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Robert W. Hilton, Jr. Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0662
Content Description

Eleven papers written by Washington and Lee University alumnus Robert W. Hilton, Jr. (Class of 1939) and read to the Literary Club of Cincinnati, Ohio between 1973 and 1999.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1973 - 1999

Robert W. McAhren Records

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0282
Scope and Contents

These records include McAhren's involvement in Washington and Lee University's activities on three subjects: co-education (1970-1992); general education (1981-1983); and inclusiveness/diversity (1999-2002).

Dates: Inclusive 1970-2002

Rockbridge Baths Hotel Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0272
Scope and Contents

This register contains names of guests who visited the Rockbridge Baths, Virginia hotel between June 1871 and May 1882. Among them were many prominent faculty members of Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute, as well as guests from the city of Lexington, Virginia.

Dates: Inclusive 1876-1882

Roy J. Grimley, Sr. Philately Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0509
Scope and Contents

Two Boxes, and a few large items, relating to Roy J. Grimley, stamp collecting, and his work on the Washington and Lee University Bicentennial Stamp.

Dates: Inclusive 1949

Rupert Nelson Latture Valedictory address

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0175
Scope and Contents

Rupert Latture's address recalls highlights of the Class of 1915 at Washington and Lee University. It makes an extended analogy to Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, 'The Great Stone Face.' It also includes humorous references to Washington and Lee President George Hutcheson Denny.

Dates: 1915

Samuel H. Chester papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0429
Scope and Contents

This collection contains two original manuscript copies and one photocopy of Samuel H. Chester's valedictory address given on June 27, 1872 at Washington and Lee University. It also contains correspondence about the presence of this address in the University's Special Collections and Archives.

Dates: 1872-06-27

Samuel Jordan Graham papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0016
Scope and Contents This collection of correspondence, ephemera, and genealogical material pertaining to Samuel Jordan Graham. Of particular note are several letters written to Graham by President Woodrow Wilson. Four of them are original and two are photostatic copies. Other correspondents include Charles E. Hughes, and Ray Stannard Baker. The collection also includes clippings, two certificates Graham received from Washington and Lee, genealogy, copies of addresses, and a Court of Claims of the United States...
Dates: 1874-1947

Schereeya Taylor Playscript: "I Am"

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0536
Abstract

'This play was written as a sort of synthesis of interviews from several W&L female students and alumni of color. This was a once and a lifetime opportunity to immortalize their words, experiences, hopes, fears, and desires and display them for the campus and ultimately for the world at large.' - Schereeya Taylor, Washington and Lee Class of 2014

Dates: Winter 2014

Souvenir Calendar of Lexington, Va.

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0068
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a souvenir calendar of Lexington, Va. for 1901. It includes images of Washington and Lee, Virginia Military Institute, and Recumbant Lee statue by Edward V. Valentine.

Dates: Issued: 1901

Stuart MacCorkle Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0550
Scope and Contents This small collection contains primarily a series of photographs of Dr. Stuart McCorkle throughout his adult life, ranging from informal prints to professionally made portraits. In addition, the collection originally included copies of books authored by McCorkle and have since been transferred within the Special Collections department. The financial material contains legal papers describing the gift left by both himself and his wife, now worth $1.9 million, to advance development of the...
Dates: 1928 - 1981

Stuart Sanders Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0241
Scope and Contents This collection consists of Sanders' correspondence to his parents regarding life at Washington and Lee University, including his participation in the Arcades Club fraternity (now Delta Upsilon), sports, classes, jobs, and the Lexington Presbyterian Church as well as comments on campus drinking and mention of his brother Irwin Sanders and friend Richard Gooch. Includes his correspondence during his job with his uncle, Stuart Sanders, in Richmond at Sanders Brothers from 1931-1934 with...
Dates: Inclusive 1918-1965; Majority of material found within Bulk 1926-1934

Student Papers and Research - Record Group 38

 Record Group
Identifier: WLU-RG-0038
Scope and Contents

This record group contains papers and projects created by students as part of their coursework, such as honors theses and capstone papers.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Date Not Yet Determined

Theodore C. (Ted) DeLaney, Jr. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0525
Scope and Contents The Theodore C. (Ted) DeLaney, Jr. Collection is composed of materials from Dr. Ted DeLaney’s personal and professional life including genealogy and personal history; historical research, correspondences, and papers as historian and professor at Washington and Lee University. The collection is arranged in three series. Of note are Dr. Delaney's research on school desegregation in Lexington, Virginia and in Southwest Virginia and a series of video interviews with Dr. DeLaney completed in...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Majority of material found within 1940 - 2020

Thomas C. Bamford Collection of Washington and Lee Ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0548
Scope and Contents

Collection of decals and small postcards from Washington and Lee University and Lexington, Virginia.

Dates: Inclusive 1943-1944

"To the People of Rockbridge" Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0311
Scope and Contents This broadside by the Valley Railroad titled 'To the People of Rockbridge' outlines funding for the railroad to be built through the county. It asks the people of Rockbridge to help finance the railroad by buying stock in it. It makes the argument that the county's prosperity depends on the railroad. It says students at Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute should no longer be expected to walk through the mire to travel to and from their families and that the...
Dates: 1871

Tom Wolfe Letter

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0231
Scope and Contents

In this short letter to Maurice D. Leach (Washington and Lee University librarian, 1968-1985) Wolfe discusses a talk he gave at Washington and Lee University.

Dates: 1973

Tom Wolfe Letter

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0039
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a letter from Tom Wolfe to Professor Carlisle recommending Marshall Fishwick for the Alumni Distinguished Professorship.

Dates: 1963

Tucker Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0024
Scope and Contents

This collection includes items of John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897) and Henry St. George Tucker (1853-1932) including 18 letters, 16 of which are to J.R. Tucker, legal lecture notebooks, 54 printed speeches in Congress and before other organizations by both father and son, obituaries, in memoriams and miscellaneous items. Correspondents include Thomas Mann Randolph and George Washington.

Dates: Inclusive 1794-1934

Two photographs of Washington and Lee University's Morris House

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0188
Scope and Contents

Two photographs of the Morris House located on the front campus of Washignton and Lee University. One image is a second generation print from an earlier negative of a snow covered Morris House - possibly taken by Michale Miley around 1900. The second photo is a snapshot fro the late 1960s. The house in 2022 is used as a campus guest house.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1968

United Daughters of the Confederacy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0204
Scope and Contents

Consists of miscellaneous correspondence related to the Lee Memorial Fund at Washington and Lee University in 1921. Includes newspaper clippings and pamphlets concerning the Confederacy, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and primarily, the passing of a resolution naming Lincoln's birthday as a national holiday. Also includes correspondence with Douglas Southall Freeman and others.

Dates: Inclusive 1920-1939

University and Student Organizations and Societies - Record Group 39

 Record Group
Identifier: WLU-RG-0039
Scope and Contents

This record group contains materials created by the University's student and faculty organizations, including fraternities, sororities, and honorary societies, such as official publications by these groups and records about their management.

Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined

University Capital Planning - Record Group 27

 Record Group
Identifier: WLU-RG-0027
Scope and Contents

This record group contains materials about the university's capital planning efforts.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Date Not Yet Determined

University Publications - Record Group 47

 Record Group
Identifier: WLU-RG-0047
Scope and Contents

This record group contains official print publications created by the University at the highest level.

Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined

Virginia Hotel Court Document

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0483
Scope and Contents

Court document of the Augusta National Bank of Staunton versus J. C. Scheffer and John D. Crowle regarding the purchase of the Virginia Hotel.

Dates: Single 1898

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Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 9
Washington College 7
Virginia Military Institute 6
Miley, Michael, 1841-1918 5
Campbell, Henry Donald 4
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Washington College (Lexington, Va.) 4
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Crenshaw, Ollinger 3
Leyburn, James Graham 3
Washington and Lee University. Trustees 3
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities 2
Bank of Lexington (Lexington, Va.) 2
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Harris, Carter James 2
Hotchkiss, Farris Pierson 2
Johnston, William Preston 2
Lee family 2
Lee, George Washington Custis 2
Lee, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1883 2
Mattingly, Earl Stansbury 2
Men's Glee Club . Washington and Lee University (Washington and Lee University ) 2
Miley & Son Photographic Studio 2
Moger, Allen Wesley 2
Nelson, Alexander Lockhart, 1827-1910 2
Parsons, Frank (Frank Arthur) 2
Powell, Lewis F. 2
Riegel, O. W. (Oscar Wetherhold) 2
Roosevelt, Eleanor 2
Sanders, Irwin T. (Irwin Taylor) 2
Toynbee, Arnold J. 2
Truman, Harry S. 2
Tucker, John Randolph 2
Tucker, Robert Henry 2
U.S. Army School for Personnel Services 2
United Daughters of the Confederacy 2
Washington and Lee University. Delta Upsilon 2
Washington and Lee University. School of Law 2
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Wilson, John Delane 2
Wilson, William Lyne 2
Wolfe, Tom 2
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Adamson, Emily B. 1
African-Americans. Buena Vista, Virginia 1
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African-Americans. Glasgow, Virginia 1
African-Americans. Goshen, Virginia 1
African-Americans. Hamden Sydney 1
African-Americans. Lexington, Virginia 1
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Agelasto, Peter 1
Aldridge, Norris Templeton 1
Alexander, Hortense 1
Alexander, Louise Houston 1
Allan, William, 1837-1889 1
Allen, Hank 1
American Academy of Pediatrics (1930) 1
American Broadcasting Company (1944) 1
American College of Sofia 1
Ann Smith Academy 1
Archer family 1
Atkins, Leroy C., II 1
Atkinson, Edward 1
Augusta National Bank of Staunton (Staunton, Va.) 1
Baker, Ray Stannard 1
Balfour, Daniel T. 1
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Bamford, Janet G. 1
Barclay, Mary Paxton 1
Barker, Oscar B., Jr. 1
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Bell, Robert J. 1
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Black, Robert W., Jr. 1
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Bradford, Juliet S. 1
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Brady, Matthew B. 1
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