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Daisy Bacon Papers 3.64 cubic feet 10 boxes 44.4 Megabytes 6 digital files

Bacon, Daisy, 1898-1986
The Daisy Bacon Papers, 1857-before March 25, 1986, comprise the personal and professional papers, diaries, manuscripts, and photographs of Daisy Bacon, longtime editor of Love Story Magazine. The papers of select immediate and extended family members are also included in this collection.
  1. James Madison University

"De Alguien a Nadie" Box 1, Folder 25

Holograph manuscript "From Someone to No One" by Jorge Luis Borges, signed in black ink on gridded notebook paper, numbered by Borges. With deletions and interpolations. The manuscript is an essay that first appeared in the march 1950 issue of Sur, reprinted in Borges's Otras Inquisciones (1952) and Antologia Personal (1961). It describes the paradox, which applies to gods as well as men, of a consuming ambition which can only be based on personal annihilation.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Jorge Luis Borges papers
  3. Manuscripts

George Washington Lewis papers .75 Cubic Feet 2 boxes; 1 legal document box and 1 half-size legal document box.

Lewis, George Washington, 1804-1879

The George Washington Lewis papers consists chiefly of correspondence to and from George Washington Lewis and between other family members, but also includes a few photographs of the Lewis family and the homes of "Claymont", "Shellfield" and "Marmion"; a plat of "Claymont"; newsclippings; notes on Lewis family history and genealogy; and a few financial and legal documents.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Joanne V. Gabbin Papers 12.54 cubic feet 42 boxes 134 Megabytes 216 digital files

Gabbin, Joanne V. (Joanne Veal), 1946-
The Joanne V. Gabbin Papers, 1930-2017 [bulk 1960-2017], contain the professional, academic, and personal papers of Joanne V. Gabbin, professor of English at James Madison University and director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center.
  1. James Madison University

John W. Wayland Papers 0.2 cubic feet 5 folders

Wayland, John Walter, 1872-1962
The John W. Wayland Papers, 1916-1980, are comprised of the writings of John Walter Wayland, historian and original faculty member at the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg. Many documents relate to the founding and early years of the school.
  1. James Madison University

Jorge Luis Borges papers 0.07 Cubic Feet 1 legal size document box and 1 oversize box

New collection of eleven manuscripts by writer Jorge Luis Borges which have been combined with the Borges collection. The new acquisitions include Herrera y Reissig; Soneta Para un Tango en la Nochecita; La Cabala (1943), Los Espejos Velados; Prologo a Mester de Juderia, de Carlos Grunberg;El Milagro Secreto; Nota Sobre la Paz; De Alguien a Nadie; La Biblioteca Total; El Dios y el Rey; and Prose Poems for I. J.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Julian A. Burruss Papers 0.4 cubic feet 8 folders

Burruss, Julian Ashby, 1876-1947
The collection contains papers and correspondences, reports and speeches by President Julian Ashby Burruss, first president of the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, and documents related to the founding of the school.
  1. James Madison University

Ruth and Lowell Toliver Collection of Newman Family Papers 3.8 cubic feet in 3 boxes and 12 tri-folds

Toliver, Ruth M.
The Ruth and Lowell Toliver Collection of Newman Family Papers, circa 1875-2005, comprises a manuscript, writings, personal papers, facsimile photographs, church records, and correspondence related to George A. Newman (1855-1944), his daughter Ruby Newman Temple (1898-1983), his grandsons Austin Gerald Harris (1941-2005) and Wendell Temple (1923-2005), and Harrisonburg's Northeast Neighborhood and Newtown.
  1. James Madison University

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