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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: MSS-79-11
Abstract
Two petitions from Puerto Rican citizens to American officials.
Dates:
03-27-1899
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
Identifier: MSS-2015-05
Abstract
Small collection of University of Virginia memorabilia.
Dates:
1906-1958
Collection — Box: BW 58, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16871
Content Description
This collection contains one typed manuscript titled “Brief History of the 80th Division.” The folder that originally contained this document notes that “this mimeographed copy was apparently used as primary copy for one of the Richmond papers.” The manuscript documents the actions of Adelbert Cronkhite (1861-1937), who served as a Major General with the 80th Division during the First World War. It describes the formation of the...
Dates:
c.1936
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
Identifier: MSS-00-5
Abstract
Book of entries and expenses of an Ohio lawyer.
Dates:
1841-1844
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 — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-8
Scope and Contents
The Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry collection includes 16 sub-collections. Another CNHI Collection, NAPNAP, has it's own EAD guide (MS-20). Sub-collections include Association of State and Territorial Directors of Nursing Papers (ASTDN)*, 1985-2001 (Boxes 1-4 ), Evelyn Crary Bacon Papers, 1942-1991 (Boxes 1-2), Alice Burford Booth Papers*, 1940-1967 (Boxes 1-2), Dr. Barbara Brodie Papers (Box 1), Rose Marie Chioni Papers*, 1940-1967 (Boxes 1-3), Annie Laurie Crawford Papers,...
Dates:
1934 - 2001
Collection
Identifier: MSS-91-1
Abstract
Commonplace book containing British legal precedents and some citations of New Jersey law.
Dates:
undated
Collection
Identifier: MS-56
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 29 glass plate negatives illustrating various architectural aspects of the University of Virginia Medical Center and School of Medicine circa 1920-1935, including major hospital renovations and additions.
Dates:
circa 1920-1935
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
Collection
Identifier: MSS-91-3
Abstract
Attorney's legal document referencing cases in Pennsylvania
Dates:
1871 - 1889