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Collection includes business records, personal papers, photographs, and artifacts of Lucinda Ebersole, writer and editor, pertaining to herself and her bookstore, Atticus Books. Business records and personal papers include a few photographs of Ebersole and others, book release information, book sales and other receipts, pamphlets, and other notes (Boxes 1-3). Also included are two photograph albums, which primarily contain pictures (circa 1980-2000) from events at Atticus Books (Box 6). Other highlights include vintage and modern postcards of West Virginia and the U.S. South (Box 1, Folders 1, 5-7), various recipes (Box 1, Folders 2 and 4; Box 3, Folder 1), a Confederate Georgia bank note (Box 2, Folder 4), a signed letter by actress Eva Le Gallienne (Box 2, Folder 8), and a self-portrait by Ebersole (Box 1, Folder 10). Artifacts include many cooking and baking items, such as rolling pins for different pastas (Box 4), Ebersole's cake box, a pudding mold, painted recipe box, and other personal items (Box 5). Oversize Folder 1 contains a matted folk-art photograph and several poems.

The Maury family papers contains materials documenting the lives of the Maury Family of Virginia, New York City and Liverpool, England from 1777-1977. The collection includes the letters and business papers of James Maury (1746-1840), the first American consul to Liverpool, England, and the letters of his second wife, Margaret Rutson Maury (1805-1882), of Liverpool. Letters, business papers, legal papers, and diaries of the next two generations of the Maury family, including Ann Maury (1832-1890) of Liverpool and New York, Rutson Maury (1805-1882) of Liverpool and New York, and oceanographer Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873) are also included. The collection also contains genealogical material, photographs and cookbooks. Subjects covered include tobacco and cotton trade, general discussions about the Civil War from both the American and British perspective, travel, and gender studies.

Box 1, folders 1-2 consists of manuscript recipes, mainly from the 19 century, and an indexed recipe manuscript volume "Mrs. Garrow family recipe book," 1830-1845. Included are recipes for relishes, jellies, puddings, and cakes; as well as recipes for soap and home remedies (with has several hand-drawn illustrations throughout the volume).