Papers of the Dabney and related Davis, Terrell, and Carr families [manuscript] 1735-1982.

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Dabney, Virginius, 1835-1894. Papers of the Dabney and related Davis, Terrell, and Carr families [manuscript] 1735-1982.

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Papers of the Dabney and related Davis, Terrell, and Carr families [manuscript] 1735-1982.

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Correspondence in the papers chiefly discusses family and local news. Topics of interest include Kentucky in 1790 particularly Indian troubles and separation from the U.S. over the Jay-Cardoqui treaty; the Civil War particularly slave hiring and use of slaves as servants in the army, procurement of clothes, U. Va. as an army hospital and the burial of Confederate dead in the University cemetery, 1861, the battle of New Market Heights, 1864 (Chafin's Farm, Fts. Harrison and Gilmer), and the desolation after the battle of Fredericksburg; the Richmond Exposition, 1888; Virginius Dabney's New York Latin School, his library, and his publication of Don Miff and Gold that did not glitter; Susan Dabney Smedes' Memorials of a Southern planter; Richard Heath Dabney's The causes fo the French revolution, and his teaching career at U. Va., particularly a 1907 controversy over compulsory Latin; and Virginius Dabney's schoolboy impressions of France, and his years at Episcopal High. There are research notes, mss. drafts, correspondence or printed copies of Don Miff and A mighty hunter before the Lord by Virginius Dabney, a mss. on bird watching and two Civil War memoirs by Susan C. Dabney Smedes; four articles by Richard Heath Dabney "Athleticism," "The elevation of history to the rank of a science," "Germany's dream of dominion", and "The Huguenot element in Virginia's population"; and numerous articles and Richmond, the story of a city, by Virginius Dabney. The collection also contains a diary of Richard Heath Dabney from his year of study in Munich and Berlin, 1882-1883, and a journal, 1890, regarding life on Burleigh, a Mississippi plantation; a 1735 will of Thomas Carr; publishing contracts; a petition supporting Richard Heath Dabney's appointment as history professor; student reports from Episcopal High; Dabney family genalogy; photographs of many family members as well as Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Richard Nixon, Dean Acheson, Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas S. Freeman, and Harry Byrd; a plat of Burleigh; clippings, advertisements, a scrapbook of reviews of Don Miff, and memorabilia. Correspondents include F.E.G. Carr, Eugene Davis, James M.M. Davis, Lucy Davis, Mary Jane Terrell Davis, Richard Terrell Davis, Elizabeth Anna Heath, Lucy Ann Terrell, Samuel Terrell, Edwin Anderson Alderman, Maria Heath Dabney, Thomas Smith Gregory Dabney, Armistead Churchill Gordon and Woodrow Wilson.

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600 items.

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University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7926803

University of Virginia. Library

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