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Collection
Identifier: MSS 7223
Content Description
This collection of James Kirke Paulding MSS 7223, -a,-b,-c,-d contains manuscripts of the poems, "The Backwoodsman," and "Where are Women Angels?" There are also typed manuscripts of two poems by John Quincy Adams and one of an untitled poem to Adams by James Kirke Paulding. Also included is a fragment of "The Rights of War and Peace."Most of the correspondence in the collection discusses the Department of Navy business. There is a document appointing Paulding as Navy Agent in...
Dates:
1804-1874
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16103
Scope and Contents
Henry Andrew Peckham letters from 1944-1946, 0.015 cubic feet, consist of transcripts of his letters to his parents during his service in the United States Navy.
Dates:
1944-1946
Record Group
Identifier: RG 18/9/2
Content Description
Correspondence, programs, brochures, speeches and essays, photographs, publications, and reports documenting the Peer Advisor Program of the Office of African American Affairs (1989-2019; 1 cubic feet). Materials relate to the founding and activities of the Peer Advisor Program, including the program's leadership under Associate Dean of the Office of African-American Affairs Sylvia Terry.
Dates:
1989-2019
Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16402
Scope and Contents Note
The Pence ledger (1856-1859; 0.25 cubic feet) records work done by and payments made to Lewis Pence, a blacksmith in Edinburg, Virginia, from 1856-1859. Pence's clients include George Grandstaff, a local gunmaker and the owner of the Edinburg Mill. The Edinburg Mill was almost burned by Union troops during the Civil War in October of 1864, but locals extinguished the fire and the mill survives to this day as a museum and designated Virginia Historic Landmark.
Dates:
1856-1859
File
Identifier: MSS 16420
Scope and Contents Note
The Randy Pendleton papers (1967-2000; 0.04 cubic feet) documents Pendleton's work as a journalist. The collection contains three pieces of ephemera: a Klan business card handed to Pendleton, who was in Birmingham at a Klan convention as a representative of UPI, 1967 or 1968; a press releases handed out at the announcement of Norman Mailer's candidacy for Mayor of New York City dated May 1, 1969 with hand-edits by Pendleton based on Mailer’s speech; a “Sore Loserman” sign handed out outside...
Dates:
1967 - 2000
Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589269]
Identifier: MSS 16118
Scope and Contents
William Garland Pendleton land warrants (Virginia), dated 1819 and 1823, consists of .03 cubic feet and includes four warrants issued to Benjamin Blackford, John Arthur, Joseph Arthur, Robert Miller, James Sterrett, John Bealer, John W. Grove, and Nimrod Johnson. The warrants were signed by Pendleton who was the Clerk of the Chancery Court in Richmond, and former Register of the Land Office.
Dates:
1819, 1823
Collection
Identifier: MSS 4407
Scope and Contents
The records chiefly contain legal correspondence, financial and legal documents and bound folio volumes from the law firm of Perkins and Perkins, consisting of George Perkins and his son, W. Allan Perkins, 1903-1916.
In addition, some legal correspondence and documents represent the service of George Perkins as attorney for the City of Charlottesville, 1904-1916. There is very little personal correspondence or documents in these records.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1751, 1835-1920
Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589324]
Identifier: MSS 16227
Scope and Contents
John Peterson freedom certificate, 1817, consists of 0.03 cubic feet, and is a single handwritten registration of John Peterson, "a free man of color," from the Goochland County court, and signed by W. Miller.
Dates:
1817
File — Box: BW 37, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16603
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16571
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a dialogue and three screenplays of Denne Bart Petitclerc's film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway "A Farewell to Arms" starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones adapted by Ben Hecht from the Selznick Studio in Hollywood, California. The first screenplay is called Script 82,Quarto, mimeographed typescript printed on rectos bradbound in yellow production company wrappers, dated October 22, 1956, and begins with two ambulance drivers playing cards when the main character...
Dates:
1956 - 1958
Collection
Identifier: MSS 4944
Content Description
Peyton's diaries cover the Civil War and Reconstruction periods and frequently mention conflicts, specifically the Yankees and how many people were killed on both sides of battlefields. His diary entries describe the Yankees being at his home and near his neighbors in Rapidan, Virginia. Many southern generals are mentioned including General (Stonewall Thomas) Jackson, General (J.E.B.) Stuart, and General (Richard S.) Ewell. There are also references to President (Andrew) Johnson. ...
Dates:
1862 - 1911
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15787
Scope and Contents
The William and Eula Richardson Phelps letters (1895-1940; 2 cubic feet) relates the courtship and early marriage of William and Eula Richardson and their life with family members. William was a tobacco salesman for R. H. Fishburne and Company in Roanoke, Virginia and because he travelled across the mid-west for his living, there are frequent letters between the couple, that describe their life at the turn of the century.
There are also letters from Eula's family about her mother being...
Dates:
1895-1940
Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 23/4/8
Content Description
Records of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and the Montalto Corporation, 1855-2003, 0.6 cubic feet, includes two books of the Montalto Corporation containing notes and meeting minutes, correspondence and financial materials of both the corporation and the fraternity, and materials regarding fraternities and sororities from the University of Virginia. Also includes photographs, a constitution, and minute book.
Dates:
1855-2003
Collection — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box S 4, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1
Identifier: MSS 16631
Collection — Box: BW 38, Folder: 1 (addition)
Identifier: MSS 7206
Content Description
This addition to MSS 7206 Wendell Phillips papers is a single undated letter from Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), an attorney and abolitionist, concerning a speaking engagement on "Tousssaint L'Ouverture, the hero of Hayti" in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Dates:
undated
Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16755
Content Description
This collection contains one photograph of Edmund Parker (1827-1898), formerly enslaved at Mount Vernon, standing guard at George Washington's Tomb circa 1890. In 1841, Parker was brought to Mount Vernon, at the age of fourteen, as one of the enslaved people owned by John Augustine Washington III. He married Susan, an enslaved woman Augustine had purchased in 1852, and the couple went on to have nineteen children, including two sets of twins. Parker fled from Mount Vernon during the Civil...
Dates:
1890
Collection
Identifier: MSS14891
Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16824
Content Description
Content Warning: This material contains graphic imagery and content involving human remains. The purpose of this note is to allow users to decide whether they need or want to view these materials or, at least, to mentally or emotionally prepare themselves to view the materials. This collection contains a scrapbook of black and white photogaphs and ephemera documenting Frederick Pilcher, Jr.'s life from the 1920s to the 1930s as a student at Virginia Polytechnical Institute (VPI),...
Dates:
C.1923-1932
Collection — Box: BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16508
Content Description
This collection contains a gelatin silver photograph of about fifty Black students, parents, and faculty in front of a rustic schoolhouse. About two-thirds of the participants are students with the rest either faculty or parents. Caption on label reads: "La Crosse, Va. Piney Pond School April 3, 1914."
Dates:
3 April 1914
Collection
Identifier: 16639
Dates:
1986 - 2011; Majority of material found in 2015