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The papers include diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files, organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883, but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations. There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond home, Virginia House. 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Consulate (Athens, Greece)","United States. Consulate (Calcutta, India)","United States. Consulate (Catania, Italy)","United States. Consulate (Mexico City, Mexico)","United States. Consulate (Zanzibar, Zanzibar)","United States. Department of State","United States. General and Special Claims Commissions","United States--Diplomatic and consular service--History--20th century","United States--Foreign relations--Argentina","United States--Foreign relations--Denmark","United States--Foreign relations--Greece","United States--Foreign relations--India","United States--Foreign relations--Italy","United States--Foreign relations--Mexico","United States--Foreign relations--Spain","United States--Foreign relations--Zanzibar","Virginia House (Richmond, Va.)","Virginia Museum of Fine Arts","Virginians--Argentina","Virginians--Mexico","Women's Council of the Navy League of the United States","Zanzibar","Zanzibar--Foreign relations--United States","The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n        diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n        attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n        the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n        made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n        possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n        organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n        fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n        organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n        Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n        examining the collection. ","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n        Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n        Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n        Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n        by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n        Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n        Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n        Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n        Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n        [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n        3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n        Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n        Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. ","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n        Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n        (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n        grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n        Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n        Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n        particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n        an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n        items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n        Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 ","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n        written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n        Weddell's personal and professional correspondence ","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n        with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n        correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n        include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n        Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n        Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n        Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n        President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n        interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n        Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n        Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n        Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n        Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n        begin in 1931. ","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n        1923-1927. ","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n        account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n        alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n        account holdings. ","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n        the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n        succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n        1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n        financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n        important interests, which the couple often shared. ","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n        cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n        years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n        programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n        variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n        general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n        Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n        D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n        Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n        includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n        Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n        Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n        several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n        (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n        collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n        Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n        also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. ","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n        an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n        support materials. ","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n        files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n        He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n        orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n        a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n        Pollard, 18 April 1931). ","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n        national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n        our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n        Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n        December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). ","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n        League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n        served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n        Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n        Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n        Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n        Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). ","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n        of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n        of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n        Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n        led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n        president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n        items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n        W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n        1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n        Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n        During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n        Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n        several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n        Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n        of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n        gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n        (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n        Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). ","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n        1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n        on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n        and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n        Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). ","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n        to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n        structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n        St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n        the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n        acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n        to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n        section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n        Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. ","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n        election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n        April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n        whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n        election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n        are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n        file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n        file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). ","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n        Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n        publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n        authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. ","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n        revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n        proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n        William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n        nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n        includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n        Wells (11 June 1938). ","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n        developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n        Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n        Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n        chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n        personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n        to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n        subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n        portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n        and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n        include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n        Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n        1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n        Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n        these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n        of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. ","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n        correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n        Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n        the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n        and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n        separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. ","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n        Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n        financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n        of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n        Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n        1942)."," Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n        Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n        had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n        An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n        Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n        to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n        House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n        servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n        extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n        The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n        Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n        photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n        volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n        loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n        include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n        Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n        various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n        Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. ","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n        separately. ","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n        and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n        the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n        her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n        (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n        Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). ","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n        mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n        helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n        Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n        the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n        correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n        miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n        (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n        include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n        illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n        widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n        fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n        files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n        relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n        California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. ","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n        collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n        patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n        Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n        and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n        Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n        Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n        refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. "," Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n        Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n        early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n        secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n        clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n        minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n        City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n        service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n        ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n        Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n        Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n        a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n        Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n        by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n        accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n        courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n        Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n        retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n        their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n        tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. ","Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n        organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n        correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n        miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n        collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n        correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n        should be examined thoroughly.","Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n        ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n        diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n        organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n        Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n        but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n        concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n        There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n        home, Virginia House. 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In the paragraphs which follow,\n        attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n        the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n        made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n        possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n        organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n        fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n        organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n        Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n        examining the collection. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n        Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n        Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n        Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n        by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n        Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n        Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n        Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n        Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n        [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n        3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n        Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n        Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n        Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n        (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n        grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n        Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n        Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n        particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n        an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n        items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n        Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n        written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n        Weddell's personal and professional correspondence \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n        with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n        correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n        include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n        Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n        Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n        Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n        President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n        interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n        Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n        Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n        Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n        Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n        begin in 1931. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n        1923-1927. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n        account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n        alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n        account holdings. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n        the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n        succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n        1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n        financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n        important interests, which the couple often shared. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n        cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n        years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n        programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n        variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n        general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n        Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n        D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n        Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n        includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n        Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n        Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n        several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n        (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n        collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n        Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n        also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n        an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n        support materials. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n        files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n        He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n        orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n        a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n        Pollard, 18 April 1931). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n        national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n        our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n        Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n        December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n        League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n        served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n        Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n        Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n        Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n        Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n        of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n        of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n        Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n        led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n        president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n        items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n        W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n        1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n        Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n        During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n        Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n        several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n        Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n        of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n        gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n        (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n        Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n        1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n        on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n        and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n        Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n        to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n        structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n        St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n        the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n        acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n        to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n        section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n        Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n        election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n        April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n        whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n        election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n        are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n        file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n        file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n        Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n        publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n        authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n        revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n        proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n        William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n        nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n        includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n        Wells (11 June 1938). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n        developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n        Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n        Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n        chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n        personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n        to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n        subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n        portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n        and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n        include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n        Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n        1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n        Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n        these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n        of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFiles for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n        correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n        Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n        the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n        and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n        separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n        Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n        financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n        of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n        Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n        1942).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n        Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n        had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n        An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n        Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n        to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n        House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n        servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n        extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n        The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n        Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n        photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n        volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n        loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n        include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n        Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n        various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n        Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n        separately. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n        and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n        the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n        her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n        (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n        Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n        mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n        helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n        Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n        the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n        correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n        miscellany (box 53).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n        (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n        include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n        illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n        widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n        fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n        files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n        relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n        California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n        collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n        patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n        Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n        and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n        Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n        Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n        refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. \u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n        diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n        attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n        the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n        made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n        possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n        organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n        fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n        organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n        Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n        examining the collection. ","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n        Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n        Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n        Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n        by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n        Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n        Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n        Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n        Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n        [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n        3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n        Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n        Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. ","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n        Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n        (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n        grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n        Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n        Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n        particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n        an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n        items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n        Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 ","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n        written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n        Weddell's personal and professional correspondence ","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n        with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n        correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n        include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n        Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n        Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n        Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n        President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n        interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n        Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n        Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n        Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n        Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n        begin in 1931. ","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n        1923-1927. ","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n        account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n        alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n        account holdings. ","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n        the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n        succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n        1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n        financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n        important interests, which the couple often shared. ","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n        cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n        years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n        programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n        variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n        general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n        Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n        D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n        Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n        includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n        Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n        Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n        several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n        (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n        collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n        Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n        also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. ","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n        an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n        support materials. ","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n        files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n        He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n        orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n        a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n        Pollard, 18 April 1931). ","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n        national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n        our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n        Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n        December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). ","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n        League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n        served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n        Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n        Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n        Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n        Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). ","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n        of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n        of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n        Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n        led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n        president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n        items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n        W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n        1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n        Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n        During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n        Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n        several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n        Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n        of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n        gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n        (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n        Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). ","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n        1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n        on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n        and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n        Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). ","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n        to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n        structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n        St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n        the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n        acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n        to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n        section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n        Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. ","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n        election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n        April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n        whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n        election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n        are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n        file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n        file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). ","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n        Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n        publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n        authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. ","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n        revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n        proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n        William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n        nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n        includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n        Wells (11 June 1938). ","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n        developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n        Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n        Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n        chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n        personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n        to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n        subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n        portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n        and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n        include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n        Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n        1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n        Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n        these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n        of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. ","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n        correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n        Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n        the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n        and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n        separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. ","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n        Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n        financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n        of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n        Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n        1942)."," Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n        Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n        had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n        An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n        Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n        to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n        House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n        servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n        extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n        The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n        Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n        photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n        volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n        loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n        include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n        Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n        various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n        Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. ","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n        separately. ","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n        and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n        the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n        her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n        (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n        Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). ","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n        mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n        helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n        Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n        the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n        correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n        miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n        (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n        include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n        illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n        widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n        fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n        files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n        relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n        California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. ","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n        collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n        patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n        Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n        and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n        Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n        Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n        refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. "],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n        Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n        early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n        secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n        clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n        minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n        City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n        service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n        ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n        Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n        Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n        a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n        Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n        by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n        accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n        courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n        Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n        retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n        their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n        tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":[" Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n        Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n        early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n        secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n        clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n        minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n        City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n        service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n        ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n        Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n        Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n        a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n        Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n        by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n        accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n        courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n        Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n        retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n        their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n        tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. "],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n        organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n        correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n        miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n        collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n        correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n        should be examined thoroughly.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n        organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n        correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n        miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n        collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n        correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n        should be examined thoroughly."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eMainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n        ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n        diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n        organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n        Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n        but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n        concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n        There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n        home, Virginia House. \u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n        ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n        diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n        organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n        Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n        but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n        concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n        There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n        home, Virginia House. "],"names_ssim":["Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy","Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964 ","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981 ","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923 ","Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 ","Lane, Arthur Bliss, 1894–1956","Montague, Andrew Jackson, 1862-1937 ","Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931","Morse, Henry Grant, 1884-1934","Olds, Robert Edwin, 1875-1932","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922","Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937","Protestant Episcopal Church Home for Ladies (Richmond, Va.)","Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962","Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945","Sheffield, James Rockwell, 1864–1938","Swanson, Claude Augustus, 1862-1939","Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930","Templewood, Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount, 1880-1959","Weddell, Alexander Watson, 1841-1883","Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948","Weddell, Elizabeth Wright, 1878-1955","Weddell, James, 1807-1865","Weddell, Margaret Ward, 1869-1935","Weddell, Penelope Margaret Wright, 1840-1901","Weddell, Virginia Chase Steedman, 1874-1948","Weddell, William Sparrow, 1874-1944","Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961","Williams, John L. (John Langbourne), 1831-1915","Williams, John Skelton, 1865-1926","Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924"],"famname_ssim":["Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy"],"persname_ssim":["Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964 ","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981 ","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923 ","Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 ","Lane, Arthur Bliss, 1894–1956","Montague, Andrew Jackson, 1862-1937 ","Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931","Morse, Henry Grant, 1884-1934","Olds, Robert Edwin, 1875-1932","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922","Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937","Protestant Episcopal Church Home for Ladies (Richmond, Va.)","Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962","Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945","Sheffield, James Rockwell, 1864–1938","Swanson, Claude Augustus, 1862-1939","Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930","Templewood, Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount, 1880-1959","Weddell, Alexander Watson, 1841-1883","Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948","Weddell, Elizabeth Wright, 1878-1955","Weddell, James, 1807-1865","Weddell, Margaret Ward, 1869-1935","Weddell, Penelope Margaret Wright, 1840-1901","Weddell, Virginia Chase Steedman, 1874-1948","Weddell, William Sparrow, 1874-1944","Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961","Williams, John L. (John Langbourne), 1831-1915","Williams, John Skelton, 1865-1926","Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924"],"language_ssim":["Materials in this collection are in\n           English . "],"total_component_count_is":32,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00023","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00023","_root_":"vihi_vih00023","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00023","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00023.xml","title_ssm":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers,  1888-1947"],"title_tesim":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers,  1888-1947"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W4126 b FA2 "],"text":["Mss1 W4126 b FA2 ","Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers,  1888-1947","American Red Cross","Argentina--Diplomats--United States","Argentina--Foreign relations--United States","Autobiography","Catania (Italy)","Charities--Virginia--Richmond--History--20th century","Copenhagen (Denmark)","Denmark--Foreign relations--United States","Diplomatic and consular service, American","Diplomatic and consular service--United States--History--20th century","Greece--Foreign relations--United States","India--Foreign relations--United States","Italy--Foreign relations--United States","Mexico--Foreign relations--United States","Richmond Community Fund (Richmond, Va.)","Southern Churchman","Spain--Foreign relations--United States","United States. Consulate (Athens, Greece)","United States. Consulate (Calcutta, India)","United States. Consulate (Catania, Italy)","United States. Consulate (Mexico City, Mexico)","United States. Consulate (Zanzibar, Zanzibar)","United States. Department of State","United States. General and Special Claims Commissions","United States--Diplomatic and consular service--History--20th century","United States--Foreign relations--Argentina","United States--Foreign relations--Denmark","United States--Foreign relations--Greece","United States--Foreign relations--India","United States--Foreign relations--Italy","United States--Foreign relations--Mexico","United States--Foreign relations--Spain","United States--Foreign relations--Zanzibar","Virginia House (Richmond, Va.)","Virginia Museum of Fine Arts","Virginians--Argentina","Virginians--Mexico","Women's Council of the Navy League of the United States","Zanzibar","Zanzibar--Foreign relations--United States","The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n        diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n        attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n        the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n        made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n        possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n        organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n        fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n        organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n        Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n        examining the collection. ","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n        Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n        Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n        Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n        by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n        Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n        Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n        Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n        Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n        [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n        3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n        Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n        Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. ","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n        Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n        (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n        grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n        Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n        Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n        particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n        an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n        items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n        Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 ","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n        written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n        Weddell's personal and professional correspondence ","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n        with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n        correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n        include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n        Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n        Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n        Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n        President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n        interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n        Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n        Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n        Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n        Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n        begin in 1931. ","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n        1923-1927. ","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n        account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n        alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n        account holdings. ","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n        the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n        succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n        1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n        financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n        important interests, which the couple often shared. ","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n        cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n        years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n        programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n        variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n        general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n        Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n        D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n        Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n        includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n        Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n        Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n        several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n        (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n        collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n        Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n        also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. ","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n        an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n        support materials. ","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n        files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n        He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n        orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n        a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n        Pollard, 18 April 1931). ","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n        national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n        our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n        Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n        December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). ","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n        League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n        served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n        Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n        Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n        Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n        Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). ","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n        of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n        of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n        Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n        led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n        president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n        items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n        W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n        1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n        Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n        During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n        Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n        several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n        Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n        of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n        gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n        (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n        Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). ","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n        1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n        on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n        and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n        Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). ","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n        to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n        structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n        St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n        the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n        acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n        to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n        section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n        Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. ","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n        election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n        April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n        whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n        election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n        are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n        file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n        file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). ","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n        Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n        publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n        authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. ","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n        revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n        proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n        William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n        nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n        includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n        Wells (11 June 1938). ","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n        developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n        Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n        Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n        chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n        personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n        to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n        subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n        portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n        and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n        include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n        Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n        1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n        Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n        these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n        of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. ","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n        correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n        Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n        the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n        and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n        separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. ","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n        Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n        financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n        of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n        Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n        1942)."," Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n        Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n        had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n        An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n        Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n        to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n        House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n        servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n        extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n        The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n        Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n        photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n        volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n        loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n        include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n        Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n        various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n        Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. ","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n        separately. ","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n        and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n        the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n        her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n        (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n        Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). ","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n        mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n        helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n        Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n        the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n        correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n        miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n        (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n        include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n        illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n        widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n        fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n        files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n        relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n        California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. ","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n        collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n        patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n        Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n        and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n        Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n        Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n        refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. "," Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n        Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n        early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n        secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n        clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n        minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n        City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n        service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n        ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n        Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n        Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n        a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n        Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n        by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n        accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n        courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n        Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n        retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n        their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n        tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. ","Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n        organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n        correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n        miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n        collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n        correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n        should be examined thoroughly.","Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n        ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n        diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n        organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n        Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n        but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n        concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n        There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n        home, Virginia House. 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In the paragraphs which follow,\n        attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n        the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n        made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n        possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n        organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n        fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n        organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n        Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n        examining the collection. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n        Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n        Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n        Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n        by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n        Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n        Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n        Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n        Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n        [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n        3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n        Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n        Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n        Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n        (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n        grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n        Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n        Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n        particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n        an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n        items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n        Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n        written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n        Weddell's personal and professional correspondence \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n        with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n        correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n        include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n        Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n        Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n        Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n        President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n        interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n        Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n        Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n        Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n        Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n        begin in 1931. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n        1923-1927. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n        account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n        alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n        account holdings. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n        the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n        succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n        1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n        financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n        important interests, which the couple often shared. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n        cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n        years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n        programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n        variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n        general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n        Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n        D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n        Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n        includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n        Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n        Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n        several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n        (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n        collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n        Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n        also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n        an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n        support materials. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n        files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n        He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n        orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n        a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n        Pollard, 18 April 1931). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n        national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n        our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n        Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n        December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n        League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n        served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n        Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n        Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n        Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n        Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n        of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n        of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n        Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n        led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n        president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n        items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n        W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n        1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n        Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n        During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n        Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n        several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n        Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n        of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n        gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n        (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n        Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n        1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n        on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n        and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n        Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n        to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n        structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n        St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n        the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n        acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n        to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n        section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n        Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n        election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n        April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n        whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n        election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n        are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n        file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n        file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n        Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n        publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n        authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n        revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n        proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n        William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n        nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n        includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n        Wells (11 June 1938). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n        developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n        Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n        Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n        chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n        personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n        to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n        subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n        portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n        and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n        include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n        Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n        1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n        Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n        these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n        of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFiles for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n        correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n        Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n        the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n        and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n        separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n        Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n        financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n        of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n        Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n        1942).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n        Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n        had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n        An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n        Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n        to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n        House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n        servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n        extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n        The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n        Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n        photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n        volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n        loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n        include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n        Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n        various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n        Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n        separately. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n        and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n        the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n        her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n        (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n        Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n        mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n        helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n        Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n        the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n        correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n        miscellany (box 53).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n        (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n        include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n        illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n        widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n        fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n        files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n        relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n        California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n        collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n        patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n        Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n        and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n        Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n        Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n        refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. \u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n        diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n        attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n        the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n        made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n        possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n        organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n        fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n        organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n        Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n        examining the collection. ","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n        Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n        Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n        Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n        by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n        Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n        Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n        Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n        Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n        [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n        3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n        Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n        Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. ","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n        Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n        (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n        grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n        Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n        Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n        particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n        an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n        items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n        Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 ","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n        written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n        Weddell's personal and professional correspondence ","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n        with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n        correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n        include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n        Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n        Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n        Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n        President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n        interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n        Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n        Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n        Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n        Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n        begin in 1931. ","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n        1923-1927. ","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n        account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n        alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n        account holdings. ","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n        the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n        succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n        1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n        financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n        important interests, which the couple often shared. ","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n        cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n        years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n        programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n        variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n        general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n        Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n        D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n        Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n        includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n        Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n        Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n        several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n        (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n        collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n        Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n        also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. ","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n        an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n        support materials. ","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n        files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n        He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n        orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n        a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n        Pollard, 18 April 1931). ","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n        national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n        our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n        Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n        December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). ","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n        League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n        served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n        Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n        Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n        Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n        Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). ","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n        of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n        of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n        Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n        led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n        president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n        items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n        W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n        1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n        Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n        During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n        Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n        several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n        Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n        of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n        gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n        (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n        Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). ","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n        1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n        on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n        and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n        Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). ","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n        to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n        structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n        St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n        the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n        acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n        to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n        section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n        Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. ","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n        election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n        April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n        whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n        election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n        are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n        file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n        file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). ","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n        Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n        publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n        authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. ","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n        revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n        proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n        William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n        nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n        includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n        Wells (11 June 1938). ","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n        developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n        Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n        Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n        chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n        personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n        to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n        subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n        portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n        and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n        include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n        Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n        1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n        Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n        these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n        of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. ","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n        correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n        Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n        the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n        and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n        separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. ","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n        Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n        financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n        of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n        Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n        1942)."," Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n        Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n        had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n        An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n        Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n        to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n        House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n        servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n        extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n        The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n        Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n        photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n        volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n        loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n        include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n        Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n        various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n        Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. ","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n        separately. ","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n        and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n        the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n        her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n        (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n        Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). ","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n        mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n        helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n        Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n        the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n        correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n        miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n        (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n        include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n        illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n        widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n        fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n        files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n        relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n        California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. ","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n        collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n        patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n        Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n        and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n        Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n        Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n        refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. "],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n        Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n        early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n        secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n        clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n        minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n        City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n        service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n        ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n        Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n        Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n        a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n        Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n        by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n        accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n        courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n        Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n        retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n        their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n        tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":[" Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n        Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n        early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n        secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n        clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n        minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n        City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n        service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n        ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n        Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n        Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n        a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n        Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n        by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n        accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n        courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n        Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n        retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n        their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n        tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. "],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n        organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n        correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n        miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n        collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n        correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n        should be examined thoroughly.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n        organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n        correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n        miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n        collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n        correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n        should be examined thoroughly."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eMainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n        ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n        diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n        organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n        Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n        but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n        concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n        There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n        home, Virginia House. \u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n        ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n        diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n        organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n        Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n        but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n        concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n        There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n        home, Virginia House. "],"names_ssim":["Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy","Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964 ","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981 ","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. 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The first three boxes contain general correspondence, which is primarily of biographical interest, although there are some items, especially the 1939 letters from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and senators Carter Glass and Harry F. Byrd, that have historical value. The correspondence with Judges John J. Parker and Morris A. Soper in the general files, as well as in the court materials, yield very little information about the cases the three were considering. Other correspondents who wrote Dobie one or two letters of interest were Felix Frankfurter, Stanley Reed, Roscoe Pound, Samuel Williston, Manton Davis, and many former University classmates and students. The general correspondence files were kept alphabetically by correspondent's name or, occasionally, by subject, and within the alphabetical division the correspondence is arranged chronologically. 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School of Law -- History","There are no restrictions.","Armistead Mason Dobie was born 15 April 1881 to Mary Kearns Cooke and Richard Augustus Dobie of Norfolk, Virginia. Armistead entered the University of Virginia and earned three degrees in rapid succession: BA in 1901, MA in 1902, and LLB in 1904. He left Charlottesville to practice law in St. Louis, Missouri, but returned to his alma mater in 1907 to teach law and to re-establish the close ties with the University which he would maintain the rest of his life. When Dobie joined the faculty, he assumed the teaching duties of Dean William M. Lile, who was temporarily absent due to ill health. Lile returned, and Dobie remained on the faculty, becoming a full professor in 1909.","  World War I claimed Dobie's service in 1917. He was commissioned a captain in the US Army and became an aide to General Adelbert Cronkhite, with whom he went to France. Before the war was over, Dobie was promoted to major and was made assistant to the chief of staff of the 80th Infantry Division. He was recommended for the Distinguished Service Order (DSO), and the French honored him by making him an Officier of the Order of Academic Palms.","  After the war was over, Dobie returned to Charlottesville, but instead of teaching, he served for a year as the executive director of the University's drive for the Centennial Endowment Fund. The following year, Dobie went to Harvard Law School and began work on an SJD. In the summer of 1922, Dobie studied at Columbia's graduate school of jurisprudence, returning to Charlottesville in time to begin the fall term.","  At the time Dobie joined the faculty, the Law School program increased from a mandatory two to three years. Dobie taught three required courses --criminal law, federal procedure, and probate and administration- - and six electives --Roman law, master and servant, carriers and bailments, code pleading, public officers, and taxation and tax titles. Upon his return from Harvard, Dobie began employing the case method. Young faculty members followed Dobie's lead. With Dean Lile's retirement in 1932, Dobie was appointed dean of the Law School and served in that position until 1939, although ill health in 1936 caused him to relinquish the dean's duties for year or so.","  Armistead Dobie wrote a definitive work on the law of bailments and carriers, a widely respected casebook, and several treatises on federal jurisdiction and procedure, and numerous articles for the Virginia, Harvard, and Yale law reviews. In the mid-1930's he was appointed special assistant to the US Attorney General, and served for over twenty years. He also served as legal advisor to the Conflict of Laws Section of the American Law Institute, and was appointed by the US Supreme Court to a committee of fourteen to make procedure in federal districts courts uniform nationwide.","  In May of 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt offered Dobie the newly created judgeship on the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia, with the promise that he might move to the Fourth Circuit when vacancy occurred. Dobie accepted. True to his word, Roosevelt appointed him to the Fourth Circuit Court only six months later.","  From early in 1940 until the first of February 1956, Armistead Dobie served on the Fourth Circuit Court with Senior Judges John J. Parker and Morris A. Soper. Dobie heard almost 1400 cases during his sixteen years on the Circuit Court bench, and wrote over 450 opinions; he dissented from his colleagues on six occasions, and was upheld by the Supreme Court in four of those opinions.","  The most historically significant cases Dobie heard were those involving school segregation. The decisions he helped reach on these cases reflected his firm belief that African Americans should have facilities as nearly equal to whites as possible, and his reluctance or disinclination to go against the segregation pattern established by  Plessy v. Ferguson .","  Judge Dobie officially retired from the bench on the first of February 1956 in poor health. After many months of complete rest, he recovered somewhat, and on 18 July 1958, he married a long-time Charlottesville friend, Elizabeth McKenny. He lived out the rest of his life at their home in Charlottesville, dying at 81 on 8 August 1962.","The papers of Armistead M. Dobie span the years 1902 to 1963, with the bulk of the material covering 1939 to 1956, the years of Dobie's judgeship. The first three boxes contain general correspondence, which is primarily of biographical interest, although there are some items, especially the 1939 letters from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and senators Carter Glass and Harry F. Byrd, that have historical value. The correspondence with Judges John J. Parker and Morris A. Soper in the general files, as well as in the court materials, yield very little information about the cases the three were considering. Other correspondents who wrote Dobie one or two letters of interest were Felix Frankfurter, Stanley Reed, Roscoe Pound, Samuel Williston, Manton Davis, and many former University classmates and students. The general correspondence files were kept alphabetically by correspondent's name or, occasionally, by subject, and within the alphabetical division the correspondence is arranged chronologically. Following the correspondence are four notebooks of mimeographed \"textbooks\" from Dobie's graduate studies at Harvard and teaching at Virginia in the 1920s.","  Boxes four and five contain drafts of speeches arranged alphabetically by title or subject. Boxes six through fifteen contain court materials that include records, briefs, and correspondence for a small percentage of the cases Dobie heard. There are few notes and drafts or copies of the opinions he wrote. There are several folders on the  Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward  for both the 1951 and 1955 hearings; also of interest is Judge Waties Waring's dissenting opinion on the Davis \"sister\" case,  Briggs v. Elliott . 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He left Charlottesville to practice law in St. Louis, Missouri, but returned to his alma mater in 1907 to teach law and to re-establish the close ties with the University which he would maintain the rest of his life. When Dobie joined the faculty, he assumed the teaching duties of Dean William M. Lile, who was temporarily absent due to ill health. Lile returned, and Dobie remained on the faculty, becoming a full professor in 1909.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  World War I claimed Dobie's service in 1917. He was commissioned a captain in the US Army and became an aide to General Adelbert Cronkhite, with whom he went to France. Before the war was over, Dobie was promoted to major and was made assistant to the chief of staff of the 80th Infantry Division. He was recommended for the Distinguished Service Order (DSO), and the French honored him by making him an Officier of the Order of Academic Palms.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  After the war was over, Dobie returned to Charlottesville, but instead of teaching, he served for a year as the executive director of the University's drive for the Centennial Endowment Fund. The following year, Dobie went to Harvard Law School and began work on an SJD. In the summer of 1922, Dobie studied at Columbia's graduate school of jurisprudence, returning to Charlottesville in time to begin the fall term.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  At the time Dobie joined the faculty, the Law School program increased from a mandatory two to three years. Dobie taught three required courses --criminal law, federal procedure, and probate and administration- - and six electives --Roman law, master and servant, carriers and bailments, code pleading, public officers, and taxation and tax titles. Upon his return from Harvard, Dobie began employing the case method. Young faculty members followed Dobie's lead. With Dean Lile's retirement in 1932, Dobie was appointed dean of the Law School and served in that position until 1939, although ill health in 1936 caused him to relinquish the dean's duties for year or so.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  Armistead Dobie wrote a definitive work on the law of bailments and carriers, a widely respected casebook, and several treatises on federal jurisdiction and procedure, and numerous articles for the Virginia, Harvard, and Yale law reviews. In the mid-1930's he was appointed special assistant to the US Attorney General, and served for over twenty years. 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Dobie heard almost 1400 cases during his sixteen years on the Circuit Court bench, and wrote over 450 opinions; he dissented from his colleagues on six occasions, and was upheld by the Supreme Court in four of those opinions.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  The most historically significant cases Dobie heard were those involving school segregation. The decisions he helped reach on these cases reflected his firm belief that African Americans should have facilities as nearly equal to whites as possible, and his reluctance or disinclination to go against the segregation pattern established by \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ePlessy v. Ferguson\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  Judge Dobie officially retired from the bench on the first of February 1956 in poor health. After many months of complete rest, he recovered somewhat, and on 18 July 1958, he married a long-time Charlottesville friend, Elizabeth McKenny. 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He was commissioned a captain in the US Army and became an aide to General Adelbert Cronkhite, with whom he went to France. Before the war was over, Dobie was promoted to major and was made assistant to the chief of staff of the 80th Infantry Division. He was recommended for the Distinguished Service Order (DSO), and the French honored him by making him an Officier of the Order of Academic Palms.","  After the war was over, Dobie returned to Charlottesville, but instead of teaching, he served for a year as the executive director of the University's drive for the Centennial Endowment Fund. The following year, Dobie went to Harvard Law School and began work on an SJD. In the summer of 1922, Dobie studied at Columbia's graduate school of jurisprudence, returning to Charlottesville in time to begin the fall term.","  At the time Dobie joined the faculty, the Law School program increased from a mandatory two to three years. Dobie taught three required courses --criminal law, federal procedure, and probate and administration- - and six electives --Roman law, master and servant, carriers and bailments, code pleading, public officers, and taxation and tax titles. Upon his return from Harvard, Dobie began employing the case method. Young faculty members followed Dobie's lead. With Dean Lile's retirement in 1932, Dobie was appointed dean of the Law School and served in that position until 1939, although ill health in 1936 caused him to relinquish the dean's duties for year or so.","  Armistead Dobie wrote a definitive work on the law of bailments and carriers, a widely respected casebook, and several treatises on federal jurisdiction and procedure, and numerous articles for the Virginia, Harvard, and Yale law reviews. In the mid-1930's he was appointed special assistant to the US Attorney General, and served for over twenty years. He also served as legal advisor to the Conflict of Laws Section of the American Law Institute, and was appointed by the US Supreme Court to a committee of fourteen to make procedure in federal districts courts uniform nationwide.","  In May of 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt offered Dobie the newly created judgeship on the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia, with the promise that he might move to the Fourth Circuit when vacancy occurred. Dobie accepted. True to his word, Roosevelt appointed him to the Fourth Circuit Court only six months later.","  From early in 1940 until the first of February 1956, Armistead Dobie served on the Fourth Circuit Court with Senior Judges John J. Parker and Morris A. Soper. Dobie heard almost 1400 cases during his sixteen years on the Circuit Court bench, and wrote over 450 opinions; he dissented from his colleagues on six occasions, and was upheld by the Supreme Court in four of those opinions.","  The most historically significant cases Dobie heard were those involving school segregation. The decisions he helped reach on these cases reflected his firm belief that African Americans should have facilities as nearly equal to whites as possible, and his reluctance or disinclination to go against the segregation pattern established by  Plessy v. Ferguson .","  Judge Dobie officially retired from the bench on the first of February 1956 in poor health. After many months of complete rest, he recovered somewhat, and on 18 July 1958, he married a long-time Charlottesville friend, Elizabeth McKenny. He lived out the rest of his life at their home in Charlottesville, dying at 81 on 8 August 1962."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Armistead M. 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Soper in the general files, as well as in the court materials, yield very little information about the cases the three were considering. Other correspondents who wrote Dobie one or two letters of interest were Felix Frankfurter, Stanley Reed, Roscoe Pound, Samuel Williston, Manton Davis, and many former University classmates and students. The general correspondence files were kept alphabetically by correspondent's name or, occasionally, by subject, and within the alphabetical division the correspondence is arranged chronologically. Following the correspondence are four notebooks of mimeographed \"textbooks\" from Dobie's graduate studies at Harvard and teaching at Virginia in the 1920s.","  Boxes four and five contain drafts of speeches arranged alphabetically by title or subject. Boxes six through fifteen contain court materials that include records, briefs, and correspondence for a small percentage of the cases Dobie heard. 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Dobie taught three required courses --criminal law, federal procedure, and probate and administration- - and six electives --Roman law, master and servant, carriers and bailments, code pleading, public officers, and taxation and tax titles. Upon his return from Harvard, Dobie began employing the case method. Young faculty members followed Dobie's lead. With Dean Lile's retirement in 1932, Dobie was appointed dean of the Law School and served in that position until 1939, although ill health in 1936 caused him to relinquish the dean's duties for year or so.","  Armistead Dobie wrote a definitive work on the law of bailments and carriers, a widely respected casebook, and several treatises on federal jurisdiction and procedure, and numerous articles for the Virginia, Harvard, and Yale law reviews. In the mid-1930's he was appointed special assistant to the US Attorney General, and served for over twenty years. He also served as legal advisor to the Conflict of Laws Section of the American Law Institute, and was appointed by the US Supreme Court to a committee of fourteen to make procedure in federal districts courts uniform nationwide.","  In May of 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt offered Dobie the newly created judgeship on the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia, with the promise that he might move to the Fourth Circuit when vacancy occurred. Dobie accepted. True to his word, Roosevelt appointed him to the Fourth Circuit Court only six months later.","  From early in 1940 until the first of February 1956, Armistead Dobie served on the Fourth Circuit Court with Senior Judges John J. Parker and Morris A. Soper. Dobie heard almost 1400 cases during his sixteen years on the Circuit Court bench, and wrote over 450 opinions; he dissented from his colleagues on six occasions, and was upheld by the Supreme Court in four of those opinions.","  The most historically significant cases Dobie heard were those involving school segregation. The decisions he helped reach on these cases reflected his firm belief that African Americans should have facilities as nearly equal to whites as possible, and his reluctance or disinclination to go against the segregation pattern established by  Plessy v. Ferguson .","  Judge Dobie officially retired from the bench on the first of February 1956 in poor health. After many months of complete rest, he recovered somewhat, and on 18 July 1958, he married a long-time Charlottesville friend, Elizabeth McKenny. He lived out the rest of his life at their home in Charlottesville, dying at 81 on 8 August 1962."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Armistead M. Dobie span the years 1902 to 1963, with the bulk of the material covering 1939 to 1956, the years of Dobie's judgeship. The first three boxes contain general correspondence, which is primarily of biographical interest, although there are some items, especially the 1939 letters from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and senators Carter Glass and Harry F. Byrd, that have historical value. The correspondence with Judges John J. Parker and Morris A. Soper in the general files, as well as in the court materials, yield very little information about the cases the three were considering. Other correspondents who wrote Dobie one or two letters of interest were Felix Frankfurter, Stanley Reed, Roscoe Pound, Samuel Williston, Manton Davis, and many former University classmates and students. The general correspondence files were kept alphabetically by correspondent's name or, occasionally, by subject, and within the alphabetical division the correspondence is arranged chronologically. Following the correspondence are four notebooks of mimeographed \"textbooks\" from Dobie's graduate studies at Harvard and teaching at Virginia in the 1920s.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  Boxes four and five contain drafts of speeches arranged alphabetically by title or subject. Boxes six through fifteen contain court materials that include records, briefs, and correspondence for a small percentage of the cases Dobie heard. There are few notes and drafts or copies of the opinions he wrote. There are several folders on the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDavis v. County School Board of Prince Edward\u003c/emph\u003e for both the 1951 and 1955 hearings; also of interest is Judge Waties Waring's dissenting opinion on the Davis \"sister\" case, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBriggs v. Elliott\u003c/emph\u003e. The cases are arranged chronologically, and are followed by a box containing the dockets for the Fourth Circuit from 1948 to 1956.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  Box fifteen also contains notebooks regarding the work of the US Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure, and of a committee studying the jury system.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The papers of Armistead M. Dobie span the years 1902 to 1963, with the bulk of the material covering 1939 to 1956, the years of Dobie's judgeship. The first three boxes contain general correspondence, which is primarily of biographical interest, although there are some items, especially the 1939 letters from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and senators Carter Glass and Harry F. Byrd, that have historical value. The correspondence with Judges John J. Parker and Morris A. Soper in the general files, as well as in the court materials, yield very little information about the cases the three were considering. Other correspondents who wrote Dobie one or two letters of interest were Felix Frankfurter, Stanley Reed, Roscoe Pound, Samuel Williston, Manton Davis, and many former University classmates and students. The general correspondence files were kept alphabetically by correspondent's name or, occasionally, by subject, and within the alphabetical division the correspondence is arranged chronologically. Following the correspondence are four notebooks of mimeographed \"textbooks\" from Dobie's graduate studies at Harvard and teaching at Virginia in the 1920s.","  Boxes four and five contain drafts of speeches arranged alphabetically by title or subject. Boxes six through fifteen contain court materials that include records, briefs, and correspondence for a small percentage of the cases Dobie heard. There are few notes and drafts or copies of the opinions he wrote. There are several folders on the  Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward  for both the 1951 and 1955 hearings; also of interest is Judge Waties Waring's dissenting opinion on the Davis \"sister\" case,  Briggs v. Elliott . The cases are arranged chronologically, and are followed by a box containing the dockets for the Fourth Circuit from 1948 to 1956.","  Box fifteen also contains notebooks regarding the work of the US Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure, and of a committee studying the jury system."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"names_coll_ssim":["United States. Court of Appeals (4th Circuit)","United States. Supreme Court. Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure","Byrd, Harry F. 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Harrison Mann, Jr. papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1832-1979"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1832-1979"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["C0094","/repositories/2/resources/596"],"text":["C0094","/repositories/2/resources/596","C. Harrison Mann, Jr. papers","Virginia -- Politics and government -- 20th century","United States -- Politics and government","Education -- Political aspects -- Virginia","Legislators -- United States","Bills, Legislative -- United States","Transportation","Correspondence","Newspapers","This collection is housed at the WRLC Shared Collections Facility. Advance notice will be required to access any materials.","There are no access restrictions.","Selections from the C. Harrison Mann papers are also available in the  .","Charles Harrison Mann, Jr. was born in Alabama in 1908 and received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1931. He subsequently became an attorney both in Washington, D.C. and in Arlington, Virginia where he and his wife Betty Hart Mann, maintained their home. In 1949, while serving as President of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the University of Virginia Alumni Association, Mann organized an exploratory committee of local citizens to develop support for higher education in Northern Virginia. Through these efforts, the Northern Virginia Center of the University opened in October 1, 1949."," In 1953 Mann organized the Advisory Council to the Northern Virginia Center, which agreed that a two-year branch college should be established. Elected as a Democrat to the Virginia House of Delegates from 1954-1970, Mann sponsored a resolution calling for a study of educational needs for Virginia, and was instrumental in recommending the development of a college system in Virginia, particularly the establishment of a branch in Northern Virginia."," Mann was responsible for creating an educational financial assistance program for Virginia college students, and was instrumental in sponsoring legislation allowing local governments to form regional boards to acquire and transfer land and buildings for educational use."," He also served as the Chairman of George Mason College's first Board of Control. He sponsored bills constituting George Mason College as a branch of the University of Virginia and later elevating it to a four year division of the University with the right to grant degrees and offer graduate program. He served on the GMU Board of Visitors from 1975 to 1977. He died in 1977.","Processed by Special Collections Research Center staff. EAD markup completed in March 2009 by Eron Ackerman and Jordan Patty, revised by Amanda Menjivar in 2016. Reprocessed by Amanda Menjivar in 2016.","The Special Collections Research Center also holds other personal papers and organizational records on the politics of Northern Virginia as well as the George Mason University archives. In addition, there is the C. Harrison Mann, Jr. collection of rare books and atlases that can be found searching the  . as well as the  .","Comprises C. Harrison Mann, Jr.'s personal papers and handwritten draft of his history of George Mason University. Papers pertain to his political career and include subject files, memoranda, campaign materials, speeches, newsclippings, maps, and other related materials."," Series 1: Correspondence (1935 - 1971) documents Mann's typed and handwritten correspondence with multiple parties over most of the twentieth century. Notable correspondents include Senator Harry F. Byrd, Judge William Moncure, and Virginia Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr."," Series 2: General Assembly (1950 - 1970) documents Mann's time in the Virginia General Assembly, and is divided into two subseries. Series 2.1: General Assembly Correspondence. Series 2.2: General Assembly Subject Files, with subjects including the Civil War Commission, Clippings, Education, Insurance, and Schools Data."," Series 3: Career (1945 - 1970) documents Mann's political career, local and national politics, and legislation, and is divided into three subseries. Series 3.1: Speeches, Public Engagements and Press Releases. Series 3.2: Legislation, Congressional Resolutions and Documents, includes documents on bills passed and killed, the Gray Commission and the Perrow Commission (both as a result of Brown v. Board of Education), and Senate and House Bills and Joint Resolutions. Series 3.3: Politics and Platforms, includes documents on various local and national political campaigns, the Democratic Executive Committee, primaries, elections, and special sessions."," Series 4: George Mason University (1958 - 1978) documents Mann's involvement with the founding of George Mason University (G.M.U.) and is divided into three subseries. Series 4.1: Correspondence, includes correspondence concerning G.M.U. during the years 1964 - 1971. Series 4.2: Newspaper Clippings, includes newspaper articles on student housing, new buildings, student protests, and college plans. Series 4.3: Subject Files, includes documents on the G.M.U. Advisory Board, the G.M.U. Broadside Newspaper, the G.M.U. Law School, and pamphlets."," Series 5: Subject and Miscellaneous Files (1832 - 1979) documents numerous subjects and is divided into two subseries. 5.1: Subject Files, includes documents with subjects ranging from civil defense, Communism, mental health, to historical newspapers, newspaper clippings, copies of historical maps, education, and Mann's personal documents. It also includes a large portion on transportation, with documents pertaining to billboards, trucks, highways, traffic safety, and other transportation-related subjects. 5.2: Miscellaneous Files, includes Mann's personal slides collection and political endorsements notecards.","Materials created before 1928 are in the Public Domain with no known restrictions. The following statement applies to all other materials: The copyright and related rights status of this collection have not been evaluated (See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/)","Comprises C. 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Law School, and pamphlets."," Series 5: Subject and Miscellaneous Files (1832 - 1979) documents numerous subjects and is divided into two subseries. 5.1: Subject Files, includes documents with subjects ranging from civil defense, Communism, mental health, to historical newspapers, newspaper clippings, copies of historical maps, education, and Mann's personal documents. It also includes a large portion on transportation, with documents pertaining to billboards, trucks, highways, traffic safety, and other transportation-related subjects. 5.2: Miscellaneous Files, includes Mann's personal slides collection and political endorsements notecards."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMaterials created before 1928 are in the Public Domain with no known restrictions. 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He subsequently became an attorney both in Washington, D.C. and in Arlington, Virginia where he and his wife Betty Hart Mann, maintained their home. In 1949, while serving as President of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the University of Virginia Alumni Association, Mann organized an exploratory committee of local citizens to develop support for higher education in Northern Virginia. Through these efforts, the Northern Virginia Center of the University opened in October 1, 1949."," In 1953 Mann organized the Advisory Council to the Northern Virginia Center, which agreed that a two-year branch college should be established. Elected as a Democrat to the Virginia House of Delegates from 1954-1970, Mann sponsored a resolution calling for a study of educational needs for Virginia, and was instrumental in recommending the development of a college system in Virginia, particularly the establishment of a branch in Northern Virginia."," Mann was responsible for creating an educational financial assistance program for Virginia college students, and was instrumental in sponsoring legislation allowing local governments to form regional boards to acquire and transfer land and buildings for educational use."," He also served as the Chairman of George Mason College's first Board of Control. He sponsored bills constituting George Mason College as a branch of the University of Virginia and later elevating it to a four year division of the University with the right to grant degrees and offer graduate program. He served on the GMU Board of Visitors from 1975 to 1977. 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From 1942 to 1946 he served in the United States Naval Reserve, retiring with the rank of lieutenant.","He was also an active community member serving on a number of boards and was the first president of The West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, 1939 to 1940.","After an unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination to the House of Representatives in 1956, Governor Cecil Underwood appointed Hoblitzell to fill the vacancy of deceased U.S. Senator Matthew Neely. He was defeated by Jennings Randolph when he tried to claim the office by election in 1958.  ","He continued his business career after leaving the Senate.  He died in Clarksburg, West Virginia, in 1962.","[Biographical information adapted from a Wikipedia article \"John D. 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Va.)","Shenandoah River (Va. and W. Va.)","Editing","Books -- History","Letters (correspondence)","Manuscripts (documents)","Printed Ephemera","Collection open to research. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection. Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this collection.","Julia McDonald Davis (1900-1993) was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia to John W. Davis, a U.S. Congressman, and Julia T. Davis. She attended Wellesely College and graduated from Barnard College in 1922. Davis primarily wrote historical fiction for children and adults. Two of her children's books were awarded with the Newberry Honor Award. She wrote  The Shenandoah  (1945), as part of Farrar \u0026 Rhinehart's Rivers of America series. Davis also published under the pseudonym F. Draco.","Davis lived the bulk of her life in West Virginia and was married four times. While writing  The Shenandoah , Davis was married to Paul West. Correspondence to her within this collection is addressed accordingly. Davis was the foster mother of Ramon and Andrea Sender, two siblings from Spain who came to the United States as refugees during the Spanish Civil War.","Folders containing chapter drafts are titled according to their final chapter numbers and titles in the published version of  The Shenandoah  which may vary slightly from the draft title.","Julia McDonald Davis (1900-1993) Papers, A\u0026M 1856, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.","The collection comprises correspondence, manuscript drafts, research materials, and printed ephemera relating to Julia Davis's book  The Shenandoah . The book focuses on the history of the Shenandoah River and surrounding Shenandoah Valley and was published as part of Farrar \u0026 Rhinehart's Rivers of America series. The books comprising the Rivers of America series were written by novelists, poets, and literary figures rather than historians.","The correspondence primarily comprises responses from librarians, historians, professors, local chambers of commerce, and other subject matter specialists discussing sundry topics covered in the book as well as suggested edits to the manuscript. The Native American presence and influence in the Shenandoah Valley is a common topic, as is the Civil War, European settlers, industries, farming, and agriculture. Correspondence from Davis's editors at Farrar \u0026 Rhinehart is also included.","Two letters from Stephen Vincent Benét, who was one of the editors of the series until his death in 1943, invite Davis to write  The Shenandoah  and discuss the timeline for publication.","A September 24, 1944 letter to Davis from John Yates McDonald of Orchard Lodge in Charles Town, West Virginia discusses edits to Chapter 24: Fool's Gold and True Gold, specifically in reference to apple growing.","A letter regarding applications for Voluntary Departure and Pre-examination on behalf of siblings Ramon and Andrea Sender is included but does not appear to have any relevance to Davis's writing. Davis was the Sender children's foster mother after they came to the United States from Spain as refugees.","The John Wayland correspondence, comprising 14 letters and a partial letter, is foldered separately.","The \"Postscript\" of  The Shenandoah  discusses two 1945 proposed dams on the Shenandoah River - one at Millville near Harpers Ferry and one on the North Fork at Brocks Gap. Reports and correspondence from Harry Flood Byrd discussing these proposed but ultimately not implemented flood control measures are included.","In the correspondence Davis is usually addressed as Mrs. West. She was married to her second husband, Paul West, from 1934 to 1949.","Research materials include brochures, postcards, and pamphlets and other printed ephemera documenting Shenandoah Valley destinations, geographical features, towns, families, and institutions covered in  The Shenandoah . Notably, numerous brochures document Storer College, a historically Black college located in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. These items were provided to Davis by local chambers of commerce, libraries, authors, and historians to support her research. Other research materials include Library of Congress reading room slips, book lists, and bibliographies.","The collection also includes several full and partial chapter drafts with handwritten annotations and edits. It's presumed that some, if not all, of the annotated drafts were marked up and sent to Davis by people with whom she was corresponding.","Two copies of  The Shenandoah , including one paperback proof copy, were removed the collection and cataloged bibliographically. A two-volume set of  The Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét , in which the two letters from Benét to Davis were laid in, was also cataloged bibliographically.","The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).","The collection comprises correspondence, manuscript drafts, research materials, and printed ephemera relating to Julia Davis's book  The Shenandoah .","James Madison University Libraries Special Collections","Jeffrey S. Evans \u0026 Associates","Library of Congress -- History","Storer College","Capon Springs and Baths (W. Va.)","Shenandoah National Park (Agency : U.S.)","Davis, Julia, 1900-1993","Miller, Kenneth C., 1901-1974","Bevan, Arthur, 1888-1968","Allen, Hervey (William Hervey), 1889-1949","Strickler, Harry M. 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