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Richard Lewis Last will and testament

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sarah Lewis common place book.

 Collection — Box: BW 38, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16611
Dates: 1841 - 1854
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

LGBTQ Student Center records

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Cuff Liberty pay voucher

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Library Advancement files

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG 12/43
Content Description

Includes photographs (including a CD) and programs.

Dates: circa 1996-2019
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Library Advancement records-addition 4

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Library Development Office - addition

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Therese Lieske scrapbook

 Collection — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16695
Dates: 1917
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Dr. Minor Carson Lile photo album

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Lincoln's gun at Fort Monroe photograph

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets extracts

 Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16401
Scope and Contents Note

The handwritten copy of extracts (1796; 0.15 cubic feet) from the "Lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works" by Samuel Johnson, originally published in 1783. Copy was transcribed in 1796 and includes a table of contents and index.

Dates: 1796
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles H. Lloyd to Samuel Breese Letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16813
Content Description This collection features a single letter written by Charles H. Lloyd, addressed to his uncle, Samuel Breese of Oneida, New York. Lloyd writes from Harrisonburg, Virginia, asking his uncle for funds to return to New York as he cannot find other employment. He writes, " I am situated so that I cannot move at all. I have tried to get a situation here in place... but unsuccessfully and all because I am not a good writer & bookkeeper. I feel very anxious indeed to get back to New York but Mr....
Dates: August 15, 1851
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Locust Street Literary and Athletic Club Constitution

 Item — Box: BW 58, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16859
Scope and Contents This collection contains the constitution of the Locust Street Literary and Athletic Club of Hampton, Virginia. The document, dated July 22, 1910, is handwritten in graphite on three pages of lined paper. The preamble to the club's constitution states that they operate "to form a more perfect union, insure order, justice and tranquility and promote the highest intellectual and physical development of ourselves and of our race." This constitution contains 8 Acts: Act I details the structure...
Dates: July 22, 1910
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow letter

 Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589222]
Identifier: MSS 16039
Scope and Contents

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow letter (1853; 0.03 cubic feet) to his English friend Miss Emma.

Dates: 1953 October 3
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

M.E. Lovell manuscript embroidery book and sample work

 Collection
Identifier: MSS -16943
Dates: Majority of material found within c. 1900-1913
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

William G. Loveridge World War I papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS16612
Dates: 1917 - 1919
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Betty White Loving diaries

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16055
Content Description

Betty White Loving chronicles her years as a teenager and student at Scottsville High School, and writes about events, names of people, and places she has visited.

Dates: 1941 - 1942
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Luke family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 14066
Scope and Contents

Luke Family papers, MSS 14066, 1 cubic foot, contains family correspondence, financial, legal, and personal papers of a late Nineteenth century family from Berryville, Virginia. Topics include slavery, politics, farming, and the health of family and friends. There is also a brief mention of John Hopkins Hospital as well as World War I. There are a few items from other families including Frye, Zirkle, Geary, Rupp, and Harlow. They may have been friends or relatives of the Luke family.

Dates: 1853-1946
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Lydia commonplace book

 Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16761
Content Description This collection contains the commonplace book belonging to a woman, possibly named Lydia from the United States, circa 1844. A commonplace manuscript book with verse neatly recorded verso and recto throughout. The book consists of twelve unpaginated leaves, ruled in pencil and partially uncut in original pink and black marbled paper wrappers. The contents are largely short verse excepts and meditative or religious in nature. However, there are several more substantial selections, "The...
Dates: c.1844
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Virginia Scott Cocke Lyman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16921
Content Description This collection contains 268 letters Virginia Scott Cocke wrote to David Russell Lyman, whom she would marry in 1905. The letters date from 1898 to 1905 and document their courtship. Also included are photographs, a postcard, a bookplate, an album, marriage certificates, transcripts of the letter, and a thumb drive. Virginia Scott Cocke lived at 'Lower Bremo' in Fluvanna County, Virginia, and met her future husband when he was a senior at the University of Virginia in...
Dates: 1898 - 2025; Majority of material found within 1899 - 1905
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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