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Minor, James Fontaine, 1876-1961. Photograph of University of Virginia faculty [graphic], 1882-1883.

Title: Photograph of University of Virginia faculty [graphic], 1882-1883.

The University of Virginia faculty from the 1882-1883 session, with the exception of Dr. John R. Page, were photographed by the side of Brooks Hall. A label pasted on the mount is inscribed to President Colgate Darden from James Fontaine Minor, 1949 February 22 and identifies all the pictured faculty. The label misidentifies Taylor as Maximilian Schele de Vere.

ArchivalResource: 1 photo.: albumin print; 25 x 42cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648014634 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

Taylor, George B ., fl. 1886. Letter to Charles Elisha Taylor [manuscript], 1886 February 23.

Title: Letter to Charles Elisha Taylor [manuscript], 1886 February 23.

Taylor writes to his brother Charles mentioning his loneliness; a trip to Staunton to preach and "induce seceding brothers to return"; J. William Jones' lecture on "Boys in Grey"; his own lecture on Rome with lantern slide accompaniment from Professor Dunnington; the successful preaching of Mr. and Mrs. George Needham (Charlottesville has been stirred to its depths); and regards to family.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647973829 View

Dunnington, F. P. (Francis Perry), 1851-1944. Papers of Francis Perry Dunnington [manuscript], 1905 January 10.

Title: Papers of Francis Perry Dunnington [manuscript], 1905 January 10.

Advertisement for F. W. Devoe & Co. - "Pure Lead and Zinc Paint," containing a signed statement by F. P. Dunnington, Prof. Analytical Chemistry, University of Va., attesting to the contents of the paint.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647915115 View

Dunnington, F. P. (Francis Perry), 1851-1944. Letters of F.P. Dunnington, 1864, 1870 and 1895.

Title: Letters of F.P. Dunnington, 1864, 1870 and 1895.

Letters from his parents, 1870 and 1895, refrain from sending advice about Dunnington's college career, and convey family news. With these is a letter, 1864 August 23, J. Charles McCauley, Johnson's Island, Ohio, to Cornelia Hall regarding prison life.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50945000 View

Albert B. Hart letter to Francis P. Dunnington

Title: Albert B. Hart letter to Francis P. Dunnington

Hart responds to Dunnington's request for information on Harvard's regulation of athletics. Hart encloses a copy of the regulations in force. [not present]

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Duke, Edith R.,. Papers of the Duke family, 1890.

Title: Papers of the Duke family, 1890.

The collection contains four Duke family letters and three photographs. Letters include a letter, 1890 September 4, F.P. Dunnington to R.T.W. Duke, Jr., requesting him to conduct chapel services; and three letters, 1890 January 5, 7 and 8, Edith R. Duke to her husband regarding health, family news and travel and expressing religious sentiments for the new year. Photographs of a man, woman and young girl are unidentified.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48912091 View

Dunnington, F. P. (Francis Perry), 1851-1944. Letters to Henrietta C. Orr and photograph, 1936 Aug. 29 and Aug. 31.

Title: Letters to Henrietta C. Orr and photograph, 1936 Aug. 29 and Aug. 31.

Dunnington writes to his cousin concerning his health and that of his wife; comments on how people are "constantly on the go" in "these automobile days," passes on family news and his joy that all his children received a good education and are doing well, commenting that he has been blessed; and his daily routine including visits from widows who call on him for advice. He quotes several scriptural passages. With the letters is a copy of a photograph of Dunnington and his family, [ca. 1893-1896?].

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56570037 View

Dunnington, F. P. (Francis Perry), 1851-1944. The Mexican "Ava", 1903?

Title: The Mexican "Ava", 1903?

Accompanied by letter, 1903, July 24, Washington D.C., V.K. Chestnut, Ass't Botantist, to Prof. F.P. Dunnington, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54858913 View

Clemons, Harry, 1879-1968,. Miscellaneous papers of Jean M. Holiday, 1911-1973.

Title: Miscellaneous papers of Jean M. Holiday, 1911-1973.

The collection contains letters of recommendation, 1911, 1914, for Malcolm A. Holliday from Univerity of Virginia professors Francis P. Dunnington and Graham Edgar; a letter to Miss Holliday from Harry Clemons regretfully accepting her resignation from the library staff, 1943; a letter from Charles Henderson concerning events while she was on vacation, 1954; and a letter from Frank Hereford acknowledging her congratulations on his selection as University of Virginia President, 1973. The collection also contains assorted issues of University of Virginia Topics and the University Register, 1973, pertaining to Hereford's selection and inaugural and a program from the inauguration.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145741520 View

Dunnington, F. P. (Francis Perry), 1851-1944. Membership certificate in National Geographic Society and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce [manuscript] 1910.

Title: Membership certificate in National Geographic Society and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce [manuscript] 1910. 1910.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647958312 View

Gordon, Armistead C. (Armistead Churchill), 1855-1931. Papers of Armistead Churchill Gordon [manuscript], 1887-1922.

Title: Papers of Armistead Churchill Gordon [manuscript], 1887-1922.

Letters and other papers relate to policies and activities of the Board of Visitors, mainly, 1894-1898 and 1906-1918, and deal with such topics as academic standards, administration, alumni, bond issues, buildings and grounds, the Carnegie Fund, the corporate limits of Charlottesville, curricula, donations, faculty salaries, medical education and practice, military education, scholarships, and World War I. Persons mentioned include Edwin A. Alderman, Arthur Austin, James Cook Bardin, Paul B. Barringer, Philip Alexander Bruce, Thomas Henry Carter, John Armstrong Chaloner, Jabez Lamar Moore Curry, Armistead Mason Dobie, Francis Perry Dunnington, William Holding Echols, Daniel B. Fayerweather, Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Bennett Wood Green, Edward Wilson James, Robert Garlick Hill Kean, Charles William Kent, William Alexander Lambeth, William Minor Lile, Seth Low, William Gordon McCabe, John William Mallett, John Barbee Minor, Robert Walton Moore, Mary Cooke Branch Munford, James Morris Page, Rosewell Page, Oliver H. Payne, William Elisha Peters, Wilson Cary Nicholas Randolph, Robert L. Skinner, Ormond Stone, Leon Whipple, Stanford White, Frances Wilson and Woodrow Wilson. Correspondents include Robert Lewis Dabney, Jedediah Hotchkiss, Thomas Staples Martin, and Thomas Nelson Page. A letter, 1895 Nov. 26, from Robert M. Hughes discusses the Rotunda fire, comments tartly on previous fires and suggests the University establish a fire department. Hughes comments that "The superintendent [William H. Echols] during the fire, I understand, instead of taking charge and managing things according to some system, was chiefly engrossed in throwing dynamite at a structure that any engineer ought to have known would not be affected by it." Hughes concludes that the lack of a fire fighting unit at the University "is so surprising that it almost looks like imbecility."

ArchivalResource: 2000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647884483 View

Whitmore, Harry Gregory. Papers of the Gregory and Whitmore families, 1846-1997 (bulk 1900-1923).

Title: Papers of the Gregory and Whitmore families, 1846-1997 (bulk 1900-1923).

This addition to the papers of the Gregory and related Whitmore families consists primarily of letters from Mrs. Sue [Mary Susan] Gregory Whitmore to her son Harry Gregory Whitmore, a student at the University of Virginia and teacher at various colleges. The letters chiefly convey news of family, friends and local happenings (and scandals) in Parnassus, Va., with occasional references to national events. Topics of interest include her reading; railroad work in Augusta County; Harry Whitmore's student life at the University of Virginia with many references to Virginia professors; and farming in Augusta County with references to trouble with hired hands. University of Virginia faculty and administrators mentioned include E.A. Alderman, Noah K. Davis, Francis P. Dunnington, Charles W. Kent, John W. Mallet, James M. Page, John S. Patton, William E. Peters, William B. Stone, William M. Thornton, and Christopher Wright. There are passing references to the African-Americans in Augusta County including their vote in the election of 1900; the death of her husband from tuberculoses; the St. Louis Worlds Fair; Southern votes and the election of 1904; the 1912 women's suffrage fight in the Virginia legislature; prohibition; outbreaks of contagious diseases including the great flu epidemic; and World War I. Letters from Samuel L. Whitmore to his brother Harry concern his chiropractic career, medical schooling, financial problems and divorce. The collection also contains the 1915 travel journal of Harry Whitmore kept on a trip to California via the Panama Canal with a return home through the Canadian Rockies together with letters and postcards related to his trip. The collection also contains receipts; photographs; and a scrapbook of the 1883 Niagara Falls Reunion of the Fifth Virginia Infantry and the 28th New York Volunteers who had faced each other at the Battle of Cedar Mountain.

ArchivalResource: 800 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71837166 View

Dunnington, F. P. (Francis Perry), 1851-1944. Papers of Francis Perry Dunnington [manuscript], 1867-1928.

Title: Papers of Francis Perry Dunnington [manuscript], 1867-1928.

The majority of papers in the collection pertain to the University of Virginia and Dunnington's decades as a student and chemistry teacher and include a syllabus and inserted notes for his industrial chemistry lectures; a report of the Chapel committee, 1895; material pertaining to the renovation of the YMCA reading room; math notes taken as a student; and a list of subscriptions given in honor of Dwight Lyman Moody, ca. 1886/87. University of Virginia related printed and miscellaneous materials include include an invitation to the installation of President Alderman, a letter regarding Jedediah Hotchkiss's request to host a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the University of Virginia, and a solicitation appeal for $1000 to field a "worthy foot ball team" in 1894.

ArchivalResource: 30 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647864088 View

Coolidge, Joseph, 1798-1879,. Jefferson papers from the Proctor's Papers [manuscript], 1817-1916.

Title: Jefferson papers from the Proctor's Papers [manuscript], 1817-1916.

The collection contains a plat in the hand of Jefferson of the grounds of the University of Virginia as acquired in seven purchased, labelled A through G, showing acreage, metes and bounds, streams, roads and dates of purchase. The collection also contains 8 deeds for lands sold to the University, some of which correspond to the above map; all copied from Albemarle County deed books, ca. 1875. With these are 9 miscellaneous papers, chiefly notes by W. A. Lambeth, Francis P. Dunnington and others relative to boundary lines and rights of way, together with a letter, 1875, from Green Peyton as Proctor to R.G.H. Kean as Rector enclosing the above and tracing the history of the University's lands. The collection also contains 6 letters between Joseph Coolidge, Jr., and Thomas Jefferson pertaining to the purchase of a bell and clock for the University of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 25 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647975355 View

Dunnington, Bell, 1883-1963. Letter to Sadie Dunnington, 1895 October 28.

Title: Letter to Sadie Dunnington, 1895 October 28.

Dunnington, University of Virginia, writes to her sister, Sadie Dunnington, Hollins Institute, about the Rotunda fire, and her father's efforts to save the building.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50997632 View

Dunnington, F. P. (Francis Perry), 1851-1944. Autograph album of F.P. Dunnington, 1871-1872, 1875.

Title: Autograph album of F.P. Dunnington, 1871-1872, 1875.

The album contains signatures of fellow students at the University of Virginia, including his brothers in Pi Kappa Alpha.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57359372 View

Gregory family. Papers of the Gregory and related Whitmore family [manuscript], 1990-1993.

Title: Papers of the Gregory and related Whitmore family [manuscript], 1990-1993.

The papers consist of three computer printouts. They are : an incomplete draft transcription of letters, 1900-1919, from Mary Susan Gregory Whitmore to her son Harry Gregory Whitmore; "A History of Unbaffled Virginians by William Mulford / Dedicated to The Unflagging Will and Determination of Women Descendants of William Howson Clark"; and "Trip to California, Going Thru The Panama Canal and Returning Thru The Canadian Rockies [July-August 1915], a diary by Harry Gregory Whitmore. Sue Gregory Whitmore's letters to her son, a student and then professor at various colleges, contain personal, family and local Parnassus, Va., news and touch on state and national events. She writes in detail about her farm in Augusta County and other family members, and records all the books she reads. She mentions many University of Virginia professors including James Morris Page, John Shelton Patton, John William Mallet, William Elisha Peters, Christopher Wright, Noah Knowles Davis, Charles William Kent, Francis Perry Dunnington, William Beverley Stone, William Mynn Thornton and E.A. Alderman. She also describes trips, particularly to the St. Louis Fair in 1904. Local blacks are occasionally mentioned.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647838792 View

Dunnington, F. P. (Francis Perry), 1851-1944. Matters concerning the University Temperance Hall [manuscript], [1895?]

Title: Matters concerning the University Temperance Hall [manuscript], [1895?]

In the hand of F. P. Dunnington. Consists of extracts made by "Mr. Wm. Wertenbaker" from official University of Virginia records regarding the construction of Temperance Hall, 1852-1856. Followed by recommendations by Dunnington to allow the University Y.M.C.A. to use Temperance Hall since the Temperance Society "though repeatedly revived by special exertion, has, through a period of 50 years, proved less and less efficient in restraining dissipation." Dunnington comments that scholarships awarded for debates have served only to defray the expenses of students. He notes that many famous lecturers have spoken at the Hall over the years, including "Sen. Colquit, Rev. Dr. Theo.Cuyler, R. J. McBryde, M. Babcock and Washington Gladden." These lectures have been well attended, but not by University students. Concludes with a statement of the finances of the Temperance Society.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180934039 View