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Harrison, George Byrd. Letters to Dr. George Byrd Harrison, 1885.

Title: Letters to Dr. George Byrd Harrison, 1885.

The collection contains both personal and professional correspondence, of Dr. Harrison, of Washington, D.C. Letters from fellow physicians include a letter from Henry Davidson Fry announcing Harrison's election to a chair at the Washington Training School for Nurses; a social note from Howard Hines Barker; a letter announcing travel plans from Dr. John Fitzhugh May; and a letter from Edward E. Feild mentioning student days at the University of Virginia, Dr. Meade C. Kemper, James Gatewood's poor health after contracting African fever in the Congo; Douglas Tardy's study in Vienna, and an acrimonious meeting of the state society. He also solicits Harrison's opinion on the use of opium. Harrison's brother Randolph writes concerning family news, an invitation from Fitzhugh Lee, his poor health and trip to the Rockbridge Alum Springs, and a speech he gave at a Fair. Harrison's wife Jeanne writes about her vacation with their chidren at Rockbridge Baths. A few letters from patients discuss their care, including Walter Potts of Charlottesville who mentions family physician w.C. Dabney.

ArchivalResource: 22 items.

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Brown, Alexander, 1843-1906,. Papers of the Rives, Sears and Rhinelander families [manuscript], 1829-1923.

Title: Papers of the Rives, Sears and Rhinelander families [manuscript], 1829-1923.

The papers contain correspondence, business and legal papers, genealogical papers, diary, photographs, clippings, and memorabilia of the Rives family and especially William Cabell Rives Sr., Judith Page Walker Rives, William Cabell Rives Jr., Grace Winthrop Sears Rives, and William Cabell Rives III. Correspondence discusses United States and Virginia politics, 1830-1860; the Civil War and post war desolation; the University of Virginia including the Jefferson Society, calithumps, and life on the East Range; German travels, 1851; the management of, alterations to, and life on a Cobham, Virginia, farm, 1853-1855. Of interest is an 1845 letter describing a plantation on a Louisiana bayou, and a slave-pulled tow boat; 1834 letters to William Cabell Rives re the United States Senatorial elections and the principles of instruction; copies of remarks made by him in Congress, 1827, 1836;and letters from him to his wife re politics in Washington in 1844; Also of interest are an 1851 letter describing Paris during Napoleon III's coup d'etat and the establishment of the 2nd Empire; two April 1865 letters re the murder trial of a man in Mosby's command; letters, 1872-1873, from William Cabell Rives as a student at Corpus Christi, Oxford; and correspondence re the construction of Cobham Park, designed by George Snell and built by E.S. McSparren; Also of interest are a diary, 1869-1894, containing brief entries and notes on family members, 1860-1909; and some manuscript histories of the Cabell family by Samuel Houston, and Alexander Brown. Correspondents include Lewis Minor Coleman, Edward Everett, Joseph Grinnell, George Long, E.S. McSparran, William Mahone, Einle George Money, Thomas Walker Page, Lyon Playfair, William Foushee Ritchie, Alfred Landon Rives, Ella Rives, Francis Robert Rives, George Rives, Mary F. Rhinelander Rives, David Sears, Ellen Sears, Frederick R. Sears, Kuyvett W. Sears, Amelie Louise Rives Sigourney, Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy, and Cornelius Walker.

ArchivalResource: 278 items.

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Michie, Haidee Watson Perkins, 1873-1957. The Piedmont hospital, 1886-1902 [manuscript], 1941.

Title: The Piedmont hospital, 1886-1902 [manuscript], 1941.

Mrs. Michie's article contains stories and anecdotes of Dr. W. C. Dabney, Dr. Paul H. Barringer, Addison Greenway, Dr. Halsted Hedges, Dr. E. M. Magruder, and Miss Kate Tompkins.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Michie, Haidee Watson Perkins. The Piedmont hospital, 1886-1902, 1941.

Title: The Piedmont hospital, 1886-1902, 1941.

Mrs. Michie's article contains stories and anecdotes of Dr. W.C. Dabney, Dr. Paul H. Barringer, Addison Greenway, Dr. Halsted Hedges, Dr. E.M. Magruder, and Miss Kate Tompkins.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Adams, Stephen, 1835-. Papers of the Barbour family [manuscript], 1793-1941.

Title: Papers of the Barbour family [manuscript], 1793-1941.

The collection consists chiefly of the personal and financial papers of James Barbour, his son, Benjamin Johnson Barbour, and granddaughter Caroline Homassel Barbour Ellis. Topics of interest include complaints of extravagance by a Harvard student, 1815; the War of 1812; slaves and slavery (including an 1854 inventory); genealogy; the American Party and its opposition to Roman Catholics as office holders; rail travel from Virginia to Florida in 1857; cotton; Orange County court house construction; and Reconstruction, the Republican Party, and the Virginia Convention of 1867. Also the Immigration Society; the shooting of General Thompson by Osceola at Ft. King; William Mahone's political activities; a St. Paul law practice in 1886; the Minneapolis exposition, 1886; the destruction of Madison letters by a gardener; a building for the Library of Congress; Fitzhugh Lee as governor; Thomas L. Rosser's political opinions; and Russian and Polish affairs, 1889. Also James Barbour's orations, 1890; race relations in 1891; the Boer War; the San Francisco earthquake; a 1917 poetry reading by Robert Frost; Red Cross Work; Catherine Booth; the Yorktown Sesquecentennial; and Garden Week. University of Virginia topics include the Student Infirmary Fund, 1867; Washington Hall, 1869; renovations and additions, 1869; astronomical observations, 1869; a department of agriculture, 1870; and the detrimental effect of politics on the University, 1884. Also the selling of the Lee family papers to the Library of Congress, 1886; the resevoir and dam, 1886; reorganization of various schools, 1887; recasting of the bell; the hiring and resignation of professors; Dr. Harrison's affair; and Presbyterian influence. The collection also contains ballot sheets for the election of Zachary Taylor; a William Henry Harrison political cartoon; U.Va. Board of Visitors resolutions, 1850-1865, on faculty salaries; minutes and membership lists, 1876-1879, of the Lay Association Virginia Diocese of the Episcopal Church; minutes, 1892, of the U.Va. Society of Alumni; photographs of Barboursville; slave inventories; and copies of General orders, August - November 1861, issued by Generals Banks, and McClellan, U.S. Army of the Potomac.

ArchivalResource: 3 feet.

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Guerrant, John R., 1865-1930. Papers of John R. Guerrant and the Guerrant family, 1881-1927.

Title: Papers of John R. Guerrant and the Guerrant family, 1881-1927.

The diaries of Dr. John Reveley Guerrant form the bulk of the collecrtion. They cover his life as a student at Oxford Academy in Floyd, Va., Washington and Lee and the University of Virginia School of Medicine, as a physician at Charity Hospital, N.Y. and in practice in Roanoke, Va., as a member ot the House of Delegates, and as the owner of Algoma Farm, Calloway, Franklin County, Va. Topics of special interest include the dedications of the Robert E. Lee mausoleum and Stonewall Jackson's grave, the explosion of the V.M.I. magazine, commencement with a reception held by G.W.C. Lee, Graham Lee Literary Society debates, abuse of an African-American by students, peculiar behavior of Julia Jackson, Monticello in 1887, medical lectures of William C. Dabney and James L. Cabell, and speeches in the House of Delegates by Richard E. Byrd and Robert E. Lee, Jr. Some of the later diaries also contain personal expense accounts and medical notes. The collection also contains a genealogy of the Ingles family; a diary kept by Guerrant's daughter Elizabeth in 1908; a farmer's notebook, 1906-1908, a medical appointment book, photographs (including cyanotypes) of family members or farm scenes in Franklin County, Va.;and athletic and horticultural prize ribbons.

ArchivalResource: 325 (ca.) items.

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Davis, Eugene, 1822-1894. Papers of Eugene Davis [manuscript], 1744-1925 (bulk 1832-1868).

Title: Papers of Eugene Davis [manuscript], 1744-1925 (bulk 1832-1868).

The papers include correspondence, 1810-1898, of Eugene Davis, John A.G. Davis, and other members of the Davis family, concerning family matters, Charlottesville, Va., news, genealogy, business, politics, estate settlements, the family's plantation "Little Run," costs of travelling to Europe, Williamsburg, Va. (1818), with correspondence, 1867, of Eugene Davis as secretary of an alumni group. The papers also contain letters, 1861-1865, of Eugene Davis and Robert N. Saunders, concerning camp life, family news, John Staige Davis organizing a typhoid hospital in Charlottesville, the Albemarle Everett Artillery, care and housing of wounded on the Lawn and at the Rotunda, General Longstreet, the capture of Eugene Davis at Yellow Tavern battle, and his imprisonment at Camp Lookout. Letters, 1864-1865, of James M.M. Davis, Rockbridge Battery, concerning camp life and religious conversion; and letters, 1864-1865, to Eugene Davis while imprisoned, concerning offers of help and assistance. Military records and papers, 1859-1862, kept by Eugene Davis as Captain of the Albemarle Light Horse, include orders, passes, medical discharges, requisitions, transfers, and substitutes; militia commission, 1861, for Eugene Davis; copy of resignation, 1861, of commission of Eugene Davis; orders, 1865, re: paroled prisoners; and a letter, 1870, concerning information on military service. There are also letters, 1889-1891, to Eugene Davis, concerning fundraising for Cottage Hospital, Charlottesville, Va., and for charity patients; draft, ca. 1888, for circular for Cottage Hospital; printed circulars, ca. 1888, concerning building a ward for charity patients and a hospital for Afro-Americans; and letters, 1891, from William C. Dabney concerning charity patients and Afro-American patients' distrust of hospitals. Of interest is a draft, 1850, of letter to Thomas Hewitt Key from Eugene Davis concerning the legal options of a slave named Sally [Cottrell Cole], currently the wife of a Reuben Cole. Sally was originally purchased from Joseph Coolidge and was thought to be manumitted by Key, but considered herself a slave so that she might stay in Virginia. There are also drafts of speeches, 1842-1844, of Eugene Davis concerning temperance; drafts of speeches, n.d., of Eugene Davis concerning politics, railroads, a hiring contract, and Decoration Day; draft, n.d., of report of Charlottesville Savings Bank; and his papers, n.d., relating to religious topics. There are also land grants, deeds, and plats, 1744-1885, pertaining to Davis family property in Albemarle County, Va.; receipt, 1837, of John A.G. Davis for payment to T.J. Randolph; copy of note, 1839, found with will of John A.G. Davis; and personal account book, 1846, of Mrs. Eugene Davis. There are also hotel bills, 1858, from European trip of Eugene Davis; articles of agreement, 1863, re: division of slaves in estate settlement; receipts, 1861-1886, of Eugene Davis, including one for slave hire; and papers, 1894, concerning the estate of Eugene Davis. Also include a fragment, 1769, to Martha Jefferson Carr re: family affairs; letter, 1810, to Peter Carr re: business; and letter, 1828, from William Cabell Rives to John A.G. Davis re: publication of Jefferson's writings and Davis' desire to be secretary to Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia. Also of interest is a letter, 1833, from Henry Clay concerning auction of property and national politics. Also include journal fragments, 1842-1844, 1849, by presumably Eugene Davis concerning a balloon ascension in Charlottesville, politics, family matters, University of Virginia, law practice in Palmyra, Va., and personal theology. Also include copy of marriage bond, 1791; law book, 1825, of John A.G. Davis; notebook, ca. 1856, with notes for a Sunday school class; copy of petition, 1855, for liquor licensing; draft, 1860, of article on slavery; right of way contract, 1877, Albemarle County, Va.; and copy of petition, 1891, requesting teacher for Afro-American children, Campbell County, Va. Also include obituaries; printed material; nominating petition, n.d., for S.F. Leake from the Democrats of Albemarle County; manuscript map, n.d., of North Central Virginia; part of draft, n.d., for "First Impressions"; clippings; genealogical notes for Va. families; and a stencil of Eugene Davis' name.

ArchivalResource: 350 (ca.) items.

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