Additional Papers of William H. Wranek, Jr. 1910-1965

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:

There are no restrictions.

Terms of access:

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred citation:

Additional Papers of William H. Wranek, Jr., Accession #12763-a, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Summary

Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Additional Papers of William H. Wranek, Jr., Accession #12763-a, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

The papers of William H. Wranek, Jr. (1895-1971), Director of the University News Services, 1922-1960, consists of ca. 650 items (5 Hollinger boxes, 1.5 linear feet), 1910-1965, chiefly his notes and drafts for a proposed history of the University of Virginia's third half century, and miscellaneous papers.

The miscellaneous papers include personal and professional correspondence, carbons of news articles and radio broadcasts by Wranek, genealogical correspondence and research concerning the Wranek family, supporting documents for press releases, school notebooks, photographs, a travel diary (Italy), financial ledger, and special files on the dedication of the Barrett Room in Alderman Library, endowed professorships, the Graduate School of Business Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, James E. Kindred, John Brown's Bodypublicity, and Thomas Jefferson and Albemarle County notes, possibly for his article published in the Magazine of Albemarle County History.

The file on the Barrett Room dedication includes Wranek's article, newsclippings about the event, an invitation, "A Brief Account of the Clifton Waller Barrett Library" by Herbert Cahoon, and photographs of Clifton Waller Barrett and some of his major acquisitions, including: Tamerlaneby Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman's manuscript, "How I Made A Book," The Red Badge of Couragemanuscript by Stephen Crane, the manuscript for James Branch Cabell's Jurgen, and Robert Frost's first book of poems, Twilight.

Wranek's correspondence consists mainly of personal and family letters, chiefly concerning the financial affairs of the family, 1929-1931. Other correspondents or topics include: Virginius Dabney (June 22, 1937); E.R. Stettinius, Jr. (October 31, 1941); John Cook Wyllie (November 29, 1961) and Bevin Alexander (August 13, 1963) both about his proposed University of Virginia history; and E.A. Alderman's views on women students at Tulane University (September 10, 1962).

Photographs include: Louis Johnson and Henry Taylor at Monticello on Founder's Day (1950), Robert Kennedy and Joseph McCarthy at the University of Virginia's Student Legal Forum (n.d.), and President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Senator Wayne Morse (1953).

Chapters I-VI, Typescripts, Drafts, and Notes

Chapters VI-VII, Drafts, & Notes

Drafts & Notes re Athletics

Chapter re Woodrow Wilson Address

Outline & Progess Report

Miscellaneous Notes

Acquisition information:
These papers were given to the Library by William H. Wranek, Jr. through the Rare Books Division in 1971 and were accessioned in the Manuscripts Division on May 16, 1988.
Arrangement:

This collection is arranged alphabetically within each series.

Physical description:
This collection consists of ca. 650 items (5 Hollinger boxes, 1.5 linear feet).