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Preferred Citation

Miscellaneous Virginia Papers, Accession #11107, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

These Virginiana items were given to the Library by Paul Collinge, Heartwood Books, Charlottesville, Virginia, on September 27, 1993.

Scope and Content Information

The earliest item is the brown bound memoranda book belonging a King William County, Virginia, lawyer, 1871-1872, mentioning several circuit court cases.

There are two letters to Victor Sharp Metcalf (1896-1918), one from R. Warner Wood, director of The Blue Ridge Camp For Boys, June 6, 1916, thanking Metcalf for the program of the Richmond College Commencement and wishing him every success. The other letter is from W.L. Prince, dean of Richmond Academy, June 21, 1916, inviting Metcalf to stay with him in Richmond until his family returns from Blue Ridge. Victor Sharp Metcalf, an University of Virginia alumnus and United States Naval Reserve Officer, was born at Georgetown, Kentucky, but moved to Richmond, Virginia, in 1904. During the summers of 1912-1914, Metcalf was a member of the Blue Ridge Boys Camp in Albemarle County; he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Richmond College in June 1916. For the next two years he attended the University of Virginia, receiving the Master of Arts degree in June 1918. He enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve after graduation but died of illness while in training at Hampton Roads. Present in the collection is the privately printed "Tribute of Love" honoring the memory of Metcalf.

Arthur Wallace Peach (1886-?), author of Vermont Prose: A Miscellany and a member of the Author's League of America, Inc. and The Poetry Society of America, Inc., writes a one page letter, March 27, 1920, Northfield, Vermont, to Miss Mary Evelyn Stiles, Richmond, Virginia, sending her an autographed copy of The Hill Trails and regretting that he could not locate the leaflets of the poem, "A Full Life." A two page letter from Peach, April 24, 1922, to "My dear Virginia Friend" [Miss Mary Evelyn Stiles?], explains the confusion resulting from a mischievous report by a friend that Peach had prepared his poems for book publication, refers to the opening of a children's library in memory of Father John Banister Tabb, and lists his fee for poetry readings and informal lectures at twenty-five dollars plus expenses.

Also present is a Register of Service, for the American Red Cross, Richmond, Virginia Chapter, Canteen Committee, for May-July 1919.