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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:

[correspondence with board members and employees; donations of money, food, and supplies; budget; liquidation of the Child Protection Program of the Works Project Administration(23 Dec 1942); R. E. Lee & Sonand Edward van Learestimates according to specifications for the nursery building (16 July 1953); rental agreement (1 Sep 1954); personnel committee's study of retirement problems in the nursery (14 & 21 Dec 1954)]

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:

This collection contains three black and white photographs of musician John Jackson taken by physician and photographerBenjamin Boblett. John Jackson (1924–2002) was an American Piedmont Blues Musician. Jackson played an important role in highlighting the Appalachian musical traditions. The photographs are annotated and signed by the artist. Two studio photographs (16"X20") were taken in approximately 1983. The other performance photograph (8.5"X11") was taken at the Woodlawwn High School performance in 1975, and printed in 1976.

This collection consists of a single black and white photograph, 10 x 20 inches, ca. 1917, of Staige Davis Blackford( Johnnie Blackford) and his World War I unit, S.S.U. 516, one of two ambulance units formed at the University of Virginiain May 1917. The photograph was probably taken in the early fall of 1917 while the unit was training at Allentownor later at Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania. Staige Davis Blackfordwrote a brief unit history for John S. Patton's Alumni Newspiece on the University in the Great War, later printed separately as The University of Virginia in the World War.

Papers, 1939-1985, of Blake Tyler Newton, Jr., lawyer and insurance company executive. Mostly correspondence which cover his professional life. The letters concern Virginia State Bar Association, American Council of Life Insurers, American Law Institute, Bank of Virginia, Bell System, Institute of Life Insurance, Jefferson-Pilot Corporation, Mayor's Overall Economic Advisory Committee (Washington, D. C.), National Center for State Courts, Shenandoah Life Insurance Corporation, Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center, University of Virginia's Tayloe Murphy Institute, Wolf Trap Farm Park, R. E. Lee Memorial Foundation, the College of William and Mary, and the Episcopal Church.

This collection consist of ca. 16,000 items, 1787-1936, and contains the papers of the Bondurant familyof Buckingham County, Virginia, and the Morrison familyof Rockbridge County, Virginiawho were related through the marriage of Alexander Joseph Bondurantand Emily MacFarland Morrisonin 1859. Alexander J. Bondurantand Emily (Morrison) Bondurantwere the chief correspondents in this collection. Alexander J. Bondurant(1836-1910) was a Confederatesoldier, farmer, politician, superintendent of Buckingham County, Va.schools, professor of agriculture at Auburn University, and tobacco consultant to the government of Australia. His father, Thomas Moseley Bondurant(1797-1862), was a landowner, member of the board of trustees of Hampden-Sydney College, a soldier in the War of 1812, a member of the Virginia Senate, and one of the founders of the Richmond Whig. His oldest son, Alexander Lee Bondurant(1865-1937) was professor of Latin and head of the graduate school of the University of Mississippi.

The papers of Bradley T. Johnsonconsist of ca. 4000 items covering the years 1676 to 1937, and are primarily the personal correspondence of the members of three families: Johnson, Rutherfoordand Saunders. By far the greatest number of letters and documents concern the affairs of the Johnson familyand Bradley T. Johnsonduring the period 1840-1880. The collection includes a great number of letters to Bradley T. Johnsonfrom his mother, Eleanor Murdock (Tyler) Johnson, and his wife, Jane Claudia (Saunders) Johnson. Items of particular interest include: copies of letters from George Washingtonto Thomas Johnsonrelative to Thomas Johnson's appointment to the United States Supreme Courtand letters to General Bradley T. Johnsonfrom Jubal A. Early, Joseph E. Johnston, Thomas J. Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Wade Hampton, J. S. Mosby, W. H. Fitzhugh Lee, Henry Adamsand Theodore Roosevelt.