Papers of the Proctors of the University of Virginia [manuscript] 1819-1905.

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Papers of the Proctors of the University of Virginia [manuscript] 1819-1905.

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Collection contains the papers of the first proctor Arthur S. Brockenbrough and his successors including Thomas H. Carter and Major Green Peyton. The earliest papers include 57 letters from Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough mainly concerning construction of the University buildings. Among the correspondents are: Nelson Barksdale, A.H. Brooks, Joseph C. Cabell, John Hartwell Cocke, Joseph Coolidge, Gen. Henry A. S. Dearborn, Robley Dunglison, John Patten Emmet, Albert Gallatin, Alexander Garrett, John B. Gordon, Washington Irving, James Leitch, Dolley Madison, James Madison, Peter Maverick, Peter Minor, John Patterson, Bernard Peyton, Chapman Reynolds, Coleman Sellers, St. George Tucker. The collection also includes a construction drawing of a detail of a modillion for the Rotunda by John Neilson, ca. June/July 1825. The collection also contains a letter from Andrew Carnegie to President Edwin A. Alderman, 1905, and 15 medals and relics including Alderman's Phi Beta Kappa pin, a lock of George Washington's hair and the pen used by Andrew Jackson Montague to encorporate the Alumni Society in 1903.

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