letters (correspondence)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Pieces of correspondence that are somewhat more formal than memoranda or notes, usually on paper and delivered.
Found in 6939 Collections and/or Records:
Jonathan A. Bishop papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16392
Scope and Contents
The Jonathan A. Bishop papers (1897-1924; 0.25 cubic feet) consist of his letters to his wife, Florence Collier Bishop, during his service as a Quartermaster Sergeant in the Spanish-American War (1898-1899) and government documents regarding a pension for his wife (1897-1924), totaling over 80 items. There is also one letter from his wife describing a lynching of an African American man named John Henry James on July 12, 1898 at Wood's Crossing, Charlottesville, Va. Also included is a...
Dates:
1897 - 1924
Bodies of Dean and Comrades May Rest Again in Arlington Plot
,The Grand Rapids Herald, September 23, 1928
Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 60
Identifier: N3160001
Scope and Contents
Bodies of Dean and Comrades May Rest in Arlington Plot
Dates:
September 23, 1928
Book Baskets records
Series
Identifier: MSS 15920
Scope and Contents
Records of the Book Baskets (1995-2018; 1.5 cubic feet) consists of meeting agendas, minutes, reports, news clippings, photographs, thank you letters, information on grants, contributors, and general correspondence. The collection is organized into three series.
Dates:
1995 - 2018
Bret Harte letter to James Osgood
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2020-0022
John Newton Buck papers
Collection — Box BW 34, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 16545
Content Description
This collection consists of forty-two letters primarily from John Newton Buck to his son, Walker Davison Buck, starting in December 1866 and ending in April 1873. There is one letter to John signed by "sister Catherine" and maybe the same women referred throughout the letters as “Aunt Cathie” throughout the letters. The letters are written from towns in Virginia and Maryland.
Walker Davison Buck was a young boy when he received these letters; the letters cover his youth from the age of...
Dates:
December 14, 1866 - April 17, 1873
William Allen Butler family papers (and related Terry, Collins families)
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16447
Scope and Contents
This collection depicts the family lives of three prominent New England families, the Butler, Collins, and Terry families from 1808 to 1920 consisting of 8.5 cubic feet, (17 document boxes). Their correspondence, genealogy, photographs, and journals compile a historical collection, vast in size and informative of American life in the nineteenth century. It contains over three hundred letters written when family members were attending Yale or Princeton during the American Civil...
Dates:
1808-1959
Card for floral tribute from the Mayo Foundation for the Camp Lazear Dedication Ceremony, December 3, 1952
Item — Box 45: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 3
Identifier: 04503039
Scope and Contents
The card was created to accompany a floral wreath presented in honor of Finlay, Delgado, Reed and associates.
Dates:
December 3, 1952
Cards from Walter Reed requesting permission to call on Emilie B. Lawrence, circa 1875
Item — Box 16: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 76
Identifier: 01676001
Scope and Contents
In these two cards, Reed requests permission to call on Lawrence.
Dates:
circa 1875
Cards from Walter Reed requesting to call on Emilie B. Lawrence, circa 1875
File — Box 16: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 76
Identifier: uva-lib:2224000
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates:
circa 1875
Private Riley Carpenter letters
Collection — Box BW 59: [Barcode: X031674512], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16891
Content Description
This collection contains six letters written by Private Riley Carpenter, a Union soldier in the 150th Pennsylvania "Bucktails" unit. The letters are from camps in Rappahanock, Warrington, and Culpeper, Virginia. The letters' content discusses battles, waiting periods at various camps, fellow soldiers, and Riley's longing to be home...
Dates:
1862-1864
Certificates of Merit, University of Edinburgh, to Jesse W. Lazear, circa July 17, 1890
Item — Box 1: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 45
Identifier: 00145001
Scope and Contents
Two University of Edinburgh certificates of merit, which were awarded to Lazear.
Dates:
circa July 17, 1890
Certification of Walter Reed's passing of army examinations and his appointment as assistant surgeon, July 10, 1880
File — Box 16: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 74
Identifier: uva-lib:2223989
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates:
July 10, 1880
Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 4966
Scope and Contents
The papers of Anna Maria (Campbell Hickman) Otis Mead Chalmers (1809-1891) and her family offer a deep look into a 19th century American family with a sharp focus on enslaved and formerly enslaved persons. The collection documents the life of a young, widowed woman, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers, who was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825). She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the Southern Churchmen,...
Dates:
1821 - 1897
Warren Chappell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10204
Content Description
These additions of MSS 10204 Warren Chappell papers contain letters, drawings, photographs, ephemera, and publications documenting the life and work of Warren Chappell from roughly 1929 to 2000. Janet Anderson, Shelah Kane Scott, and Calvin Otto were recipients and owners of the collections. The bulk of the collection is correspondence with colleagues, family, and friends including his wife Lydia Chappell. There is significant amounts of correspondence with Rafael Fernandez, Curator of...
Dates:
1929-2000
Charles O. Gregory papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-79-9
Scope and Contents
This collection includes legal correspondence with Felix Frankfurter, a letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt, memorabilia related to Robert and Edward Kennedy from when they were students at the Law School (both were students of Gregory), and a notebook containing correspondence regarding the Festschriften for Gregory in the May 1977 issue of the Virginia Law.
Dates:
1937 - 1967
Eugene Edward Chiles papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 14439
Scope and Contents Note
Eugene Edward Chiles papers, (3 cubic feet, 1915-1922) contain love letters from his girlfriend, Eugenie O'Neill who is traveling in European circles with wealthy and or famous acquaintances, while he is working as a realtor in Pittsburgh, PA. and Stephens City, Virginia, after the war. Her letters mostly describe her feelings for him and mention (briefly) famous places, people, and events from the Twenties. Topics consist of post war conditions, unemployment, strikes, feminism, racism, and...
Dates:
1915-1922
Christmas cards from Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed, Lawrence [Walter L.] Reed, and Landon Reed to Philip Showalter Hench with related materials, December 1954
File — Box 47: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 29
Identifier: uva-lib:2229028
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench primarily consists of materials that Hench created or collected while researching the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in this series date from around 1850 to around 1865 with the bulk of the items dating from 1937 to 1960. Researchers who are studying the yellow fever experiments will be particularly interested in the materials (e.g. interviews, autobiographies) that document first-hand accounts of the events surrounding the experiments. Other...
Dates:
December 1954
Chronology of yellow fever events, 1938
File — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 83
Identifier: uva-lib:2229815
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench primarily consists of materials relating to Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean that Philip Showalter Hench created or collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1879 to around 1960 with the bulk of the items dating from 1900 to 1954. These items include, but are not limited to the following:
correspondence of...
Dates:
1938
Circular [in English and Spanish] from Carlos J. Finlay to the Local Sanitary Officers of Cuba, July 22, 1908
Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 48
Identifier: 02948001
Scope and Contents
Finlay discusses recent cases of yellow fever, in Santiago and Daiquiri, in order to quell rumors of massive outbreaks.
Dates:
July 22, 1908
Circular on Jesse W. Lazear's actions in Cuba, circa 1908
Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 44
Identifier: 00444043
Scope and Contents
This circular relates Lazear's role in the yellow fever research.
Dates:
circa 1908