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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 283 Collections and/or Records:

Digges Family Papers

 Collection — 6 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-519
Scope and Contents

Personal letters of the Digges, Calvert, and Hill families, mostly in the areas of Petersburg, Newport News, and Hampton, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1779-1886, undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Dudley Woodworth Letters

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-574
Scope and Contents

Three early 19th century business letters concerning the sale of tobacco and fish in Richmond, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1800, 1804, 1805; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

E. E. Harrell Scrapbooks

 Collection — 2 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2014-004
Scope and Contents

Two scrapbooks from the 1930s-1940s containing family photographs, newspaper clippings, certificates, membership cards, business cards, correspondence, invitations, and other memorabilia relating to E. E. Harrell of Portsmouth, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1930s-1940s; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/2014

Earl T. Gresham, Sr. Papers

 Collection — 16 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-396
Scope and Contents

1940s-1960s documents compiled by E. T. Gresham primarily relating to Norfolk General Hospital and Medical Center Hospitals in Norfolk, Virginia. Some documents also relate to the Norfolk United War Fund, The Community Chest, and the Red Feather Federation.

Dates: created: circa 1946-1976; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

East Ocean View Garden Club Records

 Collection — 7 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-445
Scope and Contents

Yearbooks, correspondence, photographs, certificates, and clippings from the East Ocean View Garden Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The two yearbooks cover 1970-1971 and 1987-1988. Several items in the collection relate to the club's support for the Tidewater Association for Retarded Children, particularly the Pre-School Training Center.

Dates: created: 1957-1988; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Edmonia Lee Page Neilson Letters

 Collection — 6 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-590
Scope and Contents

Fifty-three letters written between the Page and Jones families. Frequent correspondents include Edmonia Lee Page Neilson, Mary Ann Mason Jones, Hall Neilson, and Jane Byrd Page. Most of the correspondence was sent between Richmond, Virginia and Washington, D. C.

Dates: created: 1824-1826, 1829-1835, 1845, 1909, undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Edmonia Lee Whittle Scrapbook

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-082
Scope and Contents One mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century scrapbook containing clippings, genealogical information, and other materials related to the Whittle family, Christ Church, and Christ and Saint Luke's Church in Norfolk, Virginia. Handwritten genealogies trace the ancestry of several prominent connected Norfolk families, including Calvert, Dabney, Neilson, Page, and Walke. The scrapbook traces the Whittle family genealogy to Pocahontas. Much of the loose materials from the scrapbook relate to the...
Dates: created: 1860-1965, undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/18/1997

Edwin M. Chaffee Letter

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-558
Scope and Contents

One 1858 business letter from father to son concerning shingles and details about using a caloric engine.

Dates: created: 1858; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Edwin Robeson MacKethan, Jr. Papers

 Collection — 2 boxes
Identifier: MSS-2019-017
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, photographs, clippings, and other materials originally belonging to Edwin Robeson MacKethan, Jr. of Norfolk, Virginia. Topics are separated by theme: A. history of Norfolk banks, B. tunnels, bridges, and highways, C. other career items, D. banking, especially when MacKethan was President of the Trust Division of the American Bankers Association, and E. MacKethan's campaign for election to the Virginia House of Delegates. Most of the materials date from the 1950s to 1971.

Dates: created: 1946-1984; Other: Date acquired: 01/05/2019

Eleanor Shipp Johnson Papers

 Collection — 4 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-451
Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, and manuscripts of Eleanor Shipp Johnson from circa 1900s-1940s. The correspondence includes letters written by Anna Cogswell Wood in Florence and Montreux during the 1920s and letters from various publishers either accepting or rejecting Johnson's manuscripts for publication, roughly from 1900-1935. Johnson's notebooks and loose manuscripts contain materials that appear to be primarily written by her; many of these literary works portray racial stereotypes of...
Dates: created: 1873-1954; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000