Box 1
Container
Contains 3 Results:
Correspondence, 1894, 1897
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers of the Holmes family. Chiefly letters, 1842-1887, received by George Frederick Holmes, educator, concerning the College of William and Mary, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Virginia. Correspondents include William Campbell Preston, Andrew Steele Fulton, Robert Saunders and Charles Minnigerode. The collection also includes papers of the Floyd and Preston families; an album kept by Eliza Lavalette Floyd Holmes consisting of plant leaves, newspapers and memorials...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1894, 1897
Paul Sabatier, Ordeche, France, to George Frederick Holmes (?), 1894 January 19
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16, Object: 1
Identifier: id143532
Scope and Contents
Explains the success of Sabatier's book on the life of St. Francis of Assisi ([in French, translation included).
Dates:
1894 January 19
Thomas Staples Martin, United States Senate, Washington, D.C., to Dr. George Ben Johnston, Richmond, Va., 1897 June 10
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16, Object: 2
Identifier: id143533
Scope and Contents
States that he will attempt to interest the board of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. in a salary increase for William Howard] Perkinson.
Dates:
1897 June 10