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Preferred Citation

MSS 38-115, Autograph album and music book, undated, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Provenance

Deposit of Mrs. G.J. Walker, May 1933.

Scope and Content

An autograph album of a Miss Glasgow, of Virginia, contains autographs, 1842-1847, of American statesmen including John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, Alexander H.H. Stuart, and Henry A. Wise.

The collection also includes a note from Henry Clay, 1847 July 30, responding to a request for an autograph; "In memoriam," a poem "written for Harrie [?] W. Kuhl after his death by Davis"; a letter from George [McCorkle], Newport News, Va., 1901 Dec. 26, to his sister Juliette McCorkle, Glasgow, Va., discussing his living arrangements; and a letter from J Gayle Anderton, Radford, Va. [1901?] to the Misses McCorkle, Glasgow, Va. The collection also contains two letters, an "In memorium" document, and a bound volume of muscial scores for the piano-forte.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Autograph albums.
• Autographs--Collections
• Lexington (Va.)
• Music--19th century.