Papers of Edward Price Buford
Scope and Contents
Papers of Edward Price Buford, lawyer of Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Va., who practiced alone and in the firms of Buford, Palmer and Hill, and Buford, Palmer and Eggleston. Letter books, daybook and journal containing personal and legal correspondence and accounts, and materials relating to political and economic conditions in Lawrenceville and Southside Virginia, to a hospital fund campaign in Lawrenceville, and to the Lawrenceville Land and Timber Co. of which Buford was an officer. Correspondents include Robert Strange.
Dates
- Creation: 1893 - 1931
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Some documents are fragmented and brittle, especially in box 69. Bound letter books and account ledgers (volumes) are all in poor condition with damage to spines and covers. Onionskin paper inside volumes is extremely fragile. In some of the volumes, the ink has faded greatly, making many of the letters very difficult to read or completely illegible. Handle with care.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection contains some in-copyright material. Visit our Permissions and Publishing page for more information about use of Special Collections materials (https://library.virginia.edu/special-collections/services/publishing).
The library can provide copyright information upon request, but users are responsible for making their own determination about lawful use of collections materials.
Extent
49 Cubic Feet (114 document boxes and 19 bound volumes)
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 therein available for public use under the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Designation.
Physical Location
Boxes 1-114 in this collection are stored offsite. Please allow 72 hours for delivery to Small Library. Bound letter books and account ledgers are stored onsite at Small Library.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Strange, May 23, 1938. Originally a deposit; Deeds of Gift received on December 14, 1984 from nieces & nephews: Robert P. Buford, Mrs. Mary Strange Morton, Allan T. Strange, Ann Engart Heller, Mary Stewart Buford Peery; and on January 2 1985 from Robert Strange Jr.
Cited in
Seventh annual report of the Archivist, University of Virginia Library, 1936-1937, p. 7., Eighth annual report of the Archivist, University of Virginia Library, 1937-1938, p.24, no.31.
Processing Information
This collection was originally cataloged with a summary description. In May 2025, a collection inventory was created by Special Collections staff. Folder titles and dates were transcribed and existing order was maintained. The metadata from the original catalog record was combined with the inventory to create this finding aid.
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Papers of Edward Price Buford
- Author
- Katie Rojas
- Date
- June 2025
- 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
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States