Papers of Mary Venable Minor Ball Willis [manuscript], 1896-1962.

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Papers of Mary Venable Minor Ball Willis [manuscript], 1896-1962.

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Genealogical books of the Minor, Venable, Carrington, and Pierrepont families, a small painting of an unidentified coat of arms, a copy of a memoir by Mrs. H.B. Pierrepont, two pamphlets on Charles S. Venable, and a fragment of an article on Matthew F. Maury with a small photograph of Maury.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Family historian, genealogist. From the description of Papers of Mary Venable Minor Ball Willis [manuscript], 1896-1962. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810840 ...

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