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Ada- Postal Position, 1898-1901 April Box-folder 25:12

Ada wrote to political allies and influential friends asking them to help her obtain a postal position. Correspondents include State Senator John Scott, Senator John W. Daniel, Richard Evelyn Byrd, H. L. Barbour, Charles H. Bellows, General Thomas L. Rosser, S. M. Chiles, George B. Thornfelt, and James Hay. Her friends wrote letters on her behalf but she did not score well on her postal examination.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Additional Papers of Ada Bantz Beardsworth 1874-1953
  3. Series I: Correspondence

Additional Papers of Ada Bantz Beardsworth 1874-1953

The papers of [Julia] Ada Bantz Beardsworth of Winchester, and Staunton, Virginia consist of family correspondence from 1874 to 1953, the bulk of which are love letters (some very explicit) written from 1897 to 1924 between Ada and her husband, Thomas Beardsworth of Buena Vista and Staunton, Virginia; correspondence with her many friends; and information about the Staunton Military Academy, The Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, Mary Baldwin Seminary, Virginia Female Institute, and the Stonewall Band Brigade, where Professor Thomas Beardsworth was the music director and band leader.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

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