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George Wright Account Book
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Aa12
Scope and Contents
Account book, 1827-1859, of George Wright of Middletown, Frederick County, Va. (concerning a foundry and general merchandise store) which contains notes on the guardianship of John Wright's children and the settlement of George Bell's estate.
Dates:
1827-1859
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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John Womack Wright Collection of Maps
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 W93
Scope and Contents
Printed maps, circa 1675-1918, collected by Col. John Womack Wright pertaining to his interest in military events in Europe chiefly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The collection primarily concerns the cartography of areas in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Italy. The collection includes examples of the work of Willem Janszoon Blaeu, Guillaume de L'Isle, Johann Baptist Homann, Tobias Conrad Lotter, Placide de Saint Helene, John Senex, George Mattheus Seutter the Older; and...
Dates:
circa 1675-1918
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
John Womack Wright Collection of military artifacts
Collection
Identifier: UA 5.056
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 68 buttons, 2 belt buckles, and 2 cockades taken from Spanish prisoners of war or from sunken ships off of Cuba. It also contains a commemorative medal from the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.
Dates:
1893; before 1899
Found in:
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Beatrice Jeanne Wright Diary
Collection
Identifier: SC 01565
Scope and Contents
Travel diary of Beatrice Jeanne Wright while en route from San Francisco, California to Guam, with a three day stop in Hawaii, in the Fall of 1948. Wright records her experiences of her journey on board the USS General H. W. Butner (AP-113), the people she met and interacted with, her time in Hawaii while en route, and her daily life once she arrived in Guam. Wright's work in Guam was in the capacity of a U.S. Government civil service employee. She spends a great deal of time detailing...
Dates:
1948-1949
Found in:
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Writing Awards Winners Collection
Collection
Identifier: UA 69
Scope and Contents
The Writing Awards Winners collection consists of winning entries from four writing awards: The Goronwy Owen Poetry Prize, the Glenwood Clark Fiction Prize, the Tiberius Gacchus Jones Literary Prize, and the Howard Scammon Drama Prize. Acc. 1984.039 and Acc. 1985.042 are housed in the same box. 1984 winners: Ali, Daud - Goronwy Owen Poetry Prize Rabimowitz, Blanche - Howard Scammon Drama Prize Walters, Neal L. - Glenwood Clark Fiction Prize;...
Dates:
1984-1985
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
W.T. Early Letter
Collection
Identifier: SC 00326
Scope and Contents
A letter from W.T. Early, Charlottesville, Virginia to S.D. Cabiness. He describes the mood in Virginia following the Confederate victories. He believes the "Pan Handle" of the state, with its northern leanings, will be cut off from the state with a thorough chastisement. He describes Virginia troops and officers ("Virginia will be the scene of great events, the...theatre of noble deeds..."). His son attends military school at Lexington Institute. He wishes his son to raise a company in the...
Dates:
1861 June 18
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Agnes Wullenwaber Diary
Collection
Identifier: SC 01117
Scope and Contents
Five-Year diary, 1938-1942 of an Agnes Wullenwaber of Illinois. Brief daily entries describe the daily life of the author, including chores, work, and social life. The author also comments on the hardships of the Great Depression and the beginnings of World War II.
For more detailed description, see the link below.
Dates:
1938-1942
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
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
Asa John Wyatt Diary
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV D22
Scope and Contents
Civil War diary of a soldier of the Army of Northern Virginia, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company I. The content spans June 19, 1861 through July 29, 1862, the latter as part of Jackson's Valley Campaign. The diary includes information concerning the Battle of Kernstown, although Wyatt was not a participant. A typescript is included.
Dates:
1861-1862
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Robert Baker Wynne Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 00250
Content Description
Correspondence, artwork, drawings, and notes of Robert Baker Wynne, professor of English at North Carolina State University. Through his poetry writings, Wynne developed and maintained a correspondence relationship with a number well known writers of the 1920's and 30's, including Gertrude Stein and Eudora Welty, of which there is correspondence in this collection between Wynne and them. Wynne was also an avid gardener and some of his affinity of flowers and development of hybrid species...
Dates:
1920-1965
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Thomas Wynne and James Custis Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SC 01535
Scope and Contents
Four letters to and from Thomas Wynne. The first letter from 1856, from Wynne, concerns a friend's volumes of literature and periodicals such as the "London Literary Gazette" that he is trying to sell to a library. The three letters between Wynne and Custis concern a piece of land being sold for $3,000. Wynne asks Custis to release a loan and Wynne will "give a note for the amount...payable at 6 months" or Wynne will have to have the property sold at auction to "pay the mortgage." Custis...
Dates:
1856; 1868
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Thomas G. Wynne Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 00041
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters, sermons, financial records and other material pertaining to Thomas G. Wynne of James City County Virginia. Wynne graduated from William & Mary as the valedictorian in 1854, and a copy of his valedictory speech is included in the collection along with his diploma. After graduation, Wynne taught in the James City County schools, and a sample report card from the 1880s can be found in the collection. Also included in the collection is Wynne's William &...
Dates:
circa 1853-1891
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Wynway Hall Guest Register
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2015.082
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a guest register from Wynway Hall, a guest house located in Williamsburg, Virginia. The register contains the names and addresses of those that stayedid at the guest house.
Dates:
circa 1946-1962
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Wythe County Election Materials
Collection
Identifier: SC 01383
Content Description
An election ticket, a note from the Mayor's office, and a petition all relating to election activities in Wythe County, Virginia for 1886 and 1997.
Dates:
1886-1887
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
George Wythe Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.2 W99
Scope and Contents
Copies of letters, 1781-1783, from George Wythe, Williamsburg, Va. , one to John Adams and another to Thomas Jefferson concerning the use of the College of William and Mary as a hospital. Also includes a magazine article about Wythe; newspaper copy of William Munford's oration at Wythe's funeral; correspondence, 1921, of Robert M. Hughes concerning a monument for Wythe's grave; a form book of Peter Tinsley, clerk of the High Court of Chancery which gives "Forms of Injunctions," Forms of...
Dates:
1779-1927
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
George Wythe Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 00600
Scope and Contents
Manuscript in the hand of and signed by George Wythe, giving legal advice to the recipient who purchased land from John Twitty, the title which could be subject to the payment of a judgment recovered by the King against Twitty in a case before the General Court. If John Twitty will not recant the bonds for payment of the purchase money, Wythe advises the recipient not to pay the money until the suit is ended or until he can be assured he will not be evicted. October 13, 1774....
Dates:
1774 October 13, 1801 January 26
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Yancey Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 00601
Scope and Contents
Papers of the Yancey family of Woodville, Rappahannock County, Va. and Culpeper County, Va. Includes letters, 1844-1873 and accounts, chiefly 1834-1853. Concerns John W. Yancey, William T. Yancey, James P. Yancey and the estate of Major Yancey. There is a letter, 1844, of Charles Yancey of Tennessee concerning his administration of the Craven estate. The Craven will designated the New York Colonization Society as the legatee, but the will was broken. This collection also contains material...
Dates:
1791-1873
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
William David Yancey Mathematics Certificate
Collection
Identifier: UA 5.105
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a certificate of William David Yancey reading that he has "passed Examinations in the Introductory Class of Mathematics." The certificate was signed on June 24, 1896 by Professor Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, Secretary of the Faculty at the College of William and Mary.
Dates:
1896 June 24
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Charlton Yarnall Travel Journal
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2008.133
Scope and Contents
Bound journal, March 7- June 9, 1922, kept by Charlton Yarnall, describing his family's vacation travel from Philadelphia to Algeria, Italy, France and England. The typed journal, 88 pp., includes pictures and postcards. Family members mentioned in the journal are his wife Anna Coxe and his daughter Agnes, age 17. The family arrives in Algiers via Madeira and Spain on March 21. Yarnall describes his impressions of places visited and sights seen such as the Ancient Mosquie of...
Dates:
1922
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Ye Olde Summer Band School Records
Collection
Identifier: UA 326
Scope and Contents
This collection contains fliers for the College of William and Mary's Ye Olde Summer Band School for junior and senior high school students interested in music.
Dates:
1953-1976
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Yeaman and Walker Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.542
Scope and Contents
The Yeaman and Walker Family Collection consists mainly of correspondence and financial records of the Yeaman and Walker families, mostly relating to tobacco farming in Virginia between 1840 and 1910. The predominant locations are Pittsylvania County, Botetourt County, Charlotte County, Lynchburg, and Danville. Letters demonstrate economic stress after the Civil War, particularly as it relates to crop and livestock prices. Other topics discussed include sickness and deaths of children and...
Dates:
1836-1937; Majority of material found in 1850-1910
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Samuel H. Yonge Papers
Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 65 Y8
Scope and Contents
Papers, 1890-1935, of Samuel Humphreys Yonge. Yonge was an army engineer who worked on flood control projects and navigational improvements. Yonge was interested in excavations at Jamestown and Williamsburg, Va. and in archaeological projects throughout Virginia. Included is correspondence; early twentieth century photographs of ruins and excavations at Jamestown; notebooks of land patent abstracts and other notes concerning Jamestown; and printed material. The collection also includes an...
Dates:
1890-1935
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Yorktown Branch Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 72 A57
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the records of the Yorktown Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA). Included in the collection are minutes, correspondence, treasurer's records, photographs, and scrapbooks.
Dates:
1921-2013; Majority of material found in 1975-2005
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Yorktown Campaign Report
Collection
Identifier: SC 00657
Scope and Contents
Report of Captain Jason R. Hanna, Co. C, 63rd Pennsylvania Vol. to Lt. Col. A. S. M. Morgan concerning operations on April 11, 1862, to take possession of rifle pits on north and west fronts of a peach orchard relieving the 5th Michigan Volunteers. This report describes a diagram (not present).
Dates:
1862 April 15
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center