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 18 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
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
Clifford Dowdey papers--addition 15 [MSS 3809-o]
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: ViU-2019-0142
Dates:
1903 - 1979
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
Editorial Files of the James Madison Papers Project-addition 1
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2023-0123
Dates:
1801 - 1817
Edmund Berkeley Jr. papers-addition 1
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2023-0062
Dates:
1930s-2020
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
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
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
McDonald family papers
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2024-0077
Dates:
1937-1971
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
Dates:
1989-1991
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
Beverley R. Tucker papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 14791
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, other documents, and photographs pertaining to Dr. Beverley Randolph Tucker, his son Beverley Randolph Tucker II, and their families, most prominently being Elizabeth Sloan Tucker Cann, wife of Beverley Randolph Tucker II. This collection also includes two 1886 business letters of Confederate veterans Robert Boyd and Andrew Easley. There is also a small group of World War II letters of Beverley Randolph Tucker II, including a fundraising...
Dates:
1886-1973
Robert L. Vickery papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS -15923
Scope and Contents
The Robert L. Vickery papers (0.5 cubic feet) consists of essays, recollections, research, sketches, and talk lectures of Robert L. Vickery from 1970 to 2010 while he was an architect and professor at the University of Virgina.
There are essays on architecture and learning, a grant proposal about architecture in Japan and America, his recollections from 1970 to 2010, his research on Thomas Jefferson architecture, and a resume of Vickery's work.Works mentioned in the...
Dates:
1970-2010
Virginia Society of Ornithology records--addition
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: ViU-2019-0233
Dates:
1929 - 2020
John W. Warner papers
Series
Identifier: MSS 10191
Scope and Content note
This collection includes general and constituent correspondence, office files, speeches, appointment books, photographs, scrapbooks, and clippings documenting Senator Warner’s life and career.A note regarding consituent correspondence: only in rare instances did the Senator's office keep outgoing corespondence. The vast majority of what makes up the constituent correspondence are the incoming letters from his constituents. Original letters sent to the Senator were microfilmed...
Dates:
1956-2009; Majority of material found in 1967-2008
Women Students Association records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 23/3
Scope and Contents
The collection contains two minute books and three folders of loose papers taken from the minute books, a copy of the Constitution of the Women's Students Association, a letter from Dean of Women Robert Hollingsworth and Peggy Thompson, Acting President, to the Women Students of the University of Virginia, 1946, enclosing a copy of the Constitution, and explaining various regulations and describing organizations that welcome women, and in what capacity. It also includes papers regarding...
Dates:
1948-1967