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Preferred Citation:
Phi Beta Kappa Records of John Lesslie Hall and Charles Washington Coleman, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg
Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Primarily Phi Beta Kappa correspondence of Charles Washington Coleman and John Lesslie Hall, both of whom served as Secretary
of the Alpha of Virginia chapter. Also includes some meetings of minutes, poems, addresses, and bylaws; a notebook listing
"Distinctions awarded in English and in History;" obituaries of Hall; English examinations (questions only)' documents from
George Willis Guy about his high school and college course work.