WLU Coll. Manuscript Collections
Record Group
Identifier: WLU Coll
Found in 620 Collections and/or Records:
Daniel Boone Receipt
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0014
Scope and Contents
This receipt signed by Daniel Boone shows payment by William Fleming for a land survey.
Dates:
1783-03-12
Daniel Crump Buchanan Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0145
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the papers of Dr. Daniel Crump Buchanan on Japanese culture with some information on China, Korea, and other Asian countries generally organized by subject. The files on Japanese culture and history are arranged alphabetically by subject. They contain some significant memos and position papers on propaganda and psychological warfare against Japan during World War II. Other files on similar themes include "Espionage," "Target Operations", and "Reorientation." Also...
Dates:
1935 - 1957
Daniel Harvey Hill Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0030
Scope and Contents
In this Jan. 31, 1849 letter to Phelps Collins at West Point, New York, Hill describes the students he is teaching at Washington College and the townspeople of Lexington.
Dates:
1849
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
David Ballenger Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0531
Scope and Contents
Typescripts of letters from and to Ballenger.
Dates:
Inclusive 1858-1888
David C. Irwin Collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0270
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three ledgers: Leonidas Willson Irwin's spiritual diary, 1887-1937; D.C. Irwin's pastor's register, 1869-c.1881; D.C. Irwin's account book, 1895-96.
Dates:
Inclusive 1869-1937; Majority of material found within Bulk 1887-1937
David Carlisle Humphreys land survey field books
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0321
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of ten notebooks of Humphrey's surveys of Lexington, Buena Vista, and surrounding areas in Virginia, including surveys for the Lexington Development Company.
Dates:
1891
David Embry Collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0225
Scope and Contents
The letters in this collection were written by Dean Robert Henry Tucker to Mrs. David Embry who was inquiring about her husband's degree from Washington and Lee University. David Embry received his diploma, dated July 28, 1944, and graduated with honors. At the time of the letters he was serving in the Navy.
Dates:
1944
David Flavel Jamison papers
Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1-10
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0056
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence while Jamison was Secretary of War of South Carolina, 1861; scattered letters and papers pertaining to the South Carolina Secession Convention of which he was president, and papers related to his tenure as presiding judge of the military court of Gen. Beauregard's Corps, 1862-1864. Robert Woodward Barnwell and Lawrence Massillon Keitt are among the correspondents.
Dates:
Inclusive 1860-1864
David Lawrence Hopkins Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0279
Scope and Contents
The papers of Captain David L. Hopkins, include 12 letters to his wife, Lou, all but one from his post in Lynchburg, Virginia, concerning their Lexington, Virginia farm, food supplies, mutual acquaintances, and occasionally the war, in particular the Battle of Lynchburg as well as several other family letters and Confederate money.
Dates:
Inclusive 1861-1865