Box 2
Container
Contains 4 Results:
Jefferson Wallace collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-16338
Content Description
This collection contains typescript and manuscript books, all richly illustrated with watercolor paintings and illuminations by commercial artist and Richmond resident, Jefferson Wallace. These include The Fairy Book, The Story Teller, Anthology of English poetry, The Virginia Text Book: Containing a history of Masonic Grand Lodges and The Book of Myths. The content mainly focuses on mythological stories, fairy tales, original stories and selections from English
Dates:
1890-1950
The Story Teller typescript, undated
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
"The Storyteller" contains 192 pages, with illuminated letters, full page watercolor illustrations, chapter headings, tail piece, and so on. Typescript of a group of stories by Wallace, with notations to a printer as well as notes to himself of things still to be done. Of particular interest are several stories set in Richmond, including a tale about Richmond Theater, the Carrington family of Richmond, Cary Street. Many illustrations of Richmond places and people, including African-American...
Dates:
undated
Virginia Text-Book containing History of Masonic Grand Lodges and Constitutions, 1925
File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
The full title page reads: "The Virginia Text Book: Containing a history of Masonic Grand Lodges and the Constitutions of Masonry or Ahiman Rezon together with a digest of the laws, rules and regulations of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, also a complete compilation of the illustrations of masonic work, as drawn from Preston, Webb, Read and others by John Dove, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Virginia. Engrossed and illuminated by Jefferson Wallace, Worshipful Master of Dove Lodge, No....
Dates:
1925
The Book of Myths, 1913
File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
“The Book of Myths” is a leather-bound 1913 illustrated manuscript by Jefferson Wallace for his daughter, Anne Clopton Wallace. Jefferson Wallace’s bookplate, place marked Richmond, Virginia, appears at the volume’s front endpage. The hand-illustrated and colored frontispiece of the book features the subtitle “Some of the Sweet Myths of Nature” and features the credit line “Arranged for Mistress Anne Clopton Wallace by Her Daddy.” Underneath these captions is “Philadelphia, MCMXIII,” where...
Dates:
1913