Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Berkeley Family Papers, Accession 38-113-d, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

This material was made a gift to the Library by Miss Mary Randolph Berkeley of Charlottesville, Virginia through Edmund Berkeley, Jr., on April 26, 1989.

Funding Note

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

Scope and Content

This collection consists of 83 items, 1859 (1963-1985), chiefly pertaining to Norborne Berkeley and the Berkeley family . Correspondence, 1973-1975, between Mary Randolph Berkeley and W. Hugh Peal , president of the Loudoun County Historical Society , concerns her gift of her grandfather Norborne Berkeley 's silk wedding vest; related newspaper clippings, 1974-1975, are included. The genealogy correspondence, 1938 and 1944, and 1969-1985, pertains mainly to Norborne Berkeley but also contains information on other members of the family. Papers of the Iglehart and Waddell families include a letter, April 20, 1859, from E. D. Waddell to her granddaughter, Anne H. Waddell ; a statement on the death of Waddell Iglehart on February 6, 1873; and, a handwritten copy of the Iglehart family bible records. Among the personal papers of Mary Randolph Berkeley are a letter, April 12, 1963, from The Seven Society ; a Society of the Purple Shadows invitation and thank you, 1967; and, a passport issued in 1973.