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Guide to the Tyler Family Papers, Group E 01/Mss. 65 T97 Group E


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Williamsburg, Virginia
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Finding Aid Authors: Special Collections Staff.

Repository
Special Collections Research Center
Identification
01/Mss. 65 T97 Group E
Title
Tyler Family Papers, Group E 1880-1951 1880-1935
Quantity
6.50 Linear Feet
Creator
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935
Creator
Tyler Family
Creator
Tyler, Sue Ruffin, 1889-1953
Language
English

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access:

Collection is open to all researchers. Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Manuscripts and Rare Books Librarian, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Preferred Citation:

Tyler Family Papers, Group E, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

W&M Special Collections Research Center began acquiring and collecting Tyler family papers in 1922 and the collection has grown considerably since. The vast majority of this collection was donated by generous family and friends of the Tyler family between 1922 and 2002, with the bulk of the collection being donated to in 1949 by Mrs. Sue Ruffin Tyler and in 1955 by the children of Lyon G. Tyler. Some materials in this collection were purchased by W&M Special Collections Research Center.

Biographical Information:

Lyon Gardiner Tyler was the son of John Tyler (1790-1862) and his second wife Julia Gardiner Tyler. He received a master's degree from the University of Virginia and was professor at the College of William and Mary and principal of Memphis Academy. He established a law practice in Richmond and served in the Virginia House of Delegates. He became president of William and Mary in 1888, serving until 1919. Tyler married twice, to Anne Baker Tucker Tyler (1860-1921) and to Sue Ruffin Tyler who died in 1953. Tyler founded the William and Mary Quarterly and Tyler's Quarterly and was the author of the Letters and Times of the Tylers, Parties and Patronage in the United States, England in America and History of Virginia: Volume II The Federal Period. He edited Men of Mark in Virginia, Narratives of Early Virginia and the Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Tyler served as president of the College of William and Mary from 1888 until 1919.

Scope and Contents

Chiefly writings, ca. 1880-1935, of Lyon Gardiner Tyler, historian. Most concern Virginia history in the colonial period, or defend his father, John Tyler, or defend the southern point of view in the Civil War. Includes an unpublished history of the Virginia Line in the American Revolution. Also includes writings, 1921-1951, of his second wife, Sue Ruffin Tyler, and of other authors.

Related Material

See also Tyler Family Papers, Groups A-D, F-H, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary; Lyon Gardiner Tyler Papers (Acc. No. 1980.123), University Archives, Swem Library, College of William and Mary, and Lyon Gardiner Tyler Papers, President's Office Papers, Acc. No. 1984.19, University Archives, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Correspondence
  • Manuscripts (document genre)
  • Tyler, John, 1790-1862
  • United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
  • Virginia--History
  • Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

General

Other Information:

A PDF document of this inventory is available online.

Additional information may be found at http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/findingaids/Tyler_Family_Group_e.pdf

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Tyler, John, 1790-1862
  • Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935
  • Tyler, Sue Ruffin, 1889-1953
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Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Virginia--History
  • Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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Container List

Mixed Materials Box: 1 id114741
Lyon G. Tyler on Virginia Colonial History
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id114742
    "Administration of Nicholson and Andros" and "Spotswood's Administration"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id114743
    "Alexander Macaulay"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id114744
    "Bacon the Rebel"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id114745
    "Bacon's Rebellion"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id114746
    The Ballot in Virginia
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id114747
    "Charles City Courthouse"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id114748
    "Colonial Virginia Marriages"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 id114749
    "A Distinguished Preacher of Virginia (John Camm)"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 id114750
    "Elizabeth City and Hampton"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id114751
    (England in America, 1580-1652)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 id114752
    "The Governor's House or Palace"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12 id114753
    "The Grand Ball at Norfolk, 1774"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13 id114754
    The Great War" (The French and Indian war, 1754-1763)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14 id114755
    "How a Governor of Virginia proposed a bet of £1000..."
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15 id114756
    "How a President of William and Mary College..."
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 16 id114757
    "An Indian Dance and an English Celebration" (Williamsburg, ca. 1710.)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 17 id114758
    "John Smith" (fragment)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 18 id114759
    "Lewis Littlepage" (1762- )
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 19 id114760
    "The Love Story of Governor Frances Nicholson and Lucy Burwell"
    Scope and Contents

    2 versions.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 20 id114761
    "Military Claims in Middlesex County, (Va.)"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 21 id114762
    "Military Claims in Richmond County, (Va.)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 22 id114763
    " Narratives of Early Virginia ", New York 1907, excerpts
    1907
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 23 id114764
    "The Parson's Cause"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 24 id114765
    "Priorities of Virginia as a Commonwealth"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 25 id114767
    "Spirit of the Virginia Colony"
    circa 1912?
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 26 id114768
    "Two Penny Act and Halley's Comet"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 27 id114769
    "Virginia as a Royal Province"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 28 id114770
    "Virginia from 1722 to 1752"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 29 id114771
    "William Claiborne, the Rebel"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 30 id114772
    "Williamsburg during the Revolution"
    Scope and Contents

    3 copies.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 31 id114773
    "Yorktown"
Mixed Materials Box: 2 id114774
Lyon G. Tyler's Unpublished History of the Virginia Line in the American Revolution
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id114775
    Introduction
    Scope and Contents

    Scope and Contents

  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2 id114776
    The Battle Line in the North East
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3 id114777
    The Battle Line in the Middle States
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4 id114778
    The Battle Line in the South
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id114779
    The War in the West
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6 id114780
    Drafts of Virginia in the Revolution
Mixed Materials Box: 3 id114781
Lyon G. Tyler's Unpublished History of the Virginia Line in the American Revolution
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 1 id114782
    "Chapter XVI: Desertion of the South by Congress and the North"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2 id114783
    "The North in South Carolina"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 3 id114784
    "Partial Duplicate"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4 id114785
    Footnotes to (Book on the Revolution?)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 5 id114786
    Drafts
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 6 id114787
    Drafts
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 7 id114788
    Notes and Drafts
Mixed Materials Box: 4 id114789
Lyon G. Tyler on Virginia History
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1 id114790
    (The Economy of the South)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2 id114791
    "Fourth Rebellion - Robert E. Lee, the Rebel"
    Scope and Contents

    (actually Virginia. history, 1779-1844)

  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3 id114792
    "The Golden Age of Virginia"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4 id114793
    "Patrick Henry's Paper Cutter"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5 id114794
    "Virginia's Contribution to Science," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6 id114795
    "Va.'s Ratification of the Federal Constitution"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 7 id114796
    Draft of sections of a history of Virginia, Governor Gooch's Explorations
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 8 id114798
    Several articles appearing to be part of LGT's 1931-32 series in the Richmond News-Leader
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 9 id114800
    Reprints from ( Tyler's Quarterly ?) of LGT's News-Leader articles of 1931-1032 on Va. History edited by J. Luther Kibler and printed in Tyler's Quarterly
Mixed Materials Box: 5 id114802
Lyon G. Tyler on the Civil War Era and Abraham Lincoln
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 1 id114803
    Abraham Lincoln
    Scope and Contents

    Various articles and notes

  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 2 id114804
    Lincoln
    Scope and Contents

    Draft

  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 3 id114805
    "The Aftermath (of the Civil War)"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 4 id114806
    "The Brooks - Sumner Incident"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 5 id114807
    "Contribution of Virginia to the (Civil) War"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 6 id114808
    "Course of the (Civil) War"
    Scope and Contents

    Scope and Contents Formerly "Resources of South and North compared"

  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 7 id114811
    "The Crittenden Resolution" and Secession
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 8 id114812
    "The Example of Germany"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 9 id114814
    "Hampton during the War, 1861-1865"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 10 id114815
    "If the South Had Succeeded in the (Civil) War?"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 11 id114816
    "Jefferson Davis"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 12 id114817
    "Lincoln as a Jesuit"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 13 id114819
    "Lincoln's Conduct of the War"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 14 id114820
    "Mr. Lincoln's War"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 15 id114821
    "Rightness of the Southern Cause"
    Scope and Contents

    Speech

  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 16 id114822
    Secession
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 17 id114824
    The South and Germany
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 18 id114826
    "The Surrender"
    1865 April 9
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 19 id114827
    "Was Lincoln an angel in Disguise?"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 20 id114829
    "Was Lincoln an Ideal?"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 21 id114831
    "West Virginia"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 22 id114832
    "Who Began the (Civil) War?"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 23 id114833
    Critique of a book/article on the Civil War
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 24 id114834
    Fragments on the Civil War
Mixed Materials Box: 6 id114835
Lyon G. Tyler on Various Subjects
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 1 id114836
    Autobiographical Sketch
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 2 id114837
    "Bachelors in Civilized Society"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 3 id114838
    ("Bleeding Kansas")
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 4 id114839
    "A Case of a Secretary of State (William H. Seward) and Ex-President (Pierce)"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 5 id114840
    "Compromise of 1850"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 6 id114841
    "Equal Rights for Women"
    Scope and Contents

    Outline of a speech or an article

  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 7 id114842
    Forward to Philip Auchampaugh Pennsylvania Politics in the Time of Robert Tyler
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 8 id114843
    "The Imperial American Government"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 9 id114844
    The Jay Treaty of 1794
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 10 id114845
    "John Tyler"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 11 id114846
    "Lee and Washington"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 12 id114847
    "Letters from Tyler Trunks" re the explosion on the Princeton
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 13 id114849
    "Memories of Alexander Graydon of Pennsylvania"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 14 id114850
    "The Modern Case of John Brown" (Sacco & Vanzetti)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 15 id114851
    New England's contribution to Virginia
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 16 id114852
    "North Eastern and Northern Boundary"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 17 id114853
    Preserving Virginia's Records
    Scope and Contents

    Fragment

  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 18 id114854
    Review of Auchampaugh ?
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 19 id114855
    Review of Shelton, Thomas W. Spirit of the Courts
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 20 id114856
    "Robert Bailey"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 21 id114857
    "Statue of Va. Born Presidents in the Capital in Richmond"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 22 id114858
    "The Tariff Controversy"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 23 id114859
    "Thomas Walker Gilmer"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 24 id114860
    "Try Things"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25 id114861
    "Virginia Mechanics' Institute"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 26 id114863
    LGT "What We Owe the Jamestown and the South"
    Scope and Contents

    Reply to article in ? by Albert Bushnell Hart, April.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 27 id114865
    "William and Mary as shaping National Policies"
Mixed Materials Box: 7 id114867
Lyon G. Tyler's Letters to the Editor, Notes, Poetry, and Speeches.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 1 id114869
    Letters to the Editor by date if known
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 2 id114870
    "The South and Self-Determination" originally an exchange with Editors of the New Republic
    1918 November
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 3 id114877
    Notes from various sources on the McCormick reaper
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 4 id114873
    Notes from Caldwell, Charles Memoirs of...Nathaniel Greene
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 5 id114874
    Comments on various Va. bills for a speech?
    1877?
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 6 id114875
    Notes on Williamsburg, Virginia, especially on land
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 7 id114876
    Poetry
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 8 id114882
    Speech to Tyler kinfolk on John Tyler
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 9 id114883
    Speech to ? on Importance of free public library to Hampton, Virginia
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 10 id114884
    Speech to Colonial Dames of America on Monument of the French and Indian War
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 11 id114885
    Speech to ? on Society on Warwick County
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 12 id114886
    Speech to ? on "Early years of Hampton and Newport News"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 13 id114887
    Speech on unveiling of a tablet to Pocahontas which was given to the care of APVA
    1915
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 14 id114888
    Speech to Court on John Tyler (1746-1813)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 15 id114889
    Speech on celebration of founding of Richmond
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 16 id114890
    Speech to the Huguenot Society of South Carolina
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 17 id114891
    Speech to group in Gloucester on John Munford Gregory
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 18 id114892
    Speech on Virginia's Presidents
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 19 id114893
    Speech to ? on "Some Parts of Contact between Colonial New York and Colonial Virginia."
    Scope and Contents

    2 versions

  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 20 id114894
    Unidentifiable fragments
Mixed Materials Box: 8 id114895
Sue (Ruffin) Tyler
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 1 id114897
    "Addresses of Two Scholars (Roy F. Nichols & Avery Crane) at Meeting of the Southern Historical"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 2 id114898
    Charles City County in World War II
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 3 id114900
    Conditions in the U.S. and Virginia
    circa 1943
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 4 id114902
    Giles Buckner Cooke: Obituary, Spring 1937 ?
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 5 id114905
    "Invasion or Liberation Day: June 6, 1944: Charles City County, Va."
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 6 id114906
    A Robert E. Lee letter
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 7 id114908
    "Sherwood Forest" Re-opening for Garden Week
    1931-04-01T00:00:00.000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 8 id115144
    "Some Highlights of this Era"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 9 id115145
    "Strains"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 10 id115146
    "Was the Emancipation Proclamation a Milestone in Human Progress?"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 11 id115147
    Letters to the Editor
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 12 id115148
    Notes from and comments on Hitler, Adolf, Mein Kampf
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 13 id115149
    Notes on Foreigners in the Confederate Army
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 14 id115150
    Notes on sources on John Tyler
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 15 id115151
    Notes on Shakespeare's kin, Va. settlers from Stratford, etc.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 16 id115152
    Notes on "Stonewall" Jackson
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 17 id115153
    Notes on Col. Dahlgren, from Southern Historical Society Papers III, 219-221
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 18 id115154
    Notes/Drafts
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 19 id115155
    "Matthews Fontaine Maury"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 20 id115156
    Reviews of Books and Poems
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 21 id115157
    Review of Woodward, W. E., Meet General Grant
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 22 id115158
    Review of a "Tribute to Robert E. Lee" poem by Mabel Ward Rudd
    Scope and Contents

    with clippings

  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 23 id115159
    Speech on "The Slave Trade, Slavery, and Liberia"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 24 id115160
    Speech to Women's Auxiliary of Western Episcopal Church re: article on Lincoln.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 id115161
Various Authors, A-D
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 1 id115162
    Albright, Horace M. "Why Wakefield is Historically Correct"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 2 id115163
    Alexander, E. Porter Speech on the Battle of Gettysburg
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 3 id115164
    Anderson, James Douglas "The Continental Fathers and the Gettysburg Son"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 4 id115165
    Anderson, James Douglas "More about the Milligan Case"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 5 id115181
    Anderson, James Douglas Review of Blackford, W. W., War Years with Jeb Stuart
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 6 id115368
    Anderson, James? Douglas, "Why Booth Killed Lincoln"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 7 id115584
    Ashe, S. A. Review of Hosmer, J. K., The American Nation
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 8 id115775
    Auchampaugh, Philip, "Everett Abolitionized"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 9 id115965
    Auchampaugh, Philip, "The Union and the States"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 10 id116451
    Bagby, George W., "The Old Virginia Gentleman" excerpts with a poem "George W. Bagby" by John Esten Cooke
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 11 id117175
    Barbee, David Rankin, "Dr. James M. M. Ambler"
    Scope and Contents

    2 copies

  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 12 id117182
    Barbee, David Rankin, "Two Neglected and Forgotten Friends of Abraham Lincoln"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 13 id117177
    Baxley, Henry L. "The 'Jeanette' Polar Expedition" a speech before the Lions Club
    March 7, 1940
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 14 id117178
    Bell, Landon C., "Historic Tablets", Southern Churchman
    September 21, 1929
    Scope and Contents

    3 copies

  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 15 id117179
    Bishop, H. O. "Benjamin Harrison - The Signer"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 16 id117180
    Blackford, Susan Leigh, Letters from Lee's Army
    1947
    Scope and Contents

    Excerpts

  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 17 id117181
    Boddie, John Bennet, Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Va.
    Scope and Contents

    Excerpts

  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 18 id117207
    Brock, Robert A. Notes on Va.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 19 id117208
    Bruce, Philip Alexander, Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
    Scope and Contents

    Excerpts

  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 20 id117209
    Bruce, William Cabell, Recollections
    Scope and Contents

    Excerpts

  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 21 id117210
    Bryan, George S., The Spy in America
    Scope and Contents

    Excerpts

  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 22 id117211
    Burr, Frank A. "Jefferson Davis - the Ex-Confederate President at Home", Philadelphia Enquirer
    July 10, 1881
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 23 id117212
    Childs, J. Rives, "A Note on the Author of the Narrative of Samuel Hancock"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 24 id117213
    Cooke, John Esten, Wearing of the Gray
    Scope and Contents

    Excerpts

  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 25 id117214
    Copland, Mary Ruffin, ed. Reminiscences in Confederate History of Charles City County, Virginia Recollections of the Civil War in Charles City Co.
    Scope and Contents

    Includes: List of Charles City homes and who lived there at the time of the Civil War. John Augustus Ruffin (b. 1853) Mollie Harrison Cabaness (b. 1859) Weldon Barnett (b. 1853) Jane Cary Harrison Ruffin (b. 1835) Bishop Green Virginia (Willcox) Strachan Alice Royall (b. 1856) Samuel Pearman Waddill Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853-1935)

  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 26 id117215
    Crockett, Paul, Speech before Va. House of Delegates. RE: separation of races
    February 11, 1952
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 27 id117216
    Davies, Charles Hall, Radio Address "The Federal Menace to our Liberties"
    June 24, 1952
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 28 id117217
    Davis, Richard Bale, Francis Walker Gilmer: Life & Learning in Jefferson Virginia.
    Scope and Contents

    Excerpts

  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 29 id117218
    Deasy, Ella J. & Edmund J. Deasy, "Cotton and Sugar through the Federal Blockade"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 30 id117219
    Dickinson, Sally Bruce, "In Days of Yardley"
    1609-1627
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 31 id117220
    Dunn, N. P., "Flower de Hundred", The South Atlantic Quarterly , XII: 3
Mixed Materials Box: 10 id117221
Various Authors, E-Sm
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 1 id117222
    Eaton, David W., The Historical Atlas of Westmoreland County, Virginia.
    1942
    Scope and Contents

    Excerpts

  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 2 id117223
    Goolrick, John T., "The Gunnery" from "Fredericksburg and the Cavalier County".
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 3 id117224
    Grigges, Edward Howard, "Lee, the American Warrior."
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 4 id117226
    Griswold, Rufus Wilmot, The Republic Court , N. W.
    1854
    Scope and Contents

    Excerpts

  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 5 id117227
    Handy, I. W. K., United States Bonds ...
    Scope and Contents

    Excerpts

  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 6 id117228
    Harris & Gray, "Old New Kent", Prospectus.
    circa February 15, 1933
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 7 id117229
    Hench, Atcheson, Excerpts from "Survival of 'Start-naked' in the South" from Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 8 id117230
    Hoar, George F., speech before Va. State bar Association.
    July 1898
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 9 id117231
    Hughes, Rupert, and Robert Redd, Script of Radio Play in Honor of George Washington's Birthday.
    1938-02-22T00:00:00.000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 10 id117233
    Johnson, Dade, "Columbus Kentucky... historical sketch... for the Henderson County Historical Society."
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 11 id117234
    Jones, Midlred Emery, "150th Anniversary of the birth of John Tyler, 10th President of the United States"
    1940
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 12 id117235
    Kibler, J. Luther, Governors of Virginia.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 13 id117236
    Kibler, J. Luther, "Virginia's Colonial Arsenal: The Old 'Power Horn': The Restored Public Magazine at Williamsburg."
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 14 id117237
    McGroarty, William Buckner, "Maury on Longstreet".
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 15 id117238
    McIntosh, T. M., Speech to various patriotic groups.
    1931-09-27T00:00:00.000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 16 id117239
    Middleton, Arthur Pierce, "President Tyler's Williamsburg Residence".
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 17 id117240
    Minor, Franklin, Biography of Thomas Walker Gilmer
    1802-1844
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 18 id117241
    Minor, Franklin, Biography of Thomas Walker Gilmer
    1802-1844
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 19 id117242
    Moore, R. Walton, Speech
    1927-11-17T00:00:00.000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 20 id117243
    O'brien, Robert Alfred, "Two Memorable Trees at Old Appamottox Courthouse" and "The McLean House"
    1940-04-09T00:00:00.000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 21 id117244
    Rouquie, Margaret B., "The Bronze Freedom"
    Scope and Contents

    Statue on dome of U.S. Capitol

  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 22 id117245
    Rutherford, Mildred Lewis, Letter to "Mrs. Clark". Re: misrepresentations regarded the South in books and textbooks
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 23 id117246
    Schoppert, G. A., autogiography; especially on John Brown's Raid
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 24 id117247
    Sellards, E. H.,"The Indian Captivity of Jennie Wiley"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 25 id117248
    Shepperson, Archibald B. Excerpts from "Thomas Jefferson Visits England and Buys a Harpischord" from Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 26 id117249
    Simens, Henry H. Introduction to Two letters of 1865.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 27 id117252
    Simpson, John. "The Pioneers of Virginia", a poem.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 28 id117254
    Smith, Charles H. "Bill Arp"
    Scope and Contents

    Excerpts

  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 29 id117259
    Smith, Robert C. "Virginia Bureau of Research Restates its Analytical Conclusions"
    February 21
    Scope and Contents

    Press Release

Mixed Materials Box: 11 id117277
Various Authors, Sn-Z
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 1 id117278
    Somerville, B. H. Life, The spinning Disc
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 2 id117279
    Sprunt, James "Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, 1660-1916"
    Scope and Contents

    Excerpts, re: Civil War Era

  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 3 id117280
    Stanard, Mary Newton Virginia's First Century , Philadelphia
    1928
    Scope and Contents

    Excerpts

  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 4 id117281
    Sweeny, William Montgomery "A Virginian Pre-nuptual Agreement of 1678"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 5 id117282
    Thompson, ? Speech, "Who Started the Civil War"
    October 31, 1930
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 6 id117283
    Tyler, Lyon G., Jr. Book Reviews & School Essays
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 7 id117284
    Virginia Textbook Commission, Report: "June 1832"
    June, 1932
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 8 id117285
    Whitney, Halpin "Bruce Barton's Babblings," The Southern Methodist
    November, 1926
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 9 id117295
    Wilson, Henry H. "Funds Needed for Pocahontas Memorial"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 10 id117296
    Wilson, Henry Harrison Speech on Portrait Unveiling
    1931-10-20T00:00:00.000
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 11 id117297
    Wyatt, Edward A. IV, "Dr. James Greenway... and his descendants"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 12 id117298
    Young, Owen D. Speech
    1930-06-19T00:00:00.000
    Scope and Contents

    Excerpts

  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 13 id117299
    Poetry by various authors, A-Z
Mixed Materials Box: 12 id117300
Authors Unidentified
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 1 id117303
    "Brandon on the James"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 2 id117304
    "Domestic Economy of the Planter"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 3 id117305
    "The Episcopal Church"
    Scope and Contents

    Fragment

  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 4 id117306
    "Firing on Fort Sumter, 1861: An Eyewitness Account"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 5 id117313
    "The Fourth of July, 1941"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 6 id117314
    "Geroge Rogers Clark"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 7 id117315
    "How Breaks the Dawn"
    Scope and Contents

    3 copies

  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 8 id117317
    Interventionism
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 9 id117319
    "Kiskiack Church" or "Old York County"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 10 id117330
    "Landon C. Bell Retires from Lumber Business" Appalachian Hardwood Manufactures News Letter
    February, 1946
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 11 id117331
    Letter of Varina Davis to Julia Gardiner Tyler
    July 24, 1865
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 12 id117332
    Love Story - rather "bizarre"
    Scope and Contents

    In first person

  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 13 id117333
    Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company: War History (WWI)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 14 id117334
    "A Note on General Winfield Scott"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 15 id117335
    Origin of "Taps"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 16 id117336
    "Portrait of Mary (Ball) Washington"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 17 id117337
    Rappahanock River Plantations
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 18 id117338
    Speech at a shooting? contest, also mentions Firemen of Factoryville
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 19 id117339
    "Strawberry Banks"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 20 id117340
    "System of Labor"
    Scope and Contents

    Notes for an article on women in colonial Va.?

  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 21 id117341
    "Who Do You Think Was the Greatest Natural Philosopher of the Age?"
    Scope and Contents

    Landon Carter

  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 22 id117342
    Lyon G Tyler: Biographical Sketches and Tributes
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 23 id117343
    James Douglas Anderson: Obituary
    Scope and Contents

    page 2 only

  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 24 id117344
    Dr. Joseph Lindsay Jarman: Obituary
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 25 id117345
    Alexander Welbourne Weddell: Obituary
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 26 id117346
    Notes on emancipation and colonization
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 27 id117347
    Notes on John Slicell
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 28 id117348
    Notes on War of 1812
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 29 id117350
    Outline for a high school essay contest staged by the Virginia History committee on "Preserving the Union"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 30 id117351
    Philosophical Thoughts
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 31 id117352
    Critique of __ who also wrote "Essays & Sketches"
    1885
    Scope and Contents

    Appleton

  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 32 id117353
    Comments on Dr. McEllroy's estimate of Lincoln on reverse of Dana B. Van Dusan, " Review of Legette Blythe, Marshall Ney - A Dual Life 1937 " & various other articles.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 id120740
Authors Unidentified
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 1 id120741
    "Bacon's Rebellion"; a fictional account
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 2 id120742
    "Damon and Pythias"; a play
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 3 id120743
    "The Fiery Epoch"
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 4 id120744
    Biographies of various Virginians
    Scope and Contents

    Probably for Men of Mark of the Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Bagby, George William (1828-1883) Bell, Casper Wistat (1820-post 1885) Campbell, Charles Coleman, Azlett E. Gorgas, William Crawford (1854- ) Harvey, Sir John Lewis, Aaron (ca. 1750-ca.1811) Maury, Matthew Fontaine (1716-1782) Nelson, Thomas (1716-1782) Pott, John Sandys, George Wyatt, Francis Yardley, George

  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 5 id120745
    Speech accepting Statue of Pocahontas for the APVA
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 6 id120746
    Poetry
    Scope and Contents

    Some may be by LGT

  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 7 id120747
    Reviews A - L
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 8 id120748
    Reviews M - Z