MSS11777Howard Elizabeth papers on Meade, Valentine, and Walker family papersElizabeth Howard papers on Meade, Valentine, and Walker family papers MSS11777 MSS 11777Robin Denise Wear/Ellen WelchAlbert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

2004-03

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryP.O. Box 400110University of VirginiaCharlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110URL:

This is an addition to MSS 11777 and MSS 3641-e Papers of Robert Poore Valentine. They need to be combined if possible. MSS 3641, a-e, h are a total of 37 document boxes.

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-03-05 17:47:54 +0000.Description is written in: Undetermined, Code for undetermined script script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Elizabeth Howard papers on Meade, Valentine, and Walker family MSS 11777 Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key /repositories/3/resources/22 290 items 1873-2005 English Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was a gift to the Small Special Collections LIbrary at the University of Virginia Library by Elizabeth Meade Howard of Charlottesville in August 2000 and August 28, 2018.

 Preferred Citation

MSS 11777 addition, Elizabeth Howard papers on Meade, Valentine, and Walker family papers, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

 Scope and Contents

These papers, 1873-1980, consist of ca. 290 items pertaining to the Meade, Valentine and Walker families of Charlottesville, Virginia. Included are correspondence, financial and legal papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks. Among those represented are: Albert Edward Walker, Bessie Carroll Valentine Walker, Ida M. Payne Valentine, Robert Poore Valentine, Virginia W. Meade, and Everard W. Meade.

Ida Payne and Robert Valentine correspond during their courtship in 1873 discussing matters of the heart, plans for accommodations after marriage, and the wedding. Copies of correspondence are from the Valentine family .

There is a letter from James L. Cabell to Robert Poore Valentine, as President of the Charlottesville and University Railway Company, relating an incident which occurred on the street car the previous evening between two ladies and a Black man.

There is a letter from John B. Minor speaking against violation of the Sabbath.

Letters to Albert Walker discuss chiefly business matters as editor, reporter and solicitor for various newspapers. Among the topics mentioned are special editions of newspapers and costs for printing.

Financial and legal papers for the Meade family include specifications for the general contract and invoices for work done on their home on Valley Road. Among the papers of the Valentine family are a deed and survey of city land purchased at auction by Robert Poore Valentine; land and business transactions; and, lists of the property of Valentine.

The papers of the Walker family include a deed of city land purchased by Bessie V. Walker; Bessie's application for membership to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution; general conditions and detail specifications of the contract between Bessie Walker and Stanislaw J. Makielski; letters from Bessie Walker on letterhead, "The Student Union, Madison Hall, University, Virginia;" last will and testament of Bessie Walker; and memoranda of agreement between Walker and publishing companies.

 African American women teachers TopicalArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/974Articles by reporters, and other writingsArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/978undated14Business Cards and Logos; Announcements; InvitationsArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/9791882-191015Drawing BookArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/980undated16Financial and Legal Papers of Virginia W. and Everard W. MeadeArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/9811938-196717Financial and Legal Papers of Ida M. Payne) and Robert Poore ValentineArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/9821890-191918Financial, Legal and Professional Papers of Bessie Valentine WalkerArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/9831910-196419Financial Papers of Albert Edward WalkerArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/9841902-1918110Legal Papers of Albert Edward WalkerArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/9851904-1915111Newspaper ClippingsArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/9861897-1976112Newspaper ClippingsArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/9871910-1980113Photographs of the Meade, Valentine and Walker familiesArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/9881895-1969114Scrapbook of Southern Pacific Lines Trip to Louisiana, Arizona, and CaliforniaArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/9891936-1937115Steel engraved woodcut of Bessie Carroll Valentine WalkerArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/990undated21Steel engraved woodcut of Ida Payne ValentineArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/991undated22Scrapbook of History of Landmarks in New York; newspaper clippings, 1885-1898, removed from scrapbookArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/992undated23"University of Virginia 1819" ScrapbookArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/993undated24Bessie Valentine Walker, The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, University of VirginiaArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/994undatedOversize 1Ida Valentine, daughter of R. P. and Ida, portraitArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/995undatedOversize 1Albert E. Walker, New York Evening High School diplomaArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/9961883Oversize 1Bessie Valentine Walker, National Society of the Daughters of the American RevolutionArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/9971924-04-12Oversize 1Virginia Valentine Wallace, St. Anne's High School diplomaArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/9981927-06-06Oversize 1Everard Wilson Meade, Western High School, D. C. diplomaArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/9991928-01-31Oversize 1Everard Wilson Meade, Certificate for Honorary Captain Cunard AdventurerArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/1000undatedOversize 1Blueprints for the residence of Mrs. A. E. WalkerArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/1001undatedOversize 2The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Medallion, awarded by the University of Virginia to Bessie Valentine WalkerArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/1002undatedArtifactAddition: Meade, Walker, Valentine papers and Rebecca McGinness papersArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/217362Rebecca McGinness newspaper clippings, articles, and photographsArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/2173571997-2004English31African American women teachersValentine familyArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/2173581836-1912English32Scope and Contents

postcard and photocopy of deeds of land

Valentine family newspaper clipping about Sallie Williams:"Family Mammy Lived to be a Hundred."Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/217361October 16, 191833Scope and Contents

Newspaper article "Family Mammy lived to a Hundred".

Albert E. Walker papersArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/2173591893-1913English34Scope and Contents

research papers and deeds for property

Alice "Bessie" Walker papersArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/2173601918-1955English35Scope and Contents

Includes papers about the University of Virginia, particularly admission of women. Bessie Walker (wife of Albert E. Walker and daughter of Robert and Ida Valentine, was a hostess for the University of Virginia and worked at the University of Virginia Student Union Center.) There are also photographs of Bessie Walker.

Everard Wilson Meade papersArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/2173631905-2000English37Genealogy and Daughters of American Revolution and other societiesArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/217364English38MiscellaneousArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/21736539PrintedArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/217366310A-V materialsArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/217367Scope and Contents

6 DV cams, 18 audiocassettes, 1 video Hampton University Commencement 1992, 1 broadcast tape from the Community Idea Station.