Bright Family Papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Bright Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
1.00 Linear Feet
Creator:
Bright family., Bright, Robert Anderson, 1839-1904, and Bright, Robert Southall, 1872-1943
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Bright Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Papers of the Bright Family of Williamsburg, Virginia and Philadephia, Pennsylvania. Correspondence and business papers of Robert Anderson Bright of Williamsburg, Virginia and his son Robert Southall Bright, College of William and Mary class of 1891 and a Philadelphia lawyer. Personal and professional correspondence, bills and receipts, photographs and legal papers.

Includes letters between Robert Southall Bright while a student at William and Mary to his father and letter describing trip to Switzerland.

1897 letter from his grandfather, Robert A. Bright, legal papers, 1933 condolence letters for the death of his mother and other papers.

Captain Robert A. Bright agreement to pay debt to James D. Moncure.

Bank Statements, Canceled Checks and stock Silica Stone Company.

Political speeches, letter to editor about "Why Wilson should be Elected" and speech at William and Mary.

1896 will of Mrs. Robert Southall Bright.

Two spelling tests and a paper on the poem "The Barefoot Boy."

1851 letter from John Maynard to Peyton Southall in Yorktown, Virginia about planting wheat and other farm topics. 1852 letter from Robt E. Clarke to Peyton Southall in Williamsburg, Virginia about a prize drawing and likenesses of Southall's brother, George. 1852 letter from William B. Rogers of Norfolk, Virginia to Peyton Southall in Williamsburg about looking for a shipping vessel and an 1852 letter about Captain Lively.

Agreement for planting trees in the Woodland Cemetery.

Photographs of family, friends and landscape scenes. Most peope are not indentified.

Biographical / historical:

The Bright Family resided in Williamsburg, Virginia and Philadephia, Pennsylvania. They had family ties to the Southall of Virginia.

Acquisition information:
gift
Arrangement:

Series arranged in alphabetical order by name of Bright Family member and related topics.

Physical description:
300 items