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Eugene Edward Chiles papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 14439
Scope and Contents Note Eugene Edward Chiles papers, (3 cubic feet, 1915-1922) contain love letters from his girlfriend, Eugenie O'Neill who is traveling in European circles with wealthy and or famous acquaintances, while he is working as a realtor in Pittsburgh, PA. and Stephens City, Virginia, after the war. Her letters mostly describe her feelings for him and mention (briefly) famous places, people, and events from the Twenties. Topics consist of post war conditions, unemployment, strikes, feminism, racism, and...
Dates: 1915-1922
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Chisholm Foundation collection on Frank Gardiner Wisner

 File
Identifier: MSS 16333
Scope and Contents

Chisholm Foundation collection on Frank Gardiner Wisner (1900-2001; 2 cubic feet) consists of letters, newspaper clippings,scrapbooks, and photographs from the life of Frank Gardiner Wisner including his intelligence career, track achievements and scholarship at the University of Virginia, 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, and his family.

Dates: 1909 - 1997
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Hazel Dorothea Christopher Reminiscences

 Collection — Box: BW 56, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16753
Content Description This collection contains one handmade and illustrated memoir of Hazel Dorothea Christopher, a child from Brooklyn, New York, from the late 1930s. The book is told in the third person and has four chapters: "A Look Backward", "Childhood", "School Days", and "The Future." "A Look backward" explores her parents and grandparents, particularly the youthful seafaring exploits of her Norwegian grandfather. "Childhood" starts with Hazel's birth and her very early life to the age of six. "School...
Dates: 1936
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Civil War Battle of Cold Harbor letter

 Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589350]
Identifier: MSS 16242
Scope and Contents

Civil War Battle of Cold Harbor letter, 1864, 0.03 cubic feet, written on a single sheet in pencil. The letter describes the gruesome aftermath of the battle on his regiment. Typed transcript is included.

Dates: 1864
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Civil War letter

 Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589351]
Identifier: MSS 16243
Scope and Contents

Civil War letter written from the homefront, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1865, March 26, 0.03 cubic feet, "Jennie C" laments about the recent weather of snow and cold and talks aobut her studies and her love of school. She discusses daily activities and notes that her cousin is " having a gay time, going to parties and balls" in Salisbury, and that her own life is quite dreary lately with bad weather, bad food, and the cruel war.

Dates: 1864 March 26
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Civil War patriotic envelopes scrapbook

 Collection — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16455
Content Description

A scrapbook containing 670 unused Civil war patriotic envelopes with decorative designs, some printed in multiple colors, and eight Confederate engraved banknotes, all pasted down onto the scrapbook leaves.

Dates: 1861-1865
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

James Albert Clark letter

 Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589197]
Identifier: MSS 15983
Scope and Contents

This collection of a James Albert Clark letter to Dr. Babitt is 0.03 cubic feet, and is dated August, 1892 about the genealogy of the Carter family. Included is a transcript of the letter which was written on 'Free Quill' letterhead to Dr. Babbitt in Cooperstown, New York. Clark is editor and publisher of the 'Free Quill,' in Laurel, Maryland.

Dates: 1892 August
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Josie C. Clark scrapbook

 Collection — Box: BW 18, Folder: 1 [X030899273]
Identifier: MSS 16375
Dates: 1886
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

McDonald Clarke collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 7546
Content Description

This collection of McDonald Clarke papers contains one autograph poem titled "Midnight" from 1815, an undated manuscript poem fragment beginning "They tell me we shall never meet" from Clarke's Afara; receipts for the sale of books to William Gowans from Clarke dated October 28, 1837, and from Francis G. Dorr, dated October 25, 1837; and an undated lithograph of the head and upper torso of Clarke.

Dates: 1815-1837
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Grover Cleveland letter to James Carleton Young

 Collection — Box: BW 43, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16652
Content Description

Typed, signed letter by Grover Cleveland to James Carleton Young thanking Young for his interest in a collection of President Cleveland speeches.

Dates: 1903 October 28
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Barrett Minor Literary collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16460
Dates: 1802-1944
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Climate Capsule journals

 Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 6/14/7
Content Description

Twenty-seven "climate capsule" journals created as part of the 2019 Spring semester English course “Climate Fiction” taught by Professor Mary Kuhn (2019; 0.6 cubic feet). The journals consist of weekly observations and reflections from either specific routes or locations at the University of Virginia and Charlottesville, along with comments on cultural pieces regarding climate issues. The climate capsule journals are sealed until 2030.

Dates: 2019
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Co-education at the University of Virginia collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16898
Dates: c. 1973-1975
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Howard E. Cobb history of the Virginia Blue Ridge railroad presentation

 Collection — Box: BW 18, Folder: 1 [X030899287]
Identifier: MSS 14424
Scope and Contents

This collection, Howard E. Cobb history of the Blue Ridge railroad, 0.04 cubic feet, 2009-2016, consists of a speech presented to the Nelson County Historical Society regarding the Virginia Blue Ridge Railroad by Howard E. Cobb, biographical notes of Howard E. Cobb, and a magazine aritcle clipping from BlueRidgeCountry.com

Dates: 2009-2016
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John Lewis Cochran legal document

 Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589195]
Identifier: MSS 15981
Scope and Contents

This collection of a John Lewis Cochran legal document is 0.03 cubic feet, and is dated March 7, 1864, calling for witnesses to appear in Military Court in Greenville, Tennessee.

Dates: 1864 March 7
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

William Gwynn Coe diary transcript and other papers

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589310]
Identifier: MSS 16199
Scope and Contents

William Gwynn Coe diary transcript [1935?]; 1864-1865, and other papers, 0.03 cubic feet, about the activities of a pastor and his family in 1864 in Onancock, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Also included is a document titled "From An Authentic History of Onancock Methodist Episcopal Church, South" by J. Shenton Lodge, a map of Onancock County, and Coe's pastoral report to the convention conference on February 27, 1865.

Dates: [1935]; 1864-1865
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Alexander Stuart Coffman Civil War diary

 Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589487]
Identifier: MSS 15657
Scope and Contents

Alexander Stuart Coffman Civil War diary, May 7- September 1864 describing the Battle of Spotsylvania, General Longstreet's corps, General Grant's Overland Campaign and skirmishes in Virginia.

Dates: 1864 May-September
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Ralph Cohen papers and "New Literary History" records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-24/54/1.151
Content Description This collection contains the teaching, research, and personal papers of Ralph Cohen, the William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of English from the University of Virginia from 1948-2016; and the records of the "New Literary History", an international, interdisciplinary, award-winning journal that Cohen founded and edited from 1969 to 2009 at the University of Virginia. The records of the New Literary History Journal (1969-2016) (Series 1) contain correspondence, contributors' articles, proofs,...
Dates: 1948-2016
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Coleman, Bromm, Kirschmann family papers

 Collection — Box: 19
Identifier: MSS 16418
Dates: 1861 - 2018
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Lewis M. Coleman, Jr. papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16419
Scope and Contents Note The Lewis M. Coleman, Jr. papers (circa 1870-1926; 0.05 cubic feet) document Coleman's studies and travels to Richmond, VA and Charleston, SC. Collection materials include eleven letters Coleman wrote from Hanover Academy, VA to his mother Mary. Among other topics, Coleman discusses his friend Richard Henry Jesse (1853-1921), who briefly attended the University of Virginia. Collection materials also include two photographs, one of which depicts Coleman's son Lewis III among other University...
Dates: circa 1870-1926
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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