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Mary Oakley Hay Papers, Accession 5446, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
These papers were given to the Library on August 31, 1956, by Miss Mary Oakley Hay of Charlottesville, Virginia.
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
This collection consists of ca. 125 items, 1832, 1874, 1911-1933, and 1956-1964, and includes notes concerning American history, especially the War of 1812, and notes concerning furs and the fur trade; an address book; correspondence of Mary Oakley Hay ; an In Memoriam for Elizabeth Condit Hay (1808-1874); an obituary for Reverend Samuel Cox Hay (1836-1911); photographs of lake scenes and possibly one of Reverend Samuel Cox Hay ; and reports and other papers pertaining to the social work of Mary O. Hay .
Miss Hay served as the Organization Secretary, Women's Department, of the Greater New York Federation of Churches . Also present is a letter, December 3, 1832, from Silas Condit to his daughter, Mrs. E. P. [Trippe] , in which he describes his trip to Washington, D.C.