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A Guide to Henkel Family Papers, Accession 8653-k, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
These volumes were given to the Library by Professor Samuella H. Crim , New Market, Virginia , on November 20, 1991 , through Nancy Stewart of Broadway, Virginia .
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
This collection consists of two bound volumes, ca. 1870-1880, relating to the Library of the Lee Literary Society at the New Market Polytechnic Institute . The volumes are the Catalogue of Library of Lee Literary Society (listed according to the subject of the book), 175 pages, and Catalogue, Revised Index (of the Library's users), 97 pages.
According to Nancy Stewart , who is preparing A History of the Schools in New Market, Virginia , The Lee Literary Society flourished at the New Market Polytechnic Institute between the years 1870-1895. The books listed in the volumes constituted the lending library of the Lee Literary Society which also hosted debates during the school year, provided speakers at Commencement, and circulated books. These volumes shed light on the popularity of particular books and identifies which books were available for students at the time. (The related Minute and Record Books of the Trustees of the New Market Polytechnic Institute are also in Special Collections in Accession 8653-f, Box 3.)