Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection includes correspondence from Dew as well as an account book.Note, dated October 16, 1837, written by Dew to Judge Abel P. Upshur, concerning the granting of credit to students by merchants. The note is handwritten on a printed Resolution by the Board of Visitors, adopted July, 1836.Letter, dated October 18, 1837, written by Dew to William H. Harrison, principal of the Academy at the Wigwam in Amelia, Virginia, and defends the institution of slavery in...

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Gift of Dr. Stephen S. Mansfield during the preparation of his dissertation "Thomas Roderick Dew: defender of the southern faith," a copy which is in Swem Library, LD6051 .W517 1836 M3 1980.

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Photocopied and typed material from other repositories. Typed transcript of letter from John Tyler to Thomas R. Dew, January 16, 1836. Typed transcript from T.R. Dew to B.B. Minor, February 29, 1835. Typed transcript of letter from Dew to T.W. White, April 24, 1835. Photocopy of letter from T.R. Dew to William H. Harrison, October 18, 183[8].

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Communication of Wm. Harper and Thomas R. Dew, in relation to the memorial of the Committee of the Free Trade Convention against the Tariff, 13 February 1832 (Doc. No 82, House of Representatives, 22d Congress, 1st Session) Thomas R. Dew, Review of the debate [on the abolition of slavery] in the Virginia Legislature, 1831-32, in The Political Register, vol. 2 (Washington: 16 October 1833). 2 copies Bibliographic notes by E. G. Swem.

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Photostat copy of "Great Question of the Day" by Thomas R. Dew. Possibly 1840.

Scope and Contents Thomas R. Dew, Essay on the interest of money, and the policy of laws against usury (Shellbanks, Va.)(1834); T. R. Dew, handwritten communication to the Board of Visitors of the College of William & Mary, 3 July 1836 (Giving his detailed arguments in favor of his existing arrangements of the course structure and fees for classes in history); An address on the influence of the federative republican system of government upon literature and the development of character, prepared to be...

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Photographs, photocopies of photographs, programs, and other information concerning Dew's grave in France and the memorial service and reburial of his remains in Williamsburg in 1939.

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Published biographical information on William Donbar Evans, John Garnett Dew, James Harvie Dew, Benjamin Franklin Dew, reference to information on Natilia Hay; and a coat of arms entitled Dew family, by an unknown artist.

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Thomas R. Dew to Governor W.B. Giles introducing Col. Charles de la Pena, 1830 February 22. Thomas R. Dew to Prof. John Millington with of list of books he had purchased for William & Mary, 1836 September 7. Appears to be a critique of a book written about Mr. Randolph. undated. (purchased) Complimentary comments written by Thomas R. Dew about the "Eastern Asylum of Virginia." 18?? March 13. (gift of Annie Galt, 1937)