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Fernande Gontier papers

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16416
Scope and Contents

The Fernande Gontier papers (1787-2005; 8.6 cubic feet) document Dr. Gontier's scholarship on Simone de Beauvoir; Colette; Etienne Cabet and his followers in Nauvoo, Illinois; Mathilde de Morny; and Comtesse Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy. The collection includes manuscript drafts, research files, correspondence, and books representing Dr. Gontier's work. Materials also include manuscripts for cookbooks co-written by Dr. Gontier. The papers are arranged into six series.

Dates: 1787 - 2005
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Gooch family diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16336
Scope and Contents Gooch family diaries, 1909-1963 (not consecutive), .07 cubic feet, consists of fifteen diaries, some from Ellen Brooks (Aunt of Uly Harrison Gooch) when she was a young girl. She describes her work as a nurse (treating a man with face cancer) at the Earl Hopkins Institute in Washington D. C. and missing her family, and friends. The later diaries are from Uly Harrison Gooch while he was a student at St. Paul's School in Baltimore, MD. It is not clear who the last diary is from but it seems...
Dates: 1909, 1910, 1911, 1918, 1949, 1950, 1958, 1961, and 1963.
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Goodman and Farrow family journal

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16482
Content Description This collection consists of a family journal kept by the Goodman and Farrow families of Albemarle county. The journal includes five pages labeled “Black register of births” recording the first names and birth dates of more than 49 enslaved people. Also included are handwritten recipes, a few draft letters, and ancestral information.Warning: Content in the journal lists first names of enslaved persons, with their birthdates and notation of "Sold". The first name on the register is...
Dates: 1865 - 1889
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Bob Goodman scrapbook

 Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X031589470]
Identifier: MSS 16329
Scope and Contents

Bob Goodman scrapbook,Charlottesville, Virginia, 1931-1934, 0.03 cubic feet.

Dates: 1930-1940
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

David R. Goodman letter

 Collection — Box: BW 5, Folder: 1 [X031589244]
Identifier: MSS 16087
Scope and Contents

David R. Goodman (Charlottesville) letter from "Minton" in Waynesboro, Virginia dated February 20, 1868, 0.03 cubic feet, about having trouble with his cook, hiring black women, a toothache, doctor visits, and foreigners in the area.

Dates: 1868
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Goodpasture photo album

 Collection — Box: BW 2, Folder: 1 [X031589215]
Identifier: MSS 16007
Dates: Undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Goodykoontz family papers

 Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589280]
Identifier: MSS 16143
Scope and Contents Goodykoontz family papers (1895-1960,bulk 1912-1930) focus on Robert Goodykoontz (1884-1970), and his wife "Sara" Nelle Neal Goodykoontz (1926-1930; 0.03 cubic feet).There are 80 or more letters including 13 to Robert Goodykoontz from his sister-in-law Irene; 39 letters from his mother Lucinda Kathering Woolwine Goodykoontz; letters from family at Virginia College for Women, Harris Military Institute, Roanoke, Va., and a few letters from family members in Kansas City, Mo. Also included are...
Dates: 1895-1960
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Gordon and Webster family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 14573
Dates: 1870-2001
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Armistead Churchill Gordon letter to William Gordon McCabe

 Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589380]
Identifier: MSS 16294
Scope and Contents

Armistead Churchill Gordon letter to William Gordon McCabe, 1917, April 12, 0.03 cubic feet in which Gordon writes about his "disappointment that Warner did not get the detail to Richmond" but that with the war he might not have been able to stay anyway. He describes a state of confusion and mentions his essay on the biography of Jefferson Davis, and comments about "General Carr's pamphlet."

Dates: 1917 April 12
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Goss family papers

 File
Identifier: MSS 16398
Scope and Contents Note The Goss family papers (1820-2014; 4 cubic feet) contain Civil War letters and documents including a pardon for Ebenezer Walker Goss from President Andrew Johnson in 1865, manuscript receipts of goods sold to the Confederate Army, enslaved person receipts, and papers (mostly correspondence) related to their 19th and early 20th century family in Somerset, Virginia. Business records reflect their apple orchard, farming, and dairy business which was maintained by Charlotte “Lottie” Goss...
Dates: 1820-2014; Majority of material found within 1820 - 1930
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Louis-Jacques Gossier drawing for the Encyclopédie

 Item — Flat_Box: Archival Oversized Box S 2, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1 [X031750312]
Identifier: MSS 16429
Scope and Contents Note The Louis-Jacques Gossier drawing for the Encyclopédie (circa 1769; 0.08 cubic foot) documents a rare original drawing for an illustration in the Encyclopédie by its most important and prolific draughtsman. This is the original for the workshop scene, the top section of "Hongroyeur," pl. III. In the engraving the plate has the legend, "Hongroyeur, l'Operation de mettre au Suif et Plan de l'Eture. (Tanner of Hungarian Leather, Operation of Tallowing and Plan of the Drying Room). Collection...
Dates: circa 1769
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

William Gowans letter to Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan

 Collection — Box: BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16766
Dates: 1845-11-03
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Grace's friendship album

 File — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16736
Content Description A Victorian novelty album owned by a person named Grace from Massachusetts. The covers are pasted with colorful die cut-outs on a background of printed lace paper doilies. The album is in the shape of a triange with scalloped edges, in its original (cardboard) triangle-shaped box. The interior pages are folded over, with instructions from Grace telling the recipient when the messages can be opened. Many of the entries are from Stoneham, MA indicating Grace may have been from this...
Dates: 1889-1891
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John C. Granberry stock certificate

 Collection — Box: BW 61
Identifier: MSS 4942
Content Description

Certificate for one share for the Female Collegiate Institute in Buckingham County, Virginia.

Dates: 1850-07-11
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Harriet Dudley Brown Gray album

 Collection — Box: BW 28, Folder: 1 [X032669085]
Identifier: MSS 16515
Content Description This collection contains a friendship album belonging to Harriet "Hattie" D. Brown Gray (1867-1947) a resident of Massachusetts and Connecticut. The majority of the individuals who wrote an entry were from South Lee, MA or the surrounding towns. After Hattie's marriage in 1894 to Frank S. Gray (1852-1918), and their subsequent move to Connecticut, the majority of writers are from that state. Hattie's husband, Frank, signed the album on their wedding day. On the same page is a note...
Dates: 1890 - 1916
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Karen Green's Nu Kopelle Scrapbook

 Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16838
Content Description This collection contains a scrapbook documenting one year of service of the Nu Kopelles, a youth group based in Queens, New York, sponsored by the African American professional and business women's sorority Lambda Kappa Mu. The scrapbook is dedicated to their youth coordinator, Elizabeth Lockett, and the opening title page, written in ink, identifies the club officers: President Karyn Greene, Vice President Jackie Chamacoon, Secretary Yvonne Stallworth, and Treasurer Sheila Blake. This...
Dates: 1974-1975
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

George D. Greenia research papers

 Collection — Box: BW 41, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16672
Content Description This collection contains the Dr. George D. Greenia research papers archive on a medieval Iberian manuscript, the Privilego de 1295 (no.138), in the Rosenthal Medieval Manuscript collection (MSS 9772-a) at the University of Virginia. The items in this collection include correspondence, twenty-five 35mm slides, wax sleeves with one negative and two photographs, photocopies of newspaper articles, two newspaper clippings, and a manuscript about the document in Spanish. Materials are in English...
Dates: 1995-1997
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Elizabeth F. Gresham papers

 Item
Identifier: MSS 16352
Scope and Contents

The collection contains typescripts of three comedy-dramas by Gresham: "The whetstone," rewritten as "Woman, with a difference," and "That lesser Aphrodite." In addition there is a typescript copy of "Death takes a holiday" by Walter Ferris, with Gresham's acting "sides" containing stage directions; and portions of the script for Edgar Allan Poe's "Politian."

Dates: 1936-1939
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

George Griffin papers

 Collection — Box: BW 23, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16470
Content Description This collection consists of personal and literary letters to George Griffin, as well as his daughter, Caroline Lydia Griffin. Of note, is correspondence with Lydia Sigourney, a significant poet at that time, from Hartford, Connecticut. It includes her poem, "On the death of Zerlina Thorne," and a letter devoted to her efforts to meet Charles Dickens, a poem, "Welcome to Charles Dickens, Esq." which was read to him at a banquet in Hartford two days learlier; a signed holograph poem,...
Dates: 1829 - 1855
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Jemima Buell Griffing album

 Collection — Box: BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16735
Content Description

An autograph album of Jemima Buell Griffing from Clinton, Connecticut.The album is filled with phrases, poems (some original), and short entries, including stories of Griffing with her family and friends.

Additionally there is a pencil drawing of what appears to be a grave with "Sacred to Memory" written on it surrounded by foliage drawn by J.R. Carns. It includes four engravings, some of which are hand-colored.

Dates: 1832-1856
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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