Showing Collections: 1 - 6 of 6
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-0300
Scope and Contents
This typescript signed letter from Edward Virginius Valentine to Mrs. R. L. Walton on November 28, 1922 concerns the personal contacts he had with Robert E. Lee and sculptures he made, including the recumbent statue of Lee in Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University.
Dates:
1922
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0059
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 20 speeches and copies of letters and papers collected on R. E. Lee's administration of Washington College, 1865-1870.
Dates:
Inclusive 1865-1933
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0659
Content Description
An undated typescript copy of a two page letter written by Reverend Jonathan W. Harpine to the editor of an unknown newpaper, perhaps the Lexington (Va.) News Gazette, opposing the proposed plan to rebuild the Lee Chapel on the campus of Washington and Lee University. The letter likely dates to 1920s during the tenure of Washington and Lee University president Henry Louis Smith who, along with the national chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), was a proponent of the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1920 - 1929
Record Group
Identifier: WLU-RG-0034
Scope and Contents
This record group contains archived materials about and created by Washington and Lee University's museums, comprised of Lee Chapel and Museum, the Reeves Collection, and the university's art collection, during the course of its regular business, such as official publications and records of its management.
Dates:
Other: Date Not Yet Determined
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0014
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of an original photograph of Traveller's skeleton on display.
Dates:
Majority of material found in between 1940-1960
