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Repository
Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
Identification
Ms.1988.042
Title
Dorothy H. Bodell Papers, 1850-1996
Quantity
0.8 Cubic Feet, 2 boxes
Creator
Bodell, Dorothy H., 1931-
Language
The materials in the collection are in English.
Abstract
The collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings, correspondence, research notes, photocopies of historical documents,
and files Bodell compiled while writing her book.
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Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to research.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder],
Dorothy H. Bodell Papers, Ms88-042, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
Source of Acquisition
The materials about Dorothy H. Bodell's 40th high school reunion were originally donated in 1988. Additions of materials concerning
her research about Montgomery White Sulphur Springs were donated in 1994 and 1996.
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Dorothy H. Bodell Papers commenced in February 1998 and was completed
in June 1998.
Dorothy Heavener Bodell is a resident of Blacksburg, Virginia, and the author of Montgomery White Sulphur Springs: A History of the Resort, Hospital, Cemeteries, Markers, and Monuments , published by Pocahontas Press of Blacksburg in 1993.
Montgomery White Sulphur Springs was a Montgomery County, Virginia, natural mineral springs resort, established in the early
1850s, that quickly became one of the Virginia's most popular spas. During the Civil War the resort served as a major hospital
for Confederate wounded, tended by nuns supplied by the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy in Charleston, South Carolina.
After the war the resort returned to its former glory, and was visited by wealthy and notable people of the region and the
state. By 1890 Montgomery White Sulphur Springs began to decline in popularity, and the property was sold in 1904.
A marker and monument commemorating, and a cemetery of, the Confederate dead who died during the Civil War at Montgomery White
Sulphur Springs lays on the property, and is maintained by the Dr. Harvey Black chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
The collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings, correspondence, research notes, photocopies of historical documents,
and files Bodell compiled while writing her book. The collection also includes an audiotape (1992) of an interview of Mr.
and Mrs. Gilbert Cox about Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, photographs of the cemetery where the Confederate dead were buried,
and information about Bodell's 40th reunion of the class of 1948 from Blacksburg High School.
Photocopies of research files about Montgomery White Sulphur Springs (MWSS) from
1850 to 1960.
box-folder 1 folder: 2
Photocopy of an Act of Assembly incorporating MWSS,
1855-1856.
box-folder 1 folder: 3
Photocopies of newspapers clippings about MWSS,
1855-1932.
box-folder 1 folder: 4
Photocopies of articles describing MWSS during the Civil War, 1860s, including a list of Confederate soldier deaths.
box-folder 1 folder: 5
Photocopies of Sister Mary De Sales Brennan's letters to Bishop Patrick Lynch in Charleston, South Carolina,
1861-1864.
box-folder 1 folder: 6
Photocopies of research files with information about MWSS during the Civil War,
1861-1865.
box-folder 1 folder: 7
Miscellaneous research files,
1866-1886.
box-folder 1 folder: 8
Photocopies of writings about MWSS in the 1870s.
box-folder 1 folder: 9
Photocopies and research files,
1886-1889.
box-folder 1 folder: 10
Photocopies and research files,
1890-1904.
box-folder 1 folder: 11
Photocopies and research files,
1904-1992.
box-folder 1 folder: 12
Photocopy of "Bishop England's Sisterhood, 1881-1929," written by Sister M. Anne Francis Campbell, in 1968, with other research
files.
box-folder 1 folder: 13
Information about the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy,
1981-1992.
box-folder 1 folder: 14
Blacksburg [Virginia] High School class of 1948 reunion information, 1988, with a paper prepared by Bodell about how life
in Blacksburg has changed in 40 years.
box-folder 1 folder: 15
Information about the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy,
1992.
box-folder 1 folder: 16
Audiotape of an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Cox about MWSS,
1992.
box-folder 1 folder: 17
Photocopies and research files,
1992-1993.
box-folder 2 folder: 1
Photographs of MWSS Cemetery,
1993-1994.
box-folder 2 folder: 2
Typewritten and revised draft of Montgomery White Sulphur Springs: A History of the Resort, Hospital, Cemeteries, Markers, and Monuments ,
ca. 1993.
box-folder 2 folder: 3
Published copies of Montgomery White Sulphur Springs: A History of the Resort, Hospital, Cemeteries, Markers, and Monuments , published by Pocahontas Press of Blacksburg in
1993.
box-folder 2 folder: 4
Information about Bodell's search for a Civil War era painting of MWSS,
1993-1994.
box-folder 2 folder: 5
Photocopies and research files,
1993-1995.
box-folder 2 folder: 6
Information about "A Memorial Service for the Confederate Soldiers Buried at the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs," given
on May 22,
1994.
box-folder 2 folder: 7
Newspaper clippings about MWSS, the SMART Road, and Bodell,
1994.
box-folder 2 folder: 8
Letters to Bodell about MWSS and her book,
1994-1996.
box-folder 2 folder: 9
Manuscript notes taken of passages in History of the Confederated Memorial Associations of the South .
box-folder 2 folder: 10
Information about Catholic churches.
box-folder 2 folder: 11
Microfilm reel from the National Archives of hospital rolls information.