William H. McGuffey Papers

William Holmes McGuffey was an educator, minister, author and college president. He is best known for the series of Eclectic Readers, or McGuffey Readers, textbooks which were widely used throughout much of the nineteenth century.

The William Holmes McGuffey collection is an assembled collection of McGuffey material including correspondence from 1846 to 1872 relating primarily to affairs at the University of Virginia and academic interests. A notebook by McGuffey's associate, Dr. Thomas G. Addison, contains lectures on morals by Dr. W. H. McGuffey. Also included are lectures and correspondence of Alexander Hamilton McGuffey, William's brother, a collaborator on the Fifth Reader, and photographs relating to William H. M...