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Collection — Box: 1-7, Box: 8-14, Box: 15-16
Identifier: MSS 16207
Scope and Contents
The copies and transcriptions of Poe related material in the first series, usually correspondence or manuscripts, includes the names of correspondents, location of the originals if known, the accession number of any material acquired by the University of Virginia and accessioned as a collection before being interfiled in this collection, which was formerly known as the “Poe transcripts.” Also included on each folder is the reference to the page citing each item in "The Collected Letters of...
Dates:
1809-1970
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589175]
Identifier: MSS 15956
Scope and Contents
This collection of a Point Pleasure General Store ledger, dated 1824 July-November is 0.03 cubic feet and lists customers, what they bought, and prices. The collection may be related to MSS collection 15957 (a photograph of an unidentified woman) because both collections came in together from the same dealer.
Dates:
1824 July-Novemeber
Collection — Box: BW 28, Folder: 1 [X032669072]
Identifier: MSS 16511
Content Description
This collection contains a commonplace book written in by Frances Eleanor "Fannie" Poole and her classmates at the Frederick Female Seminary in Maryland. The book includes a frontispiece, engraved title page, and additional plates. Poole wrote "this side up," beneath her inscription, but the binding is upside down. Poole died at the age of nineteen in 1860, four years after the last dated entry in the book. The book has heavy foxing on the plates and pages were torn from the book.
Dates:
1854 - 1856
Collection — Box: BW 44, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16660
Content Description
This collection contains a manuscript autograph draft signed by John Caryll for payment to Alexander Pope with Pope's signed receipt and is addressed to Richard Wright, goldsmith, at Convent [sic] Garden. The ink manuscript is on a small sheet of paper (66mm X 154mm) with writing on both sides and is housed in a cloth-backed archival folder. The document says "Pray pay unto Mr. Alex: Pope (or order) the Sum of Eleven pounds and place it to the ye acct. of yr. freind J. Caryll." ...
Dates:
February 28, 1720
Collection — Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16575
Content Description
This collection contains one poster displayed by an undergraduate student living on the Lawn, during the fall of 2020. The poster is a critique of the University of Virginia's purchase of furniture made by prison labor. The sign was damaged and was taped back together.
Dates:
2020
Collection — Box: BW 5, Folder: 1 [X031589253]
Identifier: MSS 16093
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 11283
Content Description
Original offensive military order given on April 9, 1865 from Brigadier General William L. "Mudwall" Jackson ordering 18th Virginia Cavalry Lieutenant George Julian Pratt to burn the railroad bridges near Lynchburg.There is a photocopy of this military order in the existing collection but this is the original order which is a note scrawled on a scrap of paper by General Jackson. It is accompanied by a letter from L. L. Lomax in the War department thanking Pratt for a copy of the order for...
Dates:
1865, 1894
Collection — Box: BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16763
Content Description
This collection contains a friendship album belonging to Mary Ann Pratt (1813-c.1880), of Livonia, New York. The bulk of the entries are from 1830 to 1832 and appear to be from her local friends from the surrounding towns of Mt. Morris, and Dansville. The entries mostly consist of poems, with some original works, as well as short notes, whose general themes touch on memory, friendship, morality, heaven, and time. Some poems are attributed to a Charles Spraque. There are a few entries from...
Dates:
1829-1835
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16417
Scope and Contents Note
The Stella Pratt scrapbook (1883-1894; 0.4 cubic feet) contains correspondence, clippings, printed material, invitations, sketches, flowers, ribbons, photos, and a sketch of Stella herself. Pratt is from Longwood, Massachusetts, a neighborhood within Brookline.
Dates:
1867 - 1947
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16540
Content Description
The Gregory A. Prince Mormon Studies Collection (MSS 16540), 1813-2020, contains about 10,000 items (107 cubic feet) and reflects a lifetime of dedicated scholarship and careful acquisition of materials by Gregory A. Prince that would be very difficult to replicate in modern times. It contains pamphlets, charts, books, manuscripts, diaries, journals, audiovisual materials, newspapers, photographs, artifacts, and ephemera related to the organization and evolution of the Church of Jesus Christ...
Dates:
circa 1813-2020
Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16647
Content Description
Handwritten poems and sentiments written to Martha, 1839-1842. Blank "Album" published by J. C. Riker, New York, includes several pages of illustrations, mostly black and white, many signed by artists and engravers. Printed engravings are preceded by colored papers for protection. Some illustrations have been pasted in.
Dates:
1839 - 1842
Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X031589473]
Identifier: MSS 16345
Scope and Contents
Private stock label printed broadside captioned "Private stock" humorously describing labeling a bottle of alcohol., undated, 0.03 cubic feet.
Dates:
undated
Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16835
Content Description
This collection contains a homemade Black history notebook of clippings and illustrations compiled by Bernard S. Proctor, (a Tuskegee Airman). The notebook is a green cloth 3-ring binder, with "Negro History" written on the spine, containing newspaper clippings from the Pittsburgh Courier, illustrations from a syndicated cartoon Your History, by J.A. Rogers, and illustrations from Negroes...
Dates:
c.1949-1950
Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 23/111/1
Content Description
Constitutions, meeting agendas, newsletters, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and press releases relating to the activities of the Queer Student Union (1979-2015; 0.6 cubic feet). Includes a wide variety of advertisements for QSU events, such as drag bingo, as well as publications originating from both the union itself and its various members. Finally, contained in the records are many documents from the LGBTQ Resource Center, the Women’s Center, and the Serpentine Society.
Dates:
1979-2015
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2338
Scope and Contents
The larger collection consists of the original materials and 7 additions including the most recent one represented in this finding aid. In this addition, ViU-2017-0179, are six Elizabeth Upshur Teackle letters with transcriptions. Five letters are written by Mrs. Teackle, and one is addressed to Mrs. Teackle from William Wirt, esquire. In the letters Mrs. Teackle mainly discusses the hardships of her family after her...
Dates:
1713-1977
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16759
Content Description
This material contains racist imagery of Black people. This note aims to give users the opportunity 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 materials related to Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" predominately created between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century and collected and curated by Stephen Railton. Railton is a University...
Dates:
1884-2015
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16408
Scope and Contents Note
The Railway mortgage certificates (1880-1937; 0.3 cubic feet) consist of two bound sets of railway mortgage documents. One set comprises a stack of $1000 mortgage certificate sheets for the Alabama Central Railroad, payable 1918. The second set comprises a stack of $1000 mortgage certificate sheets for the Oxford and Clarksville Railroad Company, payable November 1937. The latter includes agreements by the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company to pay the mortgage if Oxford and Clarksville...
Dates:
circa 1880s-1937
Collection — Box: BW 44, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16661
Content Description
This collection contains Claude Rains' copy of the Jefferson Heritage with extensive annotations and emendations. This bound volume is contemporary buckram with two leaves and old cello tape repairs. In 1952, the National Association of Educational Broadcasters received funding from the Ford Foundation for The Jefferson Heritage, a 13 part series on Thomas Jefferson's influence on American life. Dr. Dumas Malone, professor of history at Columbia University, collaborated with...
Dates:
1952
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589235]
Identifier: MSS 16070
Scope and Contents
Emma Randall autograph album (1880-1890), 0.03 cubic feet, is a well populated album with signature and verse; some watercolors by young adults (some signed and dated) including pen and ink illustrations of a baseball player and a couple roller skating together.
Dates:
1880-1890
Collection
Identifier: MSS 5533
Scope and Content
This collection consists of the papers of the Randolph Family of Edgehill, (commonly called the Edgehill-Randolph Papers) and the Wilson Cary Nicholas papers, ca. 787 items (6 Hollinger boxes, 2.5 linear shelf feet), ca. 1765-1869, and undated.
Dates:
1765 - 1869