Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 362 Collections and/or Records:
Ellinor Porcher Gadsden Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0189
Scope and Contents
This collection came from the estate of Ellinor Gadsden in 1985. Highlights of the collection include the letters of Alexander Swift(Sandie) Pendleton, a Washington College graduate who was a top aide to Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson during the American Civil War. These approximately 70 letters were a major source for the book. Sandie was the uncle of the Gadsden sisters. Included in the collection are also a few items of Gen. William Nelson Pendleton who was Robert E. Lee's friend and...
Dates:
Inclusive 1839-1975
Elsie Ball Wright Bowley Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0242
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence (4 folders) by and about Elsie Bowley's sister, Jessie Ball du Pont, and her brother-in-law, A. I. du Pont, as well as letters and correspondence from Elsie's son, Thomas Ball Wright, Ball family members of the Northern Neck of Virginia and other members of the du Pont family. Also contains papers of General Albert J. Bowley, along with Elsie Bowley's business papers regarding her benefactions. Includes ca. 175 photographs (mainly family photos), most of which are not...
Dates:
1929-1972
Ernest Hemingway Letter
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0493
Scope and Contents
In this undated letter to Mr. Loewi written from Cooke City, Montana, Hemingway comments on literature counselors. It is clear that Hemingway had previously sent some books to Mr. Loewi.
Dates:
Undated
Family Correspondences, 1857 - 1873
File — Box 1: [0000004847], Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Letter to J.G. Paxton, son of E.F. Paxton, from W. F. Junkin of Montclair, N.J., dated Feb. 22, 1873, acknowledging sympathy.Letter from W.H. Paxton of New Orleans to his brother, E.F. Paxton, dated May 7, 1857. It mentions receipt of W.H. Paxton's daughter's legacy of $300 from the daughter's grandmother, Margaret McNutt Paxton.Note to Mrs. E.F. Paxton from W.F. Junkin sent from Camp Paxton May 1863 saying he would like to buy one o General Paxton's...
Dates:
1857 - 1873
Fitzgerald Flournoy papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0187
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters to and from John L. Campbell, Dean at Washington and Lee University, as well as letters to, from, and concerning Frank J. Gilliam, who was a member of the Washington and Lee class of 1917, 1912-1926. Campbell and Gilliam correspond about several members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity being unable to return for the next semester due to grades. They also correspond about a prospective student from Lynchburg.
Dates:
1912 - 1963
Francis McFarland Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0053
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 54 miscellaneous letters, 1821-1866; diaries and financial records McFarland kept while he was a missionary and during his two pastorates, 1823-1836, and 1841-1871, at Bethel Presbyterian Church, Augusta County, Va.; lecture notes taken while a student at Princeton University; and printed biographical sketches and engravings of McFarland.Correspondents include Stonewall Jackson, George Junkin, William Spottswood.
Dates:
Inclusive 1815-1871
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:
1803 - 1979
Francis Thomas Anderson Junkin Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0331
Scope and Contents
There are two volumes of carbon copied letters from Francis Thomas Anderson Junkin to many notable Lexington, Virginia families as well as several photographs and pamphlets.
Dates:
Inclusive 1910-1913
Francis Wilkinson Pickens Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0013
Scope and Contents
This collection contains five letters from Pickens to various correspondents, a letter dated Sept. 29, 1845 to John C. Calhoun urging the latter to be a candidate for the U.S. Senate, three letters to Mrs. Pickens, and a legal document.
Dates:
1826 - 1862
Frank Dempster Sherman Letter
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0234
Scope and Contents
The signed note reads, 'Respectfully submitted to the Editor of Lippincott's Magazine.'
Dates:
1893-01-20
Washington and Lee Special Collections and Archives
204 West Washington Street
Leyburn Library
Lexington, VA 24450
Visit ArchivesSpace.org | v2.7.1