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 Denny, Charles Alfred Graves, Henry Holstine, George Junkin, George Bolling Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, James McDowell, Samuel McDowell Moore, and Walter LeConte Stevens. Also includes legal and business correspondence of Francis T. Anderson; letters and diary of William D. Alexander dated 1858-1859; business accounts, wills, obituaries, including Mary Anne Alexander Anderson's obituary as a pamphlet titled In Memoriam, November 27, 1881; and genealogies of the McNutt, Anderson, and Thomas families. Includes copies of speeches of William A. Anderson dated 1842-1930 and a few photographs.
Dates
- 1755 - 1958
Creator
- Alexander, Andrew (Person)
Conditions Governing Use
The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used should be fully credited with the source. Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the Head of Special Collections.
Extent
.4 Linear Feet
1313 Item
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Some materials were a gift of Ellen G. Anderson. Much of the correspondence was a gift from Mrs. Frances Lewis.
- Alexander family
- Alexander family
- Anderson family
- Boyer family
- Correspondence
- Courthouses
- Deeds
- Diaries
- Graves, Charles A. (Charles Alfred)
- Iron-works
- Lawyers
- Lee Chapel (Washington and Lee University)
- Legal documents
- McNutt family
- Obituaries
- Photographs
- Revolution (Texas : 1835-1836)
- Southampton Insurrection (1831)
- Stevens, Walter LeConte
- Texas
- Thomas family
- Thorn Hill
- University of Virginia
- Virginia -- Botetourt County
- Virginia -- Lexington
- Virginia -- Rockbridge County
- Virginia Military Institute
- Washington and Lee University. School of Law
Creator
- Alexander, Andrew (Person)
- Alexander, Aylett (Person)
- Alexander, William D. (Person)
- Anderson, Ellen Graham (Person)
- Anderson, John Thomas (Person)
- Anderson, William Alexander (Person)
- Glasgow, William Anderson (Person)
- Holstine, Henry (Person)
- Junkin, George, 1798 - 1868 (Person)
- Lee, George Bolling (Person)
- Moore, Samuel McDowell (Person)
- Anderson family (Family)
- Anderson, Francis Thomas (Person)
- Anderson, Mary Ann Alexander (Person)
- Letcher, John (Person)
- Bowyer, Otis (Person)
- Alexander, Archibald (Person)
- Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891 (Correspondent, Person)
- Lee, Mildred Childe, 1846-1905 (Correspondent, Person)
- Stevens, Walter LeConte (Correspondent, Person)
- McDowell, James (Correspondent, Person)
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Washington and Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library Special Collections and Archives Repository
