<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><ead xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 https://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"><eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511"><eadid countrycode="US"/><filedesc><titlestmt><titleproper>William Neill collection<num>MS.0301</num></titleproper></titlestmt><publicationstmt><publisher>Virginia Military Institute Archives</publisher><p id="logostmt"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/logos/vmi.jpg" xlink:show="embed" xlink:type="simple"/></p><address><addressline>VMI Archives</addressline><addressline>Preston Library</addressline><addressline>Lexington, VA 24450</addressline><addressline>Business Number: 540-464-7516</addressline><addressline>archives@vmi.edu</addressline><addressline>URL: <extptr xlink:href="http://www.vmi.edu/archives" xlink:show="new" xlink:title="http://www.vmi.edu/archives" xlink:type="simple"/></addressline></address></publicationstmt></filedesc><profiledesc><creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2025-04-09 17:48:12 -0400</date>.</creation><langusage>Description is written in: <language langcode="und" scriptcode="Zyyy">Undetermined, Code for undetermined script script</language>.</langusage></profiledesc></eadheader><archdesc level="collection">
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    <unittitle>William Neill collection</unittitle>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname rules="dacs" source="lcsh">Neill, William, 1860-?</persname>
    </origination>
    <unitid>MS.0301</unitid>
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    <physdesc altrender="whole">
      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">2 items</extent>
    </physdesc>
    <unitdate datechar="creation">1877</unitdate>
    <physloc id="aspace_5155f1cc3d15b47a59c996e97bcaeab4">Manuscripts stacks</physloc>
    <langmaterial>
      <language langcode="eng">English</language>
.    </langmaterial>
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    <head>Scope and Contents</head>
<p>This collection consists of the notebook (approximately 165 pages) of VMI Cadet William Neill. The notebook contains copied and possibly original poetry, and one watercolor sketch (10 inches x 7.5 inches) of barracks room number 38, drawn by Neill and dated October 1877.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Access</head>
<p>There are no restrictions</p>  </accessrestrict>
  <userestrict id="aspace_76c4e10dc8e960a776fc363c75923886">
    <head>Conditions Governing Use</head>
<p>Manuscript collections in the VMI Archives are made available for educational and research use. The VMI Archives should be cited as the source. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any copyright holders. Materials from our collections may 
not be redistributed, published or reproduced without permission from the VMI Archives. Contact the VMI Archives for additional information.</p>  </userestrict>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>William Neill collection, 1877. MS 0301. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>William Neill was born in 1860 in Hagerstown, Maryland. He graduated from VMI in 1880 and went on to become a physician in West Virginia.</p>  </bioghist>
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    <subject source="local">Virginia Military Institute—Class of 1880</subject>
    <subject source="local">Virginia Military Institute—Buildings, structures, etc.</subject>
    <subject source="local">Virginia Military Institute—Cadet drawings</subject>
    <subject source="local">Virginia Military Institute—Cadet compositions—Poetry</subject>
    <subject source="local">Virginia Military Institute—Cadet life—1870-1879</subject>
    <genreform source="aat">Drawings (visual works)</genreform>
    <genreform source="aat">Notebooks</genreform>
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