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Tucker family. Papers : of the Tucker family, 1829-1897.

Title: Papers : of the Tucker family, 1829-1897.

The collection begins with childhood letters of Tucker's wife Jane S. Ellis Tucker and continues through to the letters of son and daughter- in-law Beverley Dandridge Tucker and Anna Maria Washingon Tucker. These family letters convey birthday and holiday greetings, report illness and death, and describe daily activities. Letters from abroad describe an Austrian court ball and London in 1857. There are two Civil War letters from Charles Ellis Kunford and several rhymed greetings. Of great interest are 1860 and 1861 letters from N.B. Tucker discussing Democratic party politics, the election of 1860, the possibilities of secession, and his personal feelings.

ArchivalResource: 41 items.

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Alderman, Edwin Anderson, 1861-1931,. Papers of the Harrison, Smith and Tucker families:, 1790-1936.

Title: Papers of the Harrison, Smith and Tucker families:, 1790-1936.

Correspondence, diaries, account books, notebooks, lecture notes, literary manuscripts, and other papers, of three faculty families of the University of Virginia. Much of the correspondence deals with university life and personalities. Includes Professor Gessner Harrison's lecture notes and an account of his estate; Professor Francis Henry Smith's account books and natural philosophy notes; manuscript of Professor George Tucker's unpublished novel, "A Centry Hence" (1841), and his autobiography (1858); letters of Professor Charles W. Kent from Woodrow Wilson; and correspondence relating to the unveiling of a portrait of John R. Thompson and to Kent's position as literary editor of the Library of southern literature. Also prominent in the collection are Gessner Harrison's father, Dr. Peachey Harrison, and wife, Elizabeth Lewis Carter Tucker Harrison; their daughter, Mary Harrison Smith; and Betty Lewis Carter. Other topics include a survey of General Alexander Brown's lands in Nelson County, Va; a University of Virginia program for athletic events; an article by D.G. Harrison praising John E. Massey's stand on Virginia political issues; and an article concerning the life of Robert Emmet.

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Poe Memorial Association. Correspondence of the Poe Memorial Association [manuscript], 1899-1911.

Title: Correspondence of the Poe Memorial Association [manuscript], 1899-1911.

The papers consist chiefly of letters to Charles William Kent from literary notables and other dignitaries invited to an unveiling of the Zolnay bust of Edgar Allan Poe in the University of Virginia Rotunda October 7, 1899. Miscellaneous papers include clippings about Poe, an account for the event, and a poem "At Poe's grave" by William Winter read by Sara Sigourney Rice.

ArchivalResource: 205(ca.) items.

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Virginia. Commission on Advisability of Establishing a Liberal Arts College for Undergraduate Women at One of the State Teachers Colleges, or Elsewhere. Correspondence, financial statements, and recommendation of the commission appointed by the State Legislature to select a site for a liberal arts college for women as a part of the the University of Virginia [manuscript] 1929-1932.

Title: Correspondence, financial statements, and recommendation of the commission appointed by the State Legislature to select a site for a liberal arts college for women as a part of the the University of Virginia [manuscript] 1929-1932.

Members were Judge Don P. Halsey, Chairman, George W. Layman, vice-chairman, James A. Bear, treasurer, Edward Stone, the Rev. Beverley D. Tucker, Jr., Edwin B. Jones, and Richard S. Wright members, and Adele Clark and Martha Tower, secretary and assistant secretary.

ArchivalResource: 200 items.

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Ward, William Norvell, 1817-1881. William Norvell Ward papers [manuscript] 1829 (1840-59) 1906.

Title: William Norvell Ward papers [manuscript] 1829 (1840-59) 1906.

Papers contian bills, receipts, and correspondence which discusses church matters, Ward's religious thoughts, and family news. Correspondents include members of the Ward family, Robert Wormeley Carter, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Robert M. Mayo, the Rev. Beverley D. Tucker, John Augustine Washington and Lawrence Washington. In addition, there are records, including finances, of Ward's churches, accounts of his farm and accounts of his school and farm. The bulk of the material is dated 1840-59.

ArchivalResource: 400 items + 11 volumes.

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Phillips Brooks papers

Title: Phillips Brooks papers

Primarily correspondence of Episcopal clergyman Phillips Brooks with hisfamily and others, as well as diaries, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, andphotographs.

ArchivalResource: 29 boxes (14.5 linear ft.)

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Cocke, Betty Page, 1872-1973. Papers of Betty Page Cocke, 1840-1935 (bulk 1920-1935).

Title: Papers of Betty Page Cocke, 1840-1935 (bulk 1920-1935).

The papers of Betty Page Cocke consist primarily of form letters to her on a variety of current events. Topics include disabled World War I veterans; the removal of the University of Virginia medical school to Richmond, Va.; the Woodrow Wilson Foundation; the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation; the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities; and her diseased boxwoods. Correspondents include Carter Glass, Beverley D. Tucker, L.D. Aylett, Arthur Kyle Davis, Norman H. Davis, Marietta Minnigerode Andrews, Milton Courtright Elliott, Mrs. J. Taylor Ellyson, and John Page Elliott. A letter from her to John Page Elliott reproves him for an article in College Topics on progress. A letter, 1840 January 11, Judith Harrison Coalter to Philip St. George Cocke, concerns the death of St. George Tucker Coalter. Miscellaneous papers include an account, an invitation, gardening and miscellaneous notes and photographs of the Cocke sisters and of an 1867 [school graduation?] picture on the steps of Monticello.

ArchivalResource: 35 items.

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Tucker, Beverley Dandridge, 1846-1930. Letter concerning the desperate financial condition of the Home for Homeless Boys in Covington, Virginia [manuscript] 1920 Nov. 29.

Title: Letter concerning the desperate financial condition of the Home for Homeless Boys in Covington, Virginia [manuscript] 1920 Nov. 29. 1920.

The collection also includes a manuscript map of Greensville County, Va.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Smith, Mary Stuart Harrison, 1834-1917,. University of Virginia letter and receipt [manuscript] 1891, 1915.

Title: University of Virginia letter and receipt [manuscript] 1891, 1915.

The collection contains a letter, 1915 November 4, Mary Stuart Smith to "dear Edward," commenting brieftly on excitement over the University of Virginia-Vanderbilt game, then inviting Edward to come to a YMCA religious meeting at which Beverly Tucker and Whitefield Walton Brockman will be present. She conclues with a plea for his help with the "conversion" of Tucker Smith and Harrison Echols and their confirmation in the Episcopal Church. The collection also contains a receith from the Biological Laboratory to A. H. Tuttle for "sundries."

ArchivalResource: 2 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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647820111 View