PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::01006::Robert S. Pace Collection)//EN" "ViU01006.sgm" A Guide to the Robert S. Pace CollectionPace, Robert S. 10530-bProcessed 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 18, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::01006::Robert S. Pace Collection)//EN" "ViU01006.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 Robert S. Pace Collection A Collection in the Special Collections Department 10530-b

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Elizabeth Slomba Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #10530-b Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Robert S. Pace Collection 1776-1894 10530-b 38 items English Robert S. Pace Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

 Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

 Preferred Citation

Robert S. Pace Collection, Accession 10530-b, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

 Acquisition Information

This collection was given to the Library on November 7, 1986, by Mr. Robert S. Pace of Troy, Virginia.

 Funding Note

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

 Scope and Content

This collection of thirty-eight items, 1776-1894, consists of three groups of unrelated papers. The first group contains eighteenth-century material chiefly concerning the Woodburyand Clappfamilies and includes the following correspondence: a letter of personal and religious sentiment from Edmund Quincyto his granddaughter, Mrs. Mary [Sheatt], December 14, 1780; a letter from Levi Woodburyto Asa Clapp, October 9, 1818, concerning marriage to Clapp's daughter, Elizabeth; Asa Clapp's letter to Elizabeth Woodburyconcerning her husband's estate, April 16, 1829; Isaac Hill's letter, November 8, 1841, to Col. Isaac Barnesdiscussing the suitability of Governor Levi Woodburyfor the presidency of the United States; and a letter from [Charles ?] Woodbury, January 4, 1894, to his sister Ellen Woodburyabout a family dispute.

Other material in this same group includes: a certification of intention to marry between Asa Godfrey Clappand Elizabeth Wendell Quinceyof Portland, March 16, 1787; a statement of stocks, December 31, 1842; and two undated items concerning the life and career of Montgomery Blair, postmaster general under President Abraham Lincoln.

The second group consists of notes and drawings concerning the origin of a Roman earthwork fortification in Britain, located three miles from Alfreto lying south of the road from Alfreton to Mansfield in the parishes of Paxton and South Normanton, County Derby, (May 31, 1870, and n.d.), and a record of a meeting of the freeholders of [Tibshelf ?] in the county of Derby [England] to consult concerning inclosing the Common, June 12, 1776.

The last group of papers contains the correspondence, 1951-1973, of Robert S. Pacewith the editors of the papers of Jefferson Davisand George Washingtonabout furnishing to the projects copies of letters from these individuals in his possession. Copies of Davis, Washington and James Polkletters are also present. One letter, October 16, 1951, discusses the Woodbury Mansionin Portsmouth, New Hampshire.