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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

Thyne Institute students photo album

 Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589349]
Identifier: MSS 16241
Scope and Contents

Thyne Institute students photo album, 1935, 0.03 cubic feet contains 16 pages of black and white photographs. One photograph is stamped "Photo of E. M. Pardue."

Dates: 1935
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Margaret M. Tillotson album

 Collection — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16706
Content Description This collection contains the commonplace book of Margaret Tillotson. A full commonplace book, with many of the items religious in nature, such as psalms of personal importance, the ten commandments, Jewish translations for the months of the year, poems yearning to travel to Rome or other pilgrimage sites, besides the usual miscellaneous collection of poetry. Tillotson's father was John C. Tillotson (1791-1867) who was the son of Dr. Thomas Tillotson (1750-1832), Congressman and Secretary of...
Dates: 1837 - 1841
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

John Henry Timberlake University of Virginia student notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16691
Content Description The first notebook covers courses on modern languages taught by Professors Maximilian Schele de Vere and [George Frederick] Holmes. Generally divided into a French and Spanish section, with an "Index Variorum," "Notes on French Idioms," and timelines of authors' lives. The second notebook covers the courses on mathematics taught by Professor Albert Taylor Bledsoe, with sections on differential calculus, integral calculus, and analytical problems. The third...
Dates: 1854-1858
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Tinsley, Edwards, and Rich family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16920
Content Description The collection MSS 16920 contains the Tinsley, Edwards, Rich family history (1795; 1820-1978) written by William George Rich III (1905-1988) about his great-great grandfather who called himself William Tinsley (born into enslavery in 1795,and freed in 1820), his great grandparents Nelson and Lauren Broady Tinsley, (an indigenous woman) and his grandparents Charles Robert Tinsley (1851-1919) and Betty Edwards Tinsley (1855-1924) (daughter of an indigenous woman Malinda Edwards)and their eight...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1870 - 1988; 1819-1820
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Christopher Tompkins papers

 File
Identifier: MSS 16444
Scope and Contents Note The Christopher Tompkins papers (1800-1803; 0.34 cubic feet) contains about 20 documents that record trade conducted between Virginia and Saint Domingue during two separate sailings of the Schooner Lively and the Schooner Dart in 1800 and 1801, both captained by Christopher Tompkins. The ships and goods belong to a Virginia man named Alexander Wilson who gave permission to Tompkins to sell the goods and the ships, in Saint Dominque. Of particular interest are the Haitian printed forms,...
Dates: 1800 - 1803
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sotère Torregian poem

 Collection — Box: BW 1, Folder: 1 [X031589174]
Identifier: MSS 15955
Scope and Contents

This collection of a Sotère Torregian poem is 0.03 cubic feet, dated April 10, 1976 and is a handwritten impromptu poem to his publisher, Bob Hawley for his housewarming. It is, inscribed "Presented to Bob and Dorothy At our long-overdue reunion, in friendship, Sotere"

Dates: 1976 April 10
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

William Wade Townes racing archive

 Collection — Box: BW 10, Folder: 1 [X031589348]
Identifier: MSS 16240
Scope and Contents William Wade Townes racing archive, 1827-1840, 0.03 cubic feet, contains information about breeding and racing thoroughbreds in Virginia including Bay mare by Director "now in foal by the celebrated race horse Stallion Arab," monies collected from 26 breeders for services of Stallion Timoleon, known as the Pride of Virginia, agreement between Townes and 5 co-partners to go to England to buy two thoroughbred stallions, and breeding agreements including Townes' horse McDuff and mare Fanny,...
Dates: 1827-1840
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Margaret Tracy commonplace book

 Collection — Folder: BW 45, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16713
Dates: 1860s
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

P. Traynor letter

 Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589458]
Identifier: MSS 16288
Scope and Contents

P. Traynor letter to Randolph Huntington, 1897, 0.03 cubic feet, concerning the Arabian horse, Lady Washington, and the fact that she was about to foal. He discusses the filly Hegira at length, noting its value as $1000, and briefly mentions the controversy surrounding Huntington's efforts to breed these horses.

Dates: 1897
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Triangular puzzle commonplace book on love and life

 Collection — Box: BW 16, Folder: 1 [X030899303]
Identifier: MSS 16019
Scope and Contents A 2 x 21/2 inch miniature triangular folded "book" with green coated stock cover with applied printed cut-out images of an imp, a frog, and a chick on front (1860's). On back are the word "Peep in this and you will find amusements for the inquiring mind." Within is miniature verse found in fold-out pages that open into circles. The first page is titled, "How to Make Love," and appears to be written by a woman from a woman's perspective. As you turn and fold the 24 center, side, and back...
Dates: [1860's]
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Pierre and Amelie Troubetzkoy letters--addition

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2495
Content Description

Two letters to "Miss Wilcox," each is handwritten on a single sheet, folded (4 pages). The letters are dated 3, October, 1918, and August 27, with no year given. One letter is signed by Amélie Troubetzkoy, and the other by Pierre Troubetzkoy. The letter dated August 27th is written on Castle Hill Cobham, Albemarle Co., Virginia letterhead. The October 1918 letter has printed letterhead address "15 West 67th Street."

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

Harry W. Trudell journals

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16733
Dates: 1907-1913
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Polly Trumbull place book

 Collection — Box: BW 12, Folder: 1 [X031589499]
Identifier: MSS 16391
Scope and Contents Note

Polly Trumbull place book (1782; 0.04 cubic feet) contains extracts from Virgil, Thomson's Seasons, Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women, A Father's Legacy to his Daughters, The 5 Volume of the Spectator, Baxter's; Saints Everlasting Rest, and Principles of Politeness.

Dates: 1782 March 25
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Beverley R. Tucker papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 14791
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, other documents, and photographs pertaining to Dr. Beverley Randolph Tucker, his son Beverley Randolph Tucker II, and their families, most prominently being Elizabeth Sloan Tucker Cann, wife of Beverley Randolph Tucker II. This collection also includes two 1886 business letters of Confederate veterans Robert Boyd and Andrew Easley. There is also a small group of World War II letters of Beverley Randolph Tucker II, including a fundraising...
Dates: 1886-1973
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Susan W. Tudor album

 Collection — Box: BW 48, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: MSS 16698
Content Description

Susan W. Tudor album with numerous handwritten sentiments and poetry inscribed to her by men and women in southern Pennsylvania, mostly from East Berlin and Locust Grove. Of interest are a pasted in die-cut card illustrated by hand, a floral sketch, and two poems about escaping "Indian Maidens" which is accompanied by a nice watercolor rendering of the eponymous character in a canoe in front of a waterfall scene.

Dates: 1843 - 1860; Majority of material found within 1843
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Mrs. Penny Tweedy photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 4, Folder: 1 [X031589240]
Identifier: MSS 16079
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Mrs. Penny Tweedy, owner of race horse Secretariat, 0.03 cubic feet, 1974

Dates: 1974
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Theodore G. Twitchell papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16423
Scope and Contents Note

The Theodore G. Twitchell papers (1965-1994; 0.96 cubic feet) document Twitchell's activity as a composer. Musical materials include original orchestral scores, individual instrument parts, photocopies, and piano reductions of works such as Tidewater, The Gettysburg Address, and The Pride of Monticello. The collection also includes correspondence and print materials documenting the performance of The Gettysburg Address for Abraham Lincoln's birthday in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1965 - 1994
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Two African American women tintype

 Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16796
Content Description This collection features an undated tintype photograph of two unidentified African American women dressed in Victorian-style dresses and hats. One of the women holds a bouquet that drapes over a bridge made of branches that the two figures are posed on in a photography studio. It measures 2.5 X 3.5 ". The tintype was invented in 1855, one decade before the emancipation of all enslaved African Americans across the United States. The medium of the photograph and the women's dress...
Dates: Majority of material found within c. 1865-1900
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Benjamin Owen Tyler calligraphic manuscript and Fenno family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16694
Content Description Memorial of Captain John Fenno Mansfield (1788-1812) in this Eulogium in calligraphy by Benjamin Owen Tyler. At Westpoint Tyler designed and accomplished this memorial dated November 20, 1816.Calligraphically and stylistically, the broadside bears all of the hallmarks of Tyler's penmanship and design such as floating cherubic heads. The Eulogium's most telling couplet states: "Science and Taste, united, would have shed/ A living luster round his honored head."Mansfield commanded...
Dates: 1770, 1816
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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