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H.C. Marchant letter to R.W. Creasy

 Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16888
Content Description

This collection contains one holograph letter dated August 23, 1900 from H.C. Marchant of Charlottesville to R. W. Creasy of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The letter is written on Charlottesville Woolen Mills stationery. The letter addresses Creasy's interest in employment which Marchant seems hesitant to give. Marchant requests references that can speak to Creasy's conduct and to his to his habits since leaving Charlottesville.

Dates: August 23, 1900
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Marie Rose Devaux alphabet embroidery sample book

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16872
Content Description This collection contains a sales sample book of finely embroidered alphabets, likely intended for use on silk handkerchiefs. There are 290 embroidery samples on silk, mounted to windows in each leaf of the eighty leaves. Inscribed on the original silk cover in graphite is "Marie Rose Devaux 40 Rue des matyrs [sic] Paris". Bound in the Japanese stab-sewn fukurotoji style ("Bound Pocket" binding) and using paper with visible kozo fibers, this sample book was likely made in Japan, rather than...
Dates: c.1870s
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Marion Nolan and Ruth Ferguson collection on Charlottesville/ Albemarle Foundation for the Encouragement of the Arts

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 13233
Scope and Contents The collection consists of files pertaining to events sponsored by CHALFA (Charlottesville/Albemarle Foundation for the Encouragement of the Arts) (1979-2005; cubic foot) and include clippings, articles about Bill Weedon and Marion Nolan, invitations, guest lists, publicity, financial papers, programs, newsletters, ticket stubs, and posters. The collection also contains original charcoal sketches of Marion Nolan and Bill Weedon and "Notes on Marion Nolan and CHALFA," a speech given to the...
Dates: 1979-1998, 2005
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles Marriott papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16686
Content Description

Bound and loose typescripts, manuscripts, offprints and miscellaneous materials written or translated by Charles Marriott from 1894 to 1960. Included are untitled novels, two of his plays "Exit: A Tragedy in One Act" and "The Intruding Angel: A Play in Three Acts", 15 offprints of his articles, and a bound volume manuscript of his short stories. Also present are manuscript notebooks with records of his publications as well as manuscript notes and ideas for stories he projected.

Dates: 1894-1960; undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Jane Marshall album

 Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16720
Dates: 1830 - 1843
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John Marshall portrait

 Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box S 7
Identifier: MSS 16819
Dates: 1832
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Wendy Martin papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16866
Content Description This collection documents the first-year experience of Wendy Martin, a student-athlete at the University of Virginia, class of 1991. The collection contains brochures, schedules, and correspondence collected by Martin, including materials sent to incoming first-year students, student activities brochures, materials from housing, honor code documents, and materials related to Track and Field, including correspondence, schedules, and brochures. It also includes her application for admission to...
Dates: 1985 - 1987
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mary A. Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 13121
Dates: 1940-2001
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mary Butler ledger

 Collection — Box: BW 23, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16463
Content Description This collection consists of one ledger book belonging to Mary Butler, a Catholic woman living in Virginia and North Carolina. The book begins as a school account with a "list of scholars" but quickly transitions to lists of recipes for alloys, solders, and cement and transitions again to mostly original poems. Also recorded is Butler's marriage to Thomas A. Cullen at St. Peter's Cathedral in Richmond, as is their move to Wilmington, North Carolina, and the birth of their child Mary....
Dates: 1869 - 1873
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

The Mass of St. Gregory

 Collection — Box: BW 36, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16626
Dates: 1931
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Materials related to UVA mass shooting

 Collection
Identifier: RG-50/6
Content Description This collection features a colored pencil portrait of Lavel Davis Jr., D'Sean Perry, and Devin Chandler, the University of Virginia students and football members killed in a mass shooting on November 13, 2022, at the University of Virginia. After the tragedy, President and Mrs. Ryan opened their home for students to gather. Isabelle Martins, a Univeristy of Virginia architecture student, brought this drawing as a gift to Carr's Hill. The following week, President Ryan asked for the artist to...
Dates: November 2022
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Cotton Mather Ephesians sermons

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16388
Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of two handwritten sermons by Cotton Mather. The first is on Ephesians 1.11. It is eight pages and includes added marginalia. This sermon cites other books of the Bible, such as Malachi, Revelations, Acts, Matthew, Hebrews, and Exodus.The second is on Ephesians 1.12, is also eight pages, and includes added marginalia. This sermon makes references to other books in the Bible, such as Job, Jeremiah, Corinthians, Malachi, Hebrews, and...
Dates: 1702 - 1706
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Katheryn Mattox class notes at the University of Virginia

 Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589228]
Identifier: MSS 16058
Scope and Contents

Katheryn Mattox class notes at the University of Virginia from a music class she was taking as an elementary school teacher, .03 cubic feet, 1940-1950. The class was taught by a professor "Miss Baird," for music teachers and classes were held in Washington Hall. Included is a book of ballads for female voices for schools and glee clubs. (Text is by Alice C. D.Riley, and music by Jessie L. Gaynor (1915)

Dates: 1940-1950
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

May family papers

 File — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16057
Scope and Contents Note The May family papers (1870-1945; 0.4 cubic feet) document the lives of a couple generations of the Richmond-based May family. Photograph subjects in the collection include J.A. May in his Confederate Army uniform post-Civil War, J. Howard May, Jr. as an infant, Virgil May, Sr., Phil May with relatives at Virginia Military Institute, and Virgil R. May, Jr. with his wife Ella and children Linda and Billy.Letters in the collection are primarily written by or to Virgil, Jr. and...
Dates: 1870 - 1945
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Bernard Duncan Mayes tapes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 13847
Dates: 1976-1984
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Jayma Mays photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589391]
Identifier: MSS 15989
Dates: 2009
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John McAllister Jr. letter

 Collection — Box: BW 5, Folder: 1 [X031589242]
Identifier: MSS 16081
Scope and Contents

John McAllister Jr., letter to his mother, 0.03 cubic feet, 1837. McAllister, a Philadelphia manufacturer, wrote to his mother about his wife Eliza's trip to White Sulpher [sic] Springs and other Virginia resorts. With his wife traveling in the South, McAllister adds his own observations on a North/South split just then occurring among Presbyterians meeting in Philadelphia.

Dates: 1837
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

W. Gordon McCabe letter to Jahu DeWitt Miller (addition 2)

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 10568
Content Description

William Gordon McCabe letter to Jahu DeWitt Miller, 17 October 1904.

Dates: 1904-10-17
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

McCauley family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 14953
Dates: 1790-2008
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Archibald McClean letter to Francis James supporting anti-slavery measures in Virginia

 Collection — Box: BW 58, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16829
Content Description This collection contains a single letter from Colonel Archibald McClean to Pennsylvania Congressman Honorable Francis James, dated February 16, 1842. McClean, a well-connected Virginia lawyer, expresses his support for the anti-slavery efforts of John Quincy Adams. McClean notes his interest in "the debate which has been going on for some time in your House [of Representatives] upon the resolution for censuring Mr. [John Quincy] Adams for presenting a petition which was unpalatable to at...
Dates: 16 February 1842
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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