Virginia Military Institute

Anderson Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0001

Scope and Contents This collection contains items of the Anderson and Alexander families including correspondence dealing with legal business, family matters, and Lexington, Virginia affairs. Consists largely of the family correspondence of William Alexander Anderson, Francis T. Anderson, and Mary Anne Alexander Anderson; includes letters to and from Virginia Governor John Letcher, and two letters from Mildred Lee, daughter of Robert E. Lee. Other correspondents include William A. Glasgow, George Hutcheson...

Dates: 1755 - 1958

Found in: Washington and Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library Special Collections and Archives / Anderson Family Papers

Antebellum Days - History in and Around

File — Container: RHS Collection #0078, Folder: 8

Scope and Contents This file consist of a bound copy of the paper "Antebellum Days in and Around Lexington" by Mary Edgar McClung of Lexington High School. No date.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1818 - 1991

Found in: Washington and Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library Special Collections and Archives / RHS-Coll-0078, Lexington, Virginia

C. G. Freuman to Robert E. Lee, 1866-03-13

Item — Box: 7A, Folder: 46

Scope and Contents This letter was written by C. G. Freuman from Eminence, Kentucky on March 13, 1866 to Robert E. Lee. Freuman requests that Lee send him a catalog for the "military institute" which Lee is head of, mistakenly assuming Lee is the head of Virginia Military Institute also in Lexington, VA.

Dates: 1866-03-13

Found in: Washington and Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library Special Collections and Archives / WLU-Coll-0064, Robert E. Lee Papers / Letters to and about Robert E. Lee / Letters to and about Robert E. Lee / Correspondences

Charles O. DeLahoussaye to Robert E. Lee, 1866-02-10

Item — Box: 7A, Folder: 38

Scope and Contents This letter was written by Charles O. DeLahoussaye in New Orleans, Louisiana on February 10, 1866 to Robert E. Lee. In the letter, DeLahoussaye writes requesting that Lee send a catalog for Virginia Military Institute, as he desires to send his nephew to atttend school. DeLahoussaye potentially erroneously ascertained that Lee was the president of VMI.

Dates: 1866-02-10

Found in: Washington and Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library Special Collections and Archives / WLU-Coll-0064, Robert E. Lee Papers / Letters to and about Robert E. Lee / Letters to and about Robert E. Lee / Correspondences

Charles Page Photographic Collection

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0093

Dates: 1906 - 1911

Found in: Washington and Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library Special Collections and Archives / Charles Page Photographic Collection

Clifton, 1933

File — Box: 1, Folder: 30

Scope and Contents This file consists of a typescript paper on the ownership of the Clifton House on the corner of McDowell and Jefferson streets. Also includes a handwritten note on the Clifton house and its relationship to the Alexander family.

Dates: 1933

Found in: Washington and Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library Special Collections and Archives / RHS-Coll-0059, Rockbridge Historical Society files on Houses / General through Houston House

Contracts with VMI for Meats, 1919 - 1923

File — Box: 1, Folder: 14

Scope and Contents File consists of contract for meat at Virginia Military Institute from January 1st, 1920. Signed by then V.M.I. superintendent E.W. Nichols and H.L. Walker.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1919 - 1923

Found in: Washington and Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library Special Collections and Archives / WLU-Coll-0294, Walker-Wood Family Papers / Box 1