A Guide to the James A. Bear, Jr. Papers
A Collection in the
Special Collections Department
Accession number 5454
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
James A. Bear, Jr. Papers, Accession 5454, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
The notecards for the bibliography were loaned to the University of Virginia Library on September 17, 1956; and the article about Giuseppe Ceracchi and the transcript of the memoirs were both given to the University of Virginia Library by James A. Bear, Jr., on June 25, 1971 (#5454-d) and on September 1, 1966 (#5454-c).
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Scope and Content
These three accessions consist of notes collected by James A. Bear, Jr. for his projected Bibliography of Virginia History Since 1865 , ca. 1956, ca. 200 notecards (#5454); an article by James A. Bear, Jr. entitled "The Giuseppe Ceracchi Bust of Jefferson," ca. 1971 (#5454-d); and one transcript, ca. 1966, prepared by James A. Bear, Jr. of the Memoirs of Thomas Jefferson Randolph originally written in 1874 (#5454-c). There are two holograph versions of these memoirs in the Edgehill-Randolph Papers (#1397).