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The second series is miscellaneous manuscripts, such as notebooks, poems and other non-correspondence of a non-official nature. The third series is published and printed materials. The fourth series is Ellison family correspondence and other correspondence, which is further divided into subseries for the correspondence of Beirne Ellison’s parents Charles L. and Leona B. Ellison, for Beirne Ellison himself, with separate subseries for personal and for business and professional correspondence, for the correspondence of his wives Gracie and Nannie, and finally for the miscellaneous correspondence of other relatives and associates. Apparently Beirne Ellison compiled or retained this collection himself, a collection which includes correspondence, cards, and miscellaneous documents from his family and friends and family associates. The bulk of the materials in the collection were gathered from the 1880s to the early1900s. 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The first chapter\nnewsletter was published in October 1981 and reported on the election of the first president\nof the chapter, Claiborne (Clai) Wilcox, Jr. In December 1981 the National Board of NSFRE\napproved the charter of the First Virginia Chapter of NSFRE, which became the 38th chapter of\nNSFRE.\nFrom the beginning, a primary purpose of the new chapter was to provide educational\nopportunities for members and the fund raising community. So the chapter began a successful\nseries of institutes on fund raising, which became a national model for fund raising education.\nCertification became an important issue for the chapter, and many members sought and achieved\ncertification.\nChapter meetings were held on the second Tuesday of the month and the chapter’s newsletter\nwas named The Second Tuesday in July 1982.\nThe second (1983) president of the chapter, Jesse (Jess) E. Kent, collected and retained a large\nportion of the records contained in this collection. 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Some audio cassette tapes\nand VHS video tapes of educational programs are included among the other materials.\nThe oldest dated run of materials in the collection coincides with the tenure of the first president\nof the chapter, Clai Wilcox, at the time of the founding of the chapter in 1981. The latest\nmaterials in the collection are from the tenure of chapter president Harold Uhl in 1997.\nThe original order of the materials was retained in processing and there are several roughly\nchronological sequences in the collection, which mostly follow the tenures of the chapter\npresidents. However the order of materials is not strictly chronological and some presidential\npapers are not chronologically arranged. But to preserve the original order of the materials,\nthe various series are arranged by presidential tenures as they appeared in the unprocessed AFP\nCollection. 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