Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Personal correspondence, 1888-1889 received by Mary Jeffery Galt from Parke C. Bagby, Lucy Clay Brown, C[ynthia] B.T. Coleman, Ellen Bernard Lee, Sara A. Pryor, and others chiefly about APVA's acquisition and management of church tower and graveyard at Jamestown

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Personal correspondence, 1889-1911, received by Mary J[effery] Galt from Cynthia B.T. Coleman, M.R. Harrell, Elisabeth Harrison, and R.M. Smith and others about APVA purchase of the Powder Horn in Williamsburg

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Personal correspondence, 1889-1913, received by Mary Jeffery Galt from Parke C. Bagby, Belle S. Bryan, Kate Cabell Clairborne, Cynthia B.T. Coleman, Mollie Lightfoot, Sara A. Pryor, Virginia M. Robinson, Rosa Rountree, R.M. Smith, Loulie L. Taylor, and others chiefly about APVA's founding, charter, constitution, by-laws, meetings, membership, properties, and yearbooks, and about offices held by Mary Jeffery Galt.

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Personal correspondence, 1888-1923, among Mary Jeffery Galt, George L. Arps, R.W. Brock, Cynthia B.T. Coleman, Mrs. J.T. Ellyson, Alexander Galt, Annie A. Galt, W[illiam] W. Galt, R.M. Harrell, Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee, Kate Baldwin (Mrs. Barton) Myers, Virginia M. Robinson, and others chiefly about Mary Jeffery Galt's contested status as founder pf the APVA

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Personal correspondence, 1890-1894, received by Mary Jeffery Galt from Parke C. Bagby, Belle S. Bryan, Mrs. John B. Lightfoot, and others chiefly about APVA's acquisition and management of church tower and graveyard at Jamestown

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Personal correspondence, 1895, received by Mary Jeffery Galt from Park C. Bagby, Belle S. Bryan, Mrs. John B. Lightfoot, and others chiefly about APVA's management of Jamestown, including restoration, security, finances, and excursions

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Personal correspondence, 1896, received by Mary Jeffery Galt from Parke C. Bagby, Belle S. Bryan, and others chiefly about the Norfolk branch of the APVA's management of Jamestown, restoration of the "ruins," graveyard, and grounds, excursions to the property, and APVA yearbook

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Personal correspondence, 1896-1909 and undated, received by Mary Jeffery Galt from Parke C. Bagby. Belle S. Bryan, Virginia M. (Mrs. J. Enders) Robinson, and others chiefly about organization, membership, and annual reports of the Norfolk Branch of the APVA; carbon copy of typescripts outlining duties of local directors of the APVA.

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Personal correspondence, 1897, received by Mary Jeffery Galt from Parke C. Bagby, Louise [?] J. Barney, Belle S. Bryan, Mrs. John B. Lightfoot, Loulie L. Taylor, and others chiefly about excursions to and management of Jamestown, including caretaker, finances, restoration, and arrangements with U.S. Engineer Department

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Personal correspondence, 1899-1900, received by Mary Jeffery Galt from Parke C. Bagby, Belle S. Bryan, Mary Winder Garrett, and others chiefly about Jamestown finances, visitors, caretaker, restoration; membership of Jamestown Committee; and passage of two bills by Virginia General Assembly concerning APVA charter and title to land at Jamestown, respectively

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Personal correspondence, 1901-1905, received by Marry Jeffery Galt from Parke C. Bagby, L.D. Davis, Mrs. J. Taylor Ellyson, Mrs. John B. Lightfoot, chiefly regarding Jamestown finances, V[irginia] M. (Mrs. J Enders) Robinson, and others contracted restoration of foundations and tombstones, Tercentenary Anniversary committee, excursions and exposition, and reluctance to allow D.A.R. and [Colonial] Dames to erect buildings or monuments on the island

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Personal correspondence, 1906-1911, received by Mary Jeffery Galt from Parke C. Bagby, B.L. Farinholt, Mrs. B.J. Farrar, W[illiam] Leal, Virginia M. (Mrs. J. Enders) Robinson, G.T. Shepperd, and others chiefly concerning Mary Jeffery Galt's participation on Advisory Board of Jamestown Exposition Company, controversy over role of Colonial Dames in Jamestown, internecine strife within APVA, maintenance and excavations at Jamestown, early history of Jamestown and vicinity,...

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Personal correspondence, 1913-1914, received by Mary Jeffery Galt from Parke C. Bagby, Kate Cabell Clairborne, W[illiam] L. Leal, Sallie Newton Page, Rosa Rountriee, Loulie L. Taylor, and others chiefly about Jamestown restoration, excavation, excursions, new building, work accomplished, commemorative exercises, finances, and fundraising; APVA yearbook, internal conflicts, mismanagment; and Jamestown Committee and other APVA meetings

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Drafts and retained copies of letters, 1888-1908, by Mary Jeffery Galt to Parke C. Bagby, Belle S. Bryan, Cynthia B.T. Coleman, M.R. Harrell, and others about the APVA

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Drafts and retained copies of letters, undated, by Mary Jeffery Galt from Parke C. Bagby, Belle S. Bryan, Cynthia B.T. Coleman, M.R. Harrell, and others about the APVA

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Drafts and retained copies of letters, undated, by Mary Jeffery Galt to Parke C. Bagby, M.R. Harrell, Virginia M. Robinson, and others about the APVA

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Receipts, 1894-1905 and undated, held by Mary Jeffery Galt for payments made for labor and supplies at and transportation and admission to Jamestown

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Records, 1893-1909 and undated, of APCA dues and donations received and money deposited by Mary Jeffery Galt

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Drafts of reports, 1894[?]-1906, by [Mary Jeffery Galt], Mary Winder Garrett, and Annie A. Galt chiefly about excavations at Jamestown

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Notes and drafts, 1896 and undated, of the history of the APVA and its work at Jamestown, written by [Mary Jeffery] Galt

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Copies and articles of agreement, 1889, between M.R. Harrell and Mary K. Galt, Rebecca M. Smith, Elizabeth Harrison, and Cynthia B.T. Coleman regarding sale of Powder Horn; copies of Mary J. Galt's check to M.R. Harrell as first payment of Powder Horn; sketches of Powder Horn and lot

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Drafts of statements, undated, by Mary Jeffery Galt about her role as founder of APVA; deposition, 1903, of M.R. Harrell, attesting to Mary J. Galt's ubutuatuve regarding purchase of Powder Horn; statement by Judge Allan R. Hauckel [?] certifying Mary J. Galt's founding of APVA; legal brief, 1923, by Barton Myers arguing that Mary Jeffery Galt "first conceived the idea of forming" the APVA

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Printed materials, 1895-1919 and undated, relating to APVA and Jamestown, including pamphlets, programs, inviations, tickets, and postcards

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents APVA yearbooks, 1900 and 1904, and Mt. Vernon Ladies association report, 1885, used as exhibits in APVA founder controversy

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents APVA yearbooks, 1905-1908 and 1911-1912, used as exhibits in APVA founder controversy