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Bennett Taylor papers--addition

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Taylor family papers

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Eleanor Ross Taylor letters to Paul Collinge

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Alfred Tennyson papers

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Brief History of the 80th Division

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Capital of the World teleplay

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Cavalier Daily records- Addition

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

The Devil's Steeplechase

 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
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

The Gleaner magazine

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 15804
Scope and Content Note

The Gleaner magazine (1910-1918; 0.8 cubic feet) documents a partial print run of the UK amateur manuscript magazine. The collection contains sixteen issues, each handmade and one-of-a-kind, each containing a variety of literary essays, illustrations, and cartoons. Later issues include first-person accounts of World War I written by members of the military.

Dates: 1910-1918
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

The Mobile Blabber manuscript newspaper

 Collection — Box: BW 58, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16751
Content Description

This collection consists of one, four-page, volume of a handwritten paper from Mobile, Alabama. The paper reports on a variety of events including a tanker explosion, a mayoral election, and bank robberies. Also included society pages, want ads, sports, and ads.

Dates: c.1931
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

The Old Man and the Sea film materials

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 16636
Content Description

Screenplay by Peter Viertel and a representative selection of seventeen original 8 x 10 inch black and white glossy stills, with studio cutline in lower border for publicity to promote this adaptation of Hemingway's Pulitzer-Prize winning novella, based on the screenplay by Peter Viertel, starring Spencer Tracy as the Old Man, a role for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor, under the direction of John Sturges.

Dates: 1957-1958
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

The Rainy Day manuscript newspaper

 Collection — Box: BW 41, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16725
Content Description This collection contains three illustrated and handwritten manuscripts that are newspapers dated February 11, 1880, March 24, 1880 and April 8, 1889 by a child in Jacksonville, Florida. B. Blair (probably the child's parent) is identified as the editor. The newspaper reports on the news of the Blair family as well as noting current events in Jacksonville including mumps outbreaks, steamers and schooners who came to port, and election day results. The re-election of General...
Dates: 1880-02-11 - 1880-04-08
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

The University of Virginia Collection on the Events in Charlottesville, VA, August 11-13, 2017

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16386
Scope and Contents This collection contains offensive and harmful language and imagery including racist and violent references and imagery. The purpose of this note is to give users the opportunity to decide whether they need or want to view these materials, or at least, to mentally or emotionally prepare themselves to view the materials.  This collection documents the events of August 11 and 12, 2017 that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the circumstances...
Dates: 2015-01-13 - 2020; Majority of material found within 2017-01-03 - 2020
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16758
Content Description

The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building is an artificial collection and periodic additions are expected.

Dates: 1700-2014
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Theron H. Rice papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS15247
Dates: 1877-1923
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Alexander Theroux letters to Judy Barnes

 Collection — Box: BW 43, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16662
Content Description

11 letters from Alexander Theroux to Judy Barnes. Barnes, whose name is now Judith Music, describes the letters as such: “We had met in 1972 when he was on the faculty of Longwood College and I was a reference librarian there.” The dates of the letters are: 1 Letter (1973), 4 Letters (1974), 2 Letters (1978), 1 Letter (1979), 2 Letters (1980).

Dates: 1973 - 1980
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Thomas H. Brown Funeral Home ledger and photograph

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS-16474
Content Description This collection contains the manuscript ledger book, "Record of Deaths" kept by Thomas H. Brown's Funeral Home, 301 Gill Street, Petersburg, Virginia. This book detailed the funerals of approximately 500 African Americans during the last years of the Great Depression. The volume opens with a twenty-four page alphabetical index, listing the names of the deceased persons with the number of the page for further information about their funerals. Entries for each funeral appear in chronological...
Dates: 1935 - 1941
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Thomas Harrison correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS12221
Dates: 1716-1757
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sally H. Thomas papers

 Box
Identifier: MSS 16184
Scope and Contents The Sally H. Thomas papers (1968-2010; 76 cubic feet) document the political career of Sally H. Thomas as a member of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, as well as a member of the Albemarle County School Board. The materials in this collection mainly consist of Albemarle County Board of Supervisors correspondence, reports, budgets, site plans and maps, city-planning documents and publications, and related printed materials. Some of the topics emphasized are conservation, rural...
Dates: 1968 - 2010
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Thruston family commonplace book

 Item — Box: BW 42, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16427
Scope and Contents Note The Thruston family commonplace book (1604-1925; 0.03 cubic feet) documents the family history of the Thruston family of Bristol and Virginia, with early records concerning Martin's Hundred, Virginia, a plantation on the north shore of the James River, first settled in 1638. The manuscript opens with an "Epistle dedicatory" dated 25 October 1628 by Abell Louering, addressed to Robert Rogers, Esq., whose wife was present at the baptism of John Thruston's son John. The manuscript then passes...
Dates: 1604 - 1925
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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