Page-Saunders Papers 1790-1932

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.

Terms of access:

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

Preferred citation:

Page-Saunders Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Creator:
Page Family, Saunders Family.
Language:
English
Abstract:
Correspondence and papers of members of the Page and Saunders families.
Preferred citation:

Page-Saunders Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection includes correspondence of Margaret Lowther Page of "Rosewell," Gloucester County, Virginia and Williamsburg, Virginia with her daughter Lucy Burwell Page Saunders and her son-in-law Robert Saunders. Also included are a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and correspondence of Robert Page Saunders.

There are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16 February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.

Biographical / historical:

Robert Saunders was born 25 January 1805 in Williamsburg, Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia. Saunders served as professor of mathematics at William and Mary from 1833 to 1848 and was president of the college 1847-1848. He was a captain in the Confederate States Army, head of Eastern State Hospital, mayor of Willamsburg, vestryman of Bruton Parish and served in the Virginia State Senate. Saunders married Lucy Burwell Page in 1828 and had, among other children, Roberta Saunders and Robert Page Saunders. He died 11 September 1868.

Acquisition information:
Purchase: 109 items, 1938.
Arrangement:
Organization

This collection is organized into 4 Series. Series 1 contains Correspondence; Series 2 contains papers concerning estates; Series 3 contains writtings; and Series 4 contains miscellaneous material.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged mostly chronologically.

Physical description:
190 items.