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Love letters

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Letters that express love, admiration, or romantic sentiment, intended to be read by the object of affection.

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

John D. Casey letters to Marcia McGhee

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 10973
Dates: 1958-1959; 1956

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

Clare Summerskill and Ingeborg Utech correspondence

 Unprocessed Material — Folder ViU-2024-0144_001: [Barcode: X032762573]
Identifier: ViU-2024-0144

Frank Owen Wilson and Susan Rinehart World War II correspondence

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2017-0173

Guy Elwood Webb papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 15588
Scope and Contents Note The Guy Elwood Webb papers (1941-1952; 1 cubic foot) consists of letters to Guy Elwood Webb from his devoted girlfriend and later wife, Linnie Ethel Davis, her mother, Mrs. D. V. Davis, and his own mother, Lulu Green, as well as family members and friends (1944-1945). Guy Webb is in boot camp in the Great Lakes, Illinois, and continues his service in Shoemaker, California, and Hawaii. There are also some telegrams and greeting cards from Guy Elwood Webb in a scrapbook that was made by his...
Dates: 1941-1945; 1952

Frank Owen Wilson and Susan Rinehart World War II correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16414
Content Description The collection contains more than 450 letters written between Lieutenant Frank Owen Wilson from Wilson, Arkansas, who was a University of Virginia graduate and his Charlottesville girlfriend, Susan Smith Rinehart (1925-1995), whose family lived on an estate called "Boxwood." There are 276 letters from Wilson and 180 letters from Rinehart. Wilson's early letters are from Saint Elmo Hall at the Univeristy of Virginia. His letters while in military service were not subject to censorship, yet...
Dates: 1921, 1941-1945