A Guide to the Papers of Virginius Dabney,
1960-1975 Dabney, Virginius, Papers of
7690-t
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Accession number 7690-t
Title Papers of Virginius Dabney
1960-1975
Physical Characteristics This collection
consists of 160 items.
Language
English
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions.
Use Restrictions
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University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
Virginius Dabney Papers, Accession #7690-t, Special
Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library,
Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This collection was deposited on 10 December 1975.
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.
Issues of
The Bulletin of the American Society
of Newspaper Editors (1975 Aug.-Dec.) Removed
pending transfer to VCU. 3 November 1977.
Box 1
Correspondence of Virginius Dabney and Robert
H. Meade
1969 April - 1974
April
Box 1
The Elizabethan background; also Vikings,
Explorers, Privateers
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
The Voyage, 1606 - 1607
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Flora and Fauna - Virginia, 1607
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Disease, Famine, Deaths - Jamestown, 1607 -
1610
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Miscellaneous, 1607 - 1610
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
John Smith's Record, Personality and Exploits
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
First General Assembly, 1609; Negroes - Maids
from England, 1611 - 1622
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Massacre, Mortality from Disease, 1611 - 1622
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Agriculture and Industry, 1611 - 1622
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Pocahontas - Marriage, England, and death,
1611 - 1622
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Social and Economic backgrounds of settlers,
Indentured servants, 1611 - 1622
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Negroes - Slaves, 1623 - 1663
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Great families - Social structure - Customs -
Gentlemen - Yeomen - Servants, 1623 - 1663
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
1644 Massacre - Early Explorers - Education -
Miscellaneous, 1623 - 1663
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Government, franchise, representation, church
and state, 1623 - 1663
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Tobacco - Industrial products, 1623 - 1663
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Through Bacon's Rebellion, 1664 - 1677
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Cultural Life, 1678 - 1700
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Valley and Southwest - Scotch - Irish -
Germans, 1701 - 1763
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Medicine - Ducking Stools - Miscellaneous,
1701 - 1763
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Slavery and Its Effects, 1701 - 1763
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
"King" Carter and His Class - Social
Institutes - Tobacco, 1701 - 1763
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Religious dissenters - Episcopal Clergy
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Alexander Spotswood - Golden Horseshoe -
Pirates, William Byrd, II, 1701 - 1763
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Stamp Act, 1st Continental Congress, Virginia
Conventions, 1764 - 1783
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
New Virginia Consititution, Entails,
Primogeniture, 1764 - 1783
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Great Figures of the Revolution - Madison,
Henry and R. H.
Lee
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Great Figures of the Revolution - Jefferson
and Marshall, Monroe and Mason, John Taylor of Caroline,
Randolph of Roanoke
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 1
Great Figures of the Revolution - Washington
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Slaves in the Revolution, etc.
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
The Revolution - Military Events, 1764 - 1783
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Valley and Southwest, 1764 - 1783
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
The Fight for Religious Freedom Education,
1764 - 1783
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Constitutional Convention of 1788 and
miscellaneous, 1784 - 1800
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Sectionalism - Correspondence, 1829 - 1830,
Turnpikes and Canals, 1800 - 1830
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Embargo, War of 1812, 1800 - 1830
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Slavery - Colonization Society
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Education - Dueling, 1800 - 1860
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Politics and Politicians - Ritchie and
Pleasants - Aaron Burr, 1800 - 1830
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Literary Achievement - Artists, 1830 - 1860
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Culture, Arts, Heath, Diversion, 1831 - 1860
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Slavery and miscellaneous, 1831 - 1860
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
The Decline of Virginia, 1831 - 1860
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Dred Scott, Uncle Tom's Cabin, John Brown,
Fort Sumter, Secession
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Lee's Shoeless, rag-tag troops, West Virginia
Breakaway, Dowdey, Chesnut, Blackford, Thomason books,
Norfolk in War (Wertenbaker)
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Jefferson Davis, John M. Daniel, Tredegar,
Hospitals, Merrimack, Northern "atrocities" 1861 - 1865
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Robert E.
Lee - Stonewall Jackson Jeb Stuart
and other Generals, miscellaneous, salt, iron and coal,
railroads, southern women, 1861 - 1865
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Desertions, Profiteering, Famine, Siege of
Petersburg, Fall of Richmond, Appomattox
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Negroes in the Civil War - First Manassas -
Northern and Southern prisons, 1861 - 1865
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Wells, Mahone, KKK, 1865 - 1870
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
War's devastation, Freedmen's Bureau, 1865 -
1870
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
A. H. Stuart's Committee of Nine, Education,
1865 - 1870
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 2
Convention 1867 - 1868, Underwood, Hunnicutt,
1865 - 1870
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Readjusters, Debt, Suffrage, Industrial
DuPont, Miscellaneous, 1865 - 1870
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Writers, Intersectional Relations,
Miscellaneous, 1866 - 1896
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Public Schools - Higher Education, 1871 -
1885
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Race Relations, Medicine, Miscellaneous, 1871
- 1883
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Mahone and Readjusters G. C. Walker, 1871 -
1885
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Martin, Glass, Daniel, Free Silver, Flood,
1886 - 1900
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Mahone's final efforts, J. M. Langston -
Booker T. Washington, 1886 - 1900
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Industry and Agriculture, Mckinney Populism -
O'Ferrall
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
SWVa. Politics - May Convention (1899) -
Tyler, 1900 - 1910
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Const. Conv. (1901 - 1902), 1900 - 1910
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Public School movement and Negro angle -
Prohibition - Dillard, 1900 - 1925
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Glasgow - Cabell - Freeman - Mary Johnston -
Willa Cather - Tabb, 1900 - 1950
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Montague, Swanson, Daniel, 1900 - 1925
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Glass, Jones, Martin Trimble, Davis, 1900 -
1925
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Social and Economic; Health - Wm. H. Mann,
1900 - 1925
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Harry F. Byrd, Negro issue, R. R. Moton,
World War I, Jamestown Expo., 1911 - 1925
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Stuart, Slemp, W. Wilson, Woman Suffrage and
Education, 1911 - 1925
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Byrd, Swanson, Glass, Pollard, Slemp, Peery,
1926 - 1942
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
James H. Price, Negroes, Depression and New
Deal,
County Officers, 1926 - 1942
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
World War II, 1941 - 1945
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Negroes, Population, Industry, Labor, Nelson
Flood, Massive Resistance, Interposition Pollution, 1943
- 1970
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Holton, Bill Battle, Fred Pollard, Howell,
Artists, Writers, Liquor by the Drink, F. P. Miller,
1943 - 1970
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Darden, Tuck, Norfolk, Parks, Recreation,
Howard Smith, Voting Scandals, HFB, Jr., James River,
Tourism, Southwest Virginia, 1943 - 1970
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
Battle, Stanley, Almond, City Government,
County Mergers, Glass, 1943 - 1970
ca. 1960 -
1970
Box 3
The Writing of History
1965 Oct. - 1968 Nov. &
n.d.
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