MsV Box 169
Container
Contains 4 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook, 1854
File — Container: MsV Box 169, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Notebook, 1854, of Henry Carrington Alexander containing notes on mathematics, on [Carl Friedrich Staeudlin's History of Theological Knowledge ?], Sir Isaac Newton's Optics, and notes for [?] The Sick Man's Book. The volume also contains "helpful" thoughts (Biblically based) and newspaper clippings, 1889, on the death of James Laurence Cabell.
Notebook, 1857-1858
File — Container: MsV Box 169, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Pike's Arithmetic and Smith's Arithmetic copied by John L. Babb, probably in Hardy County, WV. Also contains exercises in punctuation, valedictory address of Jennie Cross at Morgantown Female Seminiary and a dialogue read by Julia F. Ackon and Annie C. Ballon June 27, 1856 at the annual examination of the Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia.
Notebook, 1856
File — Container: MsV Box 169, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Pike's Arithmetic, 1856-1858, [either Nicholas Pike's A New and Complete System of Arithmetic or Stephen Pike's The Teacher's Assistant] copied by William J. Babb, Hardy County, Va. [W. Va.]. The volume also includes verse.
Notebook, 1859
File — Container: MsV Box 169, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Mathematics book, 1859, of William N. Smith, Laurel Mills, Rappahannock County, Virginiaa. The volume was also used as a handwriting copybook, and as a legal and business book.