Preston, Margaret Junkin

"A Washington and Lee Hymn", 1927-09-03

File — Box 5: [Barcode: 0000005158], Folder: 110

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection includes Graham's compositions, World War I papers and correspondence, memorabilia of Washington and Lee University activities, scores, sheet music, notebooks, and other correspondence.

Dates: 1927-09-03

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / John Alexander Graham Papers

Ellinor Porcher Gadsden Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0189

Scope and Contents This collection came from the estate of Ellinor Gadsden in 1985. Highlights of the collection include the letters of Alexander Swift(Sandie) Pendleton, a Washington College graduate who was a top aide to Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson during the American Civil War. These approximately 70 letters were a major source for the book. Sandie was the uncle of the Gadsden sisters. Included in the collection are also a few items of Gen. William Nelson Pendleton who was Robert E. Lee's friend and...

Dates: Inclusive 1839-1975

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Julia Miller Junkin Fishburn Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0435

Scope and Contents This collection contains four letters by Julia Miller Junkin Fishburn while she lived at her father, George Junkin's house, while he was the President of Washington and Lee University. She writes to her friend Lizzie Webster in Maryland about her sister Margaret Junkin Preston, her brother-in-law General Stonewall Jackson, her upcoming marriage to Junius M. Fishburn, who was a Latin professor at Washington College, later about his death and her mother's death. A fifth letter dated...

Dates: Inclusive 1854-1887; Majority of material found within Bulk 1854-1858

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Lexington Presbyterian Church Records

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0327

Scope and Contents

This collection contains the records of various women's missionary societies in the Lexington Presbyterian Church (Lexington, Virginia), including minutes written by Margaret Junkin Preston and Ellen Glasgow. There is also a handwritten history (one page, front and back) of the Presbytery that explains the connection between Washington College, Lexington Presbyterian Church, and the Presbytery, which was written circa 1824.

Dates: Inclusive 1824-1927; Majority of material found within Bulk 1877-1927

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Margaret Junkin Preston Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0101

Scope and Contents This collection includes poems and prose (manuscript and printed copies); A May Night Masque, written in 1872 for Ann Smith Academy; notebooks and scrapbooks. There is a Greek New Testament given to Preston by her father, George Junkin, and a glass plate negative of George Junkin's portrait. Additionally, Preston's scrapbooks include one volume of her printed poems and stories and one volume of her sketches and manuscript poems. There is also a broadside, and several...

Dates: Inclusive1839-1872

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Mary Coulling Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0248

Scope and Contents This collection contains primarily the materials gathered by Mary Price Coulling while doing research for her books The Lee girls (1987) and Margaret Junkin Preston (1993), including photocopies of Lee, Custis, Junkin and Preston family letters, scrapbooks, notebooks, genealogies, photographs and articles, as well as copies and critiques of Margaret Junkin Preston's poetry. It also includes notecards, articles and speeches by Coulling relating to...

Dates: Inclusive 1806-1997

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives