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Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 2002 Special Collections Department Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Descriptive Summary Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Papers of Virginius Dabney 1923-1977 7690-ac This collection consists of 6 items. English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Virginius Dabney Papers, Accession #7690-ac, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

 Acquisition Information

This collection was deposited on 25 May 1979.

 Scope and Content Information

The papers of Virginius Dabney contain extensive correspondence carried on by Dabney as editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, in his personal life, and as a Pulitzer Prize- winning author. Other materials deal with his books such as Below the Potomac, The Dry Messiah, and Liberalism in the South, and much useful material collected as research material for these books is present. There is extensive material on the American Society of Newspaper Editors which Dabney served in various capacities including president. A great deal of useful material on race relations, African Americans, the N.A.A.C.P., etc., is present. Recent political history of Virginia is strongly represented in Dabney's correspondence as editor of Virginia's leading newspaper, and in his personal correspondence with figures such as Senator A. Willis Robinson, Francis Pickens Miller, and Senator Carter Glass.

Topics of interest covered in this accession include the movement to update Virginia's school history textbooks and discussion of the possibility of using Dabney's, Virginia: The New Dominion as a textbook. Also included is correspondence between Dabney and James Kilpatrick concerning the massive resistance movement in Virginia. Dabney's correspondence with Alice Fox Pitts and Edwin "Pete" Cox is restricted until 2004.

 Contents List Correspondence re Richmond: Story of a City1971 Oct 1-1976 Aug 26 Correspondence, Articles, and Newspaper Clippings re: Virginia: The New Dominion1967 Oct-1973 Jun, n.d. Scrapbooks of Virginius Dabney, No. I, No. II, No. III 1923 Apr-1952 Mar Signed note by Dabney re certain Richmond Times-Dispatcheditorials in 1959 on massive resistance 1979 Aug 8 Correspondence of Dabney with Edwin "Pete" Cox 1969-1977 Correspondence of Dabney with Alice Fox Pitts 1975-1976