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Purchased December 2010
Letters, journals, and other material relating to Lelia W. Burnett, who was at Miller School in Charlottesville, Virginia. Letters primarily date from the 1880s and 1890s while the journals are from G.H. Farrar and date from the 1920s and 1930s. Also included are woven strands of hair from unknown persons.
The locks of hair from unknown persons are housed with the Manuscripts Artifacts Collection.
Lelia Burnett Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William & Mary
Names mentioned are Moses H. Penny, Mary Mundy, Sadie A. Drumwright (?) and various aunts and uncles.
Includes poems, plays, pamphlets and "log of Smith and Burnett names, birthdays, and deaths" written on back of a ledger.
Ledger with names of people, their time and pay.
G.H. Garrar of Greenfield journal with names and money notations about church and a mission. Includes a weekly book recording names and pay.
Poems, religious card and an anecdote about a soldier filling out a questionnaire.
Ephemeral items, stick pins, medicine label