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Boand, Nell Holladay,. Logan-Morrill family papers [manuscript], 1906-1966 (bulk 1906-1912).

Title: Logan-Morrill family papers [manuscript], 1906-1966 (bulk 1906-1912).

The collection consists of the scrapbook and correspondence of Lily Logan Morrill and her husband, Albert H. Morrill. The scrapbook, about Mrs. Morrill's father, Thomas Muldrup Logan, contains some of his Civil War correspondence, speeches, and newspaper clippings, mostly from the 1870s, about him. It also contains some clippings about Mrs. Morrill and her book, Builder of the New South, written about her father's life. Lily Logan Morrill's correspondence concerns her writings and sketches in the period 1908-1934, particularly regarding family history and her publication of the journal of Mary Jane Boggs Holladay. Correspondents include Nell Holladay Boand, Carrie Holladay, Guy Pierpont Jones, Rose O'Neill, Thomas Nelson Page, Nannie Boggs Timberlake, Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, and Alexander Wilbourne Weddell. Albert H. Morrill's correspondence is with William Howard Taft. Included is a letter (1912 August 14) written from President Taft to Colonel Goethals in Panama introducing Morrill who wished to see the progress made on the Panama Canal. Most of the other letters (1906-1912) are personal, as the two men exchanged notes of congratulation or condolence throughout their political careers.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647839010 View

Trigg, Emma Gray White. Papers of Emma Gray Trigg [manuscript], 1921-1940.

Title: Papers of Emma Gray Trigg [manuscript], 1921-1940.

The papers contain 32 letters to Trigg, 1931-1940, from George Dillon, Ellen Glasgow, Joseph Hergesheimer, John Holmes, Leonora Speyer, Chard Powers Smith, Louis Untermeyer, Carl Van Vechten, Alexander Weddell, Oscar Williams, and Audrey Wurdemann. Topics include poems she has sent for inclusion in "Poetry, a magazine of verse" edited by Dillon; her visits to New York and visits to Richmond by many of the above authors; and mutual friends and other writers including W. H. Auden, Joseph Ausland, Richard P. Blackmur, Robert Frost, Joseph Hergesheimer, Robert Hillyer, Ezra Pound, and May Sarton. Of interest is a letter to Trigg from Van Vechten explaining how she can have a case of bootleg whiskey shipped to her mother. The collection also contains a signed autograph poem, "Elegy" by George Dillon that belonged to Florence Stearns.

ArchivalResource: 33 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647881260 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Sheffield, James R. (James Rockwell), 1864-1938. James Rockwell Sheffield papers, 1768-1969 (inclusive).

Title: James Rockwell Sheffield papers, 1768-1969 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, scrapbooks, writings, and photographs documenting the political and diplomatic career of James Rockwell Sheffield. The bulk of the material dates from 1893 to 1938 and concerns either the New York Republican party and its influence on National politics or American diplomatic relations with Mexico during the Coolidge administration. Major correspondents include William Boyd Allison, Nicholas Murray Butler, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William Howard Taft, and James R. Wadsworth.

ArchivalResource: 9.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702167190 View

Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948. Speech given at the unveiling of a tablet at the University of Virginia Law School [manuscript] 24 Oct. 1942.

Title: Speech given at the unveiling of a tablet at the University of Virginia Law School [manuscript] 24 Oct. 1942. 1942.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647956768 View

Goethals, George W. (George Washington), 1858-1928,. Logan-Morrill family papers, 1906-1934 (bulk 1906-1912).

Title: Logan-Morrill family papers, 1906-1934 (bulk 1906-1912).

The collection consists of the scrapbook and correspondence of Lily Logan Morrill and her husband, Albert H. Morrill. The scrapbook, about Mrs. Morrill's father, Thomas Muldrup Logan, contains some of his Civil War correspondence, speeches, and newspaper clippings, mostly from the 1870s, about him. It also contains some clippings about Mrs. Morrill and her book, Builder of the New South, written about her father's life. Lily Logan Morrill's correspondence concerns her writings and sketches in the period 1908-1934. Correspondents include Thomas Nelson Page, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, Guy Pierpont Jones, Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, and Rose O'Neill. Albert H. Morrill's correspondence is with William Howard Taft. Included is a letter (1912 August 14) written from President Taft to Colonel Goethals in Panama introducing Morrill who wished to see the progress made on the Panama Canal. Most of the other letters (1906-1912) are personal, as the two men exchanged notes of congratulation or condolence throughout their political careers.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31254441 View

Arthur Bliss Lane papers, 1904-1957

Title: Arthur Bliss Lane papers 1904-1957

The papers consist of official, personal, and business correspondence, articles, speeches, clippings, recordings, and other papers of Arthur Bliss Lane, career diplomat, public servant, and lecturer. The papers reflect Lane's diplomatic career from the time he entered the service in Rome (1916), until his resignation as Ambassador to Poland (1947), and contain correspondence from international political figures. Also included are materials relating to his work on behalf of Poland, anti-communism, and the Republican Party.

ArchivalResource: 45 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0005 View

Yale in World War II collection, 1938-1946 (inclusive).

Title: Yale in World War II collection, 1938-1946 (inclusive).

The collection consists of printed matter, reports, correspondence, memoranda, radio scripts, memorabilia, scrapbooks and clippings documenting some of the activities at Yale University and of the individual colleges during World War II. Letters from Yale men in the services, both in the United States and abroad, to officials of the university make up a substantial part of the collection. Also included are correspondence and financial documents of the "Yale Library Project," a military intelligence operation secretly funded by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services which used Joseph T. Curtiss, a professor of English at Yale, as its agent.

ArchivalResource: 6.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702205986 View

Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948. Letter, 1932 March 18, Richmond, Va., to Vilhjalmur Stefansson, New York.

Title: Letter, 1932 March 18, Richmond, Va., to Vilhjalmur Stefansson, New York.

Sends photoprint of a miniature portrait of James Weddell.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8874974 View

Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937. Papers, 1683-1968, 1856-1937.

Title: Papers, 1683-1968, 1856-1937.

Professional and personal papers of John Garland Pollard, lawyer, educator and governor of Virginia. Subjects covered by the collection are Virginia Democratic Party politics, the Southern Baptist Church, threats to the separation of church and state, Williamsburg, Va., Colonial National Historical Park, YMCA in World War I, Prohibition, the Depression, the Federal Trade Commission, College of William and Mary and founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Prominent correspondents include Henry Watkins Anderson, Lady Astor, Frederic W. Boatwright, David K.E. Bruce, John Stewart Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Harry F. Byrd, James Cannon, J.A.C. Chandler, Calvin Coolidge, Westmoreland Davis, Jessie Ball Dupont, Carter Glass, John D. Rockefeller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Claude A. Swanson, Lyon G. Tyler, Alexander W. Weddell, and Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: ca. 15, 000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23291773 View

Robles Pazos, José. José Robles Pazos papers, 1929-1940.

Title: José Robles Pazos papers, 1929-1940.

The collection relates the plight of Robles's family after his arrest. Included is correspondence of John Dos Passos regarding Robles's arrest and execution. It is thought that Dos Passos's disillusionment with Communism began with the Robles case. The collection consists of correspondence, a contract for Spanish translations of 13 books by H.L. Mencken, and 2 life insurance policies.

ArchivalResource: 80 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49302269 View

Ingram, John Henry, 1862-1911. Papers of John Henry Ingram [manuscript] 1874-1911.

Title: Papers of John Henry Ingram [manuscript] 1874-1911.

Correspondence with Virginia lawyers, judges, and politicians, speeches, and letters to Ingram from his son, John Littlepage Ingram, describing life at the University of Virginia. Correspondents include Allen Caperton Braxton, John Warwick Daniel, William Francis Drewry, James Taylor Ellyson, Andrew Jackson Montague, and Alexander Welbourne Weddell.

ArchivalResource: 2 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647949278 View

Stearns, Florence Dickinson, 1883-. Papers of Florence Stearns [manuscript] 1920-55.

Title: Papers of Florence Stearns [manuscript] 1920-55.

Collection consists chiefly of manuscripts of her works including poems, essays, articles, plays, speeches and lectures, reviews, and a radio serial. The collection also contains newsclippings of notices and reviews of her work, photographs, some correspondence, and miscellaneous items pertaining to contemporary poets and poetry. Correspondents include: Louis Kaufman Anspacher, Martha Bianchi, James Branch Cabell, Gustav Davidson, George Dillon, Douglas Southall Freeman, Ellen Glasgow, Leigh Hanes, Mary Sinton Lewis Leitch, Corinne Melchers of the Black Swan; Louise Burleigh Powell and AlexanderWilbourne Weddell.

ArchivalResource: 3,500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647932124 View

Schevill, Rudolph, 1874-1946. Rudolph Schevill papers : mss, typescript, ca. 1920-1985.

Title: Rudolph Schevill papers : mss, typescript, ca. 1920-1985.

Letters to Schevill from scholars in Romance languages and others from: A. Alonso, D. Barrows, R. Beer, H.A. Beers, J.C. Cebrian, G. Chinard, G. Cirot, W.L. Cross, W. Entwistle, A. Farinelli, J. Fitzmaurice-Kelly, J. Ford, L. Hanke, W.M. Hart, P. Hazard, F. Kruger, A. Kuersteiner, E. Merimee, G. Morley, H. Oertch, K. Pietsch, K. Rand, H.E. Smith, J. Steinbreicher, H.M. Stephens, G. Stimming, G.A. Thayer, H.P. Wright, and others. Correspondence between Monroe Deutsch, Stephen Duggan and Alexander Weddell addresses the lack of paper in Spain as an impediment to the publication of Schevill's works of Cervantes. Copies of letters from Schevill to Miguel de Unamuno also present. Notes and drafts made by Schevill for publications and a course taught at Mills College, invitations to join academic societies, and a contract signed by Phoebe Hearst, Schevill, and Bonilla for the works of Cervantes are also present. Condolences to Isabel Schevill after the death of R. Schevill contain letters from friends and colleagues, including Erico Verissimo. Drafts of Schevill's autobiography "Recollections of a golden age" and material gathered for it (presumably by Isabel Schevill).

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.6 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40311143 View

Bardin, James Cook, 1887-. Correspondence of Professor Bardin [manuscript], 1927-1944.

Title: Correspondence of Professor Bardin [manuscript], 1927-1944.

Correspondence, 1927-1931, regarding Simon Bolivar's relations with the University of Virginia and his nephew and adopted son, Fernando Bolívar as a student 1827-1828, also letters, 1943-1944, regarding the dedication of La Sala Bolivar's portrait in the Romance Pavilion.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647921971 View

Jaffe, Louis I. (Louis Isaac), 1888-1950. Editorial correspondence files, W-Z, of the Virginian-Pilot [manuscript], 1919-1972 (bulk 1922-1949).

Title: Editorial correspondence files, W-Z, of the Virginian-Pilot [manuscript], 1919-1972 (bulk 1922-1949).

The collection contains files W-Z of Jaffé's editorial correspondence. Topics include Norfolk civic issues, including the establishment of Seashore State Park, improved race relations, Al Smith and the election of 1928, his Pulitzer Prize, Norfolk history, the firing of U.Va. professor Whipple for pacifist views, articles for Virginia Quarterly Review, and Duke University. Many of the letters are from job seekers, and many others concern columns and book reviews. Among the correspondents are Julius John Lankes, John Calvin Metcalf, Campbell Bascom Slemp, Lindsay Carter Warren, Duke professor W.H. Wannamaker, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, Junius Edgar West, Leon R. Whipple, Charles Harris Whitaker, Newman Ivey White, Walter Francis White, William Allen White, James Southall Wilson, Carter W. Wormeley, editor R. Charlton Wright, P. Bernard Young, Stark Young and Thomas W. Young.

ArchivalResource: 467 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647846320 View

Williams Family. Papers of the Williams Family [Manuscript], 1798-1987 (bulk 1802-1972).

Title: Papers of the Williams Family

Correspondence, financial and legal papers, photographs, newsclippings, speeches and articles, genealogical material, oral history, and miscellany concerning the Williams family, particularly ambassador Murat Willis Williams. Letters and a few financial and legal papers of Richmond, Va., lawyer William Clayton Williams; Richmond, Va., banker John Langbourne Williams and his wife Maria Ward Skelton Williams; correspondence, speeches and articles of U.S. Comptroller of the Currency John Skelton Williams; genealogical materials collected by Edmund Randolph Williams; and a few miscellaneous papers by or about John Green Williams, Langbourne Meade Williams, and William C. Williams. Topics include the War of 1812, slavery, the Civil War, and the San Francisco fire and earthquake. Letters from John Esten Cooke describe life in the Confederate Army. Papers of Richmond lawyer and civic leader Lewis Catlett Williams concern family, civic and professional activities. Topics include automobile safety, tobacco taxation, workman's compensation, law, ethics, and the University of Virginia. Papers of career diplomat and Virginia politician Murat Willis Williams concern family, Woodberry Forest and the University of Virginia, the Richmond News Leader, Oxford University, World War II Naval service, diplomatic career in Spain, Romania, Israel and El Salvador, Virginians for McCarthy, and Congressional campaigns in 1970 and 1972. Specific topics include the Alliance for Progress; the American Foreign Service Association; social and political reform in El Salvador; Francis P. Miller and his memoirs "Man from the Valley"; the depiction of Miller in J. Harvie Wilkinson's "Harry Byrd, the changing face of Virginia politics, 1945-1966"; an effort to obtain an exit visa for a Romanian; and the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 12000 items : (9.7 linear shelf feet)

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu01738.xml View

Martha Dickinson Bianchi correspondence concerning publication of the poetry of the American poet, Emily Dickinson:, 1881-1943 (inclusive), 1925-1937 (bulk).

Title: Martha Dickinson Bianchi correspondence concerning publication of the poetry of the American poet, Emily Dickinson: 1881-1943 (inclusive), 1925-1937 (bulk).

Correspondence regarding publication of the poetry of the American poet, Emily Dickinson, by her niece, Martha Dickinson Bianchi.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (3.75 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02016/catalog View

Yale in World War II collection, 1938-1946

Title: Yale in World War II collection 1938-1946

The collection consists of printed matter, reports, correspondence, memoranda, radio scripts, memorabilia, scrapbooks and clippings documenting some of the activities at Yale University and of the individual colleges during World War II. Letters from Yale men in the services, both in the United States and abroad, to officials of the university make up a substantial part of the collection. Also included are correspondence and financial documents of the "Yale Library Project," a military intelligence operation secretly funded by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services which used Joseph T. Curtiss, a professor of English at Yale, as its agent.

ArchivalResource: 6.5 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1212 View

George S. Messersmith papers

Title: George S. Messersmith papers

Diplomatic and professional papers of George S. Messersmith (1883-1960). Consists of correspondence, memoranda, and official dispatches written during Messersmith’s tenure with the U.S. Department of State, as well as during his subsequent business career. The extensive typescript of an unpublished memoir is also present. The papers include extensive discussions of political and economic matters regarding Europe during the 1930s and Latin America in the 1940s and 1950s.

ArchivalResource: 11 linear feet and 1 oversize box and 1 oversize folder

https://library.udel.edu/special/findaids/view?docId=ead/mss0109.xml View

Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948. Letters to his family, describing his life and travels in India as American Consul General [manuscript] 1920-24.

Title: Letters to his family, describing his life and travels in India as American Consul General [manuscript] 1920-24.

Includes letters from his wife, Virginia Chase Steadman Weddell, describing a visit to Turkey, 1924 [2 items. holograph signed].

ArchivalResource: 30 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647949509 View

James Rockwell Sheffield papers, 1768-1969

Title: James Rockwell Sheffield papers 1768-1969

The papers consist of correspondence, scrapbooks, writings, and photographs documenting the political and diplomatic career of James Rockwell Sheffield. The bulk of the material dates from 1893 to 1938 and concerns either the New York Republican party and its influence on National politics or American diplomatic relations with Mexico during the Coolidge administration. Major correspondents include William Boyd Allison, Nicholas Murray Butler, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William Howard Taft, and James R. Wadsworth.

ArchivalResource: 9.75 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0446 View

Scott, Mary Wingfield, 1895-1983. Papers : of Mary Wingfield Scott, 1935-1953.

Title: Papers : of Mary Wingfield Scott, 1935-1953.

The collection contains Scott's correspondence and papers regarding the preservation of historic Richmond, Va., houses. Most of the correspondence relates to the Adam Craig house, although there are a few items regarding the Ann Carrington house and the Bransford house (Cecil Memorial Church house). Also includes a few items on Scott's iron work exhibit and articles on old Richmond houses. Notable correspondents include Nancy Astor, Kathleen Bruce, Douglas S. Freeman, and Alexander Weddell.

ArchivalResource: 140 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29492074 View

Richard Brown Baker Family Papers, 1866-2002, (bulk 1900-1990)

Title: Richard Brown Baker Family Papers Richard Brown Baker Family Papers 1866-2002 (bulk 1900-1990)

Richard Brown Baker was born in Providence, R.I. on November 5, 1912 to Harvey Almy Baker and Marion North Brown. His grandfather was Henry Martin Brown, President of the Industrial Trust Co. of Rhode Island (later Fleet National Bank). He became a prodigious collector owning over 1,600 works of art before he died. He focused on the artists that were new and on the edge deciding in the 1950s to focus on young and unestablished artists. Richard Baker was one of the first to buy works by artists such as Jackson Pollock and Roy Lichtenstein.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear feet

http://library.brown.edu/riamco/render.php?eadid=US-RHi-mss1117&view=title View