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Repository
Special Collections, University of Virginia
Library
Accession number
110
Title
Papers of the Aylett Family
ca.
1851-1896
Physical Characteristics
The collection
includes 21 notebooks kept by Aylett while a student at the
University of Virginia (1850-1854), and manuscripts of 19
speeches (1851-1854) delivered mainly to the Jefferson Society
at the University, the Sons of Temperance and the Young Men's
Literary Society.
The collection contains twenty-one notebooks kept by
William Roane Aylett while a student at the University of
Virginia, 1850-1854, together with nineteen speeches delivered
to various student societies and an essay on University life.
Family financial papers chiefly concern the settlement of
Philip Aylett's estate, ca.1852-1855, and Judith P. Aylett's
guardianship of minor children.
There are also include two notebooks kept by William's son
Philip at the Virginia Military Institute, 1884-1888; an
undated notebook on mesozoic flora, perhaps kept by Professor
W. M. Fontaine at the University of Virginia, 1879-1910; three
letters to Fontaine; and a series of clippings and comments on
antebellum politics.
Correspondents include Lester F. Ward of the United States
Geological Survey and President W. W. Smith of Randolph-Macon
College.