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BOOK

Title:  
The secret diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712
Creators:
Byrd, William, 1674-1744 | Wright, Louis B. (Louis Booker), 1899- | Tinling, Marion, 1904-
Publication:
Dietz Press, Richmond [Va.], 1941.
Notes:  
Includes index. Title vignette (coat of arms) A transcription from the original shorthand of the first part of Byrd's diary now in the Henry E. Huntington library. Parts covering the period from December 13, 1717, to May 19, 1721, and from August 10, 1739, to August 31, 1741, are located in the Virginia historical society and the University of North Carolina library respectively. cf. Introd.
Call #:  
B B99d
Extent:
xxviii, 622 p., [1] leaf of plates : facsim. ; 24 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Thomas Jefferson and his unknown brother Randolph: Twenty-eight letters exchanged between Thomas and Randolph Jefferson ... during the years 1807 to 1815
Creators:
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Jefferson, Randolph, 1755-1815 | Mayo, Bernard, 1902- | Tracy W. McGregor Library
Publication:
The Tracy W. McGregor Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1942.
Notes:  
"The second of a series of publications designed to make better known to students of history the source materials in the Tracy W. McGregor library." "Professor Mayo has edited these twenty-eight letters selected from the ... Carr-Cary papers." "Jefferson's unknown brother": p. 7-10. "Sources on Randolph Jefferson": p. 11.
Call #:  
B J35mal
Extent:
41, [1] p. : map ; 25 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Journal of a young lady of Virginia: 1782
Creators:
Orr, Lucinda Lee | John Murphy & Co. (Baltimore, Md.) | Lee Memorial Association | David Center for the American Revolution
Publication:
John Murphy and Co, Baltimore, Md, 1871.
Notes:  
Published for the benefit of the Lee Memorial Association of Richmond. Personal and literary allusions, and days of the week and month referred to in the journal, indicate that it was dated ' 1787, not 1782, as the editor appears to have read, due to the bad condition of the manuscript impairing its legibility. cf. Preface, p. v.
Call #:  
DLAR 1841
Extent:
56 pages ; 23 cm



Title:  
New world, real world: Improvising English culture in seventeenth-century Virginia
Creator:
Carson, Cary.
Publication:
Athens, Ga, 2008.
Notes:  
Includes bibliographical references.
Extent:
p. [31]-88. : ill., charts, facsims., maps ; 24 cm.
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BOOK

Title:  
A discourse on the prospects of letters and taste in Virginia: pronounced before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Hampden-Sydney College, at their fourth anniversary, in September, 1827
Creators:
Harrison, J. B. (Jesse Burton), 1805-1841 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Hampden-Sydney College
Publication:
Hilliard & Brown, Cambridge, Mass, 1828.
Notes:  
Duplicate in Pam. v.900, no.4; Pam. v.980, no.23.
Call #:  
Pam. v.902, no.18
Extent:
42 p. ; 21 cm.



PAMPHLET

Title:  
New world, real world: Improvising English culture in seventeenth-century Virginia
Creator:
Carson, Cary.
Publication:
Athens, Ga, 2008.
Notes:  
Includes bibliographical references.
Call #:  
975 J82 V.74, NO.1
Extent:
p. [31]-88. : ill., charts, facsims., maps ; 24 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Intellectual life in Jefferson's Virginia, 1790-1830
Creator:
Davis, Richard Beale.
Publication:
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, [1964]
Notes:  
Includes index. Bibliography and notes : p. [439]-482.
Call #:  
917.55 D29I
Extent:
x, 507 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Christmas with the Washingtons: being a special account of traditional rites observed in Virginia and historic yuletides of one first family, the Washingtons of Mount Vernon
Creator:
Bailey, Olive, 1905-
Publication:
Dietz Press, Richmond, [1948]
Call #:  
DLAR 313p
Extent:
44 p. : illus.



BOOK

Title:  
The London diary, 1717-1721: and other writings
Creators:
Byrd, William, 1674-1744 | Wright, Louis B. (Louis Booker), 1899- | Tinling, Marion, 1904-
Publication:
Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1958.
Notes:  
"The diary ... is transcribed from a shorthand notebook (Mss 5: 1B9964: 1) in the library of the Virginia Historical Society." At head of t.p.: William Byrd of Virginia. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references.
Call #:  
B B99d3
Extent:
vi, 647 p., [2] p. of plates : ill., port. ; 24 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Patrician and plebian in Virginia: or, The origin and development of the social classes of the Old Dominion
Creators:
Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson, 1879-1966 | Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson, 1879-1966
Publication:
Russell & Russell, New York, 1959.
Notes:  
Also published as part of his compilation: The shaping of colonial Virginia.
Call #:  
975.5 W51PA
Extent:
vii, 239 p. 22 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
The mother of Washington and her times
Creator:
Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice, 1830-1912
Publication:
The Macmillan Company, Macmillan & Co., Ltd, New York, London, 1903.
Notes:  
Includes bibliographical references.
Call #:  
B W275P
Extent:
xvi, 367 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Thomas Jefferson and his unknown brother
Creators:
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Jefferson, Randolph, 1755-1815 | Mayo, Bernard, 1902- | Bear, James Adam. | Tracy W. McGregor Library
Publication:
University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1981.
Notes:  
The 32 letters reproduced here are the only extant correspondence from the 50 or more letters written between 1789 and 1815. Most are from the Carr-Cary papers of the McGregor Library, University of Virginia, 3 are from the Massachusetts Historical Society, and 1 is from the Library of Congress.
Call #:  
DLAR 4970
Extent:
viii, 59 p. : map ; 24 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
The journal of John Harrower, an indentured servant in the Colony of Virginia, 1773-1776
Creators:
Harrower, John, 1733 or 4-1777 | Kredel, Fritz, 1900-1973 | Riley, Edward M.
Publication:
Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg [Va.], [1963]
Notes:  
The facsims. include a reproduction of the t.p. of the original manuscript journal. Includes bibliographical references and index,
Call #:  
B H247j
Extent:
xxi, 202 p. : ill., facsims., maps ; 24 cm.