College of William and Mary--History--19th century
Found in 155 Collections and/or Records:
Powhatan Robertson Journal
This collection consists of a journal kept by Robertson while a student at William & Mary in 1816. He mentions engaging in social activities within town, places within town such as the "Old Capitol," and sometimes refers to lectures. He frequently writes about women.
A typed transcription is included.
Office of the President, John Augustine Smith Records
Office of the President. Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Records
Office of the President. James Madison Records
This collection, Acc. 1980.121, consists of 1 box of biographical material, photostats and transcripts of correspondence, and discourses, including one on the death of George Washington. An inventory is available in the Special Collections Research Center. See also Bishop James Madison Papers, Photocopies (65 Pst James Madison) which might be part of this accession.
Office of the President. Lyon Gardiner Tyler Records
Office of the President. Thomas Roderick Dew Records
Richard Randolph Letter to William B. Randolph, 1855 May 21
Francis C. Riddick Letter to Wilson W. Jones
Robb-Bernard Papers
Robert McCandlish Letter to William Boulware
Robert Strachen Jones Papers
This collection includes Jones' 1872 William & Mary diploma and a letter he wrote to his brother on June 8, 1871. In the letter, he inquires as to the whereabouts of the suit he requested, speaks of impending examinations, and asks for money to pay his debts and last him up to July 4th.
Samuel F. Bright Account Books
Contain oystering accounts; farm accounts for "Porto Bella," York County, Virginia and "New Hope," [?]; cash accounts of Williamsburg, Virginia; list of ages and prices of slaves; records of physician's visits to family and slaves; remedy for colic; and memorandum of a purchase of land from College of William and Mary in October 1847.
Samuel Stuart Griffin Letters to James Lewis Corbin Griffin
Robert Saunders correspondence
A single four page letter from Robert Saunders, Jr., (Williamsburg, Virginia) to Robert C. Randolph, (Millwood, Clarke County, Virginia), dated 1847 January 15. The letter contains Saunders concerns of official college business at William & Mary including the vacancy of the chair of Belle Lettres and the election of a permanent president. Saunders also lists and discusses potential presidential candidates.
Robert Saunders Letter to Henry A. Wise
Two page letter from Saunders, President of the College of William and Mary, from Williamsburg, Virginia to The Honorable Henry A. Wise, informing him that a messenger had arrived recently to inform him that John Tyler had been elected President of the United States.
Scrapbook Regarding Policies of James Buchanan
Scrapbook, 1857-1859, of an unidentified person. The volume includes an account (newspaper clipping) of the burning of the College of William and Mary; and a manuscript copy of resolutions, 19 June 1858, passed by a meeting of the citizens of Erie, Pa. condemning the policy of [James] Buchanan's administration toward Kansas.
Anonymous Scrapbook
Series 3: Mattey School (Mss. Acc. 2011.592), 1850-1899
Sheldon Business Papers and Accounts
William Winston Snead Papers, 1898-1899
Elianna Southall Letter to Robert Anderson
James N. Stubbs Papers, 1859, 1866
Thomas Jefferson Stubbs Family Papers
Surveying Collection
John P. Taliaferro Papers
Letters, 1846-1849, written to John P. Taliaferro, while a student at the College of William and Mary from his guardian, George B. Taliaferro of Baltimore, Md. and from William Lawson Fauntleroy and other friends and relatives. The letters are primarily concerned with John's future plans, the cost of his education, the activities of his friends, and the affairs of his relatives in Gloucester county, Va. Also included are three 1834 orders of the York County, Va. court.