correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Any forms of addressed and written communication sent and received, including letters, postcards, memorandums, notes, telegrams, or cables.Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Blockade Civil War letter from wife Isabella and her children, Jumain, Miriam, and Rosa to her husband in Cuba
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762544]
Identifier: MSS 16853
Content Description
This collection contains a rare letter written by a woman named Isabella, and her children, Jumain, Miriam, and Rosa, to her unnamed husband describing their attempts to sail from Galveston, Texas, to join him in Havana, Cuba. Their passage was on a blockade runner that failed as they could not pass through the Union ships. The back of the letter contains short notes from each of the children addressed to their father.
Dates:
March 7, 1865
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
Edward Hugh Boscawen letter
Item — Box BW 57: [Barcode: X032668454], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16904
Content Description
This collection contains a letter from Edward Hugh Boscawen (1744-1774), eldest son of Admiral Edward Boscawen, to John Nichols (1745-1826), an English printer and author. Boscawen writes to the Nichols about a forthcoming edition of John Evelyn’s Sylva, the first of several to be edited by the Scottish physician, Alexander Hunter, then resident in York. Boscawen is soliciting Nichols’ help in finding qualified engravers to work on the plates for the volumes. He notes that he has tried...
Dates:
April 29, 1774
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
Charlottesville Woolen Mills records
File
Identifier: MSS 16353
Scope and Contents
Charlottesville Woolen Mills, Charlottesville, VA.
Business records, 1868-1956. Incorporated 1868 by H.C. Marchant; operated until 1962.This collection is comprised of ledgers, papers, artifacts, a map, and a panoramic photograph. It is divided into two series: Business Records and Miscellaneous. The first series, Business Records contains ledgers and business related paperwork, such as correspondence and legal documetns. The second series, Miscellaneous, contains the remaining...
Dates:
1868-1956
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
Found in Notes:
loose legal documents, correspondence, newspaper clipping, or materials from the ledgers themselves, all
Clifford Dowdey papers--addition 15 [MSS 3809-o]
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: ViU-2019-0142
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
Ralph Cohen papers and "New Literary History" records
Collection
Identifier: RG-24/54/1.151
Content Description
This collection contains the teaching, research, and personal papers of Ralph Cohen, the William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of English from the University of Virginia from 1948-2016; and the records of the "New Literary History", an international, interdisciplinary, award-winning journal that Cohen founded and edited from 1969 to 2009 at the University of Virginia. The records of the New Literary History Journal (1969-2016) (Series 1) contain correspondence, contributors' articles, proofs,...
Dates:
1948-2016
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
Found in Notes:
Journal (1969-2016) (Series 1) contain correspondence, contributors' articles, proofs, financial
James Fenimore Cooper papers
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762900]
Identifier: MSS-6245
Content Description
This addition to MSS 6245, James Fenimore Cooper papers, contains a one-leaf, signed autograph letter from Cooper to Armand Carrel (1800–1836), editor of the Paris daily newspaper, Le National. The letter requests copies of magazine issues containing his letters to the paper regarding the then-ongoing Finance Controversy of 1831–1832 and a duplicate of the issue containing his fourth letter. The letters he requests concern Cooper’s views on the Finance Controversy, a debate regarding the...
Dates:
March 7, 1832
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
Cumming Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 6922
Scope and Contents
This addition to the Cumming family papers, includes correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and certificates related to members of the Cumming family, with most pertaining to United States Surgeon General, Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. (1869-1948) and his son, Ambassador Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. (1900-1986). Items...
Dates:
circa 1818 - 1992
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
Found in Notes:
This addition to the Cumming family papers, includes correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs
Editorial Files of the James Madison Papers Project-addition 1
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2023-0123
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
Edmund Berkeley Jr. papers-addition 1
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2023-0062
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
George and Ellen Frost collection of Robert Frost materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-16956
Content Description
This collection contains letters, Christmas cards, a magazine, a family genealogy, a book, and other ephemera relating to Robert Frost, compiled by his cousin, George Frost, and his wife, Ellen. The content spans the period from 1919 to 1962. There are four manuscript letters sent by Robert Frost to either Ellen or George: Robert to Ellen, 1919; Robert to George, 1938; Robert to Ellen, 1951; Robert to “Mrs. Frost,” 1939. The envelope for a 1938 letter to George Frost from Robert is included,...
Dates:
1919-1962
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
Found in Notes:
the Frost family farmhouse in New Hampshire. In addition to the correspondence, there is a Dartmouth
George and Ellen Frost collection of Robert Frost materials
Unprocessed Material — Box 1: [Barcode: X032762791]
Identifier: ViU-2025-0103
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
Thomas T. Hammond papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 12776
Content Description
This addition to MSS 12776, Thomas Hammond papers, contains twenty-two typed and handwritten letters between Thomas T. Hammond and Charles Evans, Hammond's advisee and Ph.D. student. The letters range from 1985 to 1993 and discuss advice Hammond had for Evans in completing his oral comps and his dissertation, searching for teaching positions, and his research work for Hammond and his odd jobs (such as mowing and painting) for Hammond and his wife, Nancy. Later letters mention Evan's...
Dates:
1985 - 1993
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
Randolph Huntington papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS15564
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence and ephemera from the estate of Randolph Huntington. Much of the correspondence pertains in some way to the history, breeding, raising, racing, or showing of the Arabian horse in the United States. The papers contain letters from breeders and owners of Arabian horses, editors and writers for sporting periodicals of the period, and correspondents with others interested in horses; printed ephemera; financial and legal papers; pedigrees...
Dates:
1860, 1873-1908
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
Found in Notes:
This collection consists of correspondence and ephemera from the estate of Randolph Huntington
James Fenimore Cooper letter to Armand Carrel
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762900]
Identifier: ViU-2026-0029
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
Jan Karon addition 5, 1921-2020
Series
Scope and Contents
This addition to MSS 16077 Jan Karon Papers contains personal and professional correspondence, and greeting cards; files and other documentation concerning the appraisal, purchase, ownership, operations and restoration of the Esmont house and estate by Jan Karon; correspondence concerning Karon's editorship of the magazine "Response," including with Langston Hughes; event and memorial programs; photographs of Esmont, family and friends; invitations; fan mail; correspondence about donations...
Dates:
1921-2020
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
Found in Notes:
This addition to the Jan Karon papers has four subseries: Esmont papers; Correspondence, chiefly to
Jan Karon addition 6, 1975-2022
Series
Scope and Contents
This addition to the Jan Karon papers (MSS 16077) primarily contains greeting cards and letters sent to the American novelist Jan Karon of Charlottesville, Virginia. The bulk of the cards present in this collection span the holiday seasons of 2020 and 2021. In 2021, Karon founded The Mitford Museum in her former elementary school in Hudson, North Carolina. A number of the greeting cards and letters included in this collection discuss the formation of this museum and its...
Dates:
1975-2022
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
Found in Notes:
correspondence from 2020 to 2021
Box ViU2022-0119_002 contains correspondence from 2020 to 2022, notebooks
Jon A. Lindseth Brontë collection
Unprocessed Material — Box ViU2026-0023_001: [Barcode: X032762893]
Identifier: ViU-2026-0023
Dates:
c.1829-1979, undated; Majority of material found within 1829 - 1855
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
McDonald family papers
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2024-0077
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
Office Administrative Files of Leonard Sandridge-addition 1
Unprocessed Material — Box RG 5/1 - Additions Box 1: [Barcode: X032668418], Folder: ViU2022-0140_001
Identifier: ViU-2022-0140
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
The University of Virginia Collection on the Events in Charlottesville, VA, August 11-13, 2017
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16386
Scope and Contents
This collection contains offensive and harmful language and imagery including racist and violent references and imagery. The purpose of this note is to give users the opportunity to decide whether they need or want to view these materials, or at least, to mentally or emotionally prepare themselves to view the materials.
This collection documents the events of August 11 and 12, 2017 that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the circumstances...
Dates:
2015-01-13 - 2020; Majority of material found within 2017-01-03 - 2020
Found in Subjects:
correspondence
Found in Notes:
rally and documents regarding that rally and its aftermath, and some printed email correspondence from