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Special Collections Research Center
William & Mary Special Collections Research CenterEarl Gregg Swem Library
400 Landrum Dr
Williamsburg, Virginia
Business Number: 757-221-3090
spcoll@wm.edu
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Finding Aid Authors: Special Collections Staff.
Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation:
Phi Beta Kappa Records of John Lesslie Hall and Charles Washington Coleman, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information:
Gift
Accruals:
Acc. 1988.008
Historical Note:
Phi Beta Kappa was founded by five students at the College of William and Mary in 1776.
Scope and Contents
Primarily Phi Beta Kappa correspondence of Charles Washington Coleman and John Lesslie Hall, both of whom served as Secretary of the Alpha of Virginia chapter. Also includes some meetings of minutes, poems, addresses, and bylaws; a notebook listing "Distinctions awarded in English and in History;" obituaries of Hall; English examinations (questions only)' documents from George Willis Guy about his high school and college course work.
Related Material
UA 6.021 John Lesslie Hall Papers and UA 7.002 Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter Records
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- College of William and Mary--History--19th century
- College of William and Mary--History--20th century
- College of William and Mary. Dept. of English
- College of William and Mary. Dept. of History
- Correspondence
- English language--Study and teaching--United States--History
- English literature--Study and teaching--United States--History
- Minutes
- Phi Beta Kappa. Virginia Alpha (College of William and Mary)
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Coleman, Charles Washington, 1862-1932
- Hall, J. Lesslie (John Lesslie), 1856-
Container List
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id15138
English Examinations1918 and undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id15139
Guy, George W.--high school and college records1907
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id15140
Notebooks--Distinctions Awarded in English and History1888-1917
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 4 id15141
Obituaries of John Lesslie Hall1928
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 5 id15142
Phi Beta Kappa-Address and Poem delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa society of the Colege of William and MaryDecember 5, 1906Scope and Contents
Address by Daniel C. Gilman and poem by Armistead C. Gordon.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 6 id15143
Phi Beta Kappa--Correspondence1890-1891 and 1894-1895Scope and Contents
Also includes minutes for 6/28/1894 and 6/26/1895.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 7 id15144
Phi Beta Kappa--Correspondence1896
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 8 id15145
Phi Beta Kappa--Correspondence1897Scope and Contents
Iincludes poem by Thomas Wentworth Higginson read on 2/19/1897 and minutes for 12/6/1897.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 9 id15146
Phi Beta Kappa--Correspondence1898-1905
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 10 id15147
Phi Beta Kappa--Correspondence1909-1910, 1917, 1925
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 11 id15148
Phi Beta Kappa--Correspondencen.d.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 12 id15149
Phi Beta Kappa--Key Order Form
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 13 id15150
Phi Beta Kappa--Alpha of Virginia--By-Laws1896-1987
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 14 id15151
Phi Beta Kappa--"A Ritual of Phi Beta Kappa"1915
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 15 id15152
Phi Beta Kappa--Poem--"To the Phi Beta Kappa Society of William and Mary College"n.d.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 16 id15153
Phi Beta Kappa--Publications of the United Chapters