Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Virginius Dabney Papers, Accession # 7690-c, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This holding was acquired as a gift on October 14, 1966.

Scope and Content Information

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.

The following items were transferred to serials, November 3, 1966

24 items, 1957-1958, Congressional committee reports and hearings

ca. 180 items, December 13, 1949-December 1, 1964, of the Bulletin of the American Society of Newpaper Editors

ca. 100 copies, September 13, 1954-October, 1964, of the newspaper The Augusta Courier , and 1 copy of The Southern Conservative

ca. 90 copies, November, 1957- November, 1964, of The Southern School News

Bound Volumes: The Southern School News

Volumes I and II (in one volume)-- September, 1954-June, 1956

Volume III--July, 1956-June, 1957

Volume IV--July, 1957-June, 1958