Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

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

Henrietta S. Fitzhugh Diary, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information

The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center from John S. Frost on 03/15/2005.

Biographical Note

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Scope and Contents

Diary of Henrietta S. Fitzhugh of a trip.Includes letters concerning the diary, the Washington, Fitzhugh and Meade Families genealogy, news clippings concerning Washington land, Washington royal blood and family obituaries, pencil drawing of a Washington silhouette, letter with Fitzhugh/Meade genealogy information, Colonial Dames invitation to unveiling of tablet in memory of George Washington at Ravenswood, West Virginia (1932), and correspondence with Mrs. Archie Q. Brockenbrough of New York.

Includes transcription by Merle Kimball, dated 2006, and notes.

Index Terms

Family Name:

• Fitzhugh family.
• Meade family.
• Washington family.

Genre/Form of Material:

• Correspondence
• Diaries
• Research notes
• Transcripts

Geographic Name:

• Virginia--Genealogy

Topical Term:

• American diaries--Women authors
• Genealogy

Additional Information