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John Posie Mathews Saunders Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Na1
Scope and Contents

Notebook, 1854-1859, of John Posie Mathews Sanders of Jackson's Ferry, Wythe County, Virginiaa. at Emory and Henry College, Abingdon, Virginia. The notes concern Latin, Greek, chemistry, music, and accounting.

Dates: 1854-1859
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

L. D. Switler Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Nge1
Scope and Contents

Notes, 1870, taken by L. D. Switler while a student at the Webster Institute, Norfolk, Virginiaa. The notes concern history, mathematics, philosophy, geography, and Latin.

Dates: 1870-1870
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Latin and Greek Verse Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ngr2
Scope and Contents

Notebook, circaa. 1861-1865, of Latin and Greek verse.

Dates: 1861-1865
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Physica Ioanni Hourvard

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Nph1
Scope and Contents Treatise, 1703, on physics (copied in Latin). The volume includes pen and ink diagrams and one red crayon portrait of an unidentified man.Notations in front of book, "Libris, Robert Bolling, junior, 1764" and "This Book MSS was in the library of Robert Carter [Councillor] of Virginia."William & Mary Physics professor John McKnight shared the following notes: Aristoleian physics; pre-Newton physics; organization of general physics (properties of matter, motion,...
Dates: 1703
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Robert E. Waller Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ad224
Scope and Contents

Contains Latin notes (Tacitus), scattered diary entries (concerning weather, farming and court business), drafts of deeds and agreements, drafts of speeches by Waller while running for commonwealth's attorney of Spotsylvania County and accounts, concerning corn and the rebuilding of Waller's Church. Includes a folder of loose Waller family items which concern the War of 1812, the Baptist Church and the Readjuster Party.

Inventory of loose items available in library.

Dates: 1873-1882
Found in: Special Collections Research Center