Inventory of the Dora and Cara Armistead Papers, 1880-1950
A Collection in the
Manuscripts and Rare Books Department
Accession Number Mss. Acc. 2006.54
Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Special CollectionsEarl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8794
USA
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Processed by: Special Collections Staff
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to all researchers.
Conditions Governing Use
Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.
Preferred Citation
Dora and Cara Armistead Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Processing Information
Processed by Zach Hilpert, P.J. Bell and Samantha Besora in 2006.
Scope and Contents
Papers from the household of Dora Travis Armistead (1890-1979) and Rowland Cara Armistead, sisters of Williamsburg, Virginia. Includes letters, personal, financial and business papers of Cary Peyton Armistead (1856-1901), father of Dora and Cara, Steward of Eastern Lunatic Asylum (now Eastern State Hospital), and prominent local Episcopal Church and school leader; Eudora Ester Armistead (d. 1940), mother; Cary Champion Armistead (d. 1944), brother, and lawyer for a time in Detroit, Michigan; Meriwether Irving Armistead (d. 1945), brother, and lawyer in Williamsburg; and Dora and Cara Armistead, elementary school teachers; along with materials related to relatives in the Armistead family, most notably Gregory Armistead, brother, who died at an early age; and Julia Maria Armistead (1858-1897), sister of Cary Peyton. The papers pertain primarily to Armistead family finances, health and personal affairs, the financial operation of the asylum/hospital, and school and church issues. Also included are a number of undated and unlabeled photographs, schoolwork of the Armistead siblings as children and college students, letters to Cary Peyton from College of William and Mary Presidents Benjamin S. Ewell and Lyon G. Tyler, and a long series of letters to Cary Champion from girlfriend Ruth Conkey.
Index Terms
- Correspondence
- Financial records
- Photographs
- College of William and Mary--History--20th century.
- Eastern State Hospital (Va.)--History.
- Episcopal Church--Virginia--Clergy--20th century.
- Lawyers--Virginia--Correspondence.
- Williamsburg (Va.)--History--19th century.
- Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century.
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Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Armistead, Cary Champion, d. 1944
- Armistead, Cary Peyton, 1856-1901
- Armistead, Dora Travis, 1890-1979
- Armistead, Gregory
- Armistead, Maria, 1858-1897
- Armistead, Meriwether Irving, d. 1945
- Armistead, Rowland Cara
- Conkey, Ruth
- Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert
- Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935