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Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16858
Content Description
This collection contains a letter from Louis P. Stone (1843-1903) to Colonel Tracy describing his exploits as a U.S. Secret Service operative and requesting payment for his services. Stone was a U.S. Secret Service operative during the first two years of the Civil War. The "Secret Service," before officially inaugurated as the investigative branch of the Treasury Department in 1865, was the unofficial name for the intelligence services in the Union Army. The letter contains Stone's account...
Dates:
1863 May 3
Collection — Box: BW 47, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16714
Content Description
Sarah Stoughton commonplace book filled with hand-written sentiments, poems, and inscriptions, with many signed and dated. There is genealogical information, relating to Reverend Jonathan Edwards of East Windsor, Connecticut, including "John Ellsworth married Anne Edwards daughter of Reverend Timothy Edwards, and sister of Reverend Jonathan Edwards. Their children were John, Frederick, Solomon, and Anne..." Later in the genealogy notes, "Sarah married John, son of Lemeul Stoughton..."...
Dates:
1826 - 1838
File — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16433
Scope and Contents Note
The Stowe grocery store ledgers (1870-1934; 0.4 cubic feet) document the operation of the titular family's grocery store in Petersburg, Virginia. Ledgers document monthly expenses for items ranging from rent to flour to labor. The collection also contains a small file of personal letters and bills for appliances.
Dates:
1870 - 1934
Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16645
Content Description
Amateur newspaper and handwritten essays by a young woman from Hopkinton, New Hampshire in the 19th century. Four handwritten essays, totaling eleven pages, plus a manuscript amateur newspaper, all signed by the author. The essays include a four page spoof titled "Autobiography of an old stove," describing the life of a stove from its existence as a lump of ore in an iron mine, to the manufactory, to being used in a schoolhouse. The other essays are titled "Summer," "Our talents," and "A...
Dates:
1888
Collection — Box: BW 3, Folder: 1 [X031589227]
Identifier: MSS 16056
Scope and Contents
Francis T. Stribing, (the superintendent of the Western Lunatic Hospital in Staunton, Virginia) signed handwritten letters, 0.03 cubic feet, 1836-1854. One letter is to Peter Hoshorn of Woodstock, Virginia about a patient. Other letters are from Evelyn Boyd Walker of Brandon Plantation about the condition of her mother, and E. Watts of Charlottesville, Virginia.
Dates:
1836-1854
Collection
Identifier: Mss 3014
Scope and Contents
Aubrey E. Strode (1861-1969,88 cubic feet) was a Virginia lawyer, state senator and eugenics advocate who drafted the Virginia sterilization law and brought Buck vs. Bell to the Supreme Court. This collection consists of his personal and professional papers concerning his family, law practice, army service, political and legislative activities as a member of the Virginia Senate, the Virginia Democratic Party and the Progressive movement, and as a co-owner of the newspaper, The Amherst...
Dates:
1861-1969
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589429]
Identifier: MSS 16111
Scope and Contents
Shirley Copenhaver Farrier Strother interviews, 2015 February 12, 2015 March 10, 2015 April 10, 0.03 cubic feet, and transcribed by William M. Finley, III.
Dates:
2015 February 12, 2015 March 10, 2015 April 10
Collection — Artifact: 1
Identifier: MSS 8276
Scope and Contents
Desk microscopes fitted in wooden case into the top of which the brass instrument is screwed for use. [brass instrument in box 14 x 8 x 5 cm.]--Desk microscope in wooden carrying case. [box 26 x 14 x 11 cm.].
Dates:
undated
Collection
Identifier: MSS13205
Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589266]
Identifier: MSS 16108
Scope and Contents
Thomas Russell Sullivan "The Madonna that is childless" signed holograph manuscript short story and inscribed in the front written to "Joe" Joseph Lindon Smith on February 14, 1898 and consists of 0.03 cubic feet.
Dates:
1894
Collection — Box: BW 58, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16885
Scope and Contents
This collection contains fifty-eight letters and greeting cards from Clare Summerskill to Ingeborg Utech (1936-2022), documenting their long-distance relationship and Summerskill’s early career. Summerskill, a playwright, stand-up comedian, and musician, met Utech, a German...
Dates:
1985 - 1988
Collection — Box: BW 53, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16628
Collection — Box: BW 24
Identifier: MSS 16535
Content Description
This collection contains one album with 47 pages of inscriptions, prose, and autographs with named locations including Norwich, Canterbury, Bell Plane Minnesota, Providence R.I., Colchester, Attleboro, East Greenwich, Mystic River, Boston, and Hartford.
Dates:
1855-1860
Collection — Box: BW 13, Folder: 1 [X031589414]
Identifier: MSS 16326
Scope and Contents
Sarah Sutton friendship album, 1842-1845, New York, 0.03 cubic feet, including nine lithographic engravings by Archibald L. Dick and titled Mary of Mantua, Cemetery of Mount Auburn, Now Westlin Wins, The Young Mother, Washington's house Mount Vernon, Bess and her spinning wheel, East Point and Passamaquoddy Bay, Light House near Caldwe;s landing (Hudson River), and Harper's Ferry (from the Potomac side).Miss Sarah Sutton's Album, select for religious precepts and literary...
Dates:
1842-1845
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