Education & Teaching: Resources in Special Collections

This collection contains documents relating to the Brafferton Estate as it impacted the College of William & Mary. Includes a handwritten copy of the will of Sir Robert Boyle plus a codicil; accounts related to the estate and the Indian School; biographical material about Boyle; papers concerning suits for or against the estate; modern correspondence concerning the search for information about the estate; and the Brafferton Estate map. Includes a transcript of a 1695 document explaining the rules and methods for distributing rents and profits of the Brafferton Estate to fund the Brafferton School at the College of William and Mary. Includes an invoice of the Brafferton Indian School for clothing for the students.

The bulk of the collection includes drafts, proofs, publicity material, photographs, correspondence, and related material from the writing career of Wilford Kale. Material is available for Hark Upon the Gale, Private Homes in Williamsburg, The Brafferton: The Education of the Indian, Goal to Goal: 100 Seasons of Football at William & Mary, and Parke Rouse's Jamestown. There is also correspondence and reports from the 275th and 300th anniversaries of the College of William & Mary, the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, and other events.