Papers of John Stewart Battle [manuscript] 1954-1967.

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Papers of John Stewart Battle [manuscript] 1954-1967.

Chiefly correspondence dealing with personal and business matters. However there is some of a political nature from Va. and national governmental figures and politicians who discuss the South and integration, civil rights, the Democratic Party, the presidential elections of 1956 and 1960, and the Va. senatorial candidacy of 1958. Papers, 1958-1960, dealing with the Civil Rights Commission, of which Battle was a member, include correspondence, memoranda and minutes of meetings [ca. 300 items] -- Papers, 1962-1964, dealing with the George C. Marshall Research Foundation, Lexington, Va. [ca. 150 items] -- Papers, 1962-1967, concerning the Tayloe Murphy Institute at U. Va. [ca. 60 items]. Correspondents from Virginia politics include: James Lindsay Almond, Harry Flood Byrd, Colgate Whitehead Darden, Burr P. Harrison, former law partner and member of the House of Delegates, and Howard Worth Smith. Those from the national scene include: Sherman Adams, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Robert Francis Kennedy and Samuel James Ervin. Also numerous letters from the American Electric Power Company, and the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company as he was on the boards of directors. Included are letters from William Cullen Battle and his wife Francis Barry Webb Battle describing life as Ambassador to Australia.

ca.500 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7929509

University of Virginia. Library

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