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Wormeley, Carter Warner, 1874-. A merry Christmas, 1934.

Title: A merry Christmas, 1934.

Wormeley's illustrated Christmas poem spoofs and praises Harry Flood Byrd, George Peery, and Pete Saunders.

ArchivalResource: 1 page : printed.

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Jaffe, Louis I. (Louis Isaac), 1888-1950. Editorial correspondence files, O-R, of the Virginian-Pilot [manuscript], (1914) 1920-1949.

Title: Editorial correspondence files, O-R, of the Virginian-Pilot [manuscript], (1914) 1920-1949.

The collection contains files O to R of Jaffé's editorial correspondence. Specific topics include prohibition in Virginia, the poll tax, anti-lynch laws in Virginia and Florida, the constitutionality of federal anti-lynch and poll tax laws and the flexible tariff act, improved Virginia roads, a Norfolk-Portsmouth tunnel, unemployed newsmen seeking work during the Depression, collecting of Virginia folk music and the Richmond literary magazine, The Reviewer. A lengthy series of letters congratulating Jaffé on his 1929 Pulitzer Prize for an editorial on a Texas lynching includes letters from Edwin Anderson Alderman, Stringfellow Barr, James Laurence Blair Buck, Harry Flood Byrd, Edward Griffith Dodson, Edwin R. Embree of the Julius Rosenwald fund, NAACP counsel Louis Marshall, Edwin Mims, Admiral Herman O. Stickney, French Strother, and Carter Wormeley. There is also a file of editorial comment on the prize, and some correspondence between Jaffé and the prize committee. Other correspondents include John Owens and Hamilton Owens of the Baltimore Sun, Frances Gray Patton, John Paul, George Foster Peabody, John Garland Pollard, John Powell, Harriet Monroe, Agnes Edwards Rothery, Russel B. DeVine, L.R. Reynolds from the Southern Regional Council and Absalom Willis Robertson.

ArchivalResource: 900 (ca.) items : typescript.

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Dabney, Virginius, 1901-. Photographs and cartoons presented to E.R. Combs, 1920-1950.

Title: Photographs and cartoons presented to E.R. Combs, 1920-1950.

There are signed photos of A. Willis Robertson, Colgate W. Darden, Harry Flood Byrd, Carter Glass, John S. Battle, William M. Tuck, Thomas B. Stanley and Henry Carter Stuart. The collection also contains some cartoons, a poem, Hail to the chief, by Carter Wormeley honoring E.R. Combs, an article, 1950, What we think of Senator Byrd's machine, by Virginius Dabney and the January 1940 issue of the Virginia Democrat.

ArchivalResource: 10 items : b&w.

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Jaffe, Louis I. (Louis Isaac), 1888-1950. Editorial correspondence files, W-Z, of the Virginian-Pilot [manuscript], 1919-1972 (bulk 1922-1949).

Title: Editorial correspondence files, W-Z, of the Virginian-Pilot [manuscript], 1919-1972 (bulk 1922-1949).

The collection contains files W-Z of Jaffé's editorial correspondence. Topics include Norfolk civic issues, including the establishment of Seashore State Park, improved race relations, Al Smith and the election of 1928, his Pulitzer Prize, Norfolk history, the firing of U.Va. professor Whipple for pacifist views, articles for Virginia Quarterly Review, and Duke University. Many of the letters are from job seekers, and many others concern columns and book reviews. Among the correspondents are Julius John Lankes, John Calvin Metcalf, Campbell Bascom Slemp, Lindsay Carter Warren, Duke professor W.H. Wannamaker, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, Junius Edgar West, Leon R. Whipple, Charles Harris Whitaker, Newman Ivey White, Walter Francis White, William Allen White, James Southall Wilson, Carter W. Wormeley, editor R. Charlton Wright, P. Bernard Young, Stark Young and Thomas W. Young.

ArchivalResource: 467 items.

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