A Guide to the James Southall Wilson Guest Book, ca. 1922-1937 #6453-h

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Preferred Citation

James Southall Wilson Guest Book, Accession # 6453-h, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This holding was made a gift to the Library on September 7, 1993 by Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Davison, Jr., Charlottesville, Virginia.

Scope and Content Information

This guest book was kept by Julia (Tyler) and James Southall Wilson and includes signatures and quotations of famous authors and others. Among the most well-known writers and poets are Carl Sandburg (1878- 1967), Mary Sinton Leitch (1876-1954), Irish poet "AE," George William Russell (1867-1935), Robert Frost (1874-1963), and DuBose Heyward (1885-1940). Included are quotes from: Carl Sandburg--'The peace of great phantoms be for you.' (March 1927); Robert Frost--"I'm going out to clean the pasture spring/I'll only stop to take the leaves away/And wait to watch the water clear I may/I shant be gone long. You come too." (April 25, 1929); Mary Sinton Leitch--poem entitled "On a Night of the New Moon" (May 1929); and DuBose Heyward--"A date that we will never forget" (October 24, 1931).

There are signatures and quotations from several other prominent writers and persons: writer Louise Collier Willcox (1865-1929); author Kate Lee Langley Bosher "Kate Cairns" (1865-1932) and her husband Charles Gideon Bosher; author Lawrence Lee (1903- ); architect Fiske Kimball (1888-1955); writer Marie (Goebel) Kimball (1889-1955); Bishop Henry St. George Tucker (1874-1959) and his wife Mary Lillian (Warnock) Tucker; newspaper man and fiction writer Magruder Gordon Maury (1878-1948), his wife, author Jean (West) Maury, and their son [Thompson] Brooke Maury III; author Margaret Emerson Bailey (1880-1949); author Margaret Prescott Montague (1878-1955); Julester Shrady Post (1898- ); and musician/composer Alfred Swan (1890-1970).

Other friends and relatives contributed autographs and brief writings to the Wilsons: University of Virginia professor Frank Abbot; Dr. W. E. Dold; Mary Wrenn Cofer; Elizabeth Crawford and her husband, College of William & Mary professor R. M. Crawford; Ezra Pierpont Graham; civil engineer George Preston Coleman (1870-1948), his wife Mary Haldane (Begg) Coleman, and their daughter Janet Haldane (Coleman) Kimbrough; Elizabeth deSaussure; Charlton Lewis Leitch (son of Mary Sinton Leitch); Thomas Fitzhugh (1862- ) and his wife Gertrude Goldstuecker Fitzhugh; Marjorie Cushing; and Robert and Martha Shafer.

Julia (Tyler) Wilson was the daughter of Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853-1935), the son of President John Tyler (1790-1862). Relatives represented in the guest book include: Pearl Tyler Ellis (daughter of John and Julia Gardiner Tyler); Cornelia Ellis Booker (daughter of Pearl Tyler Ellis) and her husband Y[elverton] E[vans] Booker (1889- ); Margaret Gardiner Tyler (granddaughter of John Tyler); Priscilla Goodwyn Griffin (granddaughter of Robert and Priscilla Cooper Tyler) and her husband Frank H. Griffin; and Elizabeth Parker Tyler (daughter-in-law of Lyon Gardiner Tyler).