Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Armistead C. Gordon Letters, Accession 38-145-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

These letters were purchased by the Library on June 1, 1989.

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

This collection consists of three letters from Armistead C. Gordon of Staunton, Virginia , an alumnus of the University of Virginia, 1873-1875, and Rector, Board of Visitors, to Dr. William E. Dold (1856-?), an alumnus of the University of Virginia, 1878-1879, and a prominent physician of River Crest Sanitarium, Astoria, Long Island, New York, and one letter from George Fawcett , an alumnus of the University of Virginia, 1875-1879, to Dr. William E. Dold , May 8, 1931.

In the letters, Gordon thanks Dold for his favorable comments concerning the verses he wrote about the McConnell statue at the University of Virginia , "The Aviator," (July 30, 1919); expresses his appreciation for a short story, "The Isle of Blood," written by Dold's son, Dr. Douglas Meriweather Dold (who served on the Columbia University Relief Mission to Serbia in 1915); mentions that his Men and Events: Chapters of Virginia History is at the bindery; and shares his interest in William Cabell Bruce 's biography John Randolph of Roanoke (March 15, 1923); and writes concerning the publication of his daughter's manuscript in the magazine of one of Dold's sons (February 21, 1928).

A fourth letter from George Fawcett to Dold refers to the death of President Edwin A. Alderman and a visit to the University of Virginia (May 8, 1931).