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Start Over Repository Library of Virginia Collection T. Turner Foster Papers, 1740-1978 (bulk 1920-1972)

Series III. Subject Files, 1740-1978. Extent: 11 boxes. Box 30-36, 39, 45-47

The subject files include Bible records, books, certificates, clippings, deeds, and diaries, including reminiscences, written by Foster in 1968, of his time employed as a harvest hand out West in 1919. The subject files also contain Episcopal High School memorabilia, estate papers, a framed pencil drawing of Lucelia Hunton Foster (1811-1888), historical notes on the Civil War and Glenville, genealogical notes on the Carter, Foster, and Turner families, guardians' accounts, insurance papers, invitations, memorandum books, photographs and photograph albums, obituaries, copies of "The Parish Leaflet" for Piedmont and Whittle Parishes, plats and surveys, postcards, scrapbooks, and other items.

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Series IV. Scott District Road Board Records, 1923-1927. Extent: 1 box. Box 37

Turner Foster served as a member of the Scott District Road Board. The records cover the period from 1923 to 1927, and include budgets, correspondence (a good deal of it is with the Board's chairman Thomas B. Glascock), minutes, petitions, road workers' accounts, pay rolls, and expense accounts, relating to condition, maintenance, improvements, and construction of roads in Fauquier County.

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Series V. Millard Institute of Normal Speech Records, 1926. Extent: 2 boxes. Box 38-39

The Millard Institute of Normal Speech records detail Foster's establishment and operation of a branch of the Institute in the basement of the Fauquier County courthouse. Foster had attended the Institute, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was impressed by its teaching methods and the treatment he received. The files contain class exercise notebooks, contracts, correspondence, financial records, a card file of prospective students, and a copy of "The Millard Instructor - A Key to Perfect Speech" by Lee Wells Millard.

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