MSS. Manuscript Collections

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The collection contains a music book, two recipe books, and a concert program. The music book and concert program feature songs from the American Civil War.

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The collection contains a letter written on May 30, 1925, by Pvt. Charles Beverly Tate, Sr., who served in the Confederate army during the American Civil War.

Abstract The Charles Kirk Collection consists of two slide rulers, a slide ruler book and a mechanical drawing set. The larger slide ruler is housed inside a black case with a button closure. Text on the front reads "K&E LOG LOG DECITRIG REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. SLIDE RULE 4091-3." Text on the button reads "KEUFFEL & ESSER CO. NEW YORK." Inside the case is a white slide ruler with silver hardware. Numbering on the ruler is in black and red. The smaller slide ruler is in a...

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The Betty L. Moss Architectural Collection contains the architectural renderings, business correspondence, and notes of Betty Moss, an architect from New Orleans, Louisiana. Types of structures included in drawings are houses, apartment buildings, condominiums, religious centers, businesses, antique shops, offices, hospitals, and centers for convalescence.

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The Hamilton Shields Letter is a missive from a homesick cadet at the United States Military Academy (also known as West Point) in 1842. The letter discusses Shields's studies, professional plans, social life, and desire for a wealthy wife.

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The New River Investment Company Deeds document land ownership in Radford, Virginia, and include one deed from 1890 and three drafts of a deed from 1892. Restrictions on land development appear in the 1890 deed. The 1892 drafts lift a vendor's lien.

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The Joseph Funk & Sons Correspondence predates the American Civil War and includes two letters from a Mennonite hymnbook publisher in Rockingham County, Virginia, to a client in Lewisburg, Virginia [now West Virginia]. The letter discusses book shipments, the settlement of accounts, and the unreliability of shipping to the western counties via the railroad.

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The collection contains a note from Nelson Preston to Captain Robinet discussing the training and muster of the 94th militia regiment from Lee County, Virginia.

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The collection contains a journal of events occurring during the Gloucester, Massachusetts Artillery's tour of camp duty in 1845.

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The collection contains letters to William S. Archer discussing his election as delegate to the July 1849 convention of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company. Correspondence also discusses the plan to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via railroads.