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"M. B. K." Civil War letter

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589319]
Identifier: MSS 16217
Scope and Contents

"M. B. K." Civil War letter, and other family letters, 0.03 cubic feet. A sister writes to her brother, "Reynold" in the Confederate Army, near Yorktown, 1861, May 21 and June 25 , with a note from his mother, and another letter from a "fond sister" with detail about the fight in Virginia, including the "Company of Howitzers now at Manassas Gap" and mention of Colonel Francis Hennery Smith, (1812-1890) First Superintendent at Virginia Military Institute and his treatment of the cadets.

Dates: 1861

Charles Macalester and Robert Gilliam letters

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16623
Content Description This collection includes letters between Robert Gilliam and Charles Macalester between the years of 1818 and 1872. Gilliam was either a lawyer or clerk at the Prince George County Courthouse in Virginia, and Macalester was a businessman in Philapelphia and the namesake of Macalester College in Minnesota. The letters include a variety of topics--both personal and professional, ranging from the price of beer to the Civil War and Cholera--which seem to indicate the two are related, perhaps as...
Dates: 1817-1872

Sir Fitzroy Maclean papers

 File
Identifier: MSS 11487
Scope and Contents Note This Fitzroy Maclean papers consist (1827-1996; 44 cubic feet) of the professional and personal papers of Scottish soldier, diplomat, politician, author, and traveler, Sir Fitzroy Hew Maclean (1911-1996) of Dunconnel. It includes correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts, typescripts, newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, lectures, speeches, photographs, memorabilia, and research material pertaining to his military, diplomatic, political and literary career as well as family and...
Dates: 1827-1996

H. Cabell Maddux, Jr. University of Virginia football scrapbook

 Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: MSS 16655
Content Description

Scrapbook containing clippings, photographs, memorabilia, and ephemera related to University of Virginia Cavaliers football program and the University of Virginia from 1935 to 1937.

Dates: 1935 - 1937

Madison Friendship Lodge Grand United Order of Odd Fellows collection

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16411
Scope and Contents Note

The Madison Friendship Lodge Grand United Order of Odd Fellows collection (1880-1937; 3 cubic feet) contains minute books, financial records, correspondence, event programs, proceedings, a cemetary plot, a framed faternal collar, a fraternal apron, and a flag. Loose manuscripts, meeting minutes, and notes make up the remainder of the collection.

Dates: 1880-1937

Mary Ann Magnoni Sabbath notebook

 Collection — Box: BW 5, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16080
Scope and Contents Mary Ann Magnoni Sabbath notebook, 1836, 0.03 cubic feet, presented to Mary Ann Magnoni by her Sabbath School teacher (Mr. Bumstead) at the First Baptist Church of Boston. She used the notebook like a diary to record home prayers, church worship, and Sunday school events in 1836 when she was approximately twenty-two years old. Also included are notes about several preachers and their teachings. She mentions Reverend Adlam, Reverend Dr. Sharp, Reverend William Collier, Reverend Mr. Harthone,...
Dates: 1836

Anna Manahan newspaper clippings and photocopies

 Collection — Box: BW 38, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16613
Content Description

Newspaper clippings and photocopies regarding Anna Manahan who lived in Charlottesville, Virginia and purported to be Anastasia Nikolaevna, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

Dates: 1983 - 1984

Manuscript facsimilie of Treatise on the state and origin of the Ancient French by Nicolas Vignier

 Collection — Box: BW 48, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16704
Content Description

Traicté de l'estat et origine des anciens françois par Nicolas Vignier. Manuscript in French, 168 leaves written in a single Batarde hand in brown ink, 17-19 lines per page, plus catchword. The manuscript closely imitates the printed edition by Nicolas Vignier, published by Chez Claude Garnier, A Troyes, 1582, from imprint and device motto to full transcription of the royal privilege and colophon at the end. 18th-century engraved armorial bookplate of Le Peletier in the quarto.

Dates: 1582

Manuscript fragment

 Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16541
Content Description

This collection contains what appears to be the second page of a letter of recommendation or affirmation of someone's position. Initials on the letter include "P.M" and "P.O.B" but names are unclear.

Dates: Undated

Manuscript leaf with a miniature of St. Margaret

 Item — Box: BW 19, Folder: 1 [X031674500]
Identifier: MSS 16355
Scope and Contents

Leaf from a manuscript Book of Hours in Latin with a miniature of St. Margaret, France, late 15th century.

Dates: circa 1450-1500

Map and print seller diary

 Collection — Box: BW 20, Folder: 1 [X032652608]
Identifier: MSS 16438
Content Description

The map and print seller diary (1864; 0.03 cubic feet) includes account and mileage information, and diary entries. Boston, MA and Portland, ME, and towns in between are noted.

Dates: 1864-04-05 - 1864-07-17

Maps of Richmond

 Collection — Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16163
Scope and Contents

Maps of Richmond, 1861, 1864, .03 cubic feet,consist of two hand drawn maps on thin brown paper. (very fragile).

Dates: 1861, 1864

Marie Rose Devaux alphabet embroidery sample book

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16872
Content Description This collection contains a sales sample book of finely embroidered alphabets, likely intended for use on silk handkerchiefs. There are 290 embroidery samples on silk, mounted to windows in each leaf of the eighty leaves. Inscribed on the original silk cover in graphite is "Marie Rose Devaux 40 Rue des matyrs [sic] Paris". Bound in the Japanese stab-sewn fukurotoji style ("Bound Pocket" binding) and using paper with visible kozo fibers, this sample book was likely made in Japan, rather than...
Dates: c.1870s

Marion Nolan and Ruth Ferguson collection on Charlottesville/ Albemarle Foundation for the Encouragement of the Arts

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 13233
Scope and Contents The collection consists of files pertaining to events sponsored by CHALFA (Charlottesville/Albemarle Foundation for the Encouragement of the Arts) (1979-2005; cubic foot) and include clippings, articles about Bill Weedon and Marion Nolan, invitations, guest lists, publicity, financial papers, programs, newsletters, ticket stubs, and posters. The collection also contains original charcoal sketches of Marion Nolan and Bill Weedon and "Notes on Marion Nolan and CHALFA," a speech given to the...
Dates: 1979-1998, 2005

Charles Marriott papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16686
Content Description

Bound and loose typescripts, manuscripts, offprints and miscellaneous materials written or translated by Charles Marriott from 1894 to 1960. Included are untitled novels, two of his plays "Exit: A Tragedy in One Act" and "The Intruding Angel: A Play in Three Acts", 15 offprints of his articles, and a bound volume manuscript of his short stories. Also present are manuscript notebooks with records of his publications as well as manuscript notes and ideas for stories he projected.

Dates: 1894-1960; undated

Jane Marshall album

 Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16720

John Marshall portrait

 Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box S 7
Identifier: MSS 16819

Wendy Martin papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16866
Content Description This collection documents the first-year experience of Wendy Martin, a student-athlete at the University of Virginia, class of 1991. The collection contains brochures, schedules, and correspondence collected by Martin, including materials sent to incoming first-year students, student activities brochures, materials from housing, honor code documents, and materials related to Track and Field, including correspondence, schedules, and brochures. It also includes her application for admission to...
Dates: 1985 - 1987

Mary A. Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 13121

Mary Butler ledger

 Collection — Box: BW 23, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16463
Content Description This collection consists of one ledger book belonging to Mary Butler, a Catholic woman living in Virginia and North Carolina. The book begins as a school account with a "list of scholars" but quickly transitions to lists of recipes for alloys, solders, and cement and transitions again to mostly original poems. Also recorded is Butler's marriage to Thomas A. Cullen at St. Peter's Cathedral in Richmond, as is their move to Wilmington, North Carolina, and the birth of their child Mary....
Dates: 1869 - 1873

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