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Preferred Citation

Papers of Robert Baylor and Virginia Hunter Lyne Tunstall, 1803-1972, Accession #8606-g, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was bequeathed to the Library on May 25, 1988 as part of the Estate of Robert Baylor and Virginia Hunter (Lyne) Tunstall, in care of Roy Rector, Trust Officer of Sovran Bank, Norfolk, Virginia.

Scope and Content Information

Correspondence includes letters of Rosalie Heiser, Robert Baylor Tunstall's aunt on his mother's side, and from C. C. Coleman of England. Papers relating to the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk are concerned chiefly with the controversy surrounding the gift of the Chrysler Art Museum owned by Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., and the subsequent changing of its name from the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences in April 1971. Virginia Hunter (Lyne) Tunstall was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Scienes at this time. These papers include correspondence, copies of the resolution and deed of gift between the Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, Inc. and the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, reports and other records, and printed material (especially newspaper clippings). Correspondents writing in answer to invitations from Robert Baylor Tunstall to Pewter Platter Club engagements include William E. Boroh, Samuel Bowles, George Harvey, Martin W. Littleton, Supreme Court Justice Horace H. Lurton, Morris Schaff, Moorfield Storey, Oscar W. Underwood, and Attorney General George W. Wickersham. Material compiled for Virginia Tunstall's trips to Europe and the Orient include notes, brochures and other printed material. In addition, there are notebooks and a photograph album relating to the University of Virginia.