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Manuscripts

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Dabney Stuart Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0364
Scope and Contents

This collection includes drafts, manuscripts, and corrected typescripts of published and several unpublished novels, short story collections, volumes of poetry, his lectures, and a list of all of Stuart's publications from 1959-2009.

Dates: Inclusive 1989-2009; Majority of material found within Bulk 2000-2009

Daniel Crump Buchanan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0145
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the papers of Dr. Daniel Crump Buchanan on Japanese culture with some information on China, Korea, and other Asian countries generally organized by subject. The files on Japanese culture and history are arranged alphabetically by subject. They contain some significant memos and position papers on propaganda and psychological warfare against Japan during World War II. Other files on similar themes include "Espionage," "Target Operations", and "Reorientation." Also...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1935 - 1957

Davidson Family Papers

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1-19
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0113
Scope and Contents This collection consists of papers of Lexington, Virginia lawyer James D. Davidson and his daughter Mary Davidson and includes some correspondence, manuscript and printed poems of James D.Davidson, clippings, and some miscellaneaous papers from the family. James Davidson's printed and handwritten writings in the collection were compiled for his book "A Curiosity in the Chancery and Rhyme and Prose," (N.D., but likely 1876-81). The collection contains detailed genealogy of the Davidson,...
Dates: 1830 - 1915

Debate Papers

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000004848], Folder: 14
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Elisha Franklin Paxton Papers are comprised primarily of the personal correspondences, business and military papers of Elisha F. Paxton between 1845 and 1863. The core of the personal letters are written from Paxton to his wife Elizabeth White Paxton during their courtship in the 1850s and during the American Civil War, 1861-1863, while he served as an officer in the Confederate States Army’s 27th Virginia Infantry, a member of the staff of General Stonewall Jackson, and general in...
Dates: Inclusive 1845-1897; Majority of material found within Bulk 1854-1863

Douglas Southall Freeman Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0144
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of seven chapters of an original manuscript by Dr. Freeman titled R. E. Lee.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1946

Dunlap Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0245
Scope and Contents Papers contain information about Dunlap's family members, especially Madison Dunlap (1808-1883) of Kerr's Creek and his son, John Matthew Dunlap, a member of the Washington and Lee Class of 1857 who was killed at at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. The collection includes compositions that John Matthew Dunlap wrote for Professor J. J. White in 1856-1857, transcripts of letters he wrote while serving in the Confederate Army, and letters concerning his death. The collection also includes the...
Dates: Inclusive 1830-1878

Halford Ross Ryan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0228
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1985 - 1993

Henry Ruffner papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 35101013592295], 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

James Huffman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0089
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Inclusive 1935-1941

James Lewis Howe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0080
Scope and Contents This collection is the papers of James Lewis Howe, professor of chemistry at Washington and Lee University (1894-1938), which include his correspondence concerning the Presbyterian Church and foreign missions, the Washington and Lee University chemistry department, the American Chemical Society and philately. Also included are notes on archival material for and typescript of Annals of Washington and Lee University during the administration of George Washington Custis Lee,...
Dates: Inclusive 1893-1951

John Esten Cooke Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0337
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Inclusive 1874-1876

"Leyburn Family" Manuscripts

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000004803], Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

The manuscripts are acouns of the chief events in the family history. Both of the manuscripts are written in the same hand.

Dates: 1823 - 1899; Majority of material found within 1830-01-01 - 1839-01-01

Manuscript leaves from the Qur'an and Dala'il al-Khayrat

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0591
Scope and Contents This collection contains two single leaves from early manuscript (calligraphic) copies of the Qur'an (Koran) and two leaves from a manuscript copy of Dala'il al-Khayrat, a book of prayers for the prophet Muhammad by Moroccan Sufi scholar Muhammad ibn Sulayman Jazuli. Each leaf is written in Arabic. One Qu'ran leaf is from the Ottoman Period (c. 1847 AD) and retains its gold and color illumination. Its text contains the first sixteen verses of the Surat Al - Bagarah (the Cow). The second leaf...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1700 - 1900

Manuscript of "Old Monmouth and its Times" by J. D. Morrison

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000004452], Folder: 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers contain information about Dunlap's family members, especially Madison Dunlap (1808-1883) of Kerr's Creek and his son, John Matthew Dunlap, a member of the Washington and Lee Class of 1857 who was killed at at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. The collection includes compositions that John Matthew Dunlap wrote for Professor J. J. White in 1856-1857, transcripts of letters he wrote while serving in the Confederate Army, and letters concerning his death. The collection also includes the...
Dates: Inclusive 1830-1878

Nathaniel Pope Howard Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0115
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1849

Ollinger Crenshaw Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0320
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Inclusive 1946-1968

Sallie White Bruce Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0426
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Inclusive 1940s

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

Speech by an unknown student

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0455
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a hand written patriotic speech entitled 'On the Military Condition of College' given by an unknown Washington College (Va.) student in the college chapel in February 1861. The orator uses Washington College's three significant historical themes linking it to the American Revolution: the schools George Washington connection, its support by the Society of the Cincinnati, and the raising of the academy's military company, the "Liberty Hall Volunteers," against...
Dates: 1861-02

Thomas Nelson Page papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0007
Scope and Contents This collection includes four letters: Feb. 20, l904, Page to Samuel Graham on a social matter, and March 27, 1909, Lord Wolseley to Page in gratitude for being lent Nelson's book and praising Lee; September 30 and October 19, 1878 from Page to J. G. Steel on a business matter. It also includes a visitor's book, 1885-1899; Page's dinner party record from 1913-1919, while he was U. S. Ambassador to Italy. Additionally, it includes revised pages from the first edition of Page's book, ...
Dates: Inclusive 1878-1919