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PAAS Dye Company WWI egg transfer sheet

 Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16860
Content Description This collection contains a single uncut sheet of seventeen portraits of European royals, military, and political leaders to be used as transfer patterns for decorating Easter eggs by the Paas Dye company. These “Transfer-O-s” are printed in reverse on tissue paper measuring roughly 5 X 9 inches. Produced sometime before the United States entered the First World War, the packaging includes a quality disclaimer made by the company related to wartime supply chain issues saying “Any variation...
Dates: c.1915

Page-Nelson Society of Virginia historic documents

 Item
Identifier: MSS 16454
Scope and Contents Note Page-Nelson Society of Virginia Historic documents (1790-1805, 0.21 cubic feet) contain an autograph letter signed from John Page (1744-1808) to "Dear Sir," noting that he will be absent from Congress during January 1791 (dated 6 December, 1790); a printed commission on parchment, completed in manuscript, appointing John Preston as Major in the Third Division of the Virginia Militia, signed by Governor John Page (1744-1808), dated 24 December 1802; a printed land grant on parchment...
Dates: 1790 - 1805

Painted horses scroll

 Item — Tube_box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16312
Scope and Contents Note The Painted horses scroll (circa 1800s; 0.2 cubic feet) is written in Chinese, but is from Japan. Contents categorize horses according to "The five natures and ten coats: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water; Gray, Chestnut, Bay, Palomino, Bluish, Black, Skylark, Roan, Buckskin, 'Two-hair' [piebald?]." Text at the end of the scroll, just before the dragon, is a quotation from the Liexan Zhuan (Biographies of Exemplary Immortals), with some variations in wording from the original text. Said text...
Dates: circa early 1800s

Dennis Palumbo "The Grande Game" screenplay

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16649
Content Description

Script for an unproduced film, "The Grande Game" about Edgar Allan Poe.

Dates: 1985-01-20

Breece D'J Pancake papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 10975
Content Description Breece D' J Pancake papers, MSS 10975 a-e. Papers were formerly on long term deposit and have been purchased. The collection contains typescripts, setting copy, and galley proof of "The stories of Breece D'J Pancake," and other manuscripts of his short stories and class papers. There are translations into German, and Italian of "The Stories of Breece D' J Pancake." Also included is an afterword to a new edition of by Andre Dubus II. There are also original letters from Pancake...
Dates: 1973-2013

Papers of the Randolph Family of Edgehill

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1397
Scope and Content

The collection primarily contains correspondence of the Randolph family and Nicholas family. Several land title records are also present.

Dates: 1732 - 1860

Joseph Parisi papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 14330
Content Description The papers of Joseph Parisi, editor of Poetry from 1983-2008, ca. 15,750 items, 45 document boxes,23 cubic feet, include speeches, lectures, and introductions by Parisi; journal articles and reviews; literary correspondence; principally with poets, literary editors, and critics; miscellaneous materials related to the history of Poetry magazine; research materials, drafts and proofs related to publicaton of ...
Dates: 1980-2003

Coventry Patmore letter to Trubner and Co.

 Collection — Box: BW 20, Folder: 1 [X031660928]
Identifier: MSS 16448
Scope and Contents Note

The Coventry Patmore letter to Trubner and Co. (1856; 0.03 cubic feet) was written during his time as printed book supernumary assistant at the British Museum, in regards to "The Espousals," book II of his poem, The Angel In the House.

Dates: 18 March 1856

Agnes Patone scrapbook

 Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16397
Scope and Contents Note

The Agnes Panton scrapbook (1944-1945; 0.25 cubic feet) is a World War II scrapbook documenting a female marine's experiences. It contains memorabilia, invitations, greeting cards, and newspaper clippings. Also included are shoulder stripe patches for a male and female officer. Second Headquarters Battalion stationed in Washington D.C. area.

Dates: 1944 - 1945

Bradley H. Patterson, Jr. papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16641
Content Description The Bradley H. Patterson, Jr. collection consists of personal, professional, and business papers and files related to Patterson’s work and research as a historian and expert on the organization and function of White House staff and executive branch personnel. These papers include correspondence, interview transcripts, notes, memorandums, press releases, organizational charts, newsletters, government and association reports, journal articles, conference and association presentations,...
Dates: c.1943-2017

Robert Patterson University of Virginia notebook

 Collection — Box: BW 43, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16659
Content Description

Notebook of University of Virginia student Robert Patterson.

Dates: circa 1835

James Kirke Paulding papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 7223
Content Description This collection of James Kirke Paulding MSS 7223, -a,-b,-c,-d contains manuscripts of the poems, "The Backwoodsman," and "Where are Women Angels?" There are also typed manuscripts of two poems by John Quincy Adams and one of an untitled poem to Adams by James Kirke Paulding. Also included is a fragment of "The Rights of War and Peace."Most of the correspondence in the collection discusses the Department of Navy business. There is a document appointing Paulding as Navy Agent in...
Dates: 1804-1874

Henry Andrew Peckham letters

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16103
Scope and Contents

Henry Andrew Peckham letters from 1944-1946, 0.015 cubic feet, consist of transcripts of his letters to his parents during his service in the United States Navy.

Dates: 1944-1946

Peer Advisor Program records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG 18/9/2
Content Description

Correspondence, programs, brochures, speeches and essays, photographs, publications, and reports documenting the Peer Advisor Program of the Office of African American Affairs (1989-2019; 1 cubic feet). Materials relate to the founding and activities of the Peer Advisor Program, including the program's leadership under Associate Dean of the Office of African-American Affairs Sylvia Terry.

Dates: 1989-2019

Lewis Pence blacksmith ledger

 Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16402
Scope and Contents Note

The Pence ledger (1856-1859; 0.25 cubic feet) records work done by and payments made to Lewis Pence, a blacksmith in Edinburg, Virginia, from 1856-1859. Pence's clients include George Grandstaff, a local gunmaker and the owner of the Edinburg Mill. The Edinburg Mill was almost burned by Union troops during the Civil War in October of 1864, but locals extinguished the fire and the mill survives to this day as a museum and designated Virginia Historic Landmark.

Dates: 1856-1859

Randy Pendleton papers

 File
Identifier: MSS 16420
Scope and Contents Note The Randy Pendleton papers (1967-2000; 0.04 cubic feet) documents Pendleton's work as a journalist. The collection contains three pieces of ephemera: a Klan business card handed to Pendleton, who was in Birmingham at a Klan convention as a representative of UPI, 1967 or 1968; a press releases handed out at the announcement of Norman Mailer's candidacy for Mayor of New York City dated May 1, 1969 with hand-edits by Pendleton based on Mailer’s speech; a “Sore Loserman” sign handed out outside...
Dates: 1967 - 2000

William Garland Pendleton land warrants (Virginia)

 Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589269]
Identifier: MSS 16118
Scope and Contents

William Garland Pendleton land warrants (Virginia), dated 1819 and 1823, consists of .03 cubic feet and includes four warrants issued to Benjamin Blackford, John Arthur, Joseph Arthur, Robert Miller, James Sterrett, John Bealer, John W. Grove, and Nimrod Johnson. The warrants were signed by Pendleton who was the Clerk of the Chancery Court in Richmond, and former Register of the Land Office.

Dates: 1819, 1823

Perkins & Perkins Law Firm Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 4407
Scope and Contents

The records chiefly contain legal correspondence, financial and legal documents and bound folio volumes from the law firm of Perkins and Perkins, consisting of George Perkins and his son, W. Allan Perkins, 1903-1916.

In addition, some legal correspondence and documents represent the service of George Perkins as attorney for the City of Charlottesville, 1904-1916. There is very little personal correspondence or documents in these records.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1751, 1835-1920

John Peterson freedom certificate

 Collection — Box: BW 9, Folder: 1 [X031589324]
Identifier: MSS 16227
Scope and Contents

John Peterson freedom certificate, 1817, consists of 0.03 cubic feet, and is a single handwritten registration of John Peterson, "a free man of color," from the Goochland County court, and signed by W. Miller.

Dates: 1817

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