A Guide to the Douglas Summers Brown papers, 1936-1998, #37425

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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Douglas Summers Brown. Papers, 1936-1998. Accession 37425. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Douglas Summers Brown of Lynchburg, Virginia

Douglas Summers Brown was born on 10 Jan. 1903 in Abingdon, Virginia. She attended Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia, and married Henry Dockery Brown, a Presbyterian minister, in 1926. Brown is an english and history teacher and author who has written several books on South Carolina and Virginia history, including A City Without Cobwebs: A History of Rock Hill, South Carolina (1954), Massanetta Miniature: The Story of the Origin and Grown of the Synodical Training School of the Synod of Virginia (1964), A History of Lynchburg's Pioneer Quakers and Their Meeting House (c. 1936), The Catawba Indian: The People of the River (1966), and Historical and Biographical Sketches of Greensville County, Virginia, 1650-1967 (1968). Brown has also written articles for the Virginia Cavalcade , Sandlapper , Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy , The Presbyterian Outlook , William and Mary Quarterly , Archeological Society of Virginia, Lynch's Ferry, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch .

Scope and Content

This collection documents Brown's work on regional histories of South Carolina and Virginia, Native Americans, and religious anecdotes and history. Included within the collection of literary manuscripts are biographies on Stephen Holston, Dolly Madison, Narcissa Tayloe Shawhan, George Allen Owl, John Woolman, Joseph Lafayette Meek, Wilbur Waters, and Charles Cummings. Also included are manscripts regarding the battle of the Crater (Petersburg, Va.), Catawba and Saponi Indians, history of Lynchburg (Va.) Quakers, and regional histories of Burke's Garden and Cedar Creek, Virginia. Some of the manuscripts include Brown's corrections and notations.

Contents List

Literary manuscripts, published

Box 1 Folder 3
"Aaron Burr, " 1952
Box 1 Folder 4
"The Battle of the Crater, " 1954
Box 1 Folder 5
"Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting and Its Meeting House, " 1939
Box 1 Folder 6
"Charles Cummings-The Fighting Parson of Sowthwest Virginia, " 1979
Box 1 Folder 7
"A Circle Chairman's Prayer, " 1948-1949
Box 1 Folder 8
"Dolly Madison--Virginia Quakeress, " 1939
Box 1 Folder 9
"Folktales of the Catawba Indians, " 1971
Box 1 Folder 10
"Heraldic Artist--Fanny Setzer Faris, " 1957
Box 1 Folder 11
"If You Must Be Your Own Doctor, " 1942-1947
Box 1 Folder 12
"The Indian Who Went to London, " 1954
Box 1 Folder 13
"Let's Have a Talk About Church Extension, " 1951
Box 1 Folder 14
"Lynchburg's Quakers, " 1936
Box 1 Folder 15
"Major Woods, " 1956
Box 1 Folder 16
"Massanetta Miniature, " 1946
Box 1 Folder 17
"The Men Who Would Not Be Put Upon, " 1944
Box 1 Folder 18
Miscellaneous, 1944-1990
Box 1 Folder 19
"Mrs. Cabell's Lynchburg, " 1992-1993
Box 1 Folder 20
"An Open Letter to All College Professors, " 1946-1947
Box 1 Folder 21
"The Saponi Indians--Their Town and Fort of 1708-1714, " 1995
Box 1 Folder 22
"Stephen Holston--Frontiersman, Adventurer, " 1990
Box 1 Folder 23
"They Found City Shadows and Sent the Light, " 1939
Box 1 Folder 24
"What Price Religious Freedom?--William Davis Pays, " 1997-1998
Box 1 Folder 25
"Wilbur Waters of White Top Mountain, " article, 1977
Box 1 Folder 26
"Wilbur Waters of White Top Mountain, " clippings, 1992
Box 1 Folder 27
"Wings for the Soul, " 1943

Literary manuscripts, unpublished

Box 2 Folder 1
Book reviews, 1948-1949
Box 2 Folder 2
Burke's Garden, Virginia, 1984-1994
Box 2 Folder 3
Dutch-Nassau Creek, Virginia, 1992
Box 2 Folder 4
"Francis Smith Preston--A Virginia Gentleman, " 1981-1990
Box 2 Folder 5
"George Allen Owl--Native American, " 1977
Box 2 Folder 6
"John Woolman--Protestant Saint, " 1947
Box 2 Folder 7
"Joseph Lafayette Meek--The Merry Mountain Man, Pioneer and Politician, " 1982
Box 2 Folder 8
"The Lady in Orchid--Narcissa Tayloe Shawhan, " 1946
Box 2 Folder 9
"The Lost Temple in the Virginia Wilderness, Cedar Creek VA, " 1939
Box 2 Folder 10
Miscellaneous, 1938-1958
Box 2 Folder 11
"An Old Virginia Town Has Its Face Lifted, " 1937
Box 2 Folder 12
"Sally New River--Indian Princess, " 1986
Box 2 Folder 13
"The Voice from a Wastebasket, " undated
Box 2 Folder 14
Miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 15
Research notecards
Box oversize Private Papers box 15
"Ministers and Their Wives, " 1947