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Wilson, James Southall, 1880-1963. Papers of James Southall Wilson [manuscript] ca. 1904-62.

Title: Papers of James Southall Wilson [manuscript] ca. 1904-62.

Correspondence is chiefly from various English professors in American colleges and universities, from his former students-- several describing experiences in W.W.I.-- from publishers concerning Wilson's works, and his book reviews, and from his son-in-law Charles Marshall Davison. Correspondents include: Edwin Anderson Alderman, Stringfellow Barr, Ben Belitt, Philip Alexander Bruce, Irby Bruce Cauthen, William Andrews Clark, Harry Clemons, Donald Davison, Richard Beale Davis, Walter Pritchard Eaton, Thomas Henry Foster, William Henry Gravely, Leigh Hanes, Henry Sydnor Harrison, Archibald Henderson, Clarence Addison Hubbard, Hewett Elwell Joyce, Marie Christina Goebel Kimball, Thomas A. Kirtley, Dayton Kohler, Charlotte Kohler, Mary Sinton Lewis Leitch, Andrew Nelson Lytle, Henry Louis Mencken, Norman Holmes Pearson, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Edwin Arlington Robinson, James Powell Cocke Southall, Allen Tate, Amélie Rives Chanler Troubetzkoy, Henry Van Dyke, Edward Weeks, Stark Young, The American Mercury The John Hay Whitney Foundation, and Yaddo Foundation Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Manuscript and typewritten lectures, articles, and book reviews. Wilson's interest in Poe and Shakespeare is shown by his many notes on them. There is information onf his classes at U. Va., and at the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, Vt., including class rolls, examinations, reading lists, and papers by various students. Also included are newsclippings and pictures. Copies of letters, 1835, from Thomas Willis White to William Smith, ed. the New York weekly messenger, regarding the Southern Literary Messenger, and Poe [ca. 8 items. transcripts (typewritten).

ArchivalResource: 3,000 items.

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York County (Va.). York County, Virginia, sheriff's execution book, 1789-1794.

Title: York County, Virginia, sheriff's execution book, 1789-1794.

Accounts for money collected by Philip Moody (d. 1807), deputy sheriff; in satisfaction of various court decisions; and receipts for this money. Courts mentioned include York, Williamsburg Hustings, King and Queen District, Williamsburg District, James City, Charles City, Sussex, Warwick, Henrico Chancery, and the High Court of Chancery. Names in the cases include Samuel Beall, William Cary, John Coke, William Cole, Dudley Digges, John M. Galt, Robert Greenhow, Thomas Hubard, Matthew Hubbard, Hunt and Adams, William Lee, Alexander Macaulay, James Moir, Hugh Nelson, Robert Nicolson, John Paradise, Benjamin Powell, Harrison Ratcliff, John Saunders, and James Southall.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. and 63 items.

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Barclay, Julius Preston, 1924-. Photograph album chiefly of the Minor, Southall and Venable families of Charlottesville, Va., ca. 1860-1900.

Title: Photograph album chiefly of the Minor, Southall and Venable families of Charlottesville, Va., ca. 1860-1900.

Members of the families depicted include John B. Minor, Charles L. Minor, Raleigh C. Minor, James C. Southall, James P.C. Southall, Stephen O. Southall, and Frank Venable. A Michael Miley photograph of Robert E. Lee in 1865 is included. In addition there are photographs of Wade Hampton, 1877, Stephen D. Lee, the Rev. George Petrie, and Justus Scheibert.

ArchivalResource: 65 photographs ; Cabinet card or smaller.

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Southall, James P. C. (James Powell Cocke), b. 1871. Papers, ca. 1889-1945.

Title: Papers, ca. 1889-1945.

Student notebooks on physics and mathematics; drawings for construction of a periscope; manuscripts on historical and genealogical subjects; and 2 card indexes containing a guide to Cocke, Sharp, and Southall family genealogies.

ArchivalResource: Ca. 500 items.

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Harrison, Francis Burton, 1873-1957. Francis Burton Harrison papers [manuscript], 1921-1945, no date.

Title: Francis Burton Harrison papers [manuscript], 1921-1945, no date.

Consists chiefly of letters received by Harrison, including a copy of an earlier letter from Woodrow Wilson. Many of the letters are from W. Morgan Shuster on the publicatoin of Manuel Quezon's autobiography. Much of the remaining correspondence is genealogical or congratulates him on the publication of his book on Archibald Cary. Major correspondents include Susan Winter Atkins, Landon C. Bell, Francis L. Berkeley, Jr., Minnie G. Cook, J. Houston Harrison, Martha W. Hiden, William B. Marye, Worth S. Ray, Gertrude R. B. Richards, Elizabeth Hawes Ryland, Clayton Torrence, and Sue Ruffin Tyler. Writers of one or two letters include T. P. Abernethy, Hundson Cary, Richard Heath Dabney, Virginius Dabney, Jay B. Hubbell, Thomas Lomax Hunter, Fiske Kimball, W. Allan Perkins, Howard Worth Smith, James P.C. Southall, Robert H. Webb, and Glenway Wescott. Family letters discuss World War II, particularly Europe after the fall of France, and a move to Charlottesville after fleeing France. Letters of interest include Winfred Babbitt on the Philippine sugar industry in 1945; discussions with Senator Martin on the Philippines sugar industry; Claude G. Bowers on the importance of South America in the Allied/Axis struggle, and the U.S. Embassy in Chile; Harry Payne on Shanghai in 1941; E. G. Swem on a Seabee camp near Williamsburg; Henry A. Wise on anti-New Deal sentiment; and report from Carson Taylor on F.D. Roosevelt's bitterness over the loss of the Philippines. The collection also contains a report to Manuel L. Quezon on the Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1942, and a 1943 letter on the health of Quezon and the difficulty of reconstruction after liberation; a memorandum on the escape of General Manuel Roxas from the Japanese; and Harrison's statement on Phillipine Independence, 1946.

ArchivalResource: 425 items.

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Southall, James P. C. (James Powell Cocke), b. 1871. Reminiscences of Charlottesville in the 1880s.

Title: Reminiscences of Charlottesville in the 1880s.

The collection consists of five copies of Southall's address before the Albemarle County Historical Society. Topics lightly touched on include various Southall relatives and friends; local merchants and businesses; hot summer weather; prep schools; local personalities; famous beauties; Sunday dinners; and University of Virginia student life.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Southall, James P. C. (James Powell Cocke), b. 1871. Papers of James P.C. Southall, 1889-1945.

Title: Papers of James P.C. Southall, 1889-1945.

The papers include student notebooks, several manuscripts on historical and genealogical subjects, and two card indexes containing a guide to Cocke, Sharp, and Southall family genealogies. The notes and lectures are for courses in mathematics and physics while Southall was a professor of physics at Alabama Polytechnic Institute.

ArchivalResource: 500 items.Notes, 8 v.

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W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation collection, circa 1709-1850.

Title: W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation collection, circa 1709-1850.

The collection consists of five historic documents: 1.) James Southall agreement; 2.) Indenture agreement, January 13, 1843; 3.) John Wilson letter (State vs. Mabrey & Evans); 4.) Jefferson Davis letter, July 25, 2850; 5.) George Walton letter, January 23, 1709.

ArchivalResource: 5 items (0.1 linear ft.)

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Hume, Fannie Page, 1838-1865. Fannie Page Hume diary extracts and miscellaneous Civil War and Albemarle County history items [manuscript], 1862-1945.

Title: Fannie Page Hume diary extracts and miscellaneous Civil War and Albemarle County history items [manuscript], 1862-1945.

The collection contains extracts from Fannie Page Hume's 1862 diary, kept at "Selma," Orange County, Va., together with a copy of the roster of the Albemarle Light Horse (Co. K. 2nd Virginia Cavalry). The collection also contains a brief biography of Captain John Lewis Cochran by Mrs. John M. Preston, copied from the book "Memorial history of the John Bowie Strange Camp, United Confederate Veterans." The collection also contains Isabelle H. Goss's notes taken on addresses delivered before the Albemarle County Historical Society including "The architecture of Monticello" by Fiske Kimball, "The gardens at Monticello" by Edwin Betts, recollections of James Polwell Cocke Southall, "Early schools in Charlottesville and Albemarle County" by Nancy Gordon, G.R.B. Michie and Allen Perkins, recollectins of Norris Watson, "Albemarle beginnings" by Jack Dalton, "Ranger Mosby" by Virgil Carrington Jones, and "Albemarle lands" by Agnes Symmers. The collection also contains an issue of the United Daughters of the Confederacy magazine with a tribute to Carrie C. Burnley by Josephine Cox McPherson.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

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