MSS 16769Caperton, Malinda, albumMalinda Caperton album MSS 16769Ellen WelchAlbert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

2023-04-14

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryP.O. Box 400110University of VirginiaCharlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110URL:

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The collection is open for research use.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was purchased from Adam Weinberger Books by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 30 October, 2020.

Preferred Citation

MSS 16769, Malinda Caperton album, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Content Description

This collection contains a friendship album for Malinda "Lin" Caperton (1842-1922) of West Virginia. The album contains approximately thirty pages of autographs with dates throughout, 1855-1861. The autographs are almost certainly all from young girls, some noted as likely classmates from the Virginia Female Institute, although a lengthy two-page poem is more likely a male student at the University of Virginia.

Caperton was the daughter of Allen Taylor Caperton, 1810-1876, the American politician who was a United States Senator from West Virginia in 1875-1876. Malinda eventually married James French Patton, 1843-1882, an American lawyer, Confederate officer, and Democrat politician.

Autograph albums. Women's Scrapbook/ Commonplace Book Collections (University of Virginia)