Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Additional Virginius Dabney Papers, Accession #7690-af, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was deposited on 12 October 1982.

Scope and Content Information

The papers of Virginius Dabney contain extensive correspondence carried on by Dabney as editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch , in his personal life, and as a Pulitzer Prize- winning author. Other materials deal with his books such as Below the Potomac , The Dry Messiah , and Liberalism in the South , and much useful material collected as research material for these books is present. There is extensive material on the American Society of Newspaper Editors which Dabney served in various capacities including president . A great deal of useful material on race relations, African Americans, the N.A.A.C.P., etc., is present. Recent political history of Virginia is strongly represented in Dabney's correspondence as editor of Virginia's leading newspaper, and in his personal correspondence with figures such as Senator A. Willis Robinson, Francis Pickens Miller, and Senator Carter Glass.

This addition to the Virginius Dabney Papers consists of ca. 630 items, 1941-1980, including correspondence, financial statements, typescript (copy), and near-print and printed material concerning awards received, the bicentennial celebration, civic projects, Dabney's retirement, and various publications. Linwood Holton and Mills Godwin, governors of Virginia, are correspondents.