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Mary Butler ledger

 Collection — Box: BW 23, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16463

Content Description

This collection consists of one ledger book belonging to Mary Butler, a Catholic woman living in Virginia and North Carolina. The book begins as a school account with a "list of scholars" but quickly transitions to lists of recipes for alloys, solders, and cement and transitions again to mostly original poems. Also recorded is Butler's marriage to Thomas A. Cullen at St. Peter's Cathedral in Richmond, as is their move to Wilmington, North Carolina, and the birth of their child Mary. Additional poems and calculations are tipped in. The name John J. Cullen is stamped in the front of the book.

Dates

  • Creation: 1869 - 1873

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

0.04 Cubic Feet (1 legal sized folder)

Language of Materials

English

Genre / Form

Title
Guide to the Mary Butler ledger
Status
Completed
Author
Rose Oliveira
Date
16 December 2020
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository

Contact:
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States