Finding Aid to the Alfred Percy Papers

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
ALFRED PERCY (1898-1967) PAPERS
The papers include research notes, speeches, newspaper articles, etc., by Alfred
PERCY, along with correspondence and other papers about Percy Press, including
several series of greeting and postal cards published by the Press. Also included are
papers concerning John FLOYD (1751-1783) of Amherst County, Virginia, and his
family, and typescripts of letters and miscellaneous notes concerning the ELLIS family of
Amherst County.
BOX 1

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"Appalachian Trail in Virginia"
"Blue Ridge Life and History"
Blue Ridge Parkway (Photographs)
Calendar of [Virginia] State Papers
(Negatives)
1-5 "Churches in History" (Virginia)
1-6 Churches in North Carolina (with Photographs)
1-7 Correspondence - Miscellaneous
1-8 Correspondence - The ROSE Diary
1-9 DAVIS, James (Tobacco Inspector)
1-10 "Distortion, Fanaticism and Our Destinies
Doomed Heritage"
1-11 "Distortions in History"
1-12 ELLIS Family (Miscellaneous notes and
letters)
1-13 Excerpts from: Life and Diary of John FLOYD
(Charles H. Ambler)
1-14 FLOYD Family (Correspondence)
1-15 FLOYD Family (Letitia FLOYD Diary)
1-16 "Fluvanna"
1-17 Furnaces, Virginia (Notes)
1-18 Hanson's Journal of John FLOYD Survey
Expedition - 1774
1-19 “Jamestown, Virginia – from 1607 A.D.”
1-20 LEWIS and CLARK Warrant No. 5
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1-21 Lithography Samples (Local artists)
BREMER, Sam
PERROW, Epps Turner
CAMPBELL, Cora
STEVENS, Robert A.
FLOURNOY, Philip
STOVALL, Queena
McWANE, Lawrence
THOMPSON, William C.
MENEFEE, T. K.
WILLIAMS, Peter
1-22 Map (Blue Ridge Parkway)

BOX 2

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2-2
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Miscellaneous Notes (I)
Miscellaneous Notes (II)
Negatives of Prints in Books by PERCY
Newspaper Clippings
Note Cards (Miscellaneous)
Origin of the Lynch Law (Notes)
Percy Press Publications (Clippings, reviews,
correspondence)
2-8 PERCY vs. FISHWICK
2-9 “Quick House”
2-10 "Recollections - Blue Ridge Tavern" (Vera
Kyle WILLIAMS)
2-11 "Research" (James River Basin, Water transportation)
2-12 "The Sanctuary"
2-13 SAUNDERS Bible Record (Negative)
2-14 SAUNDERS Home (Bedford County, Virginia)
(Clippings, photographs)
2-15 Tobacco Rolling Road (Notes, correspondence)
2-16 Tobacco Row Beacon
2-17 Unsung Victory (Notes, correspondence)
2-18 "What Cooks?"

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
ALFRED PERCY (1898-1967)
Alfred PERCY, son of Alfred Boyd PERCY and Elizabeth FAULKNER, was born 22
July 1898, in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was educated at the Augusta Military Academy
and was graduated from the Law School of the University of Virginia in 1924. He
practiced law for a while with his father in Lynchburg. He became interested in writing
as a profession and lived in New York, where he was a writer and an assistant editor for
Street and Smith publications.
On 6 August 1927, Alfred PERCY married Margaret Josephine TRUEHEART,
daughter of Edward G. TRUEHEART and Josephine CRAWFORD, of San Antonio,
Texas.
Alfred PERCY established the Percy Press at his home in Amherst County, Virginia.
He wrote and published many books on historical subjects. His wife, Margaret,
illustrated many of the works. In addition to the historical publications, Percy Press also
produced stationery, Christmas cards, and other informative material.
The writings of Alfred PERCY include: Virginiana in Miniature, Virginia's Unsung
History in the Revolution, The Amherst County Story, Distortions in History, Exploring
the Present and Past Central Blue Ridge, Origin of the Lynch Law, Piedmont
Apocalypse, and Tobacco Rolling Roads to Water Ways. He was co-author and assistant
to the editors of The Saga of a City, a history of the City of Lynchburg, published in 1936
for the sesquicentennial celebration. He also did extensive research on transportation and
was known as an authority on early upland river transportation.
Alfred PERCY also served as president of the Natural Bridge Appalachian Trail Club.
Alfred PERCY died 27 March 1966 in Lynchburg and was buried in the Spring Hill
Cemetery.
[Alfred Percy Papers, Mss., MS1367, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, Virginia; Interview, B. Travis
(daughter of Alfred Percy), 6 March 1996.]

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