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The executive letter books contain the outgoing correspondence of Governor Philip W. McKinney, including letters from private secretary Cazneau McLeod to McKinney while McKinney was away from Richmond during the summer months. The correspondence largely consists of typed carbon copies on onionskin paper, with occasional handwritten letters. An alphabetical index of correspondents (by first letter of surname) is located at the front of each volume, with page numbers. Much of the correspondence involves appointments to positions or requests for pardons.

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 four typescript sets of poetry by Gay Allis Rose Clifford(1943-), all written between 1978 and 1984, when the effects of a cerebral hemorrhage prevented her from further work. Eighty-nine of these poems have been published in Poems by Gay Clifford Introduced by Germaine Greer(Special Collections PR 6053 .L492P6 1990). Each poem includes the date of composition and revision with an occasional autograph change or correction.

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 consists of the papers of the Grattan, Heneberger, Roller, and Shacklettfamilies of the Rockingham County, Virginiaarea, 1841-1901, ca. 90 items. The papers include letters, photographs, genealogical information, and miscellaneous items, chiefly the correspondence of Lucien Guy Heneberger(1851-), his sister, Ella Heneberger Grattan, and Maggie Shacklett Roller.

This collection contains the four documetnary style episodes of the Gritty Women podcast series, by Giovana Benatto de Oliveira, and one audio file of an interview used to create the episodes. Each episode includes segments of interviews conducted by the podcast's creator. The podcast explores the history, and legal, political, and social context of UVA's coeducation, and balances both scholarly and personal perspectives through interviews with both scholars and first women admits.

This collection consists of seventeen sheets of measured architectural drawings of two historic buildings in Scottsville, Virginia, produced for the Historic American Buildings Surveyin 1990 by the architectural students of the University of Virginiaunder the direction of Professor K. Edward Layof the School of Architecture.