Mrs. G. J. Walker collection

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:

This collection is open for reserach use.

Terms of access:

See the University of Virginia Library's use policy.

Preferred citation:

MSS 38-115, Autograph album and music book, undated, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Summary

Extent:
0.2 Cubic Feet 5 folders
Language:
The material is in English.
Preferred citation:

MSS 38-115, Autograph album and music book, undated, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Background

Scope and content:

An autograph album of a Miss Glasgow, of Virginia, contains autographs, 1842-1847, of American statesmen including John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, Alexander H.H. Stuart, and Henry A. Wise.

The collection also includes a note from Henry Clay, 1847 July 30, responding to a request for an autograph; "In memoriam," a poem "written for Harrie [?] W. Kuhl after his death by Davis"; a letter from George [McCorkle], Newport News, Va., 1901 Dec. 26, to his sister Juliette McCorkle, Glasgow, Va., discussing his living arrangements; and a letter from J Gayle Anderton, Radford, Va. [1901?] to the Misses McCorkle, Glasgow, Va. The collection also contains two letters, an "In memorium" document, and a bound volume of muscial scores for the piano-forte.

Acquisition information:
Deposit of Mrs. G.J. Walker, May 1933.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Hensen, Steven L. Archives, personal papers, and manuscripts (Washington: Library of Congress) .