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William B. Jones Student Paper and Notes
Collection
Identifier: UA 5.281
Scope and Contents
Notebook kept by William B. Jones. The front has "No. 17" written in the upper left corner and has the following written across it: "Universal Suffrage Jan. 1847 Williamsburg Virginia"
"Universal Suffrage"
"{William B. Jones Woodson C. Moody} The firm."Written upside down in the lower right corner is "Wm & Mary College, WmsBurg, Va."The contents are a paper on "Universal Suffrage" attributed to Jones. The reverse side has class notes on...
Dates:
1847 January
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
William Lee Davidson Student Essays
Collection
Identifier: UA 5.263
Scope and Contents
Essays written by Davidson for the completion of his A. B. degree and the President's Address for the Philomathean Society.
Dates:
1903 June 19, 1904 June 18
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
William Smith Student Report
Collection
Identifier: UA 5.146
Scope and Contents
"Two-monthly Report" on W&M student, William Smith. The documented is pre-printed with the title as quoted above and "William & Mary College." There is also a pre-printed statement, explaining the purpose of the form is to keep parents and guardians notified of a student's progress. It is signed by William Barton Rogers and addressed to Michael F. Keyser of Baltimore, Maryland, likely Smith's guardian. Rogers includes a handwritten note dated May 11, 1832. He acknowledges receiving...
Dates:
1832 May 6
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Woodson C. Moody Certificates
Collection
Identifier: UA 5.278
Scope and Contents
Collection includes three certificates issued to Woodson C. Moody, while a student at William & Mary. He attended 1836-1838, 1846-1847.The earliest certificate is dated July 4, 1837 and acknowledges Moody's success "to the studies of Belles Lettres, Logic and Moral Philosophy." It is signed by faculty members Thomas Dew, Dabney Browne, Robert Saunders, Beverley Tucker, and John Millington. It features the Temple seal.The second certificate is dated July 4, 1838...
Dates:
1837 July 4, 1838 July 4, 1847 July 4
Found in:
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William R. Wrigglesworth Essay
Collection
Identifier: UA 5.186
Scope and Contents
Student essay written by Wrigglesworth, circa 1906, titled "Nature Poets."
Dates:
circa 1906
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Arthur Davis Wright Essay
Collection
Identifier: UA 5.187
Scope and Contents
Student essay written by Wright, circa 1904, titled "Some Differences between the United States and the Confederate States Constitutions."
Dates:
circa 1904
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Gustavus W. T. Wright Letter
Collection
Identifier: UA 5.185
Scope and Contents
February 22, 1904 letter written by Wright to Henry Dearborn "Student at Law" in Washington. He describes not taking the time to write his parents as he's been engaged in amusements such as dancing parties. He describes the local girls as "very free, easy and interesting in their manners but few of them are even tolerably handsome." Wright names several local women, including Jane Russell, Sally Carter, and a Miss Cary. He states he is boarding with a Mrs. Maupin and...
Dates:
1804 February 22
Found in:
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Mark Wurzbacher Papers
Collection
Identifier: UA 5.010
Scope and Contents
This collection includes audio recordings and a paper by Mark Wurzbacher, related to student political activities circa 1969. The paper is entitled "A Comparative Study on the Origin and Development of Political Beliefs and Attitudes in Student Liberal Activists and Student Conservatives (using samples from the Students for Liberal Action and the Young Americans for Freedom at the College of William and Mary in Virginia)" and was written for Sociology 402. The groups referenced in the paper...
Dates:
1969
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center