George William Bagby Collection

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        <titleproper>George William Bagby Collection
                    <num>MS884</num>
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        <subtitle>circa 1870s, 3 linear feet</subtitle>
        <author>Finding aid prepared by Processed by Stephanie Bennett</author>
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        <publisher>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives</publisher>
        <address>
          <addressline>PO Box 7777</addressline>
          <addressline>Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27109</addressline>
          <addressline>336 758-5755</addressline>
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        <date>2018 January</date>
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                <date>2018-01-09T16:36-0500</date>
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      <unittitle>George William Bagby Collection</unittitle>
      <unitid>MS884</unitid>
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        <corpname>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives</corpname>
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        <extent>3.0 linear feet</extent>
        <extent>1 oversize folder</extent>
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      <unitdate normal="1870/1879" type="inclusive">circa 1870s</unitdate>
      <abstract id="ref5" label="Abstract">George Bagby was doctor, editor, and writer from Virginia who was a Confederate supporter and soldier as well as a frequent lecturer and humorist. This collection contains 5 broadsides, printed circa 1870s, that advertise lectures by George Bagby.</abstract>
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    <acqinfo id="ref1">
      <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition note</head>
      <p>Purchased by Murdoch, May 1, 1979.</p>
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    <prefercite id="ref2">
      <head>Preferred Citation</head>
      <p>George Bagby Collection (MS884), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.</p>
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      <head>Biographical Note</head>
      <p>George William Bagby was doctor, editor, and writer. He was born on August 13, 1828, in Buckingham County, Virginia, and received his undergraduate and medical degrees from University of Pennsylvania (1846, 1849), although he may have never practiced medicine.</p>
      <p>Along with work as a lecturer and humorist, Bagby spent his career as a journalist, writer, and editor, with a brief period as a soldier in the Confederate Army (April-September 1861). His many jobs included include co-owner and write for 
                <title render="italic">Lynchburg Express</title> (1853-1856); editor of the 
                <title render="italic">Southern Literary Messenger</title> (1860-1864), where his writing was in favor of succession; editor of the 
                <title render="italic">Native Virginian</title> (1867-1870); and later, as an assistant to the secretary of the Commonwealth, head of the Virginia State Library (1870-1878). Overall, Bagby and his work were intertwined enough with the Conderate States of America that when Jefferson Davis fled Richmond for Danville, Virginia, in April 1865, Bagby was on the same train.</p>
      <p>Bagby married Lucy Parke Chamberlayne Bagby on February 16, 1863, and together they had six sons and four daughters. He died in Richmond, Virginia, on November 29, 1883.</p>
      <p>Source: Watson, Ritchie Devon, Jr. and the Dictionary of Virginia Biography. "George William Bagby (1828–1883)." 
                <title render="italic">Encyclopedia Virginia</title>. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2013 July 8. https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bagby_George_William_1828-1883</p>
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      <head>Collection Overview</head>
      <p>This collection contains 5 broadsides, printed circa 1870s, that advertise lectures by George Bagby. Lecture titles advertised on the posters include "Bacon and Greens, or the Native Virginian," "The Disease Called Love," "Plantation Life in Slave Times," and "The Virginia Negro, Past and Present."</p>
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