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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

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Alamby Miller Scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0137

Scope and Contents

This file consists of a scrapbook of works written by Washington College student Alamby Miller between 1864-1868. Included are Virginia university magazines, clippings from the Southern Collegian, and original poetry. There is also a scrapbook titled Alamby Millington Miller by Professor James W. Massie dated 1870. This scrapbook is a typed biography including a letter from Alamby to his sister.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1864 - 1870

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Alexander H. H. Stuart letter

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0468

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a letter from Alex H. H. Stuart to his cousin Alex B. Stuart. Alex H. H. writes that Colonel Walker has arrived to pay $1000 to settle the debt Alex B.'s brother, John Stuart, owes to the Dice family. Alex H. H. entreats Alex B. to help him with the matter.

Dates: 1844

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1848 - 1902

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Alexander Tedford "Ted" Barclay correspondence

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0002

Scope and Contents This collection includes original letters and typescript copies of letters Ted Barclay sent to his family in Lexington, Virginia during the American Civil War. Subjects include information about the activities of the Liberty Hall Volunteers of the Stonewall Brigade in major battles within Virginia; accounts of life in Confederate camp; information about food, clothing, diseases, religious services, attractive women, and deaths of friends while serving with the Volunteers; and accounts of...

Dates: 1861-1864

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Alfred Leyburn Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0098

Scope and Contents

Contains c.55 items, of Dr. Alfred Leyburn and the Leyburn family of Lexington, Va., including 22 letters between Leyburn and his wife, Ann Eliza, 1835-36; patents of Edward J. Leyburn.

Dates: 1823 - 1899; Majority of material found within 1830-01-01 - 1839-01-01

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Allen Wesley Moger Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0183

Scope and Contents

This collection includes a 5-page paper by Allen Moger concerning the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps (E.R.C.) at Washington and Lee University and letters received by Moger from students who were called to active duty from the E.R.C.

Dates: Inclusive 1943-1945

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

American Civil War Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0074

Scope and Contents

This collection contains approximately 90 miscellaneous items connected with the government and people of the Confederate States of America, including correspondence, official orders, almanacs, bonds, paper money, sheet music, memorabilia, and clippings.

Dates: Inclusive 1861-1865

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

American Shakespeare Center Collection

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0371

Scope and Contents

This collection includes 65 Shakespeare plays, additional plays by George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Molière; 12 Beta videotapes and audiocassettes; 26 cast scrapbooks with photographs; correspondence between Ralph Cohen and James Warren, founders of American Shakespeare Center, Hank Dobin, Washington and Lee University Dean (2005-2012), and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Shakespeare Center.

Dates: Inclusive 1987- ongoing; Majority of material found within Bulk 1987-1995

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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...

Dates: 1755-1958

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Andrew Hollinger Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll.-0481

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of eight bound diaries written by Andrew Hollinger and addressed to "The Team;" one binder of typed original poetry; and eight folders containing correspondences, materials related to Washington and Lee University, the ROTC Program, and Psi Upsilon fraternity, and a number of Hollinger's financial papers.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1969 - 1977

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Andrew Stevenson Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0035

Scope and Contents

This letter, dated 1840 Dec. [10?], to Henry St. George Tucker discusses American political parties and the presidential election of 1840.

Dates: Inclusive December 1840

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Ann Norvell Otey Scott Papers

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

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Ann Smith Academy Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0058

Scope and Contents

Includes 2 bound volumes of minutes of the meetings of its Board of Trustees (1807-1910), yearly reports of the various principals, miscellaneous correspondence, business papers, bills and receipts.

Dates: Inclusive 1807-1910

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Anna E. Dickinson autographed letter

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0208

Scope and Contents

This collection is an autographed signed letter dated April 26, 1881. Dickinson advises the recipient to put down his or her name in hope that he will get what he wants.

Dates: 1881

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Anne Carter Lee Records

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0274

Scope and Contents

This collection contains records (copies of clippings and Lee family correspondence, photographs of Lee Chapel) pertaining to the re-interment of Anne Carter Lee (Annie) in Lee Chapel, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia on September 29, 1994 from Warren County, North Carolina.

Dates: 1993-1994

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Arnold Toynbee letter

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0257

Scope and Contents

This letter is from Toynbee to Washington and Lee University President, Francis P. Gaines, upon Toynbee's departure from the University in June 1958.

Dates: 1958-06-02

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Baer Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0155

Scope and Contents This collection in comprised principally business and family correspondence and general papers of the Baer family of the Panther Gap vicinity of Rockbridge County, Va. with a concentration of papers relative to the family's land holdings such as maps, indentures, and wills. Other highlights are a group of twenty-one manuscript weaving drafts for making household textiles, a family Bible in German(l744), local militia fines, genealogical materials, some relating to the Decker and Hite (Heyt)...

Dates: 1744 - 1929

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Betty E. Munger Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0252

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of letters from more than 60 Washington and Lee University students to Munger that discussed the war in Vietnam and military life, as well as politics, books, and travel abroad.

Dates: Inclusive 1968-1991; Majority of material found within Bulk 1968-1980

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Beverly Tucker Lacy Letter

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0603

Scope and Contents

This collection contains one letter from Beverly Tucker Lacy and two hand-written, rough transcriptions of the letter.

Dates: 1857-01-07

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Blain Family Papers

Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-7

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0066

Scope and Contents This collection consists of personal papers of the Blain family of Albemarle County and Williamsburg, Virginia, including the Civil War period diary (1861-63) of school teacher Mary Randolph Blain. The diary, written near the York River in Gloucester County, Va. provides a picture of civilian life both in that area and in Williamsburg, Va. where her parents lived during the period. Also included are two letters written from Randolph Harrison Blain, brother of the diarist and a member of the...

Dates: Inclusive 1861-1905; Majority of material found within Bulk 1861-1864

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Botts Family Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0091

Scope and Contents

This collection contains approximately 11 items from various descendants and relatives of John Minor Botts (1802-1969), all discussing Botts family genealogy.

Dates: Inclusive 1933-1946

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Brooks Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0350

Scope and Contents

This collection includes copies of correspondence of the Brooks family of Augusta County, Virginia, including Andrew, Charles, Emmet and William Brooks.

Dates: Inclusive 1841-1884

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

C. R. Sutphen Letter

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0232

Scope and Contents

This letter from Sutphen to Seymour Eaton, dated February 16, 1907, is about accomodations at the Duquesne Club.

Dates: 1907-02-16

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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Admission Scholarship from Washington College to the sons of Mary Jackson Thornton

Alamby Miller Scrapbook

Alexander H. H. Stuart letter

Alexander Lockhart Nelson Papers

Alexander Tedford "Ted" Barclay correspondence

Alfred Leyburn Papers

Allen Wesley Moger Correspondence

American Civil War Papers

American Shakespeare Center Collection

Anderson Family papers

Andrew Hollinger Papers

Andrew Stevenson Correspondence

Ann Norvell Otey Scott Papers

Ann Smith Academy Papers

Anna E. Dickinson autographed letter

Anne Carter Lee Records

Arnold Toynbee letter

Baer Family Papers

Benjamin Franklin Doswell Correspondence

Betty E. Munger Correspondence

Beverly Tucker Lacy Letter

Blain Family Papers

Botts Family Correspondence

Brooks Family Papers

C. R. Sutphen Letter

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