James McCormick Dalzell Collection 1867-1919

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
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred citation:

James McCormick Dalzell Collection, Accession 7521, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

Language:
English
Preferred citation:

James McCormick Dalzell Collection, Accession 7521, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Background

Scope and content:

[Agrees to send material re his poem, "The Blue and the Gray."]

[Cover letter for copy of "The Blue and the Gray"; discusses circumstances of its writing, its being set to music by Oliver Ditson, Boston, and mentions that he understood it antedated "Logan's famous December Day order" by two months.]

[Letter accompanied autobiographical sketch requested Secor. Thanks for payment; mentions his "Autobiography, Poems, Sketches" by Private Dalzell; asks if there is any monetary value for letters he has from John Hay, John Greenleaf Whittier, Frederick Douglass, Rutherford B. Hays, James Garfield, William McKinley, Benjamin Henry Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt, Daniel Sickles, Robert Lincoln, Henry Wilson, General Hawley, Horace Greeley, Joe Medill, M. Holsbotle, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Tecumseh Sherman; requests pictures of Secor for his family.]

Acquisition information:
Deposit, 1964 May 15
Processing information:

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Physical location:
Physical description:
6 items