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Menefee, M. J. (Marvin James), 1894-1983. Papers of M.J. Menefee [manuscript], 1914-1982.

Title: Papers of M.J. Menefee [manuscript], 1914-1982.

The papers consist chiefly of personal and office correspondence. The former contains letters to Menefee while he was convalescing from war wounds. Many mention the great flu epidemic of 1918-1919. Later letters are mainly to and from his wife and family. The office files contain correspondence from his position as secretary to A. Willis Robertson and administrative assistant to Harry Byrd. Most letters concern routine situations, engagements, speaking trips, local arrangements, and minor requests from constituents. Some touch on local and Virginia politics and Byrd's campaigns. Also include Menefee's personal legal and financial papers; statements of his accounts with Byrd; speeches; petitions for the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act; World War I papers including training material, notes and field messages from active service in France, honors awarded, and efforts to receive disability payments; clippings; photographs; and memorabilia. In addition, there is a letter, 1861 June 11, J. Lucius Davis to William Miller authorizing the latter to raise recruits for Wise's legion in Shenandoah and Rockingham Counties. Correspondents include James Lindsay Almond, Harry Flood Byrd, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Alfred Dickinson Barksdale, John Stewart Battle, Colgate Whitehead Darden, Douglas Southall Freeman, Burr Powell Harrison, William Sobieski Hildreth, Jay Winston Johns, Absalom Willis Robertson, James Strom Thurmond, William Munford Tuck and John Jordan Wicker.

ArchivalResource: 6500 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647820253 View

Campbell, Edmund S. (Edmund Schureman), 1884-1950. Edmund Schureman Campbell papers. [manuscript] 1884-1950.

Title: Edmund Schureman Campbell papers. [manuscript] 1884-1950.

The papers contain Campbell's files as head professor and librarian of art and architecture, and curator of Bayly Museum, 1929-50. They consist of routine correspondence regarding exhibits; book purchases; faculty selection; the renovation of Fayerwether Hall; bills, vouchers and financial papers; student assistantships, grades, notices, and problems; the annual catalog, courses; housekeeping & maintenance; and plans for and the building of Clark Hall and Newcomb Hall. There are some files of his predecessor Sidney Fiske Kimball on these same topics. Campbell's varied architectural interests are represented by files on the American Institute of Architects, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, the Virginia University Board of Architects, the selection of lecturers and concert artists at U. Va., the Virginia Art Commission, the restoration of the Wren Building at William & Mary, examinations for architects' licenses in Virginia, restoration and furnishings at Monticello, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the renovation of Ash Lawn, and the U.S. Public Works Administration. Correspondents include Edwin Anderson Alderman, John Edwin Canaday, Harry Clemons, Colgate Whitehead Darden, James Hardy Dillard, Jay Winston Johns, Stanislaw John Makielski, John Lloyd Newcomb, John Kevan Peebles, and John Garland Pollard.

ArchivalResource: 20,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232609306 View

University of Virginia. Office of Information Services. Papers of the University of Virginia Information Services [manuscript], 1958.

Title: Papers of the University of Virginia Information Services [manuscript], 1958.

Material re the re-enactment of the laying of the cornerstone at the University of Virginia includes letters between William H. Wranek, Jr. and Laurence G. Hoes, a press release and a copy of the speech given by University president, Colgate Darden, on the occasion.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647814680 View

Dowdey, Clifford, 1904-1979. Papers of Clifford Dowdey [manuscript], 1941-1967.

Title: Papers of Clifford Dowdey [manuscript], 1941-1967.

Papers of Dowdey include business correspondence and contracts with several publishing companies for Dowdey's articles and books. Of interest is a series of letters, 1966, from Gerald E. Smith, Prentice-Hall, Inc. to Claire Smith re: Dowdey's appointment as editor of a book on Robert E. Lee for the "Great lives observed" series. In a letter, n.d., John C. Davis, Richmond, Va., writes to Dowdey arranging to hire Dowdey for the Civil War Centennial Tours in the spring of 1962.

ArchivalResource: 60 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647806719 View

Dowdey, Clifford, 1904-1979. Papers, 1941-1967.

Title: Papers, 1941-1967.

Papers of Dowdey include business correspondence and contracts with several publishing companies for Dowdey's articles and books. Of interest is a series of letters, 1966, from Gerald E. Smith, Prentice-Hall, Inc. to Claire Smith re: Dowdey's appointment as editor of a book on Robert E. Lee for the "Great lives observed" series. In a letter, n.d., John C. Davis, Richmond, Va., writes to Dowdey arranging to hire Dowdey for the Civil War Centennial Tours in the spring of 1962.

ArchivalResource: 60 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32958817 View

Johns, Jay Winston, 1888-1974. Jay Johns Papers, 1918-1974.

Title: Jay Johns Papers, 1918-1974.

Mostly personal and business correspondence of Jay Winston Johns, Jr. Includes papers of the Atlas Fuel Corporation of New York, N.Y. and Pittsburgh, Pa., Lee-Jackson Memorial, Inc., the Virginia Trust for Historic Preservation, and "Ash Lawn" now owned by the College of William and Mary. The correspondence of Johns includes correspondence with Virginia Democratic Party figures such as Albertis S. Harrison, William M. Tuck, Mills Godwin, Harry F. Byrd, Sr. and Carter Glass. Other prominent correspondents are Morton G. Thalhimer, Harry de Butts, James J. Kilpatrick, and George C. Marshall. There are records of social occasions given by Mr. and Mrs. Johns, correspondence relating to her illness and death, and papers relating to his death. The collection includes a manuscript collection by Johns including original items by Phillip Brooks, George Washington Parke Custis, Albert Gallatin and D.H. Hill as well as typescripts and photocopies of letters written by Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Mary Custis Lee, Richard Henry Lee, and Robert E. Lee; and materials concerning James Monroe and Ezekial Moses.

ArchivalResource: 4, 525 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23297643 View

Kilpatrick, James Jackson, 1920-2010. James J. Kilpatrick papers [manuscript], 1925-1966 (bulk 1950-1966).

Title: James J. Kilpatrick papers [manuscript], 1925-1966 (bulk 1950-1966).

The collection consists of the correspondence and writings of James J. Kilpatrick, including correspondence with his readers, fellow journalists, and prominent public figures; editorials; speeches; and the manuscripts for "The sovereign states," "The lasting south," "The smut peddlars," and "The Southern case for school segretation." The dominant theme is Federal infringement on State's rights including the issues of segregation, interposition, and flouridation. Other topics include payola, Richmond Virginians baseball team, the National Conference of Editorial Writers and a debate with Martin Luther King, Jr., on the nation's future. Major correspondents include Edwin M. Almond, Jim Bishop, Allen C. Brownfeld, William F. Buckley, Jr., Harry F. Byrd, Harry F. Byrd, Jr., the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, Colgate W. Darden, Roscoe Ellard, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Donald M. Ewing, Dick Fojut, Howard C. Gilmer, Joseph Addison Hagan, Anthony Harrigan, Burr P. Harrison, Human Events, Verne P. Kaub, David Lawrence, Shelby Little, William Loeb, Dr. Robert Needles, J. R. Orgain, Jr., Robert Whaley Orrell, Robert B. Patterson, Drew Pearson, Carleton Putnam, Lawrence R. Quarles, Henry Regnery, Donald R. Richberg, A. Willis Robertson, George W. Rogers, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Paul Saunier, Jr., the Spadea Syndicate, Thomas B. Stanley, Ulrich and Dorothy Troubetzkoy, William M. Tuck, United Feature Syndicate, Virginia Press Association, J. Barrye Wall, Robert Whitehead, John J. Wicker, John Cook Wyllie, Writers of one or two brief letters include Watkins M. Abbit, J. Lindsay Almond, T. Coleman Andrews, Fitzgerald Bemiss, Francis L. Berkeley, Jr., Julien Binford, Loyd C. Bird, McLemore Birdsong, James Baylor Blackford, John B. Boatwright, Jr., Armistead L. Boothe, Sarah-Patton Boyle, James H. Brewer, Owen Brewster, Joel Broyhill, Matthew Bruccoli, D. Tennant Bryan, Thomas Pinckney Bryan, J. L. Blair Buck, Warren E. Burger, Robert Y. Button, Mortimer Caplin, Margaret Haley Carpenter, Howard H. Carwile, Bruce Catton, Anthony J. Celebrezze, Bennett Cerf, Allan Knight Chalmers, Lenoir Chambers, Leslie Cheek, Walter N. Chinn, Randolph W. Church, Joseph S. Clark, Josephine G. Clark, J. Calvitt Clarke, Monroe Cockrell, Weldon Cooper, Norman Cousins, Kenneth R. Crispell, Virginius Dabney, John E. Dahlquist, Ted Dalton, Dominick V. Daniels, Donald Davidson, E. F. S. Davies, James C. Davis, Lambert Davis, Ralph de Toledano, Collins Denny, Jr., Gottfried Dietze, Hardy C. Dillard, Thomas J. Dodd, E. Griffith Dodson, William Jennings Bryan Dorn, John Dos Passos, Clifford Dowdey, Thomas N. Downing, Leon Dure, James O. Eastland, James E. Edmonds, Pocahontas Wight Edmunds, Mamie Eisenhower, Sam Ervin, Also Orval Faubus, Marshall Fishwick, Guy Friddell, Murray Friedman, Foster Furcolo, Francis Pendleton Gaines, John Gange, George Garrett, J. Vaughan Gary, James J. Geary, Henry Gemmill, Carter Glass, III, Mills Godwin, Harry Golden, Eric F. Goldman, Barry Goldwater, Albert Gore, J. Segar Gravatt, Garland Gray, John A. Griffin, Robert P. Griffin, S. Marvin Griffin, Erwin N. Griswold, Ernest Gruening, Raymond R. Guest, Harry F. Guggenheim, Edward J. Gurney, T. Marshall Hahn Jr., Leigh Hanes, Porter Hardy, Jr., Albertis S. Harrison, Jr., Deryl Hart, Booton Herndon, William S. Hildreth, Luther H. Hodges, Reynold D. Hogle, A. Linwood Holton, Jr., J. Edgar Hoover, A. E. Dick Howard, Dowell J. Howard, Edward W. Hudgins, Carl Humelsine, Hubert Humphrey, Thomas H. Hunter, Sterling Hutcheson, William Inge, CaryF. Jacob, William E. Jenner, John M. Jennings, J. Winston Johns, Forney Johnston, B. Everett Jones, Sidney S. Kellam, R. Wayne Kernodle, Russell Kirk, Warren P. Knowles, Arthur Krock, Alfred M. Landon, William E. Larsen, J. Bracken Lee, Albert Lévitt, Russell Long, Also Dumas Malone, Harrison Mann, Jr., John O. Marsh, Thurgood Marshall, Walter Rumsey Marvin, Linton Massey, John L. McClellan, Edward O. McCue III, James Douglas McKay, Harry Meacham, M. J. Menefee, Frank Pitts Moncure. A.S. Mike Monroney, E. Blackburn Moore, Sidney Grant Morse, Wayne Morse, Robert Moses, William P. Murphy, Hyde Murray, Edmund S. Muskie, Maurine B. Neuberger, Robert N. C. Nix, Elizabeth Copeland Norfleet, G. Warren Nutter, William B. O'Neal, E. J. Oglesby, William Old, Elizabeth H. Osth, John Crump Parker, T. Nelson Parker, Davis Young Paschall, Kenneth C. Patty, William H. Peden, Fred Pollard, J. Sergeant Reynolds, John Q. Rhodes, F.D.G. Ribble, Homer Richey, Wilfred Ritz, Ruby Altizer Roberts, George Romney, John J. Rooney, Archibald B. Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Parke Rouse, Vermont Royster, William A. Rusher, Dean Rusk, Lao and Walter Russell, Richard B. Russell, Allan H. Ryskind, Richard S. Salant, Terry Sanford, Reed Sarratt, David E. Satterfield, Jr., Davie E. Satterfield, III, Charles M. Schulz, Philip L. Scruggs, Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., D. French Slaughter, Also Howard K. Smith, Howard Worth Smith, Louis Spilman, Lawrence E. Spivak, John Stennis, A.E.S. Stephens, Adlai Stevenson, Lindley J. Stiles, Kathryn H. Stone, Lewis L. Strauss, Warren H. Strother, Earl G. Swem, William F. Swindler, Carl Swisher, G. Fred Switzer, Herman E. Talmadge, Lorin A. Thompson, Strom Thurmond, George Bell Timmerman, Jr., Henry St., George Tucker, Jr., D. Gardiner Tyler, Stewart Udall, George C. Wallace, Lurleen Wallace, William C. Wampler, Robert Welch, Jr., E. B. White, Roy Wilkens, Robert M. Wilkin, J. Harvie Wilkinson, John J. Williams, Earl Wilson, Edward H. Winter, Jennngs, C. Wise, Art Wood, William H. Wranek The collection also contains book reviews by University of Virginia Librarian John Cook Wyllie

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/747040790 View