Manuscripts and Pamphlets

Algoma Log Book

The Algoma Log Book, written by Minnie Cox Graham over three summers, documents the visitors to Algoma and recorded the social activities of the young women and men of her acquaintance.

McGuffey School Scrapbook

This is a scrapbook with materials relating to the McGuffey School in Charlottesville, Va.

Memoirs of Leroy Wesley Cox

This is a photocopy of Memoirs of Leroy Wesley Cox: Experiences of a Young Soldier of the Confederacy as related to Ruth Ritchie, circa 1934.

This is the Genealogy of the Purvis Family From the Year 1739 to 1870 written by George E. Purvis (1870) and added to by Alice Lee Simpson Oliver. It includes marriage records found in Amherst and Nelson County, Virginia. This manuscript also...

Wingfield Family Papers

This is a collection of three letters concerning J.R. Wingfield's rejoining the 2nd Virginia Cavalry after his wounding and recovery.

Travis Family

This is a bound typescript of The Travis Family: From England to Virginia to Tennessee, 1066-1981 by Helen June (Williams) Waterfield. Included is the Coles family of Enniscorthy in Albemarle County, Virginia.