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Henry C. Wysor Family Papers
Madison T. Lawson Letter
The collection contains a letter from Madison T. Lawson to his family, written in Lee County, Virginia, on March 28, 1864.
Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes
The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
William E. Moser Collection
Collected by William E. Moser (1945-2016), this collection contains a large number of personal letters sent to Anderson Alley from 1849 to 1885. This collection also contains the roster for Company F of the 11th Virginia Cavalry and several merchant bills.
James R. Perdue Family Collection
This collection includes the papers of James R. Perdue and his family. Items include a program for the Battle of the Crater reunion, a Sunday School concert flyer, seven obituaries for Perdue, a letter from J. R. Perdue, Jr., and two ledgers. Perdue (1837-1915) was a banker from Manchester, Virginia, and served as a Confederate soldier in the Otey Battery, Virginia Artillery during the American Civil War.
G. E. Roberts Letter
The G. E. Roberts Letter contains information pertaining to an African American man shooting a white doctor, Dr. Hammet, in Christiansburg, VA. The letter is written to Walter J. Reeve in Central Depot, VA on February 8, 1874.
Minnie Lee Ryan Collection
The Minnie Lee Ryan Collection contains a May 28, 1922, letter from Jack
to Ryan about their relationship as well as a 1922 newspaper clipping entitled Blacksburg High School Graduates
listing Ryan, amongst others.
Eulalie Salley Letter,
The collection contains a letter written by Eulalie Salley, of Aiken, South Carolina, to Frances Bear, of Roanoke, Virginia, on January 12,1974 about Salley's role in the suffrage movement.
Letter to Ruth H. Shootman
The collection consists of a three-page letter written December 5th, 1846, from Harriet of Sandy River Church, Virginia (a town in Prince Edward County) to "Miss Ruth H. Shootman, Big Lick, Roanoke, Va."
Shugart Family Papers,
This collection contains papers from the Shugart Family of Southwest Virginia, created between 1811 and 1876.
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- Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 1
- Hammet, James Preston, d. 1879 1
- Heizer, James Francis, 1841-1930 1
- Heizer, Phoebe Anne McCormick, 1845-1906 1
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