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Maupin, S. (Socrates), 1808-1871. Receipt to Charles Edward Watts for student fees, University of Virginia [manuscript] 5 Oct. 1865.

Title: Receipt to Charles Edward Watts for student fees, University of Virginia [manuscript] 5 Oct. 1865. 1865.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau), 1831-1924. Letter [manuscript]: camp near Hamilton's Crossing [Fredericksburg], Va., to Dr. Socrates Maupin, University of Virginia, 1863 September 10.

Title: Letter [manuscript]: camp near Hamilton's Crossing [Fredericksburg], Va., to Dr. Socrates Maupin, University of Virginia, 1863 September 10.

Gildersleeve writes about devastation in Spotsylvania County, Va., contrasted with undisturbed Caroline County. This letter also includes activities of Fitz Lee's Brigade; comments that all classes of society must cooperate if the South is to be successful, and opining that many Confederate soldiers were tired of war.

ArchivalResource: 4 p.

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Gorgas, Josiah, 1818-1883. Letter to Socrates Maupin [manuscript] 1862 July 30.

Title: Letter to Socrates Maupin [manuscript] 1862 July 30.

Gorgas, Ordnance Bureau, Richmond, writes to Maupin on improving the "quality of Nitric Acid made at the Confederate Laboratory upon information of its impurity conveyed in your letter."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Bodley, Temple, 1852-1940. Memoir of Temple Bodley [manuscript], 1903.

Title: Memoir of Temple Bodley [manuscript], 1903.

Bodley reminisces about his year as a student at the University describing his friends and classmates including future Senator John Sharp Williams; professors McGuffey, Holmes and Smith; the death of Socrates Maupin; his room; the general poverty of the University; dining facilities; classes; exams; social activities including membership in the Washington Society and Epsilon Alpha fraternity; student pranks; and the honor system.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (12 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647831666 View

Howard, Henry, 1792-1874. Journal of Henry Howard, 1856-1873.

Title: Journal of Henry Howard, 1856-1873.

The journal contains Howard's personal financial accounts as well as accounts as a guardian, administrator for the estate of Edward H. Courtenay, and trustee of William H. McGuffey. The volume contains lists of stocks and bonds; dealings with the Bank of Washington, New York bankers Johnston Brothers & Co., and the Virginia Loan & Trust Company of Charlottesville. There are small accounts with newspaper publishers, the University of Virginia and its proctor R.R. Prentis, Socrates Maupin, Christ Church, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Miscellaneous financial notes are loose in the volume.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Lewis, Ivey Foreman, 1882-1964. History of Biology at the University of Virginia [manuscript], 1948.

Title: History of Biology at the University of Virginia [manuscript], 1948.

Typescript of a 16-page informal talk before the biological seminar, with corrections, discussing the development of science programs at the University of Virginia. Included as an afterword is an account of the informal discussion that extended beyond the prepared speech.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Maupin-Washington Papers, 1732-1932.

Title: Maupin-Washington Papers, 1732-1932.

Papers, 1732-1932, of the Maupin and Washington families.

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Smith, B. M. (Benjamin Mosby), 1811-1893,. Papers of the Fishburne family [manuscript] 1813-1960.

Title: Papers of the Fishburne family [manuscript] 1813-1960.

Papers of this Albemarle County family & related Wood, Lyons and Davis families including letters from Benjamin Mosby Smith & Matthew Fontaine Maury to Clement D. Fishburne; essays of Clement D. Fishburne while a student at Washington College, Lexington; and letters of Junius M. Fishburne while a student at Berlin University in one of which he describes a visit to the German naturalist & traveller Alexander von Humboldt. Also correspondence of Judge John W. Fishburne, member of Congress with Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.,Howard W. Smith, Carter Glass, Homer Cummings & others; Bible transcripts for families of John Wood and John Wood, Jr.; and diary & account book of Lucy Wood Butler with an account of Philip Sheridan's raid on Charlottesville, 1865. Also letters from John B. Minor and Socrates Maupin to John Wood, Jr.; TLS 1932 January 28 James Branch Cabell to Garrard Glenn; loose notes of a Continental Tour in the Years, 1828 & 1829 by Zeligman Selwyn Lyons; ans printed invitations and calling cards of Thomas Jefferson.

ArchivalResource: 200 items.

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Maupin, S. (Socrates), 1808-1871. Genealogical data on the Maupin family and others [manuscript], n.d.

Title: Genealogical data on the Maupin family and others [manuscript], n.d.

The data, compiled by Maupin and Margaret Lewis Taliaferro Maupin contains information on the Maupin, Graves, Spencer, White, and Washington families.

ArchivalResource: 48 items.

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Maupin, S. (Socrates), 1808-1871. [Letter] 1856 Oct. 13, University of Virginia to John A. Broadus / S. Maupin.

Title: [Letter] 1856 Oct. 13, University of Virginia to John A. Broadus / S. Maupin. 1856.

Informed Broadus that he had been appointed by the Faculty as chaplain to the university, for a second term of two years. Broadus was chaplain from 1855 until 1858, when he resigned to become pastor of the Charlottesville Baptist Church.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48225515 View

American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench, 1782-1966

Title: American and English Literary and Historical Papers Collected by Atcheson L. Hench 1782-1966.

Material collected by Hench, some as an autograph collection and others for use in his classes at the University of Virginia with examples of various periods. Modern autographs collected by Hench include letters by associates of Edgar Allan Poe; Civil War letters; papers relating to Virginia history; correspondence of writers and politicians, particularly from the Victorian era; and other miscellaneous correspondence with literary or histocial interest. John Randolph of Roanoke to Mr. Skinner on binding a paper, 1819, with a cut signature of Thomas Mann Randolph and to Stephen Van Rensselaer asking him to dinner with Harmanus Bleecker, n.y. Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr., to Cohen isaacs & Co. and others orders cotton and wool cards and other goods, sends a letter of introduction and discusses the settling of his debt. Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., to Robert Brent and Henry Remsen seeks military compensation and conveys good news about the opening of the University of Virginia and appraisers for his estate. Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie writes to Mr. and Mrs. James Thomas Fields and others introducing Avonia Jones, sending an autograph, changing arrangements, and signing an autograph. Amélie Rives discusses the slang word "gee" with W. T. Moore and voices concerns over errors in books to Mr. Walsh. Letters of William Cabell Rives (1793-1868) to a variety of correspondence including Thomas Aspinwall, Churchill C. Cambreleng, Corcoran & Riggs, Anna Payne Cutts, Philip Ricard Fendall, Henry S. Foote, Joseph Grinnell, Henry O. Houghton, Thomas Maury, Anna Payne, John Rutherfoord, Theodore Sedgwick, John C. Spencer, Henry St. George Tucker and Abel P. Upshur are chiefly routine notes of introduction, thanks, patronage and business. Topics of interest include his biography of James Madison, diplomacy and politics including his opinions on John Qunicy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and the necessity for single presidential terms. Letters of Wiliam Cabell Rives (1825-1889) to Emma Savage Rogers discuss a University of Virginia commencement day address on her husband. Wiliam Barton Rogers writes to Luthern Stearns Cushing, augusts A. Gould, Washington C. Kerr, [Clarence King?],Henry D. Rogers, Henry E. Roscoe andThomas G. Wales on routine matters, a geological map of North Carolina, directorship of the U. S. Geological Survey, University of Virginia classes, and the composition of kaolin. Thomas L. Rosser writes to John Chester Buttre on an engraving plate, and to William Crane on inducing farmers to move to Virginia. Single items of interest include a brief note from Sir James Paget; a letter from Coventry Patmore declining an invitation; a long letter from Andrew Henry Patterson to William Lloyd Garrison discussing in great detail his views on the Negro race" in the South; George C. Peery to M. E. Gilfond enclosing a letter to Sol Bloom (not present); Bishop Thomas Percy to the Rev. John Blakeway expressing hope that Napoleon will not invade his part of Ireland; Wendell Phillips returns the Macaulay item to Edwin P. Whipple; John Pickering sends James Savage a proplsed preface to Eliot's Grammar; James Madison Porter thanks George Pearson for an honorary literary society membership. Also J. W. Porter, Charlottesville, to W. P. St. John, 1890, on economic hard times caused by cheap competition from India, foreign trade deficit and cheap silver; Bryan Waller Proctor to mary Russell Mitford promising poetry and his impression of Daniel Webster; Charles Reade to [Wilkie?] Collins declining to make an appointment; Maurice Regan, 2nd Regiment Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, to Dr. Pennock praising Thomas Leiper Kane and describing "desolation and destruction" in norther Virginia; Alfred Rives writes to Socrates Maupin to obtain a oxy-hydrogen blowpipe from the University of Virginia; A. Willis Robertson to Hench on the security along the Appalachian Trail; John Robinson to Col. W. G. Brent on clearing track in North Carolina, initialed by P.G.T. Beauregard; Alfred Roman to Roy Mason Hooe on special instructions issued by General Ruggles on conditions in New Orleans; Thomas H. Rosser telegraphs Daniel Ruggles reporting on Union troop movements and the location of John B. Villepigue at Ft. Pillow; and William M Rossetti on a subscription. The collection also contains four land grants, 1803, 1805, signed by Virginia governor John Page; a land grant to William May, Nelson County, signed by Beverly Randolph; a land grant to George Kailor, Rockingham County, signed by Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr.; receipts, Pittsburgh, for bateaus to Fort Washington (Cincinnati?) for military use, 1798; an appointment of Henry Massie to Deputy Postmaster, Charlottesville, signed by Alexander Williams Randall; a Mutual Assurance Society insurance policy signed by Edmund Randolph; an 1861 ordnance invoice signed by Daniel Ruggles; and a quarterly return of deceased solders of the 13th Maine volunteers, 1863, signed by Colonel Henry Rust, Jr.

ArchivalResource: circa 75 items.

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Bohn, Casimir. Photographs of Casimir Bohn engravings of the University of Virginia faculty [manuscript], 19??

Title: Photographs of Casimir Bohn engravings of the University of Virginia faculty [manuscript], 19??

Photographs of engravings of the University of Virginia faculty published by C. Bohn of Washington, D.C. with A. B. Walter as engraver. The engravings were inserted in University of Virginia autograph albums published by Bohn in 1859. Also included is one image of the Honorable Henry A. Wise, Govenor of Virginia and former member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 16 photos.

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Massie, Charles M., 1834-1865,. Papers of the Massie family of Virginia, 1850-1862, 1905.

Title: Papers of the Massie family of Virginia, 1850-1862, 1905.

The Massie family papers contain six letters, 1858-1859, from E[dwin?] B[lackwell?] Massie at the Brookland School, Greenwood Depot, Albemarle County, Va., to his mother, Mrs. E.F. Massie. He requests items; and mentions examinations, the acceptance of Christianity by boys at the school, a visit by Launcelot Blackford, and his election as president of the Piedmont Literary Society; and sends news of classmates and principal William Dinwiddie. John Livingston Massie, a student at the University of Virginia, writes to Mrs. E.F. Massie about exams, the marriage of John Barbee Minor and the death of C.C. Lewis from typhoid fever. With these is a grade report signed by Socrates Maupin. The papers also contain a letter, 1859, from Charles M. Massie describing attempts to establish a business in New Orleans; and a letter, 1862, N.H. Massie to his sister on the death of her husband at Manassas, and several cases of scarlet fever among white and colored children in Charlottesville, Va. A letter, 1857, from the Western Lunatic Asylum in Waynesboro, reports on the imminent death of a patient. Other letters convey family news; explain how to can tomatoes; and discuss religion and salvation. A 1905 form letter from Fishburne & Son, Waynesboro, describes varieties of seed for sale.

ArchivalResource: 31 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50879700 View

Maupin, S. (Socrates), 1808-1871. Letter to H[enry?] C[lay?] Sommerville, 1861 October 7.

Title: Letter to H[enry?] C[lay?] Sommerville, 1861 October 7.

Maupin writes to a prospective student that there is a vacancy for a state scholarship in the Hampshire Senatorial District, asks him to supply testimonials and come immediately. He itemizes costs at $150 for board, $25 for fuel and lights, $10-12 for washing, $5 for medical attention, and $10 contingency, "the greater part" of which "is usually returned at the close of the session." An $85 deposit towards all of these is required upon registration. He add that there will also be charges for needed medical texts.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Maupin, S. (Socrates), 1808-1871. Letter to William Matthews Blackford, Lynchburg, Va. [manuscript] 1856 June 28.

Title: Letter to William Matthews Blackford, Lynchburg, Va. [manuscript] 1856 June 28.

Form letter giving scholastic standing at the University of Virginia of Launcelot Minor Blackford.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Cabell, J. L. (James Lawrence), 1813-1889,. Maria Magruder Thurman collection, 1860-1936.

Title: Maria Magruder Thurman collection, 1860-1936.

The collection contains a letter, 1860 Aug. 6, Sweet Chalybeate Springs, Va., Dr. James L. Cabell to Franklin Minor, of 'Ridgeway.' Cabell, writing from Sweet Chalybeate Springs, comments on its virtues as compared with Hot Springs; he mentions the food and house full of "sprightly & gay people." He then discusses at length the "action of the faculty" [of the University of Virginia] in the case of his friend Maury's son Dick [Richard Lancelot Maury] for insubordination and, apparently, drunkeness. There is also a letter, 1932 November 21, Ashland, Virginia, Nancy Byrd Turner, to her cousin, Professor William Mynn Thornton, University of Virginia. There is also a letter, 1936, June 17, Monroe Hill, University, E. Carter Thurman to Mr. [A.L.] Hench. Also, a pamphlet regarding the reunion of the Confederate Veteran Alumni of 1861-1865, University of Virginia, Commons Hall, June 10, 1912.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48582882 View

Maris, Edward. Varieties of the copper issues of the United States Mint in the year 1794, 1869 [manuscript].

Title: Varieties of the copper issues of the United States Mint in the year 1794, 1869 [manuscript].

This is a holograph copy by Dr. Socrates Maupin.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau), 1831-1924. Letter : camp near Hamilton's Crossing [Fredericksburg], Va., to Dr. Socrates Maupin, University of Virginia, 1863 September 10.

Title: Letter : camp near Hamilton's Crossing [Fredericksburg], Va., to Dr. Socrates Maupin, University of Virginia, 1863 September 10.

Gildersleeve writes about devastation in Spotsylvania County, Va., contrasted with undisturbed Caroline County. This letter also includes activities of Fitz Lee's Brigade; comments that all classes of society must cooperate if the South is to be successful, and opining that many Confederate soldiers were tired of war.

ArchivalResource: 4 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793206 View

Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870. Letter, Lexington, Va. to Socrates Maupin [manuscript] 1868 June 23.

Title: Letter, Lexington, Va. to Socrates Maupin [manuscript] 1868 June 23.

Lee regrets that the Washington & Lee faculty cannot attend the University of Virginia closing exercises.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647960671 View

Wingfield, Charles, fl. 1800-1811. Correspondence of Charles Wingfield [manuscript] 1800-1811, 1886.

Title: Correspondence of Charles Wingfield [manuscript] 1800-1811, 1886.

The collection includes a printed circular letter, 1800 Feb., from William Austin to Wingfield concerning resolutions of the Virginia General Assembly regarding proposed changes in presidential election laws. There is also a letter, 1811 Sept. 11, Thomas Jefferson, to Wingfield asking Wingfield to conduct the funeral of Martha Jefferson Carr. There is also an announcement of the opening of the 1865/1866 session of the University of Virginia in the hand of and signed by Socrates Maupin. A list of newspapers in which the advertisement is to be placed is on the verso. There is also a note 1886 Aug. 6, from University of Virginia student "Gish" to John B. Minor. Gish states that he has attended "every roll call" and has not heard the names Smith, Jones, and Brown; he asks Minor if there was ever "so large a class without them before."

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

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Maupin, S. (Socrates), 1808-1871. Papers of Socrates Maupin [manuscript] 1831-70.

Title: Papers of Socrates Maupin [manuscript] 1831-70.

Correspondence relating to Maupin's career as a student at the University of Virginia, a professor at Hampden-Sydney College, Richmond Medical College, and the University of Virginia, and principal of Richmond Academy; family affairs; current events; cholera in Richmond in 1849; and University of Virginia affairs. Includes letters (1861-64) from James Rawlings Maupin and Chapman Maupin to their parents, Socrates and Sally Hay Travers Washington Maupin, describing their Civil War experiences; letters (1835) from James Maury Mason and William Cabell Rives to George Tucker concerning a chapel for the University of Virginia; and correspondence (1846-70) of Peter Grayson Washington, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, concerning patronage, political conditions in California (1856-57), and presidential politics (1856-60). Maupin's correspondents include Judah Philip Benjamin, James Young Mason, John Smith Preston, William Henry Richardson, and William "Extra Billy" Smith. Washington's correspondents include Philip Allen, Thomas Hart Benton, John Carroll Brent, James Cooper, Thomas James Duncan Fuller, Edwin Barber Morgan, John Meredith Read, David Stuart, Littleton Quinton Washington, and John Wentworth.

ArchivalResource: 400 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647952931 View

Van Meter, Abraham,. Student attendance report on Joseph Maxey Klieser sent to Abraham Van Meter, Winchester, N.Y [manuscript] 1869 Dec. 1.

Title: Student attendance report on Joseph Maxey Klieser sent to Abraham Van Meter, Winchester, N.Y [manuscript] 1869 Dec. 1.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647935926 View

Lee, Fitzhugh, 1835-1905,. Papers of the Anderson family [manuscript], 1773-1930.

Title: Papers of the Anderson family [manuscript], 1773-1930.

The collection contains personal, legal and business correspondence, ledgers daybooks, journals, notebooks, addresses, scrapbooks, drawings and other papers of Francis Thomas Anderson and his son William Alexander Anderson. Papers chiefly concern coal, tin, iron and agricultural land in Lexington, Virginia and Rockbridge County, Virginia, and iron companies, including the Tredegar of Richmond, Va. Legal papers document numerous court cases in Virginia including the Virginia-West Virginia Debt Controversy, for which William A. Anderson prepared briefs and arguments as attorney-general of Virginia. Other topics include politics; social life; Daughters of the Confedracy; the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union; the Stonewall Jackson Monument Corporation. the Good Road movement and other matters. Items of note include a letter from Socrates Maupin on the University of Virginia and Professor John A. G. Davis; an 1832 draft resolution disapproving of South Carolina's nullification of the tariff; Fitzhugh Lee on the Rockbridge Company, 1890; letter from William Hodges Mann to Samuel W. Williams about retaining William A. Anderson to argue the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad case, 1910 November 4; social letters from Thomas Nelson Page; and a 1920 document concerning the Arlington Case and the passing of the Arlington Estate from the Lee family. Miscellaneous papers include drawings by Ellen Graham Anderson; Francis T. Anderson's loyalty oath, notes on McCorkle family history, material on the invention of the McCormick reaper; monthly reports of Nelson County, Va., teachers; World War I rally photographs; a Negro Book, 1847-1849; and account books from various Lexington and Rockbridge County industries.

ArchivalResource: ca. 7000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647878091 View

Moran, Charles E. Brief biographical sketches of the professors for whom the dormitories at the University of Virginia were named, 1978 April.

Title: Brief biographical sketches of the professors for whom the dormitories at the University of Virginia were named, 1978 April.

Article contains sketches of professors Balz, Bonnycastle, Courtenay, Dabney, Davis, Dobie. Dunglison, Dunnington, Echols, Emmet, Fitz-Hugh, Gildersleeve, Gwathmey, Hancock, Harrison, Holmes, Humpreys, Kent, Lambeth, Lefevre, Lile, Long, McGuffey, Mallet, Maupin, Metcalf, Munford, Page, Peters, Rogers, Smith, Tucker, Tuttle, Venable, Watson, and Webb.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77568617 View

McAllister, William M. Letters to William M. McAllister from his mother, John B. Minor, and S. Maupin concerning his law course at the University of Virginia [manuscript] : report on absences, notification of his election to the Alumni Society, 1866-1869 : appeal of Mr. Phillips for reimbursement for services to the university, ca. 1900, 1866-1900.

Title: Letters to William M. McAllister from his mother, John B. Minor, and S. Maupin concerning his law course at the University of Virginia [manuscript] : report on absences, notification of his election to the Alumni Society, 1866-1869 : appeal of Mr. Phillips for reimbursement for services to the university, ca. 1900, 1866-1900.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647967418 View

Miller, Alamby M., 1848-. Diary and student notebooks of Alamby M. Miller [manuscript], 1866-1871.

Title: Diary and student notebooks of Alamby M. Miller [manuscript], 1866-1871.

Notes of lectures, 1866-68, at the University of Virginia, on chemistry, French, geology, Hebrew, history, Latin, mathematics, moral and natural philosophy, under professors W. H. McGuffey, Socrates Maupin, etc. The diary, in German, tells of his experiences at the University of Heidelberg, 1868-69.

ArchivalResource: 18 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647894933 View

Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870. Papers of Robert E. Lee [manuscript], 1830-1870. n.d.

Title: Papers of Robert E. Lee [manuscript], 1830-1870. n.d.

ArchivalResource: 140 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647990352 View

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.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48840511 View

Parrish, James, 1839-1894. Notes on chemistry lectures given by Socrates Maupin [manuscript], 1858.

Title: Notes on chemistry lectures given by Socrates Maupin [manuscript], 1858.

The volume consists of notes taken by James Parrish on chemistry lectures given by Socrates Maupin, May 12-June 10, 1858 at the University of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694089329 View

Carr, Daniel,. Papers of the Terrell family of Louisa Co., Va. and the related Carr, Minor, and Overton families [manuscript] 1761-1902.

Title: Papers of the Terrell family of Louisa Co., Va. and the related Carr, Minor, and Overton families [manuscript] 1761-1902.

Wills, 1761-1811, of various Terrells (handwritten transcripts). Letter, 1813-14, Daniel Carr to Richmond Terrell, and Terrell's account with Elizabeth Overton in 1823. Papers, 1855-69, of William W. Minor of Albemarle Co. incl. letter, 1861 Oct. 3 to his father, regarding life in the 57th Va. Regt.; letters, 1868, of recommendation from U. Va. professors, and surveyors plat & report on land in Albemarle Co., 1869.

ArchivalResource: 40 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647947977 View

Washington, Peter Grayson, d. 1872. Letter to Socrates Maupin, 1861 April 17.

Title: Letter to Socrates Maupin, 1861 April 17.

Washington is unable to excuse the University of Virginia from a tax on chemicals. He declines an invitation to visit and expresses dismay at the South Carolinians assault on Ft Sumter, and the failure to restore the Union by concession and compromise or allowing a peaceable secession of the cotton states. The issue has put him and his brother on opposite sides. He hopes Virginia will remain in the Union, for if Virginia leaves it will bring war to the state; in which case he hopes the University will be far from danger.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54801189 View

Bell, Robert Sherrard. Notes on chemistry from lectures of Professor Socrates Maupin, 1857-1858.

Title: Notes on chemistry from lectures of Professor Socrates Maupin, 1857-1858.

The volume contains Bell's handwritten notes from Maupin's lectures on chemistry starting October 7, 1857 and ending March 12, 1858. There are hand-drawn illustrations by Bell as well as tables and charts.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume, 25 cm., 285 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767528000 View

Maupin, S. (Socrates), 1808-1871. Papers of Socrates Maupin [manuscript] 1853-1870.

Title: Papers of Socrates Maupin [manuscript] 1853-1870.

Letters and papers concerning Socrates Maupin and the University of Virginia where he was chairman of the faculty and chemistry professor. Material on military status of students in Civil War. Correspondents include John M. Daniel, R. T.W. Duke, Walter Gwynn, Alfred Iverson, James Young Mason, James Murray Mason, R. C. L. Moncure, Thomas Jefferson Page, Thomas George Pratt, John S. Preston, John White Stevenson, George Tucker, William Cabell Rives.

ArchivalResource: 33 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647963749 View

Byrd, Harry Flood, 1887-1966. Papers of the Fishburne family [manuscript] 1813-1960.

Title: Papers of the Fishburne family [manuscript] 1813-1960.

Correspondence, diaries, memoirs, account book, Bible records, and other papers of the Fishburnes of Albemarle Co., Va., and the related Wood, Lyons and Davis families, particularly Clement Daniel Fishburne (1832-1907), Lucy Wood Butler (b. 1841), John Wood Fishburne (1868-1937), and the family of John Wood (1782-1860). Clement D. Fishburne's memoirs Include material on his student life at Washington College, Lexington, Va., and at the University of Virginia, his teaching at William C. Hagan's Montgomery Academy, Christiansburg, Va., and at Davidson College, N.C., his experiences in the Army of Northern Virginia, and his law practice in Charlottesville, Va. Other subjects include Stonewall Jackson's teaching and his marriages, the Battles of Bull Run and Falling Waters, Philip H. Sheridan's raid on Charlottesville (1865), and the European tour (1828-29) of Zeligman Selwyn Lyons (1805-1852). Correspondents include Harry Flood Byrd, James Branch Cabell, Homer Stillé Cummings, Junius Matthew Fishburne (1830-1858), Carter Glass, Garrard Glen, Rosa (Wood) Glen, Daniel Harvey Hill, Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred E. Lewis, Socrates Maupin (1808-1871), Matthew Fontaine Maury, John Barbee Minor, Benjamin Mosby Smith, Howard Worth Smith, Claude Augustine Swanson, and John Wood (1811-1889).

ArchivalResource: 3 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647962697 View

Maupin, S. (Socrates), 1808-1871. Letter to H[enry?] C[lay?] Sommerville [manuscript], 1837-1870.

Title: Letter to H[enry?] C[lay?] Sommerville [manuscript], 1837-1870.

Maupin writes to H[enry] C[lay] Sommerville], in 1861that there is a vacancy for a state scholarship in the Hampshire Senatorial District, asks him to supply testimonials and come immediately. He itemizes costs at $150 for board, $25 for fuel and lights, $10-12 for washing, $5 for medical attention, and $10 contingency, "the greater part" of which "is usually returned at the close of the session." An $85 deposit towards all of these is required upon registration. He add that there will also be charges for needed medical texts. Maupin writes to "Nannie" in 1870 concerning Maupin family genealogy and including a chart of the descendents of Gabriel Maupin. The collection also contains two genealogical charts and a note of the Maupin family.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647896588 View

Breckenridge, John R.,. Letters to Socrates Maupin and others [manuscript], 1783-1866.

Title: Letters to Socrates Maupin and others [manuscript], 1783-1866.

Include a letter, 1834 May 23, Henry A. Wise, Washington, D.C., to Messrs. Wellford, Coulter, Lomax and Carmichael, Fredericksburg, Va., declining an invitation to attend a festival on Brown's Island and saying he condemns the "late executive proceedings and protest of the president" and rejoices "in the late manifestation of correct political sentiment in that Good Old Commonwealth which is never wrong." Also include a letter, 1824 March 20, Richard Rush, London, to James Monroe regarding a copy of a treaty he has sent to the Secretary of State;and a letter, 1783 April 29, Arthur Lee to Henry Tazewell discussing business matters. In a series of letters, 1855-1865, to Socrates Maupin, Edward Everett accepts an invitation to give an address on Washington, John Letcher declines an invitation, John R. Breckenridge asks for a U.Va. catalog, John B. Floyd writes concerning a state scholarship for a U.Va. student, John R. Edmunds writes a letter of recommendation, Duff Green inquires about his grandson, Benjamin G. Maynard, attending U.Va., and George Alfred Townsend encloses a letter about U.Va.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

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Washington, Peter Grayson, d. 1872. Papers of Peter Grayson Washington, 1846-1870.

Title: Papers of Peter Grayson Washington, 1846-1870.

Include two letters, 1846, from Thomas Hart Benton to Peter Grayson Washington, regarding a pay raise and a leave of absence for an employee; letter, 27 July 1852, from Alfred Conkling, Auburn, N.Y., to Peter Grayson Washington, Washington, D.C., regarding a subscription to a periodical; and two letters, 1853-1854, from John Wentworth, Washington, D.C., to Peter Grayson Washington, regarding executive appointments. Also include letter, 29 December 1854, from John M. Read, Philadelphia, Pa., to Peter Grayson Washington, Washington, D.C., regarding United States fiscal policy; letters, 1856-1865, from L. Quinton Washington to Peter Grayson Washington, regarding California and Kentucky politics, and loyalty oaths; and letter, 22 October 1856, from John B. Floyd, Abingdon, Va., to James Guthrie, requesting a continuance of a court case between the U.S. Treasury Department and Floyd's brother. Also include three letters, 18601-861, from Philip Allen, Providence, R.I., to Peter Grayson Washington, Washington, D.C., regarding politics in Kentucky, the possibility of a political solution to the Civil War, the possible dissolution of the Union, James Guthrie, and the evolution of secessionist sentiment; and two letters, July 1862, from Juan Napoleon Zerman to Peter Grayson Washington, regarding a military appointment. Also include letter, 8 June 1870, from Thomas J.D. Fuller, Washington, D.C., to Peter Grayson Washington, regarding restitution for real property seized during the Civil War; and two letters, January 1857, between Peter Grayson Washington and Socrates Maupin, University of Virginia, regarding an honorary appointment to the U.S. Mint and family matters. Also include miscellaneous correspondence, 1853-1867, of Peter Grayson Washington, regarding immigration from Canada, executive appointments, the political implications of federal construction projects, iron manufacturing interests' influence on U.S. politics, the settlement of a decedent's estate, and the Washington National Monument Society.

ArchivalResource: 25 items.

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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Poe letters from the Harvard Library [manuscript], 1839-1848.

Title: Poe letters from the Harvard Library [manuscript], 1839-1848.

Letter from William Burton to Poe, 1839 July 4; S. Maupin to Poe, 1840 September 30; Mrs. Ellet to Poe, 1845 December 16; Mrs. Ellet to Poe, n.d.; and John H. Hopkins, Jr. to Poe, 1848 May 15.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Rives, William C. (William Cabell), 1793-1868. Letters to Robert Walsh, Socrates Maupin, and John J. Crittenden, 1831-1847.

Title: Letters to Robert Walsh, Socrates Maupin, and John J. Crittenden, 1831-1847.

In a letter, 1831 March 28, Paris, to Robert Walsh, Rives commends Messrs Beaumont and Rocqueville to Walsh who are travelling through the states observing penitentaries and penal legislation, especially in Pennsylvania. In a letter, 1845 November 26th, Castle Hill, to Socrates Maupin, Rives reqests additional copies of his own book beyond the number allotted to him by the trustees of Hampden-Sydney. In a son, 1847 January 20, Castle Hill, to John J. Crittenden, Rives requests that his son be allowed to make Crittenden's acquaintance and adds "Hoping that you may be as happy in finding a solution of the Mexican problem, as you were in disentangling the puzzle which Mr. Polk made of the Oregon question."

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Broadus, John Albert, 1827-1895. Letters to the Rev. Broadus [microform] 1850-94.

Title: Letters to the Rev. Broadus [microform] 1850-94.

Among those writing to Broadus were Albert Taylor Bledsoe, John Hartwell Cocke, John Staige Davis, Noah K. Davis, Basil L. Gildersleeve, Maximilian Schele de Vere, Gessner Harrison, Moses D. Hoge, Frederick W. Holliday, Thomas Cary Johnson, W. Gordon McCabe, William H. McGuffey, Socrates Maupin, John B. Minor, Samuel C. Mitchell, Dwight L. Moody, William E. Peters, William Barton Rogers, Francis H. Smith, George Boardman Taylor, William M. Thornton, Crawford H. Toy, George Tucker, Zebulon B. Vance and Charles S. Venable.

ArchivalResource: 405 items.

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Smith, Edward B., 1833-1890. Notes on chemistry from the lectures of Socrates Maupin [manuscript] 1854.

Title: Notes on chemistry from the lectures of Socrates Maupin [manuscript] 1854.

The volume of class notes is the second one kept by Smith in the 1853-54 session. It covers 23 lectures given by Maupin beginning 20 February 1854.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Maris, Edward. Varieties of the copper issues of the United States Mint in the year 1794, 1869.

Title: Varieties of the copper issues of the United States Mint in the year 1794, 1869.

This is a holograph copy by Dr. Socrates Maupin.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Archer, Abram V. 1836-. Miscellaneous Virginia papers [manuscript], 1827-1854.

Title: Miscellaneous Virginia papers [manuscript], 1827-1854.

The papers include a letter, 1827 July 20, U. Va. student John Lewis to his wife Jean Lewis giving instructions for work on his plantation and mentioning work he is doing with Professors Blaettermann and Long; a letter, 1838, Richard Barnes Gooch to Col. G.W. Gooch describing the "unrivalled dissipation" of the Christmas holidays at the University; and a letter, 1841, George B. Conway to Reubin T. Thornton regarding his studies at the University of Virginia and hunting in Caroline Co., Va. Also included is a monthly attendance report, November 1854, of Abram B. Archer signed by Socrates Maupin. With these is a copy of a pamphlet produced in honor of the 100th anniversary of Pi Kappa Alpha.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Maupin, S. (Socrates), 1808-1871. Papers of Socrates Maupin, 1790-1921 (bulk 1831-1851).

Title: Papers of Socrates Maupin, 1790-1921 (bulk 1831-1851).

Two letters between Peter Grayson Washington and Maupin discuss an honorary appointment to the U.S. Mint and family matters. An 1858 letter from William "Extra Billy" Smith regards an acquaintance who wishes to matriculate at the University of Virginia. Civil War items include an 1863 letter from Judah P. Benjamin concerning the appointment of M. Schele de Vere to a confidential mission; an 1864 letter to James A. Seddon concerning rations for disabled soldiers enrolled at the University; two 1863 letters from Alfred Landon Rives regarding a military appointment for Maupin's son; and an 1863 letter from Albert Taylor Bledsoe to Robert E. Lee requesting a furlough for Maupin's son, with an affirmative note by Lee on verso. The remainder of the correspondence, chiefly letters from Socrates Maupin to his brother Addison, discuss lead mining; the Peruvian navy; the Medical College of Virginia; an 1841 operation on a Negro woman with osteosarcoma; the use of chloroform; Dr. John Peter Mettauer; Hampden-Sydney College and the influence of the Presbyterian Church there; and the Richmond Academy. Topics related to the University of Virginia include the Alumni Society; textbooks; student life; the school of medicine; the "uniform law"; the faculty; and the murder of John A.G. Davis. Other topics include plantation management; crops; the tobacco market; slave purchasing, hiring and discipline; Richmond business conditions and social life; land values in Albemarle County; travel in Virginia; Virginia state politics and diseases including smallpox, scarlet fever, chorea and cholera. Family matters are also discussed including clothing; courtship; marriage; pregnancies; illness; education; jobs; finances; building a house and the shipment of household goods; and the suicide of a relative. The papers also contain an 1854 bond for the Rivanna Navigation Company signed by Thomas Jefferson Randolph; and a 1790 land grant for property in Richmond, Va., signed by Beverley Randolph.

ArchivalResource: 169 items.

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