A Guide to the Walter Scott Copeland Papers , 1907-1928, 1942 #5497-a

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Preferred Citation

Walter Scott Copeland Papers, Accession #5497-a, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

The Copeland papers were given to the Library on September 28, 1979, by Mr. and Mrs. Fillmore Norfleet of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of sixty-one items, 1907-1928, 1942, chiefly business correspondence received by Walter Scott Copeland, editor and publisher of the Newport News Daily Press and Times-Herald. Several prominent Virginians are among the correspondents: Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr.; Douglas Southall Freeman, editor of the Richmond News Leader; Senator Carter Glass; Senator Thomas S. Martin; and Virginia governors John Garland Pollard, Claude A. Swanson, and Elbert Lee Trinkle. Other correspondents include Josephus Daniels, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, and the Newport News chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Topics discussed include segregation, prohibition, road improvements, the World Court, and illiteracy. A few of the letters Copeland received were published in his newspaper's editorial page. An office memorandum and an incomplete copy of the minutes of a 1925 meeting of the Executive Committee of the Virginia Press Association are also included.

In addition, the collection contains two bound notebooks, one apparently kept by George W. Upshaw, ca. 1852, a University of Virginia student(1848-1852) from Lloyds, Essex County, Virginia, entitled "Senior Mathematics (Analytical Geometry)". The second notebook, dated 1833-1884, belonged to William Henry Scott, Jr.(1863-1927) son of Emma Baker and William Henry Scott of Richmond, Virginia, and contains notes on physiology, pathology, chemistry, and other medical lectures at Central Lunatic Asylum, Richmond.