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The inventory is a guide to Mss. Acc. 1999.48 which is the postcard collection documenting pre-restoration Williamsburg, restored Williamsburg, Jamestown, the College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia, and cities, towns, and holidays in Virginia. Also includes clippings, articles, photographs, programs, and souvenir publications.

This addition to the Cumming family papers, includes correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and certificates related to members of the Cumming family, with most pertaining to United States Surgeon General, Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. (1869-1948) and his son, AmbassadorHugh S. Cumming, Jr. (1900-1986). Items include materials related to Hugh Cumming, Jr.'s service in the United States Department of State, and to Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s study at the University of Virginia, as well as Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.'s study at the Virginia Military Institute.

This collection contains an anonymous hunting diary with entries dating from 1932 to 1938. The book, "Gee's Hunting Diary, to Record the Sport of the Season Arranged for the Followers of Foxhounds and Harriers" was printed by Ernest R. Gee at his book and print shop. The book has detailed fields to record elements of the users' hunts including ruled diary for recording details of hunts such as date, hounds, huntsman, the meet, horses, fox, hare, covers drawn, found, wind, weather, scent, accounted forobservations. The book has no mark of ownership and includes thirty-one leaves, of which twenty-five contain entries and six are blank. On the last page: "Printed by Eugene V. Connett at The Derrydale Press." The last entry has a small hand-drawn map of the hunting area being described. Possible hunting locations noted in the book include the Elkridge-Hartford Hunt Club in Maryland. A clipping, pinned to one page, contains an account of the United Hunt in Ireland. Entries in August 1936 include notes on cubbing, which was the practice of hunting young foxes, especially for training hounds.

This collection includes Graham's compositions, World War I papers and correspondence, memorabilia of Washington and Lee University activities, scores, sheet music, notebooks, and other correspondence.

The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100 copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159 citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials, all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement in the government, political life, activities, organizations and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The majority of the items comprising this collection were microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.

These additions to MSS 6478 Milton L. Grigg Papers, organized into two main series, contain architectural drawings, administrative and project files, and miscellaneous materials created by Milton Grigg and his architectural firm from the 1920s to the 1990s. The names of the projects and clients are followed by the commission number(s) where available. The materials document the projects completed by Grigg and his firm across the State of Virginia, as well as in West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Washington D.C., Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and Kentucky.