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Miscellaneous items, 1920 - 1929

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 2

Scope and Contents

This folder contains:- Constitution and By-Laws of Mary Custis Lee Chapter UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy May 11, 1920 - Donation of $500 by the Rotary Club of Lexington to Jackson Memorial Hospital Nov 25, 1924 - “Amendments to the By-Laws to be proposed at the 32nd Annual Convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Hot Springs, Arkansas November, 1295 [sic]” - Check Rockbridge National Bank of Lexington $370 June 25, 1925 - Newspaper clippings on living historian “Mother Richmond” visiting day care centers in envelope of SCV Sons of Confederate Veterans Richmond 1925 - Letter to Mrs. Annie Davis of Lexington UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy from Stonewall Jackson Camp UCV United Confederate Veterans Staunton thanking her for hospitality June 22, 1925 - Note from “Commissary Department, VMI Virginia Military Institute from Mary Custis Lee Chapter UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy $232.86 Supplies Used to Serve Lunch June 19, 1925 - Letter from the General Chairman of the Erskine Company of Staunton, VA to Mrs. Annie Davis thanking her “for the splendid reception your Chapter gave the Veterans in Lexington” June 27, 1925 - Note June 19, 1925 to W.J. Ashburne “to cost for extra help to cook and serve lunch” $120 - Western Union Telegram Dec. 14, 1926 from Henry Louis Smith to Miss Belle Larrick, Richmond, VA “The Lee Memorial Auditorium as describes [sic] in the plan we agreed on is a complete building, eighteen or twenty feet east of the mausoleum, with a first floor entrance on its chapel side but not connected with the chapel or mausoleum in any way. If at any time in the future the Trustees should decide to unite, or alter, or tear down one of both buildings they have the legal right to do so.” Lee Chapel? - Letter to President of Mary Custis Lee Chapter UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy from Janet Randolph, President, Ladies Hollywood Memorial Association of Richmond donating two battle flags May 24, 1926 - Letter to Mrs. R.H. Witt, President Mary Custis Lee Chapter UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy May 5, 1926 from Stuart G. Gibboney, President Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation concerning “On to Monticello, VA and Philadelphia, 1776-1926” campaign - Confederate Veteran (Nashville, TN) “Subscription Prizes and Club Rates” (1926) - Announcement of spring meeting of District No. 2 UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy to be held at Waynesboro, VA May 13-14, 1926 - Letter from Oliver Orr of Macon, GA to Miss Belle Larrick, President of Mary Custis Lee Chapter UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy enclosing newspaper clipping extolling Gamaliel Bradford of Wellesley Hills, MA for contributions to the South, including Lee the American and Confederate Portraits May 31, 1927 - Thank you from Miss Isabelle Hutchinson of Manassas, VA to “Mrs. Burnell” Apr 13, 1928 regarding conferring the Southern Cross of Honor upon Rev. R.J. McBryde - Resolution by the Hospital Board [of Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital] on the Resignation of Mrs. [Reid] White Nov. 22. 1928 - Letter to “Miss Agnes” from Dora Witt Mitchell indicating she will not be able to serve as Secretary of the Mary Custis Lee chapter of the UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy despite having been elected to the position 1928 - Resolution of the Board of Jackson Memorial Hospital expressing its confidence in Miss Mattie Frank serving as Superintendent Jan. 20, 1928 - Two postcards from Mrs. Chas. Schaadt, Chairman [sic] of Confederate Grave Marker Committee to Mrs. J.A. Cook Oct. 22, 1929 and Nov. 20, 1929 - Letter from Mrs. A.C. Ford of Clifton Forge – Chairman [sic] of Committee on Relief to Mrs. Blaise – “In March 1928 the Buena Vista Chapter sent me an application for Relief for Misses Alice and Laura Bartnett of Midvale, Rockbridge Co., VA.” - Postcard from H.H. Smith of Blackstone, VA (faded-typewritten) to Miss Belle Lamek (?) offering to send samples of pamphlets on Lee, Jackson, and Jefferson Davis for 25 cents.

Dates

  • Creation: 1920 - 1929

Extent

From the Collection: 10 Box

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives Repository

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