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Library of Virginia 2012 Trenton Hizer Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia W. W. Scott papers, 1891-1957 44929, 50464 .45 cubic feet and 1 box English W. W. Scott Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

W. W. Scott papers, 1891-1924. Accession 44929, 50464. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Ann Thornton of New York, New York.

Biographical Information

William Wallace Scott was born 10 April 1845 in Orange County, Virginia, and he attended the Virginia Military Institute. He enlisted in the Confederate Army 1 December 1863 and served in Company H, 4th Virginia Cavalry, also known as the Black Horse Cavalry. Scott was captured by Union forces in April 1865, but escaped; eventually being paroled in Charlottesville, Virginia, on 1 May 1865. After the war, Scott became a lawyer and editor. He served as the law librarian for the state of Virginia, and published works on Virginia and its history. Scott married Claudia Marshall Willis (1846-1912) 29 September 1869, and they had nine children. Scott died 16 January 1929, and was buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Gordonsville, Virginia.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1891-1957, of W. W. Scott (1845-1929) of Orange County and Richmond, Virginia, consisting of accounts, advertisements, charts, deeds, envelopes, epitaphs, essays, letters, notes, poems, promissory notes, receipts, reminiscences, satires, and speeches, mainly concerning Virginia and Orange County history, including Scott's HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY, VA; and James Madison (1751-1836). Papers also contain correspondence to and from Scott's son Philip H. Scott (1873-1962); receipts for purchases and payments by Scott; copyright for a book by Scott and W. G. Stanard; poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Philip Slaughter, Will Henry Thompson, and unknown; an epitaph for Jane Webb in Old Blue Run Church; and the condensed profile for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in 1908.

Adjunct Descriptive Data Related Material

Scott family papers, 1867-1931 (LVA accession 43713).

Contents List Letter, 11 November 1891, from James Keegan to C. W. Woolfolk. 1 Letter, 22 December 1893, from George J. Hemphill to C. H. Simonton. 2 Letter, 20 May 1898, from D. C. Richardson to W. W. Scott. 3 Letter, 30 April 1900, from Holmes Conrad to W. W. Scott. 4 Letter, 16 June 1900, from R. R. Howison to W. W. Scott. 5 Letter, 24 July 1900, from unknown to W. W. Scott. 6 Letter, 12 October 1900, from R. R. Howison to W. W. Scott. 7 Letter, 20 December 1900, from Gaillard Hunt to W. W. Scott. 8 Letter, 1900, from Gaillard Hunt to W. W. Scott. 9 Letter, 1900, from Gaillard Hunt to W. W. Scott. 10 Letter, 5 January 1901, from Gaillard Hunt to W. W. Scott. 11 Letter, 23 April 1901, from William J. Bok to W. W. Scott. 12 Letter, 18 November 1903, from Thomas T. Munford to W. W. Scott. 13 Letter, [-----]1906, from Thomas T. Munford to W. W. Scott. 14 Letter, 24 April 1907, from from J. E. Bradford to W. W. Scott. 15 Letter, 11 May 1907, from G. W. Barbour to W. W. Scott. 16 Letter, 15 June 1907, from Sallie Fitzhugh Parran to W. W. Scott. 17 Letter, [24 June] 1907, from M. M. G. Pannill to W. W. Scott. 18 Letter, 4 July 1907, from E. L. Goss to W. W. Scott. 19 Letter, 3 October 1907, from Alexander Cameron to W. W. Scott. 20 Letter, [1907], from John S. Chapman to W. W. Scott. 21 Letter, 16 June 1908, from R. C. Stearnes to W. W. Scott. 22 Letter, 13 September 1909, from Maryus Jones to W. W. Scott. 23 Letter, [8 October 1915], from Katherine Isham Keith to W. W. Scott. 24 Letter, 30 December 1915, from Katherine Isham Keith to W. W. Scott. 25 Letter, 3 May 1922, from Nelly C. Willis to W. W. Scott. 26 Letter, 1 October 1922, from Nelly C. Willis to W. W. Scott. 27 Letter, 7 May 1924, from Armistead C. Gordon to W. W. Scott. 28 Letter, 3 June 1924, from Trist Wood to W. W. Scott. 29 Letter, 20 July 1924, from Trist Wood to W. W. Scott. 30 Letter, 7 June 1951, from J. G. de Rouhlac Hamilton to Philip H. Scott. 31 Letter and agreement, 1 November 1951, from Anna Brook Allan for James W. Patton to Philip H. Scott. 32 Letter, 21 December 1957, from [Philip H. Scott] to [Ralph] Ketcham. 33 Letter, no date, from Thomas T. Munford to W. W. Scott. 34 Letter, no date, from M. M. G. Pannill to W. W. Scott. 35 Letter, no date, from [Philip H. Scott] to unknown. 36 Envelope, 12 September [-----], from Thomas T. Munford to W. W. Scott. 37 Envelope, no date, to W. W. Scott. 38 Deed, 1 March 1899 and recorded April 1899, for property in Orange County from A. C. Berryman and Helen K. Berryman to Claudia M. Scott, Philip H. Scott, and Robert L. M. Scott, trustees. 39 Deed of agreement, 1 May 1900, of W. W. Scott and Robert L. M. Scott with A. C. Berryman. 40 Receipt, 13 October 1903, from S. S. P. Patteson, chairman of committee, Library Board, Virginia State Library to W. W. Scott for return of funds. 41 Receipt, 27 February 1906, from R. H. Harris to W. W. Scott for payment for burial of Wyclif Scott. 42 Receipt, 8 March 1906, from J. N. Waddell to W. W. Scott for payment for shoe repair. 43 Account, 12 June 1908, of W. W. Scott with the Everett Waddy Company. 44 Receipt and letter, 17-18 July 1911, from Herman Schmidt to W. W. Scott for purchase of groceries. 45 Copyright, 7 April 1894, from A. R. Spofford, Library of Congress, to W. S. Scott and W. G. Stanard for The Capitol of Virginia. 46 Promissory notes, 15 January and 29 July 1895, of E. B. Wood and the Gottchalk Company. 47 Recollections of General Jackson. 48 Biographical notes on John Robertson. 49 Speech at the dedication of the Blind Preacher [James Waddell] Monument. 50 Notes on E. L. Powell, [ca. 1908]. 51 Orange County, Virginia, notes--French and Indian War and Revolutionary War veterans. 52 Speech at the unveiling of the monument fo the Confederate dead of Orange. 53 A Fugh Hieughs, a poem to Hugh Hamilton 22 March 1908. 54 A Prude's Opinion. 55 Has Beens,ca. 1909. 56 $1,000,000 Reward! Strayed, Lost, or Stolen! A Jeffersonian Democrat with Taft Proclivities. 57 The Undertaker. 58 Notes on the history of Virginia. 59 History of Orange County, Va., advertisement, 1907. 60 Child of My Muse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 61 Lines on Blandford Church by Philip Slaughter. 62 High Tide at Gettysburg by Will Henry Thompson. 63 I've done so much to be forgiven [first line], 27 April, 1920. 64 Gravestone inscription for Jane Webb at Old Blue Run Church, Orange County. 65 Richmond Enquirer, 26 August 1862. Transferred to the Newspaper Project, issue can be found on newspaper microfilm reel 23a. 66 Condensed profile of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, 1908. 67 Unidentified manuscript fragments. 68 Miscellaneous scraps and fragments. 69