Abstract

This collection contains 243 notes from family members, friends, and girlfriends between 1918-1946. The collection also includes 87 pieces of ephemera: 66 used envelopes, which can likely be matched to letters in this collection; 2 small black and white photographs, invitations, cards, and two short story essays.

Scope and Contents Robert Creede Taylor (1866-1915) lived in Montgomery County, Virginia most of his life. He attended Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (later Virginia Tech) in the 1880s, and thereafter worked in Roanoke before returning to Christiansburg, Virginia in 1893. He married Helen May Pelton, and they had three children. He died in 1915 after a long illness. The Taylors are related to many other Montgomery County and Roanoke families, and these families and their involvement in area...