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Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Title: Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Letters from various correspondents to American editor and diplomat Walter Hines Page concerning his editorial work and his interest in education in the South.

ArchivalResource: 24 boxes (8 linear ft.)

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Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924. Papers of the Dabney family [manuscript] 1792 [1880-1971].

Title: Papers of the Dabney family [manuscript] 1792 [1880-1971].

The collection consists chiefly of letters to the Dabney & Davis families, particularly Lily Heth Davis Dabney, Richard Heath Dabney, Virginius Dabney, Eugene Davis, Lucy Minor Davis, James Ewell Heath, Susan C. Dabney Smedes, Alice Chancellor Davis White, and John Shelton White. Most of the correspondence concerns family activities. Topics of interest include Reconstruction, World War I debt repayment, prohibition, the University of Virginia, the schooling of Indian children, postal service, the 19th century legal profession, plantation management, and organizations with which members of the family were connected including the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, St. George's chapter, New York, N.Y. The Citizen's Union Organization, New York, N.Y., and the Albemarle Colportage & Sunday School Society. In the collection are mss. for Gold that did not glitter, and The story of Don Miff, by Virginius Dabney, The causes of the French revolution, by Richard Heath Dabney, and letters & review regarding Memorials of a Southern planter by Susan Dabney Smedes. In addition there are scrapbooks, diaries, articles, photographs, daguerreotypes, periodicals, clippings, financial papers, school papers, journals & notebooks. The latter cover such diverse topics as meteorology, agriculture, Latin, mathematics, history, French, philosophy, law, & psychology. Of special interest are a group of drawings by Indian children, 1887. Among the correspondents are Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Harry Byrd, Charles Dickens, David Starr Jordan, William Ewart Gladstone, Andrew Lang, and Howard Worth Smith.

ArchivalResource: 13,000 items.

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James Dodson Barbee and David Rankin Barbee Papers, 1784-1953, (bulk 1852-1904)

Title: James Dodson Barbee and David Rankin Barbee Papers 1784-1953 (bulk 1852-1904)

James Dodson Barbee, Methodist clergyman in Tennessee and Alabama and publishing agent, and son David Rankin Barbee, journalist. Correspondence, including family letters, notebooks, account books, printed matter, notes, and sermons chiefly relating to the Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, Tennessee, and to claims of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, growing out of Civil War property confiscations, and to the writings and research of David Rankin Barbee.

ArchivalResource: 5,000 items; 17 containers plus 1 oversize; 7.2 linear feet; 2 microfilm reels

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Campbell, Charles, 1807-1876. Papers, 1617-1895 ; (bulk 1770-1879).

Title: Papers, 1617-1895 ; (bulk 1770-1879).

Correspondence and personal papers of Campbell, and historical documents and letters collected by him, mainly 1770-1879. Includes a large amount of undated miscellaneous material, much of which consists of rough drafts and preliminary notes for Campbell's various publications; material concerning Campbell's position as principal of Anderson Academy, Petersburg, Va.; a transcription of the minute book of the City Council of Richmond, Va., 1782-1795; and original letters of P.T. Barnum, Robert Beverley, Lewis Cass, Virginius Dabney, Edward Everett, Andrew Jackson, B.T. Johnson, D.H. Maury, Beverley Randolph, Pierre Soulé, and St. George Tucker; and copies of letters and papers of John Adams, Theodorick Bland, Jr. and Sr., Patrick Henry, Arthur Lee, R.H. Lee, Edgar Allan Poe, John Randolph of Roanoke, John Smith, and George Washington.

ArchivalResource: 1,318 items.

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Dabney, Richard Heath, 1860-1947. Letters chiefly from Virginius Dabney [manuscript] 1879-1888.

Title: Letters chiefly from Virginius Dabney [manuscript] 1879-1888.

Almost all the correspondence consists of short postal cards on health, family events, Virginius's New York Latin School, Richard Heath's activities at U. Va. and a relative's ailing financial situation. With the collection are 9 issues of The bulletin of the American society of newspaper editors for the yer May 1973 through April 1974.

ArchivalResource: 72 items.

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Dabney, Virginius, 1835-1894. Papers of the Dabney and related Davis, Terrell, and Carr families [manuscript] 1735-1982.

Title: Papers of the Dabney and related Davis, Terrell, and Carr families [manuscript] 1735-1982.

Correspondence in the papers chiefly discusses family and local news. Topics of interest include Kentucky in 1790 particularly Indian troubles and separation from the U.S. over the Jay-Cardoqui treaty; the Civil War particularly slave hiring and use of slaves as servants in the army, procurement of clothes, U. Va. as an army hospital and the burial of Confederate dead in the University cemetery, 1861, the battle of New Market Heights, 1864 (Chafin's Farm, Fts. Harrison and Gilmer), and the desolation after the battle of Fredericksburg; the Richmond Exposition, 1888; Virginius Dabney's New York Latin School, his library, and his publication of Don Miff and Gold that did not glitter; Susan Dabney Smedes' Memorials of a Southern planter; Richard Heath Dabney's The causes fo the French revolution, and his teaching career at U. Va., particularly a 1907 controversy over compulsory Latin; and Virginius Dabney's schoolboy impressions of France, and his years at Episcopal High. There are research notes, mss. drafts, correspondence or printed copies of Don Miff and A mighty hunter before the Lord by Virginius Dabney, a mss. on bird watching and two Civil War memoirs by Susan C. Dabney Smedes; four articles by Richard Heath Dabney "Athleticism," "The elevation of history to the rank of a science," "Germany's dream of dominion", and "The Huguenot element in Virginia's population"; and numerous articles and Richmond, the story of a city, by Virginius Dabney. The collection also contains a diary of Richard Heath Dabney from his year of study in Munich and Berlin, 1882-1883, and a journal, 1890, regarding life on Burleigh, a Mississippi plantation; a 1735 will of Thomas Carr; publishing contracts; a petition supporting Richard Heath Dabney's appointment as history professor; student reports from Episcopal High; Dabney family genalogy; photographs of many family members as well as Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Richard Nixon, Dean Acheson, Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas S. Freeman, and Harry Byrd; a plat of Burleigh; clippings, advertisements, a scrapbook of reviews of Don Miff, and memorabilia. Correspondents include F.E.G. Carr, Eugene Davis, James M.M. Davis, Lucy Davis, Mary Jane Terrell Davis, Richard Terrell Davis, Elizabeth Anna Heath, Lucy Ann Terrell, Samuel Terrell, Edwin Anderson Alderman, Maria Heath Dabney, Thomas Smith Gregory Dabney, Armistead Churchill Gordon and Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 600 items.

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