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Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0163
Scope and Contents
This collection contains chiefly correspondence with Washington and Lee University and United Daughters of the Confederacy officials, resolutions, and reports relating to her participation in the controversy over W&L President Henry Louis Smith's proposed renovation and expansion of the Lee Chapel. Also includes correspondence and clippings relating to fund-raising for the Stratford Hall restoration. Correspondents include members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Washington...
Dates:
Inclusive 1920-1948
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0386
Scope and Contents
The Ben Benson Collection includes original portrait art of presidents and first ladies by Ben Benson, various formats of printed presidential iconography and related presidential and U.S. political memorabilia from George Washington to Barack Obama.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Inclusive 1789-2012
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0590
Scope and Contents
This broadside from Calvin Morgan Dold, mayor of Lexington, Virginia, gives notice of President Garfield's death on September 20, 1881. He says businesses will be suspended for the day and instructs citizens to come to Lexington Presbyterian Church for religious services.
Dates:
1881-09-20
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0586
Scope and Contents
This collection contains articles on John Elrod's inauguration as president of Washington and Lee University; articles on his death; a program from the Service of Witness to the Resurrection and in Celebration of the Life of John William Elrod in Lee Chapel on July 19, 2001; a program from In Memoriam John William Elrod in Lee Chapel on September 13, 2001; and a letter from his wife, Mimi Elrod, to the Leyburn Library staff dated August 10, 2001 thanking them for their words of sympathy,...
Dates:
1995 - 2001
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0096
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a typed copy of a speech given in 1911, by George H. Denny, President of Washington and Lee University, as he departed for the University of Alabama as well as a photocopy of the speech in shorthand form, taken by Harry E. Meek, Washington and Lee University, Class of 1915.
Dates:
1911
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0473
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence between Ward and George Washington Custis Lee during his time as President of Washington and Lee University.
Dates:
Inclusive 1875-1878
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0470
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of four signed letters to Tucker, one from each Theordore Roosevelt during his time as president, Alfred E. Smith during his time as Govenor of New York, William Jennings Bryan during his first run for President, and Grover Cleveland during his time as president. Roosevelt appoints Tucker to be a representative to the September 1904 Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists to be held in St. Louis, Missouri. Smith thanks Tucker for his letter about a section of the...
Dates:
Inclusive 1896-1928
Record Group
Identifier: WLU-RG-0003
Scope and Contents
This record group contains materials created by the University's Presidents while carrying out their job duties.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Date Not Yet Determined
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0062
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1888 - 1889
