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Jane Isabella Watt White Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0265
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook, diary, and correspondence of Jane Isabella White, including records of births and deaths, comments about the Civil War, and religious meditations.
Dates:
Inclusive 1848-1878; Majority of material found within Bulk 1855-1865
Joseph Fauber Shaner Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0201
Scope and Contents
The collection consists mainly of photocopies of American Civil War letters written to and from Joseph Shaner and his family. It also includes a portion of Shaner's 1862 diary, his service records, one photograph, obituaries, history, reminiscences, and genealogies (1754-1978) pertaining to the Shaner family and other Rockbridge County families.
Dates:
1861 - 1865
William Beverley Pettit Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0199
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of correspondence between William B. Pettit and his wife Arabella ('Bell') with scattered letters from other friends and relatives. The letters that date from 1850 to March 1862 include correspondence between husband and wife while Pettit was away on business. The war letters begin in March 1862 and end with Pettit's last war letter to his wife on March 3, 1864. After that date there are letters from Pembroke, the Pettit's son, while he attended school at Ashland, Va....
Dates:
Inclusive 1850-1918
William Lyne Wilson Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0029
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from the American Civil War period; correspondence of Wilson while he was Congressman from West Virginia, Postmaster General under Cleveland, and President of Washington and Lee University; 3 bound, indexed volumes (not orginals) of Wilson's official correspondence as Postmaster General; 6 diaries; miscellaneous papers and printed speeches; 38 letters from the University of West Virginia collection (microfilm); photograph; correspondence with Isidor Straus concerning...
Dates:
Inclusive 1852-1980