First Edition of this important collection of American balladry, edited by Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr., Archivist of the Virginia Collections of Ballads. Davis, Jr. signs... Read More
First Edition of this important collection of American balladry, edited by Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr., Archivist of the Virginia Collections of Ballads. Davis, Jr. presents... Read More
U.S. Army Chief Engineer Col. Charles Gratiot here writes to Major General Alexander Macomb, Commanding General of the Unite States Army concerning the officer in... Read More
![[Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs]. Anderson Gallery Cook, 1827–1905, David H. Anderson.](/pictures/thumb/3727777_1.jpg?v=1539214280)
Four stereoview photographs of scenes in Richmond, Virginia photographed and published by Cook, Anderson Gallery of Richmond. The images, likely from the 1870s, are from... Read More
![[1867 Autograph Letter Signed by a Virginia-native and Iowa Minister Renouncing his Baptist Faith]. E T. Manning, ca. 1809–?](/pictures/thumb/3726317_1.jpg?v=1534362352)
“The doctrine of an eternal Hell of fire & brimstone is all bosh…” Intimate letter by Iowa physician E.T. Manning, writing to a woman friend... Read More
The last entry in Clark’s Travels in the Old South: “The author was a New England farmer and schoolteacher who traveled through parts of the... Read More
Peabody notes in his introduction that “Hampton Institute may be studied as a well organized school for industrial training, or as an evidence of the... Read More
First Edition of this thorough history of Hampton Institute in Virginia up until the year 1918. The author, Francis Greenwood Peabody was a Hampton Institute... Read More
This particular copy inscribed “...with deep appreciation and still deeper envious admiration” to one Harry Wildes. A tale of the Battle of Petersburg, Virginia by... Read More
[i.e., House of Representatives, 38th Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 15.]. CWB I, p10: “McClellan’s official report, containing much information on the initial organization... Read More
Manuscript group primarily concerned with the case of Armistead v. Dandridge, a drawn out Virginia lawsuit with roots in the eighteenth century. Much information on... Read More
This 1824 indenture concerns the settlement of a debt and sale of land by John Holohan of Washington, D.C. to Humphrey Peake, Collector of the... Read More
Interesting letter on the publication of magazine articles by attorney-turned-journalist and popular writer, John Paul Bocock (1856–1903). A Virginian from a leading family, Bocock earned... Read More
![[1901 Autograph Letter Signed by Julia Magruder, Author, Writing to Editor William Clemens about Short Stories for Children]. Julia Magruder, 1854–1907.](/pictures/thumb/3726054_1.jpg?v=1534362328)
Letter from American novelist and writer Julia Magruder (1854–1907) here writing to an editor, one “Mr. Clemens,” concerning short stories for children. It appears that... Read More
Story, mission, progress, and multiple descriptions and viewpoints of life at the Hampton Institute for African-Americans and native Americans; this title published almost a decade... Read More
Molly Elliot Seawell (1860–1916), children’s author, short story writer, and novelist. Seawell contributed to such magazines as Lippincott’s, Youth’s Companion, and the New York Critic... Read More
![[Bible given by Captured Union Soldier to a Woman in 1862 “at The line of the Surrender” at the Battle of Harpers Ferry, Virginia]. New Testament.](/pictures/thumb/3725554_1.jpg?v=1537471783)
In the aftermath of the 1862 Battle of Harpers Ferry in Virginia, a small pocket New Testament Bible was given to a woman, Mollie E.... Read More
Title continues: “Records of Negro and Indian Graduates and ex-Students With historical and personal sketches and testimony on important race questions from within and without... Read More
![[1816 Albermarle County Manuscript Estate Inventory also Listing Six Slaves Owned by Samuel Black]. Samuel Black.](/pictures/thumb/3726362_1.jpg?v=1534362358)
In 1816, William Ramsay, Alvin Cleveland and James Hayes were tasked with appraising Samuel Black’s estate in pounds and shillings. Black was well-to-do. He owned... Read More
Here, Coleman presents Governor David Emanuel with Virginia’s most recently-enacted laws. The letter is docketed, in part, “Exchange of Laws” and reads, in full: Richmond... Read More
![Marse Chan. A Tale of Old Virginia. [Inscribed and Twice Signed by the Author]. Thomas Nelson Page.](/pictures/thumb/3727479_1.jpg?v=1540318195)
Inscribed and signed by Page above the engraved bookplate of bibliophile George H. Yenowine; then, inscribed and signed on the title-page with a quotation from... Read More
