WLU Coll. Manuscript Collections
Found in 637 Collections and/or Records:
Warren T. Taylor cemetery guide to the Teaford papers
The guide includes inscriptions from many Rockbridge County, Virginia cemeteries and an accompanying card file has names with genealogical information.
U. S. Navy Ephemera Collection
Printed pamphlets about the U. S. Navy in the American Revolution, the American Civil War, and in modern times; also includes pamphlets on shipbuilding.
Collection of Staunton Virginia Broadsides
This collection consists of fourteen broadsides from Staunton, Virginia, including King's Daughters Hospital rules, fire alarm information, a church directory, and advertisements.
Democratic Party Ephemera Collection
Includes poll tax lists and letters to local party leaders from national Democratic figures, such as Harry Byrd and Harry Flood
Brooks Family Papers
This collection includes copies of correspondence of the Brooks family of Augusta County, Virginia, including Andrew, Charles, Emmet and William Brooks.
John Esten Cooke Scrapbook
This scrapbook published by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper in four installments, of an otherwise unpublished novel by John Esten Cooke titled Cary J. Hunsdon: The Reflections of a Man; 1776.
Youel Family Genealogical Records
These genealogical records of the Youel family of Virginia, originally from Scotland, include a family Bible and looseleaf notebooks compiled by various family members on Rice M. Youel (1891-1962), Marion John Youel, and Richard Dudley Obenshain. There is also a copy of the Iowa Centennial Book (1982).
John Barton Payne Collection
This collecion consists of memorabilia and photographs of John Barton Payne, including items and photographs from Japan, of a house and garden, and an autographed portrait of Secretary of Labor, 1921, W. B. Wilson.
Hugh Adams Papers
James Howard Monroe papers
Milton J. Elliott, IV Collection
James S. Moffatt Papers
William C. Fowler Correspondence
This collection consists of letters from William Chauncey Fowler to George Washington Custis Lee, who was president of Washington and Lee University at the time. The letters mention connections to George Washington Parke Custis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson.
Edward Miley Eustler scrapbook
Sam Houston Manuscript
This collection contains a bound manuscript transcription by Rockbridge County, Virginia citizen Sam Houston of John Witherspoon's lectures on Moral Philosophy.
Givens Brown Strickler Journal
This collection contains photocopies of a diary by Givens Brown Strickler written while he was a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island during the American Civil War and four photographs of the diary.
Meredith W. D. Hogshead Correspondence
This collection consists of printed digital scans and transcriptions of 40 letters written between 1848-1853 from Elijah Hogshead to his son Meredith William David Hogshead, who was a student at Washington College.
Anne Carter Lee Records
This collection contains records (copies of clippings and Lee family correspondence, photographs of Lee Chapel) pertaining to the re-interment of Anne Carter Lee (Annie) in Lee Chapel, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia on September 29, 1994 from Warren County, North Carolina.
Robert Seager Typescript
This collection contains Robert Seager II's typed summaries, quotations and annotations about the family papers from the Sherwood Forest estate comprising correspondence of the Gardiner and Tyler families.
Robert Selph Henry Correspondence
Includes copies of correspondence between Robert Henry and Douglas Southall Freeman about Freeman writing a foreword for Henry's book The Story of the Conferderacy as well as copies of correspondence between Washington and Lee University Dean Frank Gilliam and Major Edward C. Betts about a Boude and Miley photograph of Robert E. Lee owned by Betts and used by Henry in this book.
John M. Godown Papers
Included in the papers are diaries, letters, and 25 photographs; also included are letters of several generals and high ranking officers of the American Civil War; Godown's diary is dated 1853-1861; his letters are dated 1861-1865; General Henry Lawton's letters are dated 1886-1899; and the family photographs are dated 1873-1935.
Mary Coulling Papers
LeRoy Hodges Papers
Lee-Jackson Foundation collection
Severn Eyre Parker Records
This collection includes photocopies of records of Parker's Kendall Grove estate on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, as well as an inventory of his posessions (including books), and an excerpt from a history of Northampton County, Virginia.