Papers of Thornton family [manuscript] 1869 (1886-1946) 1962.

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Papers of Thornton family [manuscript] 1869 (1886-1946) 1962.

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The collection consists mainly of the correspondence of William Mynn Thornton [1851-1935] dean of the U. Va. engineering school. Major segments contain letters of his children Rosalie Thornton, a concert pianist, Janet Thornton, a pioneer medical social worker, & Edward Thornton, an engineer and World War I ambulance driver. Topics of interest include academic & social affairs at the university such as the fight for a coordinate college, the centennial, and the 50th reunion of Civil War veterans, & World War I preparedness, the southern better roads campaign, Rosalie's description of Germany in the 1890's, letters, 1958-59 from China sent to the sister of Janet's roommate, Ida Cannon, 10 chapters of The true Robert E. Lee by W.M. Thornton, & a copy of American watercolor and Winslow Homer by Lloyd Goodrich [1897- ] Correspondents include many U. Va. professors, & engineering professors at other Southern universities as well as Edwin Anderson Alderman [1861-1931], David Crook & Isabel Crook, teachers at the Foreign Language Institute, Peking, Westmoreland Davis [1859-1942], Federation of American Engineering Societies, Henry Delaware Flood [1865-1921], Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve [1831-1924], George Washington Goethals [1858-1928], William Hodges Mann [1843-1927], Thomas Staples Martin [1847-1919], Mary Cooke (Branch) Munford [1865-1938], John Lloyd Newcomb [1881-1954], Robert Riddick Prentis [1818-1871], Edward Watts Saunders [1860-1921], Anna Louise Strong [1885-1970], & Woodrow Wilson [1865-1924].

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