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Admission Scholarship from Washington College to the sons of Mary Jackson Thornton
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0545
Dates:
1866-03-01
Alexander Lockhart Nelson Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0303
Scope and Contents
The Alexander Lockhart Nelson Papers consist of materials related to Nelson’s life as mathematician at Washington and Lee University; Nelson, Guy, Matthews, Archer, and Rennick family genealogy; an address by Nelson on his teaching experience during Robert E. Lee's presidency of Washington College; some family and miscellaneous correspondences; and photographs. Included and, perhaps, the primary aspect of the collection is Nelson’s notebook used during his time as both student and professor of...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1848 - 1902
Benjamin Franklin Doswell Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0061
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of letters written by Doswell to his family while he was a student at Washington College.
Dates:
Inclusive 1847-1849
Benjamin Franklin Richardson Course Notebooks
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0552
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two volumes of course notes taken by Washington College student Benjamin Franklin Richardson. One is from a course on the principles of evolution and the second is from a course on general chemistry, which was taught by Professor George D. Armstrong.
Dates:
Unknown
Brick Company Ledger
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0443
Scope and Contents
Ledger is an account book of a brick company near Lexington, the exact identity of which is unknown. The ledger records that Washington College purchased 200 bricks in 1858.
Dates:
Inclusive 1857-1862
Charles A. Graves Academic Certificate
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0657
Content Description
A single parchment academic certificate signifying completion in the course of Latin for Washington College student Charles A. Graves, dated June 1868, and signed by Professor C.J. Harris and Washington College president Robert E. Lee.
Dates:
1868-06-18
Charles and Emmett McCorkle Lecture Notebook
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0139
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a lecture notebook used by Washington College and Washington and Lee University students Charles E. McCorkle between 1869-1870 and his brother Walter between 1870-1874. It includes a note about Robert E. Lee on the inside cover.
Dates:
1869 - 1874
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
Dunlap Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0245
Scope and Contents
Papers contain information about Dunlap's family members, especially Madison Dunlap (1808-1883) of Kerr's Creek and his son, John Matthew Dunlap, a member of the Washington and Lee Class of 1857 who was killed at at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. The collection includes compositions that John Matthew Dunlap wrote for Professor J. J. White in 1856-1857, transcripts of letters he wrote while serving in the Confederate Army, and letters concerning his death. The collection also includes the...
Dates:
Inclusive 1830-1878
Edward Graham Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0031
Scope and Contents
Letter [183-] from 'a citizen' [Edward Graham] extolling the military worth of students. In addition, a document, dated July 5, 1822, which is signed by John Quincy Adams, stipulating what government documents Washington College will receive.
Dates:
Inclusive 1822-183?
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Washington and Lee Special Collections and Archives
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Leyburn Library
Lexington, VA 24450
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