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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

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

Elijah Forsythe Will

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0436

Scope and Contents

This is an undated copy, possibly a draft, of Elijah Forsythe's will. There is a signature of Archibald Graham Esq on the backside.

Dates: 1800 - 1820

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

George Washington Custis Lee papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0142

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of George Washington Custis Lee's correspondence, commission as major general, recollections collected by Greenlee Letcher, a copy of his will, transcripts of his letters, and a paper on G.W.C. Lee, possibly written by Letcher.

Dates: 1875 - 1913

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

McCown Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0181

Scope and Contents

This collection consists primarily of business papers of the family including sale lists, indentures, land surveys, deeds, wills, promissory notes, and numerous receipts. It also includes 71 photographs from the collection of Samuel W. McCown, Jr. (WLU 1919).

Also incuded is a verse in remembrance of visit to Black Wall Cave, January 30, 1914, by H. M. Vest, which makes reference to several Rockbridge County, Virginia boys.

Dates: Inclusive 1811-1917

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