WLU Coll. Manuscript Collections
Found in 635 Collections and/or Records:
Virginia Militia 144th Regiment Record Book
This collection consists of a record book with accounts of fines, battalion count, and regiment count.
Virginia State Intercollegiate Oratorical Association Records
This collection consists of minutes, treasurer's reports, and disbursements from the Virginia State Intercollegiate Oratoricle Association.
Virginia Tourism Collection
This collection contains 10 different advertisement pieces dating from the 2nd half of the 20th Century that are from Luray Caverns, Natural Bridge, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and Rockbridge County, Virginia in general.
Virginius Groner Papers
Nineteen photocopied pages of newspaper clippings, concerning General Virginus D. Groner, including articles from a variety of papers dealing with the struggle between General Groner and other Republicans including General William Mahone for control of the Republican Party in Virginia at the 1888 national nominating convention in Chicago and during the gubernatorial campaign of 1889 in Virginia.
W. A. McComb Account Book
This account book was kept by W.A. McComb. In 1892 the Farmer's Alliance, of which he was a member, built a new hall to be used for its meetings as well as for a church and community center. Most of the entries in the account book were for expenses associated with the construction and use of the hall. It indicates that oyster suppers were held at the hall.
W. P. Nye correspondence
The collection contains eight letters from J. Ogden Murray to W.P. Nye (all dated 1914) about health, trips to Washington, D.C., politics, and finances. It also contains a letter to W.M. Brown from Mrs. J.E. Bond (1927) thanking him for the check he sent and providing additional history of Dr. Nye's collection and a book containing a record of relics.
Walker-Wood Family Papers
Walter Curtis Ayers Collection
This collection consists of registers, indices, folios, plates, wills, charts and data related to the Benjamin Borden Grant of 92,100 acres of land.
Walter Henry Hoffman Notebooks
This collection contains his student notebooks for courses in civil engineering (applied mathematics) taught by an unknown professor (possibly Willam Allan). Also contains an account book with records of his expenditures as a student from 1872-1876.
Walter Worthington Bowie Papers
This collection includes 2 items: the muster roll of Captain Walter Bowie's Company G, 40th Regiment, Virginia Volunteers, July 1, 1862 to Jan. 1, 1863; Miley photograph of Bowie.
Warren T. Taylor cemetery guide to the Teaford papers
The guide includes inscriptions from many Rockbridge County, Virginia cemeteries and an accompanying card file has names with genealogical information.
Washington and Custis Families account book
Washington and Lee Campus Inn Ledger
This ledger containing information about hotel guests was recorded by John P. Lynch, property trustee.
Washington and Lee Dance Cards Collection
This collection contains dance cards from various dances held at Washington and Lee University.
Washington and Lee law student notebook
This collection consists of a former Washington and Lee Unversity law student's class notes. The identity of the student is unknown.
Washington and Lee University Ambulance Unit Papers
This collection contains correspondence (1917-1919), histories, and memoirs of the Washington and Lee University Ambulance Unit during World War I.
Washington and Lee University and Regional Virginia History Research Collection
Washington and Lee University Miscellaneous Archives
This collection includes early Washington and Lee University papers and miscellaneous materials supplementary to the university's trustee's papers - W&L University Archives - Record Group 2.
Washington College Bond Certificate
This bond certificate dated August 1869 in the amount of $250 is made out to Madison H. Effinger of Rockbridge County, Virginia, for the endowment of Washington College. The certificate is signed by J. M. Leech, University Treasurer, and John W. Brockenbrough, University Rector.
Welsh Family Papers
This collection is primarily general family correspondence including Civil War letters (dated 1862-1864) from John P. Welsh, a Confederate infantry officer, and James L. Welsh. There are also 34 family letters on microfilm, 12 of which were written by John P. Welsh during his confinement in a Federal prison.
William A. Gordon Memoirs
The memoirs include recollections of Gordon's childhood in Georgetown and Washington, D.C., of his relatives and friends, and of his career in the 1st Regiment of Engineers with the Army of Northern Virginia (1862-1865) as well as genealogical information.
William Alexander Graham Narrative
A narrative of William Alexander Graham's journeys, medical training, and career from 1816-1819, in Lexington, and Abingdon, Virginia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, taken from his diaries and letters, including references to some well-known contemporary figures like actors James Wallack and Thomas Cooper and artist Benjamin West.There is a summary of included names and places in the control folder.
William and Anne Fleming Family papers
William Anderson Glasgow correspondence
This collection consists of two letters, dated 1857 and 1858, to Mrs. E. H. Carrington on matters of business.