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Thornton Tayloe Perry, Collector, Papers

4.5 Linear Feet Summary: 4 ft. 6 in. (12 index card boxes, 4 1/2 in. each) [the boxes contain a total of 68 reels of microfilm]
Abstract Or Scope
This microfilm version of the Thornton Tayloe Perry Collection held by the Virginia Historical Society contains historical material collected by Perry over a 30 year period. It concentrates upon western Virginia and West Virginia with particular emphasis upon the lower Shenandoah Valley and Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan counties of West Virginia. The microfilm was placed in the West Virginia Collection by the Virginia Historical Society under provisions of a National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant.
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Thornton Tayloe Perry, Collector, Papers 4.5 Linear Feet Summary: 4 ft. 6 in. (12 index card boxes, 4 1/2 in. each) [the boxes contain a total of 68 reels of microfilm]

William E. Brooks (1875-1960), Collector, Papers

5.1 Linear Feet Summary: 5 1/2 in. (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (1 small flat storage box, 3 in.)
Abstract Or Scope
Civil War materials collected by Dr. Brooks in writing his biographies of Grant and Lee. Included are pamphlets, scrapbooks, newspapers, photographs, and originals and copies of soldiers' letters, journals, and military reports. There are typed copies of a journal, 3 November-2 December 1863, of a civilian observer in Tennessee, who was at Grant's headquarters at the Battle of Chattanooga; letters, 1861-1864, of William Ludwig, a private in the Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in Fayette, Kanawha, and Cabell counties; Confederate officers' reports on the action around Beverly in July 1863; and a Union soldier's letter of 9 May 1863, describing the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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William E. Brooks (1875-1960), Collector, Papers 5.1 Linear Feet Summary: 5 1/2 in. (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (1 small flat storage box, 3 in.)

William Reynolds Diary

0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 1/4 in. (1 folder)
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Extracts from a diary of a tour of the eastern states by a resident of Meadville, Pennsylvania, with descriptions of travel through Greenbrier, Fayette, Kanawha, and Cabell counties, (West) Virginia. Subjects covered include descriptions of buildings, as well as musings about diversions and people of various U.S. cities, including Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C. (where Reynolds attended a session of Congress and heard Clay, Calhoun and Buchanan), Richmond, Charlottesville (he visited Monticello), Charleston, and a number of smaller Virginia cities. There are also descriptions of "natural wonders", including Weirs Cave, Devil's Bake Oven, the Natural Bridge, White Sulphur Springs, and Kanawha Falls.
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William Reynolds Diary 0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 1/4 in. (1 folder)

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