William Faulkner’s choice of a repository for the major manuscripts and personal papers in his possession at the time of his death was the University of Virginia. His stated wish was implemented by the creation of the William Faulkner Foundation to which he arranged to bequeath his papers. They were ultimately transferred to the University […]
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An Introduction to The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection
by Matthew J. Bruccoli This essay is a combination of the foreword to “The Great War, 1914-1918,” the catalog of an exhibition of the same name held at the University of South Carolina November 1997-January 1998 and the introduction to The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection (Columbia, S.C. : MJB, 1999). The essay is […]
The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection
The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection was established by Matthew J. Bruccoli in 1965 in memory of his father, Joseph M. Bruccoli (1892?-1965), a veteran of the Great War. Professor Bruccoli, a graduate of Yale University who received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Virginia, initially planned to collect the fiction […]
Jorge Luis Borges Collection
One of the more notable collections in the Special Collections Department at the University of Virginia Library is that of works by and about the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), a distinguished poet and essayist and one of the finest writers of short stories in world letters. It contains more than two thousand individual
The Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
The Clifton Waller Barrett Library takes as its province one hundred and seventy-five years of American literature, the years from 1775 to 1950. It contains, insofar as it has been possible to assemble them, all fiction, poetry, drama, and essays published by an American in book form up to and including the year 1875; for […]
John Dos Passos Collection
The Papers of John Dos Passos at the University of Virginia Library present a vivid chronicle of the author’s activities, thoughts and literary skills as he analyzed, reported on and criticized the turbulent events of the 20th century. Dos Passos, identifying with the leftist radical sympathies of the post-World War I period, experimented in expressing […]
UVA-affiliated Proxy Researchers for Hire
This list of researchers is offered as a service to those of our patrons who need research work beyond the limitations of our library. Each person on the list is a UVA affiliate who is basically familiar with our collections and their use. The Small Special Collections Library cannot assume responsibility for their work. All […]
Collection Development Policy
The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library The University of Virginia September, 2002 The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library acquires printed books, manuscripts, maps, broadsides, photographs, prints and drawings, sheet music, sound recordings, digital images, artifacts, and other formats in support of the Library’s mission to serve the undergraduate and graduate teaching […]
University of Virginia Archives
The University of Virginia Archives administers the non-current records of lasting value that are generated by or that document the activities of the students, faculty, and administrators of the University. Records consist of information that may be many recorded in any of a variety of formats. While records are current or when there is a […]
Rare Book Collections
The major emphases of Special Collections’ rare book holdings are American history and literature. The collections are approximately 325,000 in number of volumes. As Thomas Jefferson was the founder of the University of Virginia, he was also the creator of its library, selecting all of the nearly 7,000 books for it. Some of these books […]