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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

Walter Downie Campaign Banner Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0147
Content Description

An outdoor photograph of Walter Downie holding a painted banner draped over a cow that reads: 'This is no bull, Walt Downie for Vice President'. The image was taken during Downie's successful run for Washington and Lee University student body vice - president during the 1941 winter term. Walter Downie graduated from Washington and Lee in 1942 and returned to his home state of Texas where he was a rancher. He died in 1999. An unknown man is also in the image seated and milking the cow.

Dates: 1941

Walter Henry Hoffman Notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0161
Scope and Contents

This collection contains his student notebooks for courses in civil engineering (applied mathematics) taught by an unknown professor (possibly Willam Allan). Also contains an account book with records of his expenditures as a student from 1872-1876.

Dates: Inclusive 1872-1876

Washington and Lee Campus Inn Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0357
Scope and Contents

This ledger containing information about hotel guests was recorded by John P. Lynch, property trustee.

Dates: Inclusive 1931-1933

Washington and Lee Dance Cards Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0526
Scope and Contents

This collection contains dance cards from various dances held at Washington and Lee University.

Dates: Inclusive 1886-1923

William D. Johnson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0117
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of William D. Johnson's lecture notes from a chemistry course at Washington and Lee University taught by John Lyle Campbell, who was Professor of Chemistry at Washington and Lee University 1851-1886.

Dates: Inclusive 1871-1872

William D. Lewis account book

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0450
Scope and Contents

This account book covers Lewis' expenses over a seventeen year period, including expenditures on room, board, clothing and other items. During the first three years he was a student at Washington and Lee University.

Dates: Inclusive 1870-1887

William E. Dold Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0186
Scope and Contents

The collection includes an autograph book containing autographs of Washington and Lee students circa 1875. Also includes a brochure of River Crest Sanitarium (Astoria, Long Island) and three letters to Dr. Dold from Francis P. Gaines, which are dated October 20, 1932, May 24, 1933, and November 7, 1936.

Dates: Inclusive 1875-1936

William G. Brown Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0480
Scope and Contents

Handwritten manuscript draft of William Brown's protest to the Washington and Lee University Board of Trustees related to issues of religious life on campus and a handwritten response from Rev. F. B. Converse (Francis Bartlett Converse) to Brown.

Dates: 1866

William Gladstone Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0678
Scope and Contents This collection primarily contains a series of memoranda, correspondence, newspaper articles, and transcripts regarding William Gladstone and his service to the state of Florida. In addition, the collection included a book showcasing Gladstone’s judicial activism, and has since been transferred within the Special Collections Department. A collection of great breadth within the juvenile criminal justice system, it features several policy efforts supported by William Gladstone, including the...
Dates: Existence: Majority of material found within 1980 - 2015

William Jackson Humphreys Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0095
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a letter from William Jackson Humphreys written to Dr. Leslie L. Campbell. In the letter Humphreys gives an account of his time at Washington and Lee Univeristy. He mentions studies, dating, and nicknames of friends and professors.

Dates: 1941-03-17

William Lyne Wilson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0029
Scope and Contents Includes letters from the American Civil War period; correspondence of Wilson while he was Congressman from West Virginia, Postmaster General under Cleveland, and President of Washington and Lee University; 3 bound, indexed volumes (not orginals) of Wilson's official correspondence as Postmaster General; 6 diaries; miscellaneous papers and printed speeches; 38 letters from the University of West Virginia collection (microfilm); photograph; correspondence with Isidor Straus concerning...
Dates: Inclusive 1852-1980

William McLaughlin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0044
Scope and Contents This collection contains items of Judge William McLaughlin, including letters from Henry D. Campbell and William L. Wilson. Many concern awarding of honorary degrees and elections to the Board of Trustees of Washington and Lee, of which McLaughlin was rector (1888-1898). The collection also contains legal certificates and his papers, including his Confederate Army Commission dated October 7, 1862. Also included is a copy of his death from the minutes of the Board of Trustees of Washington...
Dates: Inclusive 1851-1898

William Paxton Houston Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0068
Scope and Contents

Includes letters written to Houston (1900-1902) when he was a member of the Board of Trustees of Washington and Lee University; papers, notebook, clippings concerning the issue of sectarianism at Washington and Lee. Correspondents include David Carlisle Humphreys, William Caruthers Preston, Henry St. George.

Dates: Inclusive 1898-1903

William Poindexter Moore, Jr. collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0026
Scope and Contents This collection primarily includes correspondence written between 1791-1913 to different ancestors of William Poindexter Moore. The letters written to Andrew Reid by his son-in-law, Andrew Moore, provide insight into what was happening in the United States during Moore's time in Congress. His November 26, 1791 letter mentions concern for Western troops at the hands of Indigenous populations, some of whom were receiving goods imported by the British West Indies. His letter dated...
Dates: 1779-1913

William Preston Johnston collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0015
Scope and Contents This collection consists of four items. The first item is a letter written November 4, 1870 to Johnston from a committee which was formed to solicit copies of remarks by various people given by associates of the Army of Northern Virginia for publication. The second item is a letter written to Johnston by William Davis and concerns money raised for a Robert E. Lee monument. It is dated January 13, 1872. The third item is a typescript broadside dated June 24, 1874. It was written by Johnston...
Dates: 1870, 1872, 1874, 1878

Winborne Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0254
Scope and Contents

Family papers include Winborne Jr.'s school papers and notebooks from his years at Washington and Lee University, as well as information about his fraternity, Delta Tau Delta. Three folders contain printed matter about his father, Roger M. Winborne, a Class of 1911 graduate of Washington and Lee University Law School.

Dates: Inclusive 1907-1975; Majority of material found within Bulk 1907-1909; Majority of material found within Bulk 1942-1946

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Names
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 9
Washington College 7
Miley, Michael, 1841-1918 5
University Chapel . Washington and Lee University (Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA ) 5
Virginia Military Institute 5
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Campbell, Henry Donald 4
Campbell, J. L. (John Lyle) 4
Gaines, Francis Pendleton 4
Smith, Henry Louis 4
Washington College (Lexington, Va.) 4
Cole, Fred Carrington 3
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
Denny, George Hutcheson 2
Flournoy, Fitzgerald 2
Gilliam, Frank Johnson 2
Graham, John Alexander 2
Harris, Carter James 2
Hotchkiss, Farris Pierson 2
Johnston, William Preston 2
Lee family 2
Lee, George Bolling 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
Washington and Lee University. Sigma Alpha Epsilon 2
Wilson, John Delane 2
Wilson, William Lyne 2
Wolfe, Tom 2
Ackerly , Mary D. 1
Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915 1
Adams, Samuel Hopkins 1
Adamson, Emily B. 1
African-Americans. Buena Vista, Virginia 1
African-Americans. Charlottesville, Virginia 1
African-Americans. Glasgow, Virginia 1
African-Americans. Goshen, Virginia 1
African-Americans. Hamden Sydney 1
African-Americans. Lexington, Virginia 1
African-Americans. Martinsville, Virginia 1
African-Americans. Natural Bridge, Virginia 1
African-Americans. Roanoke, Virginia 1
African-Americans. Salem, Virginia 1
African-Americans. Staunton, Virginia 1
African-Americans. West Virginia 1
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
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 1
Bamford, Janet G. 1
Barclay, Mary Paxton 1
Barker, Oscar B., Jr. 1
Beale, Preston Johnston 1
Bell, Robert J. 1
Biltmore Forest School 1
Black, Robert W., Jr. 1
Boude and Miley 1
Bowman, Mary Lee 1
Bracken, John S. 1
Bradford, Juliet S. 1
Bradford, Vincent L. (Vincent Loockerman) 1
Brady, Matthew B. 1
Brady, Pat, 1917-2002 1
Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston 1
Brockenbrough, John 1
Brockenbrough, John Bowyer 1
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