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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.

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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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Papers, 1799-1964 (bulk 1884-1910), of the Munford family of Richmond, Va.

Title: Papers, 1799-1964 (bulk 1884-1910), of the Munford family of Richmond, Va.

The collection primarily consists of the correspondence, 1884-1910, of Beverley Bland Munford (1856-1910) of Richmond, Va., in particular concerning his book, Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession (1909), and including letters of Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft; scrapbooks, speeches, essays, articles, and poetry by or about Munford; and miscellaneous materials concerning Munford. Also, includes political and professional correspondence, 1884-1938, of Munford's wife Mary Cooke (Branch) Munford of Richmond, Va., in part concerning the education of women and Democratic party politics, and including fifteen letters written by William Howard Taft (some concerning Hampton Institute [now Hampton University], Hampton, Va., and the education of African Americans). Also, includes an autobiography of Mary Cooke (Branch) Munford's mother, Martha Louise (Patteson) Branch of Richmond, Va.; and miscellaneous materials of other members of the Branch and Munford families.

ArchivalResource: 351 items.

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Pidgeon, Mary Elizabeth. Oral history interview of Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon [manuscript], 1976 November 12, 1977 March 26.

Title: Oral history interview of Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon [manuscript], 1976 November 12, 1977 March 26.

Life and career of Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon with particular emphasis on her student years at the University of Virginia, her connection with the University of Virginia Extension Division, and her work in the Woman Suffrage Movement. Interviewer is Charles E. Moran, Jr., University History Officer.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647913110 View

Bouldin, James Wood, 1792-1854,. Richard J. Reid papers [manuscript] 1770-1910.

Title: Richard J. Reid papers [manuscript] 1770-1910.

Correspondence, accounts, receipts, ledgers, other business records, family records, legal papers, a weather calendar (1860-63), and other papers and records of various persons, firms, and institutions of Southside Virginia, particularly of Pittsylvania, Franklin, and Halifax counties, concerning hotels, land, railroads, schools, churches including the trial of Deacon John Dowdy for immorality, slavery, tobacco, politics, the Civil War including action at Staunton River Bridge, miscellaneous letters, an 1861 map of the Charleston, S. C. harbor, an undated map of the proposed map of the Saltville & Lebanon Railroad, and other aspects of economic and social life. Includes records (2 v., 1790-1832) of the County Line Baptist Church in Pittsylvania County; letters and circulars (1790-1830) of the Pittsylvania County Clerk; Confederate post office accounts in Halifax County; records of the Barksdale (1780-1860), Holland (1830-80), Hubbard (1813-80), Martin, Overstreet (1783-1843), Spraggin (1810-50), and Watlington (1812-1814) families. Also correspondence, business records, and other papers of James W. Bouldin, Preston Bowker (1819-55), J.H. Carrington (1854-55), Henry Eaton Coleman, Dabney Cosby (1830-50), John W. Daniel, Joseph Dickinson & Pleasant (1817-60), Easley and Hurt, W.O.J. Finney (1850-90), John W. Guerrant (1845-60), Levi and William Harris (1830-70), Benjamin Harrison, Peter D. Holland, Frederick W.M. Holliday, John Hook (1774-1810), H.H. Hurt, Richard Jones, Fitzugh Lee, Robert E. Lee (copies re the battle of Staunton River Bridge), Thomas Staples Martin (routine patronage), W.P. Maxey, John Peter Mettauer, James Mitchell, R.H. Moody, Beverley B. Munford, D.C. Ragsdale & Co. and Ragsdale, Carrington & Co. (1770-1858), Richard Randolph, G.S.S. Reid, E. W. Saunders, Langhorne Scruggs (1840-1900), Ann D. Thompson, George Tucker, William Tunstall (1780-1850), George H. West & Co., West and Hurt, and James M. Whittle (1835-80).

ArchivalResource: 2500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647972117 View