Tyler Family Papers, Group E

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. Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Manuscripts and Rare Books Librarian, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library. 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.

Preferred citation:

Tyler Family Papers, Group E, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
6.50 Linear Feet
Creator:
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935, Tyler Family, and Tyler, Sue Ruffin, 1889-1953
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Tyler Family Papers, Group E, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Chiefly writings, ca. 1880-1935, of Lyon Gardiner Tyler, historian. Most concern Virginia history in the colonial period, or defend his father, John Tyler, or defend the southern point of view in the Civil War. Includes an unpublished history of the Virginia Line in the American Revolution. Also includes writings, 1921-1951, of his second wife, Sue Ruffin Tyler, and of other authors.

2 versions.

3 copies.

Scope and Contents

(actually Virginia. history, 1779-1844)

Various articles and notes

Draft

Scope and Contents Formerly "Resources of South and North compared"

Speech

Outline of a speech or an article

Fragment

Reply to article in ? by Albert Bushnell Hart, April.

2 versions

with clippings

2 copies

3 copies

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Includes: List of Charles City homes and who lived there at the time of the Civil War. John Augustus Ruffin (b. 1853) Mollie Harrison Cabaness (b. 1859) Weldon Barnett (b. 1853) Jane Cary Harrison Ruffin (b. 1835) Bishop Green Virginia (Willcox) Strachan Alice Royall (b. 1856) Samuel Pearman Waddill Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853-1935)

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Statue on dome of U.S. Capitol

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Press Release

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Fragment

3 copies

In first person

Notes for an article on women in colonial Va.?

Landon Carter

page 2 only

Appleton

Probably for Men of Mark of the Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Bagby, George William (1828-1883) Bell, Casper Wistat (1820-post 1885) Campbell, Charles Coleman, Azlett E. Gorgas, William Crawford (1854- ) Harvey, Sir John Lewis, Aaron (ca. 1750-ca.1811) Maury, Matthew Fontaine (1716-1782) Nelson, Thomas (1716-1782) Pott, John Sandys, George Wyatt, Francis Yardley, George

Some may be by LGT

Biographical / historical:

Lyon Gardiner Tyler was the son of John Tyler (1790-1862) and his second wife Julia Gardiner Tyler. He received a master's degree from the University of Virginia and was professor at the College of William and Mary and principal of Memphis Academy. He established a law practice in Richmond and served in the Virginia House of Delegates. He became president of William and Mary in 1888, serving until 1919. Tyler married twice, to Anne Baker Tucker Tyler (1860-1921) and to Sue Ruffin Tyler who died in 1953. Tyler founded the William and Mary Quarterly and Tyler's Quarterly and was the author of the Letters and Times of the Tylers, Parties and Patronage in the United States, England in America and History of Virginia: Volume II The Federal Period. He edited Men of Mark in Virginia, Narratives of Early Virginia and the Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Tyler served as president of the College of William and Mary from 1888 until 1919.

Acquisition information:
W Special Collections Research Center began acquiring and collecting Tyler family papers in 1922 and the collection has grown considerably since. The vast majority of this collection was donated by generous family and friends of the Tyler family between 1922 and 2002, with the bulk of the collection being donated to in 1949 by Mrs. Sue Ruffin Tyler and in 1955 by the children of Lyon G. Tyler. Some materials in this collection were purchased by W Special Collections Research Center.