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James Blair High School Reunion scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00384
Content Description

The collection includes three binders tracing the high school reunions of the James Blair High School class of 1956. The collection contains newspaper clippings, graduation programs an invitation from 1956, schedules of the reunions, photographs of the reunions and the class of 1956, as well as obituaries.

Dates: 1956-2016

Office of the President. James Blair Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 2.01
Scope and Contents Acc. 1980.128 contains papers of and relating to James Blair, first president of the College of William and Mary.  The collection contains two original manuscripts: a funeral bill by Blair dated 1701, and a sermon erroneously attributed to Blair dated 1747.  The bulk of the collection consists of copies collected for research purposes, mostly in 1940-1941.  Includes biographical material; extracts and copies from official records; copies of correspondence; sermons; notes on paintings of...
Dates: 1695-1747

Blair Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 68s B57
Scope and Contents An artificial collections of papers concerning the Blair family of Williamsburg. Includes land grant, 1741, signed by James Blair (1655-1743); document, 1768, signed by John Blair (1689-1771) concerning Loudoun County, Va. justices of the peace; depositions, 1787 and n.d., of John Blair (1732-1800) concerning a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Chatham County, Ga. (Margaret Eustace vs. Seth John Cuthbert) which concerned the estate of his brother, James Blair (1741-1772); deposition, November...
Dates: 1741-1792

Hugh Blair Grigsby Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01769
Scope and Contents Letters written to Grigsby by L. S. Joynes, Thomas R. Joynes and Benjamin S. Ewell concerning a professorship for Edward S. Joynes and the Grammar School at the College of William and Mary. Includes constitution, 1854, of the Jamestown Society, Washington, D. C. and one issue of the newspaper, the Richmond Standard, 29 May 1880, which had an article on the Henry family of Virginia (descended from John Henry and Sarah Winston Syme. Letter written from New York by George Bancroft,...
Dates: 1854-1880

National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century. The Rev. James Blair Chapter Records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2014.025
Scope and Contents This collection contains scrapbooks, reports, and publications from The Rev. James Blair Chapter of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century. The bulk of the collection consists of scrapbooks, which date from 1981-2011, containing photographs and other material for events and meetings of the chapter. Also included are conference programs, newletters and publications from the state and national chapters of the Colonial Dames XVII, and histories of both The Rev. James Blair Chapter and...
Dates: 1962-2011; Majority of material found in 1985-2010

James Barron Hope Papers (II)

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 93 H77
Scope and Contents Correspondence and literary works, chiefly 1861-1874, of James Barron Hope (1829-1887), soldier, author (poet, orator, and novelist), and newspaper editor, of Norfolk and Williamsburg, Virginia. The papers deal mainly with his 1849 duel with Jonathan Pembroke Jones; his West Indies naval cruise (1851-1852); his Confederate military service (1861-1865); and the aborted 1874 William Mahone-Bradley Johnson duel, in which Hope was Mahone's second. The majority of correspondence with his family...
Dates: 1820-1923

James Barron Hope Papers (I)

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 H77
Scope and Contents Papers, chiefly 1847-1887, of James Barron Hope. Correspondence includes letters to his mother Jane A. Barron Hope while on a naval cruise to the Caribbean and letters to his wife, Annie Beverley Whiting Hope written during the Civil War. There are letters between Jane A. Barron Hope and her friend, Caroline Matilda Campbell. Prominent correspondents in the collection include Jubal A. Early, Benjamin S. Ewell, Hugh Blair Grigsby, Fitzhugh Lee, W. H. F. Lee, Thomas Nelson Page, John Tyler and...
Dates: 1790-1965; Majority of material found within 1847-1887

James Hughes Letter to the Governors of the College of William & Mary

 Collection
Identifier: UA 338
Scope and Contents

March 26, 1728 letter from James Hughes to the Governors of William & Mary. Hughes states that he understands by way of advertisement displayed at the Capitol by James Blair that a chapel is to be erected at the College. He states he can do the work for "898 pounds current money," except for the "sashes and glasses in the body of the building."

Dates: 1728 March 26

Appointment of Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London, as Chancellor of the College of William & Mary

 Collection
Identifier: UA 151
Scope and Contents

Appointment of Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London, as Chancellor of the College of William & Mary, dated April 2, 1729. Written in Latin on parchment, it is signed by James Blair, who was both President of William & Mary and Rector of the Board of Visitors in 1729. The appointment also features the original college seal.

Dates: 1729 April 2

Alexander Galt Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01686
Scope and Contents (2) letters by Alexander Galt (1827-1863), a sculptor from Norfolk, Virginia, and John Young Mason (1799-1859), Secretary of the Navy and Attorney General to President James K. Polk. In the 1848 copy-letter, Mason writes that Galt will sail on the Erie ship, under the command of Lieutenant William M. Blair. Mason also tells Galt to secure employment as Blair’s clerk by networking with Blair’s friends in Norfolk. It is addressed from Washington, on July 28, 1848. The...
Dates: 1848-1849

Lewis Cohen profile study

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01786
Content Description A 17 x 11 inch signed print of a profile study done by Lewis Cohen for a sculpture of James Blair. The statue was commissioned by William & Mary for the 300th anniversary of the university. The original sketch was drawn in 1992. This particular print was given as a gift by the Muscarelle Museum of Art to its Patron members, Board of Directors, and major donors during a Thank-You Event on May 5, 2006. The event took place in connection with the exhibition "Lewis Cohen: Five...
Dates: Modified: May 5th, 2006; 1992

William Cole Collection of Documents Pertaining to the Colonial-Era

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00196
Content Description

Documents, prints, and heraldry pertaining to Virginia governors from the 17th and 18th centuries. Includes letters and documents signed by John Murray, Robert Brooke, James Wood, Beverly Randolph, Patrick Henry, Edmund Andros, Jeffrey Amherst, Norborne Berkeley, Robert Hunter, Francis Fauquier, Earl De La Warr, James Blair, and Robert Dinwiddie among others. Also included in the collection are prints, coats of arms, and commemorative coins.

Dates: 1676-1971; Majority of material found within 1730-1770

Lloyd H. and Ruth Elizabeth Williams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1998.21-2007.66-2015.146
Scope and Contents Mss. Acc. 1998.21: Papers, (bulk 1947-1959), of Lloyd Haynes Williams, photographer and journalist. The largest part of the collection is financial in nature. Includes newspaper clippings concerning Williams, including an obituary and editorial at his death. Includes papers of Mrs. E. E. Goodrich. Also includes notes on sailing, shipbuilding, fishing, oystering and crab industries. There are many notes concerning piracy and a manuscript by Williams called "Blackbeard's Account."...
Dates: 1917-2008 and undated; Majority of material found in 1947-1959

Parke Shepherd Rouse, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 71 R75
Scope and Contents Professional and personal papers of Parke Shepherd Rouse, Jr. who was a newspaper writer and columnist and an author of books on Virginia. His personal correspondence covers his college years at Washington and Lee University; his years in the Navy during World War II; his early career while working in Richmond, Virginia and Newport News, Virginia; and his business affairs. His college and Navy letters include not only the letters he wrote home, but the letters he received from...
Dates: 1930-1998

Galt Papers (III-A)

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 78 G13 (III-A)
Scope and Contents

Papers of Alexander Galt, Jr. and his family.  Mostly correspondence but also includes contracts, financial records, diaries, notebooks, sculptures and ephemera.  Most items written to, or by, Alexander Galt, Jr. when he was living in Florence, Italy.  Alexander Galt's sketchbook which includes photograph of Galt's sketch of General Stonewall Jackson.

Dates: 1848-1917

Office of the Dean of the College Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 104
Scope and Contents Acc. 1979.031: This accession contains office files from 1920-1942. Acc. 1983.085: This accession contains office files from the 1940s and 1950s. These include reports of the Curriculum Committee, correspondence with the President and others, materials from the faculty protest of 1951, letters of faculty appointments and salaries, and selective service classifications of faculty members. Acc. 1998.091: Records of Kremer Jacob Hoke, 1920s-1930s. This accession contains...
Dates: 1920-1968

Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Records

 Collection
Identifier: 00/02/01/UA 22
Scope and Contents Acc. 1979.037: Records of W. Melville Jones, 1954-1967. This accession contains ten boxes of subject files arranged alphabetically. The inventory for this accession is available in the box list section of this finding aid. Acc. 1979.038: Records of James Wilkinson Miller, 1940s. This accession contains faculty inactive files and office files. Part of  the correspondence was removed to Acc. 1979.037. Acc. 1982.070: Office files, 1961-1979. This accession includes...
Dates: 1935-2011

Committee on Research Funds Records, 1950-1958

 Collection
Identifier: UA 51
Scope and Contents

The Committee on Research Funds was chaired by Nelson Marshall, then Charles F. Marsh. The collection contains office files including correspondence, grant applications, and proposals.

Dates: 1950-1958

Senior Seminar Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 55
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 66 student papers submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Economic Seminar for senior Economics concentrators as well as papers submitted for Business 428 (thesis).

Dates: 1949-1956; Majority of material found in 1949-1956

Office of the Dean of Men Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 105
Scope and Contents

Acc. 1979.039: Office files of Carson Barnes, 1968-1969. These include petitions and sorority initiation lists.

Acc. 1979.041: Office files of John E. Hocutt, 1945-1950.

Acc. 1979.046: Office files of William T. Hodges, 1928-1932.

The material that was formerly part of the University Archives Publications Collection is inventoried here and includes memos, reports, handbook, and other material.

Dates: 1928-1969

Richard Randolph Letter to William B. Randolph, 1855 May 21

 Collection
Identifier: UA 345
Scope and Contents Letter written by Richard Randolph to William B. Randolph of Chatsworth (near Richmond, Va.), dated May 21, 1855. Richard Randolph introduces himself as being selected by William & Mary faculty as their agent to solicit financial aid for the College, "an unpleasant task, which I could not decline." He appeals to William Randolph by comparing Plymouth and Bunker Hill, Massachusetts to Jamestown and Yorktown, Virginia ("the provident Yankee and the 'chivalrous Virginian'"), mentions that...
Dates: 1855 May 21

Seminar on Colonial Life Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 20
Scope and Contents

This collection includes records related to the Seminar on Colonial Life at the College of William and Mary such as correspondence, publication, press releases, and related material. Howard Fowler was the director of the Seminar on Colonial Life.  The subjects of the black and white photographs include buildings within Colonial Williamsburg, including the Wythe House as well as costumed interpreters, Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin, and the Wren Building at William & Mary.

Dates: 1937-1941

Hampton Roads-Peninsula War Studies Committee Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 40
Scope and Contents

The Hampton Roads-Peninsula War Studies Committee collection includes business case studies; records of expenditures; general correspondence; and correspondence and publications of Dr. Charles E. Marsh.

Dates: 1940-1951

Office of the University Registrar

 Collection
Identifier: UA 50
Scope and Contents Portions of this collection are stored off-site. An advanced notice of at least 72 hours is required for use. Major portions of this collection are restricted by Federal law under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) . Acc. 1979.50: Office files of H.L. Bridges, 1913-1916, 1920-1923. Acc. 1989.128: This accession contains reports of enrollment figures (1950-1987); survey of earned...
Dates: circa 1920s-1987

Spotswood Hunnicutt Jones Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 80 J72
Scope and Contents Papers, 1951-1976, of Spotswood Hunnicutt Jones concerning the state-commissioned elementary school textbook, "Virginia: History, Government, Geography" (New York: Scribner, 1957), which Hunnicutt Jones co-authored. Used in 7th-grade instruction, this textbook aided in the dissemination of the pro-Confederacy "Lost Cause" ideology. Includes correspondence with Earl Gregg Swem, Francis Butler Simkins and others, as well as typescripts, revisions and galley proofs....
Dates: 1951-1981

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College of William and Mary. 3
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Jones, W. Melville, 1901-1992 2
Marsh, Charles F. (Charles Franklin), 1903-1984 2
Miller, James Wilkinson, 1902- 2
Office of the President 2
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797 1
Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 1
Blair family 1
Blair, John, 1687-1771 1
Blair, John, 1732-1800 1
Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, Baron de, ca. 1718-1770 1
Brooke, Robert 1
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 1
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Cuthbert, Seth John, d. 1788 1
Daily Press (Hampton Roads, Va.) 1
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Dinwiddie, Robert, 1693-1770 1
Dobson, Richard 1
Dunmore, John Murray, 4th Earl of, 1732-1809 1
Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809 1
Eustace, Margaret 1
Ewell family 1
Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894 1
Ewell, Elizabeth S., 1814- 1
Fauquier, Francis 1
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006 1
Fowler, Harold L. 1
Galt family 1
Georgia. Superior Court. Chatham County. 1
Gibson, Edmund, Bp. of London, 1669-1748 1
Gloucester County Bicentennial Celebration Committee (Va.) 1
Goodrich, E. E., (Mrs.) 1
Greenhow, Robert, b. 1761 1
Grigsby, Hugh Blair, 1806-1881 1
Hall, J. Lesslie (John Lesslie), 1856- 1
Hampton Roads-Peninsula War Studies Committee 1
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Henry, John 1
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Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 1
Joynes, L. S. 1
Joynes, Thomas R. (Robinson), 1789-1859 1
Joynes, Thomas R., 1789-1859 1
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818 1
Madison, James, 1751-1836 1
Marshall, Nelson 1
Mason, John Y. (John Young), 1799-1859 1
Meade, Robert Douthat, 1903-1974 1
Melton, Tracy 1
Meredith, Samuel 1
Montague, Harriotte Lee Taliaferro 1
National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century. Virginia Society 1
Randolph, Beverley, 1754-1797 1
Randolph, Richard 1
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Rouse, Parke Shepherd, Jr. 1
Rutledge, Edward 1
Self Study 1
Simpson family 1
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia 1
Syme, Sarah Winston 1
Taylor, Tazewell, 1810-1875 1
Umbeck, Sharvy 1
United States. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare 1
Williams, Lloyd H. (Williams, Lloyd Haynes), 1905-1959 1
Williams, Ruth Elizabeth 1
Williams, Thomas L. 1
Williamsburg Historic Records Association (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Wood, James, 1741-1813 1
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