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Gordon, Armistead C. (Armistead Churchill), 1897-1953,. Invitations and announcements sent to Atcheon and Virginia Hench for University of Virginia and civic events [manuscript], 1907-1950.

Title: Invitations and announcements sent to Atcheon and Virginia Hench for University of Virginia and civic events [manuscript], 1907-1950.

Invitations and annoucements include a supper at Christ Episcopal Parish House; an illustrated lecture by Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin on the Williamsburg restorations for the benefit of mountain missions; Founder's Day exercises featuring an exhibition of the T. Catesby Jones collection of modern prints; Virginia Sympnony Orchestra; Virginia Celebrity Concerts; Jolly Rogers informal dance; William H. White Foundation lecture by William Draper Lewis; a weekly radio broadcast of University life; Institute of Public Affairs reception; Summer Quarter musical program, reception and dance; an "At Home" for President and Mrs. Newcomb; a lecture by William E. Dodd, U. S. ambassador to German, 1937; a lecture series by Dr. Robert Russell Wicks of Princeton University, 1936, Dean Lynn Harold Hough of Drew theological Seminary, 1937, and the Rt. Rev. R. E. L. Strider, Bishop of West Virginia, 1938 sent by Religious Exercises Committee chairman Armistead C. Gordon, Jr.a lecture on the problems of Inter-American cooperation by Ezequiel Padilla; a student volunteer convention; a tea for visiting high school principals; an Assembly of Professors meeting to hear a report from the Committee on Contractual Relations; a meeting of the American Association of University Professors; the Dulaney Book Exchange; a U. Va. employer's help wanted card, and a list of movies, concerts, exhibitions and lectures for the 1950/1951 school year. The collection also cotains a form letter sent to Hench by the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company of Boston, 1937, soliciting the purchase of automobile insurance and noting that his name as a "careful driver" had been suggested by George B. Eager of the Law School. The collection also contains a Founder's Day 1907 announcement, possibly collected by Hench.

ArchivalResource: circa 30 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/398139106 View

Montgomery, Dennis. Dennis Montgomery research files 1995-1998

Title: Dennis Montgomery research files 1995-1998

This series of papers contains correspondence, research material, and other items collected by Dennis Montgomery as he worked on the publication of his book, "A Link Among Days".

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/243467260 View

Bentley, John Boyd, 1896-1989. Papers, 1895-1987.

Title: Papers, 1895-1987.

Personal and professional papers, 1896-1987, of Bishop John Boyd Bentley, Bishop of Alaska and Director of Overseas Missions for the Protestant Episcopal Church and personal papers, 1895-1983, of his wife Elvira Carr Bentley. Includes comprehensive records of his ministerial career including records of his official acts and texts of sermons and invocations. There is some correspondence relating to Bentley's career, including letters from W.A.R. Goodwin, Peter Trimble Rowe and Henry Knox Sherrill. There is material relating to Bentley's work in Alaska, including a series of letters to his wife, 1930-1937, describing his travels on the Alaskan frontier. The collection also includes a photograph collection as well as diaries, correspondence, and photographs which chronicle his tours of the Far East in 1949; a world tour, 1959-1960; and tours of Latin America, 1960-1961. There are audio-cassettes of his autobiography.

ArchivalResource: 1041 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23593985 View

Wheeler, Lilla, fl. 1907. Lilla Wheeler, letter : describing Williamsburg for the D.A.R., Portville, NY, 1907.

Title: Lilla Wheeler, letter : describing Williamsburg for the D.A.R., Portville, NY, 1907.

Description of Ms. Wheeler's visit to Williamsburg in 1907. She met with W.A.R. Goodwin, Rector of Bruton Parish Church and mastermind behind the Colonial Williamsburg reconstruction. Wheeler and her party also visited the College of William and Mary. She discusses walking along Duke of Glouchester Street and visiting the Wythe House, Bassett Hall, and the Peyton Randolph House.

ArchivalResource: 12 p., 6 sheets.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/183023577 View

Flora Adams Darling Papers, 1862-1908

Title: Flora Adams Darling Papers, 1862-1908

This collection includes correspondence, chiefly 1890-1908 but also dating back as early as 1862, of Flora (Adams) Darling (1840-1910) concerning her founding of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Daughters of the Revolution, and the U.S. Daughters of 1812.

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=wm/viw00083.xml View