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Collection — Folder: MSS6244_001
Identifier: MSS 6244
Collection — Box: BW 34, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 16545
Content Description
This collection consists of forty-two letters primarily from John Newton Buck to his son, Walker Davison Buck, starting in December 1866 and ending in April 1873. There is one letter to John signed by "sister Catherine" and maybe the same women referred throughout the letters as “Aunt Cathie” throughout the letters. The letters are written from towns in Virginia and Maryland.
Walker Davison Buck was a young boy when he received these letters; the letters cover his youth from the age of...
Dates:
December 14, 1866 - April 17, 1873
Collection — Box: BW 49, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16715
Content Description
Annie C. Buckley Album of Memory with gift inscription from her father dated Christmas 1857. The album includes multiple entries from Annie's friends and relations, many of which are dated 1858, Easton. Most of the entries are in verse form about friendship, memory, and in some cases death. Most appear to be original, not copied from printed works. There are 11 entries.
Dates:
1857 - 1858
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589421]
Identifier: MSS 15962
Scope and Contents
James Buford estate sale list (1797; 0.03 cubic feet) contains a list of Buford's assests in Lunenburg, Virginia. The list mention the sale of six enslaved people, along with cattle and furniture.
Dates:
1797
Collection — Box: BW 41, Folder: ViU-2020-0064-001
Identifier: MSS 16726
Content Description
This collection contains four items from the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands in Virginia. It consists of three written and signed orders and one printed circular detailing the rudimentary justice system to be established (September 27, 1865). Two of the orders are addressed to Lieutenant Thomas W. Goring (1840-1926) of New Hamburg, New York who was serving as the assistant superintendent in the Freedman Bureau (both dated October 10, 1865). One order, sent from...
Dates:
1865 September-October
Collection — Box: BW 28, Folder: 1 [X032669073]
Identifier: MSS 16512
Content Description
This collection contains an autograph letter signed "J.W. Burke, agt" on illustrated Depository letterhead, naming Burke as "Agent." One page in full to Messers G. & C. Merriam, informing them that any payments on debt owed by the Methodist Book Depository will have to wait until the end of the Civil War.
Dates:
29 April 1861
Collection — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16564
Content Description
48 panels with text or illustrations on both sides. Written in either Tai Khuen or Tai Lue, two very similar scripts. The speakers of these languages are found in northern Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. This manuscript appears to have come from Myanmar, and contains protective mantras and yantra designs for candles.
Dates:
1800s
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16656
Content Description
This collection contains the Civil Rights papers of Dr. Allison L Burnett, a biology professor at the University of Virginia and an active member in social movements, who was an organizer of the efforts and petition drive to integrate the University Theater. The papers include twenty-one long-sheet petitions, fourteen newspaper clippings, and six pieces of correspondence. The long-sheet petitions, each one or two pages, are signed by students and faculty in support of the...
Dates:
c. 1960s
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15864
Scope and Contents
Ollen Lawrence Burnette, Jr. papers, 1815-2014, 6 cubic feet, containing Dr. Burnette’s research and manuscripts for "Coastal Kingdom: A History of Baldwin County, Alabama" and other writings (1953-2011); correspondence with history professors and academics at state and private universities about teaching jobs, education, and history (1946-2003); military service records and assignments (1945-1987), and personal papers (1815-2011) including correspondence, school papers and yearbooks,...
Dates:
1815-2014
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15926
Scope and Contents
This collection of Burnley Family letters, 3 cubic feet, contain family correspondence and papers of a prominent Albemarle County, Charlottesvile, Virginia family from 1808 to 1964 which include civil war and slave documents, military papers of Company F, 7th Infantry orders, teaching papers of Samuel Goodman Burnley, political letters about Harry Flood Byrd, writings of William Samuel Burnley, and letters reflecting the turn of the century family life, friends, church services, and family...
Dates:
1808-1964
Collection — Box: 1, Box: 1
Identifier: MSS-16215
Scope and Contents
The Joseph Perrin Burrage letters consist of one document box, .04 cubic feet, and contain 88 of his letters to his family describing his activities and lifestyle in the Thirty-Third Massachussetts Volunteers during the Civil War from 1862 to 1863. Most of the letters are accompanied with a typed transcript and the original mailing envelope. Some of the folders contain several letters while most have only one per folder.His letters describe the details of camp life, including...
Dates:
1862-1863
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: RG-5/2
Content Description
Includes correspondence, legal agreements, and lists of alumni relating to the art museum and the Ryan Scholarships. There is a list of alumni who are also members of the Constitutional Convention.
Dates:
1933-1939, 1942
Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589194]
Identifier: MSS 15980
Scope and Contents
This collection of a Nathaniel Burwell letter from Alexander W. Green is 0.03 cubic feet, and is dated November 30, 1813 about runaway slaves near the estate of General Nelson, at Carters Hall, Millwood, Virginia
Dates:
November 30, 1813
Collection — Box: BW 29, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16517
Scope and Contents
One calligraphy sample book with writing by Eleanor and Caroline Butler from the Belmont Academy in Loudon County in 1845 and 1849, 5 essays signed by Eleanor, three notes on "Scenes the Moon Looks Upon", "Glass", and "Cathage" signed by C. S. Butler, and a recipe for arsenic soap. The academy was founded by female abolitionist Margaret Mercer (1791-1846)Essays by Eleanor Angela Isabella Butler include "The Importance of Religion", "The Weaver's Daughter", "Glass: Its Discovery...
Dates:
1845 and 1849
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16447
Scope and Contents
This collection depicts the family lives of three prominent New England families, the Butler, Collins, and Terry families from 1808 to 1920 consisting of 8.5 cubic feet, (17 document boxes). Their correspondence, genealogy, photographs, and journals compile a historical collection, vast in size and informative of American life in the nineteenth century. It contains over three hundred letters written when family members were attending Yale or Princeton during the American Civil...
Dates:
1808-1959
Collection — Box: BW 28, Folder: 1 [X032669068]
Identifier: MSS 16501
Content Description
This collection contains nineteen privately printed pages using a mimeograph type process, addressed to women readers. The feature is authored by two women in Sunnyside, Queens and covers "fashions, theatre, shop windows... all of the kaleidoscope that is New York, seen through women's eyes and written for women to read." The authors write much about fashion, particularly with regards to the seasonal styles worn by glamorous women promenading on New York's avenues.
Dates:
1939
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 38-111
Content Description
A five inch square mezzotint engraving by the artist Saint-Memin. It is a profile of Nicholas Cabell Jr.
Dates:
1808
Collection
Identifier: MSS 13421
File
Identifier: MSS 15848
Scope and Contents
Genealogical research files of Bernard Caperton on the Caperton family from the 1700's to 1980
Dates:
1938-1980
Collection — Box: BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16769
Content Description
This collection contains a friendship album for Malinda "Lin" Caperton (1842-1922) of West Virginia. The album contains approximately thirty pages of autographs with dates throughout, 1855-1861. The autographs are almost certainly all from young girls, some noted as likely classmates from the Virginia Female Institute, although a lengthy two-page poem is more likely a male student at the University of Virginia.Caperton was the daughter of Allen Taylor Caperton, 1810-1876, the...
Dates:
1855 - 1867