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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Ann Norvell Otey Scott Papers

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

Edward Virginius Valentine Correspondence

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

Frank J. Gilliam Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0494
Scope and Contents The items in the collection include articles written by Lula Gilliam Hopkins, photographs taken by Sally Mann, a 1954 copy of a Matthew Brady photograph of Robert E. Lee, several family photographs, a booklet from a dance held in 1914, a letter from Gilliam as W&L Dean of Students to student John Willcoxon (class of 1952) presenting him with an award, and Frank J. Gilliam's (class of 1917) Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity pins. The collection also includes a scrapbook created by Gilliam as...
Dates: Inclusive 1914-1964
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Franklin Lafayette Riley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0060
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence connected with the book Gen. Robert E. Lee After Appomattox edited by Dr. Riley; letters from Riley to his wife while he was with the American Expeditionary Force University in France in 1919; other correspondents include Edward Clifford Gordon, Mary Custis Lee and Jo Lane Stern. Also includes letters to his daughter (Frances Riley, later Frances Denton), her Daughters of the American Revolution card, and photographs and...
Dates: Inclusive 1897-1927
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Giles B. Cooke Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0191
Scope and Contents This collection contains the following correspondence: Letter to Rev. Cooke from G. T. Bearnegan (1874) thanking Cooke for his journal with reference to Petersburg in 1866; letter to Mr. Cooke from U.A. Jackson (1895) asking Cooke for information about Stonewall Jackson for the republishing of U.A. Jackson's book; letter from Rev. Cooke to Mrs. H.B. Lee (1924) asking for information about an incident in the life of General Lee that was similar to the incident that took the life of Stonewall...
Dates: 1874 - 1929
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Henry Louis Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0246
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of papers including letters concerning Smith's retirement from both Davidson and Washington and Lee, as well as speeches, correspondence, and articles regarding Robert E. Lee, education, modern civilization, and temperance. Also includes material regarding Smith's 1921 trip to England chairing a commission to present a copy of Houdon's statue of George Washington to the British government from the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Dates: Inclusive 1888-1951; Majority of material found within Bulk 1912-1940
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Jefferson Davis collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0011
Scope and Contents This collection includes four telegrams and one letter, 1862-1865, from Davis to C.S.A. Generals Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. Johnston, and Robert E. Lee and Col. William Preston Johnston concerning conduct of the war; nine letters, 1867-1882, from Davis to General William Nelson Pendleton, the majority discussing the preparation of Davis' book, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government; one letter dated Feb. 4, 1887 from Davis to Mrs. Mary Meredith refusing assistance from Texas friends;...
Dates: 1861-1887
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

John F. Swayne Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0292
Scope and Contents This collection consists of Swayne's personal papers from his time as a student at Washington College, including correspondence with E. C. Gordon and Mary F. Dickson, a subscription to the Southern Collegian, and two essays. One letter is a response from the clerk of the faculty to Swayne's notice of withdrawal from the college. One essay entitled 'A trip to House Mountain' was written in 1869; it details a trip made there in the summer of 1867. There is an...
Dates: Inclusive 1867-1935; Majority of material found in Bulk 1867-1869
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

Joseph Eggleston Johnston Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0069
Scope and Contents

Includes Johnston's Order No. 18, April 27, 1865, to his troops after his surrender to Gen. William T. Sherman; a letter, Jan. 24, 1884, from Johnston to [James F. Rogers?] concerning some letters from Gen. R. E. Lee; autographed photograph of Johnston.

Dates: Inclusive 1865-1884
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Lee Endowment Fund records

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0147
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of subscriber lists, financial reports, printed material, and correspondence related to the Lee Endowment Fund.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1866 - 1873
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Lee Memorial Association Records

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1-4
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0148
Scope and Contents This collection consists of records related to the formation and history of the Lee Memorial Association (L.M.A.). The association was formed in October 1870 immediately following the death of Robert E. Lee with the goal of creating a monument to honor him on the campus of Washington College, subsequently renamed Washington and Lee University. Between 1870 and 1883, the L.M.A. successfully raised the funds for the creation and installation of what is known as the "Recumbent Lee" statue,...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1870 - 1921
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Letter from James Jones White to James Chesnut

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0529
Scope and Contents Two weeks after the death of Washington College President Robert E. Lee, Professor J.J. White acknowledges receipt of James Chesnut's submission to the Camden Journal of his recollections of Robert E. Lee. J.J. White also describes a newly formed Soldier's Association with the purpose of memorializing Robert E. Lee. White mentions that Mrs. Lee has said she will provide a design for the tomb. Enclosed in the letter are pressed flowers from Robert E. Lee's funeral bier,...
Dates: 1870-10-26
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Mary Coulling Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0248
Scope and Contents This collection contains primarily the materials gathered by Mary Price Coulling while doing research for her books The Lee girls (1987) and Margaret Junkin Preston (1993), including photocopies of Lee, Custis, Junkin and Preston family letters, scrapbooks, notebooks, genealogies, photographs and articles, as well as copies and critiques of Margaret Junkin Preston's poetry. It also includes notecards, articles and speeches by Coulling relating to...
Dates: Inclusive 1806-1997
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Robert E. Lee Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0064
Scope and Contents This collection contains primary and secondary resources pertaining to Robert E. Lee and the Lee family. Included are correspondences from, to, and about Lee and various family members; memorabilia, pamphlets, photographs, reminiscences, miscellaneous personal papers, family history and genealogy. The collection includes materials acquired from the Lee family and items donated to and purchased and compiled by W&L University since Lee's tenure as president of Washington College from 1865...
Dates: Inclusive 1792-1935; Majority of material found within 1833 - 1870
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Robert Selph Henry Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0341
Scope and Contents

Includes copies of correspondence between Robert Henry and Douglas Southall Freeman about Freeman writing a foreword for Henry's book The Story of the Conferderacy as well as copies of correspondence between Washington and Lee University Dean Frank Gilliam and Major Edward C. Betts about a Boude and Miley photograph of Robert E. Lee owned by Betts and used by Henry in this book.

Dates: Inclusive 1936-1938
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Sydney Dyer McCormick Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0151
Scope and Contents

This collection contains responses from McCormick's classmates and others to his proposal for a volume of reminiscences concerning Robert E. Lee's presidency of Washington College. Correspondents include William W. Carson and Fitzhugh Lee.

Dates: 1891 - 1930
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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

Wartime Papers, 1862 - 1863

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000004832], Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

This file consists of Elizabeth Paxton's obituary and many articles about the death of General Paxton. It also includes sympathy notes to Mrs. Paxton at the time of his death. There is notification of Paxton's death by d R. E. Lee.

Dates: 1862 - 1863
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Elisha Franklin Paxton Papers

William C. Fowler Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0391
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of letters from William Chauncey Fowler to George Washington Custis Lee, who was president of Washington and Lee University at the time. The letters mention connections to George Washington Parke Custis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Inclusive 1872-1876
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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