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Elizabeth F. Gresham papers

 Item
Identifier: MSS 16352
Scope and Contents

The collection contains typescripts of three comedy-dramas by Gresham: "The whetstone," rewritten as "Woman, with a difference," and "That lesser Aphrodite." In addition there is a typescript copy of "Death takes a holiday" by Walter Ferris, with Gresham's acting "sides" containing stage directions; and portions of the script for Edgar Allan Poe's "Politian."

Dates: 1936-1939
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

George Griffin papers

 Collection — Box: BW 23, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16470
Content Description This collection consists of personal and literary letters to George Griffin, as well as his daughter, Caroline Lydia Griffin. Of note, is correspondence with Lydia Sigourney, a significant poet at that time, from Hartford, Connecticut. It includes her poem, "On the death of Zerlina Thorne," and a letter devoted to her efforts to meet Charles Dickens, a poem, "Welcome to Charles Dickens, Esq." which was read to him at a banquet in Hartford two days learlier; a signed holograph poem,...
Dates: 1829 - 1855
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Jemima Buell Griffing album

 Collection — Box: BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16735
Content Description

An autograph album of Jemima Buell Griffing from Clinton, Connecticut.The album is filled with phrases, poems (some original), and short entries, including stories of Griffing with her family and friends.

Additionally there is a pencil drawing of what appears to be a grave with "Sacred to Memory" written on it surrounded by foliage drawn by J.R. Carns. It includes four engravings, some of which are hand-colored.

Dates: 1832-1856
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

R. E. Griffith letter

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589313]
Identifier: MSS 16209
Scope and Contents

University of Virginia Medical school student R. E. Griffith letter to Dr. J. Hays in Philadelphia, PA., February 20, 1838, 0.03 cubic feet, and a handwritten address and postmarks about his studies, lectures, professors, and colleagues in the fields of psychology, pathology, and obstetrics. He mentions several people by name, including a Dr. Couch, and a Mr. Hyde, whose death had recently been "in the papers".

Dates: 1838 February 20
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Milton L. Grigg Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 6478
Scope and Contents These additions to MSS 6478 Milton L. Grigg Papers, organized into two main series, contain architectural drawings, administrative and project files, and miscellaneous materials created by Milton Grigg and his architectural firm from the 1920s to the 1990s. The names of the projects and clients are followed by the commission number(s) where available. The materials document the projects completed by Grigg and his firm across the...
Dates: circa 1920s-1990s
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Gritty Women Podcast Series Recordings

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16806
Content Description This collection contains the four documetnary style episodes of the Gritty Women podcast series, by Giovana Benatto de Oliveira, and one audio file of an interview used to create the episodes. Each episode includes segments of interviews conducted by the podcast’s creator. The podcast explores the history, and legal, political, and social context of UVA's coeducation, and balances both scholarly and personal perspectives through interviews with both scholars and...
Dates: 2020-08-25 - 2021-05-23
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Eliza Grout letter to Levi Holbrook

 Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589413]
Identifier: MSS 16321
Scope and Contents

Eliza Grout letter to Levi Holbrook, 1825 September 24, 0.03 cubic feet is a romantic letter handwritten to her boyfriend who is studying in Providence, Rhode Island. The letter is written during their courtship and reveals two well educated people.

Dates: 1825 September 24
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Grover family papers

 Collection — Box: BW 18, Folder: 1 [X030899286]
Identifier: MSS 16394
Scope and Contents

The Grover family papers (1825-1917; 0.04 cubic feet) also includes papers from the Watts and Harris families. This collection contains receipts, a deed of gift for enslaved people (Dolly, and children Nancy, Elvira, and James from Mary Harris to Rosa M. N. Harris, circa 1845-47), a newspaper clipping of Preston Watt, and ration books of Bettie and William Grover. The papers came in a fabric packet stamped, “The Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Co. of Richmond, VA” which is included.

Dates: 1825-1906, 1917
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Hair jewelry instructions

 Collection — Box: BW 30, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16529
Dates: 1844
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

James Thomas Watt Hairston Civil War prison ledger

 Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16919
Content Description This collection contains the ledger from Liggon's Prison, the first Confederate prison for Union prisoners of war, kept by the prison's commander, Lieutenant James Thomas Watt Hairston. Although the ledger contains 272 pages of text, the pages are stamped 1–288 due to skipped numbers. The book includes a 257-page roster of 3,159 Union POWs confined from September 1861 to March 1862. Each entry gives the prisoner's name, rank, company, and regiment, and their ultimate disposition,...
Dates: September 1861 - March 1862
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Elias W. Hale to Jane Hale letter

 Collection — Folder: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16814
Dates: 8 February 1842
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Nancy Hale papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 3646
Dates: 1946-1959
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Fitz-Greene Halleck papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 6986
Scope and Contents

Original holograph manuscript of the poem "Burns," signed with initials F.G.H. and dated 1823 April.

Dates: 1823
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Thomas T. Hammond papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 12776
Content Description This addition to MSS 12776, Thomas Hammond papers, contains twenty-two typed and handwritten letters between Thomas T. Hammond and Charles Evans, Hammond's advisee and Ph.D. student. The letters range from 1985 to 1993 and discuss advice Hammond had for Evans in completing his oral comps and his dissertation, searching for teaching positions, and his research work for Hammond and his odd jobs (such as mowing and painting) for Hammond and his wife, Nancy. Later letters mention Evan's...
Dates: 1985 - 1993
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Earl Hamner signed program

 Collection — Box: BW 16, Folder: 1 [X030899322]
Identifier: MSS 16379
Dates: Undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Hampton Institute student photograph album

 Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16525
Content Description This collection contains a photograph album of a student from Hampton Institute. The original photo album, measuring 7' x 10' with 24 pages, contains 44 black and white photographs of an unidentified young Black woman, approximately 20 years old, as well as cut newspaper images and a photo postcard. She is seen at Hampton Institute, a historically Black University, in Hampton, Virginia, posing in front of school buildings, clowning around with friends, and preparing for graduation. Also...
Dates: undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Hampton, Virginia aerial photographs

 Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589177]
Identifier: MSS 15958
Scope and Contents

Hampton, Virginia aerial photographs (1921; 0.03 cubic feet)were taken by the United States Army in 1921.

Dates: 1921
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Samuel Hannah letter

 Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X031589471]
Identifier: MSS 16343
Dates: Undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Leroy L. Harcum promissory note for the purchase of a slave

 Collection — Box: BW 7, Folder: 1 [X031589286]
Identifier: MSS 16165
Scope and Contents

Leroy L. Harcum promissory note for the purchase of a slave from M . W. Jones and William Rogers, who agree to lease the slave boy Lucius for $27.25" and consists of 0.03 cubic feet, 1861. They also agreed to give the boy a hat and blanket in addition to the usual summer and winter clothing.

Dates: 1861
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Hardaway family of Virginia birth and death certificates

 Collection — Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16092
Dates: 1803-1890
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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