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Sources consulted for the biography of:Maximilian Rudolph Schele De Vere (1820–1898)
Published Biographies
- Gustav Körner, Das Deutsche Element in den Ueneinigten Staaten von Nordamerika, 1818–1848 (1880), 404–406 (with birth date).
- Handbuch des Preussischen Adels (1893), 2:516 (with full name, parents, and variant birth date of November 30, 1817).
- James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, eds., Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography (1889), 6:278–279 (with birth date).
- Paul Brandon Barringer, James Mercer Garnett, and Rosewell Page, eds., University of Virginia: Its History, Influence, Equipment and Characteristics with Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Founders, Benefactors, Officers and Alumni (1904), 1:355–356.
- John S. Patton, "Maximilian Schele De Vere" (with autobiographical fragment) in Library of Southern Literature, Edwin Anderson Alderman, et al., eds. (1909–1923), 11:4687–4692.
Primary Sources
- Albemarle Co. Marriage Bonds (July 25, 1849, March 20, 1860)
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers (1861–1865), War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Physical description and report of morphine use in Richard Thomas Walker Duke (1853–1926), "Recollections of My Early Life," 2:143–145, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
- Will in District of Columbia Register of Wills, Washington, D.C.
- Schele De Vere's correspondence in:
- Various collections in Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
- Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
- Schele De Vere to Frederick Seward, March 13, 1861, in Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- George Frederick Holmes to Judah P. Benjamin, May 9, 1863, in George Frederick Holmes Correspondence, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
Newspapers and Periodicals
- First marriage in Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser, July 31, 1849.
- Second marriage in Richmond Enquirer, March 30, 1860.
- Erroneous report in Richmond Enquirer, December 19, 1848, and elsewhere of his marrying Margaret C. Ward (Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser, July 31, 1849).
- Baltimore Sun, June 12, 1894
- Testimonials in Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia 1 (Nov. 1894): 77–80.
Obituaries
- Richmond Times, May 13, 1898
- Washington Post, May 13, 1898
- Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia 5 (Aug. 1898): 56
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