Finding Aid to the Ruth Homes Blunt and Louise Ann Blunt Papers
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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
RUTH HOMES BLUNT & LOUISE ANN BLUNT PAPERS
(1894-1976)
(1898-1992)
BOX 1
1-1
1-2
1-3
1-4
BOX 2
2-1
2-2
2-3
2-4
"The Little Anglican Church on the Hill" & related correspondence
Benjamin William ARNOLD, Jr. [copy 1]
Benjamin William ARNOLD, Jr. [copy 2]
"Benjamin W. ARNOLD, Jr., Chairman, Department of History,
Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 1902-1939" by RHB
1-5 ART CENTER BUILDING ["Hallmark of Our Town"]
1-6 BOOK REVIEW: Paths of Glory by Nelly C. Preston
1-7 BURFORD Family Notes
1-8 "Dr. George CABELL, His Predecessors and Successors on the Site
of 'Point of Honor'"
1-9 Mary Virginia Ellet CABELL
1-10 "The Background of CLIFFORD, VA"
1-11 "The Charm of CLIFFORD: Amherst County's Pre-Revolutionary
Village"
2-5
2-6
2-7
2-8
2-9
2-10
2-11
2-12
2-13
"The COLLEGE HILL Reservoir Pitcher" by RHB
"Four COURT HOUSE HILL Houses"
FEDERAL ST.: "Hostesses in a Hospitable House" by RHB
"Birthplace of Allen Weir FREEMAN and Douglas Southall
FREEMAN" by RHB
"Ammon G. HANCOCK's Tobacco Factory, alias Caskie Paper
Company"
"Ammon G. HANCOCK's Factory Recalls--Golden Age of
Lynchburg's Tobacco Industry" by RHB
"Florence Massie Tunstall HORSLEY, Vrginia's First Vice-Regent,
NSDAR by RHB
"John LYNCH's Ferry House" [& the 1860 Blackford map of
Lynchburg]
"John LYNCH, 1740-1820, Founder of Lynchburg, Virginia" by
RHB
"LYNCHBURG Artists in the Permanent Collection of E.C. Glass
High School" by RHB
"LYNCHBURG Authors" by RHB & E.L. Moore
"LYNCHBURG Becomes A City" by RHB
LYNCHBURG COURTS: "Lynchburg Court House"
(Continued)
MS1877
JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
RUTH HOMES BLUNT & LOUISE ANN BLUNT PAPERS (Contd)
(1894-1976)
(1898-1992)
BOX 2
2-14 LYNCHBURG COURTS: "Lynchburg's Historic Courthouse" by
RHB [& notes]
2-15 LYNCHBURG COURTS: "State & Municipal Courts of
LYNCHBURG"
2-16 Campbell Co. 1860 US Census notes
2-17 "The Lynchburg Flag"
2-18 "Keepers of LYNCHBURG ORDINARIES in Lynchburg in 1816"
by LAB
2-19 LYNCHBURG STREETS: "Description of the Boundaries and the
Names of the Streets in Lynchburg in the 1850's"
2-20 Markers and Monuments in Lynchburg
2-21 LYNCHBURG's first lot owners
BOX 3
3-1
3-2
3-3
3-4
3-5
3-6
3-7
3-8
3-9
3-10
3-11
3-12
3-13
BOX 4
4-1
4-2
4-3
MATHEWS Family
MEREDITH Family Notes
"Monticello in the Springtime" by RHB
"Monument Terrace-The Stairway to the City Court House"
"Portrait of an Artist, Georgia Weston MORGAN
OTEY: "Doctor's Orders: 'No More Women, No More Flies
Admitted'"
OTEY Family
"Historical Research Gives POINT OF HONOR Information" by
LAB
"The Point Prior to the POINT OF HONOR" by RHB [typescript &
mss]
"The Point Prior to the POINT OF HONOR" [typescript & proofs
for Lynchburg, Vol. VII, No.1]
"Some Belles & Beaux of the POINT OF HONOR" by RHB
"The PRICE-TURNER House: Five Generations of Gracious
Living" by RHB
"The Revolutionary Heritage of Campbell County"
"Revolutionary War 'Claims' of Lynchburg" by RHB
"A Tour of Six REVOLUTIONARY Heritage Sites in Lynchburg
and Campbell County" by RHB
"Rivermont Bridge" by RHB
(Continued)
MS1877
JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
RUTH HOMES BLUNT & LOUISE ANN BLUNT PAPERS (Contd)
(1894-1976)
(1898-1992)
BOX 4
4-4 "The Rocking Cradle House" by RHB
4-5 Robert ROSE & Amherst County: Letters & Miscellany
4-6 " 'The Engineers' of the Second Building of ST. PAUL'S
EPISCOPAL CHURCH and of the City COURT HOUSE"
4-7 "The Scott-Adams House" by RHB [inc. photos]
4-8 "The Seven Hills of Lynchburg" by RHB
4-9 "Some Suggestions for Lineage Research": RHB
4-10 "Rise and Decline of Lynchburg TOBACCO WAREHOUSES"
4-11 "The WILLS-DAVIS House" [605 Clay St.]
4-12 "Winton", Clifford, Amherst County, VA
4-13 "Winton," [Part II]
BOX 5
5-1
5-2
5-3
5-4
5-5
"Winton": Papers
"Winton": Source material
"Winton": Letters, clippings, misc. [1]
"Winton": Letters, clippings, misc. [2]
"Winton" (Lexington, KY)
BOX 6
6-1
Correspondence & papers regarding the writing of a Master's degree
from Columbia University by RHB [incl. Carteret signature]
Poets of Lynchburg--clippings, correspondence, etc.
Notes: Proceedings of the trustees of Lynchburg, 1787-1817
Notes: Campbell County data
Notes: Deeds & land miscellany
Notes: Misc. land records; Lynchburg I
Notes: Misc. land records; Lynchburg II
Notes: Lynchburg taverns
6-2
6-3
6-4
6-5
6-6
6-7
6-8
BOX 7
7-1
7-2
7-3
7-4
7-5
7-6
7-7
7-8
Correspondence of 1950-59
Correspondence of 1960-69
Correspondence of 1970-79
Correspondence of 1980-1990
WILLIAM LYNCH; correspondence & notes
Lynchburg General Hospital miscellany
TATE family & estate
TATE VS. LYNCH notes
(Continued)
MS1877
JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
RUTH HOMES BLUNT & LOUISE ANN BLUNT PAPERS (Contd)
(1894-1976)
(1898-1992)
BOX 7
7-9
BOX 8
8-1 ARRINGTON family research notes
8-2 Travels in the Old South (inc. "Scenes from Lynchburg")
[photocopy]
8-3 "The James River in Campbell County" by T. Gibson Hobbs, Jr.
8-4 Lynchburg Female Seminary
8-5 Newspaper clippings about Behind the Old Brick Wall
8-6 "The Importance of the Federal Census of 1850 to DAR" by LAB
8-7 RHB's notes on silver
8-8 LYNCHBURG COURTHOUSE documents
8-9 Memoir by Susan Leigh Blackford
8-10 Lynchburg Historic Tour Guides
BOX 9
9-1 BURFORD data
9-9 WALKER/LYNCH data
9-2 CARR data
9-10 WATSON data
9-3 CLINTON data
9-11 WHEAT data
9-4 EARLY data
9-12 WILKS data
9-5 EIDSON data
9-13 DAR papers of Nancy
9-6 IRONMONGER data
Louis Miller Hamilton
9-7 KEY data
[FLOYD/MILLER/OTEY/
9-8 MERIWETHER/LEWIS
PANNELL/PRESTON/WIATT]
BOX 10
10-1
10-2
10-3
10-4
10-5
miscellaneous envelopes from Blunt correspondence
DOOLEY data
HERRING/LEWIS/SHELTON/STONE/WHITE miscellany
LEWELLIN JONES to NELSON DAWSON deed, 1807
Notebook of LAB [@ the Williams Home]
"Have You Ever Considered History of Ward's Road?" [The News,
2 Jan. 1942]
10-6 CLARK/TERRELL family chart
10-7 THOMPSON/BOONE chart
10-8 JOHN BOLLING grant, 1745 [photocopy]
10-9 CHARLES LYNCH bibliography
10-10 JAMES CALLAWAY bibliography
10-11 LYNCH's Ferry data
10-12 BEDFORD COUNTY, VA data
(Continued)
MS1877
JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
RUTH HOMES BLUNT & LOUISE ANN BLUNT PAPERS (Contd)
(1894-1976)
(1898-1992)
BOX 10
10-13
10-14
10-15
10-16
10-17
10-18
10-19
Inventory of papers from a Lynchburg grist mill, 1809-1817
Miscellaneous papers concerning Lynchburg
Miscellaneous personal items [inc. photos]
NORVELL/OTEY family records
LYNCHBURG POETRY READER miscellany (Part I )
LYNCHBURG POETRY READER miscellany (Part II)
VALENTINE data
BOX 11 [Parts I, II, and III of a history of Memorial Methodist Church, with a
photograph, negatives, and correspondence]
BOX 12
[BOX] 13
[BOX] 14
[BOX] 15
[BOX] 16
[BOX] 17
[BOX] 18
12-1 "Places and People Mentioned in Sketches and Recollections of
Lynchburg" by LAB [bound typescript]
12-2 Appointment calendar for the year 1970
Scrapbook of English Literature, No. 1
Scrapbook of English Literature, No. 2
Scrapbook of English Literature, No. 3
Scrapbook of English Literature, No. 4
Scrapbook of English Literature, No. 5
Scrapbook of Winton Graveyard by RHB
MS1877
JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
RUTH HOMES BLUNT & LOUISE ANN BLUNT PAPERS
(1894-1976)
(1898-1992)
The collection consists mostly of research papers about Lynchburg written by the Blunt
sisters. There are also research notes, correspondence, and scrapbooks. "Scrapbook of
English Literature No. 5" contains photos from play produced at E.C. Glass High School,
where Ruth Homes Blunt taught.
BOX 1
Miscellaneous notes & publications
BOX 2
Miscellaneous notes & publications on Lynchburg
BOX 3
Miscellaneous notes & publications
BOX 4
Miscellaneous notes & publications on Lynchburg & "Winton" [Clifford, VA]
BOX 5
Miscellaneous papers, letters, & clippings on Winton" [Clifford, VA &
Lexington, KY]
BOX 6
Miscellaneous correspondence & papers concerning work on a masters' degree
by RHB; also, notes on land records of Lynchburg & Campbell Co.,
Lynchburg poets, and Lynchburg taverns
BOX 7
Miscellaneous correspondence [1950-1990]; Lynchburg General Hospital
miscellany; William LYNCH family data; TATE v. LYNCH notes
BOX 8
Miscellaneous notes & publications
BOX 9
Miscellaneous family data
BOX 10
Miscellaneous family data & notes of local interest; "Lynchburg Poetry
Reader" miscellany
BOX 11
"A History of Memorial Methodist Church"
BOX 12 "Places and People mentioned in Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg";
calendar of 1970
[BOX] 13–17 Scrapbooks of English Literature, Nos. 1-5
[BOX] 18 Scrapbook of Winton Graveyard
[Detailed finding guide available with the collection]
MS1877
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
RUTH HOMES BLUNT & LOUISE ANN BLUNT PAPERS
(1894-1976)
(1898-1992)
BOX 1
1-1
1-2
1-3
1-4
BOX 2
2-1
2-2
2-3
2-4
"The Little Anglican Church on the Hill" & related correspondence
Benjamin William ARNOLD, Jr. [copy 1]
Benjamin William ARNOLD, Jr. [copy 2]
"Benjamin W. ARNOLD, Jr., Chairman, Department of History,
Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 1902-1939" by RHB
1-5 ART CENTER BUILDING ["Hallmark of Our Town"]
1-6 BOOK REVIEW: Paths of Glory by Nelly C. Preston
1-7 BURFORD Family Notes
1-8 "Dr. George CABELL, His Predecessors and Successors on the Site
of 'Point of Honor'"
1-9 Mary Virginia Ellet CABELL
1-10 "The Background of CLIFFORD, VA"
1-11 "The Charm of CLIFFORD: Amherst County's Pre-Revolutionary
Village"
2-5
2-6
2-7
2-8
2-9
2-10
2-11
2-12
2-13
"The COLLEGE HILL Reservoir Pitcher" by RHB
"Four COURT HOUSE HILL Houses"
FEDERAL ST.: "Hostesses in a Hospitable House" by RHB
"Birthplace of Allen Weir FREEMAN and Douglas Southall
FREEMAN" by RHB
"Ammon G. HANCOCK's Tobacco Factory, alias Caskie Paper
Company"
"Ammon G. HANCOCK's Factory Recalls--Golden Age of
Lynchburg's Tobacco Industry" by RHB
"Florence Massie Tunstall HORSLEY, Vrginia's First Vice-Regent,
NSDAR by RHB
"John LYNCH's Ferry House" [& the 1860 Blackford map of
Lynchburg]
"John LYNCH, 1740-1820, Founder of Lynchburg, Virginia" by
RHB
"LYNCHBURG Artists in the Permanent Collection of E.C. Glass
High School" by RHB
"LYNCHBURG Authors" by RHB & E.L. Moore
"LYNCHBURG Becomes A City" by RHB
LYNCHBURG COURTS: "Lynchburg Court House"
(Continued)
MS1877
JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
RUTH HOMES BLUNT & LOUISE ANN BLUNT PAPERS (Contd)
(1894-1976)
(1898-1992)
BOX 2
2-14 LYNCHBURG COURTS: "Lynchburg's Historic Courthouse" by
RHB [& notes]
2-15 LYNCHBURG COURTS: "State & Municipal Courts of
LYNCHBURG"
2-16 Campbell Co. 1860 US Census notes
2-17 "The Lynchburg Flag"
2-18 "Keepers of LYNCHBURG ORDINARIES in Lynchburg in 1816"
by LAB
2-19 LYNCHBURG STREETS: "Description of the Boundaries and the
Names of the Streets in Lynchburg in the 1850's"
2-20 Markers and Monuments in Lynchburg
2-21 LYNCHBURG's first lot owners
BOX 3
3-1
3-2
3-3
3-4
3-5
3-6
3-7
3-8
3-9
3-10
3-11
3-12
3-13
BOX 4
4-1
4-2
4-3
MATHEWS Family
MEREDITH Family Notes
"Monticello in the Springtime" by RHB
"Monument Terrace-The Stairway to the City Court House"
"Portrait of an Artist, Georgia Weston MORGAN
OTEY: "Doctor's Orders: 'No More Women, No More Flies
Admitted'"
OTEY Family
"Historical Research Gives POINT OF HONOR Information" by
LAB
"The Point Prior to the POINT OF HONOR" by RHB [typescript &
mss]
"The Point Prior to the POINT OF HONOR" [typescript & proofs
for Lynchburg, Vol. VII, No.1]
"Some Belles & Beaux of the POINT OF HONOR" by RHB
"The PRICE-TURNER House: Five Generations of Gracious
Living" by RHB
"The Revolutionary Heritage of Campbell County"
"Revolutionary War 'Claims' of Lynchburg" by RHB
"A Tour of Six REVOLUTIONARY Heritage Sites in Lynchburg
and Campbell County" by RHB
"Rivermont Bridge" by RHB
(Continued)
MS1877
JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
RUTH HOMES BLUNT & LOUISE ANN BLUNT PAPERS (Contd)
(1894-1976)
(1898-1992)
BOX 4
4-4 "The Rocking Cradle House" by RHB
4-5 Robert ROSE & Amherst County: Letters & Miscellany
4-6 " 'The Engineers' of the Second Building of ST. PAUL'S
EPISCOPAL CHURCH and of the City COURT HOUSE"
4-7 "The Scott-Adams House" by RHB [inc. photos]
4-8 "The Seven Hills of Lynchburg" by RHB
4-9 "Some Suggestions for Lineage Research": RHB
4-10 "Rise and Decline of Lynchburg TOBACCO WAREHOUSES"
4-11 "The WILLS-DAVIS House" [605 Clay St.]
4-12 "Winton", Clifford, Amherst County, VA
4-13 "Winton," [Part II]
BOX 5
5-1
5-2
5-3
5-4
5-5
"Winton": Papers
"Winton": Source material
"Winton": Letters, clippings, misc. [1]
"Winton": Letters, clippings, misc. [2]
"Winton" (Lexington, KY)
BOX 6
6-1
Correspondence & papers regarding the writing of a Master's degree
from Columbia University by RHB [incl. Carteret signature]
Poets of Lynchburg--clippings, correspondence, etc.
Notes: Proceedings of the trustees of Lynchburg, 1787-1817
Notes: Campbell County data
Notes: Deeds & land miscellany
Notes: Misc. land records; Lynchburg I
Notes: Misc. land records; Lynchburg II
Notes: Lynchburg taverns
6-2
6-3
6-4
6-5
6-6
6-7
6-8
BOX 7
7-1
7-2
7-3
7-4
7-5
7-6
7-7
7-8
Correspondence of 1950-59
Correspondence of 1960-69
Correspondence of 1970-79
Correspondence of 1980-1990
WILLIAM LYNCH; correspondence & notes
Lynchburg General Hospital miscellany
TATE family & estate
TATE VS. LYNCH notes
(Continued)
MS1877
JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
RUTH HOMES BLUNT & LOUISE ANN BLUNT PAPERS (Contd)
(1894-1976)
(1898-1992)
BOX 7
7-9
BOX 8
8-1 ARRINGTON family research notes
8-2 Travels in the Old South (inc. "Scenes from Lynchburg")
[photocopy]
8-3 "The James River in Campbell County" by T. Gibson Hobbs, Jr.
8-4 Lynchburg Female Seminary
8-5 Newspaper clippings about Behind the Old Brick Wall
8-6 "The Importance of the Federal Census of 1850 to DAR" by LAB
8-7 RHB's notes on silver
8-8 LYNCHBURG COURTHOUSE documents
8-9 Memoir by Susan Leigh Blackford
8-10 Lynchburg Historic Tour Guides
BOX 9
9-1 BURFORD data
9-9 WALKER/LYNCH data
9-2 CARR data
9-10 WATSON data
9-3 CLINTON data
9-11 WHEAT data
9-4 EARLY data
9-12 WILKS data
9-5 EIDSON data
9-13 DAR papers of Nancy
9-6 IRONMONGER data
Louis Miller Hamilton
9-7 KEY data
[FLOYD/MILLER/OTEY/
9-8 MERIWETHER/LEWIS
PANNELL/PRESTON/WIATT]
BOX 10
10-1
10-2
10-3
10-4
10-5
miscellaneous envelopes from Blunt correspondence
DOOLEY data
HERRING/LEWIS/SHELTON/STONE/WHITE miscellany
LEWELLIN JONES to NELSON DAWSON deed, 1807
Notebook of LAB [@ the Williams Home]
"Have You Ever Considered History of Ward's Road?" [The News,
2 Jan. 1942]
10-6 CLARK/TERRELL family chart
10-7 THOMPSON/BOONE chart
10-8 JOHN BOLLING grant, 1745 [photocopy]
10-9 CHARLES LYNCH bibliography
10-10 JAMES CALLAWAY bibliography
10-11 LYNCH's Ferry data
10-12 BEDFORD COUNTY, VA data
(Continued)
MS1877
JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
RUTH HOMES BLUNT & LOUISE ANN BLUNT PAPERS (Contd)
(1894-1976)
(1898-1992)
BOX 10
10-13
10-14
10-15
10-16
10-17
10-18
10-19
Inventory of papers from a Lynchburg grist mill, 1809-1817
Miscellaneous papers concerning Lynchburg
Miscellaneous personal items [inc. photos]
NORVELL/OTEY family records
LYNCHBURG POETRY READER miscellany (Part I )
LYNCHBURG POETRY READER miscellany (Part II)
VALENTINE data
BOX 11 [Parts I, II, and III of a history of Memorial Methodist Church, with a
photograph, negatives, and correspondence]
BOX 12
[BOX] 13
[BOX] 14
[BOX] 15
[BOX] 16
[BOX] 17
[BOX] 18
12-1 "Places and People Mentioned in Sketches and Recollections of
Lynchburg" by LAB [bound typescript]
12-2 Appointment calendar for the year 1970
Scrapbook of English Literature, No. 1
Scrapbook of English Literature, No. 2
Scrapbook of English Literature, No. 3
Scrapbook of English Literature, No. 4
Scrapbook of English Literature, No. 5
Scrapbook of Winton Graveyard by RHB
MS1877
JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
RUTH HOMES BLUNT & LOUISE ANN BLUNT PAPERS
(1894-1976)
(1898-1992)
The collection consists mostly of research papers about Lynchburg written by the Blunt
sisters. There are also research notes, correspondence, and scrapbooks. "Scrapbook of
English Literature No. 5" contains photos from play produced at E.C. Glass High School,
where Ruth Homes Blunt taught.
BOX 1
Miscellaneous notes & publications
BOX 2
Miscellaneous notes & publications on Lynchburg
BOX 3
Miscellaneous notes & publications
BOX 4
Miscellaneous notes & publications on Lynchburg & "Winton" [Clifford, VA]
BOX 5
Miscellaneous papers, letters, & clippings on Winton" [Clifford, VA &
Lexington, KY]
BOX 6
Miscellaneous correspondence & papers concerning work on a masters' degree
by RHB; also, notes on land records of Lynchburg & Campbell Co.,
Lynchburg poets, and Lynchburg taverns
BOX 7
Miscellaneous correspondence [1950-1990]; Lynchburg General Hospital
miscellany; William LYNCH family data; TATE v. LYNCH notes
BOX 8
Miscellaneous notes & publications
BOX 9
Miscellaneous family data
BOX 10
Miscellaneous family data & notes of local interest; "Lynchburg Poetry
Reader" miscellany
BOX 11
"A History of Memorial Methodist Church"
BOX 12 "Places and People mentioned in Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg";
calendar of 1970
[BOX] 13–17 Scrapbooks of English Literature, Nos. 1-5
[BOX] 18 Scrapbook of Winton Graveyard
[Detailed finding guide available with the collection]
MS1877
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Title
Finding Aid to the Ruth Homes Blunt and Louise Ann Blunt Papers
Subject
Finding aids
Blunt, Ruth Holmes, 1894-1976
Blunt, Louise Ann, 1898-1992
Description
Finding aid to the Ruth Holmes Blunt and Louise Ann Blunt Papers held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. The papers include scrapbooks, research papers, notes, and correspondence written by the Blunt sisters.
Creator
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
Publisher
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
Date
2024
Rights
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
Format
pdf
Language
English
Identifier
JMLMS1877FA
Collection
Citation
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.), “Finding Aid to the Ruth Homes Blunt and Louise Ann Blunt Papers,” Digital Collections, accessed April 27, 2024, https://digitaljones.omeka.net/items/show/671.