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Ellinor Porcher Gadsden Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0189
Scope and Contents
This collection came from the estate of Ellinor Gadsden in 1985. Highlights of the collection include the letters of Alexander Swift(Sandie) Pendleton, a Washington College graduate who was a top aide to Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson during the American Civil War. These approximately 70 letters were a major source for the book. Sandie was the uncle of the Gadsden sisters. Included in the collection are also a few items of Gen. William Nelson Pendleton who was Robert E. Lee's friend and...
Dates:
Inclusive 1839-1975
Margaret Junkin Preston Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0101
Scope and Contents
This collection includes poems and prose (manuscript and printed copies); A May Night Masque, written in 1872 for Ann Smith Academy; notebooks and scrapbooks. There is a Greek New Testament given to Preston by her father, George Junkin, and a glass plate negative of George Junkin's portrait. Additionally, Preston's scrapbooks include one volume of her printed poems and stories and one volume of her sketches and manuscript poems. There is also a broadside, and several...
Dates:
Inclusive1839-1872
Shields Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0622
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers of the Shields family from 1832-1990 including business documents, family genealogy notes, correspondence, photographs, and William R. Shields poetry.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1832 - 1990
The Ward Briggs Collection of James Dickey
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0511
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 1st editions of a selection of James Dickey's publications (some signed and/or inscribed); Dickey's contributions to books and pamphlets; journal articles by Dickey; interviews; criticism; anthologies; multimedia; photographs; broadsides (some framed, signed); miscellaneous items on his book and the film Deliverance; and publications related to Ward Briggs' book The Complete Poems of James Dickey (U. South Carolina,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1940 - 2013