Gooch family diaries

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred citation:

MSS 16336, Gooch family diaries, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
.07 Cubic Feet One document box and one half-size document box.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

MSS 16336, Gooch family diaries, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

Gooch family diaries, 1909-1963 (not consecutive), .07 cubic feet, consists of fifteen diaries, some from Ellen Brooks (Aunt of Uly Harrison Gooch) when she was a young girl. She describes her work as a nurse (treating a man with face cancer) at the Earl Hopkins Institute in Washington D. C. and missing her family, and friends. The later diaries are from Uly Harrison Gooch while he was a student at St. Paul's School in Baltimore, MD. It is not clear who the last diary is from but it seems to be someone in the family as she is mostly taking care of Uly's Aunt Clara G. Brooks and Clara's husband Uly T. Brooks.

Acquisition information:
This collection was purchased from The Book Broker by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia on November 7, 2016.
Arrangement:

Gooch family diaries, .07 cubic feet, are arranged chronologically. The published dates of the commercial bound diaries are sometimes mislabeled, for example 1931 is really 1909 and 1928 is really 1909.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard