Papers of the Davis family [manuscript], 1852-1936.

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Papers of the Davis family [manuscript], 1852-1936.

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Letters, documents and printed matter relate to the Petersburg Female College and its successors the Southern Female College and the Southern College (Junior) and its founders Williams T. Davis and Arthur Kyle Davis and their families. Topics include news of family and friends, female education, travel and A. K. Davis, Jr.'s schooling at the Tome School for Boys and Balliol College, Oxford. Topics touched on briefly include race relations, suicide, grief and religion, pioneer life in British Columbia and Washington, and farming and crops. John Cowper Granberry, Ruth Draper, Robert K. Gooch, Theodore Marberg are mentioned. Correspondents include Joseph P, Eggleston, John Kevan Peebles, Reaumur Coleman Stearnes, Robert W. Tunstall. Business papers of the three successive schools contain bills; receipts for teachers' salaries, 1861-1863; some correspondence, chiefly requests for catalogs; insurance papers; and some miscellaneous accounts. Miscellaneous items include a carte-de-visite of Williams Thomas Davis, and assorted printed material from the Dept. of Public Instruction and various educational associations including the Virginia Association of Colleges and Schools for Girls. With these is an address by Arthur Kyle Davis "Education in Virginia : Its distinctive qualities today achieved through a noble and historic past."

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Draper, Ruth, 1884-1956

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Ruth Draper was a monologist, based in New York City. From the description of Ruth Draper Collection. 1913-1956. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 476263868 American actress. From the description of Autograph letter in the third person, dated : [n.p.], 22 February [1910?], to [Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harkness Flagler], [1910?] Feb. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565965 From the description of Autograph letter signed : 35 Montpelier Square, Ken...

Davis, Williams Thomas., fl. 1852.

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Peebles, John Kevan, 1876-1934,

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Virginia Association of Colleges and Schools for Girls.

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Virginia. Dept. of Public Instruction.

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Southern Female College (Petersburg, Va.)

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Tunstall, Robert Williamson, 1851-1917,

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Gooch, R. K. (Robert Kent), 1893-1982

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Chairman, Department of Political Sciences, University of Virginia. From the description of Robert Kent Gooch papers [manuscript], 1952-1953. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647877439 From the description of Robert Kent Gooch papers [manuscript], 1944-1962. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647877431 Robert K. Gooch, b. Roanoke, Va., university prof.; taught government at William and Mary College (1920-1922) and political science at Univers...

Tome School for Boys.

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Granberry, J. C. (John Cowper), 1829-1907.

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Bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Granberry, a native of Norfolk, Va., was an itinerant preacher and a chaplain at the University of Virginia in 1861. During the Civil War he served as chaplain to several regiments in Pickett's division. In 1882 he was elected Bishop and appointed to the Vanderbilt University Board of Trustees. From the description of John Cowper Granberry papers [manuscript], 1861-1876. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647835248 ...

Davis, Williams Thomas

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Stearnes, R. C. (Reaumur Coleman), 1866-1945

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Davis, Arthur Kyle, 1867-1953,

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Virginia educator; president of Southern Female College. From the description of Arthur Kyle Davis papers [manuscript], 1906-1923. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647999141 ...

Marbert, Theodore, fl. 1922.

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Davis, Arthur Kyle, 1897-1972

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University of Virginia professor. From the description of Papers, 1956-1963 pertaining to "More traditional ballads of Virginia" [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647825695 ...

Eggleston, J. D. (Joseph Dupuy), 1867-1953

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Balliol College (University of Oxford)

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