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University of Virginia. Alumni Association. Report of the Committee to Investigate the Academic Situation in the College [manuscript], 1942.

Title: Report of the Committee to Investigate the Academic Situation in the College [manuscript], 1942.

The committee was called to discuss improvement of faculty- student relations, faculty-administration relations, and student-administration relations. The report included the advise of Dr. Wiliam S. A. Pott who dealt with a similar situation at Elmira College and a report and questionnaire from 1937 recommending the expansion of the duties of the Dean of the College and the election of a Council for the College which would work with the Dean on academic issues. Report submitted by Virginius Dabney, Hugh Leach, William H. Laird, Charles Harrison Mann, and William B. Marbury.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276999296 View

United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives, 1861-1870

Title: United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives 1861-1870

The United States Sanitary Commission established the Army and Navy Claim Agency (ANCA) in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1864 to serve as the USSC’s central office to assist Union soldiers, sailors, and their families in prosecuting claims on the federal government for pensions, back pay, bounty, commutation of rations, prize money, and other benefits, without cost. The Army and Navy Claim Agency Archives comprise the records of the Army and Navy Claim Agency; the records of the Pension Agency, its predecessor organization; the registers and cash books of its subsidiary local agencies; and the records of two quasi-independent USSC claim agencies whose origins predate the establishment of the Army and Navy Claim Agency: the Protective War Claim Association of the State of New York, located in New York City, and the Protective War Claim and Pension Agency, located in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 506.37 linear feet; 1190 boxes, 46 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18809 View

Green, Julien, 1900-1998. Papers of Julien Green, 1948-1977.

Title: Papers of Julien Green, 1948-1977.

The collection contains 11 letters from Green to Bernard Sheehan about Sheehan's study of Green and his work, particularly Moira. The largest segment of the collection consists of 41 letters and cards from Walter Hartridge to Sheehan about his memories of Green and the author's family and Savannah background. Memories of Green or persons and events in Moira and Terre Lointaine were also collected by Sheehan in letters from William Henry Laird and Thaddeus Braxton Woody. Haley Fiske Thomas discusses their mutual work on Green, and the above books as well as a symposium on Julien Green and the American South held in Savannah in 1973. Sheehan's notes from a Green interview, several studies of Moira including The creation of Julien Green's Moira: autobiographical and psychological considerations, clippings and articles about Green and photographs complete the collection.

ArchivalResource: 150 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793437 View

Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-2001. Speeches delivered at the University of Virginia [manuscript] 1904-1947 (bulk 1938-1940).

Title: Speeches delivered at the University of Virginia [manuscript] 1904-1947 (bulk 1938-1940).

The collection contains lectures in a theology series, 1936 -1940, by Mortimer Adler, Norman P. Cohen, James M. Egan, O.P., Frank A. Geldard, Lewis M. Hammond, D. Clark Hyde, L. F. Kinney, William H. Laird, S. Vernon McCasland, Marcus B. Mallett, A. T. Mollegen, Howard Newman (notes only), J. Winfree Smith, William Kyle Smith, Carroll Mason Sparrow, Joseph Strause (notes only), and William S. Weedon. Sparrow's essay on "The measure of measurement" was later published in "Voyages and Cargoes." The collection also contains lectures in a great authors series by A.D. Fraser, W.A. Montgomery and Frederic T. Wood. Speeches on University of Virginia topics incude the honor system by Virginius Dabney; Paul B. Barringer by Roy Flanangan; a debate before the Jefferson Society by Robert W. Hoel; the 8th evac by H.E. Jordan; a comparison of the University in 1896 and 1924 by James M. Page; the "gay nineties" at Virginia by Lewis C. Williams; Other speakers include Sir Harold Bellman, A. D. Fraser, Garrard Glenn, James Hart, W. Edwin Hemphill, A. A. Hill, C[linton?] N[ewton?] Howard, William H. Laird, Ivey F. Lewis, John C. Metcalf, Julius M. Parmlee, Charles Pergler, Homer Richey, Joseph K. Roberts,Karl R. Wallace, Sumner Welles, Jennings C. Wise, Frederick T. Wood, David M. Wright. Miscellaneous ittems include a catalog of prints by Oscar Gieberich on exhibit 1939.

ArchivalResource: 73 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647962792 View

Laird, William H. (William Henry), 1901-. Papers of William H. Laird, 1940-1947 [manuscript].

Title: Papers of William H. Laird, 1940-1947 [manuscript].

The collection consists of the correspondence of Laird with his wife and children while he was serving with the 8th Evacuation Unit. Letters trace the history of the unit from its formation in 1942 through training at Fort Benning and Camp Kilmer, and service in Morocco and Italy. Topics include life in Charlottesville, Virginia, during the war, descriptions of Casablanca, and Italy and the people, work at the hospital, and Laird's work as a chaplain. Of interest are discussions on the necessity for and promotion of nurses, the Charlottesville blood drive and controversy over the separation of blood by race of donor, Laird's trip to Palestine in August, 1945, and "foxhole" religion of the soldiers. The collection also contains photographs and postcards of Italy, photographs of the hospital and its activities and personnel; pocket diaries, 1943-45 with brief records of daily activities, and Italian road maps.

ArchivalResource: 1,400 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647817301 View

Laird, William H. (William Henry), 1901-. Photograph album of the 8th Evacuation Hospital [manuscript], 1944-1945.

Title: Photograph album of the 8th Evacuation Hospital [manuscript], 1944-1945.

The album, titled "Outline of Hospital Operation", 1944-1945, contains photographs of the set up of the hospital at several sites in Italy. A series of loose photographs includes pictures of the Jefferson Day celebration, April 1945. The volume also contains a 1943 Christmas V-Mail to his son William H. Laird "Billy" together with a photogrpah of Billy, and a letter to his wife, 1943 March 3.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/186990626 View

Illustration cuts [manuscript], 1946-1949,n.d.

Title: Illustration cuts [manuscript], 1946-1949,n.d.

Most cuts are unidentified. Some appear to be for publications by or about the University of Virginia including scenes on the grounds, some professors, and the [Board of Visitors?], 1946-1947. Others are labelled "gas company public service magazine." A small group may be Episcopal clergy. Among the few individuals identified are Dean Rodman, the Rev. William H. Laird, Robert K. Gooch, John H. Yoe.

ArchivalResource: 1 cu. box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647987118 View