Additional Papers of the Randolph Family of Edgehill (1830) 1840-1947
ca. 709 items. The collection consists of letters written by the Dickins Family of Ossian Hall, Fredericksburg, Va., and Richmond, Va. Major subjects of correspondence include slavery, the Civil War and reconstruction, life in the Gilded Era and the turn of the century as well as the lives of family and friends. Smaller topics in the correspondence include skirmishing before the 2nd Manassas campaign, the battle of Slaughter [Cedar] Mountain and scouting with J.E.B. Stuart, railroad work; life of the poor [coolies] in China in 1880; anticipated war between China and Russia; African Americans in Indiana in the 1870s; the Peggy O'Neill Eaton affair; Confederate response to Burnside's "mud march"; and divorce and remarriage, 1889-1905. Finding aid available: http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03964.xml;query=;
Alfred Julius Swan (1890-1970)
Papers, 1915–70, 1,500 items. Composer, scholar, teacher, and historian of Russian music. Born in St. Petersburg. Primarily materials for his Life of Nicholas Medtner (1967), but also letters of Alexander Cherepnin, M. I. Glinka, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and other modern composers. Unpublished guide. (Acc. 10093)
Alfred Phillip Fernbach (b. 1915)
2 typescript drafts on the USSR and International Labor Organization: "Soviet Coexistence Strategy: A Case Study of International Labor Organization Experience" (1960), carbon, 81 pp.; and "Soviet Bloc Relations with the International Labor Organization," n.d., 72 pp. (Acc. 6011-a)
Allen Kent and Robert C. Booth
"Trends in information services—U.S. vs. U.S.S.R. developments in scientific and engineering fields, 1957," typescript, 20 pp., a paper presented before the Symposium on Systems for Information Retrieval, 16 April 1957, in Cleveland, Ohio. (Acc 6894)
Amelie (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy (1863-1945)
Papers, 1887–1945, 4 ft. Wife of the Russian painter Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy (married 1896; her second husband), and American novelist. Some items relate to Prince Troubetzkoy, including a printed Troubetzkoy family genealogy: Les Princes Troubetzkoi (Paris, 1887), 327 pp. (NUCMC 62–3926). (Acc. 2495)
Atcheson Laughlin Hench (1891-1974)
Collection, ca. 1300–1974, 8,000 items. Includes a holograph, in French, from the 18th c. entitled "Prospect of a treaty of commerce between Peter I, Czar of Russia, and the King of England," 16 pp. (NUCMC 65–1028) (Acc. 6435a)
Bagby Family
Papers, 1901–38, 5 items. Includes 1 typescript, 57 pp., carbon, of Philip Haxall Bagby (1888–1926), 1st lieutenant, 15th Infantry, on the Russo-Japanese War: I. The Combat Around the Fortifications of Liao-Yang From 1–3 September 1904, and II. The Retreat of the Russians. Apparently a summary of official German, British, and U.S. reports rather than a first hand account. (Acc. 6510-a)
Carl von Malachowski (1783-1844)
Adjutant to Frederick William III of Prussia. Holograph memoirs, dictated to his son, entitled "Aus dem Leben des General-Lieutenants von Malachowski," 397 pp., giving an account of his life as adjutant, the Congress of Vienna, travel with the king, court life, the Russian royal family and court, and Russian politics. Published in German (Leipzig, 1897). (Acc 8648)
Carter Glass (1858-1946)
Papers, 1821–1946, 125 ft. U.S. senator from Virginia, 1920–46, and secretary of the treasury, 1918–20. Includes some material concerning lend-lease to the Soviet Union in 1941. Unpublished finding aid, on microfilm (NUCMC 60–2401). (Acc. 2913)
Colonel Valery Harvard
Papers, 1879–1905, 23 items on 1 microfilm reel. Assistant surgeon general of the U.S. Notebooks and correspondence, relating chiefly to service as American military agent and medical observer in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War and his subsequent imprisonment by the Japanese. Also, his 1905 report to the chief of the 2nd Division of the U.S. Army, general staff, and a lecture on his experiences in the war. (Acc 5081-a and 5081-aa)
Duke Family
Papers 1764-1983. ca. 10,400 items. The collection consists chiefly of correspondence, business, and legal papers of the families particularly R.T.W. Duke, Jr., his wife Edith Slaughter Duke, their children Mary W. Duke, R.T.W. Duke III, John F.S. Duke, William E. Duke, and Helen R. Duke. Family news is the primary subject. Other topics of interest include the Civil War and Reconstruction; World War I; 1882 and 1899 European tours; Montana between 1908 and 1911; work in the Judge Advocate General Department; nursing in Southwest Virginia, 1918-1926; Episcopal medical missionary life in Wisuh, China, 1908-1947; and the American Legion.Of interest is a letter describing a battle between the Bolsheviks and the 8th Czecho-Slovak Regiment.The papers also contain forty-seven diaries of R.T.W. Duke, Jr., 1879- 1892, 1894-1926; five volumes of his "Recollections," 1899-1926.In addition there are legal papers, including indentures, deeds and land surveys; genealogical material; photographs; postcards; diaries and notebooks of family members; and a few files from the Duke and Duke law firm including an opinion on Snyder v. University of Virginia and insurance and business papers handled for Jefferson M. Levy. Finding aid available: http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00187.xml;query=;
Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. (1900-1949)
Papers, 1918–49, 398 ft. Businessman and government official (like his father). In World War II he was U.S. secretary of state. The papers, divided into 6 series, contain information on the Lend-lease Administration (series III)—about which he wrote a book called Weapon for Victory; his work as undersecretary and then secretary of state, the London mission, and conferences at Dumbarton Oaks, the Crimea, Mexico City, and San Francisco (series IV—State Department files); the London Preparatory Commission, first General Assembly of the United Nations (series V); and other phases of his career. Correspondents included Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov, Winston Churchill, John Foster Dulles, W. Averell Harriman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman. Restricted; an access committee must approve research projects well in advance. Set of unpublished "Guidecards" to the papers available on microfilm for interlibrary loan. (NUCMC 71–590) (Acc 2723)
Edward Reilly Stettinius, Sr. (1865-1925)
Papers, 1902–25, 40 ft. Financier and government official. Papers are divided into 4 series. In the fourth are materials from his service in World War I as Allied purchasing agent for J. P. Morgan, munitions purchaser, and then assistant secretary of war, and finally adviser to the committee overseeing liquidation of the financial affairs of the American Expeditionary Forces. Among his correspondents were Newton Diehl Baker, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Herbert Hoover, and Prince Casimir Lubomirski. William D. Barnard has prepared "Guidecards" for the papers, a finding aid, available on microfilm for interlibrary loan. (NUCMC 71–589) (Acc. 2723-g)
Edwin M. Watson (1883-1945)
Papers, 1900–67, 21 ft. U.S. Army general and assistant to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Includes material on American aid to the USSR, 1940–42, and typed report, 39 pp., on "The Influence of Brigadier General Philip R. Faymonville on Soviet-American Military Relations" (ca. 1943). Unpublished finding aid (NUCMC 74–1140). (Acc. 9786)
Florence (Dickinson) Stearns (b. 1883)
Papers, 1920–55, 3 ft. Poet and author. Typescript draft of her play Catherine of Russia, 60 pp. (NUCMC 67–2190) (Acc. 7494)
George Cyril Herring (b. 1936)
History professor. Typescript of his article, ca. 1967, "Lend-Lease to Russia and the Origins of the Cold War: 1944–1945" (based in part on materials in the E. R. Stettinius, Jr. papers in this library). (Acc 8803)
Grinnan Family
Papers, 1740–1935, 5 ft. Includes a letter, 28 December 1897, of the Reverend Randolph Bryan Grinnan, a missionary in Japan, mentioning a fear among the missionaries that Russia would drive them out of Japan. (NUCMC 60–3332) (Acc. 2118)
Hallie Erminie (Rives) Wheeler (1876-1956)
Papers, 1908–52, 80 items. Includes 35 preWorld War I Russian postcards, about half of which show scenes of St. Petersburg, and half have views of villages and peasants. Mrs. Wheeler's comments are on the versos. (Acc. 8090)
Henry von Selzam (1816-1980)
Papers [manuscript]: Of von Selzam and His Wife Anita Ravenscroft. 4 ft. (approximately 7000 items). The collection contains the correspondence of the von Selzams with family, friends, and colleagues from posts in the United States, 1925-1928; Berlin, 1928-1931; Calcutta, 1931-1937; London, 1937-1939; the Hague, 1939-1940; and Berne, 1940-1942; Worth, Lake Staffelsee, southern Bavaria where they ran a truck garden, 1944-1948; and Oconomowoc, Wi., where they eventually settled. The collection also contains considerable genealogical work on Mrs. von Selzam's family including the related Adlum, Barber, Brockenbrough and Henry families; von Selzam's memoirs of World War I imprisonment in Siberia; speeches on his resistance work; letters to the editor; reminiscences of Anita von Selzam by a friend; an inventory of property lost in the London blitz; and two handbills issued by the authority of Joseph Goebbels. Also army service papers, photographs, memorabilia, and clippings.Among the correspondents are Allen Dulles, Joseph C. Grew, Cordell Hull, Joseph P. Kennedy, George Frost Kennan, Henry Cabot Lodge, Sir Roger M. Makins, Vincent Massey, J. Herman van Roijen, Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, and Jerauld Wright.
Hugh Smith Cumming (b. 1900)
Papers, 1948–57, 200 items. Diplomat. Correspondence of Cumming and his wife, Winifred Burney (West) Cumming, for 1948–57, contains descriptions of diplomatic life in Moscow, Paris, Stockholm, and Indonesia. Her "round robin" letters, 1951–52, to family and friends in the U.S. describe events in their daily lives, impressions of Leningrad, diplomatic functions, etc., ca. 30 items. (Acc. 6922-s)
James Clark McReynolds (1862-1946)
Papers, 1819–1952, 2 ft. U.S. attorney general and Supreme Court justice. Includes a letter, 10 September 1931, from Edwin S. George concerning an article about Russia he would write, having spent 3 months there. (NUCMC 64–798) (Acc. 3577)
James Rives Childs (b. 1893)
Papers, 1823–1977, 28 ft. Foreign service officer and author. After World War I, held diplomatic posts in several Near Eastern nations and served with the American Relief Administration in the Tartar (Tatar) Republic of the USSR. Includes a diary, n.d., containing notes on villages and towns near Kazan that Childs visited as part of his ARA work. It is filled with statistics on food supplies, illnesses, deaths, and people helped, and mentions a brief encounter with the Cheka. Also, some genealogical items about his wife's family. These materials are all in box 36. Among his correspondents were Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr., Henry Louis Stimson, Cordell Hull, and Yousuf Yassim. Unpublished finding aids (NUCMC 71–574). (Acc. 9256)
Jane Walker (Stevenson) McIlvaine McClary (b. 1919)
Papers, 1946–67, 6 ft. Author. Letters and clippings concern her 1953 trip to the Soviet Union, ca. 40 items. (NUCMC 71–1954) (Acc. 9559 and 9559-a)
John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
Papers, 1865–1970, 65 ft. Author. Correspondence, notebooks, and writings. Includes an essay on the failure of Marxism, typescript, 16 pp., post-1954; 2 pages of loose notes on Russian travel; and a 1921 travel diary, Persia, in which he jotted down a few thoughts on the breakdown of the Russian Revolution. Edmund Wilson was a correspondent. (NUCMC 71–1937) (Acc. 5950-ac)
John Randolph of Roanoke (1773-1833)
Papers, 1788–1833, 719 items. U.S. representative, senator, and statesman. Includes a letter, 4 January 1831, from him to Elizabeth T. C. Bryan and others which briefly mentions that he hopes to return to Russia in the spring and that he tried to do a good job there but events beyond human control may cause his failure. (Acc. 3400)
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
Papers, 1849–1952, 8 ft. Author. Unpublished articles written for the Japan Chronicle, 1894–95, including ca. 12 on growing Japanese militarism, relate to events that led to the Russo-Japanese War a decade later. Unpublished listing (NUCMC 60–1713). (Acc. 6101) (Part of the C. Waller Barrett Library of American Literature)
Literary Autograph Collection
Ca. 50 items, 1852–1937. Includes 3 letters of Samuel Solomonovitch Koteliansky, July-August 1926. (NUCMC 61–2816) (Acc. 38–601)
Louis Arthur Johnson (1891-1966)
Papers, ca. 1917–64, 56 ft. Assistant secretary of war, 1937–40, and secretary of defense, 1949–50. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, photographs, maps and charts, scrapbooks, phonograph records, and movies of speeches. Includes his annual reports for 1937–39, summaries of Defense staff meetings in 1950, and data on the decision to intervene in Korea. Among his correspondents were Presidents D. D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, and Harry Truman, and such other figures as E. R. Stettinius, Jr., Cordell Hull, and Chester Nimitz. Unpublished guide (also on microfilm for interlibrary loan). (NUCMC 77–1227) (Acc. 8476)
Massachusetts Ship Captain and Family (1833-1906)
Papers, 96 items. The papers contain a journal, correspondence, genealogical material and miscellaneous items of Charles Augustus Ranlett, his wife Esther Minerva (Dodge) Ranlett, Horace Dodge Ranlett, and Charles Augustus Ranlett and daughter in law Ellen Augusta (Brown) Ranlett.The correspondence contains letters from the sons in the Far East trade and in business in Oakland California, and in New Orleans. Of interest is a description of a Twelth Night celebration in New Orleans, 1870, by the Mystic Crewe of Cowens. An 1833 dinner invitation from James Buchanan is included.Of great interest is the journal-memoir of Capitan Ranlett, post 1865, copied from an earlier journal or logs, and detailing his voyages, 1819-1855, and his rise from a cabin boy to a China clipper ship capitan. He describes numerous voyages to England, France, Holland, Denmark, Russia, New Orleans, China and Caribbean ports, and notes cargoes, weather, passengers, sickness and occasional trouble with his crews, and sights on shore including Wellington's funeral.He recounts being captured twice by pirates in the Mediterranean and rescue by British and French frigates, 1827; the sinking of his ship in a hurricane, 1837 and his rescue by and salvage of the brig Howell; the imprisonment of two back crewman in Charleston S.C. in 1837; the ferrying of troops during the Mexican War, 1845; his partnership in a steamship building venture, 1850; and three trips to China, 1851-55.With the journal is a copy of portions of the published journal of Charles A. Abbey, a sailor on one of Ranlett's China runs, and a sketch of the brig Howell.The collection also contains three volumes of genealogical information on the Dodge and Ranlett familes, compiled by Ranlett. Catalogue record available: http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u3505693
Mildred Nelson Page (1865-1959)
Papers, 1879–1950, 210 items. Protestant missionary in Japan. She received ca. 18 letters from diplomat Charles R. Crane (1858–1939), a member of Wilson's special commission to Russia in 1917 (and present at the Paris peace talks). He describes both Russia and Paris events, and Russians in Egypt and Jerusalem, 1910. A 1914 letter from Count J. Rostovtsof describes the death of the father of Andrew Semenov. In 1917 Crane refers to the same count and speaks of a conference attended by Dr. John R. Mott, Samuel Harper, and Prof. Thomas (?) Masaryk, at which Mott addressed 2 Russian church conventions. (Jan Masaryk was Crane's son-in-law.) A later letter describes Russian refugees in Jerusalem, ca. 1923. Another correspondent was Amelie Rives Chanler Troubetzkoy. (NUCMC 71–1961) (Acc. 6287-b)
Quincy Wright (1890-1970)
Papers, 1910–65, ca. 5,000 items. Educator and statesman. Includes 12 items of correspondence with Percy Elwood Corbett and Frederick Sherwood Dunn, 1944–45, which mention Moscow, Teheran, and certain international organizations. Wright was deeply interested in U.S. foreign policy and international questions of human rights. There may be additional Russianrelated items in his papers. Correspondents include E. R. Stettinius, Jr., and George W. Ball. (Acc. 6112 and additions; the 12 letters are 6112-d)
Robert Loring Allen
Final draft of his book The Soviet Bloc Credit Program in Underdeveloped Countries, typescript reproduction, 104 pp., and a 1957 research report on the Soviet bloc foreign economic relations project of the University of Virginia's Woodrow Wilson Department of Foreign Affairs, typescript reproduction, 19 pp. (Accession no. 9337; hereinafter, Acc.)
Robert South Barrett (1851-1896)
Papers, 1865–90, 12 items. Reverend. Volumes of sermons, religious essays, fiction, and a diary, ca. 1890, with his impressions of a trip to Germany, Sweden, and Russia. He visited St. Petersburg and Moscow. (NUCMC 71–571) (Acc. 6461-a)
Russian-American Company, New Archangel, Alaska
Records, 1802–35, 9 microfilm reels (positive). Correspondence between the company's board of directors in St. Petersburg and the governors general in Alaska. Originals are in the National Archives. (Acc. 8135-c)
Soto Guinard
Secretary of the European section of ARCA (Asociacion de Relaciones Culturales Americanas). Circular letter, mimeograph, 1 p., 10 July 1964, protesting the dismissal by the Uruguayan government of composer Alberto Soriano from Official Radio. Soriano was being punished for flying to Moscow for the premier performance of his Concertino by Mstislav Rostropovich. (Acc 7672)
Staige David Blackford (1898-1949)
Papers, 1939–49, 800 items. Army officer, commander of U.S. Army Evacuation Hospital No. 8. Includes a letter to his wife, Lydia, about a Russian POW camp in Germany in World War II. Unpublished guide (NUCMC 77–1205). (Acc 2170-a)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Papers, 1732–1828, 3,300 items. U.S. president, 1801–11. Includes letter, 18 January 1784, to Edmund Pendleton discussing Russo-Turkish relations, photostat; and letter, 20 June 1813, from John Barnes, briefly noting Napoleon's defeat in Russia, holograph (Thurlow-Berkeley nos. 59 and 1234, respectively). Note: These papers also contain photocopies of the Jefferson-Thaddeus Kosciusko correspondence in the National Library, Cracow, Poland. Published guide, 2 parts (1973).
William Webb Pusey (b. 1910)
College professor. Typescript of his article (1969) entitled "An innocent in Russia, 1929," 10 pp., describing a trip to Russia when he was 18 years old. (Acc. 9154)
