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Willis, Edward J. (Edward Jones), 1866-1941. Papers, additional, of Edward Jones Willis [manuscript] 1927.

Title: Papers, additional, of Edward Jones Willis [manuscript] 1927. 1927.

"Letters of a self-appointed reporter." Pub. 1927, giving sketches of Mediterranean cities visited by Willis. [38 p. 28 cm. Richmond. The New Leader Co., 1927. [20] p. -- Bartholomew's chart of the world on Mercator's projections. [scal 1:25, 000, 000. sheet, 118 x 186 cm. John Bartholomew, Ltd.].

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Willis, Edward J. (Edward Jones), 1866-1941. Papers of Edward Jones Willis [manuscript] 1895-1964.

Title: Papers of Edward Jones Willis [manuscript] 1895-1964.

The collection contains correspondence relating to Willis' work as an engineer and as chairman of the Virginia Board of Mechanical Survey, the Willis navigation instrument, the Willis planimeter, other inventions and their manufacture and sale, engineering, and navigation. The collection also contains a scrapbook of clippings compiled by Edward J. Willis, 1895, and printed items. Names represented include his sons, Francis Thomas Willis and Edward Fauntleroy Willis, Homer Lenoir Ferguson, George Washington Littlehales, Philip Van Horn Weems, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the United States Naval Institute, and the United States Navy.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes.

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Willis, Edward J. (Edward Jones), 1866-1941. Papers, additional of Edward Jones Willis [manuscript] 1919-41.

Title: Papers, additional of Edward Jones Willis [manuscript] 1919-41.

Consulting engineer and inventor. Letters concerning his professional work as chairman of the Virginia. Board of Mechanical Survey; consulting work, particularly on heating and generating plants, including the U.Va. heating plant, as the inventor of the Willis planimeter, the Willis navigating machine, and other items, and as author of various articles for engineering and naval publications, and a book, "Methods of modern navigation." Included are many letters of inquiry about products and many orders for equipment needed in his home and laboratory. Personal correspondence to his sons, Francis Thomas Willis and Edward Fauntleroy Willis is included. [10 v. 31 cm. letterpress copies] -- Scrapbook, entitled, "Edward J. Willis, 1895", containing clippings about Willis and articles by him [ca. [50] p. 24 cm.].

ArchivalResource: 11 v.

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Willis, Edward J. (Edward Jones), 1866-1941. Papers of Edward Jones Willis [manuscript] 1919-64.

Title: Papers of Edward Jones Willis [manuscript] 1919-64.

Consulting engineer and inventor. Chiefly correspondence to Willis concerning his inventions, the Willis Planimeter and the Willis Navigation instrument; and his interest in and writings on navigation, including his books, "Methods of modern navigation," and "Lind of azimuth." Persons and groups represented are: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Frederick Balll, Brown, Son and Ferguson, Homer Lenoir Ferguson, Frank Jansen, George Washington Littlehales Alexander Macdonald, William McEntee, C.L. Parker, Robertson (James L.) and Sons, Graham Scott.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1,150 items.

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Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870. Papers relating to the genealogy, wills and land grants of the Willis and Jones families of Pembroke [manuscript] 1661-1939.

Title: Papers relating to the genealogy, wills and land grants of the Willis and Jones families of Pembroke [manuscript] 1661-1939.

Incl. letter, 1864 March 11, Robert Edward Lee to Edward Willis & letter, 1864 May 31, Alexander S. Pendleton to Francis Thomas Willis Papers, 1926-27, of Edward Jones Willis regarding his chartering of the yacht Oceana.

ArchivalResource: 70 items.

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Jones family. Papers of the Jones family and related Willis family, 1862-1959.

Title: Papers of the Jones family and related Willis family, 1862-1959.

The papers contain about twenty letters of family members generally conveying family news but including a description of a seance with spiritualist and medium "Foster" attended by Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. In addition there are deeds, 1882-1910, chiefly for land in Warwick County, Va.; estate accounts, 1903-1915; various family legal documents; a notebook of genealogical information; two railroad maps of the route from Charlottesville to Savannah; and miscellaneous items including advertising circulars, a terrapin recipe, poems, clippings, photographs, a carte-de-visite of Stonewall Jackson, and about $5500 in Confederate bills.

ArchivalResource: 172 items.1 reel : positive microfilm ; 35 mm.

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