Collections

This collection consists of the papers of the Carr familyof " Carrsbrook", Albemarle County, and the Cary familyof " Carysbrook, " Fluvanna County, Virginia, 1785-1839, ca. 285 items (2.5 Hollinger boxes, 1 linear foot), including chiefly correspondence, but also manuscripts of obituaries, poetry, and debates, and financial documents. The papers include correspondence between Peter Carr(1770-1815), nephew of Thomas Jefferson, Hester "Hetty" Smith Stevenson Carr(1767-1834), George Pitt Stevenson(d.1819), Dabney S. Carr(1802-1854), Maria Jefferson Carr(1804-1825), Jane Margaret Carr Cary(1809-1903), Wilson Miles Cary(1806-1877), Wilson Jefferson Cary(1784-1823), and Virginia Randolph Cary(1786-1852), with other members of the Jefferson, Randolph, Carr, and Caryfamilies.

This collection of 842 items, 1774-1891, n.d., consists of correspondence, business and legal papers, account books and a survey book belonging to various families. The material relates to the Smith familyof Staunton, the Lewis familyof Sweet Springs(now West Virginia) and the Cochran familyof Charlottesvilleand Staunton.

This collection consists of ca. 355 items, ca. 1809-1908, pertaining to families in Buckingham County. There are correspondence, personal papers, and legal papers of these families, especially the Fontaine family. Papers of Walter L. Fontaine, a lawyer in Buckingham Countyand Cumberland County, concern his practice and his actions as executor of several estates. Included is a list of receipts for bonds presented for suit to Valentine W. Southallincluding an 1819 bond from Wilson Cary Nicholasand Thomas Jefferson Randolphto John Wayles Eppes. There are also a letter, March 12, 1820, from John Wayles Eppesto Walter A. Fontaine, which mentions Thomas Jeffersonand Thomas Jefferson Randolph; and, a letter, February 24, 1828, from John Danielto Walter Fontaineregarding bonds.

concerning the enclosures that the latter had sent previously which needed Col. [Aaron] Burr's decision

This collection of ca. 100 items, 1799-1887 and n.d., consists chiefly of correspondence among the extended members of the Randolph family, descendants of Thomas Jefferson. The majority of the correspondence is between the granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, Septimia Anna Cary (Randolph) Meikleham(1814-1887) and her siblings, Virginia Jefferson (Randolph) Trist(1801-1882), Cornelia Jefferson Randolph(1799-1871), Ellen Wayles (Randolph) Coolidge(1796-1876), and Meriwether Lewis Randolph(1810-1837). Correspondents also include Septimia's nieces and nephews, Martha Jefferson (Trist) Burke(1826-1915), Ellen R. (Coolidge) Dwight(1826-1894), Isaetta Carter (Randolph) Hubard(1835-1888), and Lewis Carter Randolph(1838-1887); her son, William Moreland Meikleham(1839-1889); and her grandsons, Thomas Mann Randolph Meikleham(1869-1954) and Henry Parish Meikleham(1872-1937).

The collection contains ca. 16,000 items (15 shelf feet) consisting of department and personal communications with historians, university colleagues, students, friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and from around the world (grouped under Correspondence); academic, lecture and professional organization records associated with Peterson's activities while at Harvard, Brandeisand the University of Virginia(grouped under Academia); writings, including TMss, drafts, notes and communications with publishers relating to the books and articles Peterson authored (grouped under Publications) and an assortment of newsclippings; pamphlets; photographs (14 items); reprints; unpublished MDP writings and background material including, MDP notes, bibliographical listings and items relating to the alleged Thomas Jeffersonand Sally Hemingsrelationship (grouped under Miscellany).

Millie Richards Stone Gray(1800-1851) of Fredericksburg, Virginiakept a diary from January 1822 until May 1829. She wrote of her life and her husband and her children, as well as local and national events. The diary is a good source on life in 1800s Fredericksburg and it compliments area histories.

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.

This collection contains one Exercise or Cypher Book created by Sally Brown for a classroom environment in the United States of America between 1786 and 1787. It demonstrates basic mathematical and measurement disciplines specifically geared toward a future of work in a mercantile economy. Various 18th century mathematical procedures and some proofs are showcased throughout the Exercise Book.

[Early draft of the beginning of Westways, 1913.]