Roscoe Phelps Diary
Content Description
The Roscoe Phelps diary is a bound manuscript entitled "Anecdotes of the Year 1900" written by Washington and Lee University student Richard Roscoe Phelps (Class of 1902). Phelps reports on life as an undergraduate student touching on courtship, recreation, hazing, off-campus boarding and regional travel and exploration of such places in Rockbridge County Virginia as House Mountain and “Lover’s Leap”. Other events covered include the vandalizing of "Old George", the George Washington statue atop Washington Hall on W&L's campus, on Washington's birthday; christening a new boat for the crew team, construction of the grandiose and doomed DeHart Hotel in Lexington; the tenure of W&L president William Lyne Wilson; a local opera house fire; and a detailed description of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. This collection also includes a copy of The History of Rockbridge County Virginia, by author Oren Morton which descended in the family of the donor. The book is inscribed by Samual M. Dunlap.
Dates
- Majority of material found within 1900 - 1901
Creator
- Phelps, Richard Roscoe (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
1 Item (One folder)
- Cakewalk (Dance)
- Courtship
- Hazing
- Hiking
- Lee Chapel (Washington and Lee University)
- Lexington Development Company (Lexington, Va.)
- Liberty Hall Academy
- North Carolina--Asheville
- Rowing
- Virginia -- House Mountain
- Virginia -- Lover's Leap
- Virginia Military Institute
- Washington and Lee University
- Washington and Lee University. Newcomb Hall
- Washington and Lee University. Tucker Hall
- Wilson, William Lyne
- 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, University Library Special Collections and Archives Repository