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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed and cogent imaginative awareness or associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms.

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

John T. Ackerson (George Jarrboe) papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16775
Content Description This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, photographs, a lock of hair, and a scrapbook relating to the life and career of John Thaddeus "Jack" Ackerson, (1898-1975), who published radical antiwar poetry under the name George Jarrboe after his naval service during World War I and II. Ackerson wrote the chapbook "The Unknown Soldier Speaks" and many other pieces of writing under this pseudonym. The bulk of the collection consists of 500 letters. Most of the...
Dates: 1822 - 1961

Benjamin Sher poem

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2019-0215

Sarah A. C. Brown manuscript

 Collection — Box BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589275]
Identifier: MSS 16133
Scope and Contents

Sarah A. C. Brown manuscript (1851-1855; 0.03 cubic feet) includes copies of poetry, and cheerful passages belonging to Sarah Brown.

Dates: 1851-1855

Charles Vandersee papers-addition 1

 Unprocessed Material — Box ViU-2023-0060_001: [Barcode: X031778958]
Identifier: ViU-2023-0060

Charles Wright papers-addition

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2021-0134
Dates: c. 1980s - 2010s

Flame & Frost poem

 Collection — Box BW 56, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16750
Content Description

This collection contains a handwritten poem written by Joan St. C. Crane based on her experiences of compiling the works of poet Robert Frost. It was written at the University of Virginia in the Fall of 1971. Alongside the poem in the collection is a catalogue card outlining the work's title, author, and subject matter.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1971

George Borrow translation

 Unprocessed Material — Box Vault Accessions, Folder: ViU2020-0070_001
Identifier: ViU-2020-0070

Hugh McCulloch sonnet

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: ViU-2021-0002

Jane's album

 Collection — Box BW 25
Identifier: MSS 16538

Eliza Ellen (Davidson) Johnston commonplace book

 Collection — Box BW 28, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16513
Content Description This collection contains a bound volume of manuscript poems written and compiled by Eliza Ellen [Davidson] Johnston. The presentation page is inscribed as folllows " A common place book presented to Eliza Ellen Davidson by her Affectionate Mother on the 4th of June 1826, Greenbrier Virginia." A bound volume of unlined pages divided into two sections, hand-paginated with exception of final 30+ pages. This volume contains many poems written by Davidson, with her name and date at the end of...
Dates: 1826 - 1827

Joy Kime Benton scrapbook

 Unprocessed Material — Flat_box ViU2024-0052_001
Identifier: ViU-2024-0052

Charles Godfrey Leland poetry scrapbook

 File — Box 2
Identifier: MSS 16531

L.H. Sigourney papers-addition 1

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2021-0014

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets extracts

 Item — Ledger 1
Identifier: MSS 16401
Scope and Contents Note

The handwritten copy of extracts (1796; 0.15 cubic feet) from the "Lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works" by Samuel Johnson, originally published in 1783. Copy was transcribed in 1796 and includes a table of contents and index.

Dates: 1796

Lydia Huntley Sigourney letter--addition 2

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2021-0075

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....
Dates: 1869 - 1873

Hugh McCulloch poem

 Collection — Box BW 27, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16468
Content Description

This collection contains a draft of Hugh McCulloch's poem "Sonnet." It is a single letter-sized sheet of laid paper of watermarked Alex Firie & Sons, Stonewood and written on one side only. It contains one major change in the first line and a lesser change in the penultimate line.

The poem was originally published in The Chap-Book, Vol. 2, May 1, 1895 p.467.

Dates: 1895

Nancy Byrd Turner papers-addition 1

 Unprocessed Material — Box BW 41, Folder: ViU2022-0061_001
Identifier: ViU-2022-0061

Norfolk Poet's Club records

 File
Identifier: MSS 14245
Scope and Contents Note

Norfolk Poet's Club Records (1912-1983; 2 cubic feet) include manuscripts of Josephine Johnson and Margaret Haley Carpenter; and correspondence of Mary Sinton Leitch, Josephine Johnson, Julia Johnson Davis, and William Stanley Braithwaite. There are also press releases, newspaper clippings, printed items, and scrapbooks about these poets and editors and their colleagues as well as their poetry and the creative writing process.

Dates: 1896; 1912-1983

James Kirke Paulding papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 7223
Content Description This collection of James Kirke Paulding MSS 7223, -a,-b,-c,-d contains manuscripts of the poems, "The Backwoodsman," and "Where are Women Angels?" There are also typed manuscripts of two poems by John Quincy Adams and one of an untitled poem to Adams by James Kirke Paulding. Also included is a fragment of "The Rights of War and Peace."Most of the correspondence in the collection discusses the Department of Navy business. There is a document appointing Paulding as Navy Agent in...
Dates: 1804-1874