Papers of John R. Guerrant and the Guerrant family, 1881-1927.

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Papers of John R. Guerrant and the Guerrant family, 1881-1927.

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The diaries of Dr. John Reveley Guerrant form the bulk of the collecrtion. They cover his life as a student at Oxford Academy in Floyd, Va., Washington and Lee and the University of Virginia School of Medicine, as a physician at Charity Hospital, N.Y. and in practice in Roanoke, Va., as a member ot the House of Delegates, and as the owner of Algoma Farm, Calloway, Franklin County, Va. Topics of special interest include the dedications of the Robert E. Lee mausoleum and Stonewall Jackson's grave, the explosion of the V.M.I. magazine, commencement with a reception held by G.W.C. Lee, Graham Lee Literary Society debates, abuse of an African-American by students, peculiar behavior of Julia Jackson, Monticello in 1887, medical lectures of William C. Dabney and James L. Cabell, and speeches in the House of Delegates by Richard E. Byrd and Robert E. Lee, Jr. Some of the later diaries also contain personal expense accounts and medical notes. The collection also contains a genealogy of the Ingles family; a diary kept by Guerrant's daughter Elizabeth in 1908; a farmer's notebook, 1906-1908, a medical appointment book, photographs (including cyanotypes) of family members or farm scenes in Franklin County, Va.;and athletic and horticultural prize ribbons.

325 (ca.) items.

University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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