Manuscripts
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Dabney Stuart Papers
This collection includes drafts, manuscripts, and corrected typescripts of published and several unpublished novels, short story collections, volumes of poetry, his lectures, and a list of all of Stuart's publications from 1959-2009.
Daniel Crump Buchanan Papers
Davidson Family Papers
Debate Papers
Douglas Southall Freeman Manuscript
This collection consists of seven chapters of an original manuscript by Dr. Freeman titled R. E. Lee.
Dunlap Family Papers
Halford Ross Ryan Papers
This collection includes the handwritten and the typed drafts of Mr. Ryan's book Persuasive Advocacy. It also includes rough drafts and information used for his article on Harry S. Truman and his book American Orators of the 20th Century. It includes galleys of his book American Orators Before 1900.
Henry Ruffner Papers
James Huffman Papers
This collection includes the manuscript of 'Ups and downs of a Confederate soldier' by James Huffman, a member of the Confederate States of America, 10th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company I, and correspondence concerning its publication; approximately 270 items, including letters to and from his son Oscar C. Huffman, a member of the Washington and Lee University School of Law, Class of 1898, as well as genealogical correspondence and charts.
James Lewis Howe Papers
John Esten Cooke Scrapbook
This scrapbook published by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper in four installments, of an otherwise unpublished novel by John Esten Cooke titled Cary J. Hunsdon: The Reflections of a Man; 1776.
"Leyburn Family" Manuscripts
The manuscripts are acouns of the chief events in the family history. Both of the manuscripts are written in the same hand.
Manuscript leaves from the Qur'an and Dala'il al-Khayrat
Manuscript of "Old Monmouth and its Times" by J. D. Morrison
Nathaniel Pope Howard Papers
This collection contains AMS notebooks (156 p. and 25 p.) of Howard's annotations for an edition of Lucretius as well as two ALS from H. A. J. Munro to Howard dated July 15, 1867 and May 19, 1868.
Ollinger Crenshaw Papers
These papers include correspondence, articles, and selected notes for Crenshaw's General Lee's College and manuscripts given to him in the process of his research for the book.
Sallie White Bruce Manuscript
This manuscript is a memoir by Sallie White Bruce about her family's life in the Lexington area during the American Civil War and their involvement with Washington College. It references Hunter's Raid in 1864.
Samuel H. Chester papers
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.