Collections

The collection contains manuscripts, typescripts and galley proofs of novels and short stories as well as notes, clippings, correspondence with publishers and literary agents, and letters from friends, readers. and directors or attendees at various writing programs. Included are the typescript of Dear beast, and galleys of A New England girlhood and Heaven and Hardpan farm.

The Higginbottom Papers, 1844-1971, consist of ca. 13,650 items (ca. 13 shelf feet) relating to activities of the Higginbottom family. The collection contains family correspondence and papers pertaining to missionary activities, the Presbyterian Church, and miscellaneous activities of the Higginbottoms. There are some manuscript drafts, proofs, etc., of various published works and reports by Ethel and Sam Higginbottom.

The Papers of S. Vernon McCasland, Professor of Religion at the University of Virginia, contain theology lectures, and information from the Young Men Christian's Association at the University of Virginia, including Board of Director correspondence, minutes, finances, insurance, notes on the history of the University of Virginia, and leases and repairs for Dawson's Row from 1920 to 1965. The correspondence includes a letter from Daniel L. Gibbes to President Colgate Darden about the YMCA sponsoring the State Wesley Foundation Conference, if it was to be held as a meeting of Christian College Students and not as an interracial meeting.

This addition to the Terrell-Carr papers consists of the following two items: a lock of hair originally in a letter of September 4, 1802, of Edm. Bullock to Lucy Terrell [see accession #4757-b]; and a letter, January 22 [1823], M[artha] J[efferson] Minor, "Carr's brook" [Albemarle County, Virginia], to her brother, Dabney Carr Terrell, Louisville, Kentucky. Mrs. Minor discusses news of family and friends and mentions that "Mr. Jefferson broke his left arm in the fall," and that Thomas Mann Randolph was to be tendered a "publick dinner" at the end of his term as governor as well as other "hearsay information" from "Monticello."

This collection consists of one half of a Hollinger box and 148 items relating mostly to the Randolph, Kirk, and Dickins family from 1861 to 1870 in Virginia, Washington D. C., Massachusetts, and Europe. There is correspondence that describes events that were occurring during and after the Civil War. Most of the items in the collection were part of exhibits that were prepared by Page Taylor Kirk (great-great-great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson) including news clippings, letters, and poems.

The Additional Papers of the Hammond Family, 1805-1936, consist of 1.7 shelf feet (ca. 1340 items) of correspondence, papers, photographs, prints, newspaper clippings, and mementoes. Virtually all of the correspondence is between family members and is personal in nature. There are many letters from Anna Caroline Hammond to her children, Charles Howes Hammond and Mary Goldsborough Hammond, and from Mary to her nephew, Kensey Johns Hammond, an Episcopal minister. The correspondence of the latter concerns church as well as personal affairs and reflects his interest in genealogy. The papers include sermons, prayers, family tress, and notes on genealogy.

The collection contains ca.1002 items (one cubic box and six Hollinger boxes) 3.5 linear feet and consists of letters written by the Randolph family, descendants of Thomas Jefferson (including his grandchildren, great grandchildren, great-great grandchildren and great-great-great grandchildren) from about 1784 to 1910 (1975) to each other from their homes in Albemarle County and Virginia to farther away destinations such as Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Arizona, Tennessee, Cuba and Europe.

This collection is primarily concerned with Edmund Randolph (1753-1813) of Tazewell Hall and Clarke County, Virginia, and the genealogy of his family (1651; 1723-1880; 1996). Edmund Randolph was the Governor of Virginia (1786-1788), Attorney General of the United States (1789-1794), and Secretary of the United States (1794-1795) under President George Washington. The collection contains 6 items (less than one Hollinger box and half a linear foot): a letter from Edmund Randolph in Winchester, Virginia written in 1812 to an unidentified recipient about his poor health and a business affair in Richmond pertaining to the death of a friend; a small pocket account book from 1854 belonging to Edmund Randolph's grandson John Charles Randolph Taylor as well as an 1832 commonplace book of "Scraps" from novels and poetry; electrostatic copies of a handwritten family genealogy (58 pages, with an 11 page index) that lists the members of Edmund Randolph's family (his descendants as well as those of his siblings; including great-great grandchildren); a handwritten genealogical chart of the descendants of Martha Jefferson Randolph Taylor and John Charles Randolph Taylor, and a photocopied portion of a circular genealogical chart (oversized; original of the latter in 5533-e) of the family of Page Taylor Kirk (Page Kirk was a granddaughter of John Charles Randolph Taylor and Martha Jefferson Randolph Taylor which made her a great-great granddaughter of Edmund Randolph on her paternal side and a great-great-great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson on her maternal side).

This collection contains six letters from Patsy Jefferson Randolph Taylor to her father Thomas Jefferson Randolph (1833-1834; n.d.); one letter (n.d.) from Edmund Randolph (1753-1813) of Clarke County to his daughter Susan Beverley Randolph Taylor and a land deed between William Fenwick and Edmund Randolph on July 5, 1813.

The collection contains 60 items (one half of a Hollinger box) less than one linear foot and consists of letters written between the grandchildren and great grandchildren of Thomas Jefferson through the Randolph family line from 1822 to 1888. Specifically, the collection of letters center on Thomas Jefferson's great granddaughter Martha Jefferson Randolph Taylor (nicknamed Pat, Patsy or P.J.) and her family. According to the letters, Pat Taylor (P.J. Taylor 1817-1857) was admired by all of her family for her kindness of heart. The Randolphs were a very close-knit family and many of them lived at Edgehill or surrounding estates and areas such as Avonwood, Carleton, Enniscorthy, Shadwell, Tufton or Lego.