Local/Regional History and Appalachian South

The collection contains a photocopy of a letter from Wade in Christiansburg, Virginia, written on May 15, 1864, to her husband John, a soldier in the Confederate Army in the Civil War.

The Wagg Papers consist of correspondence, two diaries, sermons, church documents, and miscellaneous poems and essays.

Document by Carmen Clad-Jones about cemetery including names on stones--2 paper copies and digital copy also received.

Papers of Manley Morrison Caldwell, an attorney in Wytheville and Roanoke, Virginia, and his law partner and father-in-law, James A. Walker, consisting largely of Caldwell's professional legal and business papers and documents gathered and created by him in the course of acting as the executor of Walker's will.

Insurance agent, and Treasurer for the St. Paul's Church Home, in Richmond, Virginia. Materials include business correspondence, ledger notes, bank receipts, insurance policies (for the Church Home), and a deed to land in Henrico County, Virginia.

The collection contains a selection of Wallace's professional correspondence, U.S. Geological Survey Reports, Virginia state agency and local reports, and photographs from sites around the state.

Contract between Samuel Wallace, of Scott County, Virginia, and John Allan of Tazewell County, Virginia, for sale of land.

Full title reads, "A map showing the lines to land own in fee by Walter Wood and other tracts on which he owns the mineral right also the lines of a tract owned in fee bt the Radford Iron Company and others and two other tracts in which the said company and others own the mineral right lying in Pulaski Co. Va. on th north and east sides of Peak Knob." Map contains some hand-wrtitten additions concerning other property owners.

The H. D. Walters Flyer is an advertisement for rings from a jeweler in Christiansburg, Virginia, likely dating from the late nineteenth century.