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Collection
Identifier: MSS 15015
Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589361]
Identifier: MSS 16258
Scope and Contents
T. R. Leigh letter to Brevet Brigadier General B. C. Ludlow, 1865 June 13, 0.03 cubic feet, requesting the retention of two Negro boys so that he can raise them. An answer from Ludlow appears on the verso, stating that he should be able to keep them but he will need written authority from "Mr. Thompson."
Dates:
1865 June 13
File — Box: 2
Identifier: MSS 16531
Collection — Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16346
Scope and Contents
Auguste Leroux original watercolors,.03 cubic feet, illustrating the Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe, executed by Leroux for his 1933 edition of Poe's Histoires Extraordinaires, published in Paris by Javal et Bordeaux.
Dates:
1933
Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box L 2, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1
Identifier: MSS 16673
Content Description
This collection includes University of Virginia memorabilia from alumni Malcom Lester, who was a historian at Davidson College where he was a Chair of the History Department and Director of the Davidson College program at Cambridge University.The collection contains Lester's certificate of membership in Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Virginia, dated June 12, 1954; a scroll dedicated to the University of Virginia and its faculty, one of twelve institutions selected nationwide...
Dates:
1946 - 1954
Collection — Box: BW 8, Folder: 1 [X031589307]
Identifier: MSS 16194
Scope and Contents
Jacques Letellier script for film, "The Lottery in Babylon" 1960's, .03 cubic feet, a typed draft for an unproduced film based on the 1941 short story by Jorge Louis Borges.
Dates:
1960's
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2836
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16413
Content Description
The George Washington Lewis papers consists chiefly of correspondence to and from George Washington Lewis and between other family members, but also includes a few photographs of the Lewis family and the homes of "Claymont", "Shellfield" and "Marmion"; a plat of "Claymont"; newsclippings; notes on Lewis family history and genealogy; and a few financial and legal documents.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1805-1906, 1966
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2988
Scope and Contents
This collection is an addition to the Lawrence Lewis papers and contains one letter from Lawrence Lewis to Edward George Washington Butler dated 1837, June, 18, about family news and the whereabouts of George Strickler and the payment for Butler land.
Dates:
1837-06-18
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589220]
Identifier: MSS 16025
Scope and Contents
Private Nathaniel Lewis letters to his brother-in-law Petter [sic?] Bailey and sister Jane Bailey, 0.03 cubic feet, about a skirmish at Hurricane Bridge, West Virginia in 1863 April 1. Mention of John Moore and General Albert G. Jenkins. Also included is a letter from Hannah Lewis to Jane Bailey.
Dates:
1863 April
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589232]
Identifier: MSS 16063
Scope and Contents
Richard Lewis, a wealthy and influential land owner in Northern Virginia, left instructions in his will about his land and that four "Negro girls" be purchased and divided by lot among his daughters, 0.03 cubic feet, 1777.
Dates:
1777
Collection — Box: BW 38, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16611
Collection
Identifier: RG 18/12/4
Content Description
This addition contains T-shirts, committee reports, proposals, surveys, petitions, clippings from various newspapers including The Cavalier Daily, brochures, a letter from Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida regarding the Unite the Right Rally in 2017, and a floppy disk documenting the work of the LGBTQ student center. Files on the disk include agendas from 1998 to 1999, letters working to address the harassment of the LGBTQ community during the "Good Old Song" singing, and various research...
Dates:
circa 1993-2017
Collection — Box: Currency, Stamps, and Miscellany Box, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16821
Content Description
This collection contains one Revolutionary War pay voucher to Cuff Liberty, an African American soldier from Middletown, Connecticut, who was one of approximately 300 enslaved or freemen from Connecticut who fought for the Continental Army. The government-issued vouchers promised full payment by a certain date and paid interest until the full amount was collected. The voucher, measuring 8" X 4", is printed on laid paper with a black decorative border, numbered in ink "3958" for £13,6,7 1/2."...
Dates:
1782 - 1789
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG 12/43
Content Description
Includes photographs (including a CD) and programs.
Dates:
circa 1996-2019
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG-12/43
Content Description
This collection contains printed ephemera regarding events, dinners, lectures, and fundraising from 1988 to 2000 both at and for the library. Also included are received rsvps for a few of the events.
Dates:
1988-2000, undated
Collection
Identifier: RG-12
Content Description
This addition to RG 12 University Library includes clippings, university and student magazines about student life, faculty, alumni and UVA athletics, promotional cards and event ephemera about UVA and Special Collections exhibits and dinners, and a file on "Wednesdays in Mississippi" movement with a recording on CD of Dorothy Height at the University of Virginia, and a VHS tape of a Local PBS station's story on Lewis and Clark. The magazines include The Virginia Spectator, Crust Magazine,...
Dates:
c. 1946-2016
Collection — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16695
Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16867
Content Description
This collection contains one leather-bound photo album compiled by Dr. Minor Carson Lile between 1909 and 1917. It includes thirty-nine black and white photographs, many with captions or initials that provide a snapshot of life at the University. Photographs include images of the Routunda, Pavilion X, Birdwood, a baseball game at Lambeth Field with Minor playing third base, family photographs of the...
Dates:
c. 1908-1917
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589188]
Identifier: MSS 15970
Scope and Contents
This collection is a photograph of Lincoln's gun at Fort Monroe (undated) and is one folder (0.03 cubic feet).
Dates:
undated