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Box 5

 Container

Contains 9 Results:

Miscellaneous manuscripts

 File — Box: 5
Identifier: id130213
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers, 1750-1935, which are miscellaneous manuscripts with Tyler family connections. Include a scrapbook which includes correspondence of John Tyler, Thomas Walker Gilmer and St. George Tucker mostly with nineteenth- century Virginia politicians. Papers also include printed material, photographs of people and buildings and miscellaneous notes perhaps collected by Lyon G. Tyler and Sue Ruffin Tyler.

Dates: 1750-1935

Various newspaper articles covering such topics as the Centennial celebration of Sesqui, palmistry, first-aid, tips on what housekeepers should remember, the White house and famous vases of the world.

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 2
Identifier: id130217
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Also included in this folder is a ribbon commemorating the unveiling of the Robert E. Lee Memorial in Richmond, Va. Nwscl.

Dates: 1750-1935

Historical notes on events such as: a hurricane in 1667, Huguenot refugees, slave trade, the French and Indian War of 1754, the American Revolution, and education. PM., undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Identifier: id130218
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers, 1750-1935, which are miscellaneous manuscripts with Tyler family connections. Include a scrapbook which includes correspondence of John Tyler, Thomas Walker Gilmer and St. George Tucker mostly with nineteenth- century Virginia politicians. Papers also include printed material, photographs of people and buildings and miscellaneous notes perhaps collected by Lyon G. Tyler and Sue Ruffin Tyler.

Dates: undated

Miscellaneous papers including a list of points of interest near Richmond, Va. Battlefield Park, and others, undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 4
Identifier: id130219
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Includes a list of the books presented in 1784 by Louis XVI of France to the library of the University of Pennsylvania and a list of Virginia Historical Magazines.

Dates: undated

Miscellaneous papers including a listing of libraries in various states, and others, undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 5
Identifier: id130220
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Includes a list of school superintendents in Virginia, a list of leading newspapers in various states, a list of historians of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and a list of state regents of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Dates: undated

Miscellaneous papers including a list of suggested reading for U.D.C. Study, and others, undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 6
Identifier: id130221
Scope and Contents

Includes a list of papers offered to the Virginia Historical Society, a list of some of Lyon G. Tyler's works, a list of "the officers and founder of the Jamestown Society," and notes on the slave trade. Ds.

Dates: undated

Miscellaneous papers, undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 7
Identifier: id130222
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Papers including a list of the flowers at the funeral of Dr. Lyon G. Tyler, notes on the life of John Tyler, a summary of the first volume of Revolutionary War Records, a radio address by Walter W. Van Kirk concerning impending war in 1939, and a copy of a book dedication to Lyon Gardiner Tyler given by the Williamsburg chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Dates: undated

Miscellaneous papers, undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 8
Identifier: id130224
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Including notes concerning the life of Dr. Lyon G. Tyler and Joseph Ferdinand Zeilling's life, receipts, cancelled checks, a poem written by Lyon G. Tyler, a proposal for a fireproof library building and notes on Charles City Co., Va.

Dates: undated