A letter from James Steptoe, clerk of the court in Bedford County, VA to his daughter Frances Langhorne in October 1821. An image of the original letter is located in our Digital Manuscript Collection.
The letters were written in July and August 1864 from the Ladies Relief Hospitalin Lynchburg, Virginia. A.K. Hanna was wounded in the Battle of Lynchburg and wastreated at the hospital until his death 13 August 1864. The first two letters were dictatedto his West Virginia comrade, J.M.B. Walkup. The third letter and postscript were writtenby Mrs. Lucy Wilhelmina Otey, who directed the work of the hospital, informing Mrs.Elizabeth A. Hanna of the death of her husband.
The collection includes a personal diary (1930-1931), three autograph books (1928-1930), correspondence, report cards, invitations and greeting cards of Leonie Doss. Themiscellaneous business papers of Thomas W. Cocke (1819-1888) of Pittsylvania County,Virginia comprise the major portion of the collection. Also included are the Civil War letters ofAzariah F. M. Haynes (1842-1880) to Harriet J. Cocke (1844-1880) and a privately publishedbooklet, The Cocke Family, written by Leonie Doss Cocke.
The collection includes research notes, correspondence, court records, and photographsof the McBratney family, descendants of William Edgar McBratney (1892-1951) of Montclair,New Jersey. It also includes a letter (1918) from King George V welcoming soldiers in WorldWar I and a letter from Eleanor Roosevelt (1935) concerning two sons of William EdgarMcBratney being stricken with polio.
Lady Nancy Astor writes to her cousin, Hampden E. Steptoe, thanking him for sending alittle book of carols. She also mentions hearing “that southern accent on every street over here!”At this time she was the unofficial hostess to American troops stationed in Plymouth prior to theinvasion of Normandy.
An American Red Cross Canteen was maintained at Lynchburg's train terminalthroughout World War I, providing meals for train troops who were being transportedfrom bases in Texas to embarkation points on the East Coast. As a result, Lynchburgbecame known as "Lunchburg". The Lynchburg Canteen also served hospital trainssending home soldiers injured in France.Papers in the collection give information about numbers of people and quantities offood and drink served. The collection also includes photographs of Red Cross andCanteen volunteers, clippings and letters about the Canteen, and regulations forconducting the Canteen. Also included are Red Cross banners, camp magazines andcopies of German propaganda proclamations posted in France and Belgium.
This item is a typed letter from Helen Keller of New York asking for the financialsupport of the Committee on the Deaf-Blind of America (perhaps later the American Foundationfor the Blind) to a “Mr. Graves,” perhaps Paul G. Graves of Rosedale, the Graves family home inLynchburg, Virginia.
This item is a typed letter from Helen Keller of New York asking for the financialsupport of the Committee on the Deaf-Blind of America (perhaps later the American Foundationfor the Blind) to a “Mr. Graves,” perhaps Paul G. Graves of Rosedale, the Graves family home inLynchburg, Virginia.
The collection of the Sphex Club, of Lynchburg, Virginia, includes minutes ofmeetings, the constitution and bylaws of the Club, a roster of its members, and a listing ofSphex papers presented by members and guests of the Club. In addition to this guide, thecollection is outlined in more detail in “Sphex in the Jones Memorial Library,” ChapterVI of the Club history, The Sphex Club of Lynchburg, Virginia: The First One HundredYears, 1910-2010, by James M. Elson.
The collection includes minutes, scrapbooks, treasurers’ reports, correspondence,yearbooks, photographs of members, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneouspapers; a survey of the Lynchburg Public Schools done by the Woman’s Club in 1914,describing the schools’ physical plants with recommendations for changes; poems andother information from Poetry Workshops sponsored by the Club.
The collection includes estate papers of James Potter and consists primarily ofreceipts for moneys paid to descendants by executors. Of special interest are deeds forColerain Plantation and Tweedside Plantation enumerating slaves, with ages andoccupations.
The collection consists a typescript of personal remembrances of Harry H. Jolly, Jr.during training and service as a Technical Sergeant in the 8th Air Force during World WarII, including capture and detention as a prisoner of war in Nuremburg, Germany. Alsoincluded are photocopies of his service record and a single photograph. The originalmemoir was submitted in 2001 to the Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center,Library of Congress. (AFC/2001/001/00619) Jones Memorial Library copy includesupdates as of May 14, 2004.
The register contains attendance records for Eliza Robertson's class at Biggers PrimarySchool for the year 1889-90. In addition to the lists of students and attendance report, theage of each student is listed as well. Many pages are covered by scrapbook material,such as articles and pictures from newspapers and magazines, apparently kept by EmmaThornhill, whose name appears on the cover.
The register contains attendance records for Eliza Robertson's class at Biggers PrimarySchool for the year 1889-90. In addition to the lists of students and attendance report, theage of each student is listed as well. Many pages are covered by scrapbook material,such as articles and pictures from newspapers and magazines, apparently kept by EmmaThornhill, whose name appears on the cover.
On the eve of his leaving office as Vice-President, Nixon wrote a note to Loftis, thankingher for her the letter she wrote after the election of 1960. “…nothing could have meant more tous [Nixon and wife Pat] than to receive such a warm and thoughtful message after losing…. youract of thoughtfulness will always remain close to our hearts.” The letter is signed “Dick Nixon.”
The collection includes a letter from S. FIFE, of London, England, to JeffersonDAVIS, of Memphis, Tennessee, dated 13 December 1875, a letter from Charles G.JOHNSON, of Liverpool, England, to W. Thompson GARDNER, of London, England,dated 27 August 1875, and a letter from Jefferson DAVIS, of New Orleans, Louisiana, toW. Thompson GARDNER, of London, dated 29 March 1876, all concerning theMississippi Valley Society and the International Chamber of Commerce.
