Virginia--History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Autographs of Virginians
Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. Sm Coll Add.9
Scope and Contents
Autographs of four Virginians in letters:
John Strode Barbour (1846 letter);
Thomas Henry Bayly (undated);
John Warwick Daniel (1908) and
Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (1897).
John Strode Barbour (1846 letter);
Thomas Henry Bayly (undated);
John Warwick Daniel (1908) and
Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (1897).
Beverley Randolph Tucker Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 00014
Scope and Contents
The collection includes material, such as correspondence, poetry, photographs, and miscellaneous item relating to Dr. Beverley Randolph Tucker and his parents, John Randolph Tucker and Fanny Crump Tucker. Topics covered include religion, education, the legal and medical professions, the American Civil War, and Reconstruction.
Civil War Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 C76
Scope and Contents
The Civil War Collection is an artificial collection of material, chiefly 1861-1865, pertaining to the American Civil War including items from both Union and Confederate forces. The collection includes official correspondence, general and special orders, descriptions of campaigns and battles, articles concerning the war, and artifacts. There are pardons, poems, songs, autographs, maps, muster rolls, pen and ink sketches of camp life, engineers' drawings, and a memorandum of signals used by...
Gerald Cowden Papers
Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. Acc. 2000.40
Scope and Contents
Research material of Gerald Steffens Cowden from his Ph.D. dissertation on the Randolph's of Virginia, "The Randolphs of Turkey Island: a Prosopography of the First Three Generations, 1650-1806. " Also includes other works and essays from his earlier education, and the research accompanying those essays as well.
S. Bassett French Papers (II)
Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 98 F88
Scope and Contents
Papers, 1872-1893, of S. Bassett French. Includes mostly letters to French from Virginians contributing biographical sketches for a proposed book, The Annals of Prominent Virginians of XIXth century. Also includes speeches, legal documents, and letters recommending French for various positions.
Samuel Bassett French Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.2 F88 and Mss. 98 F88
Scope and Contents
Papers and letters of Samuel Bassett French, a judge who lived in Manchester, Virginia during the mid to late 1800's.
Genealogy Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.4 G29
Scope and Contents
An artificial collection of genealogical materials; ca. 1880 to 1993; many of which were probably collected by Dr. Earl Gregg Swem in connection with the publication of genealogical information in the "William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd Series". Includes correspondence, clippings, coats-of-arms, charts, and family histories. Most newspaper clippings are from "The Standard" in Richmond, Virginia from the early 1880's.
H. Fitzhugh Letters
Collection
Identifier: SC 00288
Scope and Contents
Letters from Chief of Staff, H. Fitzhugh, located at Headquarters in South Western Virginia and West Virginia, to several Brigadier Generals and Colonels regarding military matters and special orders.
Spotswood Hunnicutt Jones Papers
Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 80 J72
Scope and Contents
Papers, 1951-1976, of Spotswood Hunnicutt Jones concerning elementary school textbook, "Virginia: History, Government, Geography" (New York: Scribner, 1957). Includes correspondence with Earl Gregg Swem and Francis Butler Simkins as well as typescripts, revisions and galley proofs. Addition 1997.28A consists of the correspondence of Jones with Ludwell Lee Montague; and papers relating to the history of Gloucester County, Va., especially the correspondence of the Gloucester County...
Morton Genealogy Collection
Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 90 M85 and 82.7
Scope and Contents
Genealogy material compiled by Mr. William S. Morton and his wife, Mrs. Margaret H. Morton of Farmville, Virginia which trace the descendants of Joseph Morton of Prince Edward County, Virginia and allied families. Includes primary source material, such as the 1830 daybook of the J. J. Dupuy Company of Charlotte Court House. Also, contains typescript of Richard Lee Morton's copy of Hugh Blair Grigsby's notes on the Robert Rose Diary and of William Cryer's transcript of the Charles Campbell...