Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryP.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
URL: https://small.library.virginia.edu/
Robin Denise Wear/Ellen Welch
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
MSS 11777 addition, Elizabeth Howard papers on Meade, Valentine, and Walker family papers, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was a gift to the Small Special Collections LIbrary at the University of Virginia Library by Elizabeth Meade Howard of Charlottesville in August 2000 and August 28, 2018.
Scope and Contents
These papers, 1873-1980, consist of ca. 290 items pertaining to the Meade, Valentine and Walker families of Charlottesville, Virginia. Included are correspondence, financial and legal papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks. Among those represented are: Albert Edward Walker, Bessie Carroll Valentine Walker, Ida M. Payne Valentine, Robert Poore Valentine, Virginia W. Meade, and Everard W. Meade.
Ida Payne and Robert Valentine correspond during their courtship in 1873 discussing matters of the heart, plans for accommodations after marriage, and the wedding. Copies of correspondence are from the Valentine family .
There is a letter from James L. Cabell to Robert Poore Valentine, as President of the Charlottesville and University Railway Company, relating an incident which occurred on the street car the previous evening between two ladies and a Black man.
There is a letter from John B. Minor speaking against violation of the Sabbath.
Letters to Albert Walker discuss chiefly business matters as editor, reporter and solicitor for various newspapers. Among the topics mentioned are special editions of newspapers and costs for printing.
Financial and legal papers for the Meade family include specifications for the general contract and invoices for work done on their home on Valley Road. Among the papers of the Valentine family are a deed and survey of city land purchased at auction by Robert Poore Valentine; land and business transactions; and, lists of the property of Valentine.
The papers of the Walker family include a deed of city land purchased by Bessie V. Walker; Bessie's application for membership to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution; general conditions and detail specifications of the contract between Bessie Walker and Stanislaw J. Makielski; letters from Bessie Walker on letterhead, "The Student Union, Madison Hall, University, Virginia;" last will and testament of Bessie Walker; and memoranda of agreement between Walker and publishing companies.
Container List
- Text [X004985778] box: 1 folder: 4
Articles by reporters, and other writingsundated
- Text [X004985778] box: 1 folder: 5
Business Cards and Logos; Announcements; Invitations1882-1910
- Photographs [X004985778] box: 1 folder: 6
Drawing Bookundated
- Text [X004985778] box: 1 folder: 7
Financial and Legal Papers of Virginia W. and Everard W. Meade1938-1967
- Text [X004985778] box: 1 folder: 8
Financial and Legal Papers of Ida M. Payne) and Robert Poore Valentine1890-1919
- Text [X004985778] box: 1 folder: 9
Financial, Legal and Professional Papers of Bessie Valentine Walker1910-1964
- Text [X004985778] box: 1 folder: 10
Financial Papers of Albert Edward Walker1902-1918
- Text [X004985778] box: 1 folder: 11
Legal Papers of Albert Edward Walker1904-1915
- Text [X004985778] box: 1 folder: 12
Newspaper Clippings1897-1976
- Text [X004985778] box: 1 folder: 13
Newspaper Clippings1910-1980
- Photographs [X004985778] box: 1 folder: 14
Photographs of the Meade, Valentine and Walker families1895-1969
- Mixed Materials [X004985778] box: 1 folder: 15
Scrapbook of Southern Pacific Lines Trip to Louisiana, Arizona, and California1936-1937
- Mixed Materials [X004985779] box: 2 folder: 1
Steel engraved woodcut of Bessie Carroll Valentine Walkerundated
- Mixed Materials [X004985779] box: 2 folder: 2
Steel engraved woodcut of Ida Payne Valentineundated
- Mixed Materials [X004985779] box: 2 folder: 3
Scrapbook of History of Landmarks in New York; newspaper clippings, 1885-1898, removed from scrapbookundated
- Mixed Materials [X004985779] box: 2 folder: 4
"University of Virginia 1819" Scrapbookundated
- Mixed Materials [X030748322] folder: Oversize 1
Bessie Valentine Walker, The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, University of Virginiaundated
- Photographs [X030748322] folder: Oversize 1
Ida Valentine, daughter of R. P. and Ida, portraitundated
- Text [X030748322] folder: Oversize 1
Albert E. Walker, New York Evening High School diploma1883
- Mixed Materials [X030748322] folder: Oversize 1
Bessie Valentine Walker, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution1924-04-12
- Text [X030748322] folder: Oversize 1
Virginia Valentine Wallace, St. Anne's High School diploma1927-06-06
- Text [X030748322] folder: Oversize 1
Everard Wilson Meade, Western High School, D. C. diploma1928-01-31
- Text [X030748322] folder: Oversize 1
Everard Wilson Meade, Certificate for Honorary Captain Cunard Adventurerundated
- Photographs [X030748323] folder: Oversize 2
Blueprints for the residence of Mrs. A. E. Walkerundated
- Mixed Materials Artifact
The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Medallion, awarded by the University of Virginia to Bessie Valentine Walkerundated
- Mixed Materials [X032669212] box: 3 folder: 1
Rebecca McGinness newspaper clippings, articles, and photographs1997-2004English.
- Mixed Materials [X032669212] box: 3 folder: 2
Valentine family1836-1912English.Scope and Contents
postcard and photocopy of deeds of land
- Mixed Materials [X032669212] box: 3 folder: 3
Valentine family newspaper clipping about Sallie Williams:"Family Mammy Lived to be a Hundred."October 16, 1918Scope and Contents
Newspaper article "Family Mammy lived to a Hundred".
- Mixed Materials [X032669212] box: 3 folder: 4
Albert E. Walker papers1893-1913English.Scope and Contents
research papers and deeds for property
- Mixed Materials [X032669212] box: 3 folder: 5
Alice "Bessie" Walker papers1918-1955English.Scope and Contents
Includes papers about the University of Virginia, particularly admission of women. Bessie Walker (wife of Albert E. Walker and daughter of Robert and Ida Valentine, was a hostess for the University of Virginia and worked at the University of Virginia Student Union Center.) There are also photographs of Bessie Walker.
- Mixed Materials [X032669212] box: 3 folder: 7
Everard Wilson Meade papers1905-2000English.
- Mixed Materials [X032669212] box: 3 folder: 8
Genealogy and Daughters of American Revolution and other societiesEnglish.
- Mixed Materials [X032669212] box: 3 folder: 9
Miscellaneous
- Mixed Materials [X032669212] box: 3 folder: 10
Printed