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Hugh Blair Grigsby papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0124
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the script of an address by Hugh Blair Grigsby titled "The Founders of Washington College" delivered at the college's 1870 Commencement in Lee Chapel.
Dates:
1870-06-22
James McDowell Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0449
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two letters written to James McDowell while he was a Congressman. In one, dated May 16, 1848, James Paxton writes that he is not sure if the administration of Washington College needs changes, discusses the pay of the professors, which varied from $800 to $1300 per year, Governor William Smith's recent appointment of George H. Lee to fill a vacant judgeship. The other from C. S. M. Lee, J. S. Fishburn, and W. P. Wharton, dated December 6, 1848, asks him to deliver...
Dates:
1848
Lexington High School Commencement Program
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0515
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the commencement program for Lexington High School in Lexington, Virginia from June 1, 1934.
Dates:
1934-06-01
Samuel H. Chester papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0429
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two original manuscript copies and one photocopy of Samuel H. Chester's valedictory address given on June 27, 1872 at Washington and Lee University. It also contains correspondence about the presence of this address in the University's Special Collections and Archives.
Dates:
1872-06-27