Lee Chapel (Washington and Lee University)
Organization
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
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
Ann Norvell Otey Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0163
Scope and Contents
This collection contains chiefly correspondence with Washington and Lee University and United Daughters of the Confederacy officials, resolutions, and reports relating to her participation in the controversy over W&L President Henry Louis Smith's proposed renovation and expansion of the Lee Chapel. Also includes correspondence and clippings relating to fund-raising for the Stratford Hall restoration. Correspondents include members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Washington and...
Dates:
Inclusive 1920-1948
Anne Carter Lee Records
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0274
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records (copies of clippings and Lee family correspondence, photographs of Lee Chapel) pertaining to the re-interment of Anne Carter Lee (Annie) in Lee Chapel, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia on September 29, 1994 from Warren County, North Carolina.
Dates:
1993-1994
Carte de visite Photograph, Lee Chapel
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0106
Content Description
Carte de Visite (cdv) photograph of Lee Chapel on the campus of Washington and Lee University by photographer Michael Miley, c. 1870 - 1874.
Dates:
c. 1870 - 1875
Collection about John W. Elrod
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0586
Scope and Contents
This collection contains articles on John Elrod's inauguration as president of Washington and Lee University; articles on his death; a program from the Service of Witness to the Resurrection and in Celebration of the Life of John William Elrod in Lee Chapel on July 19, 2001; a program from In Memoriam John William Elrod in Lee Chapel on September 13, 2001; and a letter from his wife, Mimi Elrod, to the Leyburn Library staff dated August 10, 2001 thanking them for their words of sympathy,...
Dates:
1995 - 2001
Daniel T. Balfour Alumni Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0370
Scope and Contents
This collection ncludes correspondence with various Washington and Lee University officials (Sessoms, Hotchkiss, Parsons and Wilson); other alumni concerning Washington and Lee University Admissions, athletics, fund raising, college history, the Washington Society, the 250th observance at Washington and Lee University; the minutes of the Alumni Board of Directors; course book from 1998 alumni college titled Older than America: an oral history of Washington and Lee.
Dates:
Inclusive 1974-1998
Edward Virginius Valentine Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0300
Scope and Contents
This typescript signed letter from Edward Virginius Valentine to Mrs. R. L. Walton on November 28, 1922 concerns the personal contacts he had with Robert E. Lee and sculptures he made, including the recumbent statue of Lee in Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University.
Dates:
1922
Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia Event Program
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0505
Scope and Contents
Announcement for the upcoming events at Lee Chapel held during the Episcopal Preaching Mission sponsored by the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia. The events took place at 8 pm on October 30-November 4, but the year is unknown.
Dates:
Majority of material found within Undated
General, 1969 - 1970
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
This file consists of two copies of introductory notes to the Rockbridge Heritage House tour for the years 1969 and 1970. The convered houses in the notes have historical backgrounds. The following houses appear in the notes: Alexander-Withrow House, VMI Superintendent's Quarters, Stono, Clifton, Maple Hill, Timber Ridge Church, Horatio Thompson House, The Red House, Mulberry Grove, New Providence Presbyterian Church, Briarwood, Bellevue, Maxwelton, Level Loop, Windy Glen, Cedar Grove, Reeves...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1969 - 1970
Henry Donald Campbell Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0059
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 20 speeches and copies of letters and papers collected on R. E. Lee's administration of Washington College, 1865-1870.
Dates:
Inclusive 1865-1933
Washington and Lee Special Collections and Archives
204 West Washington Street
Leyburn Library
Lexington, VA 24450
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