Compare Constellations

Whitehead, Robert, 1897-1960. Robert Whitehead papers [manuscript], 1876-1964.

Title: Robert Whitehead papers [manuscript], 1876-1964.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence received by Whitehead, 1924-1938. Chief correspondents are Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., J Garland Pollard, A. Willis Robertson, and Henry St. George Tucker. There are also letters from John S. Battle, Carter Glass, George C. Peery, James H. Price, and E. Lee Trinkle, as well as routine mailings from the Virginia State Bar Association. The collection also includes drafts of proposed resolutions and bills (including repeal of the 18th amendment); newspaper clippings of obituaries and tributes to Whitehead, 1960; editorials on political issues, 1929-1936; and a notebook of writings of Robert Whitehead (1815-1898) clipped from the Nelson County Examiner which includes profiles of Archibald Stuart, Lucas P. Thompson, Sterling Claiborne, Robert Garland, John Thompson, Jr., William F. Cabell by N.F. Cabell, an account of the death of University of Virginia professor Walter D. Dabney and a obituary for Robert Whitehead by Charles M. Blackford. The collection also contains a talk "Legacy--profiles of my Whitehead family," 2006, by Ann Whitehead Thomas, and 2 phonograph recordings of an interview on WRVA radio show "Today's outstanding Virginian," 1950.

ArchivalResource: circa 450 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/256480428 View

Blackford, B. L. (Benjamin Lewis). B. L. Blackford letters, 1853-1868 [manuscript].

Title: B. L. Blackford letters, 1853-1868 [manuscript].

Family correspondence of B. Lewis Blackford, his mother, and his brothers, Charles Minor and Launcelot M. Blackford, including an 1853 letter from Charles Minor Blackford, a student at the University of Virginia, describing student life and including two diagrams of his room.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23959304 View

Blackford family papers [manuscript], 1847-1872.

Title: Blackford family papers [manuscript], 1847-1872.

The collection consists of clippings and some printed items pertaining to the Civil War and Reconstruction, the University of Virginia, and Norwood School. Civil War and Reconstruction clippings from Richmond and Lynchburg, Va., newspapers contain proclamations; resolutions; military notices, reports and orders; obituaries including ones for Generals Pettigrew and Pender, a memorial poem to Randolph Fairfax, and articles of interest including accounts of Jefferson Davis's trial, Andrew Johnson's veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill and an incident in Tappahannock. An account of a theft from the home of C. M. Blackford is included and an anonymously quoted individual in an article on Mosby may be a Blackford family member. Norwood School clippings are chiefly advertisements for sessions, together with some news articles and two obituaries for Mayo Cabell. Miscellaneous items include obituaries, marriage notices, poems, and a poem spoofing Abraham Lincoln and Virginia's delayed secession.

ArchivalResource: ca. 30 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647974175 View

Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894. Collection, 1840-1949, 1840-1846, 1861-1894.

Title: Collection, 1840-1949, 1840-1846, 1861-1894.

Early's account book, 1840-1846, includes Miss M.E. Compton's recollections of the 1st and 2d Battles of Manassas, and letters from Douglas Southall Freeman about the book; some pages are covered by newspaper clippings about 1st Manassas. Letters written to Early by William H. Payne (1872-1877), including typescripts of letters. Early's wallet. Copy of his memoirs of the Battle of Williamsburg. Copy of the diary which he kept while fleeing to Mexico (1865). Legal opinion by Early about the case of the Lynchburg city war bonds, and a letter from Charles M. Blackford about the bonds (1875). Copies of letters to, from, or about Early, and other papers about Early, mostly relating to the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30056103 View

William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Title: William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Journal reprints on evolutionary biology.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM06776-B.xml View

Blackford, Charles Minor, 1833-1903. Charles Minor Blackford letter to J.W. Mallet [manuscript] 1898 June 18.

Title: Charles Minor Blackford letter to J.W. Mallet [manuscript] 1898 June 18.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182575912 View

Blackford, Charles Minor, 1833-1903. Memoirs of Gertrude Powell Colston and Nannie Fisher Colston Minor [manuscript], 1883, undated.

Title: Memoirs of Gertrude Powell Colston and Nannie Fisher Colston Minor [manuscript], 1883, undated.

The collection contains a printed memoir of Gertrude Powell Colston by Charles Minor Blackford, the brother-in-law of her husband Raleigh Colston. The collection also contains a typed memoir of Nannie Fisher Colston Minor, second wife of John B. Minor, written for her children by her brother Raleigh Colston. It includes an account of a family scandal concerning the parentage of Confederate General Raleigh Edward Colston.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647951949 View

Blackford, William Matthews, 1801-1864. William Matthews Blackford diaries [manuscript], 1849-1864.

Title: William Matthews Blackford diaries [manuscript], 1849-1864.

Blackford's diaries contain a detailed description of life in Lynchburg, Virginia, during the 1850s and the Civil War until his death in 1864. He records activities of his friends, associates, and immediate family as well as the related Davis and Minor families, particularly University of Virginia professors John Staige Davis and John Barbee Minor. He describes his reading, careers as editor of the "Lynchburg Virginian," postmaster, and cashier for the Exchange Bank of Lynchburg; his attendance at St. Paul's Episcopal Church; and acquaintance with several well-known contemporaries including George Washington Bethune, John C. Calhoun, John Hartwell Cocke, Alexander Galt, Matthew Fontaine Maury, and Winfield Scott. The volumes for the Civil War years are especially lengthy with information on banking in the Confederacy, tobacco speculation and inflation. There are lengthy second hand narratives of battles and political and diplomatic events as reported by the papers or his five sons serving in the Confederate Army. The diaries also contain eulogies for his father, Benjamin Blackford and his older daughter Lucy Landon Blackford Davis.

ArchivalResource: 7 volumes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647823072 View

Patteson, Camm, b. 1840. Papers of Camm Patteson [manuscript] 1875-1900.

Title: Papers of Camm Patteson [manuscript] 1875-1900.

Chiefly business correspondence from Patteson's law practice. Subjects other than legal matters include Virginia politics, the University of Virginia, Buckingham and Cumberland Counties' politics, free silver, and the appointment of Thomas Henry Carter as proctor of the University of Virginia in 1897. Of interest are a letter from John W. Daniel commenting on the defeat of William J. Bryan for the presidency in 1896; Armistead C. Gordon's summation of Woodrow Wilson as a prospective president of the University of Virginia; an 1897 petition from the University of Virginia faculty to the Proctor, asking that the Building Committee consult with them over new construction; and an 1897 letter from Woodrow Wilson urging a promotion for U. Va. professory Richard H. Dabney. Includes writings, many fragmented, on Patteson's proposed legislation concerning trustees and fiduciaries and protection for individuals against trusts and corporations. Correspondents include Archer Anderson, Charles Minor Blackford, John Thompson Brown, Joseph Bryan, A. S. Buford, William Cabell, Richard H. Dabney, John W. Daniel, Henry D. Flood, Armistead C. Gordon, Randolph Harrison, R. G. H. Kean, John Lamb, Thomas S. Martin, Marshall McCormick, Robert Davis Yancey, and members of the Patteson family.

ArchivalResource: 175 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647952613 View

Blackford, Launcelot Minor, 1894-1964. Mine eyes have seen the glory : the story of a Virginia lady Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford, 1802-1896, who taught her family to hate slavery and to love the Union, 1954.

Title: Mine eyes have seen the glory : the story of a Virginia lady Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford, 1802-1896, who taught her family to hate slavery and to love the Union, 1954.

Blackford recounts the life of his grandmother, author of the 1832 "Notes illustrative of the wrongs of slavery." He quotes extensively from Blackford family letters and journals. Included in the story are excerpts from the letters of Abram Blackford, a freed slave to emigrated to Liberia, letters from her husband William M. Minor on a diplomatic mission to Bogotá, and an account narrated by Betsy, a slave owned by Dr. John Staige Davis of the University of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49499466 View

Blackford, Charles M. Four successive John Minors.

Title: Four successive John Minors.

Contains references to William McFarland who married into Minor family.

ArchivalResource: photocopy, 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59170914 View

Blackford Family. Collection, 1855-1970, 1861-1899.

Title: Collection, 1855-1970, 1861-1899.

Correspondence between Captain Charles Minor Blackford and his wife Susan Leigh Colston Blackford, written mostly during the Civil War; other family correspondence, including typescripts of letters from Captain Blackford and typescripts of letters from James G. Minor, a freed slave in Monrovia, Liberia, to his former mistress Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford of Virginia; Captain Blackford's legal notes and account book; account book of Thomas Colston; business docket of law partnership of Kirkpatrick and Blackford; genealogical information about family (the Blackford-Colston, etc. Family History includes a typed copy of the "Registry of Negroes as of 12-12-1858," with notes about some of the people); photo of bill of sale of Peggy Dean to William Blackford; diary of and poems by Dr. Blackford; and other items.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes; 20 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29676778 View

Blackford, Charles Minor, 1833-1903. Blackford family collection, 1855-1970 [microform].

Title: Blackford family collection, 1855-1970 [microform].

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48581663 View

White, Lucy Landon Carter Minor, 1849-1877. Photograph album kept by Lucy Landon Carter Minor, 1865-1875.

Title: Photograph album kept by Lucy Landon Carter Minor, 1865-1875.

The collection consists of an electrostatic copy of a photograph album of family members and friends assembled by Lucy Landon Carter Minor White together with biographical information on the subjects compiled by Lloyd T. Smith of Charlottesville, Va. Among the people portrayed are Benjamin Lewis Blackford, Charles Minor Blackford, Eugene Blackford, Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford, William Willis Blackford, John Staige Davis, Mary Custis Lee, Dabney Herndon Maury, Matthew Fontaine Maury, General John Minor, Dr. Lewis Willis Minor, Lucy Landon Carter Minor, John Barbee Minor, William Henry White. Eighteen of the subjects are girls who attended the Ursuline Convent school in New Orleans with Lucy during the Civil War. The General John Minor photograph is of a St. Memin crayon portrait.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53046682 View

Blackford Family Papers, 1849-1870

Title: Blackford Family Papers 1849-1870

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00131.xml View

Blackford, Charles Minor, 1833-1903. The Home Gazette [manuscript], 1849.

Title: The Home Gazette [manuscript], 1849.

Paperbound volume containing issues of the gazette which was edited by Charles Minor Blackford with the aid of Charles Landon Carter Minor, Benjamin Lewis Blackford, Launcelot Minor Blackford, and Eugene Blackford.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. [46 pages]; 19 x 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647866423 View

Peters, Don T. C. Papers, 1815-1881; (bulk 1860-1872).

Title: Papers, 1815-1881; (bulk 1860-1872).

Business letters, bills, receipts, and checks. Topics include stock speculation, zinc stocks, mercantile accounts, silverware, personal debts, banking in New York and in Lynchburg, land speculation in Iowa, and agricultural machinery. Writers of letters and other persons mentioned in the collection include Charles Minor Blackford, Sr., Thomas Stanhope Flournoy, William Hurley, Frank G. Peters, J.M. McJimsey, John R. Garland, Paul Carrington Callaway, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Grenville Mellen Dodge, D.T. Williams, Oddie & St. George (firm), John Goode, Jr., and Lieutenant Coles Peters, C.S.A.

ArchivalResource: 310 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20078023 View

Blackford, Charles Minor, 1833-1903. Papers of the Blackford family [manuscript] 1674 (1809-86) 1896.

Title: Papers of the Blackford family [manuscript] 1674 (1809-86) 1896.

Chiefly correspondence, 1809-96 of Charles Minor Blackford, Lucy Landon Blackford Davis, Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford, William Matthews Blackford, Eliza J. Colston, Elizabeth Garlick Hill, Elizabeth Minor Hill, Humphrey Hill, James Minor, and Robert Stanard. Collection also includes indenture, 1674, land grant, 1788, and John Quincy Adams memorial funeral badge, 1848.

ArchivalResource: 78 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647927415 View

Minor, Lewis Willis, 1808-1872. Papers of Lewis Willis Minor [manuscript], 1730-1965 (bulk 1828-1897.).

Title: Papers of Lewis Willis Minor [manuscript], 1730-1965 (bulk 1828-1897.).

The collection contains correspondence; genealogical information on the Minor, Carter and Champ families; notes on gynecology taken in Dr. Theodore Gaillard Thomas' clinic in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; an essay on phlebitis for a degree of doctor in medicine in the University of Pennsylvania; and a register of naval patients in the Charity Hospital of New Orleans, on the ship St. Philip (formerly Star of the West), and in the Confederate Naval Hospital in Mobile, Al. Also Confederate bonds and money; Minor family legal papers; miscellaneous legal papers re Florida property and a proposed duel between Minor and Archibald Gillespie; copies of the wills of Robert "King" Carter and General John Minor; a memorandum, 1865 May 4, of the terms of surrender for Confederate naval forces at Mobile, Al.; and miscellaneous family papers. Topics include Minor's life and medical experiences, especially with yellow fever aboard the U.S.S. Mississippi during the Mexican War; a Mexican War pension for Eloise I. Minor; life aboard the U.S.S. Independence, the U.S.S.Brooklyn, and the U.S.S. Levant; cruises to the Mediterranean Sea; a yellow fever epidemic in Portsmouth, Va.; Reconstruction in Virginia and Alabama; Alabama land claims; and the case of Santiago Innerarity vs. Merchants National Bank re a sugar shipment.

ArchivalResource: 150 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647829618 View

Ambler, Nannie, fl. 1917. Papers of the Blackford family [manuscript], 1849-1932.

Title: Papers of the Blackford family [manuscript], 1849-1932.

Collection consists chiefly of correspondence of the Blackford family and notes and papers from various Virginia educational institutions. Also included are photographs, announcements, invitations, advertisements, sermons, and drawings. Of interest are letters and military papers of Launcelot Minor Blackford (1894-1964) during his tenure with the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe; reminiscences of the funerals of Judge Claggett R. Jones and Edwin Anderson Alderman; and a letter, 1859 December 5, from University of Virginia student William H. Henson re University students attending the hanging of John Brown.

ArchivalResource: 270 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647805984 View

Blackford, Charles Minor, Sr. Papers, 1848-1870.

Title: Papers, 1848-1870.

Miscellaneous material concerning a law firm.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41239202 View