"Reprinted from AGRICULTURAL HISTORY, 19: 1-11 (January 1945)"; overseer on 2,000-acre plantation of Thomas H. SPARKS "near Cedartown" Georgia; mastered system of horizontal plowing developed by Richard HARDWICK and "vigorously advocated the system throughout the South"; advocate of soil conservation and diversified agriculture
In THOMAS S. BOCOCK: ONLY SPEAKER OF THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS, prize winning essays in the 1939 contest sponsored by Virginia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy
Includes carbon copy of typescript, handwritten letter, typescript notes, newspaper clippings; includes "Personal Recollections of Dr. J. J. TERRELL, as given by him at his Home near the City of Lynchburg, and not far from the Old Historic Quaker Church - September 27th, 1922"
"Addresses: Presentation on behalf of the donor, Mr. John L. WILLIAMS...by Lunsford L. LEWIS...Acceptance on behalf of the University of Virginia, by William Minor LILE..."
Portrait presented "on behalf of J. Ambler JOHNSTON" donor, descendant of James STEPTOE; Clerk of Bedford County Circuit Court from 1772 until his death in 1826