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Office of the President. Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 2.06
Scope and Contents Collection includes biographical materials, writings, and correspondence.This is an artificial collection of correspondence, 1848-1898, of and concerning Benjamin Stoddert Ewell while he was serving on the faculty and as president of the College of William and Mary. Prominent correspondents include: Ambrose Burnside, Ulysses S. Grant, Hugh Blair Grigsby, John Johns, Joseph E. Johnston, Robert McCandlish, Matthew Fontaine Maury, George Gordon Meade, Charles Minnigerode, William...
Dates: 1848-1898; Majority of material found in 1866-1886

Awards and Scholarships Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 183
Scope and Contents

This collection includes material related to awards and prizes presented by the College of William and Mary to students and faculty.

Dates: 1940-ongoing

Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 Ew3
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials dated 1784-1934. It includes correspondence, legal papers, and accounts, chiefly 1830-1892, of Benjamin S. Ewell, professor at the U.S. Military Academy, Hampden-Sydney College, Washington and Lee College, and the College of William and Mary (which he served as acting president, 1848-1849, and president, 1854-1888). Letters from Ewell during the Civil War when he was assistant adjutant-general to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston are included as well. Among the...
Dates: 1784-1934; Majority of material found in 1830-1892

Richard McLeod Crawford photographs

 Collection — UA Small Collections Box 11, Folder: 1
Identifier: UA 5.308
Content Description This accession consists of two photographs taken by Richard McLeod Crawford (Class of 1905), a William & Mary professor from 1918-1930. The smaller photograph, inscribed "Williamsburg 1918," depicts an African-American man sitting on a cattle-drawn vehicle next to another African-American man and child standing in the road. The larger photograph depicts Henry Billups holding the bell rope at the Wren Building, and was inscribed on the back by Richard's wife Elizabeth Londes Scott...
Dates: 1918, 1935

William G. Stanard Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00579
Scope and Contents Letters, 1888-1928, written to William G. Stanard, secretary of the Virginia Historical Society and editor of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography concerning historical and genealogical matters. Includes letters from Benjamin Stoddert Ewell, J. Franklin Jameson, Lyon G. Tyler, and W. A. R. Goodwin. Some of the letters concern the College of William and Mary and the history of Williamsburg, Va. June 15, 1925, letter from W. G. Stanard to E.G. Swem concerning a portrait of General R....
Dates: 1888-1928

Robert John Morrison Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 6.048
Scope and Contents

This collection contains miscellaneous papers about Robert John Morrison and a photocopy of his work College of William and Mary. The volume includes information about the President's House, student housing, and Benjamin Ewell.

Dates: 1850-1860

Maria to Elizabeth Ewell Letter

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01106
Scope and Contents

Letter, 1859 October 30, from someone named Maria to Elizabeth S. Ewell, daughter of College of William and Mary president Benjamin S. Ewell. In the letter, the author writes about life in Williamsburg, Virginia, the engagements of local men including professor Edwin Taliaferro to Bland Tucker, the Williamsburg Female Academy, and the loss of George T. Wilmer as rector of Bruton Parish Church.

Dates: 1859 October 30

Jefferson Davis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.2 D31
Scope and Contents Papers include correspondence, 1884-1885, of Jefferson Davis and correspondence, 1890-1904, of Varina Howell Davis with Flora Adams Darling; and a ledger, 1858, believed to be the mailing list for Davis while United States Senator from Mississippi; and correspondence, 1904, of Jefferson Davis Monument Association of Richmond, Va. Includes letter, 25 January 1890, of Varina Davis to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell. Also includes broadside, 1862, of Davis' Inaugural Address; and program, 1893, of...
Dates: 1858-1904

Page-Saunders Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 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....
Dates: 1790-1932

Armistead-Cocke Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 Ar6
Scope and Contents Correspondence, 1756-1764, of Maria Carter Armistead (including letters written by Mrs. Thomas Feilde); business papers, 1782-1828, of William Cocke of "Bremo," Henrico County, Virginia and of "Oakland," Cumberland County, Virginia; and letters, 1861-1863, of William Fauntleroy Cocke, Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke and Edmund Randolph Cocke concerning their service in the Confederate States Army (including the Battle of First Bull Run).Also included are five volumes of farm and...
Dates: 1680-1917

John Tyler, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 78 T97
Scope and Contents Series 1: Group A, Acc. 78 T97 and 1992.63:  Papers, 1856-1895, of John Tyler, Jr., post Civil War Republican Party activist. Subjects covered by the collection include alcoholism, Republican Party politics, Presidential elections, political patronage, Reconstruction, Methodist Episcopal Church, Florida, Braxton Bragg, and the Fenian Brotherhood. Prominent correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Chester Alan Arthur, Pierre G. T. Beauregard, James Gillespie Blaine, James Buchanan,...
Dates: 1800-1928

Joseph E. Johnston Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 J63
Scope and Contents Papers of Joseph E. Johnston, C.S.A. General during the American Civil War, including correspondence which reflect his long military career and interest in his nephews, John Warfield Johnston and John Preston Johnston. The papers include a diary, 1857, of Johnston's survey of the southern boundary of Kansas and eighteen volumes of Civil War dispatches and telegrams. The collection also includes a diary, 1 May-31 July 1864, of Thomas B. Mackall; letters received by...
Dates: 1825-1891

Board of Visitors records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 1
Scope and Contents The records of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary includes meeting minutes, financial reports, photographs, agendas, matriculation books, correspondence, material from Board of Visitors Rectors Oscar L. Shewmake and Roy Harvey Chappell, Jr., publications, and audio recordings of meetings from 1961-1999. An index to Board of Visitors meetings for the period 1947-1984 is available in the Special Collections Research Center. Researchers are also encouraged to...
Dates: 1757-2023

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Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894 7
Office of the President 3
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893 2
College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae 2
Ewell, Elizabeth S., 1814- 2
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Johnston, Joseph Eggleston, 1807-1891 2
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award 1
Armistead Family 1
Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Award 1
Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876 1
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Chappell, R. Harvey (Robert Harvey), 1926- 1
Cocke Family 1
Cocke, Edmund Randolph, 1841-1922 1
Cocke, Thomas Lewis Preston, 1838-1895 1
Cocke, William Fauntleroy, 1826-1863 1
Cocke, William Fauntleroy, 1836-1863 1
Cocke, William, 1798-1855 1
Cocke, William, fl. 1798-1855 1
College of William and Mary 1
College of William and Mary. Board of Visitors. 1
College of William and Mary. Office of the President 1
Crawford, Richard McLeod 1
Dacor Bacon House Foundation Fellowship 1
Darling, Flora Adams, 1840-1910 1
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 1
Davis, Varina, 1826-1906 1
Drapers Company Exchange Scholarship 1
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
Ewell family 1
Ferguson, George Oscar, Jr 1
Gantt, Thomas T. (Thomas Tasker), 1814-1889 1
Gorgas, Josiah, 1818-1883 1
Hampton, Wade, 1818-1902 1
Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889 1
James Frederic Carr Cup 1
Jefferson Davis Monument Association (Richmond, Va.) 1
Johnston, George Ben, 1853-1916 1
Laurie Lucker Blount Award 1
Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 1
Longstreet, James, 1821-1904 1
Morrison, Robert John, 1825-1861 1
Page family 1
Preston family 1
Register of Scholarships and Fellowships 1
Republican Party (U.S.) 1
Rochelle, Marie Antoinette 1
Saunders family 1
Saunders, Robert, 1805-1868 1
Shands, Letitia C. Tyler 1
Shands, William B. 1
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 1820-1891 1
Shewmake, Oscar L., 1882-1963 1
Stanard, William G. 1
Taliaferro, Edwin 1
Tyler Family 1
Tyler, John, 1790-1862 1
Tyler, Robert, 1816-1878 1
Williamsburg Female Academy (Williamsburg, Va) 1
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