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Certificate from the United States Food Administration showing that Earl G. Swem enlisted in the volunteer service of the United States Government...as Library Director, Richmond, Virginia, 1918. Certificate for Earl Gregg Swem from the United Stated Food Administration in appreciation...of patriotic service during the Great War, 1917-1918. Carbon copy May 29, 1945 letters to Major J.S. Hudson, Mrs. J.D. Griffin, Clarence S. Brigham and Alexander Weddell. January 12, 1960 letter from Harvey S. Batdorf, Assistant to the President for Development at Lafayette College, thanking Swem for his letter about the Stuart Wells Jackson Collection.

Earl Gregg Swem's correspondence as chairman of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities Capitol Committee during the decision making process of how to reconstruct the colonial Capitol Building. The APVA was the owner of the site and had the final say in any decisions Some of the correspondence is with Perry, Shaw and Hepburn, architects of the Williamsburg Restoration, Inc., who were part of a separate committee on the building of the Capitol. Members of the APVA Capitol Committee included Col. Samuel H. Yonge, Robert Lancaster, George P. Coleman, John Stewart Bryan and Earl Gregg Swem. Members of the Advisory Committee of Architects included Edmund S. Campbell, W. Duncan Lee, Robert Lee Taylor, Laurence Kocher, Robert P. Bellows, D. Everett Wade, Marcellus Wright, Thomas Tallmadge, Fiske Kimball, Earl Gregg Swem, Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin, William S. Perry and Andrew H. Hepburn. Includes Earl Gregg Swem's related correspondence about the Williamsburg Restoration with Vernon Geddy, Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin, Perry, Shaw and Hepburn (Architects) and Harold R. Shurtleff.

Items transferred from College Papers Correspondence and notes of E.G. Swem concerning books and manuscripts in the following American libraries: Harvard, Library of Congress, NY State Library, US Bureau of Education, Virginia Historical Society, Virginia State Library. Also, notes concerning manuscripts in England: Bodleian Library, British Museum, Fulham Palace, Lambeth Palace, Public Records Office. A letter to Dr. JAC Chandler, 1929, enclosing a memo mentioning several places where valuable records might be found.

Original grouping of Earl Gregg Swem's papers. See PDF Inventory for further description.

A representative sample of the original manuscript of the Virginia Historical Index, illustrating the method of compilation. Includes four folders with matching index cards: James City County - Jeffers Tobacco William and Mary College Tobacco. and Earl Gregg Swem's correspondence when he was the President of the Virginia Library Association in 1927 and 1928, plus printed material, reports and publications of the VLA and related organizations during that time.

Correspondence.