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Anonymous dating diary
Collection — Box: BW 56, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16752
Content Description
This collection contains a holograph notebook recording the dating experiences of an unnamed young man who was most likely a University of California student during World War II. The notebook consists of 162 numbered entries of dates with several girls. Each entry documents the girls' names, places, the activity of the date, and observations about each date/girl. The diary begins May 22, 1943, and the last entry is dated March 8, 1947. The log ends with these words: " And thus I end this,...
Dates:
1943 - 1947
Brandon L. Garrett Collection of Criminal and Death Penalty Trial Transcripts
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2017-01
Abstract
Trial transcripts for Virginia death penalty cases. DNA exonoree trials, and various state criminal trials.
Dates:
1977-2011
Ralph Cohen papers and "New Literary History" records
Collection
Identifier: RG-24/54/1.151
Content Description
This collection contains the teaching, research, and personal papers of Ralph Cohen, the William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of English from the University of Virginia from 1948-2016; and the records of the "New Literary History", an international, interdisciplinary, award-winning journal that Cohen founded and edited from 1969 to 2009 at the University of Virginia. The records of the New Literary History Journal (1969-2016) (Series 1) contain correspondence, contributors' articles, proofs,...
Dates:
1948-2016
Noblet Herbert, Jr. letter to Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589318]
Identifier: MSS 16214
Scope and Contents
Noblet Herbert, Jr. letter to his aunt Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington, January 25, 1852, 0.03 cubic feet, and one of the last letters during his life. He wrote during his trip to California with an expedition of about 80 Jefferson County men participating in the California "Gold Rush" with descriptions of the land and the costs of various livestock. Also included is an article in the California Historical Society Quarterly v. 29 no. 4 regarding a different letter from Noblet dated...
Dates:
1852 January 25
Sally C. Wegner poetry manuscripts
Collection — Box: BW 48, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16478
Content Description
The poetry manuscripts by Sally Calkins Wegner are for a class taught by Karl Shapiro at the University of California, while a visiting professor there, and most contain handwritten comments by Shapiro. Also present is a news clipping about Shapiro and his appearance for a reading at the University of Arizona, Tucson in 1966.
Dates:
1956, 1966