Often when trying to do further research on the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley, I have been frustrated by the lack of footnotes in the books in the Virginia Regimental Histories Series. The bibliography of one book mentioned a Confederate diary which had been in the private collection of Lewis Leigh Jr of Fairfax, Virginia. However, without further information, I could not tell if the diary would be useful to my research.
In January I happen to discover that this diary had just been sold at an online auction site. They provided a summarized transcription of many, but not all, the pages. Those transcriptions have enabled me to fill in a few gaps or verify some bits of trivia. The nontranscribed entries ought to fill in a few additional gaps. 

I gave the auction site my email address in the hope that the new owner might contact me, but it doesn't appear that will happen. Consequently, I'm hoping that before the diary left the collection of Lewis Leigh Jr, a photocopy (or complete transcription) of the pages might have been donated to some library, but I am just not sure how to proceed. Who can I contact in order to determine if some library has a copy?

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