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Library of Virginia 2003 Trenton Hizer Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary Library of Virginia H. R. McIlwaine Papers, 1885-1934 24641 Personal Papers Collection, Acc. 24641 2 cubic feet English H. R. McIlwaine Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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H. R. McIlwaine. Papers, 1885-1934. Accession 24641. Personal papers collection. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

 Acquisition Information

Transferred from the Office of the Librarian, Virginia State Library and Archives, 1 July 1957 and 1 September 2010.

 Custodial History

Accession 45138 is interfiled with accession 24641.

Biographical/Historical Information

Henry Read McIlwaine was born 12 July 1864 in Prince Edward County, Virginia, to Joseph Finley McIlwaine (1838-1897) and Sarah Embry Read McIlwaine (1841-1875). McIlwaine grew up in Petersburg, Virginia, where he attended W. Gordon McCabe's (1841-1920) University School. He graduated with an A.B. from Hampden-Sidney College in 1885 and with a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1893. McIlwaine taught in private schools for a few years before returning to Hampden-Sidney College to serve as professor of English and history. In 1907, he was appointed State Librarian for the Virginia State Library, which position he held until his death. While Librarian, McIlwaine published several volumes of documents with significant historical value, making them more accessible to scholars. McIlwaine was made an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa by the College of William and Mary in 1909, and received an honorary LL.D. from Hampden-Sidney in 1918. McIlwaine was considered a leading authority on Virginia history and genealogy. Unmarried, he died 16 March 1934 in Richmond, Virginia, and was buried in Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg.

 Scope and Content Information

Papers, 1885-1934, of H. R. McIlwaine (1864-1934), professor of history, English literature, and logic at Hampden-Sidney College and State Librarian of the Virginia State Library, consisting of abstracts, accounts, book reviews, budgets, certificates, clippings, commissions, correspondence, diplomas, exams,invitations, legislation, lists, notes, obituaries, photographs, poems, receipts, reports, resolutions, speeches, and telegrams divided into two series. The first is correspondence, 1885 to 1927, and the second is articles, book reviews, speeches, etc.

Correspondence includes letters written by former students of Hampden-Sidney College on H. R. McIlwaine's behalf to Hampden-Sidney College when he was under investigation by the school in 1904. Also contains letters written on his behalf when McIlwaine was pursuing the position of state librarian of the Virginia State Library in 1907. Of interest is a letter from Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), president of Princeton University, declining to recommend McIlwaine for the state librarian position. Contains letters from McIlwaine's brothers, James R. McIlwaine (1860-1923) of Nashville, Tennessee, and Richard McIlwaine (1870-1937) of Norfolk, Virginia, concerning family and business matters, including their father's death, James' handling of their financial accounts, and James' death and his estate. Other correspondence details McIlwaine's efforts to find a teaching position, his tenure as a professor at Hampden-Sidney College, and his tenure as state librarian, as well as personal, family, and business matters. Letters also discuss Read and Doak families genealogies, the Seaboard Air Line Railway, and Confederate veteran Isaac Read. Also includes McIlwaine's ph.d. from Johns Hopkins University in 1893 and his honorary degree from Hampden-Sidney College in 1918.

The Articles, Book Reviews, Speeches, etc., series includes reports, speeches, articles, and legislation regarding the Virginia State Library, public libraries in Virginia, and education. Also contains book reviews written by McIlwaine on books about genealogy and American and Virginia history. Also includes articles and speeches written by McIlwaine on famous Virginians and Americans: Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, John Marshall, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Samuel Preston Moore, Edmund Randolph, and George Washington. Also contains essays written on the histories of Virginia, Vermont, Texas, Tennessee, Delaware, and Connecticut, along with histories of Buckingham County and Jamestown, Virginia, and the Lost Colony. Of interest are newspaper clippings, 1912-1936, concerning the State Library, including efforts to construct a new building for it in 1931. There are eulogies written on the occasions of the deaths of John S. Patton, W. Pernet Patterson, Edward Virginius Valentine, and H. R. McIlwaine. Also of note are papers concerning the great seal of Virginia and resolutions on the 150th anniversary of the British surrender at Yorktown.

 Organization

Collection is divided into two series: Correspondence, 1885-1934 and Articles, Book Reviews, Speeches, etc. Correspondence is arranged chronologically.

 Contents List Correspondence, 1885-1934 1-3 Correspondence, 1885-1890, n.d. 1 1 Correspondence, 1891-1895 1 2 Correspondence, 1896-1900 1 3 Correspondence, 1901 1 4 Correspondence, 1902 1 5 Correspondence, 1903 1 6 Correspondence, 1904, March-11July 1 7 Correspondence, 1904, 12 July-December 1 8 Correspondence, 1905 1 9 Correspondence, 1906 1 10 Correspondence, 1907, January-19 June 1 11 Correspondence, 1907, 22 June-29 June 1 12 Correspondence, 1907, 1 July- 8 July 1 13 Correspondence, 1907, 8 July-17 July 2 1 Correspondence, 1907, 25 July-December 2 2 Correspondence, 1908 2 3 Correspondence, 1909 2 4 Correspondence, 1910 2 5 Correspondence, 1911 2 6 Correspondence, 1912 2 7 Correspondence, 1913 2 8 Correspondence, 1914 2 9 Correspondence, 1915 2 10 Correspondence, 1916 2 11 Correspondence, 1917 2 12 Correspondence, 1918 2 13 Correspondence, 1919 2 14 Correspondence, 1920 2 15 Correspondence, 1921 2 16 Correspondence, 1922 3 1 Correspondence, 1923 3 2 Correspondence, 1924 3 3 Correspondence, 1927, 1932 3 4 Articles, Book Reviews, Speeches, etc. 3-4 Bills, Resolutions related to the Virginia State Library in the General Assembly 3 5 Papers before the Budget Committee 3 6 Report to Governor Pollard, 20 December 1933 3 7 Reports of the Library Board and Abstracts 3 8 Work of the Virginia State Library 3 9 Articles or items of special interest in the State Library 3 10 The Pre-Revolutionary records of Virginia and their restoration, 31 January 1933 3 11 Virginia fiction in the State Library, 1 July 1911 3 12 Adult education and libraries, 12 February 1932 3 13 The free public library in America 3 14 Libraries in Virginia 3 15 The value of public libraries, 1933 3 16 Clerks of the Court meeting at Fredericksburg, Virginia, 18 August 1933 3 17 Commission to Study the Condition of the Farmers of Virginia 3 18 Commission to Survey Educational System, 1927 3 19 Virginia Classical Association Welcome, 1 December 1933 3 20 Virginia Library Association, Richmond, Virginia, 14 March 1906 3 21 Virginia Library Association, Richmond, Virginia, 18 November 1933 3 22 Cooperative Education Association of Virginia 3 23 On furnishing reading material to soldiers during the World War [I] 3 24 Thomas Jefferson as a lover and collector of books, 10-11 November 1927 3 25 Lafayette and Virginia, prepared for Governor Peery 3 26 Radio talk on General Lee, 19 January 1932 3 27 Presentation of portrait of General John Marshall Jones to R. E. Lee Camp 3 28 Cyrus Hall McCormick, for Governor Pollard, 11 July 1931 3 29 Samuel Preston Moore 3 30 Edmund Randolph 3 31 George Washington's education 3 32 Early history of Buckingham County, Virginia, 30 May 1933 3 33 Notes on Connecticut for Governor Byrd, 1927 4 1 Delaware, for Governor Byrd, 1929 4 2 Religious observances at Jamestown in early days 4 3 Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony 4 4 Richmond before 1861 4 5 Notes on the history of Tennessee, for Governor Byrd, 16 September 1929 4 6 Texas and Virginia 4 7 Virginia and Vermont, for Governor Byrd, 16 May 1929 4 8 Story of Virginia's first century, 16 November 1928 4 9 Battle of Monongahela and Virginia, for Governor Pollard, 16 May 1930 4 10 The Republican Party 4 11 Our Flags of Yesterday and Today 4 12 The Festal Days of Thanksgiving and Christmas 4 13 The Huguenot Settlement at Manakin Town, 16 April 1932 4 14 The Causes of the War of 1812, Some of Its Incidents, and Its Results 4 15 Great Virginia Tobacco Law of 1790 4 16 The Conquered Banner (Mrs. Schaadt) 4 17 Minutes of the Council and General Court, 31 October 1930 4 18 The Memoirs of Talleyrand 18 November 1933 4 19 Book Review, A Doctor of the 1870's and 80's by W. A. Pusey 4 20 Book Review, Charles Parish, York County, Virginia, History and Regsiter by Landon C. Bell 4 21 Book Review, Dissolution of the Virginia Company by Wesley Frank Craven 4 22 Book Review, The Great Awakening in Virginia, 1740-1790 by Wesley M. Gewehr 4 23 Book Review, Hidden Things Brought to Light by Ernest Taylor Walthall 4 24 Book Review, The Iliads of the South by Rosewell Page 4 25 Book Review, John Marshall in Diplomacy and in Law by Lord Craigmyle (John Shaw) 4 26 Book Review, Life of John Taylor by Henry H. Sims 4 27 Book Review, Little Aleck: A Life of Alexander H. Stephens by E. R. Richardson 4 28 Book Review, Medicine in Virginia in the Eighteenth Century by Wyndham B. Blanton 4 29 Book Review, Nicolas Martiau, the Adventurous Huguenot, the Military Engineer, and the Earliest American Ancestor of George Washington by John Baer Stoudt 4 30 Book Review, Our Earliest Colonial Settlements, Their Diversities of Origin, and Later Characteristics by Charles M. Andrews 1933 4 31 Book Review, The Reads and Their Relatives by Alice Read Rouse 1930 4 32 Book Review, Religious Education in the Rural Church by Henry W. McLaughlin 4 33 Book Review, Virginia, Economic and Civil by VPI with the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce 1933 4 34 Book Review, The Washington Ancestry and Records of the McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families by Charles Arthur Hoppin 1932 4 35 Book Reviews 4 36 William Ellery Channing notes 4 37 The Religion of Emerson by W. H. Savage in the Arena magazine LXII, January 1895--notes 4 38 The Transition in New England Theology by Alexander V. G. Allen, 1891--notes 4 39 Paths to Power by Floyd B. Wilson, 1901--notes 4 40 Notes from Phillips book by Allen 4 41 Logic 4 42 Speech to [-----] Club 4 43 In Memoriam: John S. Patton (1932), W. Pernet Patterson (1930), Edward Virginius Valentine (1930), and H. R. McIlwaine (1934) 4 44 Hampden-Sidney College Magazine and Hampden-Sidney College Library 4 45 Great Seal, 1929-1930 4 46 House Document No. 4: Gas Tax Fund Apportionment 1928 4 47 Yorktown Anniversary Resolutions 1931 4 48 Country Club of Virginia Constitution, By-laws, and Rules, 1911 4 49 Richmond's Young Men published by the Young Men's Christian Association of Richmond, January 1911 4 50 The Struggle in Colorado for Industrial Freedom #1, series II, 10 November 1914 4 51 U.S. Junior Naval Reserves, 1916 4 52 Library War Council News, 1917 4 53 H. S. Nichols Catalogs 4 54 Historical Virginia Photographs and Official Views of the Jamestown Exposition catalog 2, 1908 4 55 Newspaper clippings, 1912-1914, 1920-1923 4 56 Newspaper clippings, 1931, 1935, 1936 4 57 Miscellaneous--note pad, map of the Mechanicsville/Cold Harbor battlefield, and calling card 4 Blank Forms 4 59