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MATERIALS ACQUIRED
1 July 1947 to 30 June 1949
ADAMS, ABIGAIL (1744-1818). 1813 Apr. 24. 1 ALS. Deposit. No.
2604.
Letter of condolence to Mrs. Benjamin Rush on the death of her
husband.
ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1865-1870. 1 vol. Deposit.
No. 2921.
Typescript essay by Rufus Barringer, "The Reconstruction Period
(1865-1870) in Albemarle County, Virginia," written as a senior
thesis, Princeton University, 1947.
ALBEMARLE COUNTY. 1866-1870. 1 vol. Gift of Miss Sarepta
Moran. No. 3084.
Fragmentary journal kept at a general store at White Hall,
Albemarle County, Va., and at "Piedmont," 1866-1870.
ALBEMARLE COUNTY. 1916-1919. 1 vol. Gift of John N. Fray.
No. 3017.
Account book listing road warrants, supervisor's warrants, and
other fiscal transactions by the county.
ALBEMARLE COUNTY, CEMETERIES. 1814-1929. 1 vol. Deposit.
No. 2956.
Lists of the gravestones in Albemarle County cemeteries, compiled
by Mrs. Jennie Thornley Grayson; notes on the gravestones
in Amherst, Buckingham, Fauquier, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, and
Orange cemeteries.
ALBEMARLE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY COLLECTIONS.
The manuscripts owned by the Society, and deposited in the
Alderman Library for safekeeping, 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
published annually since March 1941.
ALDERMAN, EDWIN ANDERSON (1861-1931). 1905-1931.
26,000 items. Transfer from President's Office. No. 2636.
Official and personal files as President of the University of Virginia,
1905-1931, and of his activities on the Southern Education
Board, 1905-1907. Other archives pertaining to the presidency of
the University are separately entered under John Lloyd Newcomb,
and University of Virginia.
ALDERMAN, EDWIN ANDERSON (1861-1931). 1912-1929. 285
items. Transfer from President's Office. No. 2739.
Personal letters written to Alderman in 1912-13 during his recuperation
at Saranac Lake, N. Y., by Josephus Daniels, Charles
W. Eliot, Jean Jusserand, Karl Bitter, Franklin Knight Lane,
Oswald Garrison Villard, Hamilton W. Mabie, George F. Peabody,
and others.
ALEXANDRIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1825 Apr. 19. 1 item. Gift
of Mrs. Raleigh T. Green. No. 3079.
Certificate by County Justices Amos Alexander and N. S. Wise
of examination of Rachel J. (Mrs. Townshend) Waugh and Mrs.
Catherine B. (Mrs. Beverly) Waugh, in connection with a deed
of 1822.
ALFRIEND, SHADRACH. 1825. 2 ALS. Deposit. No. 2750.
To his wife, Eliza B. Alfriend, and her brother, Dr. Peter Woodward,
Petersburg, Va., describing a journey through pioneer
Alabama in pursuit of a debtor, with references to Catawba, Coosa
Valley, Mobile, Montgomery, Selma, and Shelby Springs.
AMHERST COUNTY, VIRGINIA, ELECTION OF 1844. 4 items.
Deposit. No. 2947.
Party tickets of the Virginia Whigs and Democrats in the Polk-Clay
campaign; manuscript lists of votes cast at Pedlar's Mills for
presidential electors and congressmen during that campaign.
AMHERST COUNTY, VIRGINIA, MILITIA. 1844 May 4. 1 item.
Gift of H. Minor Davis. No. 2920.
Annual return of the 90th Virginia Militia, Charles P. Lee commanding,
with breakdown by infantry, artillery, and cavalry. Company
officers listed include Joseph Coleman, N. D. Flood, Peter
Flood, A. C. Harrison, Paulus Harrison, Thomas G. Hill, Robert
Isbell, James R. Jones, Robert R. Kyle, Robert H. Mantiply, E. W.
Morris, G. H. Page, and Ralph C. Shelton.
APOTHECARY'S ACCOUNTS. 1834-1836. 1 vol. Gift of Miss
Ellen W. Goss. No. 2745.
Ledger kept by [F. T. Goss, Charlottesville, Va.] for sales of drugs
and medicines. Accounts with Benjamin Johnson Barbour, Thomas
Barbour, John Brockenbrough, James Barbour, John Coles, Wilson
M. Cary, Martin Dawson, John Fry, John A. G. Davis, Charles
Lewis, John B. Minor, Charles Minor, Lucian Minor, James Magruder,
George Tucker, and others.
APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENT. 1817 Aug. 27. 1 DS. Gift of
Frank C. Littleton. No. 3248.
Terms for the apprenticeship of Thomas R. Patten to Elisha
Dick, apothecary in Alexandria County, Va.
ARABIC MANUSCRIPT. 17th century. 1 vol. Gift of John C.
Wyllie. No. 2741.
"Book of the Lamed One," a seventeenth century Arabic manuscript
in modern binding.
ARITHMETIC BOOK. 1821. 1 vol. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Ford.
No. 2939.
Manuscript arithmetic book, containing problems and solutions
by Joseph Jones, Coeymans, N. Y.
ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822-1888). 1864-1890. 37 ALS. Deposit
(restricted). No. 2910.
Eleven letters to Victor Marshall; others to Thomas Ashby, Charles
Edwards, Charles Kent, the Rev. William Knight, Eugene Oswald,
Stanhope Sprigg and R. C. Winthrop.
ASH LAWN. 1838-1849. 1 vol. Deposit. No. 2794.
Farm journal of John B. Garrett kept at Ash Lawn, near Charlottesville,
Va., with entries on sowing, harvesting, crop rotation,
farming materials, and lists of livestock, slaves, and household goods.
There are also notes on Whig politics in Virginia, with tabulations
of voting in the presidential elections of 1844 and 1848.
ATKINSON, ROGER (1725-1784). 1769-1776. 1 vol. Gift of
Thomas W. Atkinson. No. 3238.
Letterbook of a James River tobacco factor, containing much
information on the tobacco trade prior to the American Revolution
and with some reference to the Virginia Assembly in 1776. Correspondents
include: Thomas Deane; Dixon & Littledale; Dobson,
Daltera & Walker; Farrell & Jones; Benson Fearon; John Gale;
Matthew Gale; Samuel Gist; Joseph Glaister; Hyndman & Lancaster;
Lyonel & Samuel Lyde; Samuel Martin; Samuel Pleasants;
John Ponsonby; and George Stalker.
ATOMIC ENERGY. 1945 June. 5 items. Photostat. Gift of the U. S.
Dept. of Commerce. No. 2788.
Reports, charts, and articles by scientists and technicians working
on various phases of the development and production of atomic
energy, including Enrico Fermi, "Elementary theory of the pile;"
D. E. Hull, "Counting method of isotopic analysis of uranium;"
A. C. Klein, "Atomic bomb engineering;" Harold Urey, I. Kirshenbaum,
and J. S. Smith, "New data relating to the separation of
nitrogen isotopes;" C. R. McCullough and E. E. Hawk, "Daniels
atomic power plant."
AUTOGRAPHS. 1761-1889. 16 items. Deposit. No. 2604.
Documents and manuscripts signed by such distinguished Americans
and Europeans as Matthew Arnold; Phineas T. Barnum;
Louis Blanc; Peter Cooper; William Dean Howells; John, Lord
North; John Pitt, Second Earl of Chatham; Charles Reade; Robert
Smith; Alexander Hamilton Stephens; Harriet Beecher Stowe;
Frances Trollope; and William Wilberforce.
AYDELOTTE, BENJAMIN P. (1795-1880). [1850]. 1 item. Gift of
M. H. Urner. No. 2930.
Manuscript list of charges for various operations, treatments, and
other services, which were recommended to the Medical Society
of the County of New York by Dr. Aydelotte.
AYLETT FAMILY. 1835-1880. 600 items and 6 vols. Deposit. No.
3071.
Family letters, scrapbooks, ledgers, and business correspondence
of the Aylett Family of King William County, Va., particularly of
General Philip Aylett, his wife Judith Page Waller Aylett, and his
sons, Patrick Henry Aylett (1825-1870) and William Roane Aylett
(1832-1890), lawyer and lieutenant-colonel of the 53rd Virginia
Volunteers in the Civil War.
BACON, FRANCIS (1561-1626). 1939. 3 vols. Typescript. Deposit.
No. 3158.
"A Tribute to Francis Bacon" by Frederick Van Wyck, an unpublished
manuscript dealing with the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy.
BAGBY, JOHN HAMPDEN CHAMBERLAYNE (1867-1934).
1948. 1 typescript. Gift of Joseph D. Eggleston. No. 2699.
Dr. Eggleston's reminiscences of Professor Bagby's student days
at the University of Virginia, 1890-1891, and the beginning of his
teaching career at Hampden-Sydney, 1895-1910.
BALLAD. [1870]. 1 item. Gift of Armistead Churchill Gordon, Jr.
No. 2884.
Typescript copy of a ballad, "Old Rosin the Beau," a song popular
in the 1870's, with historical notes by Frank P. Brent of Richmond,
Va.
BALTIMORE MERCHANTS. [1771-1830]. 100 items. Coles Collection.
No. 3029.
Miscellaneous manuscripts, chiefly letters written to Baltimore
commission merchants, including Mark Alexander, Robert Danny,
Robert Gilmore & Son, George Gale, John Killey, John Kitty, Samuel
and Robert Purviance, and George Welch. Included also are
some papers of Matthew Blair; Sylvanus Bourne of Amsterdam;
Leroy & Bayard of New York City; and Willing & Francis of Philadelphia.
BALZ, ALBERT GEORGE ADAM. 1947-1948. 6 items and 3 vols.
Gift of Professor Balz. No. 2218.
Typescript drafts of his books and articles on philosophy, including
Part I and Book VIII of "Descartes and Modernity;" "Science,
Metaphysics and Myth" (published as "Nature, Knowledge and
Myth," Journal of Philosophy, May 1946); "Relations between
Philosophy and Psychology" (Psychological Review, March 1948);
"Man-Thomistic and Cartesian" (Review of Religion, May 1947);
and his translation of Jean Du Hamel's De Corpore Animato, Paris,
1673.
BANCROFT, GEORGE (1800-1891). 1836 Apr. 8. 1 ALS. Coles
Collection. No. 2824.
A note of thanks to James Madison, following Bancroft's visit
to Montpelier.
BANCROFT, GEORGE (1800-1891). 1873-1877. 2 ALS. Gift of
Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 3085.
Letter written as American Minister to Berlin to an unidentified
classmate at Harvard, 3 July 1873, concerning pay and emoluments
of members of the German parliament—"the system of representative
government has been perfectly successful in Germany
and has commended itself irrevocably." Letter to H. B. Pierce,
Secretary of State of Massachusetts, requesting information on action
of Massachusetts in 1785 for a constitutional convention, preparatory
to writing History of the Formation of the Constitution . . . , 6
September 1877.
BANKHEAD, CHARLES LEWIS. 1812-1831. 1 vol. Gift of Robert
Hill Carter. No. 2730.
Account book kept at Port Royal, Va., and at Carlton, Albemarle
County, Va., where Bankhead lived with his wife, Anne Cary Randolph
Bankhead, granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. Contains
farm and labor accounts and notes of domestic expenditures.
BARBOUR, JAMES. 1828 July 12. 1 ALS. Coles Collection. No.
3033.
Request to John S. Skinner of Baltimore for assistance in arranging
passage to Europe.
BARBOUR, PHILIP PENDLETON (1783-1841). 1816 Nov. 17.
1 ALS. Coles Collection. No. 3060.
To Joseph Gales, of Gales and Seaton, concerning Barbour's stand
on the Compensation Bill of 1816 by which the Fifteenth Congress
voted itself a pay increase.
BARRETT LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION. Gift
of Clifton Waller Barrett, No. 2587.
Autograph letters, poems, stories, and other manuscripts of American
authors as described elsewhere in this report under the following
headings: George Bancroft, Louis Bromfield, John Esten Cooke,
Stephen Crane, Peter Force, Henry Blake Fuller, Fitzhugh Lee,
Sinclair Lewis, Benson J. Lossing, Bill Nye, Jared Sparks, and John
Reuben Thompson.
BARRINGER, PAUL BRANDON (1857-1941). 2 items. Gift of
Miss Anna Barringer. No. 3031.
Manuscript notes by Dr. Barringer on the cause and cure of drug
addiction. List of the duties of the house staff at the University of
Virginia Hospital.
BATH COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1856-1857. 1 vol. Gift of Royden
A. Blunt. No. 2998.
Portions of the ledger of a general store, found in the vicinity of
Hot Springs.
BATTLE, JOHN STEWART. 1948 Aug. 6. 1 item. Typescript.
Gift of Miss Clarice Snead. No. 2999.
An address by Senator Battle on public education in Virginia,
given as a part of a panel held at Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg.
BAUGH FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1756(1820-1895)1942. 2500
items and 35 vols. Gift of Miss Ethel R. Baugh, and a deposit. Nos.
2800 and 2833.
Additional business, legal, and family letters of the Baugh family
of Abingdon, Va., especially of Leonidas Baugh (1816-1884),
postmaster, printer, and editor of the Abingdon Democrat, with
much material on economic and social conditions in southwest
Virginia during and after the Civil War, journalistic and postal
activities in Abingdon, operation of Abingdon Democrat, and land
speculation in Alabama. Ledgers, journals, and account books, 18161880.
Correspondents include Ida Baugh, Minerva Baugh, Leonidas
Baugh, J. F. Baugh, Lizzie Baugh, W. G. Bishop, F. B. Deane, Jr.,
William R. Duff, William Dunn, Samuel V. Fulkerson, Mrs. Letitia
Floyd, Edward Fulton, William K. [Hushee], William Preston Johnston,
William King, Jacob Lynch, F. McMullen, William Mahone,
James F. Maiden, John Maiden, William H. Morrison, R. M.
Page, Theodore G. Pearson, John G. Simpson, William C. Thornton,
John W. C. Watson, and Joseph Woods. Previous acquisitions
of Baugh manuscripts are described in the sixth and eighth annual
reports.
BELGIAN CONGO. 1906-1910. 14 items. Gift of Christian S. Hutter,
Jr. No. 2604.
Letters and post cards from Miss Bertha Stebbins of New Orleans,
describing her experiences as a missionary.
BELGIUM, ECONOMIC AFFAIRS. 1944-1946. 355 items. Gift of
Robert Smith Simpson. No. 2897.
Material on trade unions and the socialist movements in Belgium
at the close of World War II and immediately afterwards, consisting
largely of clippings, posters, and broadsides.
BELL BOOKSTORE RECORDS. 1809-1899. 58 vols. Gift of Meredith
Johnson. No. 2989.
Business records of Robert Bell, bookseller and printer of Alexandria,
Va., and of his sons Lewis McKensie and Robert Bell, Jr., including
accounts for books and stationary and for printing. Accounts
of Robert Bell, Jr., as deputy collector of customs, Alexandria, Va.,
1862-1863. Poetry book of Lewis McKensie Bell, 1859.
BERGLUND, ABRAHAM. 1911-1942. 700 items. Gift of Professor
Berglund's estate. Nos. 1984 and 3115.
Manuscripts of Abraham Berglund, Professor of Commerce and
Business Administration, University of Virginia, containing correspondence;
class notes; and manuscript, typed copy, and proof of
his articles and books on economic theory, foreign trade, tariff, and
shipping. Included in this group are some of the correspondence,
stories, poems, and plays of his wife, Edna Berglund.
BERKELEY FAMILY of Barn Elms. 1662-1893 195 items. Deposit.
No. 2746.
Additional papers of the first, second, and third Edmund Berkeley
of Barn Elms, Middlesex County, Va., and their descendants, especially
Lewis Berkeley of Aldie, Loudoun County, and his son Col.
Edmund Berkeley, C. S. A., of Evergreen, Prince William County,
Va. The items include a patent from Gov. Sir William Berkeley to
Ralph Greene for 350 acres of land in New Kent County, 1662;
diaries and account books of William Noland as Commissioner of
Public Buildings, Washington, D. C., and documents relating to
Noland's lands in Arkansas. The principal group of papers relates
to the post-Civil War activities of Col. Edmund Berkeley, and includes
manuscripts of addresses, poetry, and short stories by Colonel
Berkeley. Among the correspondents in this collection are G. G.
Armistead, Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard, William Brent, Jr., Elizabeth
Churchill, John Warwick Daniel, Gen. Jubal A. Early, Gen. Eppa
Hunton, Eppa Hunton, Jr., Andrew Johnson, Fitzhugh Lee, W. H.
F. Lee, Craven Luckett, P. H. Mayo, John Singleton Mosby, Maj.
Burr Powell, Thomas Nelson Page, and Roger Brooke Taney. See
also previous annual reports.
BERKELEY-NOLAND MANUSCRIPTS. 1790-1850. 650 items. Deposit.
No. 2718.
Family correspondence and business papers of Thomas Nelson
Berkeley (1793-1823) and Nelson Berkeley (1776-1849) of Airwell,
Hanover County, Va., and of Maj. William Noland of Aldie, Loudoun
County, Va., who long served as Commissioner of Public
Buildings, Washington, D. C. There is material on Noland's management
of Lewis Berkeley's estates, his business affairs in Loudoun
County, Va., his land holdings in Independence County, Ark., and
transactions in their behalf in Loudoun County, 1817-1824, and in
Washington, D. C., 1837-1838. There are many letters from Noland's
children and from his business and political associates, who include:
James Barbour, Edmonia Churchill Berkeley, Carter Burwell Berkeley,
Elizabeth Edmonia Berkeley, Edmund Berkeley, Hugh C. Boggs,
Joseph Caldwell, Jasper S. Clayton, Andrew Jackson Donelson, John
Duncan, Martha Duncan, William Irvine, Andrew Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Jr., Edward Magaurand, William Meade, Charles Fenton
Mercer, John Minor, James Monroe, Richard Channing Moore,
Callender Noland, Lloyd Noland, William H. Noland, Burr Powell,
Mrs. Frances Reid, Andrew Stevenson, Mary Thompson, William
Twisdale, and Edmund Tyler.
BEVERLEY, ROBERT (1673-1722). [Ca. 1796]. 1 vol. Coles Collection.
No. 3180.
Manuscript notebook on Beverley's History of Virginia by John
Leeds Bozman, author of "The History of Maryland . . . ."
BEVERLEY, ROBERT. 1809-1831. 41 items. McGregor Library.
No. 2988.
Business, family and personal correspondence and indentures
concerned in part with the estate of Gen. George Washington; six
letters to Francis James Jackson, British Ambassador to U. S., concerning
Anglo-American relations, 1809-1810; and other correspondence
with Briscoe G. Baldwin, P. P. Barbour, Thomas Barton,
William Brooke, John Campbell, Ralph Edmonds, Thomas Gresham,
John Taylor Lomax, William McFarlane, William Moffitt,
Samuel Templeman, Bushrod Washington, Mrs. Sarah Washington,
James Wilson.
BIDDLE, NICHOLAS (1786-1844). 1818-1819. 6 ALS. Coles Collection.
No. 2717.
Six letters to James Monroe regarding relations of the United
States and of Russia with Latin America, the filibustering expedition
of the L'Allemands, and affairs in Chile. The letters comment
on party politics in Pennsylvania, the Congressional election of 1818,
and the part played by the state during the War of 1812.
BIRCKHEAD MANUSCRIPTS. 1821-1899. 700 items. Deposit. No.
2883.
Personal and professional correspondence and accounts of Dr.
Edward Birckhead, physician of Rio, Albemarle County, Va.; personal
correspondence of Mrs. Edward F. Birckhead and Millie Birckhead.
BLAIR, JOHN (1687-1771). 1768 Sept. 20. 1 DS. Deposit. No. 3236.
Land grant from George III to John Dowell for 128 acres of land
in Louisa County signed by John Blair, Acting Governor.
BLAKEY, ROBERT (1795-1878). 1817-1850. 5 vols. Deposit. No.
2973.
Five manuscripts volumes of the English writer on logic, philosophy,
and political economy including "The Old Vicarage", lectures
on logic and metaphysics, political essays.
BLAND, THEODORICK (1742-1790). 1741-1787. 23 items. Deposit.
No. 3026.
Manuscripts collected by Edmund Ruffin (1794-1865) relating to
Theodorick Bland, Revolutionary soldier of Prince George County,
Va. The collection includes letters from prominent Virginians of
the 18th century, particularly during the Revolutionary period, and
includes documents relating to the Prince George Militia and to the
Hessian prisoners quartered in Albemarle County, who were under
Bland's guard. Among the correspondents are Col. Charles Armand,
Anne Blair, Rev. Jacob Duché, Robert Dobson, Thomas Jefferson,
John Page, Edmund Randolph, Richard Randolph, Joseph Reed,
Baron Friedrich von Riedesel, Archibald Robertson, General Specht,
St. George Tucker, John Tyler, Robert Walker, and the Marchioness
de Waldegrave.
BLEDSOE, ALBERT TAYLOR (1809-1877). [1860]-1878. 2 items.
Deposit. No. 2808.
Typescript copy of the memorandum book of the Assistant Secretary
of War in the Confederate Government, protagonist of slavery,
and editor of the Southern Review, containing comments on great
contemporaries; from the original in private hands. Scrapbook of
clippings and obituaries, compiled by his wife, Emily Dinwiddie
deposited in 1938.
BLOOMFIELD ACADEMY. 1857-1880. 2 vols. Coles Collection. No.
3162.
Gradebook, matriculation records, and ledger of the Charlottesville
academy.
BOLIVAR, SIMON (1783-1830). [1822?]. 1 item. Gift of James C.
Bardin. No. 2977.
Typescript copy of notes by the "Liberator," regarding the education
of his nephew, Fernando Bolivar, who was a student at the
University of Virginia, 1827-1828. From the original in private
hands.
BOTTS, JOHN MINOR (1802-1869). 1840 Aug. 29. 1 item. Coles
Collection. No. 2861.
Contemporary copy of letter to an unidentified northern Whig,
concerning the election of 1840 and the prospects for a Whig victory
in Virginia.
BOULDIN, EDWIN E. 1838-1906. 3 vols. Deposit. No. 3065.
Manuscript reminiscences of Edwin E. Bouldin of Charlotte
County, Va., and later of Danville, Va., concerning his experiences
in Texas and in the 14th Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., 1838-1906.
BRADLEY, SAMUEL (1796-1880). 1787 (1812)-1880. 366 items.
Gift of Mrs. William F. Perry. No. 3040.
Personal and professional papers of Dr. Bradley, physician, temperance
advocate, postmaster, state legislator, 1822-1823, and Mason
of Parma, later of Greece, Monroe County, N. Y., including his class
notes and exercises as a student at Ballston Academy and at Union
College, Schenectady, N. Y.; medical notes; diagnoses and records
of children delivered by him; articles and speeches on temperance,
African colonization, education, religion, the Bradley family, and
the history of the Parma Church; fragmentary verse and a commonplace
book. There are also letters of Abraham Bartlett of Augusta,
N. Y.; Fanny Barber of Sheldon; William Bradley, Samuel's son,
later of Evanston, Ill.; Sally Crane; and Lawrence Parker of Oswego.
BRECKINRIDGE, JAMES (1763-1833). 1788-1828. 141 items. Gift
to the Albemarle County Historical Society by Mrs. A. A. McCorkle.
No. 2752.
Letters to the Federalist leader of Fincastle, Botetourt County,
Va., from relatives and business and political associates, regarding
Breckinridge's education at William and Mary, the struggle for ratification
of the Constitution in Virginia and Kentucky, politics in
western Virginia and Kentucky, 1790-1810, American-Spanish relations
in the Mississippi Valley, and land transactions in Botetourt
and Montgomery Counties, Va., and in Bourbon and Fayette Counties,
Ky. Correspondents includes James Brown, John Brown (of
Rockbridge County, Va., and Kentucky), George Hancock, Benjamin
Howard, John McCampbell, Elijah McClanahan, Francis
Preston, John Smith (of Botetourt County, Va.), John Stuart, and
Allen Taylor.
BRISCOE FAMILY. 1776-1920. 3 items. Photostat. Gift of Mrs. L.
H. Timmons. No. 3018.
Genealogical chart of the Briscoe family of Virginia, California,
and Illinois.
BROADSIDES. Coles Collection, McGregor Library, deposits, and
gifts of Frank C. Littleton, Mrs. Mary McN. Smith, Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr., and Dr. B. Randolph Wellford. No. 2804.
While the bulk of the broadsides annually acquired by the library
is too great for full cataloguing, a few of the rarer and more important
items are fully catalogued, and a somewhat larger number are
filed chronologically. Among these groups, the following are worthy
of special mention: lottery tickets issued by the Washington City
Canal Company in 1798, the New York State Third Lottery in 1804,
and by the Virginia State Navigation Lottery, Lynchburg, Va., in
1827; a membership card in the Workingmen's Protective Union,
an early labor organization, 20 November 1847; a campaign broadside
issued during John H. Bell's contest for the attorney-generalship
of Tennessee, 3 May 1854; proclamation of Benito Juarez of
Mexico, concerning currency reforms, 27 November 1867; "The
Battle of New Orleans", a pro-White League account of the riots
against the Reconstruction administration of Mayor W. P. Kellogg,
by Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Littleton in connection with their
activities in bond drives and other civilian phases of the war; proclamation
by President William V. S. Tubman, president of Liberia,
announcing a celebration of the country's centennial, 26 July 1947.
The library has received a gift of photoprints of lottery tickets
from the collection of Dr. B. Randolph Wellford of Richmond, Va.,
including tickets issued in connection with William Byrd's Lottery,
1767; the Mountain Road Lottery, signed by George Washington,
1768; the Dismal Swamp Canal Lottery, 1827; the Louisiana State
Lottery of 1887; and local lotteries at Fredericksburg, Petersburg,
and the College of William and Mary.
BROADUS, JOHN ALBERT (1827-1895). 1859 Mar. 31. 1 ALS.
Coles Collection. No. 3101.
From the professor and chaplain of the University of Virginia,
and professor and president of the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Louisville, Ky., to Elder David Shaver, editor of the Religious
Herald, regarding an editorial about William H. McGuffey.
BROMFIELD, LOUIS. 1929. 1 vol. Gift of Clifton Waller Barrett.
No. 2862.
Final typescript draft of his novel, "Shattered Glass," published
as Twenty-Four Hours; also five letters and telegrams from Bromfield
to William Lengel of Cosmopolitan Magazine, regarding publication.
BROOKS, CLEANTH. 1947 Oct. 31. 1 item. Gift of U. J. Peters
Rushton. No. 2763.
Typescript draft, "Poetry in the Age of Anxiety", delivered as one
of the series of McGregor Room Seminars in Contemporary Prose
and Poetry, sponsored by the Schools of English, University of
Virginia.
BROOKS, SAMUEL. 1803-1804. 1 item. Gift of George B. Cutten.
No. 2864.
"Outwitting the counterfeiters", typescript by Mr. Cutten, relating
to the activities of Samuel Brooks, Richmond engraver, in foiling
the attempt by Thomas Logwood and others to issue counterfeit
of Gov. John Page's letter, commending Brooks, 20 April 1804.
BROWN vs. BARRY. 1797. 2 items. Coles Collection. No. 2866.
Manuscript copies of papers pertaining to the case of Barry vs.
Brown, brought in the U. S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia
at Richmond, Va., June 1797, and papers of the appeal, Brown
vs. Barry, brought in the U. S. Supreme Court, August 1797. This
suit involved a non-acceptance by James Barry of James Brown's bill
of exchange on Donald & Burton of London, and two conflicting
statutes on indebtedness passed by the Virginia Assembly in 1792.
James Iredell presided over proceedings of the Circuit Court, Oliver
Ellsworth over those of the Supreme Court. The decision of the
Supreme Court, sustaining the lower court's decision in favor of
Barry, is available in Dallas' Reports 3. 365. Among those mentioned
in these papers are Andrew Clow and Co., Joseph Hadfield, and
Hector Kennedy.
BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859). 1884 Oct. 15. 1 item. Gift of Joseph
D. Eggleston. No. 2699.
"Fact and fiction concerning John Brown's execution," transcript
of an article by William H. Griffis in the Christian Intelligencer of
15 October 1884.
BROWN FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1806-1835. 2 vols. Deposit for
Albemarle County Historical Society. No. 3126.
Bazile Brown's receipt book, 1806-1808, containing signatures of
many Albemarle County people including J. S. Barbour, Dabney
Carr, Alexander Garrett, David Higginbotham, Dabney Minor,
Hugh Nelson, Thomas Mann Randolph, and John Walker. Tax
receipt book of I. D. Jarman, 1806. ALS, Thomas Garth to John
Henderson, 1806. Bail bond from Thomas W. Gooch to Thomas
Garth, Sheriff of Albemarle County, 2 March 1808. The two last
items have identified the hitherto unknown name of the sheriff of
Albemarle County for 1806 and 1808. Blacksmith's account book,
1835.
BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT ( 1806-1861). n.d. 1 ALS.
Deposit. No. 2973.
Note to Dr. Kimble, acknowledging his kindness and commenting
on her own patience " . . . just the sort of virtue I am worthy to be
inscribed for in the Book of Martyrs."
BROWNING, ROBERT ( 1812-1889). 1867 Feb. 27. 1 ALS. Deposit.
No. 2973.
To Mrs. Reynolds, Hyde Park, declining an invitation to a ball
" . . . I grieve to say that I dance no longer."
BRUCE, PHILIP ALEXANDER (1856-1933) COLLECTION.
1884-1933. 1500 items and 7 vols. Deposit, and gift of Mrs. Archibald
Bolling Shepperson. No. 2889.
Literary and personal correspondence of the Virginia historian
and first editor of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,
relating mainly to his works on Virginia history: Economic History
of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century; Institutional History of
Virginia . . .; History of the University of Virginia; The Plantation
Negro as a Freeman; Social Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century;
The South in the Building of the Nation; and The Virginia
Plutarch. Reference is made to academic activities at the University
of Virginia, and to speeches and articles on the portrait of
Bruce by Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy. Correspondents include Edwin
Anderson Alderman, Charles McLean Andrews, Arthur Balfour, F.
Stringfellow Barr, Gamaliel Bradford, Van Wyck Brooks, John
Stewart Bryan, Lord and Lady Bryce, Harry F. Byrd, James Branch
Cabell, John Armstrong Chaloner, Grover Cleveland, George William
Custis, Virginius Dabney, Arthur Kyle Davis, W. E. Dold,
Hamilton J. Eckenrode, Joseph D. Eggleston, Worthington C. Ford,
Douglas Southall Freeman, James Anthony Froude, Basil Gildersleeve,
Armistead Churchill Gordon, J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton,
Fairfax Harrison, Archibald Henderson, Burton J. Hendrick, William
Wirt Henry, Joseph Hergesheimer, John Kelsall, John H.
Latané, William Minor Lile, William Gordon McCabe, Dumas
Malone, John L. Newcomb, Ellis Paxton Oberholtzer, Walter Hines
Page, Rosewell Page, John Garland Pollard, Morgan Robinson,
Dunbar Rowland, Kate Mason Rowland, C. Alphonso Smith, James
P. C. Southall, Edward R. Stettinius, Earl G. Swem, William G.
Bishop Beverley D. Tucker, Robert B. Tunstall, Lyon G. Tyler,
Frederick H. Viaux, Alexander W. Weddell, Thomas Jefferson
Wertenbaker, Woodrow Wilson, and Jennings C. Wise.
BRUCE FAMILY OF BERRY HILL. 1790-1900. 14,000 items and
15 vols. Deposit. No. 2692.
Family letters and business papers of James Bruce (1763-1837)
and of his son, James Coles Bruce (1806-1865), planters and merchants
of Berry Hill, Halifax County, Va.; also correspondence of
Eliza Bruce (Mrs. James Coles Bruce), of her son Alexander Bruce,
and of William Ballard Bruce, the inventor of Staunton, Va. Most
of the material relates to personal and business affairs of James Coles
Bruce, including indentures between him and the men who managed
his stores in Halifax and Pittsylvania Counties, Va., in the mid-nineteenth
century. There are also a commonplace book of James Coles
Bruce and a journal kept by Mrs. James Coles Bruce of a trip to
New York in the 1840's, slave inventories, and other material on
plantation management. The correspondence of William Ballard
Bruce refers largely to patents and private business matters, while
the papers of Alexander Bruce include the draft of an unpublished
historical novel. The correspondents include James Adkinson,
Thomas Anderson, Alexander Bruce, Charles Bruce, Eliza Bruce,
James Bruce, James Coles Bruce, Mary Evelyn Bruce, Robert Carter,
Thomas Davenport, James S. Easley, Thomas Easley, Gerard
and Banks, John P. Hall, Henry Greenwood, Polly Hunt, Thomas
Hunt, James Luck, William Penick, Beverly Sydnor, Robert T.
Wood, and many others. An earlier groups of account books of the
Bruces of Berry Hill, and papers of the related family, the Bruces of
Staunton Hill, Charlotte County, are described in the sixteenth-seventeenth
annual report.
BRUNSWICK COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1829-1830. 1 vol. Coles Collection.
No. 3232.
Sheriff's execution book for 1829-1830 kept by deputy sheriffs E.
B. Tucker and W. M. Gill.
BUCK FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1861-1865. 218 items. Gift of
Walter H. Buck. No. 3064.
Correspondence of Lt. Richard Bayly Buck, Company B (Warren
Rifles) of the 17th Virginia Infantry, C. S. A., with his father and
mother, Marcus Blakemore Buck and Jane Letitia Buck, and with
friends and relatives. Material deals with wartime life and Federal
raids on Front Royal, Va.; letters of Marcus B. Buck and wife to
their son, Richard, reveal sectional feeling within the Confederacy
and the effect of the war on a closely knit southern family. There is
an account of the death of another son, William Walter Buck,
killed in a skirmish at Upperville, 21 June 1863.
BURKE, THOMAS HENRY. 1853-1873. 11 items. Photostat. Gift
of George H. S. King. No. 3027.
Correspondence to George W. Burke of Caroline County, Va.,
from his son, Thomas H. Burke, a student at Hanover Academy and
the University of Virginia and a lawyer in San Francisco, Calif.,
and from Carter B. Sutton of Red River County, Texas.
BURKS, EDWARD CALLOHILL (1821-1897). 1861. 19 ALS.
Coles Collection. No. 2878.
Correspondence of Bedford County's representative in the Virginia
House of Delegates with Rowland D. Buford, County Clerk
of Bedford, concerning the secessionist movement in Virginia during
the first three months of 1861. The letters contain detailed comment
on debates on slavery, secession, and state defense in both the House
of Delegates and the Convention which met at Richmond and ultimately
voted for secession; observations on Richmond public
opinion on these issues; and many references to events in Bedford
County. The collection includes four letters to Buford from John
Goode and R. A. Sale, Bedford County delegates to the Secession
Convention.
BURR, AARON (1756-1836). [1815]. 1 ALS. Gift of Edward W.
Simms. No. 2916.
To John Pelletreau, concerning personal legal matters, a steamboat
trip up the Hudson, and letters from Burr to be sent to the
rebels in Cartagena.
BURR CONSPIRACY. 1808. 2 items. McGregor Library. No. 2806.
Two letters from Andrew Gregg to James Hamilton of Carlisle,
Penna., concerning the complicity of James Smith (1735-1824) of
Ohio in Aaron Burr's projects.
BYARS FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1856-1933. 25 items. Gift of
Charles W. Byars and Miss Mary Warner Byars. No. 2888.
Transcripts and summaries of correspondence of the Byars and
Minor families of Virginia and Missouri, including letters of Mary
B. Blackford, Lucy Thornton Minor Byars of La Grange, Tex.,
James Byars IV, William Vincent Byars, Henry Howell Lewis, Minor
Meriwether, Berkeley Minor, John Barbee Minor, Mary Baker
Trice, and Mrs. Anne Truehart, containing material on the University
of Virginia in 1865, the Episcopal High School, 1886-1887, and
genealogical data on the Byars, Lewis, Minor, and Truehart families.
From original manuscripts in private hands.
BYRD, WILLIAM (1542-1623). 2 items. Gift of Stephen D. Tuttle.
No. 2742.
Manuscript and proof sheets of Forty-five Pieces for Keyboard
Instruments by William Byrd, transcribed and edited with introduction
and notes by Stephen Davidson Tuttle, published by Louise B.M.
Dyer, Paris, [1939].
CABELL, JAMES BRANCH. 1947-1949. 14 items. Deposit. No.
3210.
Correspondence with Nelson Bond, principally concerning Cabell's
introduction to Bond's novel, The Thirty-first of February.
CABELL, JOSEPH CARRINGTON (1778-1856). 1804. 1 vol. Deposit.
No. 2654.
Diary of his trip to the Netherlands and England 4 July-24 October
1804, recently added to the seven diaries of Cabell's European
travel described in the sixteenth-seventeenth annual report. This
volume includes: accounts of his visits to Haarlem, Amsterdam,
and Rotterdam, and the Channel crossing to England; his conversations
with William Godwin and with Dr. Edward Jenner, discoverer
of vaccination; consultations with various London physicians;
descriptions of industrial techniques at the factories of Manchester,
(porcelain), Birmingham (buttons), and Sheffield (cutlery), a description
of the Churchill estate, Blenheim, the Duke of Bridgewater's
canal, and the Duke of Bedford's livestock.
CABELL, JOSEPH CARRINGTON (1778-1856). 1810-(1826)1854.
190 items. Deposit and archival transfer. Nos. 2737 and 2791.
Letters to Thomas Jefferson concerning the establishment of the
University of Virginia, most of which were published by Nathaniel
Francis Cabell in The Early History of the University of Virginia, as
contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell
. . . Richmond, 1856; there are, however, four letters in this group
which have not been previously published—14 February 1819, 24
June 1823, 18 July 1823, 7 August 1823. There are also letters of
Cabell to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, John Brockenbrough, and Robert
G. Scott; a detailed memorandum by Cabell, indicating portions
of the Jefferson correspondence to be omitted from the 1856
publication; and a copy in Cabell's hand of minutes of the Board
of Visitors of the University of Virginia, 1814-1854.
CABELL, WILLIAM H. (1772-1853). 1806 June 13. 1 ADS. Gift of
Mrs. Raleigh T. Green. No. 3079.
Land grant of 1000 acres in Monongalia County, [W.] Va., to
Samuel Overton, William G. Payne, and William N. Jarrett.
CABELL PAPERS. 1731 (1770-1900) 1917. 10,000 items and 113
vols. Deposit. No. 3021.
Further papers of the Cabell Family of Edgewood, Liberty Hall,
and Union Hill, Nelson County, Va., including those of Nathaniel
Francis Cabell (1807-1891), Nicholas Cabell, Dr. William Cabell
(1700-1774), Joseph Carrington Cabell (1778-1856), Mrs. Margaret
R. Cabell, and Philip B. Cabell. The majority are the papers of
Nathaniel Francis Cabell and consist of accounts, receipts, bills, essays,
and correspondence, much of which concerns church and theological
matters especially relating to the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian)
Church in which N. F. Cabell was very active. Many circulars,
broadsides, leaflets, etc., of the church were preserved by Mr.
Cabell. Joseph C. Cabell's agricultural notebooks, 1804 and 18091819,
the correspondence of the Albemarle Agricultural Society, as
contained in this collection. Some of the records of Dr. William
Cabell's practice have been preserved, as well as certain others of
his business dealings. The correspondence of Margaret R. Cabell
deals with personal as well as religious matters. The papers of Philip
B. Cabell deal with a plantation owned in Hopewell, Alabama, and
with his personal and professional life as principal of the Greensboro,
Ala., Female Academy, the Warminster [Va.] Classical School
for Boys, and Prof. P. B. Cabell's Select School for Young Ladies in
Louisville, Ky., and as professor at Urbana University, Urbana,
Ohio. The collection also contains papers dealing with the James
River and Kanawha Canal Company, of which Joseph C. Cabell,
N. F. Cabell, and Mayo Cabell were stockholders. The account
books, most of which were kept by Nicholas Cabell are for flour
mills, fish sales, horse breeding, blacksmith shop, and general accounts.
Correspondents represented by original letters and copies
include: R. A. Anderson, W. H. Benade, C. Bolling, P. A. Bolling,
Richard Bolling, Tom Bolling, R. A. Brock, J. T. Brown, Annie
Cabell, Hartwell Cabell, Col. William Cabell, William M. Cabell,
A. K. Campbell, Paul Carrington, W. Carrington, Landon Carter,
John H. Cocke, W. R. C. Cocke, A. Converse, D. Conway, R. Crallé,
L. C. Draper, D. J. Hartsook, J. B. Hayward, H. Hibbran, George
Hinkley, H. H. Hite, W. A. Horseley, Frank Keck, D. Lammot,
Arthur Lee, Richard Henry Lee, D. H. London, J. B. McClelland,
B. G. McPhail, Bishop James Madison, Charles J. Morris, Wilson
Cary Nicholas, Thomas Nelson Page, H. A. Powers, L. L. Singleton,
Alexander Spotswood, P. D. Sutton, Philip Tabb, John Taylor of
Caroline, Thompson & Brown, Edwin C. Venable, William Walker,
George Washington, M. L. Watkins, James Webb, and C. V. Woodson.
CANADAY, JOHN. 1942. 10 items. Gift of Professor Canaday.
No. 2837.
First and final typescript drafts of his first detective story, The
Smell of Money, which was published under the pseudonym of
Matthew Head in the summer of 1942; correspondence with Simon
and Schuster regarding changes in text and publication arrangements.
CARNEGIE, ANDREW (1835-1919). 1905 Feb. 10. 1 ALS. Deposit.
No. 2737.
To Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia,
promising a contribution of $500,000 and an organ to the University
of Virginia.
CARPENTER, JOHN ALDEN. 1928 July 16. 1 ALS. Gift of
Stephen D. Tuttle. No. 2742.
Thanking Dr. Tuttle for pictures of his production.
CARRINGTON, EDWARD (1749-1810). 1785 Dec. 24. 1 ALS.
Coles Collection. No. 2906.
To the Auditor General of Maryland, concerning the claim of a
Mr. Ford against the office of the Quartermaster General, apparently
for supplies furnished to the Continental Army.
CARTER, THOMAS HENRY. (1831-1908). 1897-1903. 9 ALS and
LS. Gift of Spencer L. Carter. No. 3163.
Correspondence of the Proctor of the University of Virginia with
Carter Glass, Thomas Nelson Page, Isham Randolph, and John
Williams concerning University matters, especially the question of
establishing the post of president at the University.
CARTER FAMILY. 1729-1758. 16 items. Gift of Robert Hill Carter.
No. 2724.
Typescripts and photostats of documents and correspondence
relating to lands of Secretary John Carter of Corotoman and to
those of his son, Edward Carter, in Albemarle County, and to John
Carter's interest in mineral deposits there. Includes transcripts of
patents for a total of 10,560 acres in Albemarle County, 1738-1758,
lying in the region of Carter's Mountain and the forks of the
Hardware River.
CARY, WILSON MILES (1838-1914). 1869-1897. 3 vols. Gift of
Mrs. Charles Baird. No. 2790.
Pocket account books of Wilson Miles Cary, antiquarian of Baltimore,
Md., containing entries of expenses of his trips to northern
and eastern Virginia. For other manuscripts of Wilson Miles Cary,
see the eleventh and twelfth annual reports.
CECIL, WILLIAM, LORD BURLEIGH (1520-1598). 1574 Sept.
1 ADS. Deposit. No. 2973.
An official order on the Treasury by Queen Elizabeth's great
Privy Councillor.
CHADWICK FAMILY. 1829-1835. 44 ALS. Deposit. No. 3230.
Letters written by Alfred, Edmund, and Joseph Chadwick to their
sister, Elizabeth Chadwick in Exeter, N. H., and Canandaigua,
N. Y. Joseph's letters were written as a cadet at West Point and as
an army officer stationed at St. Louis. He accompanied George
Catlin on some of his Indian trips (see references in Catlin's North
American Indians), but none of these letters have a direct bearing
on the expeditions. Alfred's letters originate from Kansas, Arkansas,
and Illinois, where he, too, was stationed. Edmund's letters originated
from New York City.
CHARLES UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE. 1948-1949. 2 items. Gift of
Charles University. No. 3105.
Medal presented to the University of Virginia, struck on the
occasion of Charles University's 500th anniversary, 15 October 1948,
with the University's official acknowledgement of this event in Latin
and English, 17 January 1949.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA. 1842-1843. 3 items. Coles Collection.
No. 3206.
Letter from a Charlottesville resident retailing local gossip to Mrs.
Elizabeth F. Shields of Natchez, Miss. Two letters to Mrs. Shields
concerning the death of her sister, Mary Conway, in March 1843.
CHARLOTTESVILLE ATOMIC ENERGY WEEK. 1947. 230
items. Gift of Charlottesville League of Women Voters. No. 2860.
Material relating to newspaper publicity, radio program arrangements,
and public reaction to discussions of atomic energy in Charlottesville,
11-15 May 1947. Includes recording of radio program on
Station WCHV, 15 May 1947, and letters from Albert Einstein, John
Hersey, and Raymond Swing.
CHARLOTTESVILLE CENTRAL HOTEL. 1824-1825. 1 vol.
Coles Collection. No. 3176.
Hotel ledger, including accounts with Jefferson, Lafayette, and
members of the University of Virginia faculty.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, CHRIST CHURCH. 1836-1868. 1 vol.
Deposit. No. 2965.
Rough draft by the Rev. Richard Kidder Meade of the parish
register of the first Episcopal Church in Charlottesville.
CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY SCHOOL COLLECTION. 18921947.
675 items and 4 vols. Gift of James Gibson Johnson. No. 2786.
Minutes of the Charlottesville City School Board, 1892-1922; oaths
of office of school trustees, 1909-1945; ledgers and account books of
the school board, 1928-1945; and correspondence of Superintendent
Johnson concerning various administrative and fiscal problems,
1929-1945. This supplements a collection reported in earlier volumes
of the annual report.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, CIVIL WAR. [1865 Mar. 7]. 1 item. Gift
of Miss Mary Brown. No. 2929.
Letter signed "Susie" from Charlottesville, Va., to a cousin named
Esther, describing Gen. Philip Sheridan's raid on the town and
University, 3-6 March 1865, with comments on the conduct of
Federal soldiers and townspeople, and on the drunkenness of Gen.
Jubal A. Early, C.S.A., at the Battle of Waynesboro.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, FIRST METHODIST CHURCH. 18581929.
18 items and 5 vols. Deposit. No. 2893.
Registers of baptisms, marriages, and funerals; rolls of church
members; a group of relics from the cornerstone of the original
church, including Testaments, hymnals, tracts, and a copy of the
Charlottesville Review, 31 August 1860.
CHARLOTTESVILLE INTERRACIAL COMMISSION. 19421947.
90 items. Gift of Jack Dalton. No. 3161.
Correspondence, minutes, membership lists, and notes of the
attitudes and the correction of interracial injustices.
CHARLOTTESVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 1819-1946.
7 vols. Deposit. Nos. 2688 and 2965.
Church registers, 1822-1944, containing lists of pastors, elders,
deacons, communicants, baptisms, marriages, and deaths. Records of
the committee chosen to supervise construction of the present edifice,
1893-1897. Scrapbook, assembled by Miss Carrie Burnley, of materials
pertaining to the history and development of the Charlottesville
Presbyterian Church, 1819-1946, with emphasis on the pastorate
of the Rev. George Lewis Petrie, 1878-1928. Minutes of the Home
Mission Committee of the West Hanover Presbytery, 1912-1946.
CHESAPEAKE BAY FISHERIES COMMISSION. 1941-1942. 34
items. Gift of B. F. D. Runk. No. 2857.
Minutes, correspondence, and reports of a group of scientists and
public officials of Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Maryland,
formed in 1941 to study problems of marine conservation in Chesapeake
Bay. Professor Ivey F. Lewis of the University of Virginia was
chairman of this committee, and Professor Runk was secretary.
CHURCH RECORDS, VALLEY OF VIRGINIA. 1885-1892. 1 vol.
Gift of Robert H. Webb. No. 2777.
An unidentified Protestant clergyman's manuscript record of services
held at Staunton, Harrisonburg, Bethel, and Hebron churches,
including sermons, visiting lists, baptisms, funerals, salary accounts,
and membership lists. Contains notes on the services of the Presbyterian,
Baptist, and Methodist churches.
CHURCHILL, WINSTON SPENCER. 1901 Nov. 1. 1 ALS. Deposit.
No. 2973.
To Mr. Strong, thanking him for information used in an article.
"I suffer from a British schoolboy's education and my memory
searches in vain for historical precedent."
CINEMA. 1948. 2 items. Gift of Jack Flynn. No. 2545.
Scenarios of the Warner Brothers' movie, "Key Largo", by John
Huston and Richard Brooks from Maxwell Anderson's play, and of
Seton I. Miller's screenplay, "Fighter Squadron".
CIVIL WAR. 1861 June. 1 item. Coles Collection. No. 3172.
Account of an amphibious skirmish in King George County, Va.,
by Robert T. Knox, secretary to General Daniel Ruggles, who commanded
the Confederate troops.
CIVIL WAR. 1863 Apr. 18. 1 item. Photostat. Gift of Carrol Quenzel.
No. 3142.
Fragment of an unsigned letter to "Dear Aunt and Uncle", describing
life in the camp of the 64th Regiment of Virginia.
CIVIL WAR. [1881-1887]. 1 vol. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund
Berkeley. No. 2764.
Scrapbook, "Annals of the War," compiled by Daniel P. Smith
from his newspaper stories of Confederate camp life, with emphasis
on the history of the First Alabama Regiment of Volunteers at the
battles of Fort Donelson, Island No. 10, and Franklin, Tenn. The
scrapbook contains numerous illustrations and engravings of Southern
and Northern generals, battle and camp scenes, and maps of
military operations. Includes 3 letters from veterans to Smith on his
articles.
CIVIL WAR PAROLE. 1865 Apr. 13. 1 DS. Gift of Montague McMurdo.
No. 2922.
Parole of Richard Perkins, Shoemaker's Battery, Breathed's Battalion,
C. S. A., issued at Lynchburg, Va., by Capt. Samuel D. Preston,
U. S. Army Invalid Corps.
CLAIBORNE, JOHN HERBERT (1828-1905). 1889. 1 vol. Transfer
from Medical Department Library. No. 2726.
Prescription book by the Petersburg, Va., physician and author of
Seventy-five Years in Old Virginia; contains his notes and clippings
on various pharmaceutical remedies.
CLAY, HENRY (1777-1852). 1812-1847. 14 ALS. McGregor Library.
No. 2801.
Letters to American statesmen, editors, and others: to E. C. Berry,
concerning taxes on property in Illinois, 30 November 1829; to
Langdon Cheves, introducing Samuel Richardson of Cincinnati, 22
January 1825; to John Middleton Clayton, concerning the latter's
to George Davis, concerning presidential campaign of 1844, American
naturalization policies, and anti-alien feeling in the United
States, 31 August 1844; to S. Fleet, editor of the New York Farmer,
thanking him for sample of sisal hemp and describing duties in
Congress, 4 December 1833; to [Martin D.] Hardin, Secretary of State
of Kentucky, concerning Clay's seat in House of Representatives and
his participation in commercial negotiations with Great Britain, 13
October 1815; note to R. P. Letcher, 27 December 1847; to Thomas
Law, commenting on political morality in Washington, D. C., and
criticizing Andrew Jackson, 28 May 1829; circular forwarding copy
of United States Laws of 1827-1828 to the Governor of Mississippi,
14 June 1828; to Hezekiah Niles, publisher of Niles Register, regarding
the Harrisburg Convention and the "American System", 5
November 1827; letter to Scott and Trotter, Philadelphia merchants,
concerning personal and financial matters, 12 February 1812; letter
to General [Samuel Smith], concerning settlement of bond, commercial
treaty with Great Britain, and the East India Company's
monopoly of Asiatic trade, 2 January [1816], incorrectly dated 1815;
to James Strong, concerning appointment of Rufus King as Minister
to Great Britain, 29 March 1825; to John P. Todd, concerning James
A. Bayard and the visit of Lord Castlereagh to Paris, 30 March 1815;
business letter to J. Trotter, 8 February 1841.
CLAY, HENRY (1777-1852). 1813-1850. 14 ALS. Coles Collection.
No. 2933, 3102, 3121, and 3193.
Letters concerning his opinion of Andrew Jackson; the Treaty of
Ghent; the Whig Party; political appointments; party strife in the
1840's; Clay's personal finances; Supreme Court cases in which the
Bank of the United States was involved; Clay's trip to New Orleans
in 1830; commercial negotiations at Lisbon in 1850; and the purchase
of sugar for the Richard Parrott Co. of Georgetown, D. C.
Recipients include Nicholas Biddle, Peter Cromwell, I. I. Cullenden,
G. W. Featherstonhaugh, Charles F. Mayer, M. E. Pointois, Charles
Tait, John P. Todd, Daniel Webster, John Wellford and C. Westewell.
These letters contain references to James Adams, James B.
Clay (Clay's son), John Coalter, John Hart, Felix Huston, Sam
January, Bank of Lexington, Baron Krudener (Russian Ambassador
to the United States), and Rebecca Willisson.
CLEMENTS FAMILY, 1607-1945. 1 item. Gift of Jennings C. Wise.
No. 2775.
Typescript notes on the history of the Clements family in Virginia,
prepared by Edith Clements Shipley Britton, with manuscript notations
by Jennings C. Wise.
COCKE, JOHN HARTWELL (1780-1866). 1801-1845. 39 items.
Gift of Mrs. Forney Johnston, Coles Collection, and purchase. Nos.
2874 and 3184.
Important additions to the papers of one of Jefferson's principal
coadjutors in the founding of the University of Virginia: letters from
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison concerning construction,
finances, faculty appointments, and University land; letters from
Jefferson dealing with livestock, seed, and other agricultural matters;
a letter from Bishop James Madison, 23 January 1801, containing a
catalog of books for a gentleman's library; letters from James Monroe
regarding his memoirs, the sale of his Virginia land, and the
education of Cocke's son; a letter from James Buchanan, 19 June
1845, concerning the forwarding of letters for Cocke; 4 letters from
L. L. Singleton concerning farming operations at the Cocke plantation
near Hopewell, Ala., which Singleton managed, 1851.
COCKE, JOHN HARTWELL (1780-1866). 1808-1883. 3125 items
and 1 vol. Deposit (restricted). Nos. 2744 and 2890.
Business papers and family letters of General Cocke and his sons
Dr. Cary C. Cocke and John Hartwell Cocke, Jr., concerning crops
at Bremo, sales of tobacco, and family affairs. This group consists
principally of bills, receipts, vouchers, and business records, but
there are letters from the Rev. William Atkinson, Nathaniel F.
Cabell, Charles Ellis, R[obert] Peyton, and John Tyler.
COCKE, JOHN HARTWELL (1780-1866). 1810-1849. 16 items.
Coles Collection and transfer to Archives from Bursar's Office. Nos.
2737 and 2874.
ALS to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, first proctor of the University
of Virginia, regarding bricklayers for construction work at the University,
14 April 1823; letter to General Howe of New Haven, Conn.,
ordering a polyglot Bible, 15 September 1829; letter to General
Cocke from the Union Society of Hampden-Sydney College, requesting
by W. T. Johnson, H. L. Lee, R. A. Patterson, M. E. Tremway
(?), W. J. Walker, and others, 1 July 1845; correspondence with O.
J. Deane, W. S. Forrest, and Bernard Peyton, concerning sale of
tobacco from Bremo in Richmond and Norfolk, 1830-1849.
COLES FAMILY. 1830-1866. 3 vols. Deposit. No. 2758.
Farm diary of Tucker Coles of Tallwood, Albemarle County, Va.,
1830-1856, and a grist mill ledger, 1830-1831, containing accounts
with James Booker, John Carter, Isaac Coles, Tucker Coles, Walter
Coles, William Dabney, Benjamin Dawson, James Eubank, Martin
Eubank, James Kinsolving, Walter Leake, Charles Meriwether,
Stephen Moon, Bernard Peyton, James Woods, Jr., and William
Woods; Peyton S. Coles' inventory of property at Tallwood, with
record of sale, April 1865.
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, BONDS. 1862-1881. 2
items. Gift of Mrs. J. Sharshall Grasty. No. 2847.
Confederate bond for $1000 issued 13 February 1862 to Miss Jane
Brown; ALS from C. H. Kent, Kent's Mills, Wythe County, Va., to
Capt. H. P. Cochran, concerning sale of bonds and the Readjuster
victory in the election of 1881.
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, SEAL. [1861]. 1 item.
Deposit. No. 2927.
Plaster cast of the "false seal" of the Confederacy, which shows
Washington facing right, rather than left as on the true seal.
COOKE, JOHN ESTEN (1830-1886). 1858-1879. 23 items. Gift of
Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 3085.
Manuscripts of twelve works by Cooke, including "Disraeli", a
chapter from Stonewall Jackson, and poems "The Broken Mug",
"The Scout", "A Dead Master", "So, My Summer's Over", "Deal
Gently with the Erring", and miscellaneous fragments; ten letters
to Cooke from Fitzhugh Lee and others; ALS, Cooke to Captain
Poague, with endorsements by "Stonewall" Jackson, 12 January
1863.
COOLIDGE, JOSEPH. 1827 Jan.-Apr. 4 ALS. Deposit. No. 2737.
To Arthur S. Brockenbrough, procter of the University of Virginia,
regarding a clock which was made in Boston for the University.
COX, JAMES, JR. 1779-1818. 73 items. Coles Collection and McGregor
Library. Nos. 2988 and 3029.
Correspondence of the Baltimore merchant and members of his
staff, David C. Lyles and Edward Tillard, with general merchants
in Easton, Pa.; Georgetown, D. C.; Harper's Ferry; Louisville, Ky.;
New Orleans; Norfolk; Philadelphia; Richmond; St. Louis; and
Washington. Correspondents include Henry Barrett, William Barroll,
Richard Batturs, Thomas S. Bernett, Z. B. Chesley, Samuel
Child, Peter Clamageron, Clark & De Kraft, R. C. Clayton, Isaac
Cornell, Thomas Dawson, Rezin Estep, Maury Forbes, Jacob Grantham,
Samuel Greenwell, Joseph B. Hill, William Jacobs, William
James, Jr., & Co., J. B. Kraff, Hugh Lannell, Isaac Lyon, Richard
Pearse, Philip Potts, J. B. Ringgold, Alexander Sangster, William
Semple, W. F. Thompson, William S. Vernon, Vernon & Skidmore,
Basil Williamson, Robert Williamson, John Wood, and Francis
Wood.
COXE FAMILY, 1641-1919. 7 items. Deposit. Nos. 2808 and 2820.
Typed transcripts of articles and documents relating to the colonizing
activities of Dr. Daniel Coxe (1640-1730), physician to Charles
II and Queen Anne, governor of West Jersey, and patentee of Carolina.
Typed transcript of the household account book of Anne Coxe
Harris, 1722-1729. Manuscript notebook of Harriet Coxe (b. 1811),
wife of Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Burlington, N. J., 1834. Typescript
"The Coxe Family", completed in 1919 by Sophia Bledsoe Herrick,
daughter of Albert Taylor Bledsoe.
CRAIG FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1837(1880)-1890. 600 items.
Deposit. No. 2883.
Family letters and personal and household accounts of J. S. Craig
and Annie Craig of Craigsville, Augusta County, Va.
CRANE, STEPHEN (1871-1900). 1894. 1 item. Gift of Clifton
Waller Barrett. No. 2862.
Autograph manuscript of his article, "In the Depths of a Coal
Mine", published in McClure's, August 1894.
CREEK INDIANS. 1783-1796. 1 vol. Gift of E. R. Rushton. No.
2731.
Typescript translation by Mr. Rushton of General le Clerc Milfort's
Mémoire . . . Sur mes différens voyages et mon séjour dans la
nation Crëck. Milfort was an agent of the French Republic to the
Creek nation during and ofter the period of Alexander McGillivray's
leadership, and his book was written to impress Napoleon with his
influence among the Indians.
CUEVAS, JUAN. 1948 Oct. 15. 1 DS. Typescript. Gift of Mr. Cuevas.
No. 3053.
Signed copy of his statement in Spanish on Christianity, Communism,
and the United Nations, 15 October 1948.
CURRY FAMILY. 1775-1839. 21 items. Deposit. No. 2713.
Legal documents of the Curry (or Correy) and McWilliams families
of Northumberland (later Columbia) County, Penna.; grant
from John Penn, Jr., Governor of Pennsylvania, to Robert Correy
(1741-1780) for Cyprus, a tract of 199 acres of land in Northumberland
County; letters, bills, receipts, and other legal papers of Robert
Correy and Jane McWilliams Correy (1775-1857); typescript history
of the Correy or Curry line by Cora A. Curry, Washington, D. C.
CUSTIS, JOHN PARKE (1753-1781). 1792-1823. 3 items. Photostat.
Gift of Henry T. Louthan. No. 2863.
Estate of John Parke Custis in account with John Hooe, administrator,
1792, with two notes attached concerning the administration
of Hooe's own estate in Fauquier County, Va., by Alexander Kelley,
1821-1823.
DAME, GEORGE WASHINGTON (1812-1895). 1830. 4 items.
Gift of G. McLaren Brydon. No. 2986.
Book of flute melodies compiled by Dame, professor at Hampden-Sydney
and Episcopal minister of Camden Parish, Pittsylvania
Hampden-Sydney; biographical notes on Dame by Brydon.
DANIEL, JOHN WARWICK (1842-1910). 1828-1911. 85 items.
Coles Collection. No. 3171.
Part of the official correspondence of the United States Senator
and orator from Lynchburg, Va., with constituents, chiefly on petty
politics.
DARDEN, COLGATE WHITEHEAD, JR. 1947 Mar. 31. 1 item.
Gift of William H. Wranek. No. 3037.
Penciled note made as part of a press statement on his appointment
as third president of the University of Virginia.
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, ALBEMARLE
CHAPTER. 1891-1947. 4 vols. Deposit. No. 3106.
Membership records, including complete information on Revolutionary
ancestors of all members of this group. Indexed both by
members and by Revolutionary ancestors.
DAVIS, ARTHUR KYLE, JR. 1929-1942. 98 items. Gift of Professor
Davis. No. 3002.
Letters to Professor Davis from Edwin Anderson Alderman,
Philip Alexander Bruce, Fairfax Harrison, H. R. McIlwaine, Carl
Sandburg, and others, commenting on his Traditional Ballads of
Virginia and on the poem, "Odysseus, '38", an elegy to William
Walter Bryan of Petersburg, Va.
DAVIS, JACKSON (1882-1947). 1920-1947. 6000 items. Deposit. No.
3072.
Papers of Jackson Davis, Associate Director of the General Education
Board, including letters from the General Education Board
files relating to problems of educational policy and administration,
pictures of Southern school buildings and other educational subjects,
and Davis' speeches and personal manuscripts; especially rich
in material on Negro education and other educational problems in
the South.
DAVIS, JOHN STAIGE (1824-1885). 1836-1921. 369 items. Deposit.
No. 2842.
Additional manuscripts relating to Davis' professional career as
physician and professor of anatomy at the University of Virginia,
including letters from patients, letters regarding students at the
University, and letters dealing with the administration of the infirmary
and medical school. A group of letters from Lewis Willis
Minor, naval medical surgeon, discuss the securing of cadavers for
dissection from Thomas White, the "body snatcher" of Norfolk.
Miscellaneous correspondence concerns such business activities as
operation of the Charlottesville and University Gas Company and of
the Virginia Manganese Company (Davis was president of both
companies), and of the Burra Burra Copper Company of Tennessee,
of which he was a director. Correspondence of James L. Cabell and
John B. Minor is included in this group, which supplements the
John Staige Davis material described in the fourteenth annual report.
DAVIS, JOHN STAIGE (1824-1885), 1862 Oct. 23. 1 ALS. Coles
Collection. No. 3094.
To William Barton Rogers, reporting the death of Major Savage
at the University of Virginia.
DAVIS FAMILY, 1780-1930. 1 item. Deposit. No. 2910.
Genealogy of the Davis family of Gloucester, Isle of Wight, and
New Kent counties, Va., with material on the related Johnston
family of Norfolk, Va., compiled by John W. C. Davis of Westmoreland
County, Va., and Charles Hall Davis, of Petersburg, Va.
DAVIS FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1839-1927. 6200 items. Deposit.
No. 3247.
Professional and personal papers of two physicians and teachers
of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia Hospital. The
papers of John Staige Davis (1824-1885) consist of 450 letters; 3
University of Virginia diplomas, 1839; 18 manuscript notebooks
including epistolary records, 1860-1885; copies of letters sent, 18581869;
and an extensive list of Southern doctors by states, ca. 1870.
The papers of his son, John Staige Davis, Jr., (1866-1933) consist
of 5500 letters, 56 manuscript notebooks of school notes and medical
Don Gabriel Maria Cardenas Y Santacruz and other consular officials
at Havana to the Spanish consul at Norfolk, attested to by
John Morton, American consul in Havana, 1801; two ledgers of the
Bank of Philippi, [W.] Va., 1857-1865; and correspondence and
medical records (70 items) of Dr. T. Duckett Jones, University of
Virginia, 1926-1927.
DAWSON, MARTIN. 1797 Dec. 31. 1 item. Photostat. Gift of Harry
Robinson. No. 3229.
Receipted tax bill signed by Martin Dawson for Will Cabell,
sheriff of Amherst County, for Dennett Witts' taxes.
DEALE, THEOPHILUS N. 1863-1864. 3 items. Deposit and gift of
William S. Weedon, No. 3110.
ALS from Theophilus N. Deale, C.S.A., to his father, James Deale
concerning a Confederate raid on Moorfield, Va. Two ALS from
William J. Edeln to James Deale concerning the illness and death
of Theophilus N. Deale at Point Lookout, Md., 19 and 22 September
1864.
DEARING FAMILY. 1832-1871. 11 items. Deposit. No. 3117.
Personal letters, chiefly of the Dearing and related families, including
a description of the Battle of Gettysburg written by a member
of Longstreet's Corps on 26 July 1863. Correspondents include
James Dearing, Mary Dearing, Elizabeth Ann Lynch, Thomas L.
Rosser, and Mrs. Thomas Fauntleroy.
DEBUTTS FAMILY. 1782-1840. 1 vol. Typescript. Deposit. No.
3066.
Typescript copies of the "DeButts' Family Letters" including letters
of Samuel, Mary, John, Caroline, and Elisha DeButts, and others
related to them, including Margaret Armstrong, William C. Armstrong,
Richard E. Welby, Elizabeth Sharpe, and W. P. Dulaney.
DEWEY, JOHN. 1948-1949. 12 items. Gift of Albert G. A. Balz.
No. 3219.
Correspondence between Balz and Dewey regarding Balz' "Letter
published in Journal of Philosophy 26 May 1949.
DICKENS, CHARLES (1812-1870). 1840 Oct. 29. 1 ALS. Deposit.
No. 3082.
To Thomas Willis White, printer and founder of the Southern
Literary Messenger, concerning an article for that publication and
his high regard for American literary endeavor.
DICKENSON, DAVID. 1861-1863. 1 vol. and 2 ALS. Deposit.
No. 3069.
Civil War diary of Capt. David V. Dickenson of Pittsylvania
Court House, Va., and the 57th Virginia Volunteers, Pickett's Division,
Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, containing
observations on garrison life near Richmond and Suffolk in the
winter of 1861; militia recruiting duties; a description of the Merrimac;
accounts of a march to Sandy Cross and Fort Dillard, N. C.,
and of the Peninsular Campaign of 1862; two letters to Mrs. Sarah
J. Dickenson, concerning the Battle of Malvern Hill, 3 July 1862,
and life as a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island, Ohio, 22 July 1863;
Dickenson's resignation as an officer of the 57th Volunteers with
endorsements by Generals Pickett and Longstreet, 16 February 1863.
DICKINSON FAMILY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
1816-1907. 70 items and 38 vols. Deposit and Coles Collection. Nos.
2819 and 2892.
Business and legal papers of Joseph, Pleasant, and Washington
Dickinson of Snow Creek, Franklin County, Va., and of Charles J.
Clement of Rocky Mount, Va., dealing with the operation of a
general store at Snow Creek, Va., and mercantile activities in southwest
Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and southern Ohio.
DIGGS FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1813-1922. 150 items and 7
vols. Deposit. No. 2979.
Correspondence and business papers of the Digges family of
Lynchburg, Va., chiefly notes and papers pertaining to the Diggs'
genealogy compiled by Judge J. Singleton Diggs. Among the correspondents
are J. A. Davis, J. Singleton Diggs, R. Garland, Decatur
H. Miller, Roy I. Miller, M. H. Samuel, J. W. Saunders, Charles R.
Slaughter, John Ware, and Daniel Warrick.
DINWIDDIE, EMILY. 1879-1948. 750 items and 42 vols. Gift of
Mrs. Lewis L. Holladay. No. 3194.
Manuscripts from the estate Emily Dinwiddie (1879-1949) including
Miss Dinwiddie's correspondence as a social worker in Wichita,
Kansas, and that of Courtenay Dinwiddie, General Secretary of the
National Child Labor Committee; class notebooks of work at the
University of Virginia, 1886-1902, kept by Albert B. Dinwiddie, H. B.
Dinwiddie, and R. E. Lee Dinwiddie; copybooks of poems, and
Bible verses; record of the Greenwood Sunday School, 1916-1921;
William Dinwiddie's ledger, 1879-1882; diary, 1880-1886; manuscript
entitled "Mixed Mathematics"; notes for a course investigating the
laws of equilibrium and motion; clippings and manuscripts concerning
the history of the West Hanover Presbytery Auxiliary and the
Lebanon Church, Greenwood, Va.
DINWIDDIE FAMILY. 1846-1884. 39 items. Deposit. No. 2808.
Documents and letters to and from the Rev. William Dinwiddie
(1830-1894) of Concord, Campbell County, Va., and Greenwood,
Albemarle County, Va., relating to his education at Hampden-Sydney;
missionary activity at the University of Virginia; Civil War
experiences of his brother, Harman, as a private in the Wise Legion;
Confederate military operations at Sewell Mountain and Lewisburg,
[W.] Va.; operation of the Brookland School, conducted by William
Dinwiddie as a preparatory school for the University of Virginia
at Greenwood, Va., 1857-1870; Confederate military hospital at
Greenwood; the Civil War in Albemarle County; William Dinwiddie's
Amnesty Oath; affairs of the Second Presbyterian Church
of Alexandria, Va., 1876-1894; Dinwiddie genealogy and family history.
The correspondents include Launcelot Minor Blackford,
Richard L. Dabney, Harman Dinwiddie, James Dinwiddie, William
Walthall Dinwiddie, James P. Holcomb, and Hunter McGuire.
DODD, WILLIAM EDWARD. 1906 Sept. 4. 1 ALS. Gift of Richard
Beale Davis. No. 3022.
Letter to the Rev. Henry W. Davis of Ashland, Va., concerning
Davis' comments on Dodd's article on educational policy.
DOUGLAS, MARY JANE (1828-1909). 1817-1903. 650 items. Deposit.
No. 3118.
Correspondence of Charles Achilles Douglas, Mary Jane Douglas,
and Sarah Douglas of Arnoldton, Campbell County, Va., from members
of the Johnson family of Harrison County, Ohio, and Gilead
County, Mo., and from the Ward family of Leakesville, N. C. Correspondents
include E. A. Cadwallader, Lizzie H. Diderell, Mollie
Diderell, Jonathan Johnson, Mildred T. Johnson, Thomas L. Johnson,
George L. Moorman, Deborah Ann Stout, Mrs. Elizabeth Ward,
and Virginia Ward.
DOUGLAS FAMILY. 1724-1899. 7000 items. Deposit. No. 2981.
Personal and business papers of the Douglas Family of Loudoun,
Dinwiddie, and Albemarle counties, Va., and of the related Waterman,
Ross, Halling, Gray, Lewis, and Tebbs families. Surveys and
maps of the land holdings of the Douglas and related families, many
from the 18th century; records of Hugh Douglas as sheriff of Loudoun
County, 1805-1815; accounts and receipts of the estate of Hugh
Douglas (d. 1815); Douglas family accounts with various Richmond,
Baltimore, Alexandria, Georgetown, Leesburg, and Charlottesville
merchants; scattered political papers, election bulletins, etc. for
the period 1848-1872; papers relating to the establishment of a
Democratic newspaper in Loudoun County; genealogical table of
the descendants of Mrs. Nancy Hale of Kentucky; indentures and
bonds of William Douglas (d. ca. 1780), Hugh Douglas (d. 1815),
and Charles Douglas (d. 1875); letters from West Point Cadet
Charles D. Waterman to his parents describing cadet life in 1860;
accounts, receipts, letters and other papers of Miss Mary Ross relating
to the University of Virginia, 1860-1875; Confederate tax receipts,
bonds, requisitions for the military forces, etc., 1861-1865;
copies of the wills of John Halling (Hawling), 1744, Reuben Halling,
1745, Margaret Sinclair, 1764, Edward Carter, 1792, and others;
letters from A. N. Douglas of Dinwiddie County to Charles Douglas
of Loudoun County, 1861-1865.
The principal correspondents include Archibald N. Douglas,
Charles Douglas, Hugh Douglas, Kate Douglas, Lewis F. Douglas,
William Douglas, Albert W. Gray, Robert Gray, Edmond Jennings,
Chapman Johnson, Thomson Mason, Mary Ross, Richard H. Tebbs,
Waterman, Thomas G. Waterman.
DULANY FAMILY. 1821-1865. 20 items. Typescript. Deposit. No.
3066.
The diary of Mary Dulany, 1821 and 1863-1864. Copies of 18
letters from John Paine Dulany at Welbourne, a Northern Neck
estate, chiefly to his son Richard, 1836-1865. Both the letters and
the diary contain information on campaigns and battles of the
Civil War and their effect on the civilian population.
DUMAS, ALEXANDRE (1802-1870). 1 item. Deposit. No. 2604.
Autograph signed draft of a political article, "De la Polis à moi
et de moi à la Polis."
DUNMORE, JOHN MURRAY, EARL OF (1732-1809). 1774
Sept. 17. 1 item. McGregor Library. No. 2839.
Contemporary manuscript copy of Dunmore's proclamation asserting
Virginia's right to all land west of Laurel Ridge, Penna.
DYE, EVA EMORY, 1804-1904. 64 items. Typescript. Deposit. No.
2580.
Transcripts of the correspondence and papers of Eva Emory Dye
of Oregon City, Ore., concerning the Lewis and Clark Expedition
and Oregon Indian life in the early nineteenth century.
EARLE-EVANS MANUSCRIPTS. 1827-1893. 47 vols. Deposit. No.
3092.
Records of a store kept by Hiram P. Evans at White Post, Clarke
County, Va., 1836-56; records of farming operations at Mount Zion,
Warren County, Va., and of milling operations at Zion's Mill kept
by John B. and Alexander M. Earle, 1827-1893.
EDMUNDSON, ANTOINETTE. 1908-1920. 1 vol. Gift of Miss
Anne Edmundson. No. 3192.
Volume of manuscript signed poems, many on religious subjects.
EGGLESTON, JOSEPH DUPUY. 1943 Aug. 13. 2 items. Typescript.
Gift of Dr. Eggleston. No. 1202.
Two letters to Edward F. Overton evaluating Overton's doctor's
dissertation, which dealt with Dr. Eggleston's career as an educational
administrator.
EPPES FAMILY OF APPOMATTOX MANOR. 1788-1882. 6
items. Deposit. No. 465.
Wills of Richard Eppes (d. 1793) of Prince George County, Va.,
1788, of his wife, Christian Eppes, 1799, and of their son, Archibald
Eppes (d. 1820), 1812; letter, D. Lyon, Jr. to his wife Annie, describing
the Battle of Chancellorsville and death of "Stonewall"
Jackson, 4 May 1864; letter, Richard Eppes to his daughter Emily
concerning family news and social activities in Petersburg, Va., 9
February 1882.
ESKRIDGE-GERARD MANUSCRIPTS. 1653-1753. 50 items. McGregor
Library. No. 3009.
Deeds, bonds, patents, letters, and other documents, many relating
to Westmoreland and Northumberland County, Va., property belonging
to the Eskridge and Gerard families. Included also is a
group of bonds from various people to the Westmoreland merchant,
Richard Jackson. Among the correspondents and signers of the
various documents are Anne Allerton, Richard Bennett, Landon
Carter, Richard Coles, George Conway, Jane Eskridge, Robert Eskridge,
John Gerrard (Gerard), Thomas Gerrard (Gerard), Mary
Hawkins, William Hockaday, Daniel Hornbye, Richard Jackson,
William R. Jackson, Elizabeth Johnson, W. Jordan, George Lee,
Richard Lee, John Llewellin, George Ludlow, Henry Miller, Willoughby
Newton, Thomas Pope, Peter Rust, William Tebbs, and
Peter Temple.
EUSTIS, WILLIAM. 1811. 2 items. Gift of Frank C. Littleton. No.
3248.
Two letters from Capt. Thornton Posey to William Eustis, Secretary
of War, concerning the murder of Lieutenant Jennings.
EVERETT, EDWARD. 1859 Apr. 9. 1 ALS. McGregor Library.
No. 2941.
Letter to Alexander H. H. Stuart concerning a speech Everett
made in Staunton, 9 April 1859.
FAIRFAX, THOMAS (1612-1671). 1645 May 23. 1 ALS. Deposit.
No. 2973.
From the Cromwellian general to his father Ferdinando, recommending
Major Rookby (Thomas Rokeby?) for the colonelcy of a
regiment under the senior Fairfax's command.
FAIRFAX, THOMAS. 1800-1840. 16 items. Deposit. No. 3066.
Correspondence of Thomas Fairfax, Vaucluse, Alexandria, Va.,
with the Rev. John Hargrove of Baltimore concerning the Swedenborgian
or New Jerusalem Church.
FARLEY, GEORGE. 1815-1820. 1 vol. Deposit. No. 2973.
Manuscript commonplace book kept by Farley as a student at
Harvard University.
FAUNTLEROY FAMILY. 1900-1948. 1000 items. Gift of Miss
Juliet Fauntleroy. No. 2987.
Miss Fauntleroy's correspondence with various persons concerning
the genealogy of the Corbin, Fauntleroy, Lynch, Muse, Terrell, and
allied families of Lynchburg and Campbell County, Va. Correspondents
include Mrs. Sallie Bass, Mrs. Anice C. Booth, Caroline K.
Bulkley, Mrs. T. W. Dew, Mrs. T. C. Faulkner, Mrs. E. H. Geary,
Mrs. P. W. Hiden, Mr. D. M. Kemp, Miss Juliet F. Moody, Mrs.
Maurice Moore, Mrs. Joseph E. McNaught, Mrs. Sue Norburn, Mrs.
T. Parish, Miss Florence Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Laura Read, Mrs. C.
E. Smith, Mrs. Lelia D. Washington, and Mrs. Agatha Maverick
Welsh.
FAUQUIER, FRANCIS (1704?-1768). 1760. 2 DS. Gift of Thomas
Kennerly Terrell. No. 3008.
Patent for 90 acres of land in Bedford County to Joseph Anthony,
30 March 1760, and patent for 400 acres to Philip Butler, 10 December
1760, both signed by Lt. Gov. Francis Fauquier. Memorandum
on Edward Terrell's acquisition of these tracts, 1775-1780.
FEATHERSTON, HOWELL. 1894-1935. 100 items and 20 vols.
Deposit. No. 3058.
Papers, letterbooks, and document books covering the law practice
of Howell C. Featherston, and the real estate transactions of
Howell C. Featherston and his father, John G. Featherston, in
Lynchburg and elsewhere in Campbell County, Va.
FENG YU HSIANG (1881-1948). 1948 Mar. 25. 1 LS. Gift of Harry
Clemons. No. 3028.
Letter from General Feng concerning the presentation to the University
of Virginia of a porcelain signifying the eternal friendship of
the United States and China.
FISKE, MINNIE MADDERN. 1926 Apr. 4. 1 ALS. Gift of Robert
M. Jeffress. No. 2656.
Note of thanks to Mrs. Jeffress for a gift of vegetables.
FLETCHER, RICHARD. 1934-1943. 100 items. Gift of Mr. Fletcher.
No. 3187.
His correspondence as member of the Athletic Department of
the University of Virginia and as advisor of Sigma Nu Fraternity.
FLICK, WILLIAM. 1855-1890. 500 items. Coles Collection. No.
2878.
Legal and political correspondence of William H. H. Flick, lawyer,
Republican district attorney and candidate for Congress (1888)
of Martinsburg, W. Va., concerning his legal business, patronage,
elections, and local Republican politics. Among the correspondents
are G. W. Atkinson, and W. J. W. Cowden, both of the West Virginia
Republican Executive Committee; Edward McPherson, Secretary
to the Republican Congressional Committee; and many of
Flick's legal clients.
FORCE, PETER (1790-1868). 1836 Oct. 21. 1 ALS. Gift of Clifton
Waller Barrett. No. 3085.
To Messrs. Carey and Hart, forwarding copies of first volume of
his American Archives.
FRANKLIN COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1740-1785. 1 vol. Deposit. No.
2841.
Final typescript of "Genesis of a Virginia Frontier: Origins of
Franklin County, Virginia," submitted by Thomas Keister Greer
in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree
with honors, University of Virginia, 1946.
FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF. 1710 Aug. 13. 1 DS. Gift of Frank C.
Littleton. No. 3248.
Record of Quaker marriage ceremony between Abraham Hollingsworth
and Ann Robinson of New Castle County, Del., signed
by numerous witnesses.
FRY, HENRY (1738-1823). [1800]-1804. 2 items. McGregor Library.
No. 2848.
Autograph autobiography describing his boyhood and education
in Albemarle County, Va., his conversion to Methodism, and his
experience as a lay reader in Madison and Culpeper counties, Va.
ALS, Fry to Thomas Jefferson acknowledging his gift of Joseph
Priestley's An History of the Corruptions of Christianity, Boston,
1797, and expressing his ideas on religion. For related material, see
entry in this report under Jefferson. Fry's father was Col. Joshua
Fry, an associate of Peter Jefferson in the early settlement of Albemarle
County.
FULBRIGHT, JAMES WILLIAM. 1947 June 16. 1 item. Gift of
William H. Wranek, Jr. No. 2795.
Typescript of Senator Fulbright's address on the international
responsibilities of the United States and the need for a united Europe,
presented at the Finals exercises of the University of Virginia,
1947.
FULLER, HENRY BLAKE (1857-1929). 1874-[1929]. 4 items. Gift
of Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 3085.
Manuscript of playlet, "The White Swan," 1874; playlet, "The
Color Line," 1899; four chapters of an unfinished book on travel,
"Oliver's Outing"; typescript of an unpublished story, "An Hour
on Earth," n.d.
GAAR, MICHAEL. 1837-1878. 200 items and 2 vols. Deposit. No.
2883.
Letters, accounts and tax receipts of Michael H. Gaar, a shoe
merchant of Madison, Va.; papers regarding the estate of Isaac Gaar.
GANDHI, MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND (1869-1948). 1931. 1
item. Recording. Gift of Columbia Records, Inc. No. 2904.
Recording of an address which Gandhi made in London, 1931.
GARFIELD, JAMES ABRAM (1831-1881). 1866 Feb. 15. 1 ALS.
Deposit. No. 2973.
To Col. Ed. Ruger, giving a detailed account of his service in the
Union Army, 1861-1865, apparently in answer to an inquiry for information
for a history of the Civil War.
GEORGE III (1738-1820). 1770 Dec. 10. 1 DS. Coles Collection. No.
3195.
Instructions to the acting governor of Virginia, William Nelson,
disallowing two laws that imposed additional duties on importation
of slaves, sufficient to " . . . prejudice and obstruct as well the
Commerce of this Kingdom as the Cultivation and Improvement of
the said Colony . . . ." This action was cited by Jefferson in the
Declaration of Independence as one of the "repeated injuries and
usurpations" of the King.
GERMANY, LEGAL DOCUMENTS. 1832-1898. 4 items. Gift of
Mrs. Jason Westerfield. No. 3201.
Four items in German: Württemberg passport, 1832; letter from
E. Nister in St. Moritz to an unknown recipient, 28 September
1898; report of the action taken by the widow Hoeft née Friederike
Schlager and the Masterweaver Luchterband concerning the sale
of certain items, 26 June 1855; last will and testament of Johann
Luchterband, 8 November 1889.
GIBBON FAMILY OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. 1807 Aug. 28.
1 item. Deposit. No. 2991.
Letter from Maj. J[ames] Gibbon to his son, Lt. James Gibbon,
stationed on Gunboat #4, Norfolk, on family news and Lieutenant
Gibbon's request for clothing.
GILDERSLEEVE, BASIL (1831-1924). 1947. 2 items. Recordings.
Gift of Walter A. Montgomery. No. 2785.
Dr. Montgomery's recorded reminiscences of classical studies
under Professor Gildersleeve at Johns Hopkins.
GILLIAM FAMILY COLLECTION. 1794-1913. 1500 items. Coles
Collection. Nos. 2608 and 3164.
Deeds, wills, correspondence, and business papers of the Gilliam
family of Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Sussex, and Surry counties, Va.,
including John W., Joseph P., Mary E., Samuel Y., and William
Gilliam. The collection contains material on Hampden-Sydney
College, 1850-1860; on economic conditions in southern Virginia
during the Civil War; accounts with Mobile cotton brokers; material
on Readjuster Party politics; and references to Dinwiddie, Lunenburg,
and Brunswick counties and to Petersburg, Va. The bulk of
the papers consist of court orders, tax receipts, deeds, and household
bills. Other names involved in the collection include Benjamin
Boisseau, S. R. Boisseau, Thomas Cashon (Cashion?), Joseph
Goodwyn, Henry J. Howard, J. F. Johnson, Robert Ruffin, Jabez
Smith, and Thomas Whitworth.
GILMER, THOMAS WALKER (1802-1844). 1843 July 13. 1 ALS.
Deposit. No. 2973.
To A. P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy, recommending Samuel
Morris Slaughter for a midshipman's berth in the U. S. Navy; also,
inquiry about the warrant of A. N. Colcord.
GILMER, THOMAS WALKER (1802-1844). [1845]. 1 vol. Gift of
Lucy Anne Gilmer Taylor. No. 2733.
Manuscript memoirs of the life of Thomas Walker Gilmer of
Albemarle County, Va., Secretary of State under John Tyler, written
by Benjamin H. Magruder.
GLASS, CARTER (1858-1946). 1879(1909)-1946. 400,000 items.
Gift of Carter Glass, Jr., Mrs. John G. Boatwright, and Powell Glass,
Jr. No. 2913.
His professional and personal papers as farmer; newspaper publisher
(The News and The Daily Advance) of Lynchburg, Virginia;
member of Congress to 1919; Secretary of the Treasury, 1918-1920;
years prior to 1909 (because of a fire which destroyed papers and
other personal property in that year), so that few records relate to
Mr. Glass' early career in the Virginia Senate, 1899-1903, to his
notable work in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1902,
and to his service in the 57th-59th Congresses.
For the remaining forty years, however, the files provide extremely
detailed and complete coverage of Senator Glass' varied and important
activities in state, national, and international affairs. These
include his work as patron and floor manager of the Federal Reserve
Bank Act in the House of Representatives (the collection includes
a copy of the Act signed by President Wilson, Vice-President Marshall,
and Senator Champ Clark), as chairman of the Joint Congressional
Committee reporting the Federal Farm Land Bank Act, and
as a member of key committees in Democratic national conventions.
Aside from the Federal Reserve System and banking and currency
reform, the collection is rich in material on World Wars I and II;
the close political and personal relations of Glass and Wilson; the
League of Nations controversy; Democratic Party platforms and
policies; national elections (especially those of 1920, 1924, and
1928); the policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal (in
which Senator Glass declined appointment to his old post of Secretary
of the Treasury), such as the Supreme Court controversy of
1937 and "Neutrality" legislation. The papers demonstrate Roosevelt's
personal friendship with Glass, their hostility on domestic
issues, and their agreement on foreign policy.
Although not calendared or indexed, the papers have been sufficiently
processed to make research practicable. On a single day they
have been consulted by out-of-state visitors doing research on such
diverse topics as the Kellogg-Briand Pact and the career of Bishop
James Cannon, the Methodist leader and Prohibitionist.
During his eight years as a member of the Board of Visitors of
the University of Virginia, Mr. Glass, as a member of a special subcommittee,
was influential in bringing to the University in 1904,
as its first President, the late Edwin Anderson Alderman. Two decades
later he served as treasurer of the University's campaign for
the Centennial Endowment Fund. In 1936 he was instrumental in
obtaining for the University the Federal grant which made possible
now repose.
Representative of the correspondents in the collection are letters
to and from the following: Edwin A. Alderman, Newton D. Baker,
Alben W. Barkley, Bernard Baruch, John Stewart Bryan, Harry F.
Byrd, Richard E. Byrd, Calvin Coolidge, Josephus Daniels, Colgate
W. Darden, Jr., Westmoreland Davis, James A. Garfield, Cary Grayson,
Warren G. Harding, J. Edgar Hoover, Herbert Hoover, Edwin
M. House, Cordell Hull, Harold Ickes, Hugh S. Johnson, Jesse Jones,
Walter Lippman, William G. McAdoo, Andrew Mellon, James
Melton, Eugene Meyer, Henry Morgenthau, Robert L. Owen, John
G. Pollard, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, David Satterfield,
Billy Sunday, Claude A. Swanson, Samuel Untermeyer, Arthur
H. Vandenberg, Woodrow Wilson, Edith Bolling Wilson, and Clifton
A. Woodrum.
GOLD, THOMAS DANIEL. 1914. 1 item. Gift of Miss Mary W.
Gold. No. 3063.
Manuscript of Thomas D. Gold's History of Clarke County, Virginia
. . . published in Berryville, 1914.
GOMEZ DE SILVA, RUY. 1559 May 22. 1 item. Gift of C. Edmonds
Allen. No. 2895.
Diplomatic note from the chief minister of Philip II of Spain to
Cosimo I, Duke of Florence, regarding negotiations between Spain
and Florence, and advising Cosimo of the transmittal of another
letter by Captain Vittell.
GOOCHLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1871-1883. 1 vol. Gift of
John Cook Wyllie. No. 2741.
Accounts kept by [A. K. Leake], county commissioner and receiver,
in various legal actions and litigations.
GOSS, JOHN. 1882-1913. 11 vols. Gift of Miss Ellen Goss. No. 2745.
Accounts for a farm and store at Bellevue, Albemarle County,
Va.; John W. Goss' diary 1898-1902, recording many of his business
transactions; Mrs. Goss' diary, 1904-1909.
GOSS FAMILY. 1775-1934. 3 items. Deposit. No. 2745.
Bible records of births and deaths in the Goss family and the
allied Burwell and Kent families.
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 1845-1942. 1 vol. Deposit. No.
3109.
Vestry book of the Walker's Parish Church, Cismont, Va.
GRAVEL HILL MANUSCRIPTS. 1800-1870. 15 items and 3 vols.
Deposit. No. 2320.
Additions to the collection of papers of the Gravel Hill plantation,
Charlotte County, Va., including a bond; bills; tax estimates;
a share in the Marysville Plank Road Company; George Hannah's
daybook; his list of servants, 1800-1851; and drill commands for his
militia company.
GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771). 1750. 1 AD. Deposit. No. 2973.
Manuscript draft of "An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard"
for George Robeson (?), substituting Roman for the British heroes
named in lines 57-60. (In James Southall Wilson's introduction to
the facsimile edition of 1925, it is noted these changes also appear
in the Frazer Manuscripts.)
GREAT BRITAIN, LEGAL DOCUMENTS. 1774-1807. 4 items.
Gift of Mrs. Jason Westerfield. No. 3201.
Partnership agreement in a dry-goods firm between Mary Hinchliff
and Thomas Rhodes, 10 September 1774. John Boydell et al. to
John Antill, assignment of a lease, July 1793. Marriage settlement
between John Harrison and Lucy Henrietta Price, daughter of Sir
Charles Price, 10 November 1807. Defendant's brief in case of
Walter Burrows, executor of Stratford Canning, vs. Kean Osborn,
tried in Court of Common Pleas, London, 1795. Two of these, and
presumably all, were copies kept by an attorney, F. Booth.
GREENSBURG, OHIO. 1828 Aug. 27. 1 item. Deposit. No. 3097.
Plan of the town of Greensburg, Ohio, laid out by Abraham Wilhelm
in Green Township, Stark County, surveyed by David [Burr?].
GRIMKE, ANGELINA (1805-1879) and SARAH (1792-1873).
[1840]. 2 ALS. McGregor Library. No. 2824.
Both are letters to a Mrs. Smith, concerning social life in Boston,
where the two South Carolina sisters were living after embracing
abolitionism and selling their slaves.
GRINNAN FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1789 (1849-1886) 1907. 75
items. Gift of Miss Isabelle Grinnan. No. 2759.
Additional manuscripts of the Grinnan family of Fredericksburg
and Orange Court House, Va., particularly the family correspondence
of Dr. Andrew Glassell Grinnan, of Brampton, Madison
County, of his wife, Georgia Grinnan, and of his father-in-law,
Joseph Randall Bryan of Richmond, 1860-1886. Also included are
the business papers, bills, and receipts of Robert A. Grinnan and
Mrs. Helen Grinnan, 1845-1850; and transcripts of the correspondence
of J. E. B. Stuart to Ella Grinnan, Loch Lomond, Va., 18631864.
GRYMES FAMILY, 1650-1949. 1 LS. Gift of Miss Texie P. Watts.
No. 1713.
Letter from Ben. Grymes to Miss Watts, describing highlights in
the history of Selma, Orange County, Va., with material on the
Grymes family to the present day.
HALE, EDWARD EVERETT (1822-1909). 1902. 2 items. Gift of
Mrs. Philip Hale. No. 3049.
Letter to Hale from Andrew H. Allen, Bureau of Rolls, State
Department, forwarding Intercontinental Railway Commission
report, 14 May 1902.
HALIFAX, GEORGE MONTAGU DUNK, EARL OF. 1754 July
6. 1 LS. McGregor Library. No. 2963.
A long letter from the President of the Board of Trade to Gov.
Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia, concerning means for combatting
French encroachments on the Ohio, and the incompetence of the
colonial militia. This was written after the news of the loss of Fort
Necessity was received in London.
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE, 1771-1889. 3 items. Gift of Joseph
Dupuy Eggleston. No. 2699.
Sketches: "Concerning Samuel Stanhope Smith and Hampden-Sydney
College," by Dr. Eggleston, an account of the influence of
Smith, first president of Hampden-Sydney, and his relationship
with James Madison; "The Hampden-Sydney Boys of 1776-1778";
an account of the Hampden-Sydney Musical Club, 1885-1889.
HANOVER COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1739-1740. 1 item. Gift of
Robert W. Lull. No. 2846.
Memorandum by William Waller, Clerk of the Hanover County
Court, regarding a suit for debt by James Littlepage against Matthew
Jouett.
HANSON, ROBERT. 1869-1870. 2 vols. Gift of Henry M. Hyde.
No. 3244.
Letterbook kept by Robert M. Hanson at U. S. Consul at the city
of Bremen. His epistolary record for the year 1869 as attorney at
London, Ohio, and as consul.
HARRIS, ROY. 1945 May 5. 1 LS. Gift of Stephen D. Tuttle. No.
2742.
Letter to Professor Tuttle requesting a list of the ten American
composers most worthy to represent American culture in Europe.
HARRISON, BENJAMIN (1726-1791). 1796-1799. 6 items. Deposit.
No. 2825.
Documents and papers concerning Harrison's estate, including
letters of David Coupland and John Marshall.
HARRISON, CARTER HENRY. 1834-1835. 1 vol. Deposit (restricted).
No. 3226.
Manuscript diary, kept by the son of Randolph Harrison of
Clifton, recording weather observations, crop records, Episcopal
Church activities, and local political and social events in Albemarle
County, Va.
HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY (1773-1841). 1841 Apr. 5. 1
item. No. 3196.
Letter from a Washington resident to her daughter, Mrs. Charles
Willing, describing events in Washington while the body of William
Henry Harrison lay in state.
HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS. 16th Century. 1 vol. Gift of John C.
Wyllie. No. 2741.
A sixteenth century commentary by an unidentified Spanish Jew
on the Canon of Medicine of Avicenna, the Moorish physician and
philosopher of 10th century Spain.
HEDGES, HALSTEAD SHIPMAN. 1926-1936. 16 items. Gift of
Dr. Hedges. No. 3034.
Speeches, student examinations, and other materials relating to
the study and practice of ophthalmology.
HENKEL PRESS. 1809-1816. 142 items. Deposit. No. 3059.
Manuscript copy for newspaper advertisements, handbills, and
other materials printed by Ambrose and Solomon Henkel, the New
Market, Va., printers and editors.
HENRY VI (1421-1471). 1422-1426. 1 vol. Deposit. No. 2604.
Late sixteenth century manuscript copy [by Laurs Halstod?] of
statutes enacted by Parliament during the minority of the last Lancastrian.
HENRY, PATRICK (1736-1799). 1784 July 14. 1 ALS. Deposit.
No. 2825.
To William Nelson, concerning land warrants.
HERNDON, JOHN WATERHOUSE, COLLECTION. 1900-1940.
250 items. Deposit. No. 2642.
Negative photographs of historic buildings, houses, and churches,
in Alexandria, Va., collected by Mr. Herndon.
HERNDON, JOSEPH (1737-1810). 1776-1803. 20 items. Gift of
John W. Herndon. No. 2817.
Copies of letters to the Rev. James Stevenson, rector of St. Mark's
matters in Spottsylvania County, Va., from originals in private
hands.
HILL, ARCHIBALD ANDERSON. 1948 Dec. 28. 1 item. Gift of
Atcheson L. Hench. No. 3088.
"A Survey of Accomplishments and Trends in Research in Present
Day English," paper delivered before the Present Day English Section
of the Modern Language Association.
HITE, ISAAC. 1791 Oct. 21. 1 item. Gift of Arthur Pforzheimer.
No. 2886.
Bond of Jeremiah Langley to Isaac Hite (1723-1795) & Son of
Frederick County, Va., for 37 pounds, witnessed by James Madison.
The younger Hite (1758-1836) married Nellie Madison, sister of
the President.
HOGE, MOSES DRURY. 1863. 1 vol. and 1 item. Deposit and gift
of W. Edwin Hemphill. Nos. 3071 and 3224.
Diary of the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, covering his trip to England,
February-October 1863, to purchase Bibles for the Confederate
Army and his return with the Bibles through the Union blockade;
"Bibles from Britain for the Blockaded Confederacy," Memorial
Day address at Charlottesville, Va., by Dr. W. Edwin Hemphill, on
the work of Hoge and his brother, the Rev. William James Hoge.
HOLLAND, CHARLTON GILMORE, JR. 1943-1945. 1200 items.
Deposit (restricted). No. 2876.
Letters from Professor Charlton G. Holland of the University of
Virginia Medical School to Mrs. Holland, written when he was on
duty with the United States Army in the Pacific, during World
War II; contain material on psychiatric cases and problems, life in
the Philippines, and Doctor Holland's other war experiences.
HOLMES, GEORGE FREDERICK (1820-1897). 1 vol. Gift of
Mrs. E. N. Haigh. No. 2995.
Notes on the political and literary career of Francis Bacon. Material
for article on Bacon which Holmes published in the Southern
Methodist Quarterly Review, April 1858.
HORTON FAMILY. 1836-1847. 135 pp. Gift of Monroe F. Cockrell.
No. 2771.
Fragmentary portions of school copy books and of the records
of a general store kept by James, Robert, and John Horton of Russell
County, Va. Two pages of explanatory notes by Mr. Cockrell
contain genealogical information on the Horton and Cockrell families
and material on the source and nature of these manuscripts.
HOTCHKISS, JEDEDIAH (1828-1899). 1791(1870)-1906. 750
items and 15 vols. Coles Collection. Nos. 2822 and 2907.
Business, personal, and professional correspondence of the topographer,
mining engineer, and geologist of Staunton, Va., with
emphasis on land holdings in and around Staunton, surveys and
operation of the Flat-Top and Bluestone coal fields, and the settlement
of Hotchkiss' estate. In addition there is material on Hotchkiss'
Civil War career, including lists of C. S. A. field and staff
officers; on the Mossy Creek Academy of which Hotchkiss was
principal; clippings and scrapbooks on the Hotchkiss and McCullough
families. Correspondents include J. M. Camden, E. W.
Clark, Azel Ford, Sarah Comfort Hotchkiss, Annie Hotchkiss Howson,
Thomas J. Jackson, Robert E. Lee, J. C. Maben, Nellie Hotchkiss
McCullough, Samuel Thomas McCullough, E. C. Machen, J.
T. McGraw, D. H. Matson, M. Erskine Miller, D. M. Niven, J. B.
Pierce, J. T. Richards, C. W. Smith, O. B. Strouse, Alexander H. H.
Stuart, H. W. Winchell, and A. H. Winchester.
HUBARD MANUSCRIPTS. 1776-1831. 8 items and 1 vol. Deposit.
No. 3006.
Manuscripts of the Hubard (Hubbard) and Bolling families of
Chellowe, Buckingham County, Va., including "Norfolk Parole
Book," 1776, daily military records kept at Norfolk, Portsmouth,
and Williamsburg, Va., and Trenton, Fort Lee, and Perth Amboy,
N. J.; William Hubbard's commission as major in the militia, July
5, 1779, signed by David Mason; three letters to William Hubbard
from Robert Lawson, T. Munford, and Thomas Nelson, Jr., concerning
army provisions; patent from Gov. Henry Lee to Powhatan
Bolling for 1791 acres of land in Buckingham County, August 14,
1792; Robert Hubard's license to practice law and certificate of
good character, July 1831.
HULL, CORDELL. 1948 Dec. 22. 1 LS. Gift of E. R. Stettinius, Jr.
No. 2723.
To Mr. Stettinius, acknowledging a gift.
HURT FAMILY, 1673-1736. 1947. 1 item. Gift of George Magruder
Battey, III. No. 2787.
Typescript article, "The Hurt `Land Empire' in Colonial Virginia,"
by George Magruder Battey III, of Kimball, Page County,
Va., completed August 1947. The lands held included a total of
4642 acres in Amelia, King William, King and Queen, New Kent,
and Prince George counties, granted to members of the Hurt family,
including William Hurt (d. 1701), William Hurt II, John Hurt,
William Hurt III, and James Hurt.
HUTTER COLLECTION. 1802-1935. 1000 items. Deposits. Nos.
2604 and 2973.
Historical and literary manuscripts, European and American,
many pertaining to the South. The group includes papers of John
Reed of Roxbury, Me., 1842-1860; correspondence of the Rev.
Charles West Thomson of Philadelphia, who was at one time connected
with the Bank of the United States, 1816-1851; deeds to William
L. Balfour for Mississippi lands, 1829-1859; correspondence of
Moody Kent of Pembroke, N. H., 1838-1849; and accounts of
Thomas C. Reddy, drygoods merchant of Natchez, Miss., 1860. Other
groups are briefly described elsewhere in this report under the following
headings: Abigail Adams, Autographs, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Robert Browning, William Cecil, Winston Churchill,
Alexandre Dumas, Thomas Fairfax, George Farley, Thomas W.
Gilmer, Henry VI, John D. Imboden, Timothy Pickering, Thomas
Mann Randolph, Richard B. Sheridan, Sir William Sidney Smith,
Algernon Charles Swinburne, and George Washington.
IJAMS, ELIZABETH. 1896. 1 vol. Bequest of Miss Ijams. No. 2872.
Miss Ijams' diary for a trip to Europe with descriptions of life
and entertainment in London and Paris. Mentions Richard Harding
Davis.
IMBODEN, JOHN DANIEL (1823-1895). 1858-1895. 300 items.
Gift of Mrs. John Trout. No. 2983.
Personal and business letters, most of which fall in the post-war
period. Newspaper material and articles written for publication by
Imboden dealing with his career. Several letters are to his brother
Frank M. Imboden and concern Frank's capture by the Union
Armies in 1864, his activities as an engineer in Honduras and
Guatamala, the Damascus Enterprise Co., financial conditions in
Abingdon, Va., the depression of 1893, and West Virginia coal lands.
Diary (copy) of Frank M. Imboden.
IMBODEN, JOHN DANIEL (1823-1895). 1864 June 14. 1 ALS.
Deposit. No. 2604.
Letter to Gen. John Cabell Breckenridge, regarding Union troop
movements in Amherst County, Va.
JACKSON, THOMAS JONATHAN (1824-1863). 1858-1863. 2
ALS. Photostat. Gift of Miss Anna Barringer. No. 2762.
To Rufus Barringer, with news of the birth of Jackson's daughter,
Mary Graham, Lexington, Va., 1 May 1858; to Captain _____,
regarding staff appointments, and news of various officers on Jackson's
staff, Corbyn's Farm, Caroline County, Va., 11 February 1863.
Originals in the possession of Miss Barringer.
JACKSON, THOMAS JONATHAN (1824-1863). 1862 May 1. 1
ALS. Deposit. No. 2825.
Order to Colonel Harman to release Major Cole's horse and servant.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826) PAPERS.
The addition of 127 original Jefferson manuscripts to our collections
during the two-year period covered by this report brings the
total of our Jefferson papers to a figure exceeding 2,500. A detailed,
item-by-item, indexed calendar of our Jefferson papers is now being
compiled under a grant from the Richmond Area University Center,
and will be published by the Library early in 1950. Subsequent acquisitions
of Jefferson manuscripts will be listed in future issues of
this report. Current acquisitions will be included in the Calendar,
this one.
Our own Jefferson papers are supplemented by a very extensive
collection of transcripts (more than 50,000) available in our Manuscripts
Reading Room, including photographic copies of the great
Jefferson collection at the Library of Congress and of the holdings
of the lesser Jefferson repositories, as well as photostats and other
copies donated by hundreds of private owners of individual manuscripts.
The conspicuous gap in our Jefferson transcripts collection
is the great body of material at the National Archives, of which we
hope to obtain microfilm copies at a future date.
For students of Jefferson and his times, the University's most useful
reference tool is our Jefferson Checklist, a chronologically arranged
card file, which has now reached the astounding total of approximately
77,000 entries. Begun by our staff many years ago as
an essential first step towards the full publication of Jefferson's writings,
this Checklist describes briefly every Jefferson manuscript
known to us, and every letter to and from him, indicating the location
of the manuscript and any known printing, or partial printing,
of its text. Only a small fraction have appeared in print.
Princeton University was unintentionally slighted in our last
report in the statement that no original Jefferson manuscripts exist
there. What we intended to emphasize was that Princeton is engaged
in collecting transcripts rather than originals. The Library and other
agencies of Princeton University actually own more than thirty
original Jefferson manuscripts, and the Jefferson Office in Princeton's
Library now houses the most complete collection of Jefferson transcripts
in existence.
The most ambitious Jefferson project ever attempted, an editorial
task of enormous complexity and difficulty, has been in process at
Princeton since 1944. Under the editorship of Julian P. Boyd and
his associates, Lyman H. Butterfield and Mrs. Mina R. Bryan, with
assistance from the New York Times Company, the complete writings
of Jefferson are being edited for publication by the Princeton
University Press. The first volume (of a contemplated total of fifty)
of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson will be issued early in 1950,
making that year a milestone in American historical scholarship.
The two universities have cooperated closely from the beginning of
the project, to the advantage of both. Friends of the University of
any Jefferson manuscript, however fragmentary, which might aid
the Editors at Princeton in making available to the public the writings
of our Founder.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1771-1825. 11 items. McGregor
Library. Nos. 3045a-b, 2720, 2751, 2848, and 2941.
Letter to Thomas Burke, written when Jefferson was a practicing
lawyer, 6 December 1771, discussing details of the case of MacVee vs.
Wilson and Orange & Brown vs. Tucker. Letter to his nephew, Peter
Carr, giving advice on education, reading, and social conduct, 11
December 1783. Four bills and receipts, including a Parisian dressmaker's
bill for his daughter, a wine voucher, and a Washington,
D.C., stable bill, 1784-1805. Two letters to Archibald Stuart of
Staunton, Va., May 1795. Two letters to Henry Fry, 21 May and 17
June 1804. Letter to William Hilliard, Boston bookseller, regarding
books for the University, 7 August 1825.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1780-1826. 12 items. Coles
Collection. No. 3213.
Memorandum in Jefferson's hand (as Governor of Virginia,
1780?) on taxes and emissions of paper money. Letter from the
Spanish Ambassador at Paris, announcing the death of Charles
III, with Jefferson's draft of his letter of condolence, 22 October
1788. Mathematical problems in Jefferson's hand, 1799 (with newspaper
clippings on Jefferson's death, including a memorial oration
by Gov. John Tyler, 1826). Letter from Madison, 16 August 1801,
endorsed by Jefferson. Letter to Gov. C. C. Claiborne of Louisiana
on Lafayette's lands, 10 March 1805. Fragment of a letter to Justin
P. DeRieux on short-stemmed wheat, 21 May 1805. Letter to David
B. Warden, 10 July 1811, regarding Destutt de Tracy's Review of
Montesquieu; Jefferson's draft of John Adams' letter of 8 March
1819, praising Destutt de Tracy's Treatise on Political Economy
(Destutt de Tracy's original manuscripts of both works are in the
McGregor Library). Letter to Robert Mills, 22 June 1820, on the
Washington Monument and engineering operations in Virginia.
Copy of Jefferson's deposition in an ejection suit, John Fry vs.
Thomas and Samuel Bell, 9 March 1821. Unsigned draft for an
16 February 1825.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1790-1826. 18 items. Deposits.
Nos. 3177, 2825, 2894, 3181, 3139, 2756, 2753, 3086, and 2805.
Eight letters to Martha J. and Thomas M. Randolph, Jr., Richard
Richardson, Jeremiah Goodman, John Adlum, and James Oldham;
clearance papers for Brig James, 1790-1823.
Letter to William Nelson, 28 April 1795, on the westward extension
of the North Carolina-Virginia boundary.
Clearance papers for the Venus, Samuel Bruce, New York to
Liverpool, 6 June 1801; clearance papers for Schooner Mercury, 9
March 1805.
Two letters to Jeremiah Goodman, overseer at Poplar Forest, 1
March and 12 May 1812.
Three orders on James Leitch, Charlottesville merchant, all
delivered by a household servant, 1819-1822.
Letter to George W. Lewis, early student of the University of
Virginia, advising him as to courses of general reading, 25 October
1825.
Ticket number 1936 in the lottery organized at Richmond, Virginia,
for the financial relief of Thomas Jefferson, April 1826.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1801-1823. 8 ALS. Gift of
William S. Hildreth. No. 2686.
Five ALS to Gen. Samuel Smith, merchant, politician, and soldier
of Baltimore, Md., offering him a cabinet post as Secretary of the
Navy, and discussing political appointments, the dismantling of the
Berceau, and the importance of civilan control over the military.
Two letters to General Smith regarding feuds among officers at St.
Louis and New Orleans and expressing condolence for Smith's loss,
15 and 20 October 1806. ALS to Smith, 3 May 1823, expressing
approval of a tax on domestic whiskey to discourage its consumption
as a "sot-maker."
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1807 Aug. 3. 1 DS. Gift of
Frank C. Littleton. No. 3248.
Commission to John Boyer as ensign in District of Columbia
Militia, countersigned by James Madison.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1810-1826. 15 ALS and LS.
Gift of Mrs. Forney Johnston; General Library. No. 3184.
Letters to Gen. John Hartwell Cocke, of Bremo, Fluvanna County,
Va., fellow-member of the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors,
chiefly regarding affairs of the University and the construction of its
buildings, in which General Cocke played a very active part.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1819-1826. 58 ALS. Transfer
to Archives from Bursar's Office. No. 2737.
Correspondence with Arthur S. Brockenbrough, first Proctor of
the University of Virginia, and with others, relative to the founding
of the University of Virginia. This group of holograph letters,
which were hitherto unknown, illustrate the extent to which the
University of Virginia really was "Mr. Jefferson's University." Such
matters as structural materials, the marble capitals on the pavilions,
labor disputes, the water supply, fire precautions, McAdamized
roads, rules of government for the University, firewood for the students
and "meat-houses" for the faculty received his detailed attention,
and a large group deal with details of the finances of the undertaking.
Of especial interest are a letter to Brockenbrough, 28 March
1821, introducing the portrait painter, Thomas Sully, and a letter,
21 April 1825, denying the desirability and appropriateness of the
use of University buildings for religious services. In addition to the
58 letters from Jefferson are seven others to Jefferson from Brockenbrough,
Gen. Henry Dearborn, and Jonathan Thompson, Collector
of the Port of N. Y.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1825 Jan. 16. 1 ALS. Gift of
Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 2845.
To Prof. John Griscom acknowledging the loan of a copy of
Michael Russell's A View of Education in Scotland, 1813, and describing
preparation for the first session of the University of Virginia.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826). 1825 Aug. 7. 1 ALS. Gift of
Mrs. Margaret Dade Hutchinson. No. 3185.
To William A. G. Dade, offering him the Chair of Law at the
University of Virginia.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826) TRANSCRIPTS. 1775-1826.
4000 items. No. 2873.
The University's large collection of photographic copies of Jefferson
manuscripts (see first Jefferson entry above) has been augmented
in this two-year period by the addition of more than 4000
additional transcripts.
Mr. Julian P. Boyd and his associates of the Jefferson Papers staff
at Princeton have generously presented seven reels of microfilm,
from the Library of Congress, of the extensive Jefferson material
in the Papers of the Continental Congress. Other photographic
copies of Jefferson manuscripts have been received from the American
Philosophical Society, the Boston Public Library, the William
Andrews Clark Library, the Henry E. Huntington Library, the
James Monroe Memorial Association, the James Monroe Law Office
at Fredericksburg, Va., the Princeton University Library, and
the Virginia State Library. Gifts of photocopies, or assistance in
obtaining them, have been received also from Mrs. Mina R. Bryan,
Lyman H. Butterfield, Harold J. Coolidge, Robert C. Duval,
Thomas Keister Greer, Miss Irene Hallam, Edwin J. Heath, Lawrence
G. Hoes, Miss Eunice Wead, and Frederick W. Wead.
Subjects involved in the copied material include Albemarle
County, Va. (petition for dividing, etc.), agriculture, the Battle of
New Orleans, birds of America, booksellers, British hostility (Orders-in-Council,
etc.), carriage manufacture, drawings and diagrams,
Fluvanna County, Va. (formation of), foreign affairs, farm records,
geographical studies, Indian vocabularies, Jefferson's sales resistance,
linguistics, mapmaking (county boundaries), meteorology, militia,
nail manufacture, Napoleonic decrees, ornithology, poems, press
conferences, a rain gauge, the Revolution in Virginia, a salesman's
interview, Santo Domingo (revolution in), sheep-raising, songs,
Treaty of Ghent, Tripolitan Wars, University of Virginia (its
founding, especially its library), Virginia militia, War of 1812, and
wheat culture.
Correspondents include Andrew Benade, George Clinton, John
Hartwell Cocke, Ellen Randolph Coolidge, Joseph Coolidge, William
Cummings, Cummings & Hilliard, Henry Dearborn, Justin P.
P. DeRieux, Francis Eppes, John Wayles Eppes, Maria J. Eppes,
Richard Fitzhugh, Philip Freneau, Moses Greer, John Paul Jones,
Robert Lawson, Thomas C. Martin, Samuel Miller, Joseph Milligan,
Peyton, Thomas Pinckney, Richard Price, Martha J. Randolph,
Thomas Mann Randolph, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, William
Short, Charles Sigourney, Robert Smith, John Taylor of Caroline,
Samuel Whitcomb, Alexander Wilson, and many others.
JEFFERSON SCHOOL FOR BOYS, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA.
1905-1915. 36 items and 16 vols. Gift of Walter S. Chisholm.
No. 3061.
Records of the private school operated by Dr. E. Rheinhold
Rogers as a preparatory school for the University of Virginia. Roll
and grade books, baseball score books, album of a reunion of alumni
in 1939, pictures of athletic teams and other student groups. Among
the local alumni of this school are Albert G. A. Balz, Thomas Moore
Carruthers, Bernard P. Chamberlain, Walter Scott Chisholm, Robert
Kent Gooch, J. Gordon Lindsay, Edward O. McCue, Jr., and William
Kyle Smith.
JOHNSON, JAMES GIBSON. 1871-1909. 50 items. Gift of Doctor
Johnson. Nos. 2786 and 2838.
Draft of the autobiography of Doctor Johnson, superintendent of
Charlottesville, Va., schools from 1909 to 1945, a narrative of his
boyhood in Russell County, Va., his education at Milligan College
and the University of Virginia, and his early years as a teacher in
Mountain City and Johnson City, Tenn. Drafts of student term
papers and essays written at the University of Virginia, 1904-1909,
and memoranda on classmates at Milligan College. Compilation of
biographical data on Fanny Dickinson Scott Johnson, with genealogical
notes on her descendants in Russell County, Va., and Johnson
County, Tenn.
JOHNSTON FAMILY. 1784-1848. 36 items. Deposit. No. 2910.
Correspondence of William Johnston of Dublin, Ireland, and
Capt. Robert Johnston of the 17th Regiment of Foot, with their
brother, Capt. John Johnston, merchant of Norfolk and Lebanon,
Va., concerning business affairs in Great Britain and Canada, a
family claim to the peerage as Marquess of Annandale, and other
personal matters. Last will and testament of William Johnston.
Typed copies of originals in private hands.
JONES, THOMAS CATESBY. 1945 May 10. 1 LS. Gift of John C.
Pegram. No. 2898.
To Colonel Pegram, discussing post-war problems in the Orient,
with specific reference to economic status, inflation, and mineral
resources of China and Japan.
KEAN, JEFFERSON RANDOLPH. 1830-1947. 7 items. Gift of
General Kean. No. 2169.
Correspondence of General Kean with Fiske Kimball and Senator
Elbert Thomas of the Jefferson Memorial Foundation, concerning
the statue of Thomas Jefferson by Pierre Jean David, commissioned
in 1830; copy of a letter from Lafayette to Madison, 10 July 1830,
concerning the statue. Extract of a letter from Maj. Gen. Paul
Hawley, U. S. Army Medical Corps, to Kean, concerning the status
of the Medical Department, U. S. Army, 11 July 1947.
KEAN, ROBERT GARLICK HILL (1828-1898). 1861-1866. 2 vols.
Deposit. No. 3070.
Civil War diary of Kean, concerning experiences in the Eleventh
Regiment of the Army of Northern Virginia as adjutant general on
the staff of his cousin Gen. George Wythe Randolph, 1862, and
principally as chief of the Confederate Bureau of War. The diary
contains descriptions of camp life at Falls Church and Centerville
during the winter of 1861-1862, comments on Federal military, political
and diplomatic developments and the military policies of Jefferson
Davis, inflation in Richmond, supply and recruiting problems
in the Confederate Army, the peace conference of January
1865, the Freedmen's Bureau, and the Andersonville Prison trial.
The latter part of the diary concerns his life as a lawyer in Reconstruction
Lynchburg. Among the prominent figures mentioned or
described are Generals P. G. T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, Philip
St. George Cocke, Joseph E. Johnston, and James Longstreet. Also
mentions Secretary of War James Seddon and Vice-President Alexander
H. Stephens.
KEIDEL, GEORGE. 1894. 1 vol. Gift of John C. Wyllie. No. 2741.
Manuscript copy of "The historical development of the literary
Italian language," written by George C. Keidel at Johns Hopkins
University.
KILHAM FAMILY OF BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS, 17971864.
3 items. Deposit. No. 3230.
Records of a New England seafaring family. Letter from A[ustin]
Kilham to Daniel Kilham concerning a voyage from the Cape of
Good Hope to Cowes, England, 30 April 1797. Manuscript seaman's
journal kept by Austin D. Kilham for a voyage of the Brig Waverly
from Boston to Mocha and of the Brig Cherokee from Bombay to
Salem, 1836-1837. Copy of Daniel A. Kilham's "Personal recollections
of life aboard old time sailing ships, 1857-1864," describing his
voyages out of Boston to Brazil, England, East Indies, India, Mexico,
Netherlands, and various American ports including Charleston,
Savannah, New Orleans, and San Francisco.
KINCAID, ELBERT ALVIS. 1920-1948. Ca. 50 items. Gift of E. A.
Kincaid. No. 3146.
Copies of articles, speeches, and press releases collected by Dr.
Kincaid as a member of various committees and commissions or in
the capacity of professor of economics at the University of Virginia.
The following groups are represented: Federal Reserve Board, National
Defense Advisory Commission, Temporary National Economic
Committee, and The Economists' National Committee on Monetary
Policy. The material covers a broad range of economic subjects
including money and banking, war industry in Virginia, wages,
the textile industry, and economic geography.
KING WILLIAM. 1844-1867. 42 items. Gift of Miss Nancy King
Peck. No. 2798.
Papers of William King of Saltville, Va., chiefly war letters to his
wife, Annie Leftwich King, at Lynchburg and Richmond, concerning
camp and battle experiences as a Confederate artilleryman at
Manassas Junction, Centerville, and Fairfax Court House, June
1861-April 1862. The war letters give impressions of Generals P. G.
T. Beauregard, Philip St. George Cocke, and Jubal A. Early, C. S.
A., and of Capt. Isaac A. Sterrett, C. S. N. King, after serving two
months as a gunner's mate in the naval battery at Manassas, transferred
to the army artillery, and was attached to Cocke's brigade.
Other items concern economic and social conditions in southwestern
Virginia (Saltville) and East Tennessee (Bristol and Greenville),
and operations of Charles Scott's salt works in Washington County,
John Ramaye of Nashville, Tenn., and F. G. Smith.
KING, WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE. 1948 Nov. 19. 1 LS. Gift
of Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. No. 2723.
Letter to Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., acknowledging Stettinius'
message on King's retirement as Prime Minister of Canada, 19
November 1948.
KING FAMILY OF ABINGDON, VIRGINIA. 1787(1836)-1841.
100 pp. Deposit. No. 2870.
Court records in the case of John Vint of Alabama vs. the heirs of
William King of Abingdon, Va., before the U. S. District Court of
the Western District of Virginia, 24 September 1838-1 December
1840, in the hand of Richard W. Moore, clerk of the court. Indenture
of Hugh McRacken, Callaway, Va., deeding his rights in King's
estate to Vint, 3 December 1836; copies of King's certificate of citizenship,
1787, and of Vint's certificate of naturalization, Alexandria,
Va., 1805; depositions of David Stout, Robert Baily, and others.
KINLOCH FAMILY. 1799(1853)-1922. 18 items. Deposit. No. 2831.
Family manuscripts of Francis Kinloch (175-—1826) of Kensington,
Georgetown, S. C., and his brother, Cleland Kinloch of Acton,
showing their relationship with the Nelsons of Albemarle County,
Va., particularly Hugh Nelson, grandson of Gov. Thomas Nelson,
who married Francis Kinloch's daughter, Eliza; also a manuscript
history of the family by Langdon Cheves, 1922.
LA VILLEBEUVE FAMILY. 1859. 9 items. Gift of Paul F. Veith.
No. 2997.
Receipts from various river boat super-cargoes for sugar kettles
and other articles, shipped by E. F. La Villebeuve of New Orleans to
sugar planters and others on the lower Mississippi.
LAW, THOMAS (1759-1834). 1806-1834. 49 items. McGregor Library.
No. 2801.
Letters of the British-born financier, economist, and entrepreneur
of Washington, D. C., and Baltimore, Md., to his sister, Lady Joanna
military, and economic affairs in the United States, and commenting
on events in England. The correspondence includes comments on
military operations in Chespeake Bay during the War of 1812, the
Battle of New Orleans, the growth of Washington, D. C., canal promotion,
proposals for stabilizing U. S. currency, the administration
of Andrew Jackson, a visit to the University of Virginia, American
prosperity, life at Druid Hill, Law's estate near Baltimore, and Law's
marriage to Eliza Parke Custis, granddaughter of Martha Washington.
He also makes reference to Catholic Emancipation, the English
Reform Bill, the Irish question, and affairs of the East India
Company. Correspondents include Henry Clay; Edmund Law; Bishop
George Law; John Law, Bishop of Elphin; R. V. Law; Edward
Lushington; James Monroe; Thomas Percy; and Cary Selden.
Among the prominent persons mentioned are John Quincy Adams,
Eliza Custis, Andrew Jackson, Edward Law (Lord Ellenborough),
George Long, James Madison, and George Washington.
LEE, ARTHUR (1740-1792). 1781-1782. 2 items. Coles Collection.
Nos. 2896 and 3153.
ALS, 16 May 1782, to James Madison, concerning British overtures
to break the French alliance, commerce, and matters in the
House of Delegates; certificate of honorary degree of Doctor of Laws,
9 December 1781, awarded to Lee by Harvard University.
LEE, CHARLES (1758-1815). 1787 June 29. 1 LS. Coles Collection.
No. 3044.
From the younger brother of "Light Horse Harry" Lee and attorney
general of the U. S., 1795-1801, to Beverley Randolph, lieutenant
governor of Virginia. Lee, then "Naval Officer for South
Potowmack," reported a violation of Virginia customs law by the
schooner Dart, Captain Dodds, and Dodds' defiance of Virginia
customs officials at Alexandria, and recommended an armed patrol
boat to enforce the law. Mentions Mr. Donaldson, Alexandria merchant;
Robert Evans of Alexandria; Mr. Magruder and Mr. Thompson,
Maryland magistrates.
LEE, FITZHUGH (1835-1905). 1863 Dec. 10. 1 ALS. Gift of Clifton
Waller Barrett. No. 3085.
To John Esten Cooke, facetiously instructing Cooke "to put me
[Lee] on the highest pinnacle of history" in Cooke's Life of Stonewall
Jackson.
LEE, HENRY (1756-1818). 1790-1810. 5 items. McGregor Library.
No. 2988.
Letters concerning Maryland land debts and other matters. One
letter to Judge Bushrod Washington, written while in the Spottsylvania
C. H. jail for debt. A bill of complaint instigated by William
Ruppell. For correspondence concerning Lee, see also entries under
Lawrence Lewis and William A. Washington.
LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794). 1763-1798. 33 items. McGregor
Library. No. 2988.
Correspondence and bills concerning the estate of R. H. Lee, the
disposal of property at Chantilly and western lands. The correspondence
is for the most part by the executors, Corbin Washington and
William Augustine Washington with John Bland; Colonel Chilton;
Henderson, Ferguson & Gibson; Col. George Lee; Matthews, Goldthwait
& Co.; James Maury; Lee Pittman; Hugh Quinlan; John
Sadler; Robert Sandford; Thomas Thomson; Richard Turberville;
Jane Wigley; Ralph Wormeley. For related material see the entries
under Corbin Washington and William Augustine Washington.
LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807-1870). 1861-1870. 4 items. Gift of
William Connor and Samuel A. Mitchell. Nos. 2776 and 2887.
Letters to C. W. Cocker, T. M. S. Rhett, and Edmund Rhett
Yancy, concerning Lee's election to the Euphradian Society of South
Carolina College, his opposition to the establishment of martial law
except as a last extremity, and presentation of souvenirs; 3 transcripts
of the originals in the South Carolina Library. To Joseph
Henry of the Smithsonian Institute, introducing Leander J. McCormick,
who proposes to found an astronomical observatory in
Virginia.
LEE, ROBERT EDWARD, 1852-1855. 1907. 2 items. Coles Collection.
No. 3246.
Recollections of West Point by Professor William Bailey containing
impressions of Lee as superintendent. Letter from J. A. Chamblin,
one of Lee's chaplains containing recollections of Lee and dealing
with the causes of the Civil War.
LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807-1870). 1948 Nov. 12. 1 item.
Typescript. Gift of Mrs. Walter D. Lamar. No. 3078.
Report of committee for changing inscription under the bust of
Lee at New York University Hall of Fame, Mrs. Lamar, chairman,
telling why inscription was changed from "Duty is the sublimest
word" to "There is a true glory . . . the glory of duty done . . ."
LEFTWICH FAMILY. 1843-1863. 7 ALS. Gift of Miss Juliet Fauntleroy.
No. 3129.
Personal letters containing descriptions of campaigns around
Harpers Ferry, Richmond, and Chancellorsville, 1862-1863. Correspondents
include: Mrs. Edward H. Dillard, Thomas Franklin,
W. E. Franklin, Alexander Leftwich, Augustine Leftwich, Sarah
Leftwich, Thomas Leftwich, Robert Lemmon, Georgie Sonmer.
LENTZ, CARLISLE SANFORD. 1943. 1 vol. Gift of Dr. Lentz. No.
2836.
Letters to Dr. Lentz of the University of Virginia Hospital from
doctors and nurses of the United States Army Eighth Evacuation
Hospital, which was composed of personnel from the University
Hospital, describing army medical operations and experiences during
the North African campaign.
LEWIS, CHARLES. 1755. 1 vol. Deposit. No. 2888.
Nineteenth century copy of his journal of an expedition of Virginia
troops from Fredericksburg to Fort Cumberland on the Virginia
frontier during the French and Indian War, 10 October to 27
December 1755. Captain Lewis was an officer in the regiment commanded
by George Washington.
LEWIS, IVEY FOREMAN. 1941-1942. 145 items. Gift of Dean
Lewis. No. 3134.
Correspondence, reports, and priority allocation reports kept by
Dean Lewis as a member of the Committee of Research Laboratory
Priorities of the National Research Council, 1941-1942.
LEWIS, LAWRENCE. 1796-1843. 199 items. McGregor Library.
No. 2988.
Business and personal letters concerning family matters, the operation
of his Woodlawn plantation, the estate of Gen. George Washington,
the free Negroes emancipated by General Washington, debts
of Gen. Henry Lee, western land claims and disposal, and the War
of 1812. This correspondence is with Henry Ashburn, Charles Bennett,
Carter Beverley, William Booth, G. W. Bossett, William Brent,
E. G. W. Butler, Francis Parker Butler, Mrs. B. Carter, Otwayanna
Carter, H. P. Daingerfield, Thomas Davidson, P. Doddridge, Eliza
Fairfax, Ferdinando Fairfax, William H. Foote, Zachariah Gardner,
James E. Heath, N. Herbert, Jonathan Janney, James Kennedy, William
Kercheval, Andrew Lewis, Charles Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis
Lewis, Ellen H. Lewis, Gabriel Lewis, George Lewis, Howell Lewis,
Lorenzo Lewis, Mary S. Angela Lewis, Robert Lewis, Samuel Lewis,
Warner Lewis, E. C. McGuire, George Mason, John Mason, R. C.
Mason, John Milton, Alexander Moore, James Moore, Andrew
Parks, Thomas Peter, Robert Pollard, Joseph Prentis, Mathew Ranson,
Alexander Spotswood, F. D. Stone, George Tucker, Obed.
Waite, Bushrod Washington, Samuel Washington, William T.
Washington, James Webb, Allen Williams.
LEWIS, SINCLAIR. 1930. 1 item. Gift of Clifton Waller Barrett.
No. 2862.
Autographed typescript draft of his short story, "Noble Experiment,"
printed in Cosmopolitan, August 1930.
LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION. [n. d.] 1 item. Gift of James
L. Hook. No. 3127.
Undated, unsigned letter to an editor from Newbern, Va., concerning
the Battle of Fallen Timbers and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
LEWIS FAMILY, 1635-1935. 1 item. Gift of C. William Miller. No.
3204.
Genealogical chart, constructed by Stanford B. Lewis, 1895-1935.
showing descendants of Robert Lewis, who emigrated to the United
States in 1635.
LEWIS FAMILY. 1777-1825. 4 items. Deposit. No. 3086.
Payroll of Capt. George Lewis' troop of horse in the Continental
service, May-July 1777. Letter from James Maury, U. S. Consul at
Liverpool, to Mrs. Betty Lewis concerning the marketing of her
tobacco consignment, 1 July 1789. Letters from Washington and
Jefferson are described elsewhere in this report.
LEWIS FAMILY. 1803-1814. 7 items. Gift of Miss Mary Warner
Byars. No. 2888.
Copies of letters from Lawrence Lewis and from his wife, Eleanor
Custis Lewis, to his brother, John Lewis of Fredericksburg, Va., and
to his son, Gabriel Lewis of Lexington, Ky. Beside matters of family
interest, the letters contain information on the division of the lands
in Ohio and Kentucky among George Washington's legatees; British
attacks on American commerce, 1807; manumission of a slave.
LIGON FAMILY. 1935-1947. 67 vols. Gift of William D. Ligon, Jr.
No. 3203.
Manuscript of Mr. Ligon's genealogical work, "The Ligon Family
and Connections," together with many volumes of correspondence,
genealogical tables and charts, and related data collected by him in
the preparation of this work. Contains extensive information on the
Beauchamp, Berkeley, Corbin, and Harris families, the "connections"
referred to in Mr. Ligon's book.
LILIENTHAL, DAVID E. 1948 June 27. 1 item. Gift of Mr. Lilienthal.
No. 2795.
Draft of Mr. Lilienthal's address to the graduating class of the
University of Virginia, "Universal Public Service."
LIND, JENNY (1820-1887). [1860?]. 1 ALS. Gift of Andrew H.
Burger. No. 2738.
Fragmentary note to "dear maestro," [Ignaz Moscheles], regarding
Mentions her husband, Otto Goldschmidt, and his part in the concert.
LITTLEPAGE, LEWIS (1762-1802). 2 items. Deposit. No. 2944.
Star of the Order of St. Stanislaus awarded to Littlepage, a native
of Essex County, Va., and Court Chamberlain of Poland, 1786-1794,
by Stanislaus Augustus, last King of Poland, with a typescript biographical
sketch of the Virginia adventurer by Lucy T. Latané, 1942.
LITTLETON, FRANK C. 1900-1948. 1200 items and 23 vols. Gift
of Mr. Littleton. No. 3248.
School notebooks of Frank C. and Olive Trowbridge Littleton.
Correspondence and broadsides dealing with their World War I
activities, especially with the Liberty Loans. Of special interest is a
collection of 1000 war posters. See also Oak Hill Collection.
LODGE, HENRY CABOT (1850-1924). 1919 Dec. 9. 1 LS. Coles
Collection. No. 2984.
To a constituent, Mrs. Louis Prang of Boston, explaining opposition
to the League of Nations and President Wilson's stand thereon.
LOMAX FAMILY. 1798-1863. 4 items. Coles Collection. No. 2468.
Letter to Mrs. E. V. Lomax from Richard Randolph, concerning
estate of William Lindsay and his wife, including Randolph's copy
of Lindsay's will which was proved 26 February 1798; two letters,
Capt. John Cassel, Provost Marshal, to Miss Nannie Lomax, regarding
a safe-conduct through Union lines, 6-8 December 1863; undated
note, Nannie Lomax to [General Butler] protesting her arrest in
Baltimore by Federal troops.
LOSSING, BENSON JOHN (1813-1891). 1855-1887. 3 ALS. Gift
of Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 3085.
Letters to Dr. J. W. Francis, E. H. Goss, and a Mr. Coffin regarding
his historical works, with extensive comments on methods of
preparation and arrangements with publishers.
LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1762-1764. 1 vol. Gift of Mrs.
Benjamin S. Minor. No. 2760.
Minutes of meetings of the Loudoun County Court, 8 June
1762-15 February 1764. Among the county justices whose signatures
attest the minutes of successive meetings were Aneas Campbell,
Josiah Clapham, James Hamilton, Francis Lightfoot Lee (17341797),
Lee Massey, Nicholas Minor, John Moss, Jr., Philip Noland,
and George West.
LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1775 Nov. 11. 1 DS. Coles Collection.
No. 3172.
Petition to the Loudoun County Court concerning a new road,
signed by William Barkley and William Pickett.
LUCK, JOHN JENNINGS (1883-1938). 1920-1938. 1500 items. Gift
of Gustav Hedlund. No. 2810.
Another group of the papers of Professor Luck of the School of
Mathematics, University of Virginia, including mathematical notes
and personal correspondence.
McCULLOUGH, SAMUEL THOMAS. 1862-1878. 10 vols. Coles
Collection. No. 2907.
Civil War diaries of Lt. S. T. McCullough, 2nd Maryland Infantry,
Army of Northern Virginia, C. S. A., containing accounts of
battles, lists of casualties, notes on weather, 1862-1865. Notes of a
pilgrimage to revisit the scenes of the battles in which he participated,
1878. For other material on Lieutenant McCullough, see
entry under Jedediah Hotchkiss, his father-in-law.
McDOWELL FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1802-1895. 375 items. Deposit
(restricted). No. 2969.
Family correspondence of James McDowell, Governor of Virginia,
1843-1845 and congressman, 1846-1851, and of his daughter, Sally
Preston Campbell McDowell. The letters deal with her education
in Washington, D.C., and social activities under the tutelage of her
uncle and aunt, Senator Thomas Hart Benton and Elizabeth McDowell
Benton; her marriage to Gov. Francis Thomas of Maryland
in 1841, their divorce in 1845 and the subsequent libel suit
against Thomas in 1847; her re-marriage to the founder of the
theologian of Petersburg, Va., and Princeton, N.J. There is
also material on the experiences of James McDowell, Jr., as a student
at the University of Virginia, 1838-1840; on social life in Richmond,
Va., Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D.C.; and on the Reverend
Miller's Civil War experiences. Correspondents include Elizabeth
McDowell Benton, Thomas Hart Benton, Arthur S. Breckenridge,
Elizabeth H. Carrington, P. R. Fendall, Edward Hobbs, Susanna S.
McDowell, Sarah B. Preston, William Cabell Preston, L. P. Taylor,
William Taylor, C. Van Rensselear, Robert White, and others.
McGREGOR ROOM SEMINARS. 1946-1948. 3 items. Typescript
and recordings. Gift of U. J. Peters Rushton. No. 2763.
Papers read before the McGregor Room Seminars: "Poetry and
Freedom" by W. H. Auden; "William Butler Yeats" by Donald A.
Stauffer; and "The Works of James Joyce" by Edwin B. Burgum.
McKINLEY, WILLIAM (1843-1901). Ca. 1892-1895. 2 items. Gift
of Bernard Mayo. No. 3223.
Two telegrams sent to Gov. William McKinley, one protesting the
other petitioning for the pardon of B. O. Manchester, who had been
convicted as a political grafter.
McLANE FAMILY. 1817-1845. 3 DS. Deposit. No. 3083.
Indentures of Dr. Allen McLane of Wilmington, Del., and Allen
McLane, Jr., of Missouri, pertaining to ownership of land in Wilmington
and of Arnold's Farm, Cecil County, Md. Among persons
mentioned on deeds are Allen McLane, George R. McLane, Jane E.
McLane, Mary T. McLane, Eli Mendenhall, George Read Pearce,
and Thomas V. Ward.
MADISON, DOLLY PAYNE (1768-1849). 1803-1863. 83 items. McGregor
Library. No. 2988.
Personal and business correspondence of Dolly Madison, concerning
the disposal of the estate of James Madison, the sale of Montpelier,
and the use of the Madison Papers. Included are deeds of gift,
indentures, several versions of her will, lists of books and paintings
at Montpelier, resolution of the House of Representatives concerning
Mrs. Madison, and letters and documents concerning her estate.
concerning gifts from Mrs. Madison, her wills, and the settlement of
her estate. The correspondence is with Augustus, Count of Wirtemberg,
Mary Bagot, Robert Brent, John Campbell, M. K. Crittenden,
Mrs. Albert Gallatin, James Hoban, L. de Kantzou, Thomas Law,
Ann Maury, Anne Mifflin, Thomas Ritchie, Mrs. William Cabell
Rives, Mrs. Winfield Scott, and William Tudor.
MADISON, DOLLY PAYNE (1768-1849). 1846 Mar. 27. 1 item.
Coles Collection. No. 2905.
Autograph signed poem by the widow of the President, beginning,
"Temper! Thy power more magical . . ."; addressed to Mrs. Hathaway.
MADISON, JAMES (1750/51-1836). 1779-1833. 65 items. McGregor
Library. No. 2988.
Letters and papers of James Madison, together with several items
describing Montpelier and its inhabitants: Madison's opinions
on money, nullification, the convention with France concerning
shipping, British naval usages and impressment, Gen. Andrew
Jackson's part in the War of 1812; draft of Madison's second inaugural
address; "Substance of a conversation held by James Madison,
Jr., with Col. Beckwith [concerning arming of Northwest Indians]
at the desire of Mr. Jefferson"; Mr. Story's opinion of the Embargo;
letter to Madison from M. W. Jones, with a notation by Thomas
Jefferson. The correspondence is with James Barbour, John Barnes,
John H. Cocke, George Dallas, Joseph Delaplaine, Lyman Draper,
William Duane, Ferdinando Fairfax, John Forbes, Augustus John
Foster, Alexander Hamilton, Jr., William Jarvis, William Jones,
Robert Livingston, James Madison, Sr., John Mason, James Monroe,
John Randolph of Roanoke, Elijah Russell, Thomas Ritchie, Fulwar
Skipwith, H. Taylor, David Triplett, and Isaac Winston.
MADISON, JAMES (1750/51-1836). 1820-1830. 4 ALS. Coles Collection
and McGregor Library. No. 2716.
To Benjamin Silliman, professor of chemistry at Yale, concerning
a subscription to the Scientific Journal, 26 May 1820; to Thomas
Jefferson, concerning Francis Walker Gilmer's mission to Europe to
recruit professors for the University of Virginia, and emphasizing
22 October 1824; to James Monroe, concerning the role of
ex-Presidents in American political life, together with a proposal
for a constitutional convention for Virginia, 5 February 1828; to a
Mr. Maxwell, regarding Sloan's work on priestcraft, 1 December
1830. See also entry under George Bancroft.
MADISON, JAMES (1750/51-1836). 1826-1833. 15 ALS and LS.
Gift of Mrs. Forney Johnston and purchase. No. 3184.
Letters written as Rector of the Board of Visitors, University of
Virginia, to John H. Cocke, a member of the Board. See entry under
John H. Cocke.
MAGRUDER FAMILY. 1830-1907. 32 vols. Gift of Miss Lucy Ann
Gilmer Taylor. No. 2733.
Accounts and notebooks of various members of the Magruder
family of Keswick and Eastham, Albemarle County, Va. These include
accounts of the Rivanna Navigation Company, of which Benjamin
H. Magruder was treasurer, 1830-1861; minutes of the Township
of Rivanna, kept by the clerk, Henry Minor Magruder, 18701875;
class notebooks of John Bowie Magruder while a student at
the University of Virginia, 1856-1857, and of Frank Minor Magruder,
student at Pantops Academy and the University of Virginia,
1889-1891; farm account books of Frank Minor Magruder, 18971901,
and Henry Minor Magruder of Ridgeway and Edgmont, 18691889;
and minutes of the Albemarle County Percheron Horse Breeding
Association, 1906-1907.
MALONE, DUMAS. 1948. 3 items. Gifts of Professor Malone and
Colgate W. Darden, Jr. No. 2935.
Typescript of remarks by Professor Malone at the presentation of
his Jefferson the Virginian, (Little, Brown & Co., 1948), to the University
of Virginia 13 April 1948; speech of acceptance for the University
by President Darden; manuscript of the volume.
MAPHIS, CHARLES GILMORE (1865-1938). 1909-1937. 3600
items. Archival transfer. No. 2917.
Correspondence and other papers relating to the operation of the
Maphis.
MAPS. Gifts, deposits, Coles Collection; Byrd, McGregor, and general
libraries.
The University acquired 19,228 maps in the two years covered by
this report. The figure is not astronomical, but it does represent an
average of about 50 maps received during each working day of the
period. Of these, about half were received from official sources, including
the Army Map Service, about a fourth from other libraries,
and about a fourth from gifts by individuals. The map collection
now totals 68,108 items. Most of the older and rarer maps acquired
between 1947 and 1949 were McGregor Library purchases, but these
did not bulk large in number. Only the most significant acquisitions
from 1947-1949 are noticed in the following skeleton groupings:
Notable maps of Virginia include Robert Morden, three different
maps of the English Plantations in America, 1680, 1685, 1695; A
New Map of New England, New York, New Jarsey, Pensilvania,
Maryland and Virginia, London, 1695; Fry & Jefferson, A Map of
the Most inhabited Part of Virginia, London, 1775; A New and
Accurate Chart of the Bay of Chesapeake, London, 1776; Brion De
la Tour, Partie Meridionale des Possessions Angloise en Amerique,
Paris, 1778; Robert de Vaugondy, Carte de la Virginie, Paris [1793?];
John Wood, copies of three maps: of Dinwiddie County, Prince Edward
County, and of Northumberland County, ca. 1820; U. S. War
Department, Central Virginia, 1862, with ms. note "Captured from
Sheridan's Raiders . . . on Mechanicsville Turnpike, August 28,
1864;" Jedediah Hotchkiss, 65 maps including 8 manuscript ones,
ca. 1860-70; U. S. Post Office, 270 maps of The Rural Delivery
Routes in Virginia, Washington, D. C., 1947.
For other Southern states, the chief additions include Carte de la
Nouvelle France avec le Mississippi, Paris, 1719; Peter Gordon, A
View of Savannah, London, 1734; Matthew Sentter, Plan von Neu
Eben-Ezer [with a map of Georgia and South Carolina], [1747], the
only known complete copy; William Debrahm, A Map of South
Carolina, London, 1757; Plan of New Orleans, London, 1759; W.
Fuller, Plan of Amelia Island in East Florida, London, 1770;
Thomas Jeffreys, The Coasts of West Florida and Louisiana, London,
1775; Henry Mouzon, An Accurate Map of North and South
London, 1775; John Gascoigne, A Plan of Port Royal in South
Carolina, London, 1776; Map of Charleston Harbour, Washington,
D. C., 1825; U. S. Army, Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River Commission,
700 maps of the Mississippi and its tributaries, ca. 1945-7;
City Engineers in Southern cities, 182 maps of Southern cities, ca.
1947-8.
Other American maps worthy of special mention are: John Mitchell,
A Map of the British and French Dominions in North America,
two editions: London, 1755, and Amsterdam, 1775; John Rocque,
A General Map of North America, London, 1761; A Map of Pennsylvania
from the late map of W. Scull, London, 1775; John Montrosor,
A Plan of the City of New York, London, 1775; Chart of the
Entrance of Hudson's River, London, 1776; Joshua Fisher, A Chart
of Delaware Bay, London, 1776; A Plan of Boston, London, 1776.
Notable volumes of a cartographical nature acquired during the
period included: Ptolemy, Geographia, Venice, 1562; Allain Manesson
Mallet, Description de L'Univers, Paris, 1683; English Pilot, the
Fourth Book, London, 1760; American Atlas ca. 1776; Portulano de
la America Setentrional, Madrid, 1809; F. W. Beers, Illustrated
Atlas of the City of Richmond, 1876; Archer Butler Hulbert, Crown
Collection of Photographs of American Maps, Harrow, England,
Cleveland, Ohio, etc., 1909-15; Sanborn Map Co., Maps of Charlottesville,
New York, 1920; Hermann Goering, Personal Atlas 1944,
reproduced in facsimile by the American Military Government in
Berlin, ca. 1946.
MARSHALL, JOHN (1755-1835). 1799 Jan. 1. 1 item. Deposit. No.
2825.
Account of the estate of Benjamin Harrison with J[ames] M[arkham]
Marshall, signed by John Marshall as attorney-in-fact.
MARSHALL, JOHN (1755-1835). 1808 May 2. 1 item. McGregor
Library. No. 2988.
A letter to Marshall's brother James M. Marshall concerning legal
matters.
MARTIN FAMILY. 1814-(1895)1935. 1500 items. Deposit. No.
2883.
Correspondence and accounts of Garrett H. Martin, covering farming
operations in Nelson County, Va., and of Charles L. Martin,
storekeeper, of Greenfield in the same locality.
MASON, ETHELBERT FAIRFAX. 1839-1854. 1 vol. Deposit. No.
3066.
"Watch Bill," a manuscript log, account book, and private journal
kept by E. Fairfax Mason, including accounts and muster rolls of
the U. S. Frigate Brandywine on a Mediterranean cruise, 1839-1854.
MASON, ROY. 1948. 1 item. Deposit. No. 2912.
Proof sheets of his Dissection Manual for Human Anatomy, used
in anatomy classes at the University of Virginia Medical School.
MASSACHUSETTS. 1702-1817. 8 items. Deposit. No. 3096.
Eight manuscripts and broadsides pertaining to Massachusetts.
Deed, Theophilus and Hannah Curtis to William Linfield for land
in Braintree, 25 November 1702. ALS, William Pepperrells, Kittery,
to Oliver and Welstead, 19 May 1725. Commission from Francis
Bernard, Governor of Massachusetts, to Thomas Gage as Justice of
the Peace of Essex County, Mass., 19 November 1761. Printed instructions
from Harrison Gray, Treasurer of Massachusetts, to Seth
Mann, Collector of Braintree, 10 November 1769, and manuscript
instructions from the Braintree assessors to Mann, 9 December 1769.
Promissory note from William Farrell, Taunton, to Jonathan Bass,
3 July 1776. Henry B. Alden's quarterly bill from Harvard College,
13 December 1810, and a commission to him as Paymaster, 3rd
Massachusetts Militia Regiment, signed by Gov. John Brooks, 26
April 1817.
MAUPIN, SOCRATES (1808-1871). 1835-1870. 33 items. Gift of
Mrs. Corbin Maupin and Miss Texie Watts. No. 2769 and 2813.
Correspondence of Socrates Maupin, Professor of Chemistry and
Chairman of the Faculty of the University of Virginia, 1854-1870,
dealing with Maupin's appointment to the faculty, student admissions
during his chairmanship, the military status of medical students
during the Civil War, and Maupin's proposal for a state chemical
Duke, Charles James Faulkner, James Murray Mason, James Young
Mason, Franklin Minor, William Cabell Rives, Andrew Stevenson,
George Tucker, and Charles Edwin Watts.
MAZZEI, PHILIP (1730-1816). 1786. 1 AD. McGregor Library. No.
2988.
Mazzei's memorandum for Colonel Humphreys concerning a business
transaction with Henry Dorhman of Richmond, Va., during the
years 1785-1786.
MEADE, BISHOP WILLIAM. 1841 May 3. 1 ALS. Gift of James
L. Hook. No. 3036.
To Mr. Monirer, Washington, D. C., bookseller, requesting that
fifty copies of his sermon be sent to the Rev. George Freeman,
Swedesborough, N. J.
MEADE-FUNSTEN FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1807-1906. 124
pieces. Gift of Mrs. Herbert Durand. No. 3039.
Personal correspondence of members of the interrelated Byrd,
Funsten, Meade, and Washington families of Frederick (later
Clarke) County and of Winchester, Va., with much material on
social life in the upper Shenandoah Valley during the nineteenth
century. Among the subjects mentioned are the states' rights sentiment
in the area in 1851; the Congressional campaign of Henry M.
Bedinger; a trip to Havana and New Orleans in 1860; conditions at
Virginia Military Institute during the Civil War; life in the Army
of Northern Virginia, 1861; the capture of Fort De Russey, Louisiana,
1864; the battle of New Market. Among the correspondents
are Alfred H. Byrd; Mary A. Byrd; Richard E. Byrd; Thomas Taylor
Byrd of Berryville, Va.; and W[illiam] Byrd of Winchester; Dr.
Oliver Funsten of Highlands, Clarke County, Va.; Emily Funsten of
Elmwood, Clarke County; Anne Funsten; Daniel Funsten; David
Meade of Lucky Hit, Millwood, Va.; Susan Meade; Louisa Meade;
William Fitzhugh ("Buck") Meade; Cadet George Ward (V.M.I.,
1864); Emily Funsten Ward; Fairfax Washington; and Lucinda
Washington.
MEXICO, AGRARIAN REVOLT. 1860 (1918) -1926. 734 items and
16 vols. Gift of C. Edmonds Allen. No. 2895.
Letters and diaries of Mrs. Rosalie Caden Evans of Charleston,
S. C., and Laredo, Tex., chiefly relating experiences at San Pedro
Coxtocan, Puebla, Mexico, where her British husband had a hacienda,
and where Mrs. Evans was ultimately murdered by the
agrarian revolutionists in 1924. Correspondence of Mrs. Evans' sister,
Mrs. Daisy Caden Pettus of Charleston, S. C., with Bobbs-Merrill
regarding the publication of her sister's letters, which appeared as
The Rosalie Evans Letters from Mexico in 1926. Documents and
correspondence relating to the settlement of Mrs. Evans' estate, and
the action of the British Government in this matter. Among the
persons mentioned are Lazaro Cárdenas, Venustiano Carranza, Lord
Curzon, H. A. Cunard-Cummings (British chargé at Mexico City),
Henry Evans, and Alvaro Obrégon.
MEXICO, JUAREZ REGIME. 1859. 1 vol. Gift of Frederick Ford.
No. 2946.
Manuscript copy in Spanish of protest by Francisco Pablo Vasques,
Bishop of Puebla, against President Benito Juarez' decree abolishing
monastic orders in his jurisdiction.
MICROFILM. [1350]-1911. 120,700 exposures. Gifts of Thomas P.
Abernethy, Robert Hill Carter, José Honorio Rodrigues; Coles Collection;
and acquisitions of the General library.
To strengthen our historical source materials, especially those
relating to Virginia and the southeastern states, the library has continued
during 1947-1949 to acquire microfilm and photostats of
manuscripts in private hands and in other libraries in the United
States and abroad. In most instances the microfilm is acquired to assist
specific research projects of students in this University or to augment
collections of original manuscripts in the library. The more
important current acquisitions are noted below.
Sir William Berkeley (1606-1677). Correspondence of the Governor
of Virginia with Gov. Richard Nicolls of New York, 16641668,
on inter-colonial affairs; royal instructions to Berkeley, and
items pertaining to Nathaniel Bacon's rebellion and his "Declaration
Library. No. 2782.
Berkeley Family, 1771-(1816)1878. Correspondence and accounts
of Carter Burwell Berkeley (1777-1827) of Barn Elms, Middlesex
County, Va., his brother William Nelson Berkeley of Goose Pond,
King William County, Va., and his father, Col. Edmund Berkeley
(1730-1802), including some papers of Robert Beverley, 1771, of
William Churchill of Middlesex County, and of Col. Edmund
Berkeley, C. S. A. of Evergreen, Prince William County, Va. 41
photostats from Duke University Library. No. 2830.
Cabell Family Diaries. 1751-1825. Diaries of William Cabell, Sr.
(1729-1798, son of Dr. William Cabell) of Union Hill, Nelson
County, Va., for the years 1751-1798, and of his grandson, Mayo
Cabell, 1803-1825, including weather records and details of plantation
management. Microfilm, by the Virginia State Library, of privately
owned originals. No. 3119.
Henry Clay (1777-1852). Two ALS to Thomas Dougherty, 3
April 1822, and James Madison, 10 October 1828; photostats from
Pequot Library, Southport, Conn. No. 2933-e.
Gen. John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866). Letters to Thomas Jefferson,
1810-1824, about the founding of the University of Virginia,
the controversial appointment of Dr. Thomas Cooper, and sheepraising.
Photostats of 27 originals at the Henry E. Huntington Library.
No. 2853.
Continental Congress Papers, 1785-1789, portions relating to the
printing of the laws. Microfilm from the Library of Congress (seven
reels of film from the same collection are reported under the heading,
Jefferson Transcripts); one reel. No. 3077.
French Consulate at Norfolk, Va., 1784-1866. The six reels of
microfilm covering the files of the consulate for this eighty-year
period contain birth, death, and marriage records as well as information
on economic relations with France. From originals in the Detroit
Public Library. No. 3168.
Halifax County, Va. Census records for 1860. Originals in Duke
University Library. No. 3167.
Henkel Family of New Market, Va. 1782-1909. Diary (partly in
German) of the Rev. Paul Henkel, recording Lutheran missionary
activities in western Virginia, North Carolina, and Ohio, 1782-1825;
the Rev. William J. Flick's typescript, "Chronological life of Paul
Henkel"; manuscript copy of the prescription book of Dr. Solomon
Henkel, New Market physician, with entries also by Doctors Godfrey,
Solon, and Charles C. Henkel, 1800-1909. Microfilm from
originals in the Krauth Memorial Library of the Lutheran Theological
Seminary, Philadelphia, and in private hands. Nos. 2827 and
2828.
Mexico. United States Consulate at Acapulco, reports of, 18231906;
8 reels of microfilm from originals in the National Archives.
No. 3251.
Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia, 1796-1866. Declarations by
applicants for fire insurance policies, with policies and correspondence;
rich in information on Virginia houses of the period. Microfilmed
at the Virginia State Library (24 reels) from original records
owned by the Corporation. No. 3175.
Wilson Cary Nicholas Papers, 1765-1831; 3 reels of microfilm from
originals at the Library of Congress. No. 3166.
Printing of U. S. Laws, 1789-1822. Correspondence of U. S. Secretaries
of State from Jefferson through John Quincy Adams with
American printers; 800 items on microfilm from originals in the
National Archives. (See also Continental Congress entry above).
No. 2932.
Samuel Smith Papers, 1772-(1839)1911; 6 reels from originals at
the Library of Congress. Supplements Smith Papers and other collections
here. No. 3124.
Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883). Correspondence, 18341872,
of the Whig Senator from Georgia, who became Vice-President
C. S. A., including a number of letters written by Linton while a
student at the University of Virginia, 1844-1845; 3,000 items on micrifilm
from originals at the Manhattanville College of the Sacred
Heart, New York. No. 2950.
Virginia mercantile firms, 1775-1785. Account books of W. L.
Savage; Hooe & Harrison; Hooe, Stone & Co.; and Jenifer & Hooe;
2 reels of film from the originals at the New York Public Library.
No. 3005.
George Washington (1732-1799). Photostats of letters to Baron
von Steuben, 20 June 1780, and to Alexander Hamilton, 3 October
1790, from the Bibliotheca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Washington's
copy of a printed summons, 31 May 1774, to the Virginia
Convention of August 1774, which elected delegates to the first Continental
Congress. From the Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
Another original of this broadside was reported in the 16th17th
annual report. Nos. 3030 and 3165.
Washington and Lee University, 1774-1853. From papers at Washington
and Lee University relating to the early history of Washington
College; one reel. No. 3123.
Western Lands, 1778-1785. Ohio and Yazoo land companies, as
reflected in British and Spanish colonial documents; 33 photostats
of transcripts in the Library of Congress. No. 2865-a.
Wyatt Family, 14th-18th centuries. Papers of Sir Francis Wyatt
(1588-1644), first royal governor of Virginia and of other members
of the Wyatt family. Three reels of microfilm from the British
Museum of a privately owned collection. Use restricted. No. 3182.
MIDDLESEX AND GLOUCESTER COUNTIES, VIRGINIA.
1812-1818. 1 vol. Coles Collection. No. 3154.
Attorney's ledger kept at Urbanna, Va., 1812-1818, containing
accounts for Gloucester and Middlesex residents, including Carter
Braxton, Robert West, and Ralph Wormeley. Contains copies of
out-going letters to Robert West and James Trendsley.
MILLER, FRANCIS PICKENS. 1948. 4 items. Gifts of Clarice
Snead and T. Daniel Shumate, Jr. No. 2999.
Drafts of four speeches given by Colonel Miller as part of his
campaign for the democratic gubernatorial nomination, 1948:
"Christianity and Democracy," "Financing our Schools," "How to
Strengthen County Government," and an appeal to potential voters
to register.
MINOR, JOHN BARBEE (1813-1895). 1843-1892. 75 items and
2 vols. Deposit. No. 3114.
Papers of John B. Minor, University of Virginia professor of law,
including personal letters, bills, his law case book, summaries of law
cases discussed in law classes, moot court minutes, 1870-1892, and
hi commonplace book, 1843-1873, in which he wrote on law, literature,
state and national politics, University of Virginia affairs, and
his "speculations" on the Civil War, its causes and progress.
MINOR, JOHN BARBEE (1813-1895). 1865 July 7. 1 ALS. Deposit.
No. 2888.
To his sister, Anne Trueheart of Galveston, Texas, giving news of
the Minor family in Virginia and describing the effect of the Civil
War on the state and on Charlottesville.
MINOR, WILLIAM WOOLFOLK, JR. 1871-1926. 12 vols. Deposit.
No. 3024.
Farm diary of W. W. Minor of Windieknowe, Albemarle County,
Va.
MONROE, JAMES (1758-1831). 1802-1815. 3 items. Coles Collection
and McGregor Library. Nos. 2833 and 2988.
A list of tableware purchased in France; a letter to Andrew Ellicott
concerning the boundary line between Virginia and Tennessee;
letter to Alexander Dallas regarding a cabinet meeting.
MONROE, JAMES (1758-1831). 1819-1831. 4 items. Gift of Mrs.
Forney Johnston and deposit. Nos. 3184 and 2833.
Letters to John H. Cocke, 1827-1831, concerning the education
of Cocke's son, Monroe's memoirs, and the sale of Monroe's Virginia
Madison County, Alabama Territory, 5 October 1819.
MONROE, JAMES (1758-1831) TRANSCRIPTS. 1780-1941. 8
items. Deposits and gift of E. R. Stettinius, Jr. Nos. 2854 and 2869.
Abstracts from correspondence of Monroe regarding his residences
in Albemarle County, Va., (his "upper plantation" or Highlands
Tract, now called Ash Lawn, and the "lower plantation," now the
site of the University of Virginia, the house being known as Monroe
Hill) taken from various sources, 1780-1833; patents to Henry Umberger
for 600 acres of land in Wythe County, Va., 15 February
1800, and to John Stevens, Jr., for 100 acres of land in same locality,
27 September 1802, signed by Monroe as Governor of Virginia; correspondence
of Monroe with Sylvanus Thayer, superintendent of
the U. S. Military Academy, 1826, regarding disciplinary methods
at West Point and at the University of Virginia; copy of a speech
given by Claude G. Bowers at Ash Lawn on the occasion of the
unveiling of Attilio Piccirilli's statue of Monroe, 28 April 1932;
copy of a talk by Miss Therese Molyneaux, curator of Ash Lawn, before
the Albemarle County Historical Society, 22 July 1941.
MOORMAN FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1785-1911. 147 items.
Deposit. No. 3013.
Records of the Thomas B. Moorman farm and rental property in
Campbell County and Buchanan, Va., including his account books
for 1877-1878 and 1881-1883, tax receipts, bills, promissory notes,
deeds, partnership agreements, and letters. Correspondents include
William W. Boyd, W. H. Douthat, John N. Johnston, and Walter
N. Johnston, all of Buchanan, Va., and W. Robinson of Callaway.
MORRIS, ROBERT (1734-1806). 1796 June 1. 1 ADS. McGregor
Library. No. 2778.
Instructions from the president and board of the North American
Land Company to their Virginia agent, Robert James, as to the
procedure for securing land titles and ways of disposing of same,
signed by the Philadelphia financier and speculator who was president
of the company. For surveys made for this company in Greenbrier
County, see the sixteenth-seventeenth annual report.
MOUNT MORIAH CHURCH, ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
1938. 1 item. Gift of Mrs. John O. Woodson. No. 2899.
Typescript history of the oldest Methodist church in Albemarle
County from its formation as "Maupin's Meeting House" in 1788,
compiled by Mrs. Frank Burruss and Miss Agnes S. Maupin.
MURPHY. THEODORE. 1942. 1 item. Gift of William B. Murphy.
No. 2955.
Yeoman Murphy's typescript account of the U. S. Navy Carrier
Sangamon's participation in the North African landings, including
the voyage to and from Norfolk, Va., 11 October to 27 November
1942.
NALLE, ALBERT GALLATIN. 1841-1889. 7 manuscript vols. Gift
of the Nalle Family. No. 3215.
Six account books and one letter book; records kept by Albert G.
Nalle as planter and cotton factor in and near New Orleans, La.,
1841-1845; and those kept by him and his son, Frank Nalle, for their
Richmond, Va., stock-brokerage firm, 1865-1889.
NELSON, HUGH (1768-1836). 1779-1836. 20 items. Deposit and
gift of Mrs. James Cook Bardin. No. 2831.
Legal and business papers of Hugh Nelson of Belvoir, Albemarle
County, Va., dealing with the administration of the estate of his
father-in-law, Francis Kinloch of Kensington, S.C., and with land
warrants of Dr. Mather Pope, a Revolutionary veteran of Yorktown,
Va. Correspondents include Cleland Kinloch, Eliza Kinloch, Francis
Kinloch, C. Mayrant, and Francis K. Nelson. See also the entry
under Kinloch Family.
NELSON, THOMAS (1738-1789). 1773-1774. 1 item. Coles Collection.
No. 3043.
Bill to Colonel Nelson for bar iron purchased from William Holt
and Co., Providence Forge, New Kent County, Va., 1773-1774.
NELSON, WILLIAM, 1761-1808. 20 items. Deposit. No. 2825.
Business and legal correspondence of William Nelson, lawyer of
Williamsburg and Richmond, regarding law suits, land warrants, a
survey of the Virginia-Tennessee boundary line, and the free school
William Dandridge, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Muter,
George Nicolson, Edmund Pentdleton, J. Peyton, Edmund Randolph,
William Short, and George Washington. See also the entries
under these names.
NEW CANTON, VIRGINIA. 1794 June 2. 1 item. Deposit. No.
3047.
Manuscript map of New Canton copied by Hampden B. Nicholas
from the original by W. R. Bernard, 2 June 1794.
NEW JERSEY, HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY. 1937-1939.
7 vols. and 1 item. Typescript. Gift of Mrs. E. E. Vann. No. 3113.
Five Indian site surveys of the W.P.A. Historical Records Survey,
recording excavations in Faery Rock Hole Shelter, Harvey Farm,
Murray Farm, Burlington County, Woodbury Annex No. 2, all in
New Jersey. Quarterly reports of the Indian Site Survey, September
and December 1939. Procedure of the American Portrait Inventory
of the Historical Records Survey.
NEWBERRY COLLEGE. 1860 Nov. 18. 1 item. Gift of William M.
E. Rachal. No. 2814.
Typescript copy of a letter from I. M. Schreckhize, Professor of
Greek and Latin at Newberry College, a United Lutheran school
at Newberry, S. C., to Miss Amanda Sieg, Churchville, Augusta
County, Va., describing his professional duties, academic and religious
life in Newberry, and local opinion regarding secession, with
some reference to families in Churchville, where Schreckhize had
formerly served as paster of the Lutheran church; from the original
in private hands.
NEWCOMB, JOHN LLOYD. 1900-1947. 4,000 items. Archival
transfer and gifts of Robert Kent Gooch, Dr. Newcomb, Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr., and Robert B. Tunstall. Nos. 2636, 2722, and 2755.
Official correspondence as Assistant to the President, 1926-1931,
and Acting President, 1931-1933, of the University of Virginia; class
notes, problems, and experiments as student, instructor, and professor
of engineering at the University; miscellaneous personal and
official correspondence, concerning membership on the National
during World Wars I and II; speeches by Professor Gooch,
Mr. Tunstall, and Rector Stettinius at ceremonies in Cabell Hall
honoring Dr. Newcomb upon his retirement as President of the
University, 23 June 1947. Other material on the presidency of the
University is described under Edwin Anderson Alderman and University
of Virginia.
NEWSPAPERS. Byrd, Coles, McGregor, and General libraries; gifts
and deposits.
Virginia's state-wide cooperative program for the preservation of
currently published Virginia newspapers, maintained by a majority
of the editors and publishers in cooperation with the libraries of
Virginia, has been supported by the University Library during the
past two years through the cataloguing for permanent preservation
of sixty-eight Virginia dailies and weeklies. The purpose of the
program is to ensure the preservation of at least one complete file
of each Virginia newspaper in at least one library. The publishers
are asked to furnish one free subscription to one library. The libraries
bear the cost of cataloguing, storage, and maintenance or microfilming.
Fifty-three subscriptions have been received by this library
during the period of this report as the publishers' contribution to
this project in our library. A list of these is appended at the end of
this report.
Leading regional newspapers of the United States and foreign
countries come to the library by subscription, the most constantly
used of these being the rag-paper edition of the New York Times,
with its index. Provision of adequate storage space is an ever-increasing
problem, and consideration is being given to a greater use of
the space-saving (but costly and time-consuming) expedient of
microfilm. Some subscriptions are already received in the form of
microfilm. Participation in cooperative microfilming projects has
added to our files for research; and files of original newspapers have
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.
A notable editor's file received on deposit is that of the Suffolk
Herald and Suffolk News-Herald, for the years 1879-1938, from the
publisher, Mr. W. J. Missett. Mr. A. R. Summers has deposited the
late Lewis Preston Summers. A few of these (unique issues) are
listed below. Valuable runs of the Southern Illustrated News, 18621864;
the Magnolia Weekly, 1863-1864; and the Lynchburg Daily
Republican have been received from Mr. Howell C. Featherston.
Gifts of several important files have enriched the collections.
From Mr. Robert Webb have come several of the unique issues of
Richmond and Suffolk papers listed below. Through Mr. Royce E.
Atkinson, the Tidewater Voiture No. 86 has presented the American
Beacon & North Carolina Gazette, 12 January-29 December 1832.
The Wytheville Times, 8 January 1859-20 December 1860 has been
donated by Mr. Trinkle Johnson. Mr. Frank C. Littleton has presented
files of the New York Times, 1914-1918; the New York Sun,
1914-1917, and the New York Herald, 1914-1915. Mr. R. Smith Simpson
has continued his generous work in building up our files of Belgian
and Greek newspapers for the World War II and post-war
years.
The McGregor Library acquired some important volumes of Virginia
and Washington, D. C., newspapers of the Civil War period
which were originally in the library of the Confederate cartographer,
Jed Hotchkiss: the Staunton Spectator; 1853-1868; the Staunton
Messenger, 24 September 1850-19 March 1853; the Rockingham
Register, 10 December 1859-1 September 1865; the Richmond Examiner,
29 October 1861-30 September 1862; and the Richmond
Whig, 15 March 1861-November 1864.
The acquisition of a file of the Boston Daily Advertiser, nearly
complete for the years 1830-1915, has filled an important regional
gap in our holdings, as does the Boston Repertory, 1804-1812 and
Russell's Gazette, 1799-1801, for earlier years.
A number of donors, actively supporting Clarence Brigham's
assertion that newspapers are the most indispensable of all printed
sources for historians, have helped during the period covered by this
report to fill gaps in our files. In addition to the gifts already mentioned
(and those noted on the final page of this report) we wish
particularly to acknowledge generous help from the following:
Robert L. Bidwell, Mrs. Harry A. Fellows, Jr., Miss Bertha Deane,
Carter Glass, Jr., Edwin P. Lehman, William M. McGill, Miss
Evelyn Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Moore, Willoughby Newton,
William C. Noland, Alfred D. Preston, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.,
Wyllie.
New acquisitions listed below include only those issues which, so
far as is known (from Brigham's and Cappon's bibliographies) have
never previously existed in any library.
Abingdon, Virginia
Abingdon Democrat, 1899 Apr. 20; May 4; June 8; Aug. 17 (Summers
collection; only issues known.)
Abingdon Standard, 1877 Jan. 25; Mar. 8, 15, 22; Apr. 5; June 14,
28; Aug. 30; Oct. 18, 25; Dec. 20; 1878 Mar. 7; Apr. 18; Aug. 8, 15,
29; Sept. 12; Oct. 10; 1879 Mar. 13; Aug. 28; Nov. 19; 1880 July 1;
Sept. 2, 23, 30; Oct. 28; Nov. 11; 1881 June 2; Oct. 27; 1882 Aug.
30, Oct. 4, 11; 1883 Mar. 7; July 11; Aug. 8; 1884 Jan. 9; 1885
Aug. 19; 1887 June 2; Aug. 20; Sept. 21, 28; Oct. 19; Nov. 9; 1888
May 16; June 20; Dec. 7, 14, 21, 28; 1889 Jan.-Feb. 15; Mar. 1, 8,
15, 29; Apr. 5, 19, 26; May 3, 10; June 3, 14, 21, 28; July 12, 19,
26; Aug. 2, 9, 16, 23; Sept.; Oct.; Dec.; 1890 Jan.-Apr. 11.
Abingdon Virginian, 1840 Feb. 17; 1845 Feb. 8; Apr. 12; 1846 Jan.
17; Mar. 14; 1847 Oct. 16; 1848 Oct. 23; 1849 Mar. 31; Apr. 7, 14;
May 12, 19, 26; June; July 14, 28; Aug. 25; Sept. 8, 22; Nov. 3, 10;
Dec. 8; 1850 Feb. 2, 16, 23; Apr. 11; May 4, 11, 18; June 8; July 27;
Sept. 7; Oct. 5; Nov. 30; Dec. 7; 1851 Jan. 25; Feb. 16; Apr. 12, 19;
May 3; Aug. 19; Dec. 5, 12, 19, 26; 1852 Jan. 3, 10, 31; May 22, 29;
July 10; Sept. 11, 18, 25; Oct. 9, 30; Nov. 27; Dec. 4, 25; 1853 Feb.
12, 26; Mar. 12; Apr. 9, 28; Sept. 17, 24; 1854 Apr. 1; 1857 Nov. 28;
1860 Jan. 13; 1864 Aug. 26; 1865 Dec. 8, 15, 22; 1866 Jan. 5-1870
Mar. 18; Apr. 1-Oct. 21; 1871 Oct. 13-1872 Apr. 26; May 3, 17, 24;
June 7, 28; July 5, 19; Aug. 9; Sept. 6, 27; Oct. 4, 25; Nov. 1; 1873
Jan. 24; May 16, 23, 30; June 6, 13; July 11, 18; Aug. 1; Nov. 21;
Dec. 19; 1874 Mar. 21; Apr. 10; May 1, 8; June 26; July-December;
1875 Jan.-Nov. 12; 1876 Mar. 24, 31; Aug. 25; Oct. 20; Nov. 10, 17;
Dec. 15, 22; 1877 Jan. 5, 19; Feb. 2-Apr. 13; May 8, 25; June
1, 8; July 20; Aug. 17, 24; Oct. 26; Nov. 2, 22; 1878 Jan. 11-Dec. 13;
1879 Feb. 7; May 2, 16, 23, 30; June 6-Sept. 26; Oct. 10, 17; Nov.
28; Dec. 5; 1880 Jan. 16-Apr. 2, 16, 23, 30; May 7-June 25; July
9, 23, 30; Aug.; Sept. 10-Oct. 15, 29; Nov. 12; Dec. 24; 1881 Mar.
18; Apr. 22; Sept. 23; 1882 Mar. 3; May 19; June 16; July 21, 28;
Aug. 18; Oct. 6, 20, 27; 1883 Mar. 8; July 5; 1884 Jan. 17; Mar.
Oct. 2, 22; 1886 Mar. 4, 18; Apr. 1, 22; June 3, 10, 17, 24; July 1,
22; Aug. 5, 12, 26; Sept. 2, 9, 16; Oct. 7, 14, 28; Nov. 11; 1887
Sept. 1; Dec. 22; 1888 Feb. 2; May 10, 24; June 7, 14; Aug. 2; Sept.
6; Dec. 27; 1889 Mar. 28; Apr. 11; May 16; 1890 Feb. 5, 13, 20;
Mar. 4, 18, 25; Apr. 1, 8; May 6; June 10, 17; July 31; Sept. 4;
1891 Mar. 13; June 19; Aug. 21; Oct. 2; Dec. 18; 1892 Feb. 27;
1893 Jan. 20; Mar. 10; June 16; July 14; Aug. 25; Oct. 20; Nov.
10; Dec. 1, 15, 22; 1894 Jan. 12, 19, 26; Oct. 5; 1895 July 5; Aug.
16, 23; Sept. 27; 1896 July 3, 17; Aug. 21; Sept. 18; Oct. 9, 16, 23;
Nov. 12, 19; Dec. 4, 11; 1897 Jan. 1- Feb. 4, 18, 25; Mar. 4, 25;
Apr. 8, 15, 29; June 24; July 8, 15, 22; Dec. 8; 1898 Feb. 10; Mar.
24; Apr. 14, 28; May 3; 1899 Jan. 12-Oct. 26; Nov. 9-Dec. 21; 1900
complete; 1901 Jan. 24; Feb. 14, 28; Mar. 8, 29; Apr. 12-Dec. 27;
1902 Jan. 10, 24, 31; Feb. 7-Dec. 26; 1903 Jan. 2-1904 Feb. 5, 26;
Mar. 4, 11, 18; Apr. 8, 15, 29; May 13, 27; June 3, 10, 24; July 8,
15, 22, 29; Aug. 5, 19, 26; Sept. 16, 23, 30; Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28; Nov.
11, 18; Dec. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; 1905 Jan. 6-Feb. 3, 24; Mar. 17, 24;
Apr. 14, 21, 28; May 5-June 30; July 14; Dec. 21; 1908 May 14;
1910 Sept. 22; 1911 May 18; 1912 Jan. 18; Aug. 23; 1915 Nov. 6;
1916 Apr. 1 (listed by Cappon as a privately owned file; it is less
complete for some periods, much more extensive for others, than
his listing indicates).
The Banner, 1842 Mar. 26; 1843 Mar. 4.
The Citizen, 1898 Feb. 11, 25; Apr. 1, 29; May 6, 13, 27; Oct. 13;
1899 Jan. 5.
Holston Intelligencer, 1810 May 15 (Summers collection; only issue
known.)
The Jacksonian, 1847 July 31.
Little Tennesseean, 1841 Jan. 2; Mar. 27; Apr. 3, 10.
Political Prospect, 1811 Jan. 4; 1812 Mar. 21; Apr. 4-May 2, May 16;
June 13, 20, 27; July 18, 25; Aug. 7, 14, 21, 28; Sept. 12, 19; Oct.
10, 15, 22; Nov. 6, 12; Dec. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; 1813 Jan. 7, 16, 23, 30;
Feb.-May 8; 1814 Dec. 1; 1815 Jan. 5, 12, 19, 31; 1819 Jan. 9 (Summers
collection; Brigham entry is incorrect).
Southwest Examiner, 1885 Apr. 18-1887 Sept. 2.
States-Rightsman, 1841 Jan. 22; Oct. 5.
The Times, 1834 Aug. 16.
Trade Journal, 1882 July, Sept., Nov. (monthly; title unknown to
Cappon).
Virginia Statesman, 1835 June 20; 1836 Oct. 8, 15, 22; 1837 July 1.
Virginia Republican, 1833 Feb. 2; 1907 June 7-Dec. 19; 1908 complete;
1909 Feb. 25; Mar. 4, 18; Apr. 1, 8, 15, 29; May 13, 27; June
2, 24; July 1-22; Aug. 12-Sept. 23; Nov. 4, 11; 1910 Mar. 31; Apr.
28; June 23, 30; July 28; Aug. 4, 25; Sept. 1-22; Oct. 6, 27; Nov.
3, 17; Dec. 29; 1911 Feb. 16, 24; Mar.; Apr. 14-May 19; June 2, 9,
23, 30; July 21, 28; Aug. 11, 18, 25; Sept. 8-Oct. 13, 27; Nov. 3, 10;
Dec. 15, 22, 29; 1912 Jan. 5, 19; Feb. 2, 16; Apr. 5-19; Aug. 23Dec.
27; 1913 Jan. 3- Feb. 28; Mar. 14-Apr. 18; May 9-23; June 6Dec.
19; 1914 Jan. 30-Mar. 20; Apr. 3- May 1, 15, 22; June 5- Dec.
18; 1915 Jan. 1-Feb. 12, 26; Mar. 5-Aug. 27; Sept. 10, 24; Oct. 1Nov.
26; Dec. 10, 17; 1916 Jan. 13; Feb. 18; Mar. 3-17, 30; Apr.;
May 5, 19, 26; June 16-Sept. 1, 15, 29; Oct. 6-Nov. 17; Dec.; 1917
Jan.; Feb. 16, 23; Mar. 4-Dec. 27; 1918 Jan. 11-May 31; 1922 Feb.
9-23; Mar. 2, 16, 23; May 4, 25; June 29; July; Aug. 24, 31; Sept.
7-Nov. 2; 1923 July 20-Nov. 2, 16-30; Dec.; 1924 Jan. 4-Apr. 4, 18,
25; May 2-July 4, 18, 25; Aug. 1, 8, 22, 29; Sept. 5, 19, 26; Oct. 24,
31; Nov.
Washington County Journal, 1906 Sept. 7; 1915 Aug. 27.
Washington Herald, 1899 Dec. 1; 1900 Apr. 27.
Amherst, Virginia
Amherst Progress, 1904 Mar. 16; 1922 Apr. 7.
Bland, Virginia
The South-West, 1889 Nov. 2.
Bristol, Virginia
Southern Advocate, 1862 Mar. 27; Apr. 3-May 29; June 12-Sept. 4,
25; Oct. 9; Nov. 6; Dec. 25; 1863 Jan. 22; Feb. 26; Mar. 12.
State Line Gazette, 1866 Mar. 9; Sept. 8; 1867 Jan. 9, 30; Feb. 3, 6,
20, 27; Mar. 6, 13, 20.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Charlottesville Chronicle, 1896 Aug. 7; 1907 Oct. 3.
Virginia Advocate, 1853 Sept. 16.
Culpeper, Virginia
Culpeper Observer, 1868 Nov. 7.
Danville, Virginia
Danville Register, 1859 Oct. 27.
Farmville, Virginia
Farmville Journal, 1887 Dec. 1.
Fincastle, Virginia
Fincastle Democrat, 1842 Sept. 13.
Fredericksburg, Virginia
The Free-Lance, 1909 June 17.
Genius of Liberty, 1800 July 22.
Virginia Herald, 1811 June 29.
Halifax, Virginia
Halifax Advertiser, 1887 Oct. 1.
Lebanon, Virginia
Lebanon News, 1886 Feb. 25.
Leesburg, Virginia
Democratic Mirror, 1858 Mar. 17.
Genius of Liberty, 1829 May 30.
Loudoun Democrat, 1854 May 31; June 7.
Spirit of Democracy, 1840 Sept. 8.
The Washingtonian, 1858 Mar. 19.
Manassas, Virginia
Manassas Journal, 1925 Mar. 25.
Marion, Virginia
Marion American, 1914 Jan. 8 (only issue known).
Marion Herald, 1872 Apr. 4.
Southern Patriot, 1872 Apr. 10, 17 (only issues known).
Newbern, Virginia
Virginia People, 1879 Sept. 25.
Orange, Virginia
Piedmont Virginian, 1883 Dec. 7.
Petersburg, Virginia
Daily Express, 1854 Nov. 4.
The Daily News, 1874 Aug. 7.
Daily Register, 1863 Dec. 10.
Evening Progress, 1890 Sept. 22.
Radford, Virginia
Radford Record and Advance, 1914 June 12 (only issue known; title
unknown to Cappon).
Richmond, Virginia
Christian Observer, 1864 Dec. 1.
Political Expositor, 1821 Sept. 3.
Richmond Christian Advocate, 1830 Oct. 15; 1846 Apr. 15; 1860
Aug. 2.
Southern Era, 1852 June 3.
State Fair Gazette, 1881 Oct. 21, 24.
Staunton, Virginia
Old Dominion Sun, 1905 Sept. 1.
Virginia Messenger and General Advertiser, 1850 Sept. 24-1851 July
1; 1851 July 15-Aug. 5; 1851 Aug. 19-1853 Mar. 19.
Suffolk, Virginia
Suffolk Daily Progress, 1892 Dec. 28; 1893 Apr. 3 (only issues
known).
Suffolk Herald, 1889 Mar. 8, 15; Oct. 15; 1893 Jan. 6, 13, 20; Apr.
7, 28.
Suffolk Intelligencer, 1849 Jan. 2 (only issue known).
[Tazewell] Jeffersonville-Tazewell City, Virginia
Clinch Valley News, 1882 Aug. 10.
Winchester, Virginia
Connecticut Fifth, 1862 Mar. 22 (second issue to be recorded).
Wytheville, Virginia
The Republican & Virginia Constitutionalist, 1850 Sept. 1.
Wytheville Dispatch, 1877 Aug. 2.
Wytheville Times, 1859 Jan. 8-1860 Dec. 20.
Romney, [West] Virginia
South Branch Intelligencer, 1840 Apr. 24.
NEWTON FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS. 1814-1942. 200 items and
1 vol. Deposit. No. 2797.
Genealogical notes on the Newton family and the related families
of Brooke, Dabney, Gorney, Harper, and Lee, compiled by William
Walton Harper of Orange, Va.; copybook containing articles on
Welsh history and genealogy; papers concerning W. Dabney Washington's
picture, "Burial of Latané"; three deeds from Jeremiah
Garland and others to William L. Lee for land in Richmond County,
1815-1817, and one from William R. Polk to John F. Bishpam
for land in Westmoreland County, 1864.
NOLTING FAMILY. 1856(1893)-1904. 12 vols. Coles Collection.
No. 2773.
German notebooks of Bertha and L. Nölting, including a French-German
dictionary, music scores, and notes on the geography of
Africa, 1854-1856. An album containing the seal collection of E. O.
Nölting of Richmond. Three volumes of business records of E. O.
Nölting & Sons Co., tobacco wholesalers of Richmond, 1893-1904.
Journals and ledgers of J. E. Crute & J. Frank Smith, tobacco wholesalers
of Richmond, 1897-1898.
NON-IMPORTATION ACT OF 1806. 1 item. Gift of A. S. W.
Rosenbach. No. 3149.
Contemporary manuscript copy of Andrew Gregg's resolution
in the U. S. Congress, the Non-Importation Act of 1806.
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, TRANSPORTATION, 1815-1825. 1 vol.
Gift of John C. Emmerson, Jr. No. 2849.
"The Steamboat Comes to Norfolk Harbor," a compilation of
contemporary newspaper accounts of steamboat traffic at Norfolk
and of tavern and stage-coach connections, collected by Mr. Emmerson
from the Norfolk Gazette, the American Beacon, and the Norfolk
and Portsmouth Herald.
NORTH CAROLINA, BIOGRAPHIES. 1872. 1 vol. Gift of John
C. Emmerson. No. 2849.
"Some Albemarle [North Carolina] Biographies," transcripts by
Mr. Emmerson of biographical sketches of outstanding citizens of
the Albemarle Sound region of North Carolina, which originally
appeared as articles in the Elizabeth City Economist and the Tarheel.
Sketches of Asa Biggs (ca. 1810-1878), federal judge and congressman
of Martin County, N. C.; J. Gatling (1820-1903), inventor,
of Hertford County; Richard Benbury Creecy (1813-1908), editor
of the Economist; David Outlaw (ca. 1800-1866), Whig lawyer and
legislator of Bertie County; Robert Treat Paine (d. 1872), jurist
of Edenton who served in the Mexican War; Henry M. Shaw (18171864),
physician and Confederate soldier of Currituck County; and
Joseph Blount Skinner (1780-1853), lawyer and farmer of Perquimans
County.
NORTH CAROLINA, EARTHQUAKES. 1811 Dec. 19. 1 item.
Gift of Joseph Kent Roberts. No. 2334.
Copy of a letter from John C. Edwards, Asheville, N. C., to the
editor of the Raleigh, N. C. Star, describing an earthquake in western
Carolina, 15-16 December 1811; copied from a reprint in Wilson's
Knoxville Gazette of 3 February 1812.
NORTH CAROLINA, LAND CONSERVATION. 1919. 1 vol.
Gift of E. A. Kincaid. No. 3146.
"The Unused Land Problem in North Carolina" by Evabelle S.
Covington, a Columbia University thesis.
NYE, BILL. 1886 Nov. 9. 1 ALS. Gift of Clifton Waller Barrett. No.
3085.
To L. Herbert Jenkins, Rome, N. Y., concerning activities as an
autograph dealer in Asheville, N. C.
OAK HILL COLLECTION. 1710-1948. 2000 items and 75 vols.
Gift of Frank C. Littleton. No. 3248.
Materials assembled by Mr. Littleton to document the history of
Oak Hill, his 1800-acre estate in Loudoun County, Va., originally
the home of President James Monroe. Although the records range
from studies of dinosaur remains at Oak Hill to soil analyses of this
who built the house (constructed by James Hoban from Jefferson's
design, mantelpieces for two of the principal rooms being presented
by Lafayette) and resided there after his retirement from public
life. Original manuscripts include correspondence of Monroe with
his daughter Eliza, with the overseer at Oak Hill, and memoranda
by Henry Clay in connection with his nomination of Monroe for
the presidency in caucus in 1816. In addition to transcripts of material
significant to Monroe's career, the collection contains extensive
photographic files on the Oak Hill house and its furnishings, including
furniture owned by Monroe, Madison, John Adams, and other
contemporaries. Correspondence of Mr. Littleton with Claude
Bowers, Laurence G. Hoes, Jay W. Johns, and others, concerns the
history of Oak Hill, challenges the claims of Ash Lawn as an authentic
home of Monroe, and requests documentation of Ash Lawn's history.
Gifts of other manuscripts by Mr. Littleton, not related to
Monroe but once in the collection at Oak Hill, are separately entered
under such headings as William Eustis, Thomas Jefferson, and
Frank C. Littleton.
PAGE-WALKER MANUSCRIPTS. 1742-1886. 251 items. Deposit.
No. 3098.
Letters, land grants, deeds, and other papers of the Page and
Walker families of Keswick and Castle Hill, Albemarle County, Va.,
1742-1886, chiefly the papers of Dr. Thomas Walker, Thomas Walker,
Jr., John Walker, Francis Walker, Mann Page, and Thomas
Walker Page. The papers contain much information on the widespread
land speculation of the 18th century (Loyal Company and
the Mississippi Company), and contain copies of certain treaties
and agreements with the Indians respecting land rights, notably the
Treaties of Lancaster and Logstown, 1744 and 1752. Many of these
papers relate to the Albemarle Iron Works, 1766-1805, in which
the Walkers and Thomas Jefferson were interested. Among the
more important names found in these papers are Robert Dinwiddie;
Lord Dunmore; Francis Fauquier; Joshua Fry; George and Peachy
R. Gilmer; William Gooch; William Harvie; Charles Hunton;
Thomas Jefferson; Andrew, Fielding, and Robert Lewis; John Marshall;
Matthew Maury; John, Nicholas, and T. Meriwether; Francis
George Washington.
PARIS, FRANCE. 1812. 1 vol. Gift of P. G. Hunt. No. 3241.
Diary for the year 1812 kept in English in a book printed in Paris,
recording the writer's hour of rising, food eaten, daily social calls,
etc. His place of residence appears to have been Paris.
PARKE, DANIEL (1669-1710). 1710 Dec. 7. 1 item. No. 3183.
Typescript copy of the last will and testament of the Virginia-born
governor of the Leeward Islands.
PARKER LEGAL PAPERS. 1884-1946. 3500 items and 10 vols.
Deposit. No. 2885.
Legal correspondence, briefs, reports, copies of wills, agreements,
deeds, and other legal documents of John Crafford Parker, and John
Crump Parker, Jr., attorneys of Franklin, Va.; family correspondence
pertaining to the Parker and Norfleet families of Isle of Wight
and Southampton counties, Va.; personal letters of Emily Virginia
Norfleet (Mrs. John Crafford) Parker. The elder Parker was a
graduate of the University of Virginia, class of 1884, and the younger
was graduated in 1919.
PATTERSON, ROBERT MASKELL (1787-1854). 1834-1847. 5
items. Gift of L. G. Patterson. No. 2779.
Correspondence of the director of the Philadelphia Mint, and
professor of natural philosophy at the University of Virginia, and
his son, Thomas Leiper Patteron, dealing with Thomas L. Patterson's
escapades at the University of Virginia, his positions with the
Wilmington & Susquehanna Railroad and with the Chesapeake &
Ohio Canal, and family matters. Correspondents include Charles
Fisk (chief engineer of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal), W. Strickland,
George Tucker, and Henry Tutwiler.
PENDLETON, EDMUND (1721-1803). 1792 May 13. 1 ALS. Deposit.
No. 2825.
To Mrs. William Nelson, concerning papers pertaining to Colonel
Byrd's estate.
PERRY FAMILY. 1793-1885. 2 items. Deposit. No. 2970.
Pages from the Perry Family Bible, giving birth, marriage, and
death data on the Marshall, Fletcher, and Perry families of Massachusetts
and Pennsylvania.
PERSHING, JOHN JOSEPH (1860-1948). 1931 Aug. 1. 1 ALS.
Deposit. No. 3015.
Letter to Mrs. Edward R. Stettinius, Sr., declining an invitation
and congratulating her on her son's fine record.
PHELPS, CHARLES RICHARD. 1844(1861)-1867. 42 ALS. Gift
of H. Minor Davis. No. 2920.
Letters from Charles R. Phelps of Lynchburg, Va., to his aunt,
Mary Jane (Mrs. Charles P.) Lee, concerning his war service as
orderly sergeant, later lieutenant, in Moorman's and Shoemaker's
batteries, Stuart's Horse Artillery. Letters contain descriptions of
camp life near Norfolk, 1861-1862, the battle of the Virginia and the
Monitor, the Battle of Fredericksburg, cavalry operations at Brandy
Station, Gettysburg, and in northern Virginia, August 1863-April
1864, and the defense of Richmond, 1864-1865; references to Phelps
and Lee family matters in Lynchburg. Roster of the 90th Regiment
of Virginia Militia, 1844. United States mail coach passenger manifest,
5 December 1849.
PHI BETA KAPPA, VIRGINIA ALPHA. 1937-1943. 175 items.
Gift of James Southall Wilson. No. 3133.
Dean Wilson's correspondence as president of the Virginia Alpha
of Phi Beta Kappa, College of William and Mary.
PHILLIPS, WENDELL (1811-1884). n.d. 1 ALS. Gift of Clifton
Waller Barrett. No. 3085.
To an unidentified recipient, concerning lecture arrangements.
PICKERING, TIMOTHY (1745-1829). 1810 May 10. 1 ALS. Deposit.
No. 2604.
To James McHenry requesting information regarding U. S. diplomatic
relations with France in 1798 and refuting charges by John
Wayles Eppes that Pickering had held back important despatches
from President Adams in 1798.
PIEDMONT FARMER'S CLUB. 1873. 1 vol. Gift of Miss Ellen W.
Goss. No. 2745.
Constitution and minutes of the agricultural society formed at
Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va., with O. B. Barksdale, John
W. Garth, John W. Goss, L. L. Goss, John B. Minor, Jr., William
W. Minor, Thomas W. Page, R. B. Shackleford, and others as
members.
PIEDMONT INSTITUTE. 1859-1860. 1 vol. Gift of Mrs. E. H.
McPherson. No. 3237.
Notes taken by Miss A. I. Cox on lectures delivered by M. von
Fischerz at the Piedmont Institute, Charlottesville, Va., on French
language and literature.
PILSON FAMILY. 1790-1885. 1240 items. Coles Collection. Nos.
2852, 3095, and 3245.
Additional business correspondence and accounts of John Pilson
and of his nephew, Matthew, general storekeepers of Greenwood,
Albemarle County, Va., and of Waynesboro, Augusta County, Va.,
containing material on price flunctuation and economic conditions
in that area. Includes accounts and correspondence with the following
firms and individuals: Briscoe Baldwin, John P. Ballard, Bumgardner
& MacClure, John B. and S. F. Christian, John Cudden,
Sarah Cudden, Samuel B. Finley, Valentine Fry, A. B. Garber, Alexander
Garrett, B. F. Graham, Grey & Garber, Grey & Massie, Isaac
Hardin, Nelson Hardin, James Harper, Andrew Hunter, Thomas
J. Michie, George Pilson, Tench Ringgold, Steele & Davis, William
P. Tate, D. C. Trevey, Mary Wallace, Polly Wallace, and Richard
Wallace. Other records concern land transfers in Albemarle, Augusta,
and Nelson counties; data on the Howardsville and Rockfish
Turnpike Co., 1850-1855; subscription records of the Staunton Spectator,
1836-1885, and of the Southern Religious Telegraph of Richmond,
1832-1836.
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1798 Jan. 6. 1 item. Coles
Collection. No. 2879.
Indenture between William and Mary Rayburn and Edward
Fitzgerald for a 250-acre tract on Sandy Creek, Pittsylvania County.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN (1809-1849) COLLECTION. 1835-1948. 11
items. Coles Collection and gifts of Charles J. Biddle, Jr., Irby Cauthen,
Thomas P. Govan, Miss Mary MacKenzie Mack, and James
Southall Wilson. Nos. 2747, 2876, 2996, 3012, and 3138.
Photostats from private and public libraries added to the University's
collection of Poe transcripts and materials about Poe;
among current accessions is a 1945 translation of "The Raven" into
the Tagalog dialect of Luzon, Philippine Islands.
POINDEXTER, GEORGE (1779-1855). 1832 Jan. 18. 1 ALS.
Photostat. Gift of Gale Aylett Poindexter. No. 2784.
From the Mississippi Senator to his cousin, George Benskin Poindexter
of King and Queen County, Va., concerning debates in Congress
on the "American System," Clay's chances for the presidency,
criticism of Andrew Jackson, and Poindexter family affairs.
POINDEXTER, MILES (1868-1946). 1880-1945. 2300 items. Gift
of Gale Aylett Poindexter. No. 2784.
The last installment of the papers of Miles A. Poindexter, U. S.
Senator from the State of Washington, including the draft of an
unpublished novel, "Kenmore"; account books of his early law practice,
1891-1900; correspondence relating to the presidential campaigns
of 1920 and 1928; drafts of The Purple Mountain, a description
of Peruvian life, archeology, and culture, written during his
ambassadorship; and miscellaneous correspondence from his home
in Rockbridge County, Va., 1938-1945. Documents relating to Andrew
Carnegie's right to vote in Dornoch, Scotland; Fielding L.
Poindexter's scrapbooks, 1898-1899, kept in Philippine account
books of 1890-1898; notebooks and Naval charts and papers of
Comdr. Gale A. Poindexter, U. S. N. The great bulk of the material
consists of photographs, clippings, snapshots, and picture post
cards.
POINDEXTER FAMILY. 1821-1911. 15 items. Gift of Gale Aylett
Poindexter. No. 2784.
Business and family papers of the Poindexter family of King and
Queen and of Rockbridge counties, Va.; letters of Parke Poindexter
of Chesterfield County, Va., concerning lands of William Archer
in Charlotte County, 1821; legal fee book of George Benskin Poindexter,
Richmond Whig on Clay's defeat for the Whig nomination, 25
June 1848; photostatic copies of testimonials to the Civil War record
of William Bowyer Poindexter, signed by John W. Brockenbrough,
Robert E. Lee, and John Letcher; typescript history of the Poindexter
family, compiled in 1911 by Fielding Lewis Poindexter.
POLAND. 1928-1929. 6 items. Gift of Harcourt Parrish. No. 2414.
Six typescript letters and articles regarding the history and cities
of Poland: the Muzeum Narodowe and the Fukier Winecellar in
Warsaw; list of photographs of scenes in Lwow and Krakow; a history
of the Polish opera; an article on the city of Warsaw; translation
of a speech by Jozef Pilsudski.
PORTSMOUTH AND NORFOLK COUNTY. 1809-1927. 1 vol.
Gift of John C. Emmerson, Jr. No. 3103.
Typescript volume, Some Fugitive Items of Portsmouth & Norfolk
County History compiled and indexed by Mr. Emmerson, containing
the following articles: Legy R. Watts, "Historical Sketch of
Norfolk County," 1876; James B. Funsten, "Historical Sermon,"
1894; G. F. Edwards, "The Deep Creek Chapel of Portsmouth
Parish," 1897; "In Memoriam: 50th Anniversary and Memorial
Services for the Rev. John H. Wingfield," 1871; Julian S. Lawrence,
"Historical Review of the Churchland Baptist Church"; Cary R.
Warren, "Grimes Battery, 1809-1927"; John Foreman, "Portsmouth
People of the 1820's," 1890; "Report on the Seaboard & Roanoke
Railroad to the Portsmouth City Council," 1867; Gen. B. F. Butler,
"General Order No. 31," 1864; "Diary of a Watchman at the [Norfolk]
Navy Yard," 1864-1886; Mildred M. Holladay, "History of
Portsmouth," 1936.
POWELL FAMILY OF NEW JERSEY, 1675-1946. 1 vol. Gift of
Mrs. Carlos B. Allen. No. 2940.
Typescript historical sketch, "The Powell Family of Old Gloucester
County, New Jersey," compiled by Mrs. Walter A. Simpson,
historian of the Red Bank, N. J., Chapter of the D.A.R.
PRATT, AGNES ROTHERY. 1929-1935. 7 ALS and LS. Gift of
Mrs. Pratt. No. 3222.
Seven personal letters, principally acknowledging the hospitality
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rogers Pratt. Correspondents include William
E. Borah, James Boyd, Struthers Burt, Maristan Chapman,
and Agnes Repplier.
PRATT, AGNES ROTHERY. 1946-1948. 100 items and 3 vols. Gift
of Mrs. Harry Rogers Pratt. No. 3075.
Final draft of Mrs. Pratt's book, Maryland and Virginia Roundabout;
also original manuscript (with one carbon) of Iceland—New
World Outpost, with manuscript notes by the author of a trip to
Iceland in the summer of 1947; correspondence with publisher and
editors, 1946-1948; miscellaneous materials used as sources.
PRATT, HARRY ROGERS. 1902-1935. 7 items. Gift of Stephen D.
Tuttle. No. 2742.
Three ALS from Percy Goetchius regarding his music lessons;
manuscript scores by Professor Pratt and by Raymond and Kenneth
Dyches dedicated to him.
PRESTON, ROBERT. 1794-1825. 13 vols. Deposit (restricted).
No. 2781.
Account books of Preston's general store and farm at Walnut
Grove, Kanawha County, [W.] Va., including records of goods
bought in Philadelphia and Baltimore.
PRINTS AND PICTURES. Jones, Far Places, and Seibel collections;
additions to the Byrd, Coles, McGregor, and General libraries.
During the two-year period, 12,527 prints, photographs, and pictures
were acquired by the University, exclusive of a notable group
of drawings added to the Seibel Archive and a transfer of 18,000
post-cards of foreign places from a deposit to a permanent gift from
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. C. Handy, under the name of the Far Places
Collection. The collections at the close of the period under review
totaled 48,963 items.
The chief gift of artistic prints came in the form of the T. Catesby
Jones Collection. Mr. T. Catesby Jones, Admiralty lawyer of New
York City, who died on December 21, 1946, left by will his collection
The collection, made over a period of twenty-odd years by Mr. and
Mrs. Jones, is almost entirely in the work of living French artists.
There are over 200 separate prints exclusive of illustrations in
books. These include fine examples in etching, woodcut, dry point,
lithograph, and colored lithograph of the work of Picasso (including
the "Vollard set"), of Derain ( a signed portfolio of the twelve
women's heads known as "Metamorphoses"), Braque, Dufy, Galanis,
Juan Gris, Laurencin, Matisse (etchings and lithographs, the latter
including the portfolio "Dix Danseuses"), Miro, Goya, Toulouse-Lautrec,
Lipchitz (including "The Drawings," a folio published
by Curt Valentin, New York, 1944, signed by the artist and with a
signed etching laid in), Segonzac, Jean Hugo, Masareel, Vlaminck,
Chagall, Marcoussis, Lurcat, Jacques Villon, Pacsin, Gromaire, Masson,
and Hayter. Among the illustrated books are the Chef d' Oeuvre
Inconnu by Balzac, published by Vollard in 1931, illustrated by
Picasso with a set of 13 additional proofs, the Metamorphoses
d'Ovide, published by Skira in 1931, with 32 original etchings by
Picasso, Mallarmé's Poésies with signed etchings by Matisse, Apollinaire's
Le Poète Assassiné with 36 lithographs by Dufy, ten books illustrated
by J. E. Laboureur, five illustrated by Masson, Huit Illustrations
de la Guerre, a volume of eight etchings each signed by
Segonzac and the artist's own copy of XXX. Dessins, Racine's Cantique
Spirituel with etching by Jacques Villon, Ten Sonnets of Shakespeare,
published in Frankfort in 1924 with etchings by Coubine,
Braque by Jean Paulhan, published in Paris in 1945, with an original
signed lithograph by Braque, in addition to many colored illustrations
by the same artist. There are also books illustrated by Hermine
David, Derain, Galanis, Jean Hugo, Laurencin, Lurcat, Marcoussis,
and Vieillard. One of the interesting items of the print collection
is a complete file of the remarkable French quarterly "L'Art d'Aujourd'hui"
from 1924 to 1927, the edition de luxe, each number
having laid in a signed original print by Vlaminck, Marchand, Leopold
Levy, Waroquier, Laboureur, Segonzac, Matisse, Chagall, Dufy,
Galanis, Maillol, and Marie Laurencin. There is also a complete
collection of the books published by the Museum of Modern Art,
from the beginning to 1946, and a file, lacking only one number, of
the French quarterly "Verve."
The chief acquisitions of historical prints were made by the McGregor
Library in two lots, the first of which was a set of the 1790
Purmann re-engravings of the John White-De Bry pictures of Virginia,
probably special proofs from the German Sitten und Meinungen
of 1790. The other main group under this heading consisted of
72 American, British, and German political and comic cartoons,
1836-1870. This included twelve American political cartoons for the
Jacksonian period, treating such subjects as the Texan War for Independence,
the French spoliation claims, the bank crisis of 1837,
and the Specie Circular, the Presidential election of 1844, and the
union of the Free Soil with the Liberty parties in 1848. Among the
characters depicted were Thomas Hart Benton, Henry Clay, Andrew
Jackson, James K. Polk, John Tyler, Martin Van Buren, and Gulian
Verplanck. There were also a group of drawings for Punch by John
Tenniel, 11 of which dealt with British attitudes toward the U. S.
Civil War, the Trent affair, and Lincoln's blockade policy. Other
Punch cartoons dealt with British domestic politics, 1856-1862, the
foreign policies of Palmerston, Gladstone, and Sir John Russell, and
with such European matters as the Italian policy of Napoleon III,
and the Italian War of Liberation. The collection also included a
satirical French attack on the Federations created by Napoleon I,
and six German comic cartoons.
Documentary prints acquired during the period included 224 pictures
of demolition work in Europe by the U. S. Army, 1942-1945;
official photographs of British Army, Navy, and industrial activities
in the first World War, 1914-1918; 4300 pictures of 20th century
schools and educational facilities in the South; picture of the Phi
Gamma Delta fraternity, University of Virginia, 1858; 8 color transparencies
of the installation of Colgate W. Darden as President of
the University, October 1947; pencil sketches of Rochambeau and
DeGrasse by R.deM. St. Hubert, 1929; slides of Jefferson and Monticello;
an engraving of Monticello by K. C. Rost, 1897; 100 pictures
of Oak Hill and other historic Virginia houses; a group of 86 photographs
of distinguished visitors and important athletic, social, and
academic events at the University of Virginia, 1927-1947; and a copy
of a photograph of Robert E. Lee and his faculty at Washington
College, Lexington, Va., in 1868, with explanatory key by William
E. Dold.
Miscellaneous acquisitions under this heading should also include
the engraver's plates for pictures of Henry Clay (by W. J. Edwards,
from a daguerreotype by Mathew Brady) and of Thomas Jefferson
(engraved from the Stuart portrait by Robert Field).
PRISONER'S PASS. 1865 Apr. 10. 1 item. Gift of Miss Mary Scott
Jones. No. 2985.
Paroled prisoner's pass signed by Lt. Col. R. A. Hardaway of the
Army of Northern Virginia, granting permission to I. S. Jones to
return home.
PUBLISHERS, UNITED STATES. 1941-1943. 50 items and 1 vol.
Deposit. No. 2990.
Correspondence and papers of the Committee on Nineteenth Century
American Publishers of the Bibliographical Society of America.
Bound typescript "Checklist of Nineteenth Century Kansas Publishers"
by Rollo Silver. "Checklist of Members of the Providence,
Rhode Island, Book Trade" by Mabel Wyllie.
PUEBLA, MEXICO. 1796-1815. 1 vol. Gift of John C. Wyllie. No.
3130.
Business ledger kept by an unidentified investment banking
house in Puebla, Mexico. Volume No. 1.
QUINBY, UPSHUR BALDERSTON. 1843-1911. 45 items and 1 vol.
Gift of Mrs. Charles G. Evans. No. 2871.
Correspondence of Upshur Balderston Quinby of the Eastern
Shore of Virginia, relating to the genealogy of the Upshur, Quinby,
and Teackle families. Includes a manuscript history of the Upshur
family compiled by Thomas T. Upshur, Jr., in 1887, and corrected
by Upshur B. Quinby.
RAINEY FAMILY. 1836-1854. 4 items. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. L.
Meriam. No. 2734.
Three letters from Philip and Alexander Rainey of Boydton, Va.,
to Capt. John Bennett, Petersburg, Ill., concerning the sale of a
slave, their land investments in Illinois, and Bennett's mercantile
activities in the same area; contract of partnership between Alexander
F. Rainey and Bennett, 23 March 1854.
RANDOLPH, BEVERLEY (1754-1797). 1789 Dec. 19. 1 LS. Coles
Collection. No. 2859.
To the justices of Botetourt County, Va., an executive order as
Governor of Virginia concerning the maintenance of jails under
their jurisdiction.
RANDOLPH, EDMUND (1753-1813). [1784]-1808. 3 items. McGregor
Library and deposit. Nos. 2774, 2825, and 2988.
A letter from John Berkeley to Edmund Randolph concerning
legislative proceedings and agenda, sent at Randolph's request;
patent signed by Randolph, granting 1500 acres of land in Nelson
County, Va., to Anthony Thompson, 29 May 1788; ALS, 15 March
1808, Randolph to William Nelson, concerning a proposed bill for
free schools in Virginia.
RANDOLPH, JOHN (1773-1833). 1810-1831. 5 ALS. McGregor
Library and Coles Collection. Nos. 2822 and 2988.
To Mrs. Skipwith of Williamsburg on personal and business matters,
6 June 1810; to [John Morton?] acknowledging a favor requested
through "our mutual friend Mr. John Marshall," 23 April 1817;
to an unidentified recipient giving election results for the Virginia
Assembly and Congress in Buckingham County, 13 April 1821; to
Mr. Hite, ordering a subscription to the New Hampshire Patriot, 5
January 1828; to Washington Irving, then secretary of the U. S.
Legation in London about clearance of baggage through the British
customs, 22 August 1831.
RANDOLPH, RYLAND. 1785 Mar. 14. 1 vol. Gift of Frank C.
Littleton. No. 2823.
Manuscript sale catalog itemizing the personal property of Col.
Ryland Randolph of Henrico County, Va., sold to Col. Theodorick
Bland, Archibald Bolling, Thomas Bolling, William Bolling, Otway
Byrd, Charles Carter, Jr., W. C. Carter, John Eldridge, Col. William
Fleming, Robert Nelson, David Meade Randolph, Richard Randolph,
Thomas Mann Randolph (1740-1793), Miles Selden, and
George Williamson.
RANDOLPH, THOMAS MANN (1740-1793). 1788 Nov. 11. 1
ALS. Coles Collection. No. 3093.
To Le Roy and Bayard, New York merchants, regarding shipments
of flour and wheat and the operation of Randolph's mill;
refers to "a convivial Table."
RANDOLPH, THOMAS MANN (1768-1828). 1819-1820. 1 vol.
Deposit. No. 2604.
Memorandum book of Jefferson's son-in-law, containing medical
remedies and a brief epistolary record, 1819-1820. Randolph was
Governor of Virginia from 1819 to 1822.
RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE. 1871-1873. 6 vols. Coles Collecton.
No. 2877.
Notes by H. Varner on lectures by his teachers at Randolph Macon
College, Ashland, Va.
REED, WALTER (1851-1902). 1898-1901. 35 items. Deposit. No.
2811.
Letters, medals, charts, and pictures pertaining to Reed's work
on yellow fever, from the collection of Dr. Philip S. Hench of the
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; typescript and mimeographed copies
of Doctor Hench's address, "Walter Reed and the Conquest of
Yellow Fever," which was given at the University of Virginia, 17
November 1947.
REED, WALTER (1851-1902). 1900 Aug. 30. 1 ALS. Deposit. No.
2811.
To his brother, Christopher Reed, lawyer of St. Louis, concerning
family matters and his yellow fever work in Cuba.
REPUBLICAN PARTY. 1856 Aug. 21. 1 DS. Gift of Edward W.
Simms. No. 2916.
Circular announcing Republican Party rally at Roslyn, N. Y.,
to protest the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, signed by Daniel
Bogart, William Cullen Bryant, Parke Godwin, William M. Valentine,
and Daniel Weyman.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION CLAIMS. 1811-1826. 35
items. Coles Collection. No. 3029.
Letters written to successive Secretaries of War, John C. Calhoun
and James Barbour, and to J. L. Edwards of the Pension Bureau
concerning various Revolutionary pension claims.
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND
TAXATION. 1943-1948. 400 items. Gift of E. A. Kincaid. No. 3146.
Correspondence, publications, and minutes of the Richmond section
of the Committee for Economic Development, of which J. Scott
Parrish was chairman, collected by Professor Kincaid, consulting
economist for the committee; correspondence and other materials
assembled by Professor Kincaid as a member of the Richmond Tax
Study Commission, 1947-1948.
RINKER, JACOB. 1828-1832. 1 vol. Coles Collection. No. 3178.
Account book for Rinker's general store kept in Woodstock, Va.,
1828-1832.
RIVES, WILLIAM CABELL (1793-1868). 1857-1866. 5 items. McGregor
Library. No. 2988.
Correspondence pertaining to papers and biography of James
Madison, all of which were written to J. C. McGuire. See entry
under James Madison.
RIVES, WILLIAM CABELL (1793-1868). 1860 Dec. 11. 1 ALS.
Coles Collection. No. 2313.
To A. R. Boteler, House of Representatives, concerning Rives'
letter to Boteler of December 1860, in which he proposed a border
state confederacy as a conciliatory force between North and South,
and authorizing its publication.
RIVES FAMILY. 1819-1945. 1 vol. Deposit. No. 2855.
Bible of William Cabell Rives (1793-1868), containing entries
or births, deaths, and marriages in the Rives family of Castle Hill,
Albemarle County, Va. Supplements Rives papers described in previous
reports.
ROBERTSON, THOMAS. 1910-1943. 2000 items. Coles Collection.
No. 2877.
Papers of Judge Thomas B. Robertson of the Corporation Court
of Hopewell, Va., including legal papers, political letters from such
men as Governors Harry F. Byrd and Colgate W. Darden, Jr., and
notes by Judge Robertson on the history of the Hopewell-Petersburg
area, made when working with the W. P. A. Historical Records
Survey.
ROBSON, GEORGE. 1894-1924. 800 items and 333 vols. Coles
Collection. No. 2793.
Business records of George J. Robson, general merchant of
Bridgewater, Va., including ledgers, journals, day-book, receipts,
and bills.
ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1860. 9 items. Coles Collection.
No. 2878.
Lists of votes for presidential electors for Bell, Breckenridge, and
Douglas from nine precincts of Rockbridge County, Va., where the
Constitutional Union Party of John Bell received large majorities
over the sectional candidates.
ROGERS, ASA. 1843 March. 3 items. Coles Collection. No. 2934.
Two long letters from Mrs. Ellen Rogers to her husband, a member
of the Virginia State Senate, detailing news of the family and of
religious and social activities in Middleburg, Leesburg, and Upperville,
Va., with mention of the Ashby, Campbell, Cockran, Janney,
Powell, and Swart families; certificate of Gen. Asa Rogers' ownership
of four shares of stock in the Manassas Gap Railroad.
ROGERS, WILLIAM BARTON (1804-1882). 1848-1875. 2 ALS.
Coles Collection. Nos. 2719 and 2832.
Letter to his brother, Henry Rogers, describing scientific courses
taught at the University of Virginia, 29 March 1848; letter to J. E.
Hilgard, concerning an official report on United States coinage,
weights, and measures, 5 September 1875.
ROLFE, JOHN. 1616-1948. 10 items. Deposit. No. 2949.
Photostatic copies of the British Museum (King James I), Public
Record Office (Earl of Warwick), manuscripts of Rolfe's "A True
Relation of the State of Virginia," the Earl of Pembroke manuscript
of the "Relation," a copy of the Rolfe-Dale letter in the Bodleian
Library (Ashmole MSS.); correspondence of Mr. Henry Taylor,
owner of the Pembroke manuscript, concerning the provenance and
authenticity of the Pembroke copy and comparison of it with other
Rolfe manuscripts; photostats of probate and registered copies of
Rolfe's will.
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO (1882-1945). 1939. 2 items.
Photostat. Gift of Wilbur A. Nelson. No. 1227.
To Professor Wilbur A. Nelson, regarding invitation to speak at
University of Virginia Finals, 1940 (where he made the celebrated
"stab in the back" speech), 9 May 1939; to Nelson, regarding postponement
of the Pacific National Geographic Expedition of which
Nelson was to be the head, 7 September 1939.
ROSS, THOMAS. 1930-1945. 1000 items and 1 vol. Coles Collection.
No. 2877.
Business, legal, and personal papers of Thomas W. Ross, real
estate dealer, justice of the peace, and police court judge of Gordonsville,
Va., including many warrants of arrest, monthly police court
reports, correspondence on real estate and other business matters.
RUFFIN, EDMUND (1794-1865). 1859-1864. 77 items. Deposit. No.
3026.
Letters written to Edmund Ruffin of Prince George County, Va.,
which throw some light on the activities of the noted secessionist
and agricultural expert during the Civil War. Correspondents include
P. G. T. Beauregard, Albert Bledsoe, N. F. Cabell, Charles
Campbell, Rebecca Hewitt, Brig. Gen. Theophilus H. Holmes, C.
S. A., William H. Harrison, R. R. Howison, R. M. T. Hunter, William
Lawton, D. H. London, William E. Martin, Capt. John Scott,
C. S. A.
SCHELE DE VERE, MAXIMILIAN (1820-1898). 1863-1898. 11
items. Gifts of Robert Hill Carter and Mrs. Oliver Pofsay. Nos. 2748
and 2938.
Notebooks on Spanish, French, and German grammar and literature,
compiled by Schele de Vere while professor of modern languages
at the University of Virginia; miscellaneous autograph articles
and addresses: "Joan of Arc," "Benjamin and Joseph," and an
address given on the occasion of the laying of the cornerstone of
the University Chapel; letter to James Thomas concerning Schele
de Vere's forthcoming trip to Germany as an agent of the Confederate
Government, 18 April 1863.
SEDDON, JAMES ALEXANDER (1815-1880). 1844 Feb. 23. 1
ALS. Coles Collection. No. 2924.
To James Murray Mason, member of the Board of Visitors of the
University of Virginia, recommending the appointment of Thomas
C. Reynolds as professor of modern languages, the post to which
Maximilian Schele de Vere was appointed. Seddon, a graduate of
the University of Virginia, served as Secretary of War in the Confederate
cabinet.
SEIBEL, FREDERICK OTTO, ARCHIVE. 1944-1948. 380 items.
Gift of Mr. Seibel. No. 2531.
Group of original drawings of political cartoons by the distinguished
staff cartoonist of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, which appeared
in that newspaper 1944-1948. Subjects include the presidential
campaigns of 1944 and 1948, the Allied victories over Germany and
Japan, and the domestic problems of post-war America. They supplement
the Seibel Archive established by a previous gift by Mr.
Seibel, which is described in the sixteenth-seventeenth annual report.
SHEET MUSIC. 3 items. Gift of Mrs. John B. Earle. No. 3120.
Three pieces of manuscript sheet music, "Fountain of Grace,"
"Meek and Lowly," and "The Honeysuckle and the Bee."
SHEPHERD, WILLIAM. 1848-1875. 100 items. Coles Collection.
No. 3041.
Accounts, bills, deeds, and other manuscripts of William S. Shepherd,
farmer of Fluvanna County, Va., 1848-1875.
SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY (1751-1816). [1788]. 1 ALS.
Deposit. No. 2973.
To Thomas Parker, confirming an appointment and mentioning
his duties at "the Impeachment trial" of [Warren Hastings.]
SHIPS' PAPERS. 1755-1814. 63 items. Deposit. No. 3145.
Ships' papers (bills of lading, freight lists, insurance policies,
manifests, seamen's agreements, accounts and bills) for the ships
of Samuel Gilford & Son, sailing out of New York in the West Indies
trade. An unusual item is a printed bill dated 21 January 1762
from Anthony Lamb for compass repair, indicating an unusual
degree of specialization at that date. Papers are available for the
Sloop Chance, Brig Chance, Sloop Charming Peggy, Brig Connecticut,
Schooner Cornelia, Schooner David, Vessel Elizabeth, Sloop
Hen[r]y, Sloop John, Sloop Lyon, Sloop Margaret, Sloop Minerva,
Sloop Ohio, Brig Quebec, and Sloop William and Mary.
SHORT, WILLIAM (1759-1849). [1808?]. I ALS. Deposit. No. 2825.
Letter to William Nelson, Williamsburg, regarding Short's trip
to North Carolina, giving advice on settlement there.
SIMPSON, LT. CARTER BERKELEY (d. 1944). 1941-1944. 2 vols.
Deposit. No. 2818.
War diary of a United States Marine Corps officer's experience
during the Bataan and Corregidor campaigns and in the Japanese
prison camp at Cabatuan, Luzon, Phillippine Islands, 1942-1944.
Lieutenant Simpson, a resident of Charlottesville, Va., was killed
when the prison ship carrying him from the Phillippines to Japan
was torpedoed in 1944.
SIMPSON, ROBERT SMITH. 1945-1948. 600 items. Deposit. No.
2897.
Correspondence, clippings, news digests, and other material relating
to political and economic developments in Greece, the operation
of the American Mission for Aid to Greece, and the activities of
Robert Smith Simpson as First Secretary and Labor Attaché of the
American Embassy in Greece. Correspondents include Maj. Gen.
Clayton Bissell, Samuel Berger, Clinton Golden, William Green,
SLAUGHTER FITZHUGH & CO. 1849 Oct. 23. 1 item. Deposit.
No. 3011.
Bill from the Fredericksburg, Va., firm to Foushee & Griffin of
Culpeper, Va., for cotton yarn.
SMITH, SAMUEL (1752-1839). 1777-1860. 101 items. Deposit. Nos.
2724, 3004, and 3029.
Business and financial papers of Gen. Samuel Smith, merchant,
politician, and soldier of Baltimore, of his brother, Robert Smith,
and of his son, John Spear Smith, regarding trading and shipping
transactions, land holdings in Allegheny County, [W.] Va., and in
Green County, Ky., insurance, and the estate of Samuel Smith.
Copies of papers relating to Smith's activities on behalf of Jefferson
during the tie-vote between Jefferson and Burr in the House of Representatives
in 1801. Correspondents include Henry Clay, Joseph
H. Daveiss, Robert Johnson, George Madison, James Morrison,
Jonathan Russell, John Smith, Jr., George Work, and others; mention
is made of John Harvie, George Nicholas, Henry Nicholas, P.
N. Nicholas, and Elie Williams. Includes the letter book of Samuel
Smith, 1811-1829, containing letters to Henry Clay, John Caldwell
Calhoun, William Henry Crawford, Wilson Cary Nicholas, and
Richard Rush, primarily about business affairs. For other Smith
family material, see the thirteenth and later annual reports.
SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840). 1816 Sept. 30. 1
ALS. Deposit. No. 2604.
Letter to Mrs. Dixon, expressing appreciation for her help in the
efforts of the "Knights Liberators" to secure release of white slaves
held by the Bey of Algiers.
SNEAD, THOMAS LOWNDES. 1874-1889. 7 items. Coles Collection.
No. 3246.
Six letters to Snead concerning his book The Fight for Missouri.
Passport signed by Hamilton Fish issued to Snead in 1874.
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. 1899 Apr. 27. 1 item. Gift of W. E.
MacClenny. No. 2858.
Manuscript muster roll of Company G, Fourth Infantry, which
was raised in Suffolk, Va., by Capt. Philip St. J. Wilson, in April
1898. This unit saw overseas service in Cuba, 1898-1899, and was
demobilized 27 April 1899.
SPARKS, JARED (1789-1866). 1852 Dec. 28. 1 ALS. Gift of Clifton
Waller Barrett. No. 3085.
To Rev. John G. Shea, commending the latter's Discovery . . .
of the Valley of Mississippi and suggesting a work on the Catholic
Missions in Canada.
SPENCER, THEODORE. 1947 May 16. 1 item. Gift of U. J. Peters
Rushton. Use restricted. No. 2763.
Typescript draft of "The Poetry of W. H. Auden," a lecture by
Spencer at the fourth McGregor Room Seminar in Contemporary
Prose and Poetry, University of Virginia.
SPOTSWOOD, ALEXANDER (1676-1740). 1947. 1 item. Deposit.
No. 2952.
Typescript essay, "The great adventure: General Alexander Spotswood
and the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe, August 20, 1716September
17, 1716," by William Lazell Phillips of Richmond, Va.,
1947.
STETTINIUS, EDWARD REILLY (1865-1925) PAPERS. Deposit
(restricted). No. 2723.
Personal papers of the noted banker, industrialist, and Assistant
Secretary of War during World War I. Restricted from examination
at present, these papers will be described in a future issue of the
annual report.
STETTINIUS, EDWARD REILLY, JR. (1900-1949) PAPERS.
Deposit (restricted). No. 2723.
Personal papers of the industrial leader, statesman, and Rector
of the University, with materials collected by him over a period of
many years for the University. Under full restrictions at present, this
collection will be described in a future issue of the annual report.
STETTINIUS, EDWARD REILLY, JR. (1900-1949). 1947-1948.
13 items. Gift of Mr. Stettinius. Nos. 2723 and 3218.
Notes to Mr. Stettinius from Jonathan Daniels, William Lyon
Mackenzie King, and from William Sivewright, Baron Catto, Governor
of the Bank of England; letters from Anthony Fokker, Viscount
Halifax, Albert Lefevre, and Noble C. Powell; three letters
from Mr. Stettinius to Robert K. Gooch and Oron J. Hale concerning
the University of Virginia's Woodrow Wilson School of Foreign
Affairs; draft of Mr. Stettinius' address, as Rector of the University
of Virginia, to the annual meeting of the Alumni Association, 21
June 1947.
STONE, EDWARD LEE (1864-1938). 1930-1933. 7 items. Gift of
George Baskerville Zehmer. No. 2844.
Correspondence between the Roanoke publisher and book-collector
and Professor Zehmer of the University of Virginia Extension
Division, concerning Mr. Stone's collection of books illustrating the
history of printing.
STRODE, AUBREY ELLIS (1873-1946) PAPERS. 1861 (1900)1946.
20,000 items. Deposit. No. 3014.
The personal and professional papers of the Virginia lawyer and
judge of the Corporation Court at Lynchburg, 1933-1944. The bulk
of the papers are the files of the law firms of Strode & Tucker and
Strode & Edmunds, containing correspondence, court records, trial
transcripts, exhibits, and miscellaneous legal documents. Other important
materials include: correspondence concerning Judge Strode's
political career in the Virginia Senate where he represented Amherst
and Nelson counties, 1919, and as candidate for elector-at-large in
Virginia, 1928; files on southeastern recruitment for the Judge Advocate
General Department, U. S. Army, 1918-1919; material on
the American Legion, 1921-1925; files on the Loving Murder Case,
1907, the Merchant and Planter's National Bank, 1930-1932, Standard
Chilled Casting Corporation, 1919-1923, the Tobacco Growers'
Association, 1920-1930, the Virginia Air Line Railway, 1902-1912.
His personal papers include copies of speeches and correspondence
with Edwin A. Alderman concerning the establishment of a coordinate
woman's college at the University of Virginia.
SUMMERS, LEWIS PRESTON (1868-1943). 1893-1943. 10,000
items and 54 vols. Deposit (restricted). No. 2781.
Correspondence, drafts of historical works, research notes, and
business and legal papers of Judge Summers, the lawyer, Republican
politician, and historian of Abingdon, Va. The collection includes
material on party politics in southwest Virginia, on the operation
of the Virginia Republican, Abingdon, Va., and on the preparation,
publication, and sales of Summers' historical works.
SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES (1837-1909). n.d. 1 AD.
Deposit. No. 2973.
Holograph poem, "A Solitude", beginning "Sea beyond sea . . ."
TABB, JOHN BANISTER (1845-1909). 1908 Sept. 16. 1 ALS. Gift
of Mrs. Laeta Goodwin Repass. No. 2945.
To Mrs. L. G. Goodwin of Wytheville, Va., thanking her for an
inquiry as to his health; written after the priest-poet had begun to
go blind.
TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD, CHARLES MAURICE DE (17541838).
1803 Mar. 22. 1 item. McGregor Library. No. 2988.
Draft of his letter to Edward Livingston concerning the Louisiana
Purchase and Franco-American relations.
TALMADGE, HERMAN EUGENE. 1949 Mar. 19. 1 LS. Gift of
Allen E. Allmond. No. 3173.
Letter from the governor of Georgia to Allmond concerning Eugene
Talmadge.
TAYLOR, CHARLES ELISHA. 1861-1873. 45 items. Deposit. No.
3091.
Correspondence of Taylor, Confederate soldier, student at the
University of Virginia, 1865-1870, and professor at Wake Forest
College, with his family in Richmond concerning Civil War experiences.
Material on operations between Winchester and Martinsburg
in the summer of 1862; the campaign of Fredericksburg with the
10th Virginia Cavalry; and Taylor's duty with the Confederate
Signal Station at Hamilton's Crossing, Orange County, and at Signal
Corps Headquarters in Richmond, 1863-1864. A few documents on
Charles Venable and a recommendation from William Holmes McGuffey.
TAZEWELL, LITTLETON WALLER (1774-1860). 1823-1834. 5
items. McGregor Library. No. 2988.
Correspondence of Tazewell with George Hay, George Crump,
General Van Ness, concerning U. S. property rights, the case of General
Van Ness, and presidential ambitions of William H. Crawford.
THOMPSON, JOHN REUBEN (1823-1873). 1859 Jan. 7. 1 ALS.
Gift of Clifton Waller Barrett. No. 3085.
To Mr. Mackenzie, concerning lecture arrangements.
THORNTON, WILLIAM MYNN (1851-1935). 1895-1897. 22 vols.
Gift of John L. Newcomb. No. 2755.
Manuscript notebooks compiled for teaching purposes while
Thornton was professor and dean of engineering at the University
of Virginia.
THURMOND, JAMES STROM. 1948 Oct. 7. 1 item. Typescript.
Gift of William H. Wranek, Jr. No. 3037.
Address by the "Dixiecrat" candidate for President delivered at
the University of Virginia, 7 October 1948.
TIMBERLAKE, AMBROSE. 1819-1892. 200 items. Coles Collection.
No. 2878.
Correspondence and accounts of Ambrose Timberlake, blacksmith
and storekeeper of Jefferson County, [W.] Va.
TRIST, NICHOLAS PHILIP (1804-1870). 1922. 1 item. Gift of
Jefferson Randolph Kean. No. 2780.
Typescript draft of an article on Trist, "A Diplomat With Ideals,"
by Louis N. Sears.
TROUBETZKOY, AMELIE RIVES (1863-1945). 1919-1936. 68
items. Gift of Miss Landon Rives. No. 2495.
Additional manuscripts and correspondence of Pierre and Amelie
Troubetzkoy, including a letter to Pierre from Ugo D'Annunzio
and an ALS from Harley Granville-Barker; drafts of three stories:
These supplement the Troubetzkoy manuscripts previously reported.
TRUMAN, HARRY S. 1947 July 4. 3 items. Gifts of Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr., and Colgate W. Darden, Jr. No. 2736.
Typescript drafts of President Truman's address at Monticello,
autographed by the President, and of Gov. William M. Tuck's introductory
speech.
TUTTLE, ALBERT HENRY (1844-1927). 1888 and 1948. 2 items.
Archival transfer and gift of William A. Kepner. Nos. 2636 and 2497.
Letter from Edward Overton, Professor of Geology, Ohio State
University, to Charles S. Venable, Chairman of the Faculty, University
of Virginia, recommending Tuttle for a position as Professor
of Agriculture and Biology; letter of Professor William A. Kepner
reciting recollections of Tuttle.
TYLER, JOHN (1790-1862). 1841-1853. 3 items. McGregor Library
and gifts of Frank C. Littleton and Arthur Pforzheimer. Nos. 2729,
2988, and 3248.
Thomas R. Gedney's commission as commander in the Navy
countersigned by J. D. Simms, 8 October 1841; ALS to Lewis J. Cist,
23 February 1842, accepting membership in the Cincinnati Literary
Society; letter to Thomas Ritchie, editor of the Richmond Enquirer,
regarding the emancipation of slaves, the Cuban question, and President
Pierce and his cabinet.
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY, 1890-1940.
1 item. Gift of Miss Ellen Goss. No. 2745.
History of the Albemarle Chapter, Charlottesville, Va., from its
founding to its fiftieth anniversary, typescript, 7 pp.
UNITED STATES COAST GUARD, WORLD WAR II. 19421945.
650 items. Gift of B. F. D. Runk. No. 2857.
Notebooks of Lt. Comdr. B. F. D. Runk, for classes in navigation
and seamanship at the Coast Guard Officers' Indoctrination School,
St. Augustine, Fla., 1942; material on the operations and cruises of
U. S. S. Joseph Dickman, an attack transport on which Lt. Comdr.
Runk served as communications officer, 1943-1945. In this latter
and Okinawa landings; files of daily orders and disciplinary
records during routine operations and voyages of the Dickman;
a history of the Dickman, compiled by Runk; and material on repatriated
Allied military personnel returned by the Dickman from
Japan, 1945.
UNITED TYPOTHETAE OF AMERICA. 1922-1924. 35 items.
Gift of Edward T. Miller. No. 3169.
Minutes, correspondence, and manuscripts of articles published
by the association, of which Colonel Miller was executive secretary.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. 1819-1949. Archives and unofficial
records.
Official records of the University, transferred at intervals to the
Archives from the non-current files of schools, departments, committees,
administration 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 these records should consult Philip Alexander
Bruce's five-volume centennial history of the University, Thomas
Perkins Abernethy's Historical Sketch of the University, the annual
general catalogues, and W. Edwin Hemphill's Bibliography of the
Unprinted Official Records of the University of Virginia, published
as an appendix to the sixth annual report. A card index to the
Alumni Bulletin and Alumni News is maintained in the office of
the Division. 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, the chairmen of
schools, 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.
Material relating to the University is also to be found in the papers
of Madison, Monroe, and others. Most of the first volume of the
minutes of the Board of Visitors is recorded in the hand of the first
Rector, Thomas Jefferson, with the minutes of individual meetings
carrying the signatures of other members present, including President
Monroe and ex-President Madison. Modern official and semiofficial
papers relating to the University will be found listed in this
John L. Newcomb, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., and other teachers and
administrative officials of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
whose personal papers have been acquired.
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. 1838-1949. 15 items.
Gifts and deposit as listed below.
Alumni News, 1949. Manuscripts of obituaries of Garrard Glenn
(1878-1949) and Walter Alexander Montgomery (1872-1949) and of
articles by Harry Clemons and John H. Yoe. Gift of Marvin B.
Perry, Jr. No. 3150.
Athletics, 1870-1900. Undated manuscript of address by Dr. Halstead
S. Hedges, of Charlottesville, graduate of the Medical Department,
1892, on the early history of baseball, football, tennis, and
boating at the University. Gift of Dr. Hedges. No. 3034-a. Program
of "Athletic games held under the Auspices of the Gymnasium Association,"
printed folder, November 1886, with winners' names in
manuscript. Gift of J. Hugh Henry. No. 3155.
Finals, 1948-1949. Manuscripts of baccalaureate sermon of Rabbi
Morris S. Lazaron, 13 June 1948, valedictory address of Neal O.
Wade, Jr., 13 June 1949. Gifts of Shelby V. McCasland and William
S. Weedon. Nos. 2795 and 3243.
New York Medical Alumni, 1912-1945. Minute-book of the University
of Virginia Medical Society, of New York City, with correspondence,
notices, and clippings. Gift of Dr. F. H. Wilke. No.
3239.
Poetry. Manuscripts of three poems on Jefferson and the University
of Virginia. Gift of Horace C. Carlisle. No. 2980.
Rotunda. Brass key to the original Rotunda, which burned in
1895, with an accompanying letter from Julian B. Greene to President
Colgate W. Darden, Jr., 24 March 1949, detailing the history
of the key. Gift of Julian B. Greene. No. 3188.
Society of Alumni, 1838-1899. Treasurer's ledger, recording dues
and initiation fees, payment of bills. Deposit. No. 3016.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, BOARD OF VISITORS. 1826-1827.
2 items. Deposit. No. 3055.
Minutes of the meeting of the Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia, 5-16 December 1826, in an unidentified hand and
initialled on cover by James Monroe, member of the Board; minutes
for the meeting of 10-19 July 1827, copy made for Monroe by Nicholas
P. Trist, secretary of the Board.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, BURSAR. 1819-1945. 162,000 items
and 110 vols. Transferred to Archives from Bursar's Office. Nos.
2737, 2757, and 2843.
The official files of the Proctor, 1843-1905, and of the Bursar, 19051945.
This archive contains papers of Arthur S. Brockenbrough,
John Hartwell Cocke, Joseph C. Cabell, Joseph Coolidge, Col.
Thomas H. Carter, James L. Cabell, John B. Gordon, and Green
Peyton. An especially interesting group of previously unknown Jefferson
autograph manuscripts are described elsewhere in this report.
Correspondence of Giacomo Raggi, Italian stonemason, and others
concerning marble capitals shipped to the University from Livorno,
Italy, 1823-1827. The great bulk of the papers consists of correspondence
and documents, 1918-1945, regarding endowments, investments,
student fees and loans, building contracts, Army and Navy training
programs at the University during World War II, and contracts
with the Civil Aeronautics Authority. Also included are budgets
1919-1924; photostatic copies of wills, inventories, and insurance
records. Volume recording endowments and other gifts to the University,
1818-1935, compiled in 1895 and continued thereafter
through 1935. For a bibliography of the records of the Bursar and
the Proctor, see the sixth annual report.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, CLUBS, SOCIETIES, AND
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. 1868-1949. 1,400 items and 4 vols.
Gifts and deposits as listed below.
Glee Club. 1930-1947. 600 items of correspondence, programs,
pictures, press clippings, and financial records of this student choral
society, its local concerts and its tours. Gift of Stephen Tuttle. No.
2972.
Graduate Scientific Club. 1942. Minute book and correspondence.
Deposit (restricted). No. 2725.
Imp Society. [1920]. Ritual, announcements, and other material.
Gift of the President's Office. No. 2636.
Jefferson Society. 1868-1948. 18 items relating to the University's
oldest literary society. Invitation to a Finals celebration, 10 June
1868, signed by W. F. Burdett, orator, and addressed to Miss Fanny
Johnson of Rockbridge County; documents concerning the contest
for the final presidency of the Society in 1893 between Murray McGuire
and Mallory K. Cannon, including letters of both men as well
as of Paul B. Barringer, A. C. Cason, Noah K. Davis, and James P. C.
Southall; manuscript of Maj. Channing W. Daniel's address before
the Society, 9 April 1948, concerning the work of the Fraternity
Advisors Association, an alumni group. Gifts of Miss Margaret
Withrow, James P. C. Southall, and Joseph Lee Vaughan. Nos.
3089, 2732, and 2943.
Medical Fraternities. 1949. Medical show, 18 May 1949. Portion
of the script of "False Positive," 1949 version of the biennial dramatic
performance lampooning the faculty and staff of the University
Hospital and the Department of Medicine. Gift of Atcheson L.
Hench. No. 3207.
Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Chapter of Virginia. 1910-1919. Volume
of minutes of the executive committee, 11 January 1910-10 April
1919. Gift of George B. Zehmer. No. 2851.
Phi Delta Phi "Libel." 1948-1949. Scripts for the annual legal
comedy, dramatizing the foibles and follies of the Department of
Law, its faculty, students, and professions. Deposits Nos. 2601 and
3212.
Philosophy Club. 1947. Typescript minutes of the meetings of the
club, an organization of students and faculty of the Corcoran School
of Philosophy, January-March 1947. Supplements earlier deposits.
Deposit. No. 2606.
Sigma Xi. 1924-1946. 800 items. Correspondence, accounts, and
membership and other records of the University of Virginia chapter
of this honorary scientific fraternity. Deposit. No. 2856.
Transportation Club. 1949. Open letter to the membership from
the President, Philip L. Gilmer, summarizing activities for the session
of 1948-1949. Gift of Mr. Gilmer. No. 3217.
University Magazine. 1906-1910. Scrapbook of clippings of reviews
of issues of the Magazine for this period. Gift of Oscar B. Wooldridge,
Jr. No. 2993.
Young Men's Christian Association. 1908-1915. Scrapbook of clippings,
printed programs, pictures, and correspondence covering activities
of this student organization. Supplements previous deposits
of this the oldest college Y. M. C. A. in the United States. Deposit.
No. 2993.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, ENGINEERING SCHOOL. 19381946.
750 items. Archival transfer. No. 3054.
Essays and studies written by senior students in Engineering English
classes at the University of Virginia, 1938-1946.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, EXPERIMENTAL FARM. 1872.
1 vol. Deposit. No. 2197-a.
Farm journal, kept by Professor John Randolph Page, director of
the University Experimental Farm; added to volumes described in
the first and sixteenth-seventeenth reports.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, EXTENSION DIVISION. 1940
June. 1 vol. Gift of Jean C. and Jesse S. Ogden. No. 3221.
Typescript, "How People Can Educate Themselves to Help
Themselves," outline of a program of action recommended by William
A. Smith to Dean George B. Zehmer, Director of the Extension
Division of the University. The program outlined in this article led
to the establishment of the Community Services program in the
Extension Division.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, FACULTY. 1932-1946. 350 items.
Gift of Robert K. Gooch and David McCord Wright. Nos. 2492 and
2807.
Correspondence, minutes, and reports concerning the requirements
for and awarding of degrees with honors at the University of
candidates, 1939-1946.
Data on faculty salaries submitted by twenty-one American universities
in response to a questionnaire sent out in March 1946 by a
committee of the University of Virginia chapter of the American
Association of University Professors; analysis of these reports, and a
report on the University of Virginia salaries by L. Gaston Moffatt,
chairman, and David McCord Wright, secretary of the committee
on salaries.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, GRADUATE DEPARTMENT.
1937-1944. 450 items. Archival transfer. No. 2613.
General correspondence of the Dean of the Department of Graduate
Studies, and other papers of Dean James Southall Wilson,
Chairman of the Schools of English.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS.
1928-1943. 50,000 items. Deposit. No. 2792.
The Institute's records of its annual summer program of speeches
and discussions of national and international affairs held at the
University of Virginia, 1928-1943, under the successive direction of
Professors Charles G. Maphis, Robert K. Gooch, Hardy C. Dillard,
and Oron J. Hale. These records include correspondence with
speakers, original drafts of speeches, forum programs, and clippings
of press reports.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, PERSONNEL AND PLACEMENT
OFFICE. 1935-1945. 17,000 items. Deposit. Nos. 2728 and
3080.
Personnel records submitted to the Personnel and Placement Office
by students desiring post-graduate placement; correspondence,
applications, job records, payrolls, and other material relating to the
self-help program and the National Youth Administration in the
University.
Selective Service information forms on University students and
staff, 1940-1945; correspondence of Charles H. Kauffmann, Personnel
and Placement Director, with Army and Navy officials, regarding
assignment of students to officer-candidate schools, deferment
of certain students, faculty, and administrative personnel.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, PRESIDENT'S OFFICE. 1905-1941.
35,000 items. No. 2636.
Correspondence of Edwin Anderson Alderman, first President of
the University of Virginia, 1904-1931, and of John Lloyd Newcomb,
second President 1931-1947; files of the Southern Education Board,
1905-1907; annual reports to the President from academic schools
and departments of the University, 1933-1941. This supplements
similar material previously reported. See also entries under Edwin
Anderson Alderman and John Lloyd Newcomb.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, PUBLIC OCCASIONS COMMITTEE.
1911-1948. 450 items. Archival transfer. Nos. 2810 and
2812.
Minute book, 1911-1924, and correspondence of the faculty committee
responsible for procuring speakers at Convocation, Founder's
Day, and Finals exercises, for the Page-Barbour Lecture Series, and
for the James W. Richards Lectures in Religion. Representative of
the correspondents and speakers are Newton D. Baker, Charles A.
Beard, Carl Becker, John C. Bennett, Harold A. Bosley, Claude G.
Bowers, Julian P. Boyd, Heinrich Brüning, Nicholas Murray Butler,
Harry F. Byrd, Gordon K. Chalmers, Ernest Cadman Colwell,
Henry Steele Commager, James B. Conant, Reginald A. Daly, John
Dewey, William E. Dodd, Clarence A. Dykstra, T. S. Eliot, John H.
Finley, Dixon Ryan Fox, Vincent C. Franks, J. W. Fulbright, Edgar
J. Goodspeed, Frank Graham, William F. Halsey, Lewis Hanke,
Cordell Hull, Robert M. Hutchins, Frederick P. Keppel, Wolfgang
Köhler, David E. Lilienthal, Walter Lippman, Dumas Malone, Robert
A. Millikan, Albert J. Nock, Thomas Nelson Page, Erwin Panofsky,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry N. Russell, Beverley D. Tucker,
Allen Valentine, Sumner Welles, Thomas J. Wertenbaker, and
Alfred N. Whitehead.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, STUDENT ALBUMS AND
NOTEBOOKS. 1848-1910. 6 vols. Coles Collection and gifts of Miss
Anna Barringer, C. Edwards Boan, John E. Corette, and Miss Lucy
Latané. Nos. 2714, 3020, 3031, and 3057.
Autograph albums of James A. Latané of Essex County, Va.,
1850-1853; Richard Wells, medical student, 1851; J. Ledyard Hodge,
of New Orleans, La., 1853-1855; Charles T. Goolrick, of Fredericksburg,
souvenirs of University student life, assembled by Horace Edwin
Hayden, 1905-1910. Student's physics notebook, 1934.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, WORLD WAR II. 1943. 11 items.
Gift of Atcheson L. Hench. No. 2882.
Training memoranda, directives, and duty rosters of the Naval
R. O. T. C. V-12 Unit and the School of Military Government,
University of Virginia; fragmentary class notes of V-12 students. See
also University Personnel entry above.
VALLEY FORGE. 1778 May 6. 1 item. Coles Collection. No. 2840.
Late 19th century manuscript copy of an address to the First and
Second Virginia Brigades, delivered at Valley Forge, Penna., by the
Rev. John Hurt, chaplain to the Second Brigade.
VETERANS OF FUTURE WARS. 1936-(1937)1947. 1 vol. Deposit.
No. 3112.
Scrapbook of the activities of this student group organized at
Princeton University, kept by Urban J. Peters Rushton, regional
commander for the South.
VIRGINIA. 1656 (1730-1810)1858. 175 items. Coles Collection. No.
3136.
A miscellaneous group of papers containing many legal documents
of Loudoun County (writs, complaints, warrants, summonses),
bills of exchange, bonds, promissory notes, and deeds of
Virginia origin. Of special interest are the papers of William A.
Washington, 1787-1810, many concerning his administration of the
estate of Thomas Turner; a tobacco bond signed by Capt. John
Smyth and Robert Ely, 30 April 1656; the will of Thomas T. Moss,
31 March 1678; a few documents of Revolutionary War interest concerning
military warrants, land warrants, and the Maryland Admiralty
Court. Correspondents of note: James Maury, Robert Carter,
Mrs. D. Fairfax, Baron William Wyndham Grenville, R. H. Lee,
William Beverley, and Thomas Sherlock, Bishop of London.
VIRGINIA BANKERS' ASSOCIATION. 1938-1947. 800 items. Gift
of E. A. Kincaid. No. 3146.
Minutes, correspondence, and publications of the Virginia Bankers'
Association for the years 1939-1947. Correspondence, speeches,
publications, programs, and agenda of the Virginia Bankers' Conferences,
1938-1941, which were jointly sponsored by the association,
the State Banking Department, and the University of Virginia McIntyre
School of Commerce.
VIRGINIA, CONVENTION OF 1775. 1775 July 12. 1 item. Coles
Collection. No. 3044.
Draft of petition by the Committee of Safety of West Augusta
District, Va., (John Campbell, vice-president) to the Revolutionary
Convention of 1775, transmitting the treaty made by Maj. John
Connolly (Dunmore's agent) with the Delawares and Six Nations
at Fort Dunmore (Pittsburgh) on 6 July 1775 and reporting on the
arrest of Connolly by the Pennsylvania authorities. Written when
eastern Virginia was already in arms against Governor Dunmore,
this document shows that the Virginians west of "the Laurel Hill"
were supporting Connolly in his Indian policy and aiding him in
the struggle with Pennsylvania for the control of Pittsburgh.
VIRGINIA CURRENCY. 1775-1863. 14 items. Gifts of Mr. and
Mrs. Seth Burnely and C. S. Hutter, Jr.; Coles Collection. Nos. 2866,
2961, 2982, 3128, 3179, and 3197.
Twelve-pound note issued persuant to the law of 17 July 1775 by
the River Bank, fragment with signatures missing; 70-shilling note
issued under the same law signed by Phil[ip] Johnson and W[illiam]
Norvell, endorsed by Robert Carter Nicholas. Note for 6 Spanish
Milled Dollars issued under the act of 20 October 1777, signed by
Ja[mes] Wray and [Rob. Dicksone?]. Two bills issued according to
the act of 1 May 1780: two-dollar bill dated 9 September 1781 signed
by A. Craig and J. M. Simmons, countersigned F. Welch; and a
five-dollar bill dated 9 October 1781 signed A. Craig and B. Stark,
countersigned Cha. Fleming. Twenty-five-cent note issued by Pendleton
County, [W.] Va., 1 August 1862, signed by Benj. Hiner and
countersigned by Jus. M. Jones. Ten-dollar note issued by the Bank
of the Commonwealth, Richmond, 1 September 18—, signed by J.
B. Morton, Cashier, and L. Nunnaly, President; 7 Civil War notes
Bank, including notes payable to Socrates Maupin and John B.
Minor.
VIRGINIA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. 1948 Oct. 29. 1 item.
Gift of William Munford Ellis Rachal. No. 3052.
Typescript, "The Need for a Permanent Historical Commission
in Virginia,' address by Mr. Rachal before a meeting of the Virginia
Education Association at Richmond, Va.
VIRGINIA, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 1834-1838. 8 items. Deposit.
No. 3073.
6 ALS George W. Featherstonhaugh to Joseph C. Cabell, regarding
plans for a geological survey of Virginia, with comments on such
surveys by other states; 1 ALS William Barton Rogers to Cabell,
concerning the survey; petition of the citizens of Morgan County,
[W.] Va., for the establishment of a survey to the General Assembly
of Virginia.
VIRGINIA HERALD, FREDERICKSBURG. 1796-1797. 1 item.
Deposit. No. 2928.
Account of Walter Colquhaun with Timothy Green, Fredericksburg
printer and publisher, for advertisements in and a subscription
to Green's Virginia Herald.
VIRGINIA HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE. 1947-1948. 36 items. Gift
of the Extension Division. No. 3233.
Entries of thirty-four Virginia high schools in the Virginia High
School League creative writing contest for 1947-1948, together with
the judges' ratings.
VIRGINIA LEGISLATIVE PETITIONS. 1772-1782. 22 items. Exchange
from the Cornell University Collection of Regional History.
No. 3076.
Legal documents pertaining to colonial and Revolutionary Virginia,
consisting principally of petitions to the House of Burgesses
by counties and individuals. The group includes two autograph
letters from Gov. Thomas Jefferson and one from Gov. Patrick
Henry concerning the claims of Capt. Charles de Klauman and
slave crimes. Others deal with a boundary dispute between Stafford
and King George counties; the land rights of the India Company;
protest by Cumberland County against the Dissenters; petition for
increased power for the town of Fredericksburg; petition for the
abolition of St. Stephen's Parish in the town of Fredericksburg; and
private petitions seeking redress in one form or another by Arthur
Campbell, Timothy Conway, Alexander Dick, William Edmundson,
Charles Gratiot, and Charles de Klauman.
VIRGINIA, LOCAL GOVERNMENT. 1931-1948. 8 items. Typescript
and mimeograph. Gift of Bureau of Public Administration.
No. 3141.
Manuscript materials regarding local government in the cities
of Richmond, Norfolk, and Staunton, Va., with emphasis on the
city-manager form. Typescript "History of the City Manager Form
of Municipal Government in Staunton, Va." by Mary Swan Carroll,
1939, and "Local Planning in Virginia" by Anne P. Brydon, 1946.
Notebook containing sample personnel record forms kept by the
city of Richmond. Typescript articles on taxation, charter amendments,
budget, and planning in Norfolk and Richmond.
VIRGINIA, SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES. 1930-1940. 5 vols. Typescript.
No. 3208.
Sociological surveys collected by the late Professor Frank Hoffer
on August County, Red Hill (Albemarle County), Richmond, Roanoke,
and Staunton.
WADE FAMILY, 1808-1862. 1 vol. Deposit. No. 3157.
Manuscript notebook kept by William M. Wade as a student at
the University of Virginia, 1844-1846. The book contains a list of
Negroes with dates of birth from 1808-1862 signed by Richard T.
Wade.
WALLACE FAMILY. 1836-1843. 1 vol. Deposit. No. 2689.
The estate of John Wallace in account with Michael Wallace of
Greenwood, Albemarle County, Va., executor.
WARD, EMILY FUNSTEN (d. 1897). 1894-1896. 61 items. Deposit.
No. 3100.
Correspondence of Miss Ward, Episcopal missionary to China, to
her brother, Robert M. Ward, and her sister, M. F. Ward, both of
Winchester, Va., regarding her journey to the Orient via Toronto,
Vancouver, Kobe, Shanghai, and Hankow, 1894, and her activities
in the mission at Wuchang, 1894-1896, with letters to her from other
missionaries and from Chinese converts. Obituary clippings.
WASHBURNE, ELIHU BENJAMIN (1816-1887). 1870 Feb. 10.
1 DS. Gift of Harcourt Parrish. No. 2815.
Passport of Miss Mary Parker, signed by Washburne as United
States Minister to France.
WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829). 1780-1826. 48 items.
McGregor Library. No. 2988.
Correspondence and accounts, mostly concerned with the estate
of George Washington, with John Ashton, George Ball, Henry
Banks, Burwell Bassett, P. Doddridge, Uriah Forrest, Fielding Lewis,
Lawrence Lewis, Robert Lewis, Archibald McLean, George Mason,
Robert Morris, Alexander Spotswood, George Steptoe Washington,
Samuel Washington, William Wirt.
WASHINGTON, CORBIN (ca. 1765-ca.1800). 1795-1798. 15 items.
McGregor Library. No. 2988.
Correspondence, chiefly concerning the estate of Richard Henry
Lee, with William Attwell, Mary Barnett, James Bland, Gustavus
Campbell, Edward Diggs, Thomas Dolman, Peter Kemp, John
Murphy, Hugh Quinlan, Richard Lee Turberville, David Wardrobe.
For related material see the Richard Henry Lee entry.
WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799). 1783-1795. 3 items. Deposits.
Nos. 2604, 2825, and 3086.
Honorable discharge of Peter Ferris of the 2nd New York Artillery
Regiment, signed by George Washington and countersigned by J.
Trumbull, 9 June 1783; LS to William Nelson, appointing him
United States Attorney for Virginia, 30 November 1789; ALS to
Maj. George Lewis asking him to arbitrate Washington's land exchange
with Gen. [Henry] Lee during his proposed visit to Mount
Vernon, 20 September 1795.
WASHINGTON, MARTHA (1732-1802). 1802 Feb. 9. 1 item.
McGregor Library. No. 2988.
Receipt from the Bank of Alexandria, Va.
WASHINGTON, WILLIAM AUGUSTIN. 1774-1816. 71 items.
McGregor Library. No. 2988.
Correspondence chiefly concerning estates of R. H. Lee, Arthur
Lee, George Washington, and Thomas Turner, the disposal of land
and debts of Henry Lee, and matters concerning Colonel Saylor of
Mt. Airy. The correspondence is with Reuben Ballard, Joseph Biddle,
Joshua Biddle, Charles Blackburn, William Brent, William
Brook, Robert Brookes, Lawrence Butler, R. Champlin, James
Cheston, W. Croghan, McCarty Fitzhugh, Philip Fitzhugh, William
Fitzhugh, Uriah Forrest, John Gray, Mark Hardin, Henry Hoit,
William Holburne, Zeb. Hollingsworth, Jesse Hollingsworth, George
Huffman, Alexander Johnston, Watt Jones, Thomas Landford,
Lawrence Lewis, John McIver, Fontaine Maury, Hudson Muse,
Nicolson & Hith, John Payne, John Pratt, John Ryburn, Jesse
Richardson, James Stephenson, John Stith, William Stubbs, John
Sutton, W. Shippen, Mrs. Jane Thornton, Bushrod Washington,
Thomas Wright. For related material, see the Richard Henry Lee
entry.
WATKINS, HENRY. 1814-1822. 2 items. Gift of J. D. Eggleston.
No. 3148.
Copy of bill at the Bell Tavern for troops under the command of
Capt. Henry E. Watkins of Prince Edward County, Va., 1814. Transcript
of muster roll of the cavalry commanded by Captain Watkins,
1822.
WAYLAND, JOHN WALTER. 1945-1947. 700 items. Gift of Professor
Wayland. No. 2386.
Another group of correspondence relating to Professor Wayland's
historical research on the Valley of Virginia, containing much genealogical
information on Virginia families.
WEBSTER, NOAH (1758-1843). 1840 Nov. 9. 1 ALS. Gifts of
Jameson's Book Store and Clifton Waller Barrett. Nos. 3085 and
3132.
To Clarendon Harris, Worcester, Mass., concerning arrangements
of his letter of 16 February 1831 to his wife regarding the
Dictionary.
WHITE, ORLAND EMILE. 1902-1948. 1500 items and 1 vol. Deposit
(restricted). No. 2978.
His correspondence as a student at Harvard and as botanist in
the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, 1902-1909, including several letters
from John Burroughs. White's journal of the Mulford Expedition
to the Amazon, on which White served as a botanist. Correspondence
with students and associates regarding Blandy Farm, the
University of Virginia experimental farm in Clarke County, Va.,
1927-1948.
WHITE, THOMAS WILLIS. 1830 July 22. 1 ALS. Photostat. Gift
of C. William Miller. No. 2971.
From Richmond, to Sir Walter Scott, transmitting a poem by Mr.
Bryan, postmaster of Alexandria, D. C. [Va.], and requesting Scott's
aid in bringing Bryan's work to the notice of the British public.
Comments on the beginnings of a national literature in the United
States in the works of William Cullen Bryant, Fitz-Greene Halleck,
James G. Percival, John Pierpont, and Lydia Sigourney.
WHITTLE, JOHN. 1838-1841. 2 vols. Deposit. No. 3227.
Manuscript journal kept by John S. Whittle as surgeon of the
U. S. S. Peacock and U. S. S. Vincennes recording his personal experiences
as an officer in Commodore Charles Wilkes' squadron
during the scientific expedition to the Pacific, 1838-1841. The expedition,
which included a corps of civilian specialists, explored the
coast of the Antarctic Continent, the islands of the Pacific Ocean,
and the American northwest coast. The journal ends with the shipwreck
of the Peacock off the northwest coast.
WILLEY, BASIL. 1948 Nov. 5. 1 item. Gift of Urban Peters Rushton.
No. 2763.
"The Value of Literary Study to Society and the Individual,"
given before the McGregor Room Seminar, University of Virginia,
by the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, Cambridge
University.
WILLIAMS, JAMES HARRISON (1836-1903). 1803-1934. 3500
items and 22 vols. Deposit and gift of Philip Williams. No. 2749.
Business, legal, and family correspondence of General Williams,
politician, lawyer, and Judge Advocate General, C. S. A., of Woodstock,
Va. The collection includes fifteen pocket diaries for the
period 1854-1878; legal briefs and papers regarding his law practice
in Dubuque, Ia., 1857-1860, and in Woodstock and Winchester, Va.,
1866-1903; material on his service as Brigadier General of the Virginia
Militia during the administration of Gov. Gilbert C. Walker;
and correspondence relating to politics in Virginia, 1870-1890, with
references to the debt controversy and the Readjuster movement.
There are also papers of his father, Capt. Samuel Croudson Williams,
lawyer of Shenandoah County, Va.; and of his grandfather, Philip
Williams, clerk of Shenandoah County, Va., and co-editor of the
Woodstock Sentinel of the Valley, including the subscription book
of the Sentinel, 1838-1839; and two account books of Williams' maternal
grandfather, Alexander T. Croudson, a merchant of Alexandria,
Va., 1803-1804, containing entries on trade with Bermuda and
the West Indies. Papers pertaining to Williams' wife's family include
the medical note book of his brother-in-law, Alexander Thomas
Pritchartt, 1856-1857, and memorandum books of his wife, Cora
Pritchartt Williams of Fairfax County, 1853. In addition there are
several account books of German mercantile firms in Woodstock,
1824-1836, and a toll book of the Valley Turnpike, 1840-1843.
WILSON, WOODROW (1856-1924). 1912. 3 items. Gift of John
R. Page. No. 3191.
Cntributor's certificate to the National Wilson and Marshall
League; birthday dinner program in honor of President-elect Wilson
28 December 1912; clipping "President-elect Wilson sleeps in birthplace."
WINCHESTER AND ALEXANDRIA MAIL STAGE. 1834. 2
items. Gift of Frank C. Littleton. No. 3248.
Two way-bills issued by the stage line, containing lists of passengers
and freight.
WINDSOR, ROBERT. 1839-1947. 5 items. Gift of John W. Herndon.
No. 2867.
Two ALS from Henry Johnson, U. S. Congressman from Louisiana,
shipment of Johnson's slaves from Alexandria to Louisiana, 24 and
25 September 1839; ALS from John Armfield of Natches, Miss., to
Windsor concerning subscriptions to the National Intelligencer and
the Alexandria Gazette, 30 October 1845; two typescript notes by
John W. Herndon explaining these items, 2 November 1946 and 27
January 1947.
WIRT, WILLIAM (1772-1834). 1826-1829. 2 items. McGregor Library.
No. 2988.
Letter accepting honorary membership to the St. Andrews' Society
of Baltimore and another to Richard L. Cox concerning legal matters.
WIRT FAMILY. 1834 July 1. 1 item. Gift of Capt. W. W. Gilmer.
No. 3001.
Letter from Ellen Wirt, daughter of Attorney General William
Wirt to Peachy Randolph Gilmer, Charlottesville, Va., describing
activities of the Wirt, Cabell, and Goldsborough families. Mentions
William H. Cabell, Elizabeth Carrington Cabell Goldsborough, Lt.
Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Elizabeth Washington Wirt, and
William Wirt.
WISCONSIN. 1850-1859. 5 items. Gift of Barrows Mussey. No. 2994.
Letters from Orson Thomas and his wife, Isabella, of Spring
Green, Sauk County, Wis., to his father, Aaron Thomas of Brattleboro,
Vt., discussing family matters, farming and hunting, pioneer
life in Wisconsin.
WISE, HENRY ALEXANDER (1806-1876). [1848 and 1865]. 2
items. Deposit, and gift of James L. Hook. Nos. 2910 and 3051.
Portion of a letter from John A. Wise [to a Mr. Davis?], describing
events in Petersburg, Va., during the Civil War and the exploits
of his father, Henry Wise, at the Battle of the Crater. Letter includes
hand-drawn sketch of "my old baldeagle daddy." Manuscript
poem, "Wise's Lament," lampooning Wise for bolting the Whig
Party and joining the Democrats in the 1848 election; mentions also
William Orlando Butler, Lewis Cass, "Harry Clay," Millard Fillmore,
Zachary Taylor, and John Tyler.
WISE FAMILY OF AUGUSTA COUNTY. 1796-1832. 2 vols. Gift
of Miss Evelyn L. Moore. No. 2919.
Ledger of John Wise, Staunton, Va., printer, with accounts for
printing the Staunton Virginia Gazette, published for Robert Douthat,
1796-1802; day-book of David G. Wise, general store-keeper at
Panther's Gap, Rockbridge County, Va., 1830-1832. Civil War clippings
and broadsides have been pasted into a few pages of the day
book.
WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 1883-1949. 20
items and 2 vols. Deposit, and gift of Mrs. E. H. McPherson. Nos.
2219 and 3237.
Correspondence and miscellaneous records of the W. C. T. U. of
Virginia. Two typescripts, "An Appreciation of Amy C. Weech" and
"History of the Virginia Woman's Christian Temperance Union,"
by Mrs. Howard M. Hoge. Picture of the first four presidents of the
Virginia organization. Letters of the following: Mrs. Mary Harris
Armor, Mrs. Ella Boole, Harry F. Byrd, Sarah H. Hoge, Mrs. Howard
M. Hoge, Mrs. Walter H. Page, John Garland Pollard, Mrs.
Ida B. Wise Smith, Mrs. Amy Weech, and Lenadell Wiggins.
WOOD, FREDERIC TURNBULL. 1948. 1 vol. Gift of Professor
Wood. No. 3038.
Final draft of his book "The Formation of Words in Modern
German," published in 1948.
WOODSTOCK, VIRGINIA. 1816-1868. 1 vol. Deposit. No. 2749.
Constitution and by-laws of the town of Woodstock, Va., as adopted
and amended by the President and Board of Trustees.
WORLD WAR I. 1914-1918. 1 vol. Gift of Austin D. Kilham. No.
3242.
Scrapbook of progaganda and scenic post cards printed in France
during the First World War.
WORLD WAR II. 1939-1945. 4 vols. and 450 items. Gift of Cyril
H. Goldsmith. No. 3023.
Clippings and scrapbooks of maps, cartoons, and clippings relative
to World War II.
WORLD WAR II, EIGHTH EVACUATION HOSPITAL. 1943
Jan. 20. 2 items. Gift of William H. Wranek. No. 3037.
Letter, Lt. Ruth Beery, ANC, to Wranek, describing training
experiences of University of Virginia hospital nurses in the Eighth
Evacuation Hospital Unit, prior to embarkation for the ETO; with
list of nurses in that unit. See separate entry for Eighth Evacuation
Hospital material collected by Dr. Carlisle Lentz.
WORLD WAR II ORDNANCE COLLECTION. 1942-1945. 75
items. Gift of Coolie Verner, and deposit (restricted). No. 2931.
Directives, notes, charts, and other material relating to ordnance
developments in the American, British, German, and Japanese
forces during World War II.
WRIGHT, DAVID McCORD. 1934-1947. 86 items. Gift of Professor
Wright. No. 2807.
Correspondence of the University of Virginia economist with
leading economists, jurists, writers, and statesmen regarding economic
theories and writings of the twentieth century, with particular
emphasis on problems of monetary economy, the public debt, and
deficit spending. Correspondents include Hervey Allen, Adolf A.
Berle, Struthers Burt, Pierce Butler, Benjamin Nathan Cardozo,
Colgate W. Darden, Jr., Walter F. George, E. F. Hayek, Alvin H.
Hansen, John Maynard Keynes, Elbert A. Kincaid, James Clark
McReynolds, D. H. Robertson, Paul A. Samuelson, Joseph A.
Schumpeter, Howard W. Smith, Harlan Fiske Stone, Robert F.
Wagner, and John H. Williams.
WYTHE COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1799-1881. 56 items. Deposit. Nos.
2753 and 2847.
Personal and family correspondence of the Brown, Cochran,
Crockett, and Stuart families of Wythe County, Va., containing also
material on naval operations in Chesapeake Bay during the War of
1812; Maria M. Crockett's correspondence with her family while a
student at the "Moravian Female Institution" in Salem, N. C., 18171818;
Alexander Brown's letters from Washington College, Lexington,
Va., 1843-1845, and from the University of Virginia, 1851-1852;
Alexander Brown's estimates of legal prospects in the city of St.
Louis, 1853; Howe P Cochran's Civil War experiences 1861-1864; a
Bonds, with a $1000 bond issued 1862 enclosed, 9 November
1881. The group includes letters to and from Alexander Stuart
Brown, Chancellor John Brown, Judge James Ewell Brown (17891852),
Howe Peyton Cochran, Mr. and Mrs. John Cochran, Maria
M. Crockett (1801-1827), Maj. Robert Crockett, Col. Joseph Kent,
Fanny P. Brown Kent, Henry King, John S. Mosby, and John Stuart
(1749-1823).
YONGE, SAMUEL H. 1892-1896. 1 vol. Coles Collection. No. 2877.
Letters to the division engineer of the Missouri River Commission
from Lt. Col. Charles R. Suter, president, regarding progress of
surveys and construction designed to improve the navigation of the
river.
YOUNG, CHARLES TALBOTT, JR. 1945-1949. 2 items. Gift of
Charles Talbott. No. 3156.
Manuscript poem by Mr. Young, University of Virginia undergraduate,
entitled "Light of a Nation (A Poetic Study of America)."
Letter from Mr. Talbott to Francis L. Berkeley concerning the life
of the author and the theme of the poem.
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