Mary Helen Detmer journal

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 16372, Mary Helen Detmer journal, Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
0.04 Cubic Feet One folder
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

MSS 16372, Mary Helen Detmer journal, Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

Mary Helen Detmer journal (0.04 cubic feet), 1996 May 23 - December 10, containing entries related to her garden and her life at the University of Virginia Pavilion I.

Biographical / historical:

Mary Helen Detmer is an author of poems about her farm in Brown Cove, Albemarle County, Virginia. She is married to Don Detmer who was the Vice-President for Health Sciences at the University of Virginia. Don and Mary Helen delighted in living on Thomas Jefferson's famed "Lawn" at UVA, where they hosted annual pumpkin-carving parties for UVA students who also lived on the lawn and where they were often awakened by shrieking students engaged in the tradition of "streaking" down the lawn.

Source:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705244/

Acquisition information:
Gift from Mary Helen Detmer, 4 October 2016.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
diaries