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Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0058
Scope and Contents
Includes 2 bound volumes of minutes of the meetings of its Board of Trustees (1807-1910), yearly reports of the various principals, miscellaneous correspondence, business papers, bills and receipts.
Dates:
Inclusive 1807-1910
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0155
Scope and Contents
This collection in comprised principally business and family correspondence and general papers of the Baer family of the Panther Gap vicinity of Rockbridge County, Va. with a concentration of papers relative to the family's land holdings such as maps, indentures, and wills. Other highlights are a group of twenty-one manuscript weaving drafts for making household textiles, a family Bible in German(l744), local militia fines, genealogical materials, some relating to the Decker and Hite (Heyt)...
Dates:
1744 - 1929
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0245
Scope and Contents
Papers contain information about Dunlap's family members, especially Madison Dunlap (1808-1883) of Kerr's Creek and his son, John Matthew Dunlap, a member of the Washington and Lee Class of 1857 who was killed at at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. The collection includes compositions that John Matthew Dunlap wrote for Professor J. J. White in 1856-1857, transcripts of letters he wrote while serving in the Confederate Army, and letters concerning his death. The collection also includes the...
Dates:
Inclusive 1830-1878
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0226
Scope and Contents
This collection of correspondence relating to business also includes business receipts. Specific places mentioned in the correspondence include Saltville, Virginia and Lawrenceville, Georgia.
Dates:
Inclusive 1861-1865
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0251
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters and receipts of Colonel James Kerr Edmondson, a Lexington, Virginia lawyer, judge and mayor, and of his wife, Emily Jane Taylor Edmondson. Also included are Edmondson's letters to his wife during the Civil War, while he was an officer in the Stonewall Brigade. Their are some items from their relations, the Monroes and Penicks of Lexington.
Dates:
Inclusive 1861-1904
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0103
Scope and Contents
Includes membership records, officers' reports, business papers, subscription library records, minutes of the Society's meetings and debates. Includes receipts and letters expressing pleasure at being honored by the society. Receipt dated December 2, 1841 from Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson while he was a Virginia constable, which was later given to the Franklin Society.
Dates:
1801 - 1891
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0193
Scope and Contents
This collection contains bills and receipts of the Horn family and includes two letters explaining how the collection was formed.
Dates:
Inclusive 1836-1897
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0196
Scope and Contents
This collection includes general tax and purchase receipts, IOU's, and letters. The receipts date from 1860-1879 and the letters from 1861-1863 when Lewis served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Included among the letters are those to and from his father and his wife, Cary Lewis. Written on the back of one of John Lewis' letters is another letter from Eli Lewis to his wife, Elizabeth. Also includes two letters from William Neay (surgeon) to Lewis' wife and mother...
Dates:
Inclusive 1847-1879
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0478
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two of John Brockenbrough's personal correspondences, a letter of resignation from Washington and Lee University, and a bank receipt from the Bank of Lexington. One of the personal correspondences contains information about military movements in Virginia during the American Civil War.
Dates:
Inclusive 1863-1874; Majority of material found within Bulk 1863-1874
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0287
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a manuscript letter to Joseph Philbrick (Jan. 9, 1843) from the Massachusettes Anti-Slavery Society promoting William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator; an original copy of The Liberator from July 8, 1842 and a fragment of another issue (Dec. 1, 1865, a receipt for payment (Jan. 23, 1841) for a subscription to The Liberator, and a circa 1870 - 80 albumen photograph of John C. Fremont and his wife taken in front of the "Fremont Tree," a Redwood tree in Santa Cruz,...
Dates:
Inclusive 1841-1865; Majority of material found within Bulk 1841-1843
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0046
Scope and Contents
This collection includes personal and official letters of F.W. Pickens and his family, including his uncle, Ezekiel Pickens. Also includes receipts and lists pertaining to his slaves and legal papers.
Dates:
Inclusive 1812-1869
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0319
Scope and Contents
This collection includes mostly photocopies of Bader's business correspondence, bills, and receipts from 1921-1937.
Dates:
Inclusive 1921-1937
