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Major General John Paul Hyde research papers

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2024-0130

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

Inventory

4 boxes and 1 oversize folder