Galt Papers (III-A)

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Galt Papers (III-A), Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries

Summary

Extent:
1.75 Linear Feet
Creator:
Galt, Alexander D. II, 1827-1863
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Galt Papers (III-A), Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries

Background

Scope and content:

Papers of Alexander Galt, Jr. and his family. Mostly correspondence but also includes contracts, financial records, diaries, notebooks, sculptures and ephemera. Most items written to, or by, Alexander Galt, Jr. when he was living in Florence, Italy. Alexander Galt's sketchbook which includes photograph of Galt's sketch of General Stonewall Jackson.

Acquisition information:
On loan to UVA by Mary Meares Galt and later a gift to Swem Library.
Arrangement:

Mostly chronological within each box.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard