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University of Virginia. Chairman of the Faculty. Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty [manuscript], 1827-1864.

Title: Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty [manuscript], 1827-1864.

Earlier volumes discuss a variety of University business involving the Board of Visitors, proctors, janitors, patrons, and hotel keepers. The earliest contain verbatim transcripts of the chairman's correspondence, student petitions, etc. Later volumes focus on student affairs. The chairman recorded faculty resolutions, withdrawals, dismissals and leaves of absence for students; refunding of fees; dispersal of monies for student purchases; admonishments to individual students for poor academic work and improper behavior (drinking, gambling, swearing, chewing, flute and horn playing, lighting fire crackers, food throwing, brandishing pistols and knives, cock fighting, appearing out of uniform, keeping dogs, playing ball on the Sabbath, firing tar barrels on the Lawn, failing to rise early, etc); student disturbances and disciplinary measures; course changes; student complaints, chiefly concerning food and lodging; names of ministers invited to preach; disrepair of facilities; a bequest of books by Christian Bohn, 1838; and Jefferson birthday and 4th of July celebrations. Specific incidents of student disturbances include: shooting dogs, 1831; the stealing of horses from worshippers at the Baptist Church for a race; attacking a local bookseller, 1831; hazing of new matriculates and exploding gunpowder at a professors' window 1833; visiting a house of prostitution, 1833; an altercation involving future Congressman A. H. Buckner, 1833; averting a duel involving future C.S.A. general Louis Wigfall, 1835; the non-fatal shooting of a student following a drunken party, 1837; the horsewhipping of Gessner Harrison by two former students, 1839 and the subsequent shooting of one of the two by a constable; and the setting of a fire by an insane student, 1863. There are frequent mentions of students' and professors' "servants" [i.e. slaves] in the earlier volumes and occasional mention of "University hands" in the later ones. Some of the incidents recorded include the flogging of "Thornton" for stealing, 1829; an assault on a female slave of Professor Patterson's, 1830; a free black washerwoman of bad character, 1830; "Thornton" and "Albert" gambling, 1831; Lewis Commodore, the bell ringer, "having proved a most valuable servant " was purchased by the University after he was "exposed to public sale in Charlottesville," 1832; student Merrit M. Robinson's Jefferson's Birthday oration mentioning abolition viewed unfavorably by students and faculty, 1832; student mistreatment of slaves, 1835-36; slaves supplying alcohol to students, 1837; dispute over hotel slaves doing errands in town for students, 1837; the beating of Lewis [Commodore] during a student prank, 1837; illegal keeping of hogs, 1838; ill slave necessitated student making own fire and carrying own water, 1838; the beating of "Fielding" for insolence by three students who also restrained Professor Bonnycastle from interfering, 1839; and the removal from the grounds of "Jackson," who had a white wife. Topics of interest in the history of the University include the Mosby-Turpin affair, 1853; attendance at Presidential inaugurals, 1856, 1860; typhoid epidemics of 1829 and 1857; deaths and funerals of faculty, officers and board members; denial of public space for Clay and Jackson political rallies, 1832; selection of chaplains, 1833; brawl between students and wagoneers, 1833; efforts to shut down Keller's, a confectionary that sold liquor to students, 1835; objections to a Christmas recess and to allowing preaching by a Baptist minister, 1835; formation of a military company and student possession of firearms, followed by a general student "rebellion," 1836; a legislative committee's investigation of affairs at the University, particularly in regard to student riots, admission of students expelled elsewhere and the keeping of student money by the Patron, 1846; and the death of a student in a brawl during a wild animal show, 1846. Civil War events include students volunteering in defense of the state after John Brown's Harper's Ferry raid, 1859; formation of the "Sons of Liberty" and "Southern Guard," 1860; Professor Holcombe's resignation to serve in the Virginia Secession Convention, 1861; raising the Confederate flag over the Rotunda; the expedition to seize the arsenal at Harper's Ferry with a listing of the rolls of the Sons of Liberty and Southern Guard, 1861; granting of Rober E. Lee, Jr., permission to form a military company and later permission to withdraw; attending the inauguration of Jefferson Davis; granting of leave to students to volunteer in the Confederate Army; storm damage to roofs and inability to repair from lack of tin; Confederate companies occupying the East Range and Observatory Mountain; rumor of a Federal advance on Stuanton, 1862; interments of Turner Ashby and Carnot Posey in the University Cemetery; wounded from the battle of Port Republic; submitting to the Secretary of War, statistics on the age and military status of the 45 students on the grounds; and the unauthorized leave of disabled officer and student Everett W. Early with seven other students to participate in the battle of Spotsylvania, 1864.

ArchivalResource: 12 v.

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Cocke family. Papers of the Cocke family, 1800-1871.

Title: Papers of the Cocke family, 1800-1871.

Letters chiefly contain family news. There is also a bill from Fisher and Bird, Norfolk, to Alexander Jackson Davis regarding the price of marble and granite; memorabilia from an 1855 tour of Europe; a bookplate of Gouverneur Morris; a photograph of the barn at "Bremo," the family estate; genealogical material; and the diaries, 1820-1842, of Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke. Correspondents include William Daniel Cabell, Ann Blaws Barraud, John Hartwell Cocke, Ann Carter Oliver, Nannie Oliver, Lucy Oliver, Merit M. Robinson, Philip Barraud, and members of the Braxton family.

ArchivalResource: 528 items.

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William Short Papers, 1778-1853

Title: William Short Papers 1778-1853

Secretary to President Thomas Jefferson, diplomat, and landowner. Diplomatic, financial, and personal correspondence, financial and business papers, memorabilia, and other papers relating to Short's activities as secretary to Jefferson, his diplomatic missions, and business interests.

ArchivalResource: 20,000 items; 64 containers plus 5 oversize; 26 linear feet; 32 microfilm reels

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Barbour, Philip Pendleton, 1839-. University of Virginia student notebooks, 1827-1882 [manuscript].

Title: University of Virginia student notebooks, 1827-1882 [manuscript].

The collection contains lecture notes taken by students in various classes at the University of Virginia. A hectograph copy of William E. Peters' Latin grammar is also present as are six volumes of lecture notes taken at other schools including Emory and Henry.

ArchivalResource: 80 volumes.

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Lee, Charles Carter, 1798-1871. Papers of Charles Carter Lee and the Lee family [manuscript], 1768-1931 (bulk 1780-1871).

Title: Papers of Charles Carter Lee and the Lee family [manuscript], 1768-1931 (bulk 1780-1871).

Papers collected by Charles Carter Lee include papers of General Light-Horse-Harry Lee, Major Henry Lee, Charles Carter Lee, and John Penn Lee. Light-Horse-Harry Lee's papers consist mainly of correspondence pertinent to his "Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States." Other topics include anti-Federalism, travel to the West Indies and advice to a son. Light-Horse-Harry Lee's correspondents include William Goddard, Christopher R. Greene, Nathanael Greene (copies), Andrew Jackson (copy), Lafayette (copy), Ann Hill Carter Lee, James Madison (copies), Nathaniel Pendleton, and George Washington (copy). Major Henry Lee's papers consist primarily of correspondence written during his residence in Europe in the 1830s. Topics of interest include James Wilkinson's defeat before Montreal, Jacksonian era politics, David Porter in the Mediterranean, Lee's biography of Napoleon and proposed biography of Andrew Jackson, Lee's financial and legal troubles, Lee's literary efforts. Prominent people discussed include James Buchanan, Henry Clay, John H. Eaton, Thomas Jefferson, Amos Kendall, Gales and Seaton, Henry St. George Tucker, and Daniel Webster. There is fairly extensive correspondence with Charles Carter Lee, Major William B. Lewis and Duff Green. Other correspondents include John Armstrong, James Biddle, Charles L. Bonaparate, Daniel Brent, John Carroll Brent, James L. Cathcart, Edward Vernon Childe, John Browne Cutting, Andrew Jackson Donelson, George William Featherstonhaugh, and Robert Selden Garnett. Also Francis Walker Gilmer, James A. Hamilton, William B. Hodgson, Sam Houston, Rachel Jackson, Peter Augustus Jay, Anne R. Lee, Charles Carter Lee, Hugh S. Legaré, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, John McLean, James Madison, John Marshall, John Moore of Paris, Nathaniel Niles, Barry O'Meara, Thomas Ritchie, Meritt M. Robinson, Gilbert C. Russell, Andrew Stevenson, John Taliaferro, Martin Van Buren, William Conway Whittle, and James Wilkinson. The papers of Charles Carter Lee constitute the bulk of the collection and contain manuscripts of his literary works and speeches, correspondence, and legal and financial papers. Topics include his student days at Harvard; a reply to George Henry Moore's "Mr. Lee's plan--March 29, 1777. The treason of Charles Lee"; scattered political commentary including remarks on William Cabell Rives; and a description of the capture of General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, 1863. Correspondents include William S. Archer, Henry Carey Baird, Nathaniel Burwell, George H. Calvert, David Campbell, Bernard M. Carter, J. H. Chamberlayne, Jr., Robert Young Conrad, E. S. Davis, Frederic De Peyster, Lyman C. Draper, Benjamin Rush Floyd, Letitia Floyd, David Graham, Robert Greenhow, William Wirt Henry, Francis Kinloch, and Benjamin H. Latrobe. Also George Washington Custis Lee, Richard Henry Lee, James Lyons, A. W. McDonald, Louis McLane, James Madison (copy), Hugh Nelson, Beverley Randolph, Charles H. Randolph, Robert E. Scott, Andrew Stevenson, Norborne M. Taliaferro, Martin Van Buren, Peter Van Winkle, Daniel Webster (copy), John Wickham, and William F. Wickham. John Penn Lee papers, consist of miscellaneous printed matter, routinme legall papers and business papers of the law firm of Dillard and Lee, Rocky Mount, Va.

ArchivalResource: 1917 items.

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