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George Frederick Holmes Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 H73
Scope and Contents The papers of the Holmes family. Chiefly letters, 1842-1887, received by George Frederick Holmes, educator, concerning the College of William and Mary, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Virginia. Correspondents include William Campbell Preston, Andrew Steele Fulton, Robert Saunders and Charles Minnigerode. The collection also includes papers of the Floyd and Preston families; an album kept by Eliza Lavalette Floyd Holmes consisting of plant leaves, newspapers and memorials...
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Page-Saunders Papers

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Identifier: 01/Mss. 39.1 P15
Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers of members of the Page and Saunders families. Includes correspondence of Margaret Lowther Page of "Rosewell," Gloucester County, Va. and Williamsburg, Va. with her daughter Lucy Burwell Page Saunders and her son-in-law Robert Saunders. The collection includes a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and correspondence of Robert Page Saunders....
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Phillip H. Jones to Lawrence Washington Letter

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Identifier: SC 00483
Content Description 4 page letter from Phillip Jones to Lawrence Washington dated March 16, 1849 from Louisa Courthouse, Virginia. Jones writes to his fellow William and Mary graduate located in Westmoreland Cort House, Virginia about an inquiry about familial ties to Henry A. Washington, Professor of Political Economy at the College of William and Mary. Jones continues in his letter to confess that he was a student at William and Mary some forty years earlier when "Bishop Madison, St. George Tucker, and...
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Robert Saunders correspondence

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Identifier: SC 01810
Content Description

Letter (4 pp) from Robert Saunders, Jr., (Williamsburg, Virginia) to Robert C. Randolph, (Millwood, Clarke County, Virginia), dated 1847 January 15. Saunders was president pro tem of William & Mary at the time and the letters concerns official college business: the vacancy of the "chair of Belle Lettres, Political Economony, etc." and the election of a permanent president. Lists and discusses potential candidates.

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Robert Saunders Letter to Henry A. Wise

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Identifier: SC 00509
Content Description

Two page letter from Saunders, President of the College of William and Mary, from Williamsburg, Virginia to The Honorable Henry A. Wise, informing him that a messenger had arrived recently to inform him that John Tyler had been elected President of the United States.

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Robert Saunders Letters

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Identifier: MS 00270
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 66 letters written by Robert Saunders of Williamsburg, Virginia to his wife Lucy Burwell Saunders (60 letters) and his daughters Lucy Page Saunders (three letters) and Roberta P. Saunders (two2 letters) from 1829-1867. There is also a letter written on May 4, 1847 to Overton Bernard, the father of College of William and Mary student Jesse Talbot Bernard.

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College of William and Mary--History--19th century 5
College of William and Mary--Presidents 3
Correspondence 3
College of William and Mary--Faculty and Staff 2
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--19th century 2
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College of William and Mary--Faculty. 1
College presidents--Virginia 1
Confederate States of America. War Dept 1
Diaries 1
Financial records 1
Legal documents 1
Manuscripts (document genre) 1
Photographs 1
Presidents--United States--Election--1840 1
Scrapbooks 1
University of Mississippi--History--19th century 1
University of Virginia--History--19th century 1
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College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae 2
Washington, Henry A., 1820-1858 2
Dew, Thomas R. (Thomas Roderick), 1802-1846 1
Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894 1
Holmes, George Frederick, 1820-1897 1
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Holmes, John Floyd 1
Johns, John (1796-1876) 1
Millington, Thomas Charles, fl. 1836-1850 1
Minnigerode, Charles, 1814-1894 1
Page family 1
Phillip H. Jones 1
Saunders family 1
Tyler, John, 1790-1862 1
Washington, Lawrence, 1791-1875 1
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