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Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589352]
Identifier: MSS 16244
Scope and Contents
[Jane Sweisey] album, 1827-1829, 0.03 cubic feet, with a frontispiece titled "A Winter Scene" pasted in, contains many poems, most are dated and each written in the same exquisite hand.
Dates:
1827-1829
Collection
Identifier: MSS15036
Scope and Contents
T. Catesby Jones Papers, 189 items, 1 Hollinger box, and less than 1 linear foot, contains correspondence from 1875 to 1925 of Thomas Catesby Jones in Poughkeepsie, New York and Norfolk, Virginia with his parents, brothers, and first wife, Olga Hasbrouck. There are also photographs of his family (unidentified), the University of Virginia, Monticello; and his University of Virginia diploma and Virginia law license. There is also a commonplace book of quotations and clippings,...
Dates:
1875-1925
Collection — Box: BW 27, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS -16490
Content Description
This collection contains five miniature illustrated letters from "Emma Birdwhistle," a doll and fictitious character created by children's author Tasha Tudor. These letters were sent to a Miss Annabelle Greinor of Richmond, Virginia. They appear to be responses to fan mail sent to Emma.
Dates:
1989
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16335
Scope and Contents
Estelle F. Tayloe three commonplace books, 1850-1854, 0.09 cubic feet. The first section appears to be lessons, perhaps in writing. Each essay begins with topic themes in which the author articulates her thoughts, usually a page or two. In one essay title "Intimate Friends," she talks of her admiration for a girl to whom she had written a letter in a previous lesson. The next essay is about Christmas holiday in 1850, her homesickness. Brief notations by 'M.O.' (Mary Okills)...
Dates:
1842-1859
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 9221
Content Description
MSS 9221 Bennett Taylor papers consist of family correspondence with letters to and from Bennett about education at the University of Virginia, descriptions of United States Civil War battles including the 19th Virginia Regiment Company F, Picketts Divison at 2nd Manassas, a prisoner exchange for Lieutenant Colonel Bennett Taylor from Johnson Island in Lake Erie New York, and family news of descendants of Thomas Jefferson and local Charlottesville families from 1851-1894. Correspondence of...
Dates:
1851 - 1894
Series
Identifier: MSS-16857
Content Description
This collection contains personal letters, postcards, U.Va. grade reports, certificates, a Monticello Association Lifetime Pass, various Army documents, and pamphlets on the life and interests of Thomas Jefferson documenting the lives of the Taylor Family: Edward Colston Taylor (1877-1940), Jessie Alwine Taylor (1879-1973 ), and Edward Colston Taylor, Jr. (1911-1997). The collection includes genealogical notes and research on the Taylor Family, undertaken by Peter Flugg Mayron, an Austin,...
Dates:
1894-1983
Collection — Box: BW 47, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16687
Content Description
Letters and notes from Eleanor Ross Taylor to Paul Collinge and Mary Lyons (Heartwood Books). Also includes one program from Taylor's funeral and one from her husbands funeral (St Paul's Church, Charlottesville, Virginia) collected by Paul Collinge.
Dates:
1999-2012
Collection
Identifier: MSS 6171
Content Description
Alfred Tennyson letter to the editor and publisher Kegan Paul regarding a German translation of Tennyson's Queen Mary. Alfred Tennyson letter to the editor of the Daily Graphic (1890 July 31) informing him to use his favorite photograph taken of him by John Edwin Mayall of Regent Street.
Dates:
undated, circa 1875-1876; 1890 July 31
Collection — Box: BW 31, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16565
Content Description
Original teleplay script, based on Ernest Hemingway's short story, for the 1953 television episode of Omnibus, a television series from 1952-1961.
Dates:
1953
Collection — Box: RG 23 - Additions Box 1, Folder: 001
Identifier: RG-23/10
Scope and Contents
This collection contains recommendations for staff structure and the constitution of the Caviler Daily, the student newspaper.
Dates:
1973-1974
Collection — Box: BW 54, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16787
Content Description
This collection contains an anonymous sketchbook containing a highly illustrated handwritten gothic story, additional watercolor paintings, and numerous pen and ink sketches. The primary story pertains to a horse race between the devil and death that takes place on March 12, 1830. It is likely a satire on the first English National Steeplechase, which was run in Bedfordshire on March 8, 1830, and was the precursor of the Grand National race at Aintree. Nine full-page watercolors are devoted...
Dates:
n.d, c.1830
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 15804
Scope and Content Note
The Gleaner magazine (1910-1918; 0.8 cubic feet) documents a partial print run of the UK amateur manuscript magazine. The collection contains sixteen issues, each handmade and one-of-a-kind, each containing a variety of literary essays, illustrations, and cartoons. Later issues include first-person accounts of World War I written by members of the military.
Dates:
1910-1918
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16751
Content Description
This collection consists of one, four-page, volume of a handwritten paper from Mobile, Alabama. The paper reports on a variety of events including a tanker explosion, a mayoral election, and bank robberies. Also included society pages, want ads, sports, and ads.
Dates:
c.1931
Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16636
Collection — Box: BW 41, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16725
Content Description
This collection contains three illustrated and handwritten manuscripts that are newspapers dated February 11, 1880, March 24, 1880 and April 8, 1889 by a child in Jacksonville, Florida. B. Blair (probably the child's parent) is identified as the editor. The newspaper reports on the news of the Blair family as well as noting current events in Jacksonville including mumps outbreaks, steamers and schooners who came to port, and election day results. The re-election of General...
Dates:
1880-02-11 - 1880-04-08
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16386
Scope and Contents
This collection contains offensive and harmful language and imagery including racist and violent references and imagery. The purpose of this note is 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 documents the events of August 11 and 12, 2017 that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the circumstances...
Dates:
2015-01-13 - 2020; Majority of material found within 2017-01-03 - 2020
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16758
Content Description
The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building is an artificial collection and periodic additions are expected as it is being actively archived
Dates:
1700-2014
Collection
Identifier: MSS15247
Collection — Box: BW 43, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16662
Content Description
11 letters from Alexander Theroux to Judy Barnes. Barnes, whose name is now Judith Music, describes the letters as such: “We had met in 1972 when he was on the faculty of Longwood College and I was a reference librarian there.” The dates of the letters are: 1 Letter (1973), 4 Letters (1974), 2 Letters (1978), 1 Letter (1979), 2 Letters (1980).
Dates:
1973 - 1980
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS-16474
Content Description
This collection contains the manuscript ledger book, "Record of Deaths" kept by Thomas H. Brown's Funeral Home, 301 Gill Street, Petersburg, Virginia. This book detailed the funerals of approximately 500 African Americans during the last years of the Great Depression. The volume opens with a twenty-four page alphabetical index, listing the names of the deceased persons with the number of the page for further information about their funerals. Entries for each funeral appear in chronological...
Dates:
1935 - 1941