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Ellyson, J. Taylor (James Taylor), 1847-1919. Papers of James Taylor Ellyson 1865, 1896-1910.

Title: Papers of James Taylor Ellyson 1865, 1896-1910.

The collection contains correspondence, news clippings, financial papers, political papers, Civil War service papers, invitations and papers pertaining to the 1907 Jamestown Exposition. Business and political correspondence discuss the Democratic Party in Virginia; Ellyson's successful campaign for Lieutenant Governor in 1905; the Tennessee Railroad Company; the Southern Commercial Congress; the Old Dominion Building and Loan Association; the Joseph Bryan Memorial Association; Richmond College; the Jefferson Davis Memorial Association; the Jamestown Exposition of 1907; the United Confederate Veterans; the Y.M.C.A.; the Southern Baptist Convention and the Baptist General Association of Virginia. Civil War Papers include the last muster roll of 2nd Comany, Richmond Howitzers, Appomattox, Va., 1865, listing killed, wounded, prisoners, deserters and "faithful." Correspondents include Edwin Anderson Alderman, Wyndham Bolling Blanton, F.W. Boatwright, Stith Bolling, John Thompson Brown, Philip Alexander Bruce, John Stewart Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Joseph Button, Richard Evelyn Byrd, B.F. Buchanan, George C. Cabell, James Alston Cabell, William Ewan Cameron, J. Lawrence Campbell, James Cannon, Jr., Charles Creighton Carlin, J.C. Carpenter, Julian S. Carr, J.C. Carrington, William E. Carson, James R. Caton, J.A.C. Chandler, W.D. Chesterman, Lucian Howard Cocke, and Walter Scott Copeland. Also John Warwick Daniel, Charles Hall Davis, T.J. Downing, Melville Egleston, Sydney P. Epes, Clement A. Evans, Elbert W.R. Ewing, H.C. Featherston, Henry Delaware Flood, H.W. Flournoy, Douglas Southall Freeman, W.W. Fuller, D.C. Gallaher, James Mercer Garnett, William A. Garrett, John T. Goolrick, Armistead Churchill Gordon, Bennett Taylor Gordon, Reuben Lindsay Gordon, Raleigh T. Green, Don Peters Halsey, James Hay, William Paul Hilton, Henry Holt, Jedediah Hotchkiss, Edmund Wilcox Hubard, Eppa Hunton, and J. Hallett Hyatt. Also Robert Tate Irvine, Claggett Bennett Jones, William Atkinson Jones, Thomas S. Kenan, George B. Keezell, Charles W. Kent, John W. Kincheloe, C.W. Koiner, John Lamb, Francis Rives Lassiter, Joseph T. Lawless, Greenlee Davidson Letcher, Henry Thompson Louthan, J.B. McCabe, William Gordon McCabe, Marshall McCormick, William T. McCue, Richard McIlwaine, Norman Mack, William Hodges Mann, Thomas Staples Martin, Wyndham Robertson Meredith, Kate Minor, R.C.L. Moncure, Andrew Jackson Montague, H[enry?] L[ymnan?] Morehouse, Thomas Taylor Munford, and Albert Cook Myers. Also Beverley Bland Munford, Peter Johnston Otey, Rosewell Page, Thomas Nelson Page, Camm Patteson, Howard Pyle, Cuyler Reynolds, Randolph P. Rixey, Floyd H. Roberts, Bird Robinson, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Charles Hill Rylnad, George Scott Shackelford, G.T. Shepperd, Abram P. Staples, Edward L. Stone, J. Taylor Stratton, Aubrey Ellis Strode, Henry Carter Stuart, Claude Augustus Swanson, George Braxton Taylor, Alfred P. Thom, Henry St. George Tucker, Whitmell P. Tunstall, John P. Turpin, James Hoge Tyler, John C. Underwood, Legh Watts, Junius Edgar West, Irving P. Whitehead, William E. Wiatt, Joseph Willard, E.W. Winfrey, James Blair Winston, and Clinton Rogers Woodruff.

ArchivalResource: 1,500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57423335 View

American Association for the Advancement of Science. Papers from the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Richmond, Va. [manuscript], 1938 December 27-31.

Title: Papers from the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Richmond, Va. [manuscript], 1938 December 27-31.

Papers consist chiefly of press releases of speeches delivered at the meeting or snynopses of speeches; a program from a meeting of the section on medical sciences; a research paper prize announcement ; an announcement of a research grant from the General Education Board to the Mountain Lake Biological Station. The collection also contains a press release from a meeting of the affiliated undergraduate fraternitity Chi Beta Phi Scientific Association, held at Randolph Macon College; and an address to the affiliated National Association of Biology Teachers.

ArchivalResource: circa 26 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648004614 View

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947. Papers of Jackson Davis, 1910-1947.

Title: Papers of Jackson Davis, 1910-1947.

Papers of Jackson Davis, include correspondence, photographs and travel journals, and pertain chiefly to his travels and his work with the General Education Board and the Virginia State Board of Education. Papers from the General Education Board include Davis's 1946 address at the unveiling of a bust of Booker T. Washington at New York University; and statistical summaries on Alabama counties. Davis's diaries/travel journals, 1911, 1913, as state agent for Negro Schools for the Virginia State Board of Education describe his tours through Virginia visiting African American schools and colleges, and discuss the education of African-Americans. Among the schools discussed are Hampton Institute and Virginia Union University. Among the people mentioned are John Stewart Bryan, Wallace Buttrick, A.B. Chandler, Jr., Caroline Preston Davis, K.C. Davis, J. Hardy Dillard, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Hollis Burke Frissell, John Manuel Gandy, Leslie Pinckney Hill, George Rice Hovey, Joseph Leonard Jarman, Charles W. Kent, Charles Gilmore Maphis, Edwin Mims, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Bruce Ryburn Payne, George Foster Peabody, Virginia Randolph, Wickliffe Rose, R.C. Stearnes, and Willis Duke Weatherford. Letters from Davis, 1942-1945, describes travels in Colombia, Peru, Nigeria, Belgian Congo, and Liberia. Specific topics include mission work, war-time Liberia, Achimota College, native "pagan" customs, and Islamic influence. Thomas White Young is mentioned. With these is a journal from the 1942 trip to South America to consider educational opportunities and needs in Chile, Peru, and Colombia. Photographs depict Davis, G.E.B. members, the Jackson Davis Elementary school, Charles E. Diehl and Sir William Beveridge. The collection also contains a series of letters to Helen M. Davis, 1926, describing a European tour; the travel journal of Corrine M. Davis, 1935, describing a voyage to the Canary Islands, around the coast of Africa to Palestine and across the Mediterranean to Italy and France; and a letter fragment from Jackson Davis discussing parts of the voyage. With these is a genealogical chart of the Davis family given by Joseph T. Davis. There are also essays by Alan Gregg "Future in Europe," 1940, predicting political and economic outcomes of the Second World War, and "Statement on Social Medicine," 1943, advocating socialized medicine. The collection also contains letters of condolence on his death and clippings regarding him, chiefly obituaries.

ArchivalResource: 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50863160 View

Alderman, Edwin Anderson, 1861-1931. Papers of the University of Virginia Class of 1908 [manuscript], 1908-1930.

Title: Papers of the University of Virginia Class of 1908 [manuscript], 1908-1930.

Papers of the University of Virginia Class of 1908, contain correspondence and notes relating to Class pledges for school of Journalism and printing of Quinquennial Class Record, the 1921 Endowment Fund, etc.; and printed directories.

ArchivalResource: 25 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647885930 View

Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945. Papers of Ellen Glasgow [manuscript], 1880-1963.

Title: Papers of Ellen Glasgow [manuscript], 1880-1963.

Papers of Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow include drafts of and notes on several novels including "Phases of an inferior planet," "Vein of iron," "A certain measure," "In this our life," and "The woman within," as well as copies of speeches and articles, and notes relating to her personal and literary affairs. Letters and telegrams, 1916 -1944, from Henry W. Anderson form about half of the correspondence; the more than 50 letters from James Lane Allen make up the second largest group. The collection also includes notebooks containing addresses, comments, bibliography, recipes and miscellaneous notes; and photographs and drawings of Miss Glasgow, her homes, pets, and other literary figures including a commercial strike of a woodcut of Glasgow's home by J.J. Lankes, 1926, commissioned as a design for her Christmas card.

ArchivalResource: 3385 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647898536 View

Meek, Samuel W., fl. 1886-1917. Papers, 1886-1917.

Title: Papers, 1886-1917.

Letters, 1886-1917, received by Samuel W. Meek in his connection with newspapers in Akron and Cleveland, Ohio and Washington, D. C. and as business manager for the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Richmond, Va. and for the Press in Philadelphia, Pa. Prominent correspondents include John Stewart Bryan, Ellis A. Gimbel and John Wanamaker.

ArchivalResource: 81 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22883646 View

Underwood & Underwood. Photographs of the University of Virginia Centennial [manuscript], 1921.

Title: Photographs of the University of Virginia Centennial [manuscript], 1921.

Photographs of the 1921 University of Virginia Centennial depicting events such as the pageant and the unveiling of the World War I memorial at the Rotunda. Included are group photographs and posed pictures of attending dignitaries.

ArchivalResource: 29 photos.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647910121 View

Malone, Dumas, 1892-1986. Documents and notes made for his life of Edwin A. Alderman [manuscript].

Title: Documents and notes made for his life of Edwin A. Alderman [manuscript].

Including copies of his correspondence with Emma Graves Alderman, Kate L. Alderman, C.B. Aycock, Brown Ayres, Page M. Baker, Edwin R. Baldwin, Paul B. Barringer, George Gordon Battle, John D. Bellamy, John Stewart Bryan, Nicholas Murray Butler, Andrew Carnegie, E.B. Craighead, Lamar Monroe Curry, Charles William Dabney, Frank B. Dancy, George H. Demy, J.H. Dillard, Charles W. Eliot, A.W. Erickson, Charles E. Fenner, Thomas Staples Fuller, W.W. Fuller, J.B. Gilder, Louis Graves, Mrs. Hector M. Green, Louis Hamman, W.T. Harris, Halstead S. Hedges, Dayton H. Hoge, E.M. House, J.Y. Joynes, Susan B. Keene, Charles Duncan McIver, Elis P. Moore, Edward P. Moses, Edgar Garden Murphy, M.C.S. Noble, Walter Hines Page, George Foster Peabody, J. Woods Price, Mrs. M. Garnett Saunders, Harvey M. Smith, Charles P. Smith, Eugene Stevenson, Theodore Roosevelt, Gov. Henry Carter Stuart, William Howard Taft, Ida M. Tarbell, E.S. Trudeau, Booker T. Washington, Alice Saunders West, Edwin M. Wilson, Hugh Wilson, Thomas Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647960447 View

University of Virginia. Board of Visitors. Minutes of the Board of Visitors [manuscript], 1829-2000.

Title: Minutes of the Board of Visitors [manuscript], 1829-2000.

Minute books kept by or for University rectors including James Madison, Joseph C.Cabell, Chapman Johnson, Andrew Stevenson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Thomas L. Preston, Alexander Rives, B. Johnson Barbour, R. G. H. Kean, A. H. H. Stuart; Wyatt M. Elliott, William Roane Ruffin, J. L. Marye, Wilson Cary Nicholas Randolph, Armistead Churchill Gordon, Charles Pinckney Jones, Robert Tate Irving, John Stewart Bryan, C. Harding Walker, Frederick W. Scott, Robert Gray Williams, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Barron Foster Black, Frank Talbott, jr., Albert Vickers Bryan, Charles Rogers Fenwick, Frank W. Rogers, Joseph H. McConnell, William L. Zimmer, III, D. French Slaughter, Jr., Fred G. Pollard, Joshua P. Darden, Jr., Edward Elson, Hovey S. Dabney, John P. Ackerly,

ArchivalResource: 15 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647979229 View

American Association for the Advancement of Science. Papers from the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Richmond, Va. [manucript], 1928 December 27-31.

Title: Papers from the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Richmond, Va. [manucript], 1928 December 27-31.

Papers consist chiefly of press releases of speeches delivered at the meeting or snynopses of speeches; a program from a meeting of the section on medical sciences; a research paper prize announcement ; an announcement of a research grant from the General Education Board to the Mountain Lake Biological Station. The collection also contains a press release from a meeting of the affiliated undergraduate fraternitity Chi Beta Phi Scientific Association, held at Randolph Macon College; and an address to the affiliated National Association of Biology Teachers.

ArchivalResource: ca. 26 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/176633812 View

Underwood and Underwood. Photographs of the University of Virginia centennial celebration, 1921.

Title: Photographs of the University of Virginia centennial celebration, 1921.

The photographs depict centennial ceremonies at the University includiing the unveiling of the World War I Tablet Memorial at the Rotunda and an address in the ampitheater by Sir Auckland Geddes, British ambassador. Dignitaries identified in the latter include President Alderman, Governor Westmoreland Davis, the Rev. Henry W. Battle, the Rt. Rev. Dennis Joseph O'Connell, John Stewart Bryan, and John Bassett Moore. There is also a photograph of 12 young women dressed as Greek dancers for the pageant "In the shadow of the builder" performed in the amphitheater.

ArchivalResource: 3 photos. : silver gelatin ; 28 x 35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56612587 View

Copeland, Walter S. (Walter Scott), 1856-1928. Walter Scott Copeland papers [manuscript], 1880-1954.

Title: Walter Scott Copeland papers [manuscript], 1880-1954.

The collection consists chiefly of letters to Copeland, editor and publisher of the Newport News Daily Press and Times-Herald. The correspondents discuss Virginia political issues and Newport News civic issues, particularly regarding the shipyards. Many letters request endorsement or thank him for favorable editorial comment. Some letters deal with the financial and business aspects of the newspaper publication, and one, n.d., gives a lengthy analysis of Daily Press operations. Major topics include the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate elections, a National Editorial Association trip to New England, race relations, particularly an incident at Hampton College, 1925, and a campaign to repeal the 14th, 15th, and 18th amendments, merchant marine legislation, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, and an alleged interview that discredited Carter Glass. The collection also contains letters and telegrams to Grace Beale Copeland on his death, speeches and addresses on civic, patriotic, and press topics, clippings, photographs, and scrap-books. The latter contain poetry and clippings assembled by Copeland and his first wife Mary A. Copeland, views of Newport News, and scenes of the NEA trip to Virginia. Major correspondents include Harry Flood Byrd, John Stewart Bryan, Josephus Daniels, Carter Glass, William Hodges Mann, Thomas Staples Martin, John Garland Pollard, S.L. Slover, Henry Carter Stuart, Claude Augustus Swanson, and Elbert Lee Trinkle. Other correspondents include Edward Anderson Alderman, James Branch Cabell, Addie Worth Bagley Daniels, Adelbert Cronkhite, Douglas Southall Freeman, Arthur Kyle Davis, Joseph Thomas Deal, Stuart G. Gibboney, Ellen Glasgow, Meta Glass, Louis Isaac Jaffe, Mary Johnston, Helen Adams Keller, the Ku Klux Klan Newport News Chapter, Stuart McGuire, Robert Wolton Moore, George Campbell Peery, Albert Cabell Ritchie, Henry St.Tucker, Leonora Speyer, and Lyon Gardiner Tyler.

ArchivalResource: 900 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647881329 View

Lucy Julien, Sister, b. 1904. Letters to Amanda Stewart Bryan Kane [manuscript], 1929-1994.

Title: Letters to Amanda Stewart Bryan Kane [manuscript], 1929-1994.

Sister Lucy Julien extends condolences on the death of John Stewart Bryan, discusses visits of Amanda Kane and others, describes her convent and religious activities, mentions mutual friends, and often includes religious reflections. With the letters are two photographs of Sister Lucy Julien and a silhouette of an unidentified man.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647849695 View

Harrison, Henry Sydnor, 1880-1930. Papers, 1894-1958.

Title: Papers, 1894-1958.

Correspondence, clippings, and miscellaneous papers, relating chiefly to Harrison's earlier novels. The clippings are poems written while he was on the staff of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and book reviews of his works. Subjects include publishers and publishing in the U.S., Munsey's Magazine, John Stewart Bryan, and Collier Cobb. Correspondents include Irving Addison Bachellor, Milledge Louis Bonham, Jr., James Branch Cabell, Josephus Daniels, Max Forrester Eastman, John Erskine, Ferris Greenslet, Henry Louis Mencken, Philip James Roosevelt, Ellery Sedgwick, Julian Street, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, and James Howard Whitty.

ArchivalResource: 1, 163 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19642666 View

William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Title: William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Correspondence (chiefly letters received), articles, poems, speeches, book reviews, diaries and journals, miscellaneous notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material. Correspondence concerns Thayer's writings, particularly in the area of Italian history, and his connections with Harvard as editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine and later as an overseer. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of William Warland Clapp, a Boston journalist; and some papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, chiefly from a European trip made by Higginson in 1872.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (96 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00563/catalog View

Copeland, Walter S. (Walter Scott), 1856-1928. Correspondence of Copeland, publisher of the Newport News daily press and Times herald [manuscript] 1907-1928, 1942.

Title: Correspondence of Copeland, publisher of the Newport News daily press and Times herald [manuscript] 1907-1928, 1942.

The letters to Copeland comment on local and national events discussed in his editorials including prohibition, civil rights for Negroes, political corruption, Virginia illiteracy, utility company competition and personal grievances of several citizens. Of interest are letters of Thomas Staples Martin refuting financial and election corruption charges of William Atkinson Jones and explaining his senatorial fight with Benjamin Ryan Tillman for the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee; a letter of Harry Flood Byrd outlining reforms he will enact as governor; and, a letter from the Anglo Saxon Clubs of America accusing Hampton Institute of promoting racial amalgamation. The collection also contains a geometry notebook, ca. 1852 of University of Virginia student George W. Upshaw and William Henry Scott's notebook of medical lectures, 1883-84, deliveredy by H.H. Levy at the Central Lunatic Asylum, Richmond. Correspondents include John Garland Pollard, Josephus Daniels, Claude Augustus Swanson, Carter Glass, Elbert Lee Trinkle, John Stewart Bryan, Douglas Southall Freeman and the Ku Klux Klan, Newport News, Va.

ArchivalResource: 61 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647943059 View

Neiman, Fraser, 1911-1993. Papers, 1944-1945.

Title: Papers, 1944-1945.

Correspondence, 1944-1945, arranged alphabetically, of Capt. Fraser Neiman (of Williamsburg, Va.), while he was stationed in Europe during World War II. Topics include food, supplies, sanitation, recreation (including reading, film-going, and music), military movements, and American soldiers' relationships with civilians. Correspondents include mother Nina (Fraser) Neiman (247 items; letters of 1944 describe training at Camp Ritchie, Md., Fraser's time in England before going to France, German collaborators, the liberation of Paris, the death of the politician Wendell Wilkie, the 1944 presidential election, the mindset of French civilians and the attitudes of American students back home, the death of Richmond, Va., native John Stewart Bryan and Douglas Southall Freeman's obituary of him, Neiman's encounter with an escaped Russian [Soviet] prisoner of war and his views of French Catholicism, French attitudes toward American troops, and Neiman once having seen Carl Sandburg. Letters of 1945 discuss conservatism in the United States, the bombing of German cities, Neiman's tour of Mainz, Germany, and German resistance, German soldiers' treatment of civilians, the death of Franklin D.Roosevelt, Mussolini's death and the fate of German leaders, Germany's surrender and Neiman's stationing in Austria, the war crimes of Hermann Göring, Neiman's impressions of post-war Paris, Neiman's role in the MIS (Military Intelligence Service), German anti-American propaganda, German civilians' support of the war effort, the Allies' pre-war diplomatic efforts, Neiman's opinion of Harry Truman, the relationship between occupying forces and German civilians, U.S. foreign policy, Japan's surrender, the trial of German war criminals, and Neiman's description of Antwerp, Belgium). Other correspondents include "Jo" [possibly university friend, Joseph Bottkol], Helen A. Jones (concerning her life in Cambridge, Mass.), Paul Racine, John K. Reeves (concerning his teaching position at Skidmore College), Edward A. Robinson (concerning Christmas 1944 and wartime shortages), Blanche Smyth (of Cambridge, England, concerning her wartime experiences and her nephew's imprisonment in Germany, English society, and the causes of the war), Ralph M. Wardle, Gladys Walterhouse, and Genevieve Yost. Also contains miscellaneous items, including several V-Mail letters of Carl L. Wood to Nina Fraser Neiman (concerning Wood's service in the United States Navy in the Pacific theatre) and copies of the army newspaper, "Four by Four."

ArchivalResource: 270 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/432726934 View

Roberts, Joseph K. (Joseph Kent), b. 1889. Texts of addresses on William Barton Rogers by Arthur Bevan, Joseph K. Roberts, and three copies of an address by John Stewart Bryan [manuscript] 1938.

Title: Texts of addresses on William Barton Rogers by Arthur Bevan, Joseph K. Roberts, and three copies of an address by John Stewart Bryan [manuscript] 1938. 1938.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647959218 View

Harrison, Fairfax, 1869-1938. Papers, 1736-1945.

Title: Papers, 1736-1945.

Papers, 1736-1945, of and collected by Fairfax Harrison. Papers include his correspondence with individuals and institutions concerning his interest in Virginia History. Prominent correspondents include John Stewart Bryan, David I. Bushnell, Worthington C. Ford, Douglas Southall Freeman, William G. Stanard, Clayton Torrence, Earl Gregg Swem, Lyon G. Tyler and Langbourne M. Williams. Subjects include Sir Edmund Andros, Francis Nicholson, Francis Fauquier, debtors' prisons, parish boundaries, Culpeper family, thoroughbred horses, county records, and the publishing of Harrison's works as well as the publishing of Robert Armistead Stewart's Index to Printed Virginia Genealogies and E.G. Swem's Virginia Historical Index. The collection also includes notes by Wilson Miles Cary concerning the Cary family and the books at "Carysbrook," Fluvanna County, Va.

ArchivalResource: 6, 116 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23030926 View

International Education Board. The docket for the special meeting of the Board of Trustees [manuscript] 1925 Feb. 2.

Title: The docket for the special meeting of the Board of Trustees [manuscript] 1925 Feb. 2.

W. W. Brierly, for the Board, encloses the dockets to John Stewart Bryan, Richmond.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647960185 View

Glass, Carter, 1858-1946. Papers of Carter Glass [manuscript], 1858-1946, and n.d.

Title: Papers of Carter Glass [manuscript], 1858-1946, and n.d.

Papers of Glass consist of personal and professional papers including correspondence, speeches, notes and memoranda, documents, printed matter, photographs, clippings and miscellaneous material. Much of the collection centers on banking and currency legislation, in the enactment of which Glass was active while in both Houses of Congress and while serving as Secretary of the Treasury. Subjects include: the Federal Reserve Bank Act and Federal Reserve system; the Federal Farm Loan Act; branch banks; currency [reform] bill of 1913; Emergency Banking Act, 1933; the Banking Act of 1933 (Glass-Steagall Act) to establish the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; the Bank Bill of 1935; opposition to the National Industrial Recovery Act; the National Labor Relations Act; the Bank Holding Company Bill; and the Office of Price Administration; Additional topics include World Wars I and II, particularly their domestic economic aspects; the League of Nations; the World Court; Democratic Party platforms and policies; the presidential elections of 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, and 1940; Senator Huey P. Long; Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal; the attempted packing of the Supreme Court , 1937; neutrality legislation; disarmament; regulation of the coal industry; child labor; anti-lynching law; immigration restriction (especially Chinese in Hawaii); Muscle Shoals; trade with Russia; diplomatic relations with the Vatican; Four-Power Treaty; soldiers' bonus bill; tariffs and protectionism; and national defense. Virginia topics of concern to Glass or his constituents include poll tax elimination; Negro suffrage; highways; the University of Virginia Board of Visitors; patronage requests from Lynchburg, Roanoke, and Bedford, Campbell, Floyd, Montgomery, and Roanoke Counties, Va.; the Woodrow Wilson Foundation; a national Patrick Henry shrine at "Red Hill"; the gubernatorial election of 1924; Bishop James Cannon, prohibition and the Anti-saloon League; the Skyline Drive; Spotsylvania Battlefield Park; the Woodrow Wilson Foundation; the Virginia Fight For Freedom Committee; and operation of the Lynchburg News and Advance. Miscellaneous items of interest include a letter describing the early life of Booker T. Washingrton, election tickets for 1848, a 1906 recipe book, and letters concerning Glass' belief in the Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship. In addition to speeches by Glass there are speeches by Edwin A. Alderman, Harry Byrd, Sr., George M. Coffin, Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Henry Cabot Lodge, Francis Pickens Miller, Al Smith, and Henry St. George Tucker. Among the many correspondents are : Edwin A. Alderman, Newton Baker, Ray Stannard Baker, Alben Barkley, Bernard Baruch, William E. Borah, Chester Bowles, John Stewart Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Harry F. Byrd, Richard E. Byrd, Calvin Coolidge, John W. Daniel, Josephus Daniels, Colgate W. Darden, Westmoreland Davis, F. A. Delano, the Democratic National Committee, Marriner S. Eccles, James A. Farley, Douglas Southall Freeman, James A. Garfield, Samuel Gompers, Cary Grayson, Charles S. Hamlin, W. P. G. Harding, Warren G. Harding, J. Edgar Hoover, Herbert Hoover, Edwin M. House, Cordell Hull, Harold Ickes, Hugh S. Johnson, Jesse Jones, Joseph P. Kennedy, Walter Lippmann, Huey Long, William G. McAdoo, G. Walter Mapp, Andrew Mellon, Eugene Meyer, Andrew J. Montague, R. Walton Moore, Henry Morgenthau, Robert L. Owen, George C. Peery, John G. Pollard, A. Willis Robertson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dave E. Satterfield, C. Bascom Slemp, Rixey Smith, Billy Sunday, Claude A. Swanson, Harry S. Truman, Joseph P. Tumulty, Oscar W. Underwood, Samuel Untermeyer, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Robert F. Wagner, Henry A. Wallace, Paul Moritz Warburg, Richard S. Whaley, William Allen White, John Skelton Williams, H. Parker Willis, Edith Bolling Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, Clifton A. Woodrum, and Walter Wyatt.

ArchivalResource: 215,000(ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647902109 View

Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937. Papers, 1683-1968, 1856-1937.

Title: Papers, 1683-1968, 1856-1937.

Professional and personal papers of John Garland Pollard, lawyer, educator and governor of Virginia. Subjects covered by the collection are Virginia Democratic Party politics, the Southern Baptist Church, threats to the separation of church and state, Williamsburg, Va., Colonial National Historical Park, YMCA in World War I, Prohibition, the Depression, the Federal Trade Commission, College of William and Mary and founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Prominent correspondents include Henry Watkins Anderson, Lady Astor, Frederic W. Boatwright, David K.E. Bruce, John Stewart Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Harry F. Byrd, James Cannon, J.A.C. Chandler, Calvin Coolidge, Westmoreland Davis, Jessie Ball Dupont, Carter Glass, John D. Rockefeller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Claude A. Swanson, Lyon G. Tyler, Alexander W. Weddell, and Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: ca. 15, 000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23291773 View

Byrd, Harry Flood, 1887-1966. Scrapbooks of Harry Flood Byrd,1897-1927 (bulk 1921-1927).

Title: Scrapbooks of Harry Flood Byrd,1897-1927 (bulk 1921-1927).

Scrapbooks of Harry F. Byrd, Sr., contain newsclippings, programs, correspondence, pamphlets and miscellany relating to his early career. Some material pertinent to his father Richard Evelyn Byrd, and his brothers Richard E. Byrd and Thomas Bolling Byrd is also included. Specific topics include the appointment of Judge William F. Rhea to the State Corporation Commission; the murder trial of Robert O. Garrett; Tom Byrd's World War I service; and Richard E. Byrd's souvenirs from the American Commission to Negotiate Peace. Also the Virginia Democratic Paraty; the Federal Fuel Administration; the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company; the 1919 Virginia Senate race; the Valley Turnpike Company; the Virginia State Highway Dept.; taxation in Virginia; the 1925 gubernatorial race; Byrd's term as governor of Virginia; and Al Smith the 1928 Democratic presidential nomination.

ArchivalResource: 12 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52711726 View

Parker, John Crafford, 1862-1918. Papers of John Crafford Parker [manuscript] 1874-1936.

Title: Papers of John Crafford Parker [manuscript] 1874-1936.

The collection consists chiefly of case files from Parker's law practise and insurance business in Franklin, Va. The files contain correspondence, legal documents, financial papers, and notes. Most of the cases concern estate settlement, bankruptcy, debt collection, divorce, and receivership. Parker's work as attorney for Camp Manufacturing Co., Franklin, Va. and as local counsel for the Southern Co. treasurer and member of the General Conference's Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South are prsent, The collection also contains a postal album, a nutrition notebook, bar exam coaching notes, a draft of the Franklin Academy Company's charter application and ledgers to insurance policies, guardianship accounts, estate settlements and stocks. Parker's personal correspondence touches on state and national politics, the Methodist church, investments in Cuba, neutrality and World I, and his family and friends. Included are letters from John Steward Bryan, William Jennings Bryan (on divisions in the Democratic Party, 1900), Richard Evelyn Byrd, James Cannon, John Wood Fishburne, John Warwick Daniel, Edward Everett Holland, Eppa Hunton, William Atkinson Jones, William Alexander Lambeth, William Minor Lile, J.E. McCulloch of the Southern Sociological Conference, John Barbee Minor, Raleigh Colston Minor, Andrew Jackson Montague, Charles Triplett O'Ferrell, John Garland Pollard, Edward Watts Saunders, Henry Carter Stuart, James Hoge Tyler, and Henry St. George Tucker.

ArchivalResource: 5 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647964902 View

Byrd, Harry Flood, 1887-1966. Scrapbooks of Harry Flood Byrd, [manuscript],1897-1927 (bulk 1921-1927).

Title: Scrapbooks of Harry Flood Byrd, [manuscript],1897-1927 (bulk 1921-1927).

Scrapbooks of Harry F. Byrd, Sr., contain newsclippings, programs, correspondence, pamphlets and miscellany relating to his early career. Some material pertinent to his father Richard Evelyn Byrd, and his brothers Richard E. Byrd and Thomas Bolling Byrd is also included. Specific topics include the appointment of Judge William F. Rhea to the State Corporation Commission; the murder trial of Robert O. Garrett; Tom Byrd's World War I service; and Richard E. Byrd's souvenirs from the American Commission to Negotiate Peace. Also the Virginia Democratic Paraty; the Federal Fuel Administration; the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company; the 1919 Virginia Senate race; the Valley Turnpike Company; the Virginia State Highway Dept.; taxation in Virginia; the 1925 gubernatorial race; Byrd's term as governor of Virginia; and Al Smith the 1928 Democratic presidential nomination.

ArchivalResource: 12 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647906952 View

Alderman, Edwin Anderson, 1861-1931. Correspondence of Edwin A. Alderman, 1900-1930 (bulk 1900-1903).

Title: Correspondence of Edwin A. Alderman, 1900-1930 (bulk 1900-1903).

Alderman's letters chiefly pertain to educational development in the south. Other topics include his coming mariage, Teddy Roosevelt's invitation to stay at the White House, Woodrow Wilson's nomination, the presidency of the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia student career of Senator James Hamilton Lewis. Correspondents include Page M. Baker, Paul Barringer, George Gordon Battle, John Stewart Bryan, Charles W. Dabney, Frank B. Dancy, James Hamilton Lewis, Hamilton W. Mabie, Edgar Gardner Murphy, Walter H. Page, and Theodore Roosevelt.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

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Notices and news articles about University of Virginia Convocation [manuscript], 1933-1937.

Title: Notices and news articles about University of Virginia Convocation [manuscript], 1933-1937.

The collection contains four notices about Convocation and speakers John Stewart Bryan and W. S. A. Pott and three news articles about speaker Frank L. McVey.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

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Shackelford, George Scott, 1856-1917. Papers of George Scott Shackelford and Virginius Randolph Shackelford [manuscript], 1914-1926.

Title: Papers of George Scott Shackelford and Virginius Randolph Shackelford [manuscript], 1914-1926.

Letters and printed articles of correspondence of Judge George S. Shackelford and his son Virginius Randolph Shackelford of Orange, concerning Virginia politics especially in Louisa and Orange Counties, Va., Federal appointments, Virginia legislation and legal matters, normal schools, highways, University of Virginia, Woodberry Forest, the Monticello Association, the Shenandoah Park Association, and business and legal matters. Correspondents include: Edwin A. Alderman, Edward C. Anderson, George Gordon Battle, Charles T. Bland, George Bryan, John Stewart Bryan, Thomas Pinckney Bryan, Julian A. Burruss, Harry F. Byrd, C.C. Carlin, Lewis D. Crenshaw, Westmoreland Davis, Nathaniel B. Early, H. D. Flood, Carter Glass, James Hay, John P. McConnell, William Hodges Mann, George W. Mapp, Thomas Martin, R. Walton Moore, Thomas Walker Page, Fred G. Pollard, James H. Price, A. Stuart Robertson, Edward R. Stettinius, Claude A. Swanson, William M. Thornton, Elbert Lee Trinkle, Stephen N. Watts, and Lewis C. Williams.

ArchivalResource: 2,000 items.

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McCabe, W. Gordon (William Gordon), 1841-1920. Papers of W. Gordon McCabe [manuscript], 1757-1920.

Title: Papers of W. Gordon McCabe [manuscript], 1757-1920.

The papers consist chiefly of McCabe's correspondence with prominent scholars, U.S. and British literary figures, and Civil War veterans. Topics include the Civil War, the Confederacy, Confederate veterans organizations, World War I, black suffrage, the University of Virginia, and British literature. Of particular interest are accounts of the destruction of Hampton and the seizing of the powder magazine at Norfolk, accounts of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, and of Australian troops in Egypt, the retaining of Robert E. Lee's body in Lexington, Swedenborgianism in 1864, and Einstein's theory of relativity in 1920, the Rotunda fire, changes in the University of Virginia's degree program, and a controversy regarding professor William Howard Perkinson. Also of interest are a letter of Robert E. Lee on William Johnson Pegram, a letter of recommendation from Matthew Arnold, three pages of Thackeray's "The Virginians," a sonnet of Egerton Webbe copied and annotated by Leigh Hunt, two pages from John Richard Green's "Short history of the English people," Edmund Clarence Stedman's "The old admiral," and a poem on being seasick written in imitation of Tennyson by John Reuben Thompson. Tennyson items include a letter,1884 Aug 20 from Audrey Tennyson, brief social letters 1884 Nov 26 and 1888 Feb 12 from Lord Tennyson, a copy of "Carmen Saeculare, an Ode in Honor of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria," sent to McCabe, 1887 Aug 19, and a quotation by Tennyson, 1889 Aug 8. The papers also contain COPIES of letters including Edgar Allan Poe to John Collins McCabe critiquing a poem by McCabe; Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer re Gilmer's mission to obtain University of Virginia professors abroad; visits to Tennyson by McCabe, 1884 and 1887; Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie on her father's writing habits and a note to her from Robert Browning; Henry James on a promised volume and his "busy scribbling autumn"; and a letter of Stonewall Jackson to Robert E. Lee re the impending battle of Chancellorsville. There are papers, 1757-1796, of McCabe's ancestor George Taylor chiefly re his iron business in Easton, Pennsylvania including a plat of the site of present day Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1771. In addition there are class rolls from McCabe's University School, "The old Virginia gentleman" by George William Bagby, an autograph book, 1905 - 1908, an address book, 1920, and a replica of the great seal of the Confederacy, 1911.

ArchivalResource: 1,016 items.

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Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884,. Papers of the Grinnan family of Brampton, Madison Co., Va. 1773 (1843-1937) 1981.

Title: Papers of the Grinnan family of Brampton, Madison Co., Va. 1773 (1843-1937) 1981.

Papers of the Grinnans and related Coalter, Bryan, Duryea, Tucker, and Glassell families center on Randolph Bryan Grinnan, Southern Presbyterian missionary to Japan, 1885-98, and pastor of churches in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Norfolk, Va., and to a lesser extent on his son Randolph Bryan Grinnan a University of Virginia medical student. Topics of interest in the correspondence include a biography of John Randolph of Roanoke; the War of 1812; politics in 1849 including the Whigs, tariff, loco-focos, and John C. Calhoun; secession and the Civil War; blacks; life at U. Va. in the 1870s, 80s, 1920, and 30s; life at Hampden-Sydney College in the 1870s; Pantops Academy, Charlottesville, Va. in the 1880s; missionary life in Japan in the 1880s and 90s; the Kentucky gubernatorial election of 1899; the Spanish American War; life at Randolph Macon Women's College in the 1930s; genealogy; and family matters. Passing references include cholera and yellow fever in New Orleans in the 1850s, vaccination in 1853, a visit to U. Va. by Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, 1928, and the U.S. elections of 1932 and 1936. There are descriptions of Norfolk, Charlottesville and Kempsville, Va., London in 1854, Denver, Colo., Port Gibson, Miss., New York City, Ashville and Henderson, N.C., Columbia, S.C., San Francisco, New Orleans, and Louisville, Ky. Of special interest are the letters and 1864 diary of John F. Sale Co. H, 12th Virginia Infantry describing some of the bleaker sides of army life and referring to Seven Pines, Antietam (Crampton's Gap), Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. Also of interest are items pertaining to John Randolph of Roanoke including a copy of Dr. Francis West's account of his final illness; essays by Georgia Screven Bryan Grinnan including one regarding family servants Abram and Lucy Carter together with their marriage certificate and her will; an essay on Brampton; an Iowa land grant, 1860, signed by James Buchanan, photographs, scrapbooks, newsclippings, and the Rev. Grinnan's Japanese notebooks and diary. Among the correspondents are Judah Philip Benjamin, Corbin Braxton Bryan, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan, John Randolph Bryan, John Stewart Bryan, Joseph Bryan, John Coalter, John Esten Cooke, Noah Knowles Davis, John H. Duryea, Eudora Glassell, James MacMillan Glassell, Andrew Glassell Grinnan, Cornelia Grinnan, Daniel Grinnan, Ella Grinnan, Helen Grinnan, Lena Leete Grinnan, Martha Estelle Duryea Grinnan, Nina Stuart Grinnan, St. George Tucker Grinnan, Joseph Henry, Samuel Hopkins, John Letcher, John William Mallett, Delia Bryan Page, James Alexander Seddon, Samuel Lewis Southard, Thomas Tudor Tucker, St. George Tucker, and Charles Scott Venable.

ArchivalResource: 1,800 items.

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Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Title: Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Letters from various correspondents to American editor and diplomat Walter Hines Page concerning his editorial work and his interest in education in the South.

ArchivalResource: 24 boxes (8 linear ft.)

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