXANDER HUGH HOLMES (1807-1891). 1839 January
10. 1 ALS. Coles Collection. No. 2362.
To Henry A. Wise regarding unpunished postal frauds at Winchester
and Woodstock, Va., by Jacksonian postmasters.
SVIHRA, ALBERT (1898-1944). 1941-44. 2 ALS and 1 vol. Gift of
Mrs. Albert Svihra. No. 2652.
Copy of the diary of Lt. Col. Albert Svihra, U. S. A., describing the
siege of Corregidor and his experiences as a prisoner of war of the
Japanese, 1942-44, together with unmailed letters to his wife. Colonel
Svihra, an alumnus of West Point, 1922, and the University of Virginia
Law School, 1938, died as a prisoner of the Japanese.
TALLEY, JOSEPH. 1862. 5 ALS. Photostats. Deposit. No. 2247.
To his wife, Harriet, describing camp experiences in the Confederate
army and skirmishes in March and April, 1862, prior to the Seven
Days' Battle around Richmond.
TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825-1878). 1866 Aug. 23. 1 ALS. Gift of Clifton
Waller Barret. No. 2587.
To E. C. Stedman, inviting himself to visit Stedman in New York,
and commending William Dean Howells' Venetian Life. Asks nothing
but "a log of wood for a pillow and a buffalo robe on the floor."
TAYLOR, JOHN, OF CAROLINE (1753-1824). 1778-ca. 1795. 3 items.
Gift of Henry Taylor. No. 2521.
ALS, 22 May 1778, to Brigadier General William Woodford, concerning
Taylor's activities as an officer in the Continental army, military
policy of the Continental Congress, operational situation at New
York and West Point, and prospects of an early peace, from Fishkill,
N. Y.; sketch of the life of Colonel John Taylor, written about 1798-99,
by Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803), Taylor's guardian, emphasizing
Taylor's war record and patriotic services, and refuting the Jacobin
charges made on Taylor by the Federalist press; sketch of John Penn
(1740-1788), revolutionary statesman of North Carolina, signer of the
Declaration of Independence, and Taylor's father-in-law, written apparently
about 1790 by an unidentified eulogist.
TAYLOR, MAJ. GEN. RICHARD (1826-1879). 1864 May 23. 1 DS.
Gift of the Albemarle County, Va. Chapter, U. D. C. No. 2396.
General orders to soldiers of his Army of West Louisiana, congratulating
them on the victory over the Union army under Gen. Nathaniel P.
Banks at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, Ark., and mentioning plans to
recover New Orleans.
TERRILL FAMILY. 1 item. Gift of William E. Dold, Jr. No. 2671.
Chart showing family tree of the Minor and Terrill families.
THORNTON, JOHN WINGATE (1818-1878). 1857-1858. 25 items.
McGregor Library. No. 2282.
Letters to Thornton from Edward Everett, Josiah Quincy, William
H. Sumner, and others, regarding his review of Peter Oliver's Puritan
Commonwealth, together with a copy of the review.
THORNTON, WILLIAM MYNN (1853-1935). Ca. 1925. 1 vol. Gift
of John Lloyd Newcomb. No. 2612.
"Engineering Instruction at the University of Virginia", 103 pp., a
manuscript history by the former Dean of the Department of Engineering,
University of Virginia, 1906-1923, tracing the development of
training in engineering and mechanics from the foundation of the
University to 1925.
THURBER, JAMES. 1945 Nov. 19. 1 LS. Gift of Henry Murat Gordon.
No. 2438.
To Henry M. Gordon in reply to an inquiry about Thurber's story,
"One Is A Wanderer."
TOOLE FAMILY. 1708-1871. 1 item. Gift of Paul F. Veith. No. 2309.
Chart of the descendants of Lawrence Toole and his wife, Sabra
Irwin, to the fourth generation. The family was centered in the Taw
River district of North Carolina.
TRIST, NICHOLAS (1800-1874). 1826-1836. 110 items. Microfilm.
Coles Collection, and gift of Robert A. Brent. No. 2552.
Letters of Nicholas Trist, secretary of the Board of Visitors of the
University of Virginia, to James Madison and Mrs. Madison, concerning
administrative matters at the University of Virginia during its
formative years, the nullification controversy of 1832, Jacksonian principles,
and politics. Facsimiles of the originals in the Virginia Historical
Society, together with a typescript calendar of the letters prepared by
Robert A. Brent.
TROUBETZKOY, PRINCESS AMELIE RIVES (1863-1945). 18951941.
75 items. Coles Collection, deposit (restricted), and gifts of
Miss Carolyn Martin and William D. Macon. No. 2202.
Drafts of various plays, poems and short stories by Princess
Troubetzkoy, of Castle Hill, Albemarle County, Va., including manuscripts
of Herod and Mariamne, Augustine the man, Athelwold, Robin
Hood, King Henry II, Séléne, and Inja, and "Great Britain, October
1940"; typescripts of The Prince and the Pauper, The Fear Market,
Allegiance, and Into the Midst of Hatred; also miscellaneous poems,
sketches and articles. Photographs of and letters relating to stage presentations
of these plays. Original draft, with later revisions, of The
Young Elizabeth, with correspondence relating to production and
criticism, 1932-1938.
TUCKER, GEORGE (1775-1861). 1822-1859. 17 items. Microfilm.
Coles Collections. No. 2249.
Facsimiles of letters in the Madison Papers, Library of Congress,
from Professor Tucker to James Madison, Andrew Stevenson, and
Hugh Blair Grigsby, concerning the University and state and local
politics.
TYLER, JOHN (1790-1862). 1826-1841. 2 ALS. Coles Collection and
the McGregor Library. Nos. 2362 and 2510.
From Governor Tyler, 5 Dec. 1826, to Charles Fenton Mercer (17881858),
concerning maladministration of the State Literary Fund; improvement
of the James River for navigation (Tyler favored construction
of locks and dams as against proposals for a canal); an estimate of
the state engineer, Claude Crozet (1790-1864); and the proposed state
constitutional convention. To Henry Clay, 30 April 1841, outlining
political program as President, with particular reference to the sub-treasury,
recharter of the bank, national defense, public lands, and
appointments.
UNITED STATES ARMY. 1799 Sept. 12. 1 item. Coles Collection.
No. 2491.
Enlistment papers of Elisha Jenkins, Culpeper County, Va., "for and
during the existing differences between the United States & the French
Republic", witnessed by Lt. James Duncanson, recruiting officer and
clerk of the Culpeper County Court. Jenkins enlisted during our quasi-war
with France, when Alexander Hamilton was building up the army
for an all-out conflict.
UNITED STATES CONGRESS. 1814-1820. 1 item. Gift of Thomas
Daniel Shumate. No. 2500.
List of Virginia's representatives in the Congress of the United States
from 1814 to 1820, giving the Congressional district with component
counties thereof of each representative.
UNITED STATES POLITICS. 1824-1825. 1 vol. Gift of Bernard
Mayo. No. 2235.
Typed transcripts from Der Readinger Alder, a German language
newspaper published in Reading, Pa., of articles and editorials on
the election of 1824. Shows reaction of Pennsylvania Dutch element to
Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, William H. Crawford, and Andrew
Jackson.
UNITED STATES POST OFFICE. 1802-1823. 4 items. Deposit. No.
2259.
Instructions issued by three postmasters general, Gideon Granger,
Return Jonathan Meigs, and John McClean, concerning mail contracts,
postage rates, and method of delivery.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. 1819-1947. Archives and unofficial
records.
Official records of the University, transferred at intervals to the
Archives from the non-current files of schools, departments, committees,
administrative offices, and other agencies of the University, are
entered in this, as in previous reports, under the name of the agency
of origin. Users of the records should consult Philip Alexander Bruce's
five-volume centennial history of the University, and W. Edwin Hemphill's
Bibliography of the Unprinted Official Records of the University
of Virginia, published as an appendix to the sixth volume of this
Annual Report. It should be noted that in the nineteenth century the
Chairman of the Faculty and the Proctor performed duties now borne
by the President, the Bursar, the Registrar, and the deans of departments.
Thus the older matriculation records appear under Faculty.
Some of the oldest official records appear in the papers of individuals.
The Jefferson, Cabell, and Cocke papers are cases in point. Most
of the first volume of the Board of Visitors' minutes is recorded in
the hand of Thomas Jefferson, minutes of individual meetings carrying
the signatures of members present, including Presidents Madison
and Monroe. Modern official and semi-official records appear under
such headings as the Alderman Papers, the World War II Collection, or
the Crenshaw Manuscripts.
Unofficial and semi-official records appear in these reports under
the names of the individual societies, fraternities, clubs, religious
groups, publications, and other unofficial or semi-official organizations
of students and faculties.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, ALUMNI. 1875(1942)-1947. 30 items
and 5 vols. Deposit. Nos. 2464 and 2674.
Minute book of the Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Va.,
chapter, containing constitution dated 10 April 1875; correspondence,
minutes, and resolutions affecting University affairs and policy, 19421947;
registers of alumni visitors to the University, 1894-1906, and of
active alumni as of 1894 and 1906.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, EXPERIMENTAL FARM. 1877. 1
vol. Departmental transfer to Archives. No. 2197.
Account and farm record book of the University of Virginia Experimental
Farm, 1877. Other records of the Experimental Farm are
reported in the eighth volume.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, FACULTY. 1825-1946. 3,000 items
and 43 vols. Transferred to Archives from schools, departments, and
administrative offices. No. 2328.
Minutes of the Faculty, 1825-1919, 17 vols.; first drafts of minutes of
the General Faculty, 1924-1946; drafts of resolutions of the General
Faculty, 1924-1945, chiefly in regard to the deaths of faculty members;
journal of the Chairman of the Faculty, 1837-1838; Chairman's roll-book,
1831-1832 and Matriculation Registers, 1881-1904, 2 vols.; correspondence
of Faculty with Registrar, 1919-1943; extracts of Board of
Visitors' enactments for the Proctor, 1827-1844, and for the Chairman,
1827-1845; Registrar's miscellaneous records of class standings and
degree applicants, 1902-1916, 4 vols., "Digest of grades, College, 19051907",
statistical reports, 1906-1918, 2 vols.; and notebooks of the
Registrar containing student names and addresses, 1889-1890 and 18941895;
minutes, 1899-1907 and 1919-1922 of the Academic Committee
of the Faculty, 2 vols.; minutes and resolutions of the Committee on
Contractual Relations, regarding salaries and pensions; minutes and
correspondence of the Committee on Rules and Courses, 1920-1927;
Report of the Committee on the Formation of the University Senate,
7 Dec. 1925; minutes and correspondence of the Research Committee,
1939-1943; correspondence of the Committee on Degrees with Honors,
1941-1943; records of the Committee on Post-war International Problems,
1943-1944, part of a national university program; records of the
Public Occasions Committee, 1945; minutes, reports, and correspondence
of the Committee on a University of Virginia Press, Apr.-Sept.
1945; 4 blueprints, with specifications, for proposed dining hall, cafeteria
and dormitories, 1945-1946.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, GRADUATE DEPARTMENT. 19371941.
1500 items. No. 2613.
Correspondence with prospective graduate students, and general
correspondence of the Dean of the Department of Graduate Studies.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, PHILOSOPHY CLUB. 1940-1942.
1 vol. Deposit (restricted). No. 2606.
Minutes of the club for the current file. Supplements earlier minutes
previously deposited.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, PRESIDENT'S OFFICE. 1904-1933.
200 items and 28 vols. Transferred to Archives from the President's
Office. No. 2636.
Annual reports to the President from academic schools and departments,
1904-1923; correspondence relating to the appointment of
Dr. John Lloyd Newcomb as second President of the University, succeeding
Dr. Edwin Anderson Alderman, 1931-1933. See also separate
entry for addition to Alderman Papers.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, STUDENT ALBUMS. 1851-1854. 2
vols. Coles Collection, and gift of D. Paul Jones. Nos. 2514, 2522, and
2684.
Student autograph abums of James Milton Foreman of Charlestown,
Va., session of 1851-1852; James Selden Alexander, session of
1853-1854; and Thomas W. Jones, session of 1849-1850.
UPSHUR, ABEL PARKER (1791-1844). 1842 April 13. 1 LS. Coles
Collection. No. 2270.
Letter from Upshur as Secretary of the Navy to Lemuel Jenkins,
Albany, N. Y., relating to requirements for midshipmen's appointments.
Other material on Upshur appears in this volume under Upshur
Balderstone Quinby.
VAUGHAN, JOSEPH LEE. 1935-1940. 10 items. Gift of Professor
Vaughan. No. 2327.
Correspondence of Professor Vaughan with Professors John Calvin
Metcalf and Ivey Foreman Lewis, on Dean Metcalf's work and University
affairs; notes on public addresses by John Lloyd Newcomb
and Gen. Hugh S. Johnson.
VIRGINIA COMMERCE. 1785 Aug. 22. Coles Collection. No. 2232.
Letter from Nelson, Heron and Company, merchants, of Norfolk,
Va., to a client, concerning trade and commercial conditions in that
port, shipments of salt and iron received, scarcity of money, and general
dullness. Quotes prices for tobacco, corn, naval stores, rum, sugar,
and molasses.
VIRGINIA COPYRIGHT RECORDS. 1837-1870. Microfilm. Coles
Collection. No. 2687.
Facsimiles of records of the Virginia District Court, and of the Court
of the Eastern District of Virginia, in the Library of Congress, pertaining
to copyrights for books, songs, pamphlets, almanacs and package
labels.
VIRGINIA, HOUSE OF BURGESSES. 1644 Feb. 17. 1 item. McGregor
Library. No. 2261.
Eighteenth century copy of act prohibiting the desertion of plantations,
signed by William Robertson, clerk of the Council, 1705-1720.
VIRGINIA, HOUSE OF BURGESSES. 1651-1652. 1 vol. McGregor
Library. No. 2639.
Six pages of extracts in the hand of Thomas Jefferson, ca. 1774, of
proceedings of the House of Burgesses, from original journals subsequently
destroyed.
"VIRGINIA IN 1612". Ca. 1828. 1 item. Coles Collection. No. 2299.
A fragment of historical fiction submitted by an unidentified author
to J. D. Converse of the Visitor and Telegraph, a religious paper published
in Richmond, 1827-1829.
VIRGINIA LAND SURVEYS. 1794-1795. 1 vol. Coles Collection.
No. 2661.
Field notebook of Alexander Welch, surveyor of Greenbrier County,
of surveys made by him for Robert Morris and John Nicholson of
Philadelphia, Hudson Martin of Charlottesville, and Andrew Moore
of Rockbridge County, of tracts of Montgomery, Greenbrier, and
Kanawha counties in the present state of West Virginia. Includes day-by-day
records of Welch's surveying parties with detailed notes on
boundaries and landmarks, marginal sketch maps of the area traversed,
and four large drawings of surveys made for Morris by his agent in
Virginia, Robert James.
VIRGINIA, REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 1775-1789. 500 items.
Microfilm. Coles Collection. No. 2591.
Papers relating to military, land, and Indian affairs in Virginia during
the Revolutionary War and the Confederation period, as contained
in reports of Virginia Governors and Committees of Safety to
the Continental Congress; from the originals in the Library of Congress.
VIRGINIA SCHOOLS, BIBLE STUDY. 1916-1939. 19 items. Gift
of William M. Forrest. No. 2209.
Records covering the teaching of the Bible in Virginia High Schools,
under supervision of Professor William M. Forrest of the University
of Virginia, 1916-1939: plans for the course, correspondence with
school boards, publicity, certification of teachers, and reports of pupil
progress.
VIRGINIA, SECESSION HISTORY. 1861-1865. 1 vol. Deposit. No.
2221.
Wyndham Robertson's (1803-1888) unpublished history of Virginia's
secession and her part in the Civil War, prepared between 1876 and
1885. Robertson served as Governor of Va., 1836-1837.
VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY. 1946. 5 items. Gift of the Virginia
State Library. No. 2530.
Photoprints of the floor plans of the new State Library building,
with explanatory correspondence.
VIRGINIA STATE PLANNING BOARD. 1926-1939. 4 items. Gift of
Virginia State Planning Board. No. 2455.
Three looseleaf notebooks of material for an "Analysis of Census
Classifications, 1929-1939," mainly statistics on wholesale distribution;
one bundle of photographic charts and tables of statistical data on the
various rural economic areas of the United States.
VIRGINIANS' GRAVES. 1946. 1 item. Gift. No. 2659.
Preliminary mimeographed report by the Virginia State Conservation
Commission on its survey of graves of famous Virginians; arranged
by counties, the report contains 700 names, with the location of graves
indicated where known.
WALDMAN, EMERSON. 1 item. Gift of Mr. Waldman. No. 2549.
Original typescript draft of Mr. Waldman's novel, Beckoning Ridge;
supplements previous gifts of the manuscripts of his earlier novels,
reported in our eleventh and thirteenth volumes.
WALLACE FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1799-1884. 210 items. Deposit.
No. 2689.
Papers of the descendants of Micheal [sic] Wallace of Piedmont,
pioneer eighteenth century settler in Albemarle County, Va., and of
of Goochland County. Court and legal documents of Goochland
County, from the papers of William F. Carter of Runnymede; correspondence
of Deborah Logan (widow of Jefferson's Quaker friend,
Dr. George Logan, who occasioned the "Logan Law") of Stenton, Philadelphia,
with her cousins, Deborah Norris Woodson and Maria Virginia
Carter, of Goochland, 1829-1837; Civil War letters of George
Wallace and Charles J. Wallace of Piedmont, regarding camp life, army
movements, and prison life at Point Lookout, Maryland; genealogical
and family correspondence.
WAR OF 1812. 1814-1816. 1 item. Coles Collection. No. 2232.
Account of the United States with William Walker, paymaster of
the 68th Regiment of Virginia militia for advances of pay, subsistence,
and forage endorsed by Governor Wilson Cary Nicholas, 15 Jan. 1816.
WASHINGTON LITERARY SOCIETY. 1848 June 28. 1 item. Coles
Collection. No. 2312.
Announcement of Washington Society Valedictory Oration, University
of Virginia.
WAYLAND, JOHN WALTER. 1914-1945. 2500 items. Gift of Dr.
Wayland. No. 2386.
Letters, memoranda, notes, and clippings, regarding the preparation
and publication of Dr. Wayland's historical works. See also the
twelfth and thirteenth volumes of the Annual Report.
WEDEMEYER, ALBERT COADY. 1946 Dec. 9. 1 ALS. Gift of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert M. Jeffress. No. 2577.
To Mrs. Robert M. Jeffress from the commanding general of the
Second Army (former commander of U. S. Ground Forces in the CBI
theatre), from Second Army Headquarters, Baltimore.
WEEDON, GEN. GEORGE (ca. 1730-1793). 1783-1793. 1 vol. McGregor
Library. No. 2525.
Account book of the Fredericksburg, Va., innkeeper who became a
brigadier general in the Continental Army. Entries for personal and
household expenditures; tavern expenses; transactions by Weedon as
the executor of the estate of General Hugh Mercer, Fredericksburg
pharmacist and Revolutionary general; accounts for sales of cordwood,
payment of church tithes and sheriff's fees; and various commercial
Fredericksburg Academy, the Masons, lottery tickets, military land
warrants, and iron forges. Correspondents include the business firms
of Fletcher and Sunderland, Lecost & Brumfield, Lilly & Fisher, Sunderland
& Gibson, and Young & Hyde, as well as the following individuals:
Col. John Baylor, Thomas Clark, George Fitzhugh, Mrs. Margaret
Gordon, Capt. John Legg, Capt. George Lewis, John Lewis, Philip
Lipscomb, Thomas Marshall (father of the Chief Justice), Fontaine
Maury, Mrs. Isabella Mercer, William Mercer, James Monroe, Mann
Page, Nathaniel Twining, James Walker, and Dr. Robert Wellford.
WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE (1866-1945). 1906-1914. 340 items.
Deposit. No. 2637.
Correspondence of Mrs. H. G. (Catherine) Wells, concerning publication
of her husband's works, in Britain, on the continent, and in
the United States. Includes material on translation of Well's works into
Dutch, German, French, Spanish, and Russian; copyright and publication
arrangements in England, Holland, Germany, France, the
United States, and New Zealand. Correspondents include C. F. Cazenove,
G. H. Perrins, J. L. Phillips, the American Magazine, Horace
Horsnell of London, and L. Simons of Amsterdam.
WESLEY CHURCH, ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VA. 1933 July 30.
1 item. Gift of Mrs. Charles A. Miller. No. 2380.
Historical sketch of an early Methodist Church in Albemarle County,
Va., a typescript read by the late Bessie Dunn Miller at Wesley
Church's centennial celebration.
WHITE, ALEXANDER (ca. 1738-1804). ALS. 1788 Nov. 5. Coles
Collection. No. 2203.
To Miss Mary Wood, Frederick, Md. White, a delegate to the sessions
of the Virginia General Assembly (1788), which close Senators and
Representatives for the first Congress under the Constitution, discusses
party politics in the Assembly, mentioning James Madison, Richard
Henry Lee, and Colonel [William] Grayson.
WHITEHEAD MEDICAL SOCIETY. 1922-1930. 1 vol. Gift. No.
2611.
Minute book, constitution, and by-laws of an association of University
of Virginia medical students formed to further the study of cultural
Dr. Richard Henry Whitehead (1865-1916), Professor of Anatomy and
Dean of Medicine in the University, 1905-1916.
WILLIAMS FAMILY. 1843-1890. 30 items. Gift of John Shepperd.
No. 2480.
Business papers of Richard H. Williams and his family of Fluvanna
and Albemarle counties; the accounts mention members of the Bledsoe,
Omohundro, Timberlake and Walker families.
WILLIAMSBURG BOOKSELLERS. 1750-1770. 10 items. Coles Collection.
No. 2561.
Photostats from the Library of Congress of specimen pages from the
ledger of [Purdie and Dixon], booksellers of Williamsburg, Va., and
publishers of the Virginia Gazette. Shows purchases by Col. Lewis
Burwell, William Byrd III, Charles Carter, Dr. Peter Hay, Col. Philip
Ludwell, W[illiam] Preston, John Randolph, the Rev. William Smith,
and others.
WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER (1806-1867). n.d. 1 Holograph.
Gift of Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 2587.
Author's draft of short story, "The Need of Two Loves", 24 pp.
WILMER, RICHARD HOOK (1816-1900). 1874-1878. 5 ALS. Coles
Collection. No. 2479.
From the noted Bishop of Alabama to William D. Ely, concerning
personal and pastoral matters.
WILSON, THOMAS WOODROW (1856-1924). 1881-1920. 3 items.
Gifts of Henry T Barron, John Lloyd Newcomb, and Hiden Ramsey.
Nos. 2559, 2640, and 2649.
Sketch by Mr. Barron of Wilson's career as a lawyer in Chillicothe,
Ohio, 1881-1882, as related to him in 1912 by Wilson's uncle, Henry
Wilson Woodrow, who advised the future president to discontinue his
law practice and go into college teaching. ALS of Senator John Sharp
Williams of Mississippi, 4 Nov. 1911, to Dr. Hiden Ramsey, University
of Virginia, endorsing the candidacy of Woodrow Wilson for President,
a "radical" being preferable to "a too conservative one". LS of Wilson,
6 March 1920, to the President and Faculty, University of Virginia,
commending the work of their colleague, Professor Thomas Walker
See also the James Bryce entry.
WIRT-CARRINGTON LETTERS. 1819-1831. 1 vol. Gift of John H.
Guy. No. 2546.
Copies of letters from Laura H. Wirt, daughter of Attorney General
William Wirt, and later wife of Judge Thomas Randall, to Louisa Elizabeth
Cabell, daughter of William H. Cabell and wife of Henry Carrington,
describing social life in Washington; receptions at the White
House; impressions of the Cabinet and of diplomatic and congressional
figures; and affairs of the Cabell, Carrington and Wirt families. Mention
of dueling, visits of Indian tribes to the capitol, circuses, dentists,
Scott's novels, horse racing, and bathing at Old Point Comfort. These
letters supplement related correspondence in the Cabell-Carrington
manuscripts.
WOLFE, THOMAS (1900-1938). Ca. 1936. Microfilm. Gift of John
Miller. No. 2571.
Typescript draft of a lecture by Wolfe at Purdue University, on his
experiences as an author, and his ideas on the craft of the novel; with
a letter from Edward C. Asedell, of Harper and Bros., 2 Dec. 1946, to
John Miller, concerning the drafts of the speech.
WOOD, [J]. 1815. 1 vol. McGregor Library. No. 2503.
Journal of "A tour to the Northern States in the Summer of 1815
through Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania."
Wood appears to have owned a plantation, the Thicket, near
Savannah, Ga. His journal contains observations and impressions of
northern customs, institutions, intellectual life, entertainment, travel
conditions, agricultural methods, cotton textile manufacturing; notes
and drawings of spinning and carding machine, and of a sugar cane;
frequent references to people met on the tour, including [Charles] and
[Nicholas] Biddle, Langdon Cheves, John Rutledge, Benjamin Silliman,
and Eli Whitney.
WORLD WAR I. 1918. 300 items. Transfer from President's Office to
Archives. No. 2636.
File of daily personal reports of enlisted men in the Student Army
Training Corps, University of Virginia, 1 Aug.-22 Dec. 1918.
WORLD WAR II. 1941-1945. 1500 items. Transfers to Archives, and
gifts of Miss Isabella N. Burnet, Mrs. Tazewell M. Carrington, Jr.,
Atcheson L. Hench, William Kepner, Joseph L. Vaughan, and Gordon
T. Whyburn. No. 2200.
Records of the Pre-Meteorological Training Unit at the University
of Virginia, including Army Air Forces Training Command directives
and class reports on trainees, 1942-1943. Air raid warden's file of O. C. D.
directives, with miscellaneous material of the air raid defense post in
Charlottesville, Va., 1941-1945. Commendation to the University of
Virginia for its conduct of the V-12 Naval training program, signed
by James Forrestal, June 1946. Distinguished Service Certificate awarded
to the University of Virginia by the Bureau of Ordnance, U. S. Navy,
December 1945, for the war-time accomplishments of the Rouss Physical
Laboratory. About 500 letters (use of one group restricted) from
Alumni and Virginians in the armed forces, together with clippings
concerning military accomplishments of Virginians.
WORLD WAR II PROPAGANDA COLLECTION. 1939-1945. 3200
items. Gifts of Kenneth S. Giniger and William S. Weedon. Nos. 2231,
2365, and 2673.
Posters, pictures, and broadsides issued by the British Ministry of
Information for propaganda purposes in Europe, South America, and
the Middle East. Includes posters, broadsides, prints of the royal family,
British leaders, and various representations of British forces and
weapons, with captions in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian,
Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. Several broadsides addressed to
Catholics in South America and Spain, exposing the anti-religious
program of the Nazis. Propaganda leaflets and "surrender passes" used
by the United States Army in Germany, and a leaflet in Japanese carrying
President Truman's message of June, 1945, demanding surrender.
These materials supplement the catalogued periodicals, books, and
pamphlets on the same subject which the library has collected. The
thirteenth volume of the Annual Report records a notable gift of wartime
broadsides from the Hon. E. R. Stettinius, Jr.
WYLLIE FAMILY. 1 item. Photostat. Gift of Mrs. Anne Atkinson-Chamberlayne.
No. 2543.
Genealogical chart of the descendants of Hugh Wyllie of Charlotte
County, Va., from original compiled by Mrs. Fannie Wyllie Botts, of
Norfolk, Va.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. 1937-1945. 1 vol.
Deposit. No. 2641.
Minute book of the Board of Directors of the Young Men's Christian
Association of the University of Virginia.
YORKTOWN, VIRGINIA. 1691 and 1905. 4 items. Gift of William
B. McGroarty. No. 2340.
Photostats of survey of Yorktown, and of recent versions in modern
script, showing the original town lots and their owners.
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