Finding Aid to the Lynchburg Writers Collection

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
LYNCHBURG WRITERS COLLECTION
The collection includes poems, short stories, plays, papers, music, prayers, sermons
and speeches written by Lynchburg, Virginia, residents.
BOX 1

Authors A - L

BOX 2

Authors M - T

BOX 3

Authors W

[Detailed finding guide available with collection.]

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(804) 846-0501
LYNCHBURG WRITERS COLLECTION
The collection includes poems, short stories, plays, papers, music, prayers, sermons
and speeches written by Lynchburg, Virginia, residents.
BOX 1

1-1 ADAMS, Virginia Featherston
"To the Moon" (poetry)
"On the Banks of the Great Kanawha" (music)
1-2 ALLISON, William Boyd
"Pluck" (poetry)
1-3 Anonymous
"Hiking Trip through the Valley of Virginia with Allen Price"
(essay)
"Poems to Martha G. French" (poetry)
1-4 BAGBY, George W.
"Christmas" (editorial)
1-5 BLAIR, Martha Redd Feild
"Prayers" (poetry)
1-6 BROWN, Cornelia W.
Letter [1923]
"Early Peach Blossoms" (poetry)
"The Old Year" (poetry)
1-7 BULLARD, Julia Wyatt
"A Historic Poem - Authorship of 'Lines on the Back of a
Confederate Note'" (essay)
1-8 CALLAWAY, Sarah A.
Untitled (essay)
1-9 CARRINGTON, Margaret W.
"Colonial Period in Virginia" (essay)
1-10 CORNELIUS, Roberta D.
"Winton" (poetry)
1-11 CRAIGHILL, Nannie Hutter
Poetry [Names mentioned - "Mother Craighill" and Nina
Moorman]
1-12 DANIEL, John Warwick III
"Lynchburg" (poetry)
1-13 DAVIS, Mary Diuguid
"She Waited Patiently" (review)
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1-14 DICKERSON, Lucille T.
"Jones Memorial Library" (speech)
1-15 DOWDY, Marion Lewis
"Virginia's Women of the Confederacy 1861-1865" (essay)
1-16 EARLY, Mary Washington
"Lynchburg Authors of the Past" (essay)
"On the Brink" (poetry)
1-17 EASLEY, Louisa Edmonia
"Poems" (poetry)
1-18 EDMUNDS, Murrell
Poems about Lynchburg, Virginia (poetry)
"How the Devil came to Bald Ridge" (essay)
1-19 EWELL, Alice Maud
"Virginia" (poetry)
1-20 FARRAR, Thomas
"Rising of Atlantis" (play)
1-21 FEATHERSTON, Howell Colston
"Persiflage Poems and Graven Images" (poetry)
1-22 FEATHERSTON, Howell Colston
"Persiflage Poems and Graven Images" (poetry)
1-23 FEATHERSTON, Howell Colston
Poetry
"The Lynchburg Bar 1890-1905" (essay)
1-24 FLEMING, Mary R.
Poetry
1-25 FLOYD, Nicholas J.
"A Valentine" (poetry)
1-26 FORREST, Robert E.
"The Last Twenty-four Hours in the Life of Jesus" (sermon)
1-27 FULCHER, Tyler
Speeches (1961-1968)
1-28 FULLER, Cora E.
"Just Violets" (poetry)
"Treasures" (poetry)
"The First Christmas Tree" (poetry)
1-29 GILES, Verlie P.
"A Sketch of India" (essay)
1-30 GREGORY, Edward Sanford
"Bonniebell: A Poet's Story" (poetry)

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1-31 HAMAKER, Ray Parker
"Moods" (poetry)
1-32 HANNON, Helen
Poetry
1-33 HASKINS, Mrs. Robert F.
"My Chilen and Poems" (poetry)
1-34 HENDERSON, Blanche
"Poems" (poetry)
1-35 HORSLEY, Catharine Dunscombe
Articles and poetry
1-36 HOVDA, Eleanor
"Lynchburg on the James: A Pageant" (play)
1-37 HUNDLEY, John T. T.
Speeches
1-38 HUNTER, Joseph Boone
"The Voyage" (poetry)
1-39 JORDAN, Cornelia Jane Mathews
"Richmond: Her Glory and Her Graves" (poetry)
"Beautiful Lines" (poetry)
"Local Item [Opera House]" (poetry)
1-40 LANDIS, John W.
"Glimpses of a Riot" (essay)
"Observations on the Viet Nam War" (essay)
1-41 LATHAM, H. Grey
"My Castle in the Air" (poetry)
"The Original Dixie" (poetry)
1-42 LEE, James I.
"Little Boy Blue" (poetry)
1-43 LLOYD, Helen Hoffman
"Squirly" (essay)

BOX 2

2-1 MASSIE, Edgar F.
"On the Mixing of Races and Other Poems" (poetry)
2-2 McKINSEY, Folger
"Lynchburg" (poetry)
2-3 McLEROY, Sherrie S.
"Journey on the Oxford" (essay)
2-4 MENDOLIA, Joseph
"Easter Sunday" (poetry)
2-5 OAKEY, John Theodore
Poetry
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BOX 2

2-6 OAKEY, Navance Merton Reynolds
"Poems" (poetry)
2-7 PEARCE, Lelia Miller
"The Genealogist" (poetry)
2-8 PECK, Nancy King
"Poems" (poetry)
2-9 POSTON, William G.
"God's Word in Poetry" (poetry)
2-10 POTTER, Clifton W., Jr.
"Thomas Cardinal Wolsey: Imperfect Patriot" (essay)
2-11 PREBLE, Thelma M.
"A Day at the Library" (play)
2-12 SCHEWEL, Stanford
"Youth and National Defense" (essay)
2-13 SCOTT, Ann Norvell Otey
"Social Life in Lynchburg, Virginia" (essay)
"This is Virginia" (essay)
"Lynchburg's Confederate Women" (essay)
2-14 SNEAD, Georgie Tilman (I)
"Poems" (poetry)
"Heart Echoes" (poetry)
2-15 SNEAD, Georgie Tilman (II)
Scrapbook (poetry)
2-16 SPENCER, Anne
"Story Outline of Dewey Decimal Classification" (essay)
2-17 SPRUNT, James
"But About Midnight" (sermon)
2-18 STEVENS, Susie Krebbs
"Remembrances" (poetry)
2-19 TALBOTT, Kent Langhorne
"Poems" (poetry)
2-20 TUCKER, Ray
"Col. Charles Lynch: A Man of Consequence" (essay)

BOX 3

3-1 WALLACE, Richard W.
Poetry
3-2 WATSON, Ursula M.
Poetry
3-3 WAREHIME, Edwin L.
"The Winds of War: A Bicentennial Pageant" (play)
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3-4 WELDON, Elizabeth
"Collection of Poems" (poetry)
3-5 WHITEHEAD, Daisy Crump
Poetry
3-6 WIDER, Stella E.
Articles
3-7 WILLS, Edyth
"Virginia Jasmine" (poetry)
"Virginia State Bird" (poetry)
"Piedmont Winter" (poetry)
3-8 WINGFIELD, Joseph William
"Meriwether Lewis" (essay)
3-9 WITHERS, Gip
"Greetings Friends" (poetry)
3-10 WOOLDRIDGE, Easter S.
"Poems" (poetry)

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