Staige D. Blackford papers [manuscript], 1938-2001.

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Staige D. Blackford papers [manuscript], 1938-2001.

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Personal and professional papers of Staige D. Blackford include typescripts and clippings of articles for the Norfolk-Virginian Pilot, topical files from newspaper work, diaries, personal correspondence files, and printed miscellaney. The collection also contains correspondence of his parents Staige and Lydia Blackford, particularly during Dr. Blackford's service with the 8th Evacuation Hospital during World War II. Of interest is a letter from Stringfellow Barr, 1953 January 19, concerning a student petition to remove him from the faculty, his latest book, and the animosity of David McCord Wright.

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Blackford, Staige D. (Staige Davis), 1931-2003

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Editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. From the description of Staige D. Blackford papers [manuscript], 1938-2001. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648002922 Blackford, an University of Virginia graduate and Oxford-educated Rhodes Scholar, came to the University as the assistant to President Edgar F. Shannon in 1973; he served as editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review from 1975 to his death in 2003. The VQR is literary journal published continuously by the Un...

Barr, Stringfellow, 1897-1982

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Historian, author, and former president of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. From the guide to the Stringfellow Barr letters to Broadus Mitchell, 1952, 1954, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) University of Virginia professor; co-founder of St. John's College's "New Program" based on the classics; president of the Foundation for World Government. From the description of Papers of Stringfellow Barr [manuscript], 1915-1958. (...

Wright, David McCord, 1909-1968

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David McCord Wright was an economist and educator at the University of Georgia. From the description of David McCord Wright - Growth and the economy. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 277144055 David McCord Wright (1909-1968) was born in Savannah, Georgia, the son of Anton Pope and Hannah McCord Smythe Wright. He was educated in Savannah public schools, attended the Citadel in Charleston, S.C., and then went to the University of Pennsylvania where he studied archi...

Blackford, Lydia Fishburne,

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Blackford, Staige D. (Staige Davis), 1898-1949

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Class of 1917, member of faculty of Medical School, reorganized Student Health Service and Commander 8th Evacuation Hospital Unit World War II. From the description of Address by the Rev. William H. Laird on presentation to University of Virginia of portrait of Dr. Blackford, class of 1917, member of faculty of Medical School, reorganized Student Health Service and Commander 8th Evacuation Hospital Unit World War II [manuscript] 27 Aug. 1950. 1950. (University of Virginia). WorldCat ...

United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 8th

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