Bagby family. Papers, 1824-1960.
Title:
Papers, 1824-1960.
Chiefly the papers of Lucy Parke (Chamberlaye) Bagby (1842-1927) of Richmond, Va., documenting her domestic roles, her employment in the Virginia state government, and her volunteer work in historic preservation and benevolence organizations. Included is correspondence, 1853-1927, with family members, friends, and fellow social and cultural activists, including Isobel Lamont (Stewart) Bryan (1847-1910), Cynthia Beverley (Tucker) Coleman (1832-1908), Gertrude Powell Colston (1836?-1901), Francis Warrington Dawson (1840-1889), Mary Jeffery Galt (1844-1922), Mary Washington Ball (Minor) Lightfoot (1851-1930), Mary Amanda (Williamson) Stewart (1822-1910) and Sally Louisa Tompkins (1834-1916). Topics include the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, the Richmond Ice and Milk Mission, and the politics of government employment. Bagby also received letters from a host of Chamberlayne, Dabney, and Bagby relatives, as well as her own children. Represented are her brother, John Hampden Chamberlayne (1838-1882), newspaper editor of Norfolk, Petersburg, and Richmond, Va.; her cousin, Virginius Dabney (1835- 1894); and her children, Virginia (Bagby) Taylor (1864-1955); John Hampden Chamberlayne Bagby (1867-1934), as a student and later professor at Hampden-Sydney College; Martha Burwell Dabney (Bagby) Battle (1869-1954); Parke Chamberlayne (Bagby) Bolling (1874-1947); George William Bagby, Jr. (1876-1943) as a student at the College of William and Mary and later employee of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; Robert Coleman Bagby (1876- 1938); Ellen Matthews Bagby (1879-1960); and Philip Haxall Bagby (1882- 1926), career army officer. Also included are Lucy Parke (Chamberlayne) Bagby's memoirs, which include her opinions on politics, the Civil War, race relations, and volunteer work; her diaries, 1892-1911; memorandum books, 1892-1925; scrapbooks, 1864-1875 and 1867; autograph album, 1856-1861; and personal account books. Also included are papers of Bagby's husband, George William Bagby (1828-1883), including correspondence; copies of lectures, articles and essays; scrapbooks; a travel diary; commonplace books; and scattered papers of his father, George Bagby (1798-1874). Other materials concern the Bagby children and include correspondence; diaries of George William Bagby, Jr., kept as a student at the College of William and Mary; correspondence of Ellen Matthews Bagby with Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Shaw Astor (1879-1964), diaries and scrapbooks; correspondence, accounts, and estate papers of John Hampden Chamberlayne Bagby; and papers of Parke Chamberlayne (Bagby) Bolling, including correspondence, diaries, account books, commonplace books, and a scrapbook, much of it concerning her activities in the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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