Major General John Paul Hyde research papers
Content Description
This collection contains Major General John Paul Hyde’s research notes for a book on Thomas Jefferson's travel route between Monticello and Poplar Forest. In his retirement from the Airforce, Hyde began researching and drafting a book on Thomas Jefferson’s various travel routes between his homes at Monticello in Albemarle and Poplar Forest in Bedford. Hyde named this route and his project “Jefferson’s High Way,” referring to it as such throughout this collection’s content. Several Virginia Highway and Transportation Council Historic Roads of Virginia publications are present, as are photographs of historic homes along Jefferson’s route captured by Hyde. Two book progress reports, each with multiple annotated copies, are dated May 1994 and June 1995. Handwritten notes, mileage calculations, and site visit descriptions are also included. Books, pamphlets, and essays on the historical properties and their inhabitants compose a significant portion of Hyde’s research, most prominently on Monticello, Poplar Forest, and the inn-homes Jefferson resided in between travel. Hyde’s research is generally guided by excerpts and quotations from Thomas Jefferson’s letters, with two memorandum books of Jefferson “as it pertains to travel between Monticello and Poplar Forest” included in the book research. Virginia Department of Transportation and United States Geological Survey folded maps of counties traversed by Jefferson are also present. A map created by Hyde included names, drawings, and descriptions of historical homes and sites along Jefferson’s route: Monticello, Ash Lawn/Highland, Carter’s Bridge, Fry’s Path/Green Mountain Road, Enniscorthy, Mount Warren, Warren, Snowden, Gibson’s, Raleigh, Buckingham, Noah Flood’s, Henry Flood’s, Patterson’s, Hunter’s, Campbell Court House, and Poplar Forest.
Acquisition Type
Gift
Provenance
Gift of Paula and Clint Hyde, 1 July 2024.
Language of Description
English
Script of Description
Latin
Restrictions Apply
No
Dates
- Creation: c.1986-1995
Extent
2.88 Cubic Feet (Two cubic boxes, two letter document boxes, and one small oversized flat file folder)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Universal 1.0 Public Domain Dedication Creative Commons license. The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library of the University of Virginia makes its bibliographic records and the metadata contained therein available for public use under the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Designation.
Inventory
4 boxes and 1 oversize folder