A Guide to the Virginius Dabney Papers 1944-1971
A Collection in
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 7690-m
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Virginius Dabney Papers, Accession # 7690-m, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This holding was acquired as a gift.
Scope and Content Information
The papers of Virginius Dabney contain extensive correspondence carried on by Dabney as editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch , in his personal life, and as a Pulitzer Prize- winning author. Other materials deal with his books such as Below the Potomac , The Dry Messiah , and Liberalism in the South , and much useful material collected as research material for these books is present. There is extensive material on the American Society of Newspaper Editors which Dabney served in various capacities including president. A great deal of useful material on race relations, African Americans, the N.A.A.C.P., etc., is present. Recent political history of Virginia is strongly represented in Dabney's correspondence as editor of Virginia's leading newspaper, and in his personal correspondence with figures such as Senator A. Willis Robinson, Francis Pickens Miller, and Senator Carter Glass.