Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Robert S. Pace Collection, Accession 10530-b, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

This collection was given to the Library on November 7, 1986, by Mr. Robert S. Pace of Troy, Virginia.

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

This collection of thirty-eight items, 1776-1894, consists of three groups of unrelated papers. The first group contains eighteenth-century material chiefly concerning the Woodbury and Clapp families and includes the following correspondence: a letter of personal and religious sentiment from Edmund Quincy to his granddaughter, Mrs. Mary [Sheatt] , December 14, 1780; a letter from Levi Woodbury to Asa Clapp , October 9, 1818, concerning marriage to Clapp's daughter, Elizabeth ; Asa Clapp 's letter to Elizabeth Woodbury concerning her husband's estate, April 16, 1829; Isaac Hill 's letter, November 8, 1841, to Col. Isaac Barnes discussing the suitability of Governor Levi Woodbury for the presidency of the United States; and a letter from [Charles ?] Woodbury , January 4, 1894, to his sister Ellen Woodbury about a family dispute.

Other material in this same group includes: a certification of intention to marry between Asa Godfrey Clapp and Elizabeth Wendell Quincey of Portland , March 16, 1787; a statement of stocks, December 31, 1842; and two undated items concerning the life and career of Montgomery Blair, postmaster general under President Abraham Lincoln.

The second group consists of notes and drawings concerning the origin of a Roman earthwork fortification in Britain , located three miles from Alfreto lying south of the road from Alfreton to Mansfield in the parishes of Paxton and South Normanton, County Derby, (May 31, 1870, and n.d.), and a record of a meeting of the freeholders of [Tibshelf ?] in the county of Derby [England] to consult concerning inclosing the Common, June 12, 1776.

The last group of papers contains the correspondence, 1951-1973, of Robert S. Pace with the editors of the papers of Jefferson Davis and George Washington about furnishing to the projects copies of letters from these individuals in his possession. Copies of Davis, Washington and James Polk letters are also present. One letter, October 16, 1951, discusses the Woodbury Mansion in Portsmouth, New Hampshire .