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Preferred Citation

Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Ann Norvell Otey Scott Papers, WLU Coll. 0163, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Anne Farrar in 1984.

Biographical / Historical

Ann Norvell Otey Scott was the Chairman of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Virginia Division and a resident of Lynchburg, Virginia.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains chiefly correspondence with Washington and Lee University and United Daughters of the Confederacy officials, resolutions, and reports relating to her participation in the controversy over W&L President Henry Louis Smith's proposed renovation and expansion of the Lee Chapel. Also includes correspondence and clippings relating to fund-raising for the Stratford Hall restoration. Correspondents include members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Washington and Lee officials, and Lee family members. It also includes a copy of Mary Randolph Custis Lee's will dated 1918.

Arrangement

Materials on the Lee Chapel controversy are housed in Box 1; materials related to Stratford Hall are housed in Box 2.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
• Buildings -- Repair and reconstruction
• College presidents
• Correspondence
• Farrar, Anne S.
• Fund raising
• Lee, George Bolling
• Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
• Smith, Henry Louis
• United Daughters of the Confederacy
• Washington and Lee University
• Washington and Lee University. Chapel
• Washington and Lee University. Stratford Hall
• Wills