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Feb 2016
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Posted on February 4, 2016Andros Copy of the Royal Charter (UA 77)
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Posted on February 1, 2016Parents keep their children’s letters and drawings, now often putting them on the refrigerator. Unless the children were sent away for education, in the eighteenth and nineteenth-century, most stayed close to home and probably only wrote if a parent were away. There are some letters in our collection written by older students away at boarding school or college, but letters by very young children are few.
Jan 2016
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Posted on January 20, 2016Before superhero and princess Valentine’s Day cards, we had Lord Byron.
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Posted on January 6, 2016None of the books from the first library of William & Mary survived the 170
Dec 2015
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Posted on December 16, 2015Nineteenth-century bound sheet music of
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Posted on December 8, 2015In Swem Library’s Special Collections Bound Manuscript Collection, there is a handwritten transcription of some documents from the 1677-1686 Entry Warrant Book of Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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Posted on December 7, 2015
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Posted on December 2, 2015Alexander Galt was an American sculptor born in Norfolk, Va. in 1827. He spent time studying in Italy from 1849-1853. He received important commissions in the United States and returned to Italy in 1856, coming back to Virginia in 1860. The outbreak of the Civil War saw him working for the Confederate army and doing a few private commissions.
Nov 2015
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Posted on November 13, 2015At Homecoming this year, Special Collections opened a new exhibit showcasing selected items from our holdings arranged from A to Z.
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Posted on November 2, 2015The semester, and with it class visits to Special Collections, are in full swing. One book that is a popular choice for a whole range of classes ever since it was purchased with support from the Vinyard Fund in 2012, is Portable Mayan altar : pocket books of Mayan spells.