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Latin language--Study and teaching

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Latin Exercise Book

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Nl1
Scope and Contents

Manuscript Latin exercise book.  English exercises consisting of original aphonisms on schoolmasters, rules of life, extracts from contemporary letters, notices of a few remarkable events, etc. on one page with the Latin translation opposite 1672-1674. 180 pp.  Latin exercises done by Richard Wardell.  At end of book, the exercises were done by Thomas Bullen in 1721.

Dates: 1672-1684. 1721

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