Title: The first gentlemen of Virginia : intellectual qualities of the early colonial ruling class /
Authors: Wright, Louis B. 1899-1984.
Publisher: The Huntington Library,
Year: 1940
Subjects: Virginia Social life and customs; Virginia Intellectual life.; Virginia Biography.
Contents: English patterns for Virginia planters -- The development of a Virginia aristocracy -- The quality of the gentry -- The planters' concern over education -- Books and their place in plantation life -- William Fitzhugh: The evolution of an aristocrat -- Ralph Wormeley II: A cultivated gentleman-planter -- Richard Lee II: A belated Elizabethan -- The literate interests of the first carters -- Robert Beverley II: Historian and iconoclast -- The Byrd's progress from trade to genteel elegence -- The vitality of the tradition.