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File includes photocopies of two letters concerning Washington and Lee student, John West Addison.
Dates:
1907
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0137
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This file consists of a scrapbook of works written by Washington College student Alamby Miller between 1864-1868. Included are Virginia university magazines, clippings from the Southern Collegian, and original poetry. There is also a scrapbook titled Alamby Millington Miller by Professor James W. Massie dated 1870. This scrapbook is a typed biography including a letter from Alamby to his sister.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1864 - 1870
File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000007996], Folder: 6
Dates:
The documents are all from the 2000s, but they describe some 20th century events
File — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000005228], Folder: 9
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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:
Inclusive 1910-1947; Majority of material found within Bulk 1915-1947
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This box contains anthologies in which Dickey's work is published, as well as several biographical sources on Dickey. Includes inscriptions, dedications, signatures.The Great American Writers' Cookbook, Ah Men!, Translations by American Poets, Of Poetry and Poets, New Aquist of True Experience, Readings for Writing,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1940 - 2013
Scope and Contents
Please see Subject entries for scope and content of box.Hands of the Saddlemaker, Best Poems of 1962(Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards, Lombardi [Vince], The Writer and his Tradition [U. Tennessee], White Plum Thickets, A Southern Renascence Man: Views of Robert Penn Warren, All the Rights and Privileges...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1940 - 2013
Scope and Contents
Please see Subject entries for scope and content of this box.Living in the Resurrection, Cities of Memory, Bears Dancing in the Northern Air, Stone Crop, Thinking the World Visible, My Shining Archipelago, James Dickey: Splintered Sunlight, James Dickey: a Descriptive...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1940 - 2013
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This box contains unpublished typescripts of screenplays and other works by Dickey, as well as some biographical and critical works about Dickey.SCREENPLAYS:
Deliverance; Gene Bullard; The Sentence ; The Claim; The Call of the Wild; Flying Blind; AnilhamPOETRY:
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Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1940 - 2013
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0611
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This collection contains newspaper clippings, memorial programs, and biographical sketches relating to the life of and memorialization of John Alexander Graham.
Dates:
1947
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0189
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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
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0053
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This collection includes 54 miscellaneous letters, 1821-1866; diaries and financial records McFarland kept while he was a missionary and during his two pastorates, 1823-1836, and 1841-1871, at Bethel Presbyterian Church, Augusta County, Va.; lecture notes taken while a student at Princeton University; and printed biographical sketches and engravings of McFarland.Correspondents include Stonewall Jackson, George Junkin, William Spottswood.
Dates:
Inclusive 1815-1871
Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1-16
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0643
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This collection consists of letters primarily between George Washington "Wash" Nelson, Jr., of Hanover County, Virginia and his cousin and future wife Mary “Mollie” Nelson Scollay of Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Nelson commanded the Hanover Light Artillery (Va.) and was a staff officer of General William Nelson Pendleton, the Chief of Artillery of the Confederacy’s Army Northern Virginia, during the American Civil War. Nelson was captured in October 1862 and spent the remainder of the war...
Dates:
1863 - 1903; translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Majority of material found within 1863 - 1865
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000004537]
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0373
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The Hugh Adams Papers archive is comprised of approximately 75 documents concerning the emancipation of nineteen slaves of the Adams estate and their estate imposed emigration to Careysburg, Liberia. Adams was actively involved for many years with the American Colonization Society ( A.C.S.) which promoted and engaged in the emigration process of free or freed African-Americans to Liberia on the west African coast. Included in the archive is an original handwritten copy of the will of Hugh...
Dates:
1857-1860
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0206
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This is a letter from Jonathan Daniels to Mr. Stubbs in which he discusses Daniels' recent book Prince of Carpetbaggers.
Dates:
1958
Item — Box 7A, Folder: 59
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This letter by Robert Lewis Dabney is addressed to Robert E. Lee. Dabney writes that an advertisement of his Stonewall Jackson biography gives credit of Lee's review and revisions to the publisher instead. He explains to Lee that the publisher decided to do this, not him.
Dates:
1866-05-14
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0093
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This collection includes letters to and from Owen in connection with his efforts to compile a Robert E. Lee bibliography, several Lee family letters, pictorial representations of the Lees, speeches, and clippings.
Dates:
1864-1920; Majority of material found within 1912-1920
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0199
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This is a collection of correspondence between William B. Pettit and his wife Arabella ('Bell') with scattered letters from other friends and relatives. The letters that date from 1850 to March 1862 include correspondence between husband and wife while Pettit was away on business. The war letters begin in March 1862 and end with Pettit's last war letter to his wife on March 3, 1864. After that date there are letters from Pembroke, the Pettit's son, while he attended school at Ashland, Va....
Dates:
Inclusive 1850-1918
