Biography
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Lewis M. Dabney III papers on Edmund Wilson; William Faulkner and the Yoknapatawpha; and Crystal Ross and John Dos Passos.
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16566
Content Description
The Lewis M. Dabney III papers consist of manuscripts, notes, transcripts, articles, reviews, personal journals, bibliographic sources, audio cassettes, and compact discs, relating primarily to his research on the life and works of Edmund Wilson, an American writer and critic in the twentieth century. In addition to copies and transcripts of Wilson's writing journals, there is correspondence across a large network of intimate relationships, friends, and acquaintances of Wilson. The...
Dates:
1895 - 2005
John P. Frank book manuscript
Collection
Identifier: MSS-90-5
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a pre-edited manuscript of John P. Frank's book, Justice Daniel Dissenting: A Biography of Peter V. Daniel, 1784 - 1860. This manuscript contains a great deal of Virginia history, as well as many small details that did not make it into the final version of the book.
Dates:
circa 1964
John Taylor of Caroline papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2521
Content Description
The original collection contains a letter (May 22,1778) from John Taylor in Fishkill, New York to William Woodford about Woodford's promotion during the Revolutionary War and his feelings about the war. There is also a biographical sketch of John Taylor, and one of John Penn. John Taylor served in the Continental Army as a major and colonel and would go on to serve in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1779 to 1785 and in the early United States Senate. He became known for his...
Dates:
1777-1794