Papers of the Massie Family of Virginia

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
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use.

Terms of access:

Materials in this collection, which were created between 1850-1905, are in the public domain. Permission to publish or reproduce is not required.

Preferred citation:

MSS 11485, Papers of the Massie Family of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Summary

Extent:
31 items 1 folder housed within 1 document box
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

MSS 11485, Papers of the Massie Family of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Background

Scope and content:

The Massie family papers contain letters, 1858-1859, from E.B. Massie at the Brookland School, Greenwood Depot, Albemarle County, Va., to his mother, Mrs. E. F. Massie. He requests items; and mentions examinations, the acceptance of Christianity by boys at the school, a visit by Launcelot Blackford, and his election as president of the Piedmont Literary Society; and sends news of classmates and principal William Dinwiddie.

John Livingston Massie, a student at the University of Virginia, writes to Mrs. E. F. Massie about exams, the marriage of John Barbee Minor and the death of C.C. Lewis from typhoid fever. With these is a grade report signed by Socrates Maupin.

The papers also contain a letter, 1859, from Charles M. Massie describing attempts to establish a business in New Orleans; and a letter, September 9, 1862, N.H. Massie to his sister on the death of her husband at Manassas, and several cases of scarlet fever among white and colored children in Charlottesville, Va.

A letter, 1857, from the Western Lunatic Asylum in Waynesboro, reports on the imminent death of a patient.

Other letters convey family news; explain how to can tomatoes; and discuss religion and salvation. A 1905 form letter from Fishburne and Son, Waynesboro, describes varieties of seed for sale.

Biographical / historical:

The Massie Family was a Virginia family. The family was established in Nelson County, Virginia by Revolutionary War officer, plantation owner, and enslaver Thomas Massie (1747-1834).

Acquisition information:
Accession #11485, purchased 21 March 1999, C. Venable Minor Endowment Fund, 1998/1999.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard