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Rives, Amélie, 1863-1945. Papers of Amélie Rives [manuscript], 1920-1938.

Title: Papers of Amélie Rives [manuscript], 1920-1938.

The collection contains typescripts, revision and rewrites of Rives' play "The young Elizabeth" together with photographs of the production by the Little Theatre of St. Louis and correspondence re the play, its revision and production. Some miscellaneous correspondence is also present.

ArchivalResource: 55(ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647823126 View

Wilson, James Southall, 1880-1963. Papers of James Southall Wilson, [manuscript], 1931-1942.

Title: Papers of James Southall Wilson, [manuscript], 1931-1942.

Collection contains letters from Roberta Wellford and Amelie and Pierre Troubetzkoy. Topics include family history, ill health, and publications by Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy in the Virginia Quarterly Review. With them is a postcard of Castle Hill and a program from an exhibition of Pierre Troubetzkoy's paintings.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647809599 View

Wellford, Roberta, 1873-1956. The Roberta Wellford collection of 1920s women's rights printed ephemera 1915-1956.

Title: The Roberta Wellford collection of 1920s women's rights printed ephemera 1915-1956.

This collection compiled by Roberta Wellford consists of 53 items of women's suffrage and civil rights ephemera from the early 20th century. Included in this assortment are 2 copies of an address by Carrie Chapman Catt before the League of Women Voters (1920); National League of Women Voters (NLWV) pamphlets, booklets, and notes from the 1921, 1922, 1923 conventions, and 4 copies of organization by-laws (n.d.); a NLWV booklet: "A Record of Four Years ... 1920-1924"; 2 copies of a booklet entitled "The Eight-Hour Day for Women" (1915), and 1 organization bulletin (1918) from the National Women's Trade Union League.

ArchivalResource: 53 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/727361865 View

Wellford, Roberta,. Papers of Roberta Wellford [manuscript], 1918-1946 (bulk 1923-1939).

Title: Papers of Roberta Wellford [manuscript], 1918-1946 (bulk 1923-1939).

Material regarding these women's organizations: Women's Suffrage and Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, Women's Trade Union League, National Consumer's League, and annual conferences on the cause and cure of war

ArchivalResource: 150 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647952355 View

Wellford, Roberta. Papers regarding woman suffrage and equal rights in Virginia [manuscript] 1913-29.

Title: Papers regarding woman suffrage and equal rights in Virginia [manuscript] 1913-29.

Correspondence, speeches, reports, and memoranda of the Virginia League of Women Voters, and the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. Correspondents include: Adele Clark, Lile Meade Valentine, John Garland Pollard, Thomas Staples Martin, George Walter Mapp and other Virginia politicians.

ArchivalResource: 800 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647944629 View

Anderson, Joseph Reid, 1813-1892,. Papers of the Rives family [manuscript] (1777) 1822-1945.

Title: Papers of the Rives family [manuscript] (1777) 1822-1945.

The collection contains correspondence, diaries, financial and legal papers, biographical material, photographs, clippings and memorabilia. The correspondence discusses genealogy, A.L. Rives' studies at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and his work for the Richmond and Danville Railroad Co., and Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy's 1914 London trip. The financial and legal papers contain a copy of the 1777 will of William Rives of Sussex County and bills from French tradesmen. Genealogical papers trace the Belling, Macmurdo, Page, Starke, Rivers, and Walker families, and biographical material contains information on W.C. Rives, A.L. Rives and Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy. Two childhood journals, 1874 and 1879 of Amélie Rives are present as are her marriage service book, 1896, horoscopes, and clippings regarding her two husbands and her literary career. Of interest is a petition to Napoleon III regarding the arbitration of claims against the American ship General Armstrong. The collection also contains calling cards, passports, invitations, and a poetry album. In the papers are copies and extracts of letters from Joseph Reid Anderson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Richard Stoddert Ewell, Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Robert Edward Lee, Robert McClelland, and Montgomery Cunningham Meigs. There are two telegraph messages from William Tecumseh Sherman and an autograph note of Marie Amelie de Bourbon. Other correspondents include Adair Pleasants Archer, John Mercer Brooke, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Bernard Morris Lee Ernst, William Buel Franklin, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Richard Hovey, Jean Julien Lemordant, Cornelia Paterson Van Rensselaer, Henry Shelton Sanford, William Glover Stanard, Roberta Wellford, and Jeremy Francis Gilmer.

ArchivalResource: ca. 500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647969690 View