Finding Aid to the William Bryan Adams Papers

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
WILLIAM BRYAN ADAMS (1896-) PAPERS
BOX 1

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BOX 2

Letters (1936-1939)
Bedford County Ministers, 1754-1829
Campbell County Ministers & Churches (1782-1872)
Two WPA Surveys of Campbell County Homes:
(a) the GETTLE Home, Rustburg, VA
(b) the DINWIDDIE Home, Winfall, VA
BURFORD family notes
BURFORD family deeds
BURFORD/ADAMS/HANKS genealogies
HANKS-LINCOLN genealogy
HANKS & allied families, census, deeds, etc.
"Legends of Nancy Hanks" by William B. Adams
HANKS/LINCOLN miscellany
Some copies of "Lincoln Lore" with notes; letter from Margaret
Baldwin Austin and photograph of Robert Gaines
"Lincoln's Ancestry" [an article from the Boston Transcript of Nov.
& Dec. 1938
Lincoln publications list
WATTS family miscellaneous notes [by W.B.A.]
WATTS deeds
Fountain Hotel History (1786-1936)

2-1 Correspondence regarding research done on Sen. Carter Glass by the
W.B. Adams
2-2 "Some Facts About the Honorable Carter Glass" by William B.
Adams
2-3 The Virginia Democrat, Feb. 1938, V. 4, No. 2 ["The Album of
Democracy; Pictorial Pages from the Life of Senator Carter
Glass"]
2-4 Glass family land grants
2-5 Glass obituaries
2-6 Glass family miscellany [news clippings, census, obits., etc.]
2-7 Glass family of Amherst Co., VA
2-8 Carter Glass, Sr. miscellany [clippings]

BOX 3

Miscellaneous notes: GLASS

BOX 4

Miscellaneous notes: HANKS/LINCOLN
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