Fortnightly Club Papers 1924-1992

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:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred citation:

Fortnightly Club Papers, Accession 6035-c, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

Creator:
Mrs. Fillmore Norfleet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Fortnightly Club Papers, Accession 6035-c, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains the minutes (1984-1992), programs, correspondence, newsclippings, and miscellaneous items of the Fortnightly Club, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1924-1926, and 1965-1992, ca. forty items. The Fortnightly Club began in 1899 as a social club whose members would take turns reading poetry or prose for entertainment during their meetings every two weeks.

The correspondence of the club, 1984-1991, chiefly consists of letters of condolence to the family of deceased members or letters of regretful resignation due to health or age. The newsclippings contain obituaries of the following club members: Hazelhurst Perkins(1881-1981), Edmonia Metcalf(1892-1989), Anne Morris Duke(1905-1988), Nancy Hale Bowers(1908--1988), and Florence Lankford(d. 1990); and a short article by Roy Landabout the Fortnightly Cluband an article about the Classical Association of Virginiafeaturing Marian Stocker. Also present in this collection is a booklet Knowledge in a Nutshellby Rosalie Nathan Floranceand a paper presented to the Fortnightly Club by Julian Bishkoentitled "Victorian Womanhood in the Boys' Historical Novelist G.A. Henty" (May 9, 1978).

Acquisition information:
These papers were given to the Library by Mrs. Fillmore Norfleet, Charlottesville, Virginia, on September 2, 1992.
Processing information:

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Physical location:
Physical description:
ca. 40 items