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Preferred Citation:
Robert Hunt Land Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information:
Acc. 1981.002 acquired on 02/01/1981 and 03/27/1989.
Robert Land Hunt was a student (1932-1934), faculty member (1939-1942), and librarian (1942-1951) at the College of William
and Mary. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center
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This collection contains materials relating to Robert Hunt Land's work on the history of the College of William and Mary.
It includes a published description of Land's proposed history of the college, notes and correspondence about the proposed
history, and biographical information about alumni (1814-1881). It also contains correspondence between Herbert Ganter, Earl
Gregg Swem, and Robert Hunt Land about Ganter's research on William and Mary at the Library of Congress.
See also Series 29 of the Robb-Bernard Papers, Mss. 65 R54, for correspondence written by Robert Hunt Land during his service
on the USS Brooklyn during World War II.
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Published description of the, Proposed History of William and Mary College
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id10749
Letters to Descendants and Friends of Alumni of the College of William and Mary concerning the Proposed History
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id10751
Notes and correspondence concerning the Proposed History
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id10753
Correspondence concerning the Proposed History (A-F)
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id10755
Correspondence concerning the Proposed History (G-L)
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id10756
Correspondence concerning the Proposed History (M-S)
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id10758
Correspondence concerning the Proposed History (T-W)
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 id10770
Correspondence with Herbert L. Ganter about his research
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 id10760
Miscellaneous Correspondence
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id10761
Ayres, Richard J., Jr.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 id10764
Breckenridge, John
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12 id10772
Brooks, Archie, Jr.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13 id10773
Brown, John
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14 id10775
Coleman, George P.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15 id10777
Dew, Thomas Roderick
Mixed Materials Box: 2 id10778
Box 2
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id10781
Dew, Thomas Roderick (Folder 2)
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2 id10782
Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3 id10784
Founterleroy, Thomas Waring
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4 id10785
Gardner, Malachi
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id10786
Hankins, Leigh Richmond and William Albert
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6 id10787
Hughes, Robert Morton
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id10788
Jones, John
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8 id10789
Jones, William Gustavus
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9 id10790
Lee, Richard Bland
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10 id10791
Little, John Peyton, Jr.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11 id10792
Marshall, John
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12 id10793
Neblett, Colin
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13 id10794
Roane, Spencer
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14 id10795
Salle, J. A.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15 id10796
Short, William
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16 id10797
Somerville, William Clarke
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17 id10798
Stith, William
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18 id10800
Taliaferro, William Throckmorton Langborne
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 19 id10802
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner
Scope and Contents
(Sketch Published in the Dictionary of American Biography and notes used in writing the sketch)
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 20 id10803
Washington, Bushrod Wilmer, George Thornton
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 21 id10804
Wilmer, George Thornton, Jr.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 22 id10806
Notes concerning the Proposed History Brafferton Estate
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 23 id10808
Notes concerning the Proposed History F. H. C. Society
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 24 id10810
Notes concerning the Proposed History Hall of Fame and Principal
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 25 id10812
Notes concerning the Proposed History Phi Beta Kappa
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 26 id10813
Notes concerning the Proposed History William and Mary and Harvard
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 27 id10814
Notes concerning the Proposed History--William and Mary Alumni who were
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 28 id10815
Notes concerning the Jones and Dawson Papers
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 29 id10817
Land's activities for the Proposed History Project
1938 January 3-1939 November 5
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 30 id10818
Land's activities for the Proposed History Project
1938 January 1-1939 May 15
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 31 id10819
Land's Activities for the Propsed History Project
1939 July 1- 1942 February 28
Mixed Materials Box: 3 id10820
Box 3
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 1 id10821
Students- Preliminary List
1814-1861
Scope and Contents
Name, Years of attendance, place of residence, and name of parent or guardian.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2 id10822
Notes Concerning Students and Faculty
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 3 id10823
Students-Preliminary List-First Copy
1865-1881
Scope and Contents
Names taken from the College's Matriculation Book (Name, Years of attendance, place of residence, and name of parent or guardian)
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4 id10824
Students- Carbon Copies
1850-1861
Scope and Contents
Names taken from the College's Matriculation Book (Name, Years of attendance, place of residence, and name of parent or guardian)
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 5 id10825
Students-Carbon Copies
1865-1881
Scope and Contents
Names taken from the College's Matriculation Book (Name, Years of attendance, place of residence, and name of parent or guardian)
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 6 id10826
Students- First Carbon Copies
1865-1881
Scope and Contents
First Carbon Copies, Second Edition corrected, Names taken from the College's Matriculation Book (Name, Years of attendance,
place of residence, and name of parent or guardian)
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 7 id10827
Students- Second Carbon Copies
1865-1881
Scope and Contents
Second Edition corrected, Names taken from the College's Matriculation Book (Name, Years of attendance, place of residence,
and name of parent or guardian)
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 8 id10828
Faculty members and courses they taught
Scope and Contents
Names taken from the College's Matriculation Book (Name, Years of attendance, place of residence, and name of parent or guardian)
Mixed Materials Box: 4 id10829
Box 4
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1 id10830
Notes on Matriculates
1888
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2 id10831
Matriculation Record
1889-1890
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3 id10832
Students-Handwritten Lists from which typed lists were made
1850-1861
Scope and Contents
(Name, Years of attendance, place of residence, and name of parent or guardian)
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4 id10833
Students-Handwritten Lists from which Typed lists were made
1865-1881
Scope and Contents
(Name, Years of attendance, place of residence, and name of parent or guardian)
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5 id10834
Faculty-Handwritten Lists from which typed lists were made
1865-1881
Scope and Contents
As shown in the College Matriculation Book.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6 id10835
Students-Typed Lists
1693-1888
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 7 id10836
Grammar School Students, Members of the Faculty, Members of the Board of Visitors, Bursars
1693-1888
Scope and Contents
Typed Lists
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 8 id10837
Alumni
1693-1888
Scope and Contents
Provisional List
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 9 id10838
Land's Personal Notes taken from the American Beacon
1817
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 10 id10839
Land's Personal Correspondence and Notes
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 11 id10840
Land's Personal Correspondence concening a fellowship for Land's work on his PhD at the University of Virginia
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 12 id10841
Land's Personal Notes, and Notes Concerning the Proposed History
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