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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::viu01883::Fortnightly Club Papers)//EN" "viu01883.xml" 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 Fortnightly Club Papers A Collection in the Special Collections Department 6035-c

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Robin D. Wear Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #6035-c Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Fortnightly Club Papers 1924-1992 6035-c ca. 40 items English Mrs. Fillmore Norfleet Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

 Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

 Preferred Citation

Fortnightly Club Papers, Accession 6035-c, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

 Acquisition Information

These papers were given to the Library by Mrs. Fillmore Norfleet, Charlottesville, Virginia, on September 2, 1992.

 Funding Note

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

 Scope and Content

This collection contains the minutes (1984-1992), programs, correspondence, newsclippings, and miscellaneous items of the Fortnightly Club, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1924-1926, and 1965-1992, ca. forty items. The Fortnightly Club began in 1899 as a social club whose members would take turns reading poetry or prose for entertainment during their meetings every two weeks.

The correspondence of the club, 1984-1991, chiefly consists of letters of condolence to the family of deceased members or letters of regretful resignation due to health or age. The newsclippings contain obituaries of the following club members: Hazelhurst Perkins(1881-1981), Edmonia Metcalf(1892-1989), Anne Morris Duke(1905-1988), Nancy Hale Bowers(1908--1988), and Florence Lankford(d. 1990); and a short article by Roy Landabout the Fortnightly Cluband an article about the Classical Association of Virginiafeaturing Marian Stocker. Also present in this collection is a booklet Knowledge in a Nutshellby Rosalie Nathan Floranceand a paper presented to the Fortnightly Club by Julian Bishkoentitled "Victorian Womanhood in the Boys' Historical Novelist G.A. Henty" (May 9, 1978).