Celestia Essie Wade Butler Smith business correspondence, 1916/1933
- Containers:
- Box 1 [X030899289], Folder 2
- Extent:
- 0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 1.
- Scope and content:
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Celestia Essie Wade Butler Smith correspondence about publishing her stories, her work with preserving the Confederacy, including creating ways to honor Robert E. Lee with a memorial postage stamp and restoration of Arlington House. Correspondents include Edward W. Saunders, Captain John J. Crowley, J. E. Harper, Josephus Daniel, Fannie M. Tate, DuBose Heyward, Sophie Carter Richardson (who was corresponding with Eleanor Roosevelt to set up a meeting with the President), Mary Flournoy, William W. LaPoint, Louise Everett Scott, M. Bigelow (Good Housekeeping), Ambassador [Jean Jules] Jusserand, Frederick D.Losey, Paul Green, Maude Merchant, O. O. McIntyre, Gerald W. Johnson, Eleanor White (The Marion Publishing Company), Giles B. Cooke (and photographs), Arthur H. Fox, Herschel Johnson, Mrs. Charles B. Keesee, and Thomas G. Burch.
- Language:
- English
Access and use
- Location of collection:
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Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryUniversity of VirginiaP.O. Box 400110170 McCormick RdCharlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
- Contact for questions and access:
- POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference StaffEmail: scpubserv@virginia.eduPhone: (434) 243-1776Fax: (434) 924-4968
- Parent restrictions:
- The collection is open for research use.