Virginia Military Institute. Museum
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Francis H. Smith Circular Letter Soliciting Items to Establish a Museum at VMI
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Identifier: RG-02-Outgoing-18450227
Scope and Contents
Virginia Military Institute printed circular, signed in ink by Superintendent Francis H. Smith, petitioning alumni for donations of "Curiousities, both literary and natural" to help establish a Museum at VMI. This examples is dated February 27, 1845, and addressed to William S. Beale, a member of the Class of 1843.
Also mentions addition to Barracks, new Gun House, Society of Cadets Hall, and Library.
Also mentions addition to Barracks, new Gun House, Society of Cadets Hall, and Library.
Letter from Mrs. William A. Anderson to Sydney B. Williamson, 1926 February 26
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Scope and Contents
Letter concerns the history of the quilt created by Mary Custis Lee that was donated to the VMI Museum. The quilt itself is located in the VMI Museum collection.
