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This collection contains letters, financial records, and other material concerning Louise Lightfoot Morriss, class of 1935 from the College of William and Mary. Most of the letters written to Louise while she was at William and Mary were from a boyfriend at the United States Naval Academy, who signed all his letters "Add." There are also letters written to Mrs. G. L. Morriss, Louise's parents, at Mohawk Farm, their residence in Buckingham County, Virginia. Most of these letters concern orders to buy livestock from the farm and greetings from family and friends.

Acc. 1982.007: Statistical Profile of Incoming Freshmen, 1976-1977. This accession includes the high school class rank, SAT scores, and achievement scores for every matriculating William and Mary freshman in September, 1976. Also included are statistical measurements of language proficiency and a list of students from this class who declared a foreign language concentration. Students are not identified. This information was compiled for statistical purposes only.

The records of the Office of the Bursar are some of the earliest and most comprehensive records of the College of William and Mary from the 18th century surviving to the present day. Of particular note are various references to individuals enslaved by the College as well as to the Brafferton Indian School. The collection includes Bursar's reports, financial statements, statements of rents due to the College, accounts with individuals, lists of tenants, receipts and expenditures, revenues from the exportation of tobacco, duties on skins and furs, bills of lading, as well as indentures of people to the College. The account books reference student accounts, including that of Thomas Jefferson.

The records of the Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at the College of William and Mary include minutes, business records, addresses and speeches, poems, correspondence, publications, membership cards, and other records.

This collection contains minutes, constitutions and by-laws, official correspondence, treasurer's books, financial records, library records, and copies of the society's literary magazine.

This accession consists of two photographs taken by Richard McLeod Crawford (Class of 1905), a William & Mary professor from 1918-1930. The smaller photograph, inscribed "Williamsburg 1918," depicts an African-American man sitting on a cattle-drawn vehicle next to another African-American man and child standing in the road. The larger photograph depicts Henry Billups holding the bell rope at the Wren Building, and was inscribed on the back by Richard's wife Elizabeth Londes Scott Crawford (1875-1944) in 1935. Elizabeth Londes Scott Crawford was the daughter of Elizabeth Stoddert Ewell Scott (1841-1911) and granddaughter of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell. The photographs were stored in Elizabeth Londes Scott Crawford's desk which passed to her daughter Lizinka Ewell Crawford Ramsey (1912-1984, Class of 1933) and then to her niece Susan McCartney Shelton who donated them to William & Mary. Lizinka married Edmond Fitzgerald Ramsey, Shelton's mother's brother, in 1937.

Papers, 1800-1901, of and relating to John Hipkins and John Hipkins Bernard (mostly accounts); of and relating to members of the Hipkins, Bernard and Robb families; and relating to the Hipkins-Bernard-Robb home "Rose Hill," Caroline County, Va. (later renamed "Gay Mont") and to Bernard's lands in Alabama, Texas and Arkansas. Includes diaries, correspondence, poems, accounts and account books of women (Elizabeth Hipkins, Jane Gay Robertson Bernard, and Helen Struan Bernard Robb); and legal documents and letters of John Taylor of Caroline. Of special interest are the diaries of Eugenia D. Robb while serving with the American Red Cross in Germany and Japan during and after World War II (1999.56A).

Papers of the Taylor Family of Urbanna, Virginia. Sons were graduates from the College of William and Mary.

This collection contains correspondence, fliers, a minute book, ledger, copies of the publications "The Shield" and "Epsilon Hokum," news clippings, artifacts, and a poem.

Scrapbook, 1911-1923, of Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., Class of 1917, containing news clippings and photographs relating to the College.