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The collection relates to the James River Canal and Kanawha Company, which officially gained a charter in 1835. Included are a list of subscriptions sold to private individuals, a letter to the auditors office discussing current and previous subscriptions, a letter from a prospective surveyor and a list of tollage rates along the canal. Individuals mentioned are John Hartwell Cocke, and his son John Hartwell Cocke Jr.

This collection consists chiefly of 75 letters and telegrams, 1931, to Mr. James Southall Wilson, who invited several Southern authors to attend the Southern Writers Convention, sponsored by the Virginia Quarterly Review, at the University of Virginiaon October 23-24, 1931. The authors include the following: Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, Katharine Anthony, Emily Clark Balch, John Peale Bishop, James Boyd, Roark Bradford, Herschel Brickell, Struthers Burt, James Branch Cabell, Henry Seidel Canby, Willa Cather, Maristan Chapman, Irvin S. Cobb, Donald Davidson, William E. Dodd, William Faulkner, John Gould Fletcher, Ellen Glasgow, Isa Glenn, Paul Green, Sara Haardt, Archibald Henderson, DuBose Heyward, Gerald W. Johnson, Mary Johnston, H. L. Mencken, Margaret Prescott Montague, Julia Peterkin, Ulrich B. Phillips, Josephine Pinckney, Burton Rascoe, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice, Cale Young Rice, Elizabeth Maddox Roberts, Herbert Ravenel Sass, Helen Purefoy Poteat Stallings, T. S. Stribling, Allen Tate, Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy, Irita Van Doren, Thomas Wolfe, and Stark Young.

This collection contains an addition to the Jerome McGann Papers (MSS 15427) which documents the research for, creation of, and work on the Rossetti Archive, or The Complete Writings and Pictires of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a Hypermedia Archive, which is included in the Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship (NINES) project. The Rossetti Archive was an important early digital humanities project that began in 1993 and was completed in 2008. This project sought to bring together the pictorial, textual, and also contextual writing from the period of the nineteenth-century English poet and artist, Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

This collection includes Graham's compositions, World War I papers and correspondence, memorabilia of Washington and Lee University activities, scores, sheet music, notebooks, and other correspondence.

This literary collection consists of ca. 210 items, 1969-1993, pertaining to the writing and teaching career of John Casey. There are correspondence, manuscripts, a photograph, and printed material.

This collection consists of 36 items, 1977-1994, chiefly correspondence, pertaining to the literary matters and the writing career of John Casey. Letters of August 17 & November 1, 1977, from Carl D. Brandt, of Brandt & Brandt, discuss literary matters of Casey. On October 13, 1983, Michael Mewshaw(1943-) writes concerning becoming a temporary visiting writer at the University of Virginiawhile the search is conducted for a replacement for Peter Taylor(1917-). Mewshaw also mentions the Life for Deathlibel suit and his book Short Circuitbeing in the same light as Paul Theroux's Great Railway Bazaar. On March 4, 1989, Danny Julian Boggs(1944-) writes on the Dartmouthissue. An April 10, 1990 letter, from Joseph Connorsof the American Academyin Rome, offers Casey a residency in writing at the academy. On January 31, 1992, Rebecca Brown(1956-) writes on her work with AIDS victims and the publication of her book The Terrible Girls. On May 22, 1992, Hilary Mastersremarks on the acceptance of Erika Lynn Gentryinto the program at the University of Virginiaand comments on Spartinaand An American Romance.