THOMAS RODERICK DEW-D. RALPH MIDYETTE, JR.

WILLIAM HENERY BRODNAX-H. F. TURNER

NATHANIEL MACON CORRESPONDENCE -

Price of Volume III, $2.00

ADDRESS, CHAS. H. AMBLER, EDITOR,

ASHLAND, VA.

RICHMOND, VA:

RICHMOND PRESS, INC.

1909

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HISTORICAL PAPERS

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RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE

THE

JUNE, 1909

Preface

HE Branch Papers for 1909 consist of short biographies of
Thomas R. Dew and W. H. Brodnax and the remaining

available letters of Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina. The letters were collected and edited by my predecessor in the Vaughan Chair of History of Randolph-Macon College, Professor W. E. Dodd, now of Chicago University. The biographies were also written under his direction.

The Branch Papers for 1910 will contain biographies of Edmund Ruffin and General Robert B. Taylor and an account of the work of Dr. William Henry Ruffner, in establishing free public schools in Virginia. The biography of General Taylor will bring out the leading events in the life of a Virginia Federalist who played a prominent part in local politics from 1798 to 1832. The biography of Ruffin will trace the development of the pro-slavery sentiment on the part of Virginia's industrial population from 1830 to 1861, and the war record and tragic death of a soldier devoted to the cause of the Confederacy. The paper on the Establishment of Free Public Schools in Virginia will deal mainly with the Reconstruction Period.

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