Book purchases

Documents related to fundraising and the construction of the Liberty Hall Academy building in Lexington.

Book purchases and donations

Of particular note is a payroll of "hands employed at Washington College buildings" who are described as "white employees" on the reverse (1866).

Includes receipt for paying Ellick his 1/2 annual allotment for board and clothing

Includes paid invoice for hiring of Ellick

Includes payments made to Ellick

Includes continued hiring of Ellick, an account for Dr. Paine to see Jerry (enslaved) at W. Wilson's, invoice to pay for the work of Elijah

Includes hiring of Jeff and receipts for paying Ellick and Jeff

Includes receipts for paying Jackson's wages

Includes librarian's report

Includes directive to pay A. W. Cameron for the hiring of Alex

Includes letter from Cyrus McCormick regarding $5000 donation

Engineering and Physical Laboratories

Tucker Memorial Hall construction

Construction of Chemistry building

A couple of these relate to John Robinson.

Robinson Estate (includes names of unsold enslaved individuals)

Includes the names of the enslaved and their monetary value

John Robinson estate

Includes a list of men who hired enslaved individuals owned (not named) by Washington College

Also included is a report on students for the 1859/1860 session.

Fundraising

To recoup financial losses suffered by the university as a result of Hunter's Raid

Documentation used to support financial claim to money owed the university by the federal government for losses suffered during Hunter's Raid. Of particular note is a list specific to the loss of library materials.

alumnus and financial agent

alumnus and financial agent

alumnus and financial agent

alumnus and financial agent

This folder includes a description of Cyrus McCormick's funeral.

alumnus and financial agent

Contributors included Booker T. Washington, Isidor Strauss, Oswald Garrison Villard, and Grover Cleveland

Includes correspondence from former U. S. President Grover Cleveland, Oswald Garrison Villard (a future co-founder of the NAACP), and Herbert Welsh.

Correspondents are George Peabody and Oswald Garrison Villard (fundraising agents for the Wilson fund) and John L. Campbell of Washington and Lee. There are references made to a paper published by Trustee Givens Brown Strickler.

Rector of the Board of Trustees, Professor of Law and Equity, Includes letters from Cyrus McCormick

Librarian Clerk of Faculty Secretary and Treasurer to the Trustees

Librarian Clerk of Faculty Secretary and Treasurer to the Trustees

Subjects include election of new university president and the John Marshall portrait

Librarian Clerk of Faculty Secretary and Treasurer to the Trustees

Subjects include John Marshall portrait

Secretary and Treasurer for Trustees

Trustee

Trustee

Trustee

Trustee

Santini medal, mineral specimens purchase, athletic scholarships

Includes handwritten manuscript notice dated November 7, 1912 which announces to students that at their request, the faculty has granted them a holiday to attend a game in Roanoke. The notice reminds the students that they are the "custodians of the honor and reputation of their alma mater while there representing the customs and standards" of Washington and Lee. It further states, "I trust, therefore, that no representative of our campus will be seen entering a bar room or other degrading resort, gambling, or doing anything which would grieve or humiliate their parents, were they present."

The plat was found and removed (by unknown individual) from Board Board Volume 1811-1844. It was originally located in the minutes of October 2, 1844.

Handwritten note by President Lee acknowledging that he shared it with the Trustees

Oath book signed by Trustees and the Annie R. White as the Librarian

Graham family Bible

Professor of Applied Mathematics

Librarian and Clerk of the Faculty

Librarian and Proctor, Clerk of the Faculty, Treasurer

Librarian and Proctor, Clerk of the Faculty, Treasurer

Librarian and Proctor, Clerk of the Faculty, Treasurer

Librarian and Proctor, Clerk of the Faculty, Treasurer

Professor of Latin

Professor of History and English Literature

The 1868 letters were addressed to Johnson, J. J. White, and Edward S. Joynes as the "Committee of the Faculty."

Professor of Modern Languages and English Philology

Professor of Moral Philosophy

Librarian Clerk of the Faculty Treasurer

Librarian, Clerk of the Faculty, Treasurer

McCormick Professor of Natural Philosophy

Cincinnati Professor of Mathematics

Professor of Greek

Regarding the request/order to open a hospital within campus buildings. Faculty ask that the buildings remain in use for educational purposes as they are not fit to accommodate a hospital and lists the various reasons how the buildings aren't compatible for use as a hospital. The letter is signed by Carter J. Harris, Alexander L. Nelson, James J. White, and John L. Campbell.

Building Committee (Graham Hall/Graham Literary Society, Library), Committee to confer with the Resident Masters, Committee to report a plan for the enlargement of the Faculty, Committee on Chapel Service, Library Committee, Committee on Dormitory (Kappa Sigma Fraternity), Committee on Courses, Committee on Entrance Requirements for Freshmen

Friend of Washington and Lee University

Delivered a few days before Kirkpatrick's death, professor of Moral Philosophy

Professor of Moral Philosophy

Rector

The 1868 document was written by the faculty in support of students. It relates to town and gown relations and race relations, and refers to the murder of an African American man. The other documents relate to student behaviors which may have resulted in punishment.

Petition to readmit E. J. Parsons who was expelled, request for the Treasurer to pay 1/2 of deposit to the YMCA, Petition concerning the boarding house/college hotel.

Professors John L. Campbell, Sr. and Junius Fishburn discovered three intoxicated students: W. W. Houston, R. K. Estill, and W. M. Brown. The faculty voted to dismiss them from Washington College. The student body petitioned for their co-horts to be reinstated but were denied. They burned in effigy both professors. In addition to the petition, the folder includes a printed description of events dated March 15 as well as two documents of apology issued to the faculty by offending students. The printed description says there were two intoxicated students but the petition lists the three above.

Commencement Party (1854 June 1), Seventh Annual Congress of the Scotch Irish Society of America (1895 June), inaugration of President William Lyne Wilson (1897 September 15), Eighty-ninth annual celebration of the Graham-Lee Society (1898 January 19), dedication of new law building in memory of John Randolph Tucker 91900 June 19), university's eighty-ninth anniversary (1901 February 22), annual gymnastic tourney (1901 March 15)

includes "Standing Rules Adopted by the Trustees of Washington College" (1840 September 19)

Commencement (1870), "Music of Ye Olden Time" (1877 January 4), Obsequies of John Letcher (1884 January 28), "Programme for the 28th N.Y and 5th Virginia at Lexington" (1884 May 23), 7th Scotch Irish Congress (1895 June), Confederate Memorial Day Exercises (1901 May 25), dedication of the Memorial Westminster Chimes and Clock (1948 September 8)

The issue is about the death of Col. William Allan

regarding compensation for property damage during the Civil War