Articles on the operation of the Manuscripts Division of the U. Va. Library [manuscript] ca. 1944.

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Articles on the operation of the Manuscripts Division of the U. Va. Library [manuscript] ca. 1944.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library. Manuscripts Division.

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Cappon, Lester Jesse, 1900-1981

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Lester Jesse Cappon (1900-1981) was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Jesse Cappon and Mary E. Geisinger Cappon. He studied music, earning a diploma from the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in 1920, but was also interested in history and earned degrees at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and at Harvard University, acquiring a Ph.D. in 1928. In 1925, Cappon went to the University of Virginia, where he worked on editions of Virginia historical publications and newspapers funded by the...