MSS. Manuscript Collections
Found in 1988 Collections and/or Records:
O. Waldo West Correspondence
Three letters from Oliver Waldo West, a lieutenant in the 1st New York Dragoons during the American Civil War, written between January and July 1864 to friend Sarah L. (Lyra) Stilson of Corning, New York.
Ruby Bishop West Collection
This is a collection of materials related to Floyd County, Virginia history, particularly--but not limited to--church and education history, as well as materials related to the county's general history and its sesquicentennial celebration in 1981. Also includes personal materials, consisting of school records and diplomas from Radford College, personal photographs and ephemera, and sheet music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
West Virginia Daybook,
Daybook containing listings of names and dollar amounts for supplies sold from January 1936 to December 1940. Supplies sold appear to be related to coal mining and the daybook is believed to originate in Mingo County, West Virginia.
Western Lunatic Asylum [Staunton, Virginia] Collection
The Western Lunatic Asylum Collection includes correspondence written to the Western Lunatic Asylum in Staunton, Virginia, dating from 1840 through the late 19th century, as well as annual reports from the 1860s and 1900s.
Hilde Weström Architectural Collection
This collection contains the paper of Hilde Weström who was born 1912 in Neisse, Upper Silesia, Germany. She was an architect of Berlin, Germany. The materials in the collection include biographical information, articles, photographs of Weström and her designs, and architectural drawings for nine projects (1954-1970).
Gabriel C. Wharton Correspondence
The collection contains three post-Civil War letters addressed to former Confederate General Gabriel C. Wharton: one regarding potential locations for a blast furnace, one relating to fees for the use of two horses, and one about a petitition on some property in Blacksburg.
Whisner Memorial Methodist Church Records
This collection consists of records generated by the Whisner Memorial Methodist Church located in Blacksburg, Virginia, from 1857 through 1975.
Isaac White Letters
The collection consists of letters written mostly by Isaac White (1837-1889) to his wife, Mary Virginia "Jinnie" Day White, while he served with the Confederate Army as an assistant surgeon during the American Civil War. Many of the letters are written while encamped along the Shenandoah Valley. Other papers include literature gathered by Bess Duvall White Snead, White's grand-daughter, in her search for military information about Isaac White.
William Allen White Letter
The collection consists of a brief letter to William Allen White on December 2, 1920, from Mary Ethel McAuley of The Wanderer of the Pittsburgh Dispatch, with White's response on the same letter.
William C. White Letter
Letter from William C. White of Company I, 69th Pennsylvania Infantry during the American Civil War, written to his parents, noting the desertion of several from his company due to the lack of whiskey, the availability of fresh bread, and the "awful price" charged by the sutler.