Robert Hunt Land 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:

Robert Hunt Land Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
2.20 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Robert Hunt Land Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains materials relating to Robert Hunt Land's work on the history of the College of William and Mary. It includes a published description of Land's proposed history of the college, notes and correspondence about the proposed history, and biographical information about alumni (1814-1881). It also contains correspondence between Herbert Ganter, Earl Gregg Swem, and Robert Hunt Land about Ganter's research on William and Mary at the Library of Congress.

(Sketch Published in the Dictionary of American Biography and notes used in writing the sketch)

Name, Years of attendance, place of residence, and name of parent or guardian.

Names taken from the College's Matriculation Book (Name, Years of attendance, place of residence, and name of parent or guardian)

Names taken from the College's Matriculation Book (Name, Years of attendance, place of residence, and name of parent or guardian)

Names taken from the College's Matriculation Book (Name, Years of attendance, place of residence, and name of parent or guardian)

First Carbon Copies, Second Edition corrected, Names taken from the College's Matriculation Book (Name, Years of attendance, place of residence, and name of parent or guardian)

Second Edition corrected, Names taken from the College's Matriculation Book (Name, Years of attendance, place of residence, and name of parent or guardian)

Names taken from the College's Matriculation Book (Name, Years of attendance, place of residence, and name of parent or guardian)

(Name, Years of attendance, place of residence, and name of parent or guardian)

(Name, Years of attendance, place of residence, and name of parent or guardian)

As shown in the College Matriculation Book.

Typed Lists

Provisional List

Biographical / historical:

Robert Land Hunt was a student (1932-1934), faculty member (1939-1942), and librarian (1942-1951) at the College of William and Mary. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .

Acquisition information:
Acc. 1981.002 acquired on 02/01/1981 and 03/27/1989.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard