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Preferred Citation

Papers of Stuart Brown and Tilghman Bunch, Accession # 6528-c,-d, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

Both groups of papers were gien to the Library by Stuart E. Brown, Jr. of Berryville, Virginia, on June 4, 1990.

Scope and Content Information

The papers of Stuart E. Brown, Jr. (1916- ), Berryville, Virginia, and Tilghman Howard Bunch, Washington, D.C. include photographs, correspondence, political papers, postcards, accounts, itineraries, memorabilia, newsclippings, voting lists, printed materials, and bible records and genealogy.

The papers of Stuart Brown contain political records concerning his work with the Clarke County Democratic Committee, including several types of voter lists, Brown's candidacy for the Virginia House of Delegates in 1961, and the possibility of Brown running in the 1965 Special Election to fill the Virginia State Senate seat left vacate by Harry F. Byrd, Jr. Also present are special files on J. Kenneth Robinson, Stuart E. Brown, Jr., and William Spong.

The papers of Tilghman Howard Bunch form the bulk of the collection. These chiefly consist of the correspondence of Bunch; memorabilia associated with his career in the Navy; itineraries for his numerous voyages and trips; and photographs of the Bunch family, the Lewis and related families, trips taken by Bunch abroad, the U.S.S. Mayflower , and miscellaneous persons and places.

Letters from Bunch to his mother, Laura Crease Lewis Bunch, and other relatives, were written while serving in the Navy, [1925 ?]-1926, aboard the U.S.S. Scorpion and describe his experiences at various ports of call. Bunch had recently transferred from a destroyer to the yacht U.S.S. Scorpion , which was used by Admiral Bristol, the U.S. High Commissioner to Turkey. Bunch visited Gibralter; Alexandria, Cairo, and Luxor, Egypt; Beirut, Syria; Venice, Italy; Phaleron Bay, Delphi, Thebes, the Bay of Nauplia, Mt. Athos, and Salonica, Greece; Constantinople, Turkey; the Black Sea; and Constanza and Bucharest, Romania.

Bunch comments concerning his opinion of Greek immigrants (1926 June 9); the Greek leader Theodorus Pangalos (1878-1952) (1926 June 18); and changes in the complexion of Salonica from a Turkish to a Greek city (1926 July 1). A friend in Spain writes concerning the fall of France in World War II (1941 March 18) and the assassination of John F. Kennedy (1963 November 25).