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Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve Papers 1799-1989

Estate of Katharine Lane Weems

The collection contains ca. 860 items (2.5 shelf feet) and consists primarily of a variety of keepsakes and memorabilia that reflect on the life and work of Gildersleeve and that appear to have been personally gathered and saved by him and by Elizabethand, in later years, by his daughter, Emma(Mrs. Gardiner M. Lane) and his granddaughter, Katharine Lane Weems. The scattered assortment of letters, notes, diaries, books, reprints, newsclips, published articles, obituaries, photographs, diplomas, mementoes, and other memorabilia that make up the collection have been arranged in four groupings:

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

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