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A Vista from a Garden of Old Menton, South France. (color)

Item — Box 12: Series id287030, Item: 156

Identifier: id287030

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains stereoviews, lantern slides, and other photographic materials collected by Kelvin Ramsey. The stereoviews were distributed by various companies, including Melander and Brothers, Keystone and Company, Bell and Brother, and D.H. Anderson. The images cover various historic sites and monuments in Washington, D.C. and Virginia, such as Arlington National Cemetery, Harper's Ferry, the White House, the William & Mary, Jamestown, and Fort Monroe.The bulk of the lantern...

Dates: 1874-1938 and undated

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A Well-Curb, by Michael Angelo, Certosa Monastery, near Florence, Italy.

Item — Box 12: Series id287030, Item: 146

Identifier: id287030

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains stereoviews, lantern slides, and other photographic materials collected by Kelvin Ramsey. The stereoviews were distributed by various companies, including Melander and Brothers, Keystone and Company, Bell and Brother, and D.H. Anderson. The images cover various historic sites and monuments in Washington, D.C. and Virginia, such as Arlington National Cemetery, Harper's Ferry, the White House, the William & Mary, Jamestown, and Fort Monroe.The bulk of the lantern...

Dates: 1874-1938 and undated

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A Williamsburg Recital played on the organ of Bruton Parish Church James Darling, Organist

Collection — Audio cd 1002251514: Series id67678

Identifier: id219087

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Full program on back of disk

Dates: circa 1920-2007

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.A.A.S (American Association for Advancement of Science)

File — Box 1, Folder: 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection: As Director of Public Relations, Pinckney worked in a two-person office with office assistant Emily Sneed and includes much about campus experience from 1938-1942. The office did not cover sports publicity, which was handled by the Athletics Department. Pinckney and Sneed also oversaw the Wren Building Guides, a group of male students who interpreted and gave tours of the Wren Building. Pinckney’s records include correspondence with Deans Grace Landrum, J. Wilfred Lambert, and James W....

Dates: 1932-1942

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Above Suspension Bridge, Grand Canyon, Colorado.

Item — Box 13: Series id287030, Item: 129

Identifier: id287030

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains stereoviews, lantern slides, and other photographic materials collected by Kelvin Ramsey. The stereoviews were distributed by various companies, including Melander and Brothers, Keystone and Company, Bell and Brother, and D.H. Anderson. The images cover various historic sites and monuments in Washington, D.C. and Virginia, such as Arlington National Cemetery, Harper's Ferry, the White House, the William & Mary, Jamestown, and Fort Monroe.The bulk of the lantern...

Dates: 1874-1938 and undated

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Abraham Nichols and Folio Page Displaying Heraldry

File — Box 2, Folder: 14

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Copper engraving of Abraham Nicholas, 18th Century Mayor of Williamsburg, Va. by George Bickham, 1722 and a copper plate folio page engraving from A Display of Heraldry by John Guillim. This was the heraldry of Lord De Lar Warr and other British Barons dated 1679.

Dates: 1676-1971; Majority of material found within 1730-1770

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Madam," 25 August 1902

Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 13

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Responds to request for theatrical information: "I should be happy if I could be of any service to any friend of George Powell’s. But I know nothing of the stage or of the costume proper to a heroine of Villon’s, and no portrait of the lady who undertakes the part would help me to any suggestion. So I can only send you both my best wishes for her success."

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir"

Item — Box 1, Folder: 54, Item: 2

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Writes, “I return the title page with corrections. Having mislaid Mr. Halliwell’s address, I must give you the trouble of sending it again and I have to write to him at once. Can you let me know, as I cannot find his letter to see, whether he now habitually uses the official name of The Phillipino or not?" Sender's address marked as Hollingbury Copse, Brighton.

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 6 October 1895

Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 11

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Expresses gratitude for "pamphlet on the Chitral Campaign."

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 7 January 1881

Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 4

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Requests that a note be inserted into "next week's number of the Academy." Letter is addressed to "the Editor of the Academy."

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 8 July 1891

Item — Box 2, Folder: 52, Item: 10

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Mentions his work on a "short essay on English poetry of the lighter kind." Also offers this essay "for the Forum" once it is ready for print.

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 8 October 1901

Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 12

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Thanks receipient "for sending me the notes from my grandfather. He was 91, not 94, in 1853. The latter date must have been a slip of the pen or a lapse of memory, unless all other records of his age are wrong. He died in the summer of 1860."

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 9 July 1880

Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 3

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Thanks letter recipient for "your father's pamphlet" and offers to distribute copies: "If I can find any other means of furthering his aim ... I shall be happy to avail myself of them."

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 11 November 1886

Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 7

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Asks where he "could get a copy of the pamphlet you inquire for." He has not had one "for many years."

Letter has no sender's address.

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 30 October 1906

Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 16

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States that he has "never written on the subject of Herodias" though "the legend ... is, of course, familiar."

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear [Theodore] Watts," 19 July

Item — Box 1, Folder: 53, Item: 3

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Swinburne returns a "truant proof" and sends his "kindest regards." Sender's address is Leigh House, Bradford-On-Avon, Wilts.

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to Edward Swinburne, 26 May 1887

Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 8

Scope and Contents Letter to brother: “My dear Edward, I return the papers at once with my signature duly apprehended. I am very much obliged to you, both for explaining the matter to me sufficiently and for not explaining it too much at the risk of addling my head with details. I always feel conscious of an incipient softening of the brain when anybody attempts to make me follow a calculation of any kind. Bertie rather self-complacently asked me the other day what I thought of rule-of-three. I could only...

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to F. [Frederick] Langbridge, 25 December 1882

Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 5

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Informs Langbridge that he may "make use of the extract you specify." However, he adds, "I should have thought the breaking-off in the middle at once of a line and of a sentence rather ungracefully abrupt but that is your concern."

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to Frederick Sandys

Item — Box 1, Folder: 54, Item: 3

Scope and Contents Swinburne writes, “My dear Sandys, It is indeed an age or two since we have met, and it would be a real and great pleasure to see you again. But I cannot now sit out any theatrical performance without actual nervous suffering – the result of an imperfect hearing which makes the vague sound of the recitation become in a very short time an absolutely insupportable infliction, unless I know literally by heart the text of the play represented – and an infliction it is even then. Therefore I have...

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to Henry A. Bright, 3 July 1878

Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 1

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Mentions work being done at The Pines and welcomes Bright to visit "any other day you will mention next week." Details entry to The Pines: "Of the two entrance doors ours is the second as you go uphill."

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to "John," 18 November

Item — Box 1, Folder: 53, Item: 5

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Swinburne's book order, including “Michelet’s new book – Nos Fils … Flaubert’s just published book L’Education Sentimentale.” Swinburne also shares his desire to write a new article on Flaubert, an article on “Ford’s plays” and requests “the proofs of [The Complaint of] ‘Lisa’ for America…” Sender's address marked as Holmwood, Henley on Thames.

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to "My dear Aunt Mary [Gordon]," 14 January

Item — Box 1, Folder: 53, Item: 1

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Mentions the arrival of a book and remarks on its contents. There is no sender's address marked.

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to "My dear Cousin," 30 October 1904

Item — Box 1, Folder: 52, Item: 15

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Sends condolences: “I have read with deep interest and sympathy the pathetic and heroic record of your late brother’s life and death. No nobler and more inspiring subject for commemoration could be imagined or desired: but whether I shall ever be able to avail myself of it I naturally cannot at present say."

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to "My Dear Mr. Jowett," 18 April

Item — Box 1, Folder: 53, Item: 2

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Writes, “I shall be very glad to come on Saturday. I am very sincerely sorry that you have a bad account of Harrison. I hope there is not reason to give up looking for a better one soon. I am well, and have been getting a little work done on different lines.” Letter edged in black.

Sender's address is Holmwood.

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

A.C. Swinburne to "My dear Mrs. Seath," 25 September

Item — Box 1, Folder: 53, Item: 4

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Swinburne thanks Mrs. Seath for sending his coat. He apologizes for his "carelessness" which gave her the "trouble of sending it." No sender's address marked.

Dates: 1854-1932

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

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A Vista from a Garden of Old Menton, South France. (color)

A Well-Curb, by Michael Angelo, Certosa Monastery, near Florence, Italy.

A Williamsburg Recital played on the organ of Bruton Parish Church James Darling, Organist

A.A.A.S (American Association for Advancement of Science)

Above Suspension Bridge, Grand Canyon, Colorado.

Abraham Nichols and Folio Page Displaying Heraldry

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Madam," 25 August 1902

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir"

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 6 October 1895

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 7 January 1881

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 8 July 1891

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 8 October 1901

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 9 July 1880

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 11 November 1886

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear Sir," 30 October 1906

A.C. Swinburne to "Dear [Theodore] Watts," 19 July

A.C. Swinburne to Edward Swinburne, 26 May 1887

A.C. Swinburne to F. [Frederick] Langbridge, 25 December 1882

A.C. Swinburne to Frederick Sandys

A.C. Swinburne to Henry A. Bright, 3 July 1878

A.C. Swinburne to "John," 18 November

A.C. Swinburne to "My dear Aunt Mary [Gordon]," 14 January

A.C. Swinburne to "My dear Cousin," 30 October 1904

A.C. Swinburne to "My Dear Mr. Jowett," 18 April

A.C. Swinburne to "My dear Mrs. Seath," 25 September

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