A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 1
Library of Virginia
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Charles Montriou Wallace Collection of Negro Melodies,
1896-1957. Accession 1, Personal papers collection, The
Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Charles Montriou Wallace, Jr. was born in Richmond,
Virginia on 22 November 1866 to Charles Montriou, Sr. and
Joyce Clopton Wallace. He was an attorney and served in the
Virginia House of Delegates from 1897 to 1904. He also wrote
The Boy Gangs of Richmond and
The History of the Capitol of
Virginia . He died on 22 April 1957 and was buried at
Hollywood Cemetery.
This collection of black songs was compiled by Wallace
through an anthropological interest in the music and verse of
Virginia's black population. Also, includes a few items from
other southern states. The melodies are fragments of hymns and
songs from antebellum days to the early twentieth century.