Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Levi Pitman Papers, Accession 6707-f, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

These items were given to the Library by James P. Borden, Rochester, New York, on November 5, 1993.

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

This collection consists of two additional items pertaining to Levi Pitman (1807-1892), including a bound typescript copy of "Extracts from the Diaries of Levi Pitman of Mt. Olive, Shenandoah County, Virginia , 1845-1892" selected by Daniel W. Bly of Harrisonburg, Virginia, from the original diaries deposited in the Manuscripts Division of the Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library.

The other item is a bound receipt book kept by Levi Pitman and used as a commonplace book for recipes, home remedies and cures and other notes. These include directions for such products as Keller's white salve, labor saving soap, white and light bread, candles, a good cement, and cures for sore throat, the summer complaints, snake bite, scratches on a horse, and burns. The book has been professionally repaired and housed.