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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

Francis P. Gaines Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0140
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of Gaines' correspondence, speeches, photographs, and printed matter, such as programs and newspaper clippings. Also included is Gaines family genealogy.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1803 - 1979
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Henry Ruffner papers

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-8
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0102
Scope and Contents This collection includes three manuscript novellas written by Henry Ruffner including a draft of his published work titled "Judith Bensaddi"; six sermons in Henry Ruffner's hand, Washington College student James S. Richeson's handwritten transcript of one of Ruffner's lectures on "Political Economy"(1840); a 20th cenury typescript copy of Ruffner's 1847 pamphlet regarding slavery in Virginia; an 1867 letter relating to property of Ruffner's estate by his widow, Laura...
Dates: Inclusive c.1815(?)-1867
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

James Hubert Price Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0090
Scope and Contents

The papers of James H. Price, Governor of Virginia (1938-1942), including correspondence during his gubernatorial years; addresses to the General Assembly and of various organizations; radio speeches to the people of Virginia; World War II Virginia civil defense materials; photographs.

Dates: Inclusive 1927-1943
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

James McDowell Correspondence

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Identifier: WLU-Coll-0449
Scope and Contents This collection contains two letters written to James McDowell while he was a Congressman. In one, dated May 16, 1848, James Paxton writes that he is not sure if the administration of Washington College needs changes, discusses the pay of the professors, which varied from $800 to $1300 per year, Governor William Smith's recent appointment of George H. Lee to fill a vacant judgeship. The other from C. S. M. Lee, J. S. Fishburn, and W. P. Wharton, dated December 6, 1848, asks him to deliver...
Dates: 1848
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

John W. Davis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0106
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a typescript of a speech delivered at Martinsburg, West Virginia (January 4, 1905); law license (1895); statements of assets (1904-1917); correspondence, and a legal document for the purchase of real estate (1898-1930).

Dates: Inclusive 1895-1930
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Mortimer Norton Wisdom Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0308
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of copies of letters written by Mortimer Norton Wisdom, to his mother when he was a law student at Washington and Lee University from 1872-1873. There are also copies of exams given by John Randolph Tucker in 1873 and copies of speeches given by Wisdom in 1872.

Dates: Inclusive 1872-1873
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Roger Mudd Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0369
Scope and Contents Includes graded papers, clippings, and correspondence with Washington and Lee University professors during Mudd's college years. Also includes speeches given for commencements, press/broadcasting associations, emcee roles, and acceptance of awards and honors. Includes correspondence with J. Stewart Bryan III, John Updike, Sandra Day O'Connor, Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather. Includes scripts from Mudd's years at the Richmond News Leader, CBS radio and television, NBC, PBS, and THC (History...
Dates: Inclusive 1948-2005; Majority of material found within Bulk 1953-2004
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt Letter to Washington College

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0492
Scope and Contents

Letter in which Theodore Roosevelt responds to a previous letter by the president of Washington College, Henry Lewis Smith, declining an invitation to speak at the institution.

Dates: 1914
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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

Tucker Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0024
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, legal lecture notebooks, speeches, photographs, and ephemeral items (some political) associated with the Tucker family of Virginia. The bulk of the collection relates to the lives and work of John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897) and his son, Henry St. George "Harry" Tucker (1853-1932). Items associated with Washington and Lee University, Tulane University, and Newcomb College are also in the collection. Several files contain pages from the "Johnston...
Dates: 1794-1934
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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

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