Hampden-Sydney College Union Literary Society Correspondence

Literary society established in 1789 at Hampden-Sydney College in Richmond, Virginia, to provide a forum for writing, speaking, and debating for its student members. Correspondence consists of sixteen letters of acceptance or refusal to lecture or to accept membership in the society, from John S. Caskie, Thomas Saunders Gholson, James E. Heath, Elias Lyman Magoon, Chesley Martin, Henry W. Miller, Joseph Nimmo, and Harry Robertson. Also includes letters from craftspeople and merchants concerning membership pins, curtains, ribbons, and diplomas.