Papers of the Duke family [manuscript], 1831-1924.

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Papers of the Duke family [manuscript], 1831-1924.

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Records of Richard Duke's grist mill, merchandise daybooks and ledgers of R.T.W. Anderson, Anderson & Day, Walter Perry, and unidentified ledgers from Stony Point and Scottsville, Va. Includes letters, drawings, notes on Latin and arithmetic, and Dr. John Davis' lectures in anatomy, added by Boswell Anderson. The collection also contains four manuscript volumes of Mary White Duke, 1843-1932: (1) Minute book of the Philomathean Society, University of Virginia, 1848-1850; two account books of a Charlottesville, Va., store-inn, one inscribed Hugh Minor and headed "Monticello House", (2) 1843-1844 and (3) 1845-1847; and (4) a "Perkins & Emery" ledger, 1846. Lithograph of "Third annual report of the University of Virginia Experimental Farm," 1874. Five letters of, or about, R.T.W. Duke, 1873, and one letter to Wm. Richard Duke, 1922; and a print of a photgraph, signed, "R.T.W. Duke, Jr., Grand Master." Several clippings on the Monroe statue at Ash Lawn, 1931, and the Washington Bicentennial, 1932; and some broadside letters. Broadside offering Albemarle lands for sale, 1872. Notebook, 1852, of John Edward Jones of Union Mills, Fluvanna County, in Senior moral philosophy under Prof. William H. McGuffey. Law notebook of William E. Towles, 1860, 1852-1860. Materials from the papers of William R. Duke, including 5 dockets of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 1 copy of Alumni Board of Trustees minutes, 1923; a University budget recapitulation, 1922-1924; and a financial report of the University Hospital, 1920. Also includes a guest register of the Eagle Tavern, Charlottesville, Va., 1849 Aug. 2-1852 Jan. 4, George William Turpin, proprietor. Also of interest is a minutebook of the Charlottesville School [District?] Board, 1899-1912.

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University of Virginia. Experimental Farm

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Duke, Richard, 1787-1849.

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University of Virginia

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

University of Virginia. Philomathean Society.

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University of Virginia. Hospital

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Towles, William E.

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Turpin, George William.

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Eagle Tavern (Charlottesville, Va.)

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Jones, John Edward, 1955-

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University of Virginia. Board of Visitors

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Raymond C. Bice, Jr. (1969-1990) held the position of Secretary to the Board of Visitors. From the description of Papers of the Secretary of the Board of Visitors [manuscript], 1960-1973. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648017769 During the time span of these papers, Alexander G. Gilliam, Jr. (1991- ) held the position of Secretary to the Board of Visitors. From the description of Papers of the Secretary of the Board of Visitors [manuscript], 1998-2...

Charlottesville (Va.). School Board

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McGuffey, William Holmes, 1800-1873

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Professor of moral philosophy, University of Virginia. From the description of [Letter] 1851 March 13, University of Virginia to J.A. Broadus / W.H. McGuffey 1851. (SBTS Library). WorldCat record id: 48466255 University of Virginia professor. From the description of Letter, University of Virginia to the Rev. A.T. McGill [manuscript] 1851 February 17. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647929521 Author and philosophy scholar, of Ohio and Virgin...

Duke, Mary White.

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