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The Cocke- ElliotFamily papers contain ca. 15,000 items (41 Hollinger boxes, ca. 17 linear feet and four oversize folders), ca. 1773-1992, and consist largely of personal and family correspondence, financial and legal papers, memorabilia, bound volumes, and genealogical and historical research material pertaining to the Cocke, Elliot, and related families from the colonial period through the twentieth century, assembled by John Page Elliot.

This record group contains materials created by individual academic departments.

This addition to the papers of Henry H. Preslerconsists of fifty-three files of maps and map indexes, ca. 600 items (3 Hollinger boxes) ca. 1909-1965, pertaining to Jabalpur, India, (spelled Jubbulpore on most maps) and the work of Dr. Presler who studied the religious institutions of the region following India's independence. For further information about this study please see the guide for #11208 and Presler's own guides to this material located in Box 1 of #11208.

This addition to the papers of Louis J. Halle, Jr., 112 items, 1954-1987, contains his correspondence with the staff of the Rockefeller Foundation, especially Kenneth W. Thompson, but also with Dean Ruskand Gerald Freund.

This seven-item addition to the papers of Louis J. Halle, Jr., July-August 1948, consists of two copies of a memorandum prepared by Halle for Mr. Walter A. Taylor, Director of the Department of Education and Research, The American Institute of Architects, and related correspondence, concerning the effects of the architecture of public buildings on government personnel and the public.

Executive letter book contains the outgoing correspondence of Governor James L. Kemper between 1874 and 1877, arranged chronologically. Letters were written by Governor Kemper, clerk P. F. Howard, Secretary of the Commonwealth James McDonald, and personal secretaries Meade C. Kemper, S. Bassett French, Baker P. Lee, and Charles Rutledge Whipple. Governor Kemper corresponded with a variety of individuals in federal and state government as well as important private indiviudals,on issues including the state war debt, prisoners and the Penitentiary, the volunteer militia, the Petersburg city government bill veto, requests for patronage, the Centennial Exhibition, the Virginia Military Institute, boundary disputes with West Virginia and Maryland, and the Foley statue of Stonewall Jackson. The letter book also includes a number of messages addressed to the Senate and House of Delegates of Virginia.

The papers of the Alexander familyof King George County, Virginiacontain ca. 2000 items (5 Hollinger boxes, ca. 1.75 linear feet), ca.1800-1890, consist of correspondence, financial, and legal papers. Most of the earlier papers are those of landowner Gustavus B. Alexander, and concern his dealings in wheat, corn, guano fertilizer, slaves, and land, as well as legal matters and business ventures. Later papers are those of his son, Charles G. Alexander, lawyer, justice of the peace, and schoolmaster, and deal with a variety of subjects, including King George County Schools, land surveying, meteorological observations, and slavery. Other subjects of possible interest include medical records and doctors' bills, tax records, and documents concerning St. Paul's Churchin King George County.

These papers, consisting of cat 7770 items, (12 boxes, 1 oversize folder; 5 linear shelf feet), are the personal papers of Judge Alfred Dickinson Barksdaleof Lynchburg, Virginia. Most of the papers fall between the years 1938 and 1972, with some covering the earlier period of 1918-1919. These periods correspond to the years of Alfred Dickinson Barksdale's career as judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Virginiaand as judge of the U. S. District Court of the Western District of Virginia, and also of his military service during World War I.

This collection consists of three letters from Armistead C. Gordonof Staunton, Virginia, an alumnus of the University of Virginia, 1873-1875, and Rector, Board of Visitors, to Dr. William E. Dold(1856-?), an alumnus of the University of Virginia, 1878-1879, and a prominent physician of River Crest Sanitarium, Astoria, Long Island, New York, and one letter from George Fawcett, an alumnus of the University of Virginia, 1875-1879, to Dr. William E. Dold, May 8, 1931.

The Papers of Arthur Fickénscher contain ca. 2,000 items (11 shelf feet) that span the years 1895-1995. The largest portion of the papers, consists of originals and copies of virtually all of the music that Fickénscher produced. The remaining portion contains correspondence and other papers of a professional and personal nature. The collection has been divided into three major groups: