Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

MSS 16368, Augustus Julan Requier letter, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was purchased from Peter Luke Antiques, Ephemera, Old & Rare Books by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia on March 6, 2018.

Biographical / Historical

Augustus Julian Requier (1825-1887) was a Southern poet and lawyer born in South Carolina. In his porfesional legal work, he served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabam and took the same position under the Confederate government. The poetry he wrote during the Civil War supported the Confederacy. After the war, he lived and worked in New York City.

Scope and Contents

Augustus Julian Requier letter, MSS 16368, November 23, 1867, 0.04 cubic feet, sending his contribution to the Southern Society periodical and asking to be sent copies of the issues in which it will be printed.