Papers, 1828-1917.

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Papers, 1828-1917.

Include social and business correspondence of George William Bagby, accounts concerning the newspaper The Native Virginian, published at Orange Court House; military papers concerning his Civil War service with the Army of Northern Virginia; satirical lectures and writings concerning life in antebellum Virginia, among them "The Old Virginia Gentleman," "The Disease Called Love, " and "The Old Virginia Negro"; broadsides and admission tickets to lectures given by Bagby; scrapbooks and notes of newspaper articles; diaries kept while Bagby was editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond, Va., and writer for The State; and commonplace books. Also contain accounts of Lucy Parke (Chamberlayne) Bagby, including those associated with the Rosemary Library in Richmond, Va.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7281488

Virginia Historical Society Library

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Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. of Northern Virginia.

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Bagby, George William, 1828-1883

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Author, lecturer and journalist, of Cumberland County, and Orange Court House, Va., married to Lucy Parke Chamberlayne (1842-1927). From the description of Papers, 1828-1917. (Virginia Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 29991351 Virginia resident, author, and editor of the SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. From the description of Letters, 1861-1863. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36109658 Author and editor of Richmond, Va. ...

Bagby, Lucy Parke Chamberlayne, 1842-1927.

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Rosemary Library (Richmond, Va.)

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