Papers, 1824-1960.

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Papers, 1824-1960.

Chiefly the papers of Lucy Parke (Chamberlaye) Bagby (1842-1927) of Richmond, Va., documenting her domestic roles, her employment in the Virginia state government, and her volunteer work in historic preservation and benevolence organizations. Included is correspondence, 1853-1927, with family members, friends, and fellow social and cultural activists, including Isobel Lamont (Stewart) Bryan (1847-1910), Cynthia Beverley (Tucker) Coleman (1832-1908), Gertrude Powell Colston (1836?-1901), Francis Warrington Dawson (1840-1889), Mary Jeffery Galt (1844-1922), Mary Washington Ball (Minor) Lightfoot (1851-1930), Mary Amanda (Williamson) Stewart (1822-1910) and Sally Louisa Tompkins (1834-1916). Topics include the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, the Richmond Ice and Milk Mission, and the politics of government employment. Bagby also received letters from a host of Chamberlayne, Dabney, and Bagby relatives, as well as her own children. Represented are her brother, John Hampden Chamberlayne (1838-1882), newspaper editor of Norfolk, Petersburg, and Richmond, Va.; her cousin, Virginius Dabney (1835- 1894); and her children, Virginia (Bagby) Taylor (1864-1955); John Hampden Chamberlayne Bagby (1867-1934), as a student and later professor at Hampden-Sydney College; Martha Burwell Dabney (Bagby) Battle (1869-1954); Parke Chamberlayne (Bagby) Bolling (1874-1947); George William Bagby, Jr. (1876-1943) as a student at the College of William and Mary and later employee of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; Robert Coleman Bagby (1876- 1938); Ellen Matthews Bagby (1879-1960); and Philip Haxall Bagby (1882- 1926), career army officer. Also included are Lucy Parke (Chamberlayne) Bagby's memoirs, which include her opinions on politics, the Civil War, race relations, and volunteer work; her diaries, 1892-1911; memorandum books, 1892-1925; scrapbooks, 1864-1875 and 1867; autograph album, 1856-1861; and personal account books. Also included are papers of Bagby's husband, George William Bagby (1828-1883), including correspondence; copies of lectures, articles and essays; scrapbooks; a travel diary; commonplace books; and scattered papers of his father, George Bagby (1798-1874). Other materials concern the Bagby children and include correspondence; diaries of George William Bagby, Jr., kept as a student at the College of William and Mary; correspondence of Ellen Matthews Bagby with Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Shaw Astor (1879-1964), diaries and scrapbooks; correspondence, accounts, and estate papers of John Hampden Chamberlayne Bagby; and papers of Parke Chamberlayne (Bagby) Bolling, including correspondence, diaries, account books, commonplace books, and a scrapbook, much of it concerning her activities in the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7352496

Virginia Historical Society Library

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Bagby, Lucy Parke Chamberlayne, 1842-1927.

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Bagby, John Hampden Chamberlayne, 1867-1934.

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Bagby family.

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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, Ellen Matthews, 1879-1960.

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Richmond Ice and Milk Mission (Richmond, Va.)

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Bolling, Parke Chamberlayne Bagby, 1874-1947.

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Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities

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The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) was founded in 1889 in Williamsburg, Virginia, to preserve and restore deteriorating historical sites in Virginia. The APVA bought the site where Jamestown is located. Over the years the organization (recently renamed Preservation Virginia) has worked with public and private groups to restore sites. The group owns several sites in the state that are open to the public, including Bacon's Castle and the Cape Henry Lighthouse. ...