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Charles Page Bryan Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV P2
Scope and Contents

Photograph album of Charles Page Bryan, U. S. Minister to Portugal containing black and white photographs and color postcards of Madeira and the Azores, calling cards, newspaper clippings, and a small amount of correspondence.

Dates: 1906
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Charles Page Bryan Photograph Album: "Some Beautiful Women I Have Known"

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV P1
Scope and Contents

Photograph album, circa 1865-1920, of Charles Page Bryan entitled "Some Beautiful and Interesting Women I Have Known." The book contains black and white and tinted photographs, cartes-de-visite, and newspaper clippings of hundreds of women including Ethel Barrymore, Sarah Berhardt, Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, Alice (Roosevelt) Longworth, members of royalty, and wives and daughters of diplomats.



Dates: 1865-1920
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Helen Bowden Peters Darlington Letters

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Identifier: SC 01270
Content Description Two letters from Helen Bowden Peters Darlington to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Peters. Contents describe her time in Madrid in 1945 during the war where her husband was working as for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) out of the American Embassy under the guise of an attache for that organization. She gave great detail to the animosity her husband and other OSS spies received from the regular embassy staff and also told her parents a lot about her living arrangements for the few...
Dates: 1945 September 14 and October 3
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

James Monroe papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 M75
Scope and Contents Collection contains correspondence from 1783-1831, of James Monroe written from Richmond, Virginia while serving time as governor, Paris while minister to France, London while minister to Great Britain, from Washington, D. C. while Secretary of State, Secretary of War, and from Loudoun County, Virginia after serving as President. Also included is a penciled sketch of Monroe by John Vanderlyn. Subjects covered in the collection include diplomatic service, education (advice to his nephew),...
Dates: 1776-1924; Majority of material found in 1783-1831
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Thomas Jefferson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 39.1 J35
Scope and Contents Letters, 1785-1826, written by Thomas Jefferson while serving as a diplomat to France, Secretary of State, Vice-President and President of the United States to William Short. The letters are written from France (Paris, Lyons, Aix en Provence, Nice, Marseilles, Toulouse and Nantes), Amsterdam, Germany (Frankfort on the Main), New York City, Philadelpia, Washington and "Monticello," Albemarle County, Va. One of the subjects covered by the letters is the University of Virginia. Among...
Dates: 1761-1931
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

John Tuthill Papers

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Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2001.03
Scope and Contents Papers of John Wills Tuthill, a United States 20th century diplomat. The collection includes papers from Tuthill's years as a student and professor, his State Department career, his private career with international organizations and his retirement years.  He held many positions within the State Department, mostly in Germany and Europe, with his final posting as Ambassador to Brazil. As a private citizen, he was Director of the Atlantic Institute, President of the Salzburg Seminar, and...
Dates: 1933-1998
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Richard Henry Lee Letter to John Page

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00920
Scope and Contents

Letter from Richard Henry Lee, Philadelphia, PA to John Page, Williamsburg about the arrival of a French squadron, plans to defeat the English navy, the French minister's audience before Congress, a court-martial and anticipated news from Spain that she "has acceeded [sic] to our alliance and acknowledged our independence."  July 25, 1778.

Dates: 1778 July 25
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Lt. John Albert "Jack" Brooks Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01750
Content Description

Fifty-three letters with envelopes and a post card written by Lt. John Albert "Jack" Brooks to his parents while he was stationed in Korea. The letters are accompanied by a bound transcription, transcribed by Jeff Toalson, edited by Carol Brooks.

Dates: 1956 May 5-1957 April 27
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Maury Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 97 M44
Scope and Contents The Maury family papers contains materials documenting the lives of the Maury Family of Virginia, New York City and Liverpool, England from 1777-1977. The collection includes the letters and business papers of James Maury (1746-1840), the first American consul to Liverpool, England, and the letters of his second wife, Margaret Rutson Maury (1805-1882), of Liverpool. Letters, business papers, legal papers, and diaries of  the next two generations of the Maury family, including Ann Maury...
Dates: 1777-1977
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Monroe Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 82 M75
Scope and Contents Correspondence, chiefly 1803-1839, of members of the Monroe family while in London, England, Paris, France and in Virginia. Includes letters received by James Monroe while minister to Great Britain, from Sir Alexander Munro; letters of George Hay and his wife, James Monroe's daughter, Eliza Kortright (Monroe) Hay. Letters contain information concerning Hortensia (Hay) Rogers and Lloyd Nicholas Rogers. These letters deal primarily with family matters, but include material on the French...
Dates: 1803-1905
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Monroe-Hay Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00053
Scope and Contents Papers, 1795-1834 and undated of Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay (1787-1840), daughter of U.S. President James Monroe. The collection includes letters written by and to Hay and to her father James Monroe. Correspondents include her former teacher Madame [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan, her daughter Hortensia M. Rogers of "Druid Hill" near Baltimore, Maryland , her son-in-law Lloyd N. Rogers as well as the daughter of the Marquis de Lafayette, Marie Antoinette Virginie de Lafayette...
Dates: 1795-1834
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

William and Peyton Short Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 65 Sh9
Scope and Contents Dated 1783-1825. Letters, 1783-1825, primarily between William Short (1759-1849), American diplomat and financier, who, after a career in Europe, settled in Philadelphia, Pa., and his brother, Peyton Short (1761-1825), a native of Virginia who moved to Kentucky and engaged in extensive land speculation there and in Ohio. William gives advice concerning Peyton's career and the education of his children, and discusses other family matters, but is primarily concerned with various speculative...
Dates: 1783-1825
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Henry Tazewell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.2 T25
Scope and Contents

Typescripts of letters, 1795-1798, from Henry Tazewell of "Kingsmill," James City County, Va. while in Philadelphia, Pa. serving as United States senator to Richard Cocke, Shoal Bay, near Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Va. reporting on activities of Congress. In particular, Tazewell refers to relations between France and the United States, the Alien and Sedition Acts and the banking situation.

Dates: circa 1939
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

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Monroe, James, 1758-1831 3
Hay, Eliza Kortright Monroe 2
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 2
Short, William (1759-1849) 2
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 1
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American Austrian Foundation 1
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Atlantic Institute of Foreign Affairs 1
Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923 1
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Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 1
College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae 1
Cosmos Club (Washington, D.C.) 1
Darlington, Helen Bowden Peters 1
Dulles, Allen,, 1893-1969 1
Hay, George 1
Jean Monnet Foundation 1
Jones, Joseph, 1727-1805 1
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818 1
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794 1
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1884-1980 1
Marshall, John, 1755-1835 1
Maury family 1
Maury, James, Sr., 1718-1769 1
Monnet, Jean, 1888-1979 1
Monroe, James, 1799-1870 1
Munro, Alexander, Sir, 1753-1817 1
Page, Florence Lathrop, 1858-1921 1
Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 1
Salzburg Seminar 1
Short, Peyton, 1761-1825 1
Short, William, 1759-1849 1
Tazewell family 1
Tazewell, Henry, 1753-1799 1
Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827 1
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute 1
Tuthill, John W., d. 1996 1
United States. Department of State. 1
University of Virginia 1
de Beauharnais, Hortense, b. 1783 1
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