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Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (III)

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 B8555
Scope and Contents

Papers and correspondence of three generations of the Brown Family of Virginia:  Frances (Fanny) Bland Coalter Brown and her husband, Henry Peronneau Brown (1838-1888),  J. Thompson and Cassie Tucker Brown (1890-1920) and Frances Bland Brown and Fleming Sanders (1921-1964).

Dates: 1838-1964

Grigsby-Galt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.308
Scope and Contents This collection contains the family papers of members of the Grigsby and Galt Families. Mary Blair Grigsby married William W. Galt in 1881.  The collection contains papers of various members of the Grigsby family, particulary Hugh Blair Grigsby who was a historian and Chancellor of The College of William and Mary and his son, Hugh Carrington Grigsby who lived his entire life at the family farm, Edgehill, in Charlotte County, Virginia. The collection also contains the personal...
Dates: 1736-1982; Majority of material found in 1840-1930

Hart Papers I and II

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 H29
Scope and Contents Papers, 1847-1934, including correspondence, essays, articles, and poems by John Hart, a Richmond book seller and poems, short stories, and a novel by his wife, Katherine M. Hart. The papers of John Hart include letters concerning the sale of books and two letters by James Branch Cabell. The collection includes diplomas and certificates awarded by the University of Virginia to his [father ?] John Hart of Louisa County, Va. The Hart Papers (II) series contains 200...
Dates: 1847-1934

Lucy Elizabeth James Journal

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01148
Scope and Contents Journal, compiled by Lucy Elizabeth James in 1959, titled "Four Score Years, 1880-1960," in which the author shares memories of the different stations of her life in a "series of random letters and narrations." Includes reminiscences of her childhood in New Kent County, student years in Farmville, years spent in Williamsburg and Newport News, all Virginia. Also included are photographs of the author, from 1880 to the 1950s, and two 1973 obituaries for Robert Welmore James (1901-1973)....
Dates: compiled in 1959

John W. Lewis and Lewis P. Olds Papers, 1808-1902

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2010.022
Scope and Contents Collection consists of the papers of three Southerners, dating predominantly from the 19th century. John W. Lewis lived in Virginia, Mississippi, and North Carolina and the portion of the collection from this Methodist minister and farmer includes references to religion including sermons, farming, and slavery. Lewis P. Olds was a North Carolina lawyer and politician and the collection includes evidence of his career as well as poetry and short stories he wrote. The remainder of the...
Dates: 1808-1902; Majority of material found within 1840-1879

Whittle-Greene Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 W61
Scope and Contents

Papers of Cloe Tyler Whittle Greene. Mostly diaries, 1855-1924, before and after her marriage to John Newport Greene. Also includes printed cards, photographs, verse, newspapers, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and prints of colonial and Civil War figures. Topics covered by the diaries include secession, Civil War, Reconstruction, travel, life in Norfolk, Virginia and marriage.

Dates: 1855-1995, undated

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Correspondence 5
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Norfolk (Va.)--History--19th century 2
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 2
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African Americans--Virginia--Photographs 1
Agriculture--Virginia--History--19th century 1
American diaries--Women authors 1
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Bedford County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Booksellers and bookselling--Virginia 1
Broadsides 1
Charlotte County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
College of William and Mary--History--19th century 1
College of William and Mary--Students 1
Deeds 1
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Farms--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Genealogy 1
Greeting cards 1
Indians of North America 1
Japan--Description and travel 1
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Manila Bay, Battle of, Philippines, 1898 1
Manila Bay, Battle of, Philippines, 1898--Pictorial works 1
Manuscripts for publication 1
Marriage certificates 1
Nome (Alaska)--Description and travel 1
Norfolk (Va.)--History--20th century 1
North Carolina--History--19th century--Sources 1
North Carolina--Social life and customs--19th century 1
Obituaries 1
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Poets, American--19th century 1
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
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Richmond (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Richmond (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Richmond (Va.)--Photographs 1
Sermons 1
Slavery--North Carolina--History 1
Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 1
Speeches 1
Stereographs 1
Stock certificates 1
Student Life--1890's 1
Tidewater (Va. : Region)--Genealogy 1
Tidewater (Va. : Region)--Personal narratives 1
Tobacco farmers--Virginia 1
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans 1
United States. Navy 1
United States. Navy--History--19th century 1
United States. Navy--History--20th century 1
University of Virginia--History--19th century 1
Virginia--History--19th century 1
Virginia--History--19th century--Sources 1
Visiting cards 1
Women--Virginia--Social life and customs 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons 1
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Anderson Gallery 1
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Brown, Cassie Dallas Tucker 1
Brown, Coalter, and Tucker Family 1