Casey and Dudley Family Papers ca. 1923-1988

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

Email: bg9ba@virginia.edu

Phone: (434) 924-1037

Phone: (434) 243-1776

Fax: (434) 924-4968

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Restrictions:: The collection is without restrictions.
Terms of access:: No quotations are allowed without permission of the owner.

Preferred citation:: Papers of the Casey and Dudley Families, Accession #10974, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Summary

Abstract:: This collection consists of ca. 9,000 items, ca. 1923-1988, pertaining to the Casey and Dudley families. Chiefly, there are personal, business, and legal correspondence and papers of Joseph Edward Casey, Constance Marion (Dudley) Casey, and Herman Andrew Dudley. To a lesser extent, there are correspondence and papers of the Casey children and their families, Caroline Whittier Casey, Constance Louise Casey, John Casey, Joseph Edward Casey, Jr., and Jane Dudley (Casey) Kuczynski. In addition, there are also correspondence and papers of the parents of Constance Marion (Dudley) Casey, Charles Howard Dudley and Ida Louise (Ockerblad) Dudley, and their other children and their families: Bernard Francis Dudley, Charles Milo Dudley, and Robert Whittier Dudley.
Language:: English
Preferred citation:: Papers of the Casey and Dudley Families, Accession #10974, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

Condolences

campaign material; "Speech made on the Day the United States Declared War on Japan"

[letters re search for employment; resume]

[letters re employment with Jersey Railways Advertising Company; Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity letters; letters re Reserve commission]

[Warren Beatty; Jimmy Carter; Bennett Cerf; Gardner Cowles; Olivia de Havilland; Arlene Francis; John Gielgud; Oscar Hammerstein, II; Abdol Hosseim Hamzavi; Rahim Hirad; Hubert Horatio Humphrey; Alfred A. Knopf; Van Johnson; Frederic March; Richard Nixon; Cyril Ritchard; Eleanor Roosevelt; Rosalind Russell; Arthur Sclesinger, Jr; Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor; Harry S. Truman; Earl Warren]

[Lyndon Baines Johnson, Sen. Theodore Green, Arlene Francis, Lady Bird Johnson]

[Gen. David Dwight Eisenhower, Admiral Paul F. Foster, Col. James M. McHugh]

[Princess Grace of Monaco, Joan Fontaine, Lillian Gish, Dick Powell, June Allyson, Edgar Bergen, Irene Dunne, Janet Gaynor, Ann Miller, Barbara Rush, Walter Pidgeon, Bob Cummings, Erol Flynn, and others]

[Joan Bennett, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Fontaine, [Eva] Gabor, Lillian Gish, Van Johnson, and others]

[Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Queen Soraya of Iran photographs and miscellaneous snapshots]

Miscellaneous items including: passport (1956-1959) for Constance Dudley Casey; medal "Honored Guest Democratic National Convention 1964" [of Constance Dudley Casey]; Kennedy campaign button; Casey calling card plate; cardholder for Constance Casey; two baby bonnets; cigarette wrapper and matchbooks

[Dwight David Eisenhower, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, and others]

[Joan Fontaine, Walter Lippmann, Rosalind Russell, Shah Pahlavi and Queen Soraya of Iran, Fernando Llamas, Tony Curtis, Barbara Stanwyck, Victor Borge, and others]

including: Board of Education certificate, 1927, for Constance Marion Dudley; newspaper broadside, 1942, for election of Joseph E. Casey to the United States Senate; article, 1971, "Eisenhower Revisited..."

Acquisition information:

This collection was deposited in the Library by John Casey of Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 22, 1990.

Arrangement:

Arranged chronologically.

chronological

Physical description:

This collection consists of ca. 9,000 items.

Collection