AMB. BRUCE'S DIARY

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• Publication Date: April 25, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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UFFILL UF; IHL- UIREUIUH
Date: 25 April 1984
The Librarian at the VA Historical
Society now tells me that the following
periods are held in Richmond:
May 1942 - June 1942
Aug 1942 - Sept 1942
10-26 September 1942
7-24 July 1943
30 May - 6 December 1944
These records were catalogued in 1975
and the Call Number is:
MSS 1
38303A4567
So, we are back to square one. I will
get a copy of Mrs. Bruce's letter for
ou
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Date: 24APril 1984
TO:
Mr. Casey
63-~ -SaiS
FROM:
Debbie
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SUBJECT:
Virginia Historical Society Library
Re your reviewing of Mr. David Bruce's
diary:
Feb /94,1 - & ./ c' f M
er 1954
April 1957 - October 1959
March 1961 - March 1969
March 1973 - September 1974
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OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Location:
428 North Boulevard
Richmond, Virginia 23221
Telephone:
[phone]
Hours:
Mon-Sat 0900-1645 (except Federal
holidays & Sats before holiday
Librarian:
Mrs. Bruce is writing a letter to be
sent to I have requested a
copy of e er tor you and courier will
pick up tomorrow.
The Librarian advised that he needs two
days notice of your visit, i.e., we will
have to call on Thursday for a Sat. visit.
He also asked that I tell you the periods
of the diary located in Richmond (the
other geri-o~are at Sta Depa tment) :
 Virginia Historical Society - Library
[phone]
428 North Boulevard (Corner Kensington and
Richmond, VA 23221 Boulevard; near
Virginia Museum)
Hours: Mon-Sat 0900-1645 (except Fed holidays)
(Important to call first so they expect you)
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
Re DCI reviewing David Bruce's diary:
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DAVID K. E. BRUCE ?
24 April 1984
Virginia Historical Society
P. O. Box 7311
Richr-iond, Virginia, 23221
I would be grateful if you could
make available to Mr. William Joseph
Casey, Director of Central Intelligence,
the papers and diari4a o= ::zy* late hus-
band, David K. E. Bruce.
I ain l-olci by his secretary that
he does not desire to zero.: any of the
papers, only to take notes which tie is
w:a1corcc: to do.
ncere? j' yours,
Evangeline 3ruce
cc. Air. Casey
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MARGARET L. YOUNG
aV a HAROLD C. YOUNG
VOLUME 4
Social Sciences ana Humanities LiUyaries
including Area/Ethnic, Art, Geography/Map,
History, Music, Religion /Theology,
Theater, and Urban/Regional Planning Libraries
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(Libraries
~ Centes
A Subject Classified Edition of Material Taken from
"Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers," Sixth Edition,
Covering Special Libraries, Research Libraries, Information Centers,
Archives, and Data Centers Maintained by Government Agencies,
Business, Industry, Newspapers, Educational Institutions, Nonprofit
Organizations and Societies
GALE RESEARCH COMPANY ? BOOK TOWER ? DETROIT, MICHIGAN 48226
It
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"surveyor's general papers: incorporation papers; Vermont State archives,
1775-1900; deeds and leases. Holdings: 250 volumes bound manuscript
records; 300 file boxes; 64 boxes of original acts and resolutions; 45 boxes
of legislative committee records; 2 cabinets of index files to state papers;
s 700 cubic feet of documents. Services: Copying; material is available for
/ research; will answer correspondence pertaining to archival material; Archives
open to public. Publications: State Papers of Vermont. Staff: Robert L.
Hagerman, Asst.Ed.
VICKSBURG & WARREN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Old Court House
Museum) - MC CARDLE RESEARCH LIBRARY
Phone: [phone]
Vicksburg, MS 39180 Gordon A. Cotton, Dir.
Subjects: Area history from the Indians through the Civil War. Holdings:
2000 volumes. Services: Copying; library open to public. Staff: Blanche
Terry, Res.Asst.
VIGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY - HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF THE
WABASH VALLEY - LIBRARY
1411 S..6th St. Phone: [phone]
Terre Haute, IN 47802 Judy Calvert, Libn.
Founded: 1958. Staff: Prof 1; Other 3. Subjects: Local history. Holdings:
Figures not available. Services: Library open to public by permission.
Publications: Leaves of Thyme, quarterly. Staff: Dorothy Jerse, Musm.Cur.;
Dorothy J. Clark, Sec.
VIGO COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
222 N. Seventh St.
One Library Square Phone: [phone]
Terre Haute, IN 47807 Clarence Brink, Coord., Ref.Serv.
Staff: Prof 3; Other 3. Subjects: State and local history, genealogy. Special
Collections: Baertich Collection (6 VF drawers); Family files (16 VF drawers);
Community Affairs (84 VF drawers); Local Club and Association records (26
boxes); Dr. Charles N. Combs Memorabilia (1 box); Eugene V. Debs Collection
(2 boxes); Jane Dabney Shackelford Collection (1 box); Joseph Jenckes
Collection (1 box); Theodore Dreiser/Paul Dresser Collection (1 box); J.A.
Wickersham Scrapbook (1 box). Holdings: 7047 books; 1260 bound
periodical volumes; 287 maps and charts. Subscriptions: 62 journals and
other serials. Services: Copying; library open to public for reference use only.
Automated Operations: Computerized cataloging.' Networks/Consortia:
Member of OCLC through INCOLSA. Publications: Surname Index, irregular.
Special Catalogs: Main Special Collections (card); Community Archives (card).
Staff: Lois Harris, Spec.Coll.Libn.; Nancy Sherrill, Genealogist.
VINCENNES UNIVERSITY - BYRON R. LEWIS HISTORICAL LIBRARY
Phone: [phone]
Vincennes, IN 47591 Robert R. Stevens, Dir.
Founded: 1967. Staff: Prof 1; Other 2. Subjects: Political, social, economic
and general history of Lower Wabash; University archives; oral history of
Depression Era; genealogy. Holdings: 6000 books and bound periodical
volumes; manuscripts; photographs; maps; broadsides; newspapers;
pamphlets. Subscriptions: 12 journals and other serials. Services: Limited
area and genealogical research; library open to public.
VINELAND HISTORICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY - LIBRARY
108 S. 7th St. Phone: [phone]
Vineland, NJ 08360 Joseph E. Sherry, Libn.
Founded: 1864. Staff: Prof 1. Subjects: Genealogy and local history.
Special Collections: Sheppard Genealogical Papers; Autograph Collection.
Holdings: 5000 books; bound local newspapers, 1861-1935; 1 VF drawer of
pamphlets; 8 boxes of documents; census material on microfilm. Services:
Copying; library open to public for reference use only. Publications: The
Vineland Historical Magazine, annual - free to members, for sale to others.
VIRGIN ISLANDS - DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & CULTURAL
AFFAIRS - BUREAU OF LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS
Box 390, Charlotte Amalie Phone: [phone]
St. Thomas, VI 00801 Dr. Henry C. Chang, Dir.
Founded: 1920. Staff: Prof 20; Other 36. Subjects: General and reference
topics. Special Collections: Von Scholton Collection (Caribbean and Virgin
Island materials: 12,000 volumes; periodicals and newspapers; dissertations
and manuscripts; maps and documents). Holdings: 96,500 books: U.N., U.S.
and Virgin Islands government documents depository; Virgin Islands archives,
1655-1933 on microfilm; microfilm of newspapers 1770-date; 9 VF
drawers. Subscriptions: 354 journals and other serials. Services: Interlibrary
loans; copying; microfilming; library open to public. Networks/Consortia:
Member of Virgin Islands Library & Information Network (VILINET).
Publications: Annual Reports, Virgin Islands Government Documents,
quarterly; Information newsletter, bimonthly; acquisitions list, irregular;
occasional papers. Special Catalogs: Union List of Periodicals and
Newspapers (book); Union Title File (card). Special Indexes: Local Newspaper
index (card). Remarks: An additional telephone number is [phone].
Staff: June A.V. Lindqvist, Cur., Spec.Coll.
"VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY - LIBRARY
428 North Blvd. Phone: [phone]
Richmond, VA 23221 Edwin L. Dooley, Dir.
Founded: 1831. Staff: Prof 6; Other 3. Subjects: Virginiana and colonial
Americana. Special Collections: Confederate imprints; 17th and 18th century
English architecture. Holdings: 250,000 books and bound periodical volumes;
4 million manuscripts (cataloged); prints and engravings; maps and printed
ephemera; sheet music; newspapers; paintings. Subscriptions: 560 journals
and other serials. Services: Copying; library open to public. Publications:
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, quarterly; Occasional Bulletin,
semiannual. Staff: Howson W. Cole, Libn.
IRGINIA STATE LIBRARY
Capitol St. Phone: [phone]
Richmond, VA 23219 Donald Haynes, State Libn.
Founded: 1823. Staff: Prof 51; Other 75. Subjects: Virginiana, English
history, American literature, Southern and Confederate history, genealogy,
social sciences, U.S. history, English literature. Special Collections: Virginia
newspapers; Virginia public records; Virginia maps; Confederate imprints.
Holdings: , 543,684 volumes; 81,002 maps; 20 million manuscripts;
65,000eels of microfilm. Subscriptions: 1280 journals and other serials;
100 newspapers. Services: Interlibrary loans; copying; library open to public.
Networks/Consortia: Member of OCLC through SOLINET. Publications:
Virginia Cavalcade, quarterly by subscription; Virginia State Library
Publications - by subscription and exchange; Virginiana in the Printed Book
Collections of the Virginia State Library (book, 2 vols.). Staff: Dr. Louis H.
Manarin, State Archv.; Dr. Paul I. Chestnut, Asst. State Archv.; Jon K. Kukla,
Asst.Dir., Pubn.; Connis 0. Brown, Asst. State Archv.; Dorothy C. Fuller, Dir.,
Lib.Dev.; William R. Chamberlain, Asst.Dir., Gen.Lib.; Nolan T. Yelich, Dir.,
Adm.Serv.
WABASH COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM - HISTORICAL LIBRARY
Memorial Hall Phone: [phone]
Wabash, IN 46992 Kenneth E. Gray, Cur.
Founded: 1923. Subjects: Indiana and Wabash County history; Civil War.
Holdings: 1940 books; newspapers, manuscripts and documents. Services:
Library open to public for research on premises.
WACO-MC LENNAN COUNTY LIBRARY - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
DEPARTMENT
1717 Austin Ave. Phone: [phone]
Waco, TX 76701 Sue Kethley, Libn.
Staff: h.--Subjects: Texas and local history, genealogy. Holdings: 8859
books; 1159 bound periodical volumes; 1812 reels of microfilmed
newspapers and books; 1000 microfiche; 1375 reels of census and indices.
Subscriptions: 167 journals and other serials; 13 newspapers. Services:
Copying; library open to public for reference use only. Automated
Operations: Online systems. Networks/Consortia: Member of OCLC.
Publications: Heart of Texas Records, quarterly - by subscription.
WAGNALLS MEMORIAL - LIBRARY
150 E. Columbus St. Phone: [phone]
Lithopolis, OH 43136 Jerry Neff, Dir.
Founded: 1924. Staff: 9. Special Collections: Books written by and
belonging to Mabel Wagnalls-Jones; local history; letters written by 0. Henry
to Mabel Wagnalls-Jones; paintings by John Ward Dunsmore. Services:
Library open to residents in the immediate area. Staff: Marilyn Stebelton,
Prog.Coord.; Mrs. Jo Riegel, Hd.Libn.
WALLINGFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. - LIBRARY
180 S. Main St. Phone: [phone]
Wallingford, CT 06492 Charles R. Clulee, Pres. Emeritus
Staff: 2. Subjects: Local history, genealogy. Holdings: Figures not available.
Services: Library open to public.
WALNUT CREEK HISTORICAL SOCIETY - SHADELANDS RANCH
HISTORICAL MUSEUM - HISTORY ROOM
2660 Ygnacio Valley Rd. Phone: [phone]
Walnut Creek, CA 94598 Mrs. John W. Clemson, Musm.Dir.
Founded: 1973. Subjects: Walnut Creek history. Special Collections:
Joseph Reddeford Walker, Albert and Bessie Johnson; bound collection of
Walnut Kerne! newspapers (37 years). Holdings: 450 books; 62 bound
periodical volumes; 3 VF drawers of maps, manuscripts, files, records; 850
photographs; 20 tapes; 120 unbound newspapers. Services: Library open to
public by appointment.
WALTHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. - LIBRARY
185 Lyman St.
Waltham, MA 02154 Barbara H. Muir, Cur.
Subjects: Waltham history and memorabilia. Special Collections: Early diaries
and land deeds of Waltham people. Holdings: 437 books; 18 bound volumes
of "Waltham Sentinel"; 320 pamphlets; reports, manuscripts, clippings,
documents, photographs, transparencies, maps. Staff: Marjorie C. Hunt,
Cons.
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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Institutions
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Societies ,
editor-in-chief
JOSEPH C. KIGER
GREENWOOD PRESS
Westport, Connecticut ? London, England
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VIRGINIA HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. See
Virginia Historical Society, The.
VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, THE. For 150 years-longer than
half the states of the Union have been in existence-the Virginia Historical
Society has sought to preserve the treasures of the past. The Virginia
historical agency is the fourth oldest among state societies. In unbroken
fashion through two centuries, Virginians have supported the organization
with what former Senator J. William Fuibright once called "a mystic sense
of a continuing contract between generations."
Few depositories in America can boast of holdings as varied and valuable
as those found inside the Richmond-based organization. Much of the socie-
ty's wealth is directly attributable to its growth-a saga of persistence and
devotion worthy of high praise.
Motivated by a desire "to collect and preserve materials for the civil and
physical history of Virginia," twenty-eight gentlemen met in the'House of
Delegates chamber of the State Capitol on December 29, 1831, and
established the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society. Its birth came
closely behind the formation of similar groups in Massachusetts, New
York, and Pennsylvania, yet it ranked first in the illustriousness of its
leader.. Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court John Marshall headed the
Old Dominion society during its initial four years. Former President James
Madison was the first person elected to honorary membership in the
association.
The society's early growth was slow but steady.. Monthly meetings were
held in the homes of executive committee members. During the period
1848-1853 it published the only historical journal in the South. The Virginia
History Register and Literary Companion stressed colonial history and was
eclectic in nature. Its circulation was never the equal of its quality.
Gifts to the Richmond group came in a trickle. Some donations were of
questionable value. An altar cloth from a defunct Episcopal Church in cen-
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tral Virginia was accepted with enthusiasm, for it was elaborately adorned
with figures depicting the battle of Jericho. The embroidery was truly
impressive until one noticed Israelites storming Jericho with cannon and
mortars-one thousand years before such weapons were developed.
Four years of civil war all but destroyed the Virginia Historical Society.
The April, 1865, fire that swept through downtown Richmond commen-
surate with the Confederate evacuation of the capital incinerated most of
the society's records; the endowment, which had been patriotically invested
in Confederate bonds, by war's end was gone with the wind; and during the
"Reconstruction" years a fourth of its five thousand books simply disap-
peared.
Stability did not begin in earnest until 1893, when the John Stewart fami-
ly donated to the Virginia Historical Society (as it was by then called) the
Lee mansion on East Franklin Street. That same year also witnessed the
establishment of a quarterly journal, the Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography. It remains the oldest such state publication still in print.
Lee House, where General Robert E. Lee spent the immediate postwar
months,. served as society headquarters for sixty years. By the early 1950s,
thanks to the generosity of a legion of donors, the building was literally
bulging at the seams. Providentially, the society received its largest bequest
shortly thereafter. From the estate of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Weddell, a
prominent Richmond couple, it inherited Virginia House (a reconstructed
English manor), a magnificent collection of printed Virginiana, plus an en-
dowment that became the base for a greatly increased operating budget.
The generosity of the Weddells, the society's 1948 annual report stated,
placed the agency in a position in which it could perform in the future a
greater service to the people of Virginia than it had been able to do there-
tofore.
Eleven years of planning and construction followed;-which resulted in the
shift of the society's facilities to Richmond's west side and an enlarged Bat-
tle Abbey. This merger with the famous Confederate memorial hall, where
massed battle flags and Charles Hoffbauer's murals continue to flank the
entryway, makes the building one of Richmond's most popular and impres-
sive attractions.
Artifacts, memorabilia, portraiture, and a wide variety of cultural ex-
hibits draw large numbers of people annually to Battle Abbey. However,
the society is better known as one of the principal research centers in the
United States. Students and scholars alike flock to the lib with such
regularity as to give the staff scant relaxation during working hours.
The society's holdings are especially strong in Revolutionary and Civil
War history, local histories, genealogy, British history and heraldry, early
travels, architecture, agriculture, cookery, and works by and about Vir-
ginians. Included in the 3.5 million manuscripts are the major portion of
William Byrd's papers. Equally valuable are the papers of the Lee and
Custis families. T]
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Custis families. This huge collection spans many generations of two of the
state's most influential clans. The Preston collection numbers thirty thou-
sand pieces and is so extensive that a recently prepared typescript-genealogy
of the family runs to three bound volumes.
The society is especially rich in Civil War manuscripts. General J. E. B.
Stuart's letterbook and Mrs. Robert E. Lee's personal cookbook are items
of inestimable worth. In the Virginia-agency's vaults are the original draft
of General Jubal A. Early's memoirs along with that Virginian's major
papers. Wartime letters, diaries, and reminiscences from scores of Old
Dominion Confederates are also preserved.
A few of the highly revealing but almost forgotten holdings are beginning
to gain public notice. For example, a master's thesis is currently being
prepared on Colonel Thomas T. Munford's recollections of the Appomat-
tox Campaign; another thesis under way revolves around the wartime diary
of Colonel Osmun Latrobe, who was General James Longstreet's chief of
staff.
Over one hundred thousand books rest on the society's shelves. Among
the priceless titles are Richard Hakluyt's volumes on English navigation.
Published between 1589 and 1600, this series sparked the settlement of
Virginia a decade later. Other printed holdings are a first edition (London,
1624) of John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia; a 1733 Williamsburg
edition of the acts of the colonial assembly; Edmund Pendleton's only
printed monograph, An Address ... to the American Citizens on the Pres-
ent State of Our Country (1799); James Monroe's copy of the George
Wythe compilation, Reports of Cases Decided in the Virginia High Court of
Chancery (1796); twenty different printings of Thomas Jefferson's incom-
parable Notes on the State of Virginia; and. Robert E. Lee's much-used war-
time copy of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer.
Newspapers are extremely difficult to preserve. They generally""end up as
floor mats, fire starters, and garbage bags; when left alone, they self-
destruct. However, in the society's newspaper collection there are 42,500
separate issues. They begin with the 1736-1740 numbers of the Williams-
burg Virginia Gazette, which were the first issues of the colony's oldest
newspaper.
The society owns six thousand maps, including John White's 1590
Arnericae Pars, the first separate map ever drawn of the Virginia area.
Heavily used in the cartographic collection are seventy county maps
prepared during the Civil War by Confederate engineers.
Dominating one hundred thousand photographic negatives are the A.
Aubrey Bodine collection of Civil War battlefield and historic sites (five
hundred items) and the well-known Michael Miley collection (eight hundred
items).
Portraiture is the foundation for much of the beauty on regular display at
Battle Abbey. The society owns more than six hundred portraits of Vir-
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ginian and American notables. Yet because of space limitations, no more
than sixty works can be shown at one time. In addition to magnificent
likenesses of William Byrd II, Washington, Jefferson, and others, the soci-
ety has many paintings of outdoor scenes. Lewis Miller's watercolor draw-
ings of southwest Virginia have long held national attention.
The 1,180 pieces of Confederate currency that the society owns gives it
the largest collection of Civil War money known to exist in one place. The
Maryland Steuart collection of Confederate weapons and accoutrements
could more than fill several rooms.
Equally impressive is the annual increase in the society's research
materials. Acquisitions for 1979 alone included 44,230 manuscripts and
2,170 books. In recent years the Virginia organization has been fortunate
indeed where endowment is concerned. In 1948 the society was struggling
on a three hundred thousand-dollar base. Today the endowment ap-
proaches the four-million-dollar mark.
One of the Old Dominion agency's greatest assets is the traditional
courtesy of its staff. This is a remarkable compliment when one remembers
that daily requests for information range from the search for a great-great-
uncle named John Jones to "please send me everything you have on George
Washington." A major weakness at the moment is a shortage of space. If
book and manuscript acquisitions continue at their present rate-and they
must if the depository is to maintain its reputation for excellence-a major
expansion of the physical plant will be mandatory before this decade ends.
The future, however, looks bright because strong leadership has always
characterized the society. Its presidents have included Henry St. George
Tucker, William Cabell Rives, Hugh Blair Grigsby, William Gordon
McCabe, Virginius Dabney, and D. Tennant Bryan. Four Pulitzer prize
recipients (Dabney, Douglas S. Freema,uJ enoir Chambers, and David J.
Mays) have served on its board of trustees,, as have judges, physicians,
attorneys, historians, bankers, and businessmen of proven talents.
After a century and a half, the basic goal of the Virginia Historical
Society remains the same: to preserve wisdom and beauty from the past so
that the future can be faced with knowledge and confidence.
For further information, see the following articles appearing in the
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography: William G. Stanard,
"History of the Virginia Historical Society" (October, 1931); Richard Beale
Davis, "A Fitting Representation: Seventy-Five Years of the Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography" (July, 1.967); and James I. Robertson,
Jr., "Virginia Historical Society: The Energies of Some for the Enrichment
of All" (April, 1978). See also William M. E. Rachal, "The formation of
the Virginia Historical Society," in Darrett B. Rutman, ed., The Old
Dominion: Essays for Thomas Perkins Abernethy (1964).
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