Robert M. Hughes Collection, 1892-1937, undated | Sargeant Memorial Collection

By Sarah Osorio

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Biographical Note

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Box and Folder Listing

Box 4: Filing Cabinet Manuscripts

Folder 1: Letters from Robert M. Hughes, 1923, 1934, 1937

Item 1: Correspondence, Robert M. Hughes to Mary Denson Pretlow, 1923 April 7

Item 2: Correspondence, Robert M. Hughes to Mrs. William Freeman, 1934 September 8

Item 3: Correspondence, Robert M. Hughes to E. G. Dodson, 1937 December 10

Folder 2: Writings of Robert M. Hughes (Folder 1 of 3), 1928

Item 1: "The Cumberland's Grave", 1928 March 1

Written for Commander G. E. Baker, Commander United States Navy, to determine the exact location of the sinking of the USS Cumberland by the CSS Virginia on March 8, 1862.

Item 2: "Responsibility for Negro Suffrage in Virginia", 1928

Includes handwritten annotations.

Item 3: "Reply to Mr. Deal by Robert M. Hughes", 1928

Includes handwritten annotations. Written as a response to a statement in the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, responding to Mr. Hughes's article "Responsibility for Negro Suffrage in Virginia."

Folder 3: Writings of Robert M. Hughes (Folder 2 of 3), 1933

Item 1: "The Adoption of Muzzey's 'History of the American People' As a Text Book for Virginia High Schools", 1933 September 23

Includes handwritten annotations. Forty-eight page typescript critiques selection of textbooks submitted for approval in high school classrooms through the State Board of Education of Virginia.

Folder 4: Writings of Robert M. Hughes (Folder 3 of 3), 1934, undated

Item 1: "Lee and Secession, Pickett-Buchanan Chapter, U. D. C.", 1934 January 19

Series of short excerpts from books, also including "Jackson's Attitude as to Secession," "Virginia Ratification," "New York Ratification," "Rhode Island Ratification," "Rawle on the Constitution," "'War Between the States' vs. 'Civil War,'" "General Lee's Views on Comparative State and National Allegiance," and "Treason Explained."

Item 2: "The Courts and the Constitution", undated

Includes handwritten annotations. Essay discusses criticism of the United States Supreme Court to hold acts of Congress unconstitutional.

Item 3: "Authorities", undated

List of authors and books cited in an unidentified work.

Folder 5: Speeches of Robert M. Hughes, 1925, 1933

Item 1: Speech, "The Virginia Flag: Address to American Legion, May 14, 1925", 1925 May 14

Includes handwritten annotations.

Item 2: Speech, "S-I-X-T-Y Y-E-A-R-S A-G-O!, Baccalaureate Address of Robert M. Hughes at the College of William and Mary, Final Day", 1933 June 12

Includes handwritten annotations.

Folder 6: Poems by Robert M. Hughes, 1927, 1929

Item 1: Poem, "To Myself. Natural Bridge", 1927 September 10

Item 2: Poem, "R. M. H. - M. L. S., 1879 - February 19-1929", 1929 February 19

Folder 7: Publications Written by Robert M. Hughes (Folder 1 of 3), 1892-1926

Item 1: Booklet, "'The Ideal Student,' Address of Robert M. Hughes, M. A., of Virginia, Before the Society of the Alumni of the College of William and Mary on the Occasion of the One Hundred and Ninety-Eighth Commencement Exercises of that Institution", 1892 June 30

Published in Richmond, Virginia: Daily Record Printing Company, 1892

Item 2: Booklet, "Speech of Robert M. Hughes, Republican Nominee for Congress, Academy of Music, Norfolk, Virginia", 1902 October 23

Union Label, Typographical Norfolk, No. 32.

Item 3: Booklet, "The Historical Evolution of the Board of Law Examiners and its Influence on Legal Education", 1914

Item 4: Booklet, "Joseph I. Dorian, A Tribute", 1919 October

Reprinted from Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, October 1919.

Item 5: Booklet, "The Fighting Editor, Address of Robert M. Hughes before the Virginia Press Association, Farmville, Virginia, January 15, 1926", 1926 January 15

Reprinted from William and Mary College Quarterly.

Item 6: Article, "Religious Toleration in Virginia", 1926 June 12

Southern Churchman.

Folder 8: Publications Written by Robert M. Hughes (Folder 2 of 3), 1928

Item 1: Article, "Thomas Jefferson and the College of William and Mary", 1928 January

The Phi Beta Kappa Key, Volume VI, Number 10, January 1928. Pages 635-644.

Item 2: Article, "Can A State Prescribe a Breathing Spell Before Its Legislature Acts Upon a Proposed Amendment to the Federal Constitution?", 1928 January

Virginia Law Review, Volume XIV, Number 3, January 1928. Pages 191-199.

Folder 9: Publications Written by Robert M. Hughes (Folder 3 of 3), 1930-1935

Item 1: Article, "Sacrificing Truth", 1930 November

Confederate Veteran, pages 417-419.

Item 2: Booklet, "A Deserter's Tale", 1931 January

Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 39, January 1931, page 21.

Item 3: Booklet, "'Sixty Years Ago,' Baccalaureate Address at the College of William and Mary Final Day, June 12, 1933", 1933 July

Reprinted from William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, July 1933.

Item 4: Booklet, "Civil War or War Between the States", 1935 January

Reprinted from William and Mary College Historical Quarterly, January 1935.

Folder 10: Newspaper Clippings, 1928-1935, undated