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The collection includes an autograph book containing autographs of Washington and Lee students circa 1875. Also includes a brochure of River Crest Sanitarium (Astoria, Long Island) and three letters to Dr. Dold from Francis P. Gaines, which are dated October 20, 1932, May 24, 1933, and November 7, 1936.

Wickham, the father of Confederate general Williams Carter Wickham, wrote to Robert E. Lee to relay his satisfaction that Lee accepted the presidency of Washington College. Wickham's grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham was to attend Washington College. Wickham asked that Lee keep a watchful eye on Henry and give him advice as needed. Wickham also urged Lee to write a history of the war.

This box contains correspondence and related files between letters "Che" through "Lu." Also contains files related to Foreign Advisory Services.

This collection is a daybook and ledger accounts of flour sales.

This record group contains materials created by the Communicattions and Publications office during the course of its regular business, including records about its management. The Communications and Publications office was previously the News Office (Record Group 37).

This record group contains materials created by the Communicattions and Publications office during the course of its regular business, including records about its management. The Communications and Publications office was previously the News Office (Record Group 37).

Handwritten manuscript draft of William Brown's protest to the Washington and Lee University Board of Trustees related to issues of religious life on campus and a handwritten response from Rev. F. B. Converse (Francis Bartlett Converse) to Brown.

This collection includes manuscript and typecript sketches of 41 Washington and Lee Alumni who served in the American Civil War. The materials were compiled for a proposed memorial volume which was never completed. Included are letters to McDowell from veterans, descendants of veterans, and associates answering his request for information.

This collection includes items of Graham's presidency at Liberty Hall Academy,miscellaneous items including an inventory of Graham's library in 1801, and some Graham genealogy.

This record group contains materials created by the Communicattions and Publications office during the course of its regular business, including records about its management. The Communications and Publications office was previously the News Office (Record Group 37).

William Greenleaf Rolfe asks Robert E. Lee for information on Washington College and Virginia Military Institute for potential students in Ashley County, Arkansas.

This letter was written by William H. Botts from Glasgow, Kentucky on February 26, 1866 to Robert E. Lee. Botts writes to introduce Buford Leslie to Lee and vouch for his character while he attends Washignton College.

The collection contains transcripts and copies of William H. Davis's letters home to his wife Millie, from Monterey, Petersburg, and other Confederate army posts in Virginia. The material is a record of a common, unlettered man pouring out his homesickness to his wife.

This box contains files related to Louise Herreshoff's paintings and exhibitions, as well as Euchlin Reeves and his collection of fine China that was donated to Washington and Lee.

Hope, a real estate lawyer in Virginia, wishes to assist Lee in recovering his Arlington estate. He includes a newspaper annnouncing that Union soldiers killed at numnerous wartime battlefields would be reinterred at Arlington and that a memorial would be placed there in their honor.

This letter was written by William H. Kinnon from Tangipaho Station, Lousiana on March 13, 1866 to Robert E. Lee. Kinnon writes to request information on costs of attendance for the sons of his five sisters.

William Harwar Parker, a U.S. Navy and C.S. Navy veteran and later U.S. Minister to Korea, wrote to Lee to apply for the professorship position of practical astronomy at Washington College.

This record group contains papers and projects created by students as part of their coursework, such as honors theses and capstone papers.

The excursion was to Hot Springs, Virginia.