Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922

Author, diplomat.

From the description of Papers of Thomas Nelson Page [manuscript], 1878-1923. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823870

From the description of Papers of Thomas Nelson Page [manuscript] 1891. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647949629

Virginia author; U.S. ambassador to Italy.

From the description of Papers of Thomas Nelson Page [manuscript], 1889-1899. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647813209

James Barron Hope was born 23 March 1829 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the grandson of James Barron and son of Wilton and Jane A. (Barron) Hope. James Barron Hope graduated from the College of William and Mary. He practiced law and was commonwealth's attorney for Norfolk. He married Anne Beverley Whiting. The couple had two daughters, Jane A. Barron (Janey Barron Marr) and Nanny Hope. Hope is known primarily for his poetry, serving as the official poet of the 250th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement. He published several volumes of writings and also edited newspapers. Hope died in 1887.

From the guide to the James Barron Hope Papers (I), 1790-1965., (Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary)

American author and diplomat; ambassador to Italy, 1913-1919.

From the description of Papers of Thomas Nelson Page [manuscript], 1865-1920. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647848043

Native Virginian Thomas Nelson Page entered into the practice of law after graduating from the University of Virginia. After the end of the Civil War, he began publishing idyllic sketches of the Old South which became inordinately popular in both North and South during Reconstruction, and were ultimately collected into book form. Full of rustic detail, honorable gentlemen, and admirable ladies, Page's stories, based on his youth, have done much to fix the romantic image of the Old South in the American psyche.

From the description of Thomas Nelson Page letters, 1888-1894. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 69935279

Author and diplomat.

From the description of Autograph appreciation of J.R. Lowell signed, 1889 Feb. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609654

American author; ambassador to Italy, 1913-1919.

From the description of Letter : 1759 R Street [Washington, D.C.], to Robert Howard Russell, New York, 1898 March 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22772939

From the description of Letter : 1759 R Street [Washington, D.C.], to Frank W. Hoyt, Montclair, N.J., 1906 Dec. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22773803

From the description of Letter : Hartford, Conn., to M.E. Waring, Chautauqua, N.Y., 1892 July 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22773720

From the description of Letter : London, to William Carey, New York, 1894 July 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22773791

From the description of Letter : York Harbor, Maine, to Robert H. Russell, New York, 1903 Aug. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22773810

Thomas Nelson Page was born in 1853. He attended Washington College and read law under his father. Graduated from University of Virginia. Lawyer in Richmond, Va. Married to Anne Seddon Bruce and secondly, to Florence Lathrop Field. He wrote novels, children's books, biography and poems. In 1913 he was appointed ambassador to Italy where he served until 1919. He died in Hanover Co., Va. in 1922 and was buried in Washington, D.C.

From the description of Papers, 1893-1953 1908-1919. (College of William & Mary). WorldCat record id: 20570282

American author & diplomat, ambassador to Italy.

From the description of Papers of Thomas Nelson Page [manuscript], 1903-1907. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647813252

Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922), lawyer and American writer, served as U.S. ambassador to Italy during the Woodrow Wilson administration and during World War I.

From the description of Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10581944

American novelist and diplomat.

From the description of Letter and postcard [manuscript], 1899, 1967. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647804956

From the description of Letter to Mrs. Terhune [Marion Harland] [manuscript], 1889 February 2. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812949

From the description of Letter [manuscript] : Richmond, Va. to P.H. Kelly, 1887 February 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647846071

From the description of Printing block from "Marse Chan" [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816477

From the description of Letter : Richmond, Va. to P.H. Kelly, 1887 February 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32959844

From the description of All de Geog'aphy a Nigger wants to know : [n.p.] : autograph manuscript signed (pages one and six only) of the story, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609645

From the description of Autograph letter signed : York, Maine, to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1908 Sept. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872079

American author and diplomat.

From the description of Letter [manuscript] : York, Me., to E. Travers Riggs, New London, Ct., 1905 June 19. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647829452

From the description of The dragon of the seas [manuscript], 1898? (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647836939

From the description of Photographs, 1894 Jun. 8, n.d. [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810862

From the description of The dragon of the seas, 1898? (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 30793695

Page, Thomas Nelson 1853-1922, Writer. Thomas Nelson Page, author of short stories, novels, essays, and poetry, is best known for his role as literary spokesman for the glories of the Old South. Born in 1853 and only 11 years old when the Civil War ended, Page, writing in the plantation genre of John Pendleton Kennedy and others, created of the antebellum South a mythical, would-be land of noble gentlemen and ladies, of contented slaves, a society ordered by the laws of chivalry. A descendant of the prominent but no longer wealthy Nelson and Page families, and a native of Virginia, Page attended Washington College and later studied at the University of Virginia for a legal career. Page married in 1886, and his wife died two years later. He practiced law in Richmond from 1876 until 1893, when he moved with his second wife, the former Florence Lathrop Field, to Washington. Although Page became active in the social life of the capital and later served six years as ambassador to Italy under Woodrow Wilson, he continued in his writing to depict Virginia and the passing of the old order there. His works, set for the most part in the South, comprised 18 volumes when they were published in a collected edition in 1912. In Ole Virginia (1887) was Page's first collection of short stories treating the antebellum South. Other works dealt with later periods in southern history. For example Red Rock (1898) was a sympathetic portrait of the South during Reconstruction, and John Marvel, Assistant (1909) depicted the New South of the early 20th century. Page was consistently a proponent of the southern way of life, and in such stories as "Marse Chan" in In Ole Virginia his finest sketches were realized. In this story, told by a faithful exslave, of a young southerner who died for the southern cause and who placed duty and honor above all personal gain, Page postulates a kind of heroism that seemed to be missing from modern life. Page's South, of course, was finer than any real place could ever be, but he satisfied the nostalgia of his readers for what might have been--a place where heroic men and women adhered to a code of perfect honor. Only in the 20th century would Ellen Glasgow and, later, the writers of the Southern Literary Renaissance dispel the romantic image of the Old South so carefully fashioned by Thomas Nelson Page. Documenting the American South website http://docsouth.unc.edu (Retrieved June 9, 2009)

From the description of Thomas Nelson Page letter, 1896 February 17. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 378262575

Native Virginian Thomas Nelson Page entered into the practice of law after graduating from the University of Virginia. After the end of the Civil War, he began publishing idyllic sketches of the Old South which became inordinately popular in both North and South during Reconstruction, and were ultimately collected into book form. Full of rustic detail, honourable gentlemen, and admirable ladies, Page's stories, based on his youth, have done much to fix the romantic image of the Old South in the American psyche.

From the description of Thomas Nelson Page letter to Sarah S. Kimball, 1899 June 14. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 52159139

Virginia lawyer and writer; U.S. ambassador to Italy from 1913-1919.

From the description of Thomas Nelson Page papers, 1739-1927 and undated bulk1885-1920. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 166269876

American author.

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Venice, to Dr. Baldwin, 1894 Sept. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270860098

From the description of Letter 1921. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 48845921

Diplomat and author.

From the description of Letters of Thomas Nelson Page, 1893-1901. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454822

Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) served as the U.S. ambassador to Italy, 1913-19. His books helped established the myth of a pre-Civil War feudal Utopia in the South. See Theodore L. Gross, THOMAS NELSON PAGE (NY: Twayne, 1967) and Rosewell Page, THOMAS NELSON PAGE: A MEMOIR OF THE VIRGINIA GENTLEMAN, BY HIS BROTHER (NY: Scribner, 1923).

John Lewis Berkeley, was principal of the public schools in Danville, Virginia, retiring after 32 years in 1920. See Frances Berkeley Young, THE BERKELEYS OF BARN ELMS (Hamden, CT: Shoestring Press, 1964), pp. 84, 121-122.

From the description of Letter, 1918 March 5, American Embassy, Rome [Italy] to John Lewis Berkeley, Danville, Virginia. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122653749

Robert Morton Hughes, an alumnus of the College of William and Mary, attended the University of Virginia Law School. He was the son of Robert William and Eliza M. (Johnston) Hughes. He practiced law in Norfolk, Virginia. Hughes was the president of the Virginia Bar Association; biographer of Joseph Eggleston Johnston; a member of the Virginia Board of Education; and served as a member and as rector of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary.

• 1855: Born, in Abingdon, Virginia,the son of Robert William and Eliza M. [Johnston] Hughes
• 1870 - 1873 : Attended College of William and Mary,A.B.
• 1877: M.A., University of Virginia
• 1877: Began law practice in Norfolk
• 1879: Married Mattie Smithof Williamsburg(two sons)
• 1893 - 1918 : Member of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary,served as Rector
• 1895: President, Virginia Bar Association
• 1930 - 1935 : Member, Virginia State Board of Education
• 1940: Died in Norfolk, Virginia

From the guide to the Robert Morton Hughes Papers, 1715-1933., (Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary)