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Accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in September 2011. Processing and finding aid completed by Lauren Wallace SCRC Staff in September 2011.
Artifacts were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03): Red and White Striped Cloth Fragment (2011.566.01) and Rust Colored Cloth Fragment (2011.566.02)
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Bristow Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Artifacts were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03): Red and White Striped Cloth Fragment (2011.566.01) and Rust Colored Cloth Fragment (2011.566.02)
Organized into three series: Series 1: Correspondence; Series 2: Personal Materials; Series 3: Scrapbooks.
Papers, circa the 1930s and the 1960s-1970s, of the Bristow Family of Middlesex County, Virginia. The collection includes letters written to Joseph Christian Bristow, Jr., while at the University of Richmond and letters written to him while serving in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. The primary correspondent is Kitty Major, of Stormont, Virginia, who seems to be in a relationship with Bristow for most of their correspondence. Topics include Major's daily activities, events happening in Stormont and Urbanna, marriages, local gossip, and Bristow's lack of communication with Major, among other items. Other correspondents include Kitty Major's sister, Deborah Major, Bristow's parents, people with whom Bristow went to the University of Richmond, and other soldiers, among others. Included is a card mentioning the protests against the war in Vietnam.
There are also photographs, news clippings, and material relating to the graduate education of Joseph Bristow, Jr., and Elizabeth Jean Acker Bristow at Wayne State University, as well as two scrapbooks of Mabel Irby. One scrapbook is a poetry assignment and the other a travel scrapbook of the western United States in 1939. Irby is the maiden name of Katherine Bristow, the mother of Joseph Christian Bristow, Jr.
This series consists of correspondence composed by Kitty Major, Deborah Major, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Christian Bristow, school friends, other soldiers, and family friends. The bulk of the correspondence originates from Kitty Major who appears to be in a relationship with Joseph Christian Bristow, Jr.
This series consists of the university records of Joseph Christian Bristow at the University of Richmond and Wayne State University and the university records of Elizabeth J. Acker Bristow at Wayne State University. Also included are records relating to Joseph Bristow's service in Vietnam as well as personal photographs, many of which are undated and unidentified from the early to mid-20th century.
This series consists of two books compiled by Mabel Irby. The first scrapbook is a poetry assignment complied by Mabel Irby. The final page of the book includes the notation, "A+ You've made a rich and beautiful book!" –L.O.A. Included in the back are other assignments completed by Mabel Irby in 1935. The second scrapbook is a travel scrapbook of Mabel Irby's vacation taken in July and August of 1939. Also included is an itinerary labeled "MAW's Vacation" where the author asks for pardon from Emerson Hough, author of the short story MAW's Vacation. Irby is the maiden name of Katherine Bristow, the mother of Joseph Christian Bristow, Jr.