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Burnet, Isabella Neff, 1885-. Papers of Isabella Neff Burnet, 1757-1960.

Title: Papers of Isabella Neff Burnet, 1757-1960.

The collections contains a genealogy of the family of Dr. William Burnet (1730-1791); typescript copies of four official letterbooks, 1836-1841, David Gouverneur Burnet, president of Texas; clippings of a newspaper column on the history of Albemarle County, Va., by Glen Curtis Smith; notes on Edward E. Este and the Mier Expedition; Confederate currency; and miscellaneous notes and lists regarding historic Virginia homes, churches and water mills. Jefferson family material includes copies of wills, estate inventories and appraisements of Peter and Jane Jefferson; botanical correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Joseph Carrington Cabell; a note on Thomas Mann Randolph's botanical proficiency; a list of plants grown at Monticello; and a memoir of life at Monticello by Jane Cary Smith. There is also a copy of The Dark Blue Chord, December, 1918, a literary effort by men of the U.S. Army General Staff Purchase, Storage and Traffic Division; miscellaneous papers of the Virginia Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs; and loose clippings pertaining to Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Va. in the 1930s and 40s; together with three scrapbooks of clippings on local history including sketches later published in book form by Mary Rawlings as "Antebellum Albemarle."

ArchivalResource: 1 ft.

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