Box 5

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Signed by both Robert S. and Caroline Bright, and drawn off of the Equitable Trust Co., the Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co., the Fidelity Insurance Trust and Safe Deposit Co., the National Bank of Germantown and Trust Co., the Germantown Trust Co., the Tradesmens National Bank and Trust Co., and the Augusta Trust Co.

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A record of amounts loaned to Richard Cook, with his signature indicating that the account was paid in full. The book was issued by the Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Co. of Philadelphia.

Scope and Contents Includes a certificate of birth (August 1896); a letter from the U.S. Marine Corps regarding appointment of Douglas to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant (1917); nine letters of recommendation on behalf of Douglas; a letter of rejection by the U.S. Marine Corps (June 1917); a letter of acceptance to take an exam for the Signal Officers' Reserve Corps (1918); a letter from the Signal Corps, War Department; a letter by Douglas Bright to his father and two sets of photocopies of this letter (n.d.);...

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence; financial accounts; receipts; a certificate of life membership to the Virginia State Agricultural Society (1871); a notice of selection by the Conservative State Committee of Virginia to the post of canvasser against the proposition for black suffrage; a bond to Gilbert Enley (1886); a certificate of life membership to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical Society (1893); and a letter from a War Department commission for the erection of monuments and memorials for...

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Includes personal and business correspondence. Half of the letters were written by W.W. Vest, with others from G.W. Bassett, G.W. Ward, Edward Buckley, William Duval, Warren Jones, and Helen M. Anderson to Peyton S. Southall, and James Brickhead to H.M. Anderson.

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Most of these items are receipts, but also included is a record of the division of the G.W. Southall estate; a bond between Henry and Furman Southall and William Barnes (1792); promissory notes; and memos.

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Includes certificates of distinction in English, Virginia History, Jr. Class Physics, Sr. Class Physics, Latin, General History, United States History, and Mathematics, presented to Robert S. Bright by the College of William and Mary. Also included is a report card from the fall semester of 1890.