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Ebenezer Mitchell Walden Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0472

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of three letters written by E. M. Walden from various Confederate States of America camps (near Wilmington, NC; Kinston, NC; and Richmond, VA) to his sister. He provides her with updates on CSA military activities and mentions General Sherman's raid in Georgia. The letters are dated June 13, 1863, Dec. 3, 1864, and Jan. 20, 1865.

Dates: Inclusive 1863-1865

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Edgar Tufts Collection

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0690

Scope and Contents This collection is composed of material pertaining to the celebration of the centennial of Lees-McRae College founded by Washington and Lee alumnus Rev. Edgar Tufts. The collection contains a Lees-McRae College Founder's Day package, including an autographed copy of the Cenntenniel Poem by Fred Chappell. The package also includes documents related to the establishment of Edgar Tufts Day in the town of Banner Elk and Avery County, such as copies of correspondence as well as a booklet on the...

Dates: 2000

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Edward Miley Eustler scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0430

Scope and Contents Edward M. Eustler's photographic scrapbook (1910-1911) documents Eustler's experience as a student at Washington and Lee University. Eustler, then of Greensboro, North Carolina, compiled his photographic scrapbook with approximately 350 photographs taken between 1910 and 1911. Subjects of the photographs include campus and dorm life, athletics, architecture, local landmarks and historic sights, fraternity and club initiations, the Lexington, Virginia downtown area, the Virginia Military...

Dates: 1910-1911

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Joseph James Murray Diaries

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0302

Scope and Contents The diaries give a precise record of Joseph James Murray's four years as superintendent of home missions in Wilmington, North Carolina, as well as of his life as pastor, family man, traveller, lover of the arts and ornithologist while in Lexington, Virginia (1924-1968). Reminiscences include information about his family, including his wife, Jane Dickson Vardell Murray, and children, J. J. (Jimmy) Murray, Jr. and Jane Murray, and close friends, including Matthew Paxton, Nell Paxton, James G....

Dates: Inclusive 1920-1968

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Late 19th and early 20th Century Almanac Collection

Collection

Identifier: RHS-Coll-0005

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 12 late 19th and early 20th century Almanacs.

Dates: Inclusive 1850-1909

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Roscoe Phelps Diary

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0496

Content Description The Roscoe Phelps diary is a bound manuscript entitled "Anecdotes of the Year 1900" written by Washington and Lee University student Richard Roscoe Phelps (Class of 1902). Phelps reports on life as an undergraduate student touching on courtship, recreation, hazing, off-campus boarding and regional travel and exploration of such places in Rockbridge County Virginia as House Mountain and “Lover’s Leap”. Other events covered include the vandalizing of "Old George", the George Washington statue...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1901

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

The School Journal Manuscripts

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0464

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of nine handwritten journal issues (vol.1, issues 1-9) of The School Journal: Devoted to Pure Literature, which was published in Harrington, North Carolina. It is noted that J. M. L. Harrington served as its editor.

Dates: 1864

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Turner Family Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0050

Scope and Contents

This collection includes letters from James Turner, 1759-1829, and his son, Jesse Hopkins Turner, 1788-1863, both Presbyterian ministers in Virginia and North Carolina.

Dates: Inclusive 1810-1823

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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Ebenezer Mitchell Walden Correspondence

Edgar Tufts Collection

Edward Miley Eustler scrapbook

Joseph James Murray Diaries

Late 19th and early 20th Century Almanac Collection

Roscoe Phelps Diary

The School Journal Manuscripts

Turner Family Correspondence

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