PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00770::Armistead C. Gordon Letters)//EN" "ViU00770.sgm" A Guide to the Armistead C. Gordon LettersGordon, Armistead C. 38-145-aProcessed by Special Collections Dept. staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Elizabeth SlombaFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Virginia Library © 1997 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 17, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00770::Armistead C. Gordon Letters)//EN" "ViU00770.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Armistead C. Gordon Letters A Collection in the Special Collections Department 38-145-a

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Elizabeth Slomba Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #38-145-a Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
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Armistead C. Gordon Letters 1919-1931 38-145-a 4 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

 Preferred Citation

Armistead C. Gordon Letters, Accession 38-145-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

 Acquisition Information

These letters were purchased by the Library on June 1, 1989.

 Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

 Scope and Content

This collection consists of three letters from Armistead C. Gordonof Staunton, Virginia, an alumnus of the University of Virginia, 1873-1875, and Rector, Board of Visitors, to Dr. William E. Dold(1856-?), an alumnus of the University of Virginia, 1878-1879, and a prominent physician of River Crest Sanitarium, Astoria, Long Island, New York, and one letter from George Fawcett, an alumnus of the University of Virginia, 1875-1879, to Dr. William E. Dold, May 8, 1931.

In the letters, Gordon thanks Dold for his favorable comments concerning the verses he wrote about the McConnell statue at the University of Virginia, "The Aviator," (July 30, 1919); expresses his appreciation for a short story, "The Isle of Blood," written by Dold's son, Dr. Douglas Meriweather Dold(who served on the Columbia University Relief Mission to Serbia in 1915); mentions that his Men and Events: Chapters of Virginia Historyis at the bindery; and shares his interest in William Cabell Bruce's biography John Randolph of Roanoke(March 15, 1923); and writes concerning the publication of his daughter's manuscript in the magazine of one of Dold's sons (February 21, 1928).

A fourth letter from George Fawcettto Dold refers to the death of President Edwin A. Aldermanand a visit to the University of Virginia(May 8, 1931).