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Flyer by Ray Brown about stamps (1956); cover to a miniature book; pamphlet entitled "The Print Collector;' Kenneth Nebenzal, Inc. in Chicago (Number Three, Spring 1969); Winter Convocation program for George Washington University at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. on February 22, 1934 (2 copies); program for "American Farewell Concert Tour of Eduard Strauss" by K. and K. Austro-Hungarian Court Ball Music Director...at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City (undated); program for "Mary Wigman and Her Group" by S. Hurok in New York City; brochure entitled "What Highways Mean to Your City" by the Automotive Safety Foundation, Washington, D.C. (April 1959); November 1950 Bulletin of "The Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin" (Vol. 1, No. 2); photostat copy of an image of a banner advertising "Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia" (undated); brochure advertising the publication of "Virginia and Maryland" facsimile by the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island (1949); copy of a typed paper entitled "Henry Herringman" read before the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia on February 13, 1948 by Professor C. William Miller of Temple University; pamphlet for an exhibition of "Portrait Panarama, Portraits by Artists of Six Centuries" by the President and Trustees of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on September 10, 1947; brochure "A Tour of Historic Richmond (undated); Greeting card "Greetings, Ya Mugg!"; and a program for the "Culpeper Bicentennial" from July 25-30th in Culpeper, Virginia (1949).

Scope and Contents Newspaper clipping from "The Nation" about "Titles of the First Books from the Earliest Presses established in different cities, towns and Monasteries..." by Rush C. Hawkins, New York: J. W. Bouton, London. 1884. Includes post card from J.W. Bouton to John Markhem in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Scope and Contents Five newspaper clippings with the following topics: 1) How a Princess behaves herself, Daniel Webster and Ancestry 2) Poetry, "Kick Him When He's Down." 3) "Strongest Man in the World" and "The Conspiracy Against the President" 4) "The Sweet Country Cousins" from the Boston Transcript and "City or Country." 5) "Reply of the Richmond Clergymen to Gov. Pierpoint's Charge of Disloyalty." The original circular quoting the governor appeared in newspapers in the North where Gov. Pierpoint supposedly said Richmond needed to erect a "Northern Methodist Church" because "the spirit of the Southern Pulpit is thoroughly disloyal." Undated, but after 1865.

Postage stamps, many on envelopes addressed to Dr. Earl Gregg Swem, but most loose or torn from letters.

Scope and Contents September 14, 1883 price list "Washington Price Current," J.F. Sheiry, Pr. for Biedler and Co., General Commission Merchants and a 1868 "Philadelphia Letter Sheet Price Current" for the Philadelphia stock market.

Scope and Contents 10 items ranging from a sheet of pledge cards for the Anti-Tobacco Tract Depository in Fitchburg, Massachusetts (undated), picture cards, form letters, "The Lifeboat" published by the American Seamen's Friend Society (October 1865) and a printer's sheet of a broadside for "Catalogue of the Sunday-School and Family Library."

Scope and Contents Scottish Widows Fund ticket "The Largest British Mutual Life Office," packet of notepaper with "The Money Bag" and drawing of two people pulling coins from a bag on the front cover and three original Virginia Lottery tickets from the first batch printed for Virginia' modern lottery (September 20, 1988).

Scope and Contents Facsimile of "The Texas Declaration of Independence" produced on the occasion of the publication of Louis Wiltz Kemp's "The Signers of The Texas Declaration of Independence" and published by the Anson Jones Press, Houston, in 1943.