Malinda Caperton album, 1855/1867

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred citation:

MSS 16769, Malinda Caperton album, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Summary

Extent:
0.03 Cubic Feet 1 letter folder
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

MSS 16769, Malinda Caperton album, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains a friendship album for Malinda "Lin" Caperton (1842-1922) of West Virginia. The album contains approximately thirty pages of autographs with dates throughout, 1855-1861. The autographs are almost certainly all from young girls, some noted as likely classmates from the Virginia Female Institute, although a lengthy two-page poem is more likely a male student at the University of Virginia.

Caperton was the daughter of Allen Taylor Caperton, 1810-1876, the American politician who was a United States Senator from West Virginia in 1875-1876. Malinda eventually married James French Patton, 1843-1882, an American lawyer, Confederate officer, and Democrat politician.

Acquisition information:
This collection was purchased from Adam Weinberger Books by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 30 October, 2020.
Physical description:
Good
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard