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Malinda Caperton album

 Collection — Box: BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16769

Content Description

This collection contains a friendship album for Malinda "Lin" Caperton (1842-1922) of West Virginia. The album contains approximately thirty pages of autographs with dates throughout, 1855-1861. The autographs are almost certainly all from young girls, some noted as likely classmates from the Virginia Female Institute, although a lengthy two-page poem is more likely a male student at the University of Virginia.

Caperton was the daughter of Allen Taylor Caperton, 1810-1876, the American politician who was a United States Senator from West Virginia in 1875-1876. Malinda eventually married James French Patton, 1843-1882, an American lawyer, Confederate officer, and Democrat politician.

Dates

  • Creation: 1855 - 1867

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Extent

0.03 Cubic Feet (1 letter folder)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was purchased from Adam Weinberger Books by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 30 October, 2020.

Condition Description

Good

Title
Malinda Caperton album
Author
Ellen Welch
Date
2023-04-14
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository

Contact:
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States