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Box 48

 Container

Contains 5 Results:

(Mss. Acc. 1986.37) George Waller Blow Papers; Early Blow and Waller Family Material, Seal of Benjamin Waller

 Sub-Series — Box: 48
Identifier: id59787
Scope and Contents

Papers of George Blow's grandfather, George Preston Blow, US Naval Officer; papers of his father George Waller Blow; early Blow and Waller family material including the seal of Benjamin Waller. Ca. 100 items. Gift of George Blow. 15 folders. Mss. Acc. 1986.37 Addition

Dates: 1613-1960; Majority of material found in 1770-1875

(Mss. Acc. 1999.55B) Letters from Well-known People

 Sub-Series — Box: 48, Folder: 19
Identifier: id59795
Scope and Contents

Autograph letters including one letter each by newspaper publisher Robert McCormick, Clare Booth Luce, Hector Bolitho, Comte Phillipe Lafayette, Kitchener, and Virginius Dabney, Robert Kennedy, chiefly to father and donor. Gift of George Blow. 7 folders. Mss. Acc. 1999.55B Addition

Dates: 1613-1960; Majority of material found in 1770-1875

(Mss. Acc. 1989.11) Logbook of Lt. George P. Blow, for the steamer Potomac, 1898

 Sub-Series — Box: 48, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents

George Blow's log book. Log book of Lt. George P. Blow, of the steamer Potomac, 8 April - 20 August 1898, en route from Pensacola to Guantanamo Bay to survey two Spanish wrecks. Mss. Acc. 1989.11 Addition

Dates: 1898

"The Blow Family of Virginia", 1997

 File — Box: 48, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents

Bound copy of "The Blow Family of Virginia" by Captain George Preston Blow, U.S.N., Emma Blacknall Blow Freeman, Mary Frances Blow Hunter, Louise Blow Page, Lucy Cargil Pegram Scrivenor with additions by Adele Margaret Blow Chatfield-Taylor.

Dates: 1997

Waller Family Papers

 File — Box: 48, Folder: 2
Identifier: id59787
Scope and Contents

Waller Family wax Seal; Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and Oath of Abjuration to Benjamin Waller signed by Chr. Lightfoot and Thomas Lee., May 24, 1748; copy of portrait of Robert Hall Waller; 1983 article onMarcBlow Gymnasium at William & Mary; and March 1921 letter to Robert M. Hughes about York Hall and Hughes Family. Mss. 1986.37.

Dates: 1613-1960; Majority of material found in 1770-1875