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Saunders, Edward W. (Edward Watts), 1860-1921. Papers of Edward W. Saunders [manuscript] 1873-1921.

Title: Papers of Edward W. Saunders [manuscript] 1873-1921.

School boy letters of Saunders to various members of his family [ca. 45 items]--Letters, 1897 Nov.-Dec., from constituents and fellow politicians chiefly regarding a judge for Franklin Co. Correspondents include: L.W. Anderson, John Warwick Daniel, F. Otey Huffman, and John C. Lamb [ca. 30 items. holographs & typescripts signed]. Also, drafts of his speeches, petitions to him & the Va. General Assembly, his lawyers collection docket, 1888-1901, & newsclippings.

ArchivalResource: 250 items.

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Garrett, William Allen, 1854-1951. Papers of William Allen Garrett [manuscript] 1905 (1913-40) 1950.

Title: Papers of William Allen Garrett [manuscript] 1905 (1913-40) 1950.

Collection pertains to the political career of thisThere are letters from his constituents, requests for patronage, and letters from state politicians and officials. Subjects discussed include prohibition, workman's compensation, bill boards, financial support for state institutions, Byrd's pay-as-you-go plan, and state and local politics. Correspondents include Maitland Bustard, Harry Floyd Byrd, Thomas Granville Burch, Colgate Whitehead Darden, Westmorland David, Patrick Henry Drewry, Nathaniel B. Early, James Taylor Ellyson, S.L. Ferguson, Leroy Hodges, Rorer Anderson James, Rorer Anderson James, Claggett Bennett Jones, John Adam Lesner, John Preston McConnell, Lewis H. Machen, Henry Read McIlwaine, Thomas Staples Martin, James Hubert Price, and John Paul. Also John Garland Pollard, George Campbell Peery, George Townes Rison, Absolm Willis Robertson, Thomas Bahnson Stanley, Edward Watts Saunders, Claude Augustus Swanson, Elbert Lee Wrinkle, William Munford Tuck, Henry St. George Tucker, Stafford Corman Whittle, Kennon Caithness Whittle and "The Bishop" Carter Wormley.

ArchivalResource: 2 ft.

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Papers of Thornton family [manuscript] 1869 (1886-1946) 1962.

Title: Papers of Thornton family [manuscript] 1869 (1886-1946) 1962.

The collection consists mainly of the correspondence of William Mynn Thornton [1851-1935] dean of the U. Va. engineering school. Major segments contain letters of his children Rosalie Thornton, a concert pianist, Janet Thornton, a pioneer medical social worker, & Edward Thornton, an engineer and World War I ambulance driver. Topics of interest include academic & social affairs at the university such as the fight for a coordinate college, the centennial, and the 50th reunion of Civil War veterans, & World War I preparedness, the southern better roads campaign, Rosalie's description of Germany in the 1890's, letters, 1958-59 from China sent to the sister of Janet's roommate, Ida Cannon, 10 chapters of The true Robert E. Lee by W.M. Thornton, & a copy of American watercolor and Winslow Homer by Lloyd Goodrich [1897- ] Correspondents include many U. Va. professors, & engineering professors at other Southern universities as well as Edwin Anderson Alderman [1861-1931], David Crook & Isabel Crook, teachers at the Foreign Language Institute, Peking, Westmoreland Davis [1859-1942], Federation of American Engineering Societies, Henry Delaware Flood [1865-1921], Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve [1831-1924], George Washington Goethals [1858-1928], William Hodges Mann [1843-1927], Thomas Staples Martin [1847-1919], Mary Cooke (Branch) Munford [1865-1938], John Lloyd Newcomb [1881-1954], Robert Riddick Prentis [1818-1871], Edward Watts Saunders [1860-1921], Anna Louise Strong [1885-1970], & Woodrow Wilson [1865-1924].

ArchivalResource: 6,000 items.

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Whittle, Stafford Gorman, 1849-1931. Papers of Stafford Gorman Whittle [manuscript] 1873-1960.

Title: Papers of Stafford Gorman Whittle [manuscript] 1873-1960.

Correspondence, chiefly business, but occasional personal items, first as a lawyer at Martinsville, Henry Co., Va., later as Circuit Court Judge, 1881-Justice, 1901-16, of the Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, and as President of that body, 1917-19. There is much material on his election to the Supreme Court, his rejection, 1890, of a law professorship at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. Correspondents include his wife Ruth Drewry Whittle; Samuel Armistead Anderson (former law partner), Edward Watts Saunders, Edward Calohill Burks, D. Mulford, Claude Augustus Swanson, Andrew Jackson Montague, and Judges George Moffett Harrison, John Alexander Buchanan, James Keith, and Richard Henry Cardwell. Of interest are a letter, 1912 June 26, Washington, D. C., William Howard Taft to Whittle, Martinsville, Va.; a letter, 1912 Aug. 17, Sea Grit, N. J., Woodrow Wilson to Whittle, Martinsville, Va. and a letter, 1914 Mar. 30, New Haven, Conn., Taft to Whittle, Martinsville, Va., urging him to join the American Bar Association as Taft's nominee.

ArchivalResource: 650 items.

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Mann, William Hodges, 1843-1927. Papers of Mann and his son William Mann Hodges [manuscript] 1856-1953.

Title: Papers of Mann and his son William Mann Hodges [manuscript] 1856-1953.

Mann's legal and business correspondence constitute the greatest part of the collection. Other papers cover his service as judge of the Nottoway County, Va. Court, his campaign and term as Virginia governor, 1910-1914, his temperance and church activities is also present. The papers of his son are from his law partnership and his campaigns and terms as city councilman and mayor of Petersburg, Va. In the business and legal correspondence are papers from lumbering and mining operations in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, in which Mann had an interest including the Virginia and West Virginia Timber and Mineral Land Association, the Virginia Jellico Coal Co., the Loprice Land Co., the Wilson Berger Coal Co. & the Mary Helen Coal Corp. This section also contains bills, receipts and a fee book, and litigation papers over property, estates, bankruptcy, and collections. A considerable acount was generated by his service as attorney for the Norfolk & Western Railway and by the Virginia Railway & Power Co.'s absorption of the Richmond Passenger & Power Co. Among the political papers are correspondence from his unsuccessful attempt to be appointed to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; speeches, clippings and correspondence from his gubernatorial campaign; routine gubernatorial business involving patronage, invitations & charitable appeals; and articles of incorporation for various companies. Family papers contain student law notes; bills, receipts, deeds, a 1917 diary, and court cases in which the Manns were involved as well as correspondence. Topics in William Mann Jr.'s mayoral papers, 1946-1947, include amusement taxes, an annexation suit, a hospital building campaign, and municipal services, especially water, sewerage, and transportation. Of interest is a record of sugar rationing in Petersburg in W.W.I. Among the correspondents are Harry Flood Byrd, Richard Evelyn Byrd, John Alden Dix, Harry Delaware Flood, James Hay, Thomas Staples Martin, Bland Massie, S. T. Montague, Charles Lathrop Pack, Edward Watts Saunders, Claude Augustus Swanson, and Walter Allen Watson.

ArchivalResource: 13,000 items.

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Cowper, S. P. C., fl. 1851,. Virginia political miscellany, 1847-1914.

Title: Virginia political miscellany, 1847-1914.

Letter, 1847 April 10, W.E. Hinton, Petersburg, Va., to Navy Secretary John Y. Mason, concerning a dragoon captaincy for his brother John, currently in New Mexico with Col. Doniphan. Letter, 1851 September 24, Washington, John S. Gallaher to S.P.C. Cowper offers encouragement on an unknown [political?] matter. [Draft?] letter, 1875 January 8, Robert W. Hughes, Alexandria, Va., to the President [Andrew Johnson], recommending D.W. Lewis as a "staunch Union man and Republican ..." Letter, 1878 July 9, James B. Sener, Fredericksburg, Va., to unnamed recipient stating he will call and asks on whose recommendation General Heth was appointed an agent of the Treasury Dept. Letter, 1914 March 8, Edward Watts Saunders, Washington, D.C., to H.C. Gravely, Martinsville, Va., regarding post office appointments.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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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.

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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.

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Thornton, William M. (William Mynn), 1851-1935. William Mynn Thornton papers [manuscript], 1868-1933.

Title: William Mynn Thornton papers [manuscript], 1868-1933.

The papers pertain to thornton's career as a University of Virginia professor of applied mathematics and engineering and as chairman of the faculty. Correspondence and reports cover administrative matters of the University and the School of Engineering including a University needs assessment, the proposed women's coordinate college, President E. A. Alderman's plans for the University, the establishment of a separate Department of Engineering, a history of botanical plantings on the grounds, curriculum reform, increasing enrollment, scholarships, and engineering courses. There is also a manuscript of a textbook on "High School Algebra" together with a 17-page typescript of the first portion; a manuscript entitled "Generalized Arithmatic," possibly an earlier version of the high school algebra book; and a manuscript in a casebound notebook entitled "Elementary Lessons in the Infintesimal Calculus, for Students of Engineering." Other academic material includes exams, notebooks, and loose notes covering math and engineering courses. In addition there are addresses and essays on a variety of subjects, generally related to education, and a personal account book of household expenses, 1896-1897. An account book contains a diagram and figuraes for an unidentified bridge, and a dial slide rule calculator. Four typescript lecture notebooks including on on "Railroad curves and earthwork" were believed to have been prepared by Thornton and subsequently used by John L. Newcomb and Edward Watts Saunders, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 150 items.

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Saunders, Edward Watts), Jr. Presentation of a portrait of Edward W. Saunders, Jr.

Title: Presentation of a portrait of Edward W. Saunders, Jr.

ArchivalResource: Photograph of the portrait of the Engineering School dean together with a program for the event, and a sheet of information about the artist, Ned Bittinger.

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