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.

Conditions Governing Use

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred Citation

William B. Stone Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information

The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center from Marion C. Beavers and Kendall C. Beavers on 06/16/2000.

Biographical Note

Major William B. Stone was a lawyer in Port Tobacco, Maryland.

Scope and Contents

Financial and legal papers of Major William B. Stone, a lawyer in Port Tobacco, Maryland. Includes a letter, dated 11 May 1848, by T. S. Stone to "Tom" at Princeton University urging the improvement of his penmanship and the abandonment of the use of tobacco, and extolling the virtues of physical education. One document mentions Peter Vivian Daniel and another concerns Stone's candidacy for a circuit judgeship.

Collection was transferred from Marshall-Wythe law school to Swem SCRC.

Index Terms

Genre/Form of Material:

• Correspondence
• Financial records
• Legal documents

Geographic Name:

• Port Tobacco (Md.)--History--19th century.

Occupation:

• United States--Lawyers

Personal Name:

• Daniel, Peter V. (Peter Vivian), 1784-1860.

Topical Term:

• Education, Higher--History--19th century.
• Princeton University--History

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