Papers of James Southall Wilson

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Papers of James Southall Wilson

1912 - 1962

https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u1749368

The papers of James Southall Wilson include photographs, letters and copies of architectural drawings and lectures. Of interest are a letter, 19 Sep 1962, from John Cook Wyllie to J. Albert Robbins stating that "Confessions of a victim" was not written by Edgar Allan Poe and a letter, 3 Dec 1962, to Arthur Kyle Davis from Christopher Short mentioning Short's novels "The big cat" and "Dark lantern." In a series of letters, 1929, Lewis Chase writes to Wilson re Thomas Holley Chivers. In a letter, 21 May 1920, A.G. Pollock writes to Wilson asking his support for the nomination of W. G. McAdoo at the Democratic Convention in San Francisco.

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