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[[File:WingateMaximesOfReason1658InitialCapital.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Initial capital, first page of text, from Edmund Wingate's ''[[Maximes of Reason|Maximes of Reason, or, The Reason of the Common Law of England]].'' </center>]]
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[[File:WinchLeBeauPledeur1680InitialCapital.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Initial capital, preface, from Sir Humphrey Winch's ''[[Beau-Pledeur|A Book of Entries, Containing Declarations, Informations, and Other Select and Approved Pleadings, with Special Verdicts and Demurrers, in Most Actions, Feal, Personal, and Mixt, Which have been Argued ...]]''</center>]]
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==Wishlist==
 
===Colonial Williamsburg Rockefeller Library===
 
* <s>Bookplate collection. Special Collections MS 1990.1 [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/Record/1430331 Catalog]</s>
 
  
* <s>A Collection of Entrees (London: In aedibus Richardi Tottel, Cum pr iuilegio, 1574). Special Collections Oversize, KD318 .R3 [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/Record/1454398 Catalog] Microform?</s>
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==To Do List==
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*Add book references from cases to book pages and case pages
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*Fetch everything Wythe from [http://www.colonialamerica.amdigital.co.uk/Introduction Colonial America;] get permission from The Queen
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*Finish Tazewell
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*Get Swem to digitize Marshall's law notes and add
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*Finish book pages for non-W&M books
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*Various biographies
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*Blurbs for letter/article pages
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*Subjects such as Wythe and Religion
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*Check Imogene Brown references for new sources
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*Check Clarkin references for new sources
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*Check Dill references for new sources
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*Check Hemphill references (spreadsheet)
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*Check Kirtland references for new sources
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*Add page for "Did Wythe own this book?" - mention extra Brown titles, representative of his time titles
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*Add Wirt to Monroe letter
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*Add Wirt to Mrs. Wirt letter
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*Summarize or transcribe section on Virginia in ''South in American Literature'' (p.94-98)
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*Virginia Gazette articles
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*Wythe cases spreadsheet
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*Check Swem holdings for possible Wythe collection books not owned by Law.
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*<s>Review searches on ABEbooks.</s>
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*Nicholas and George Wythe by Sims
  
*<s> Homer Odysseia [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/Record/1469256 Catalog]</s>
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[[User:Lktesar/Sandbox|Sandbox]]
  
*<s> Papers, 1763-1824. George Wythe material in Jefferson Papers (CWF M-18). Special Collections PH 14. [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/Record/1475226 Catalog] Photocopies.</s>
 
  
* <s>Papers: In the Baylor Family Papers, 1714-1950 and n.d., 34 items. Other authors include George Wythe.</s>
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==When books are added to Wythe Collection==
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* Add images to Flickr
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* Upload appropriate images to Wythepedia (title page, bookplates, inscriptions, frontispiece, marginalia, etc).
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* Change book's page from NoBookInfoBox to BookPageInfoBox and update information:
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<nowiki>==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
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Bound in ...
  
* <s>Papers: In the Public Hospital for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds Court of Directors Minutes, 1770-1801, 1 volume. Other authors include George Wythe.</s>
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Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/###### available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/f/9ogbnb/01COWM_WM_ALMA#### William & Mary's online catalog.]</nowiki>
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* Update the [[Wythe's Library]] page to add to book's entry:
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<nowiki><span style="color: #115740; font-weight: bold;">Held by W&M Law Library.</span></nowiki>  
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* Add title to [[George Wythe Collection]] page.
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* Remove title from [[Wythe Titles Not Held by the Wolf Law Library]] page.
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* Add the title by call number to the spreadsheet in Box: "Wythe Call Numbers by Shelf".
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* Add spine and book information to appropriate shelf on [[George Wythe Room]] page.
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* Add spine and book information to appropriate shelf page.
  
'''Includes Wythe’s bookplate'''
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== New pages ==
*<s>Homer. ''Ομηρου Οδυσσεια. Homeri Odyssea Græca''. Oxonii: 1750. </s>
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*<s>Rastell, William.  ''A Collection of Entries of Declarations, Barres, Replications, Rejoynders, Issues, Verdicts, Judgements, Executions, Proces, Continuances, Essoynes, and Divers Other Matters Newly Amended and Much Enlarged with Many Good Presidents of Later Time, Whereof Divers are upon Sundry Statutes, and Noted in the End of the Table:  the New Presidents throughout the Book, and likewise their Titles in the Table, have this Mark [fingerpost] set before Them:  by the Authors Epistle, and Directions Therein, ....''  London:  Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford, assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins ... and are to be sold by George Sawbridge, 1670. </s>
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'''Inscribed by Wythe'''
 
*<s>Jefferson, Thomas. ''Notes on the State of Virginia; written in the Year 1781, somewhat corrected and enlarged in the Winter of 1782, for the use of a Foreigner of Distinction,…'' [Paris]: 1782 [1784-85]. 1st edition [Inscribed on the front blank leaf: ''The Gift of the Honbl. George Wythe To Upton Beall May 10th 1787. Virginia & Maryland''. It is also inscribed on the first page: ''Upton Beale/ To gift the Honb. G. Wythe''.  </s>
 
 
 
*<s>Lucretius Carus, Titus. ''T. Lucretius Carus, Of the Nature of Things, in Six Books.'' Translated by Thomas Creech. 2nd edition. London: 1714-15. [Title page of first volume inscribed, ''Of Doctor James Blair's executor bought by G. Wythe.'']</s>
 
 
 
'''Inscribed to Wythe'''
 
*<s>Adams, John.  ''Thoughts on Government; Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies''.  Boston: 1776.  Reprint ed.  [Inscribed ''From John Adams to George Wythe'']</s>
 
 
 
===Huntington Library===
 
 
 
* "Memoranda Concerning the Death of Chancellor Wythe&mdash;Signed in the Aut[o]g[rap]h. of T[homas] H. Wynne and rec'd by him from Dr. John Dove, Sept. 16, 1856," MS. in the Brock Collection, [http://catalog.huntington.org/search~S0?/lmssBR+Boxes+133-137/lmssbr+boxes+133+137/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=lmssbr+boxes+133+137&1%2C1%2C Henry E. Huntington Library] and Art Gallery. ([http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/VALib/v49_n3/weisiger.html May be at Library of Virginia?])
 
 
 
===Library of Congress===
 
====Manuscript Division====
 
Original documents of the Oaths of Allegiance to George II and George III (Miscellaneous Virginia, 1606-1772) with signatures of George Wythe. See: Leola O. Walker, "Officials in the City Government of Colonial Williamsburg," 75 ''The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography'' (Jan.1967), p.35-36, note 1-2.
 
 
 
===Library of Virginia===
 
 
 
* ''Bolling v. Bolling''. Bolling family court case, 1764 [microform]. 41008 Miscellaneous reel 5247. Original at the Huntington Library. [http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/6KUFQLCIIEVG4UUY7LG2UVA9YHQNFJCS2Y29YQU95YK6QESHF3-29702?func=full-set-set&set_number=001012&set_entry=000029&format=999 Catalog]
 
 
 
* [[Memoirs_of_the_Late_George_Wythe,_Esquire|"Memoirs of the Late George Wythe, Esquire," ''American Gleaner and Virginia Magazine'', January 24, 1807, p. 1.]] With "correct likeness" possibly by Longacre? [http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/ Catalog]
 
 
 
* ''Proceedings of the State Conference,'' Virginia Daughters of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 1922 (Wythe monument ceremony) [http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/ Catalog]
 
 
 
* <s>"A Venerable Old Tree." ''The Times'' (Richmond, VA), Sunday, October 28, 1894, p. 1. Cutting in Wythe's Bible, UVA</s> [http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=T18941028.1.9 Virginia Chronicle]
 
 
 
* "Memoranda Concerning the Death of Chancellor Wythe—Signed in the Aut[o]g[rap]h. of T[homas] H. Wynne and rec'd by him from Dr. John Dove, Sept. 16, 1856," MS. in the Brock Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. [http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/SJYTDLMVSSV64IJ6S55TBDQQIFT3AGEEIKVCURK72F1IT1RRFY-05901?func=full-set-set&set_number=000737&set_entry=000009&format=999 Catalog]
 
 
 
* Order Book No. 6, 1804-1806, and Minutes No. 3, 1802-1806 [microform]. Contains witness testimony for ''Commonwealth v Swinney''. Reproduced in Hemphill, "Examinations of George Wythe Swinney for Forgery and Murder: A Documentary Essay" (1955).
 
 
 
===Monticello===
 
 
 
Book with George Wythe bookplate
 
 
 
===Swem Library===
 
*  <s>''Richmond Enquirer'', June 13, 1806</s> [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/827057 Catalog]
 
 
 
*  <s>''Richmond Argus'', June 13, 1806</s> [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/829736 Catalog]
 
 
 
* Papers: ca. 1781-1927, 56 items. [http://scdb.swem.wm.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=6874 Database]
 
The papers of George Wythe contain copies of letters, 1781-1783, from George Wythe, one to John Adams and another to Thomas Jefferson concerning the use of the College of William and Mary as a hospital. Also included is a magazine article about George Wythe, a newspaper copy of William Munford’s oration at George Wythe’s funeral, and correspondence of Robert M. Hughes from 1921 concerning a monument for George Wythe’s grave. The papers also contain several engravings of George Wythe.
 
 
 
* Papers: In the Patrick Henry Papers, ca. 1778-1927, 30 items. Correspondents include George Wythe. An inventory is available in the library.
 
 
 
* Papers: In the Francis Little Collection, 1770-1864, 6 items. Other authors include George Wythe.
 
 
 
See also this search result: http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/search?text=%22george+wythe%22&f1-publisher=College+of+William+and+Mary
 
 
 
===University of South Carolina===
 
* Weems, M.L., "The Honest Lawyer: An Anecdote," ''The Times'' (Charleston, S.C.), July 1, 1806. (In ''W&M Quarterly'' 25. Source of ''National Intelligencer'' article, July 25, 1806?) [http://libcat.csd.sc.edu/record=b2047439~S1 Catalog]
 
 
 
===Virginia Historical Society===
 
* Letter[s] from George Wythe. Adams Family Papers, 1672-1792. Section 6. Mss1 Ad198 a 12-167.
 
 
 
* Opinion, n.d., of George Wythe concerning religion. Papers, 1672-1792. Section 17. Mss1 Ad198 a 221-222.
 
 
 
* Bazile, Leon M. "Discourse refuting statements made that George Wythe at one time led a life of dissipation." 4pp. Mss7:1 W9974:1
 
 
 
===University of Virginia===
 
* Decisions of Cases in Virginia, by the High Court of Chancery (1795). Jefferson's copy, but also has Appendix with Greek, like Wythe's? [http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u377952 Catalog record].
 
 
 
* Papers: n.d. and 1775, 2 items. A letter signed by George Wythe to an unidentified correspondent [Elbridge Gerry?] on October 24, 1775. An engraving of George Wythe accompanies the letter.
 
 
 
* Papers: 1776, 1 item. A letter from George Wythe to John Page written on October 7, 1776. In the letter, George Wythe writes that he fears “evil consequences” will result from the unsuccessful peace conference on Staten Island between Lord Howe and Adams, Franklin and Rutledge. He reports on the course of the war in New York, confirming the defeat and retreat at Kip’s Bay, and the counter-attack at Harlem Heights in which Major Andrew Leitch was mortally wounded. George Wythe has been informed that the army is not discouraged and wishes to continue fighting. He also promises to forward a seal and notes in a postscript that General Lee has come to Philadelphia on his way to Washington’s headquarters in New York. An engraving of Wythe accompanies the letter.
 
 
 
* Papers: In the Papers pertaining to Thomas Jefferson or the Jefferson and Randolph family, 1747-1827, 434 items. The collection contains papers of the law firm of George Wythe and Robert Carter Nicholas, Williamsburg, Va., 1740-1769.
 
 
 
* Plea for Injunction, Holliday v. Lauck 6 November 1801 - See more at: http://lib.law.virginia.edu/specialcollections/records/mss/78-6/digital/1852#sthash.KaPMvCj0.dpuf
 
 
 
*License, 1774 March 3, to Joseph Prentis. Attached is a photo enlargement of wax seals of John Randolph and George Wythe. [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/Record/1426244 Catalog]
 
 
 
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Latest revision as of 11:52, 12 April 2021

Linda's Wishlist
Items at other institutions needed for Wythepedia

To Do List

  • Add book references from cases to book pages and case pages
  • Fetch everything Wythe from Colonial America; get permission from The Queen
  • Finish Tazewell
  • Get Swem to digitize Marshall's law notes and add
  • Finish book pages for non-W&M books
  • Various biographies
  • Blurbs for letter/article pages
  • Subjects such as Wythe and Religion
  • Check Imogene Brown references for new sources
  • Check Clarkin references for new sources
  • Check Dill references for new sources
  • Check Hemphill references (spreadsheet)
  • Check Kirtland references for new sources
  • Add page for "Did Wythe own this book?" - mention extra Brown titles, representative of his time titles
  • Add Wirt to Monroe letter
  • Add Wirt to Mrs. Wirt letter
  • Summarize or transcribe section on Virginia in South in American Literature (p.94-98)
  • Virginia Gazette articles
  • Wythe cases spreadsheet
  • Check Swem holdings for possible Wythe collection books not owned by Law.
  • Review searches on ABEbooks.
  • Nicholas and George Wythe by Sims
Active Users

Sandbox


When books are added to Wythe Collection

  • Add images to Flickr
  • Upload appropriate images to Wythepedia (title page, bookplates, inscriptions, frontispiece, marginalia, etc).
  • Change book's page from NoBookInfoBox to BookPageInfoBox and update information:
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|shelf=
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  • Add to page:
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
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Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/###### available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/f/9ogbnb/01COWM_WM_ALMA#### William & Mary's online catalog.]
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