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Tichenor Collection (Mss 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tichenor Collection (Mss 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 678. Correspondence, papers and photographs of the Tichenor family of McLean County, Kentucky, and related families, especially Cherry, Short, and Hutchison. Much relates to the home front during World War II during the Navy service of high school teacher Thomas Cherry Tichenor.
Odum, Daisy Dean, 1877-1969 (Sc 3426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Odum, Daisy Dean, 1877-1969 (Sc 3426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3426. Letter to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from Daisy Odum. She recounts a ghost story from DeKalb County, Tennessee, involving her nephew and the reaction of his horse to the sight of a spectral figure.
Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 - Letters To (Sc 3429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 - Letters To (Sc 3429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3429. Letters to WKU faculty member Frances Richards, written by various WKU colleagues both before and after her retirement. Presidents Henry Hardin Cherry and Dero Downing express their esteem and friendship; Earl A. Moore and Josephine (Cherry) Lowman write thank-you notes (the latter’s includes the text of an interview with her); history professor A. M. Stickles invites her to a dinner; and Gayle Carver writes mostly of the health of retired art professor Ivan Wilson.
Wood, Mary Anne (Sc 3427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wood, Mary Anne (Sc 3427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3427. Letters to retired WKU faculty member Frances Richards from former student Mary Anne Wood. She reports on her health, earning a master’s degree in 1970, and her work for Kentucky Educational Television.
Kentucky Heritage Commission - Frankfort, Kentucky (Sc 3430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Heritage Commission - Frankfort, Kentucky (Sc 3430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Mansucripts Small Collection 3430. Letters and reports sent to Frances Richards, Franklin Kentucky, in her capacity as Simpson County representative for the Kentucky Heritage Commission’s Statewide Survey of Historic Sites. Includes letters explaining the project, completed survey forms documenting six historic buildings in Simpson County, and the Commission’s report of its major accomplishments for 1972-1973. Also includes a program on the history of the Kentucky Governor’s mansion, prepared by the Daughters of the American Revolution in opposition to a proposal to convert it to another use.
Downing, Joseph Dudley, 1925-2007 (Sc 3428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Downing, Joseph Dudley, 1925-2007 (Sc 3428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3428. Letter to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from artist and Kentucky native Joe Downing, Paris, France, regretting his inability to see her during a 1962 visit to Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes various notices and catalogs of Downing’s art exhibits.
Beeler, Andrew J., Jr., 1912-1998 (Sc 3418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Beeler, Andrew J., Jr., 1912-1998 (Sc 3418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3418. Letters to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from A. J. Beeler, curriculum director for the Louisville, Kentucky public schools. A letter of 1 May 1946 encloses his list of recent Kentucky literature, and a letter of 3 January 1958 reports on his family and Christmas holiday. Includes his reviews of three books by Janice Holt Giles.
Kentucky High School Speech League (Sc 3421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky High School Speech League (Sc 3421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3421. "Kentucky High School Speech League Bulletin," 24 January 1942, with a list of Kentucky literature, poetryand orations for use in speech festivals during Kentucky’s sesquicentennial celebrations; monograph titled “Kentucky Literature for Speech Contests,” possibly written by WKU faculty member Frances Richards, with suggested readings and commentary; and a 1947 bibliography of selections from Kentucky literature.
Goodman, Julian Byrn, 1922-2012 (Sc 3420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Goodman, Julian Byrn, 1922-2012 (Sc 3420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3420. Letter, 12 September 1966, to retired WKU faculty member Frances Richards from Julian Goodman, president of the National Broadcasting Company, Inc. The former student of Richards thanks her for attending his recent WKU commencement speech, praises her habit of maintaining correspondence with students, and remarks fondly on his days at WKU. He also promises to “try to give you more of those good dramatic programs you’d like to see.” Also includes a copy of a theme for Richards’ English class, apparently written by Goodman, that makes the case for “a college for …
Kentucky Historical Society - Frankfort, Kentucky (Sc 3422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Historical Society - Frankfort, Kentucky (Sc 3422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3422. Letters to retired WKU faculty member Frances Richards, Franklin, Kentucky, from the Kentucky Historical Society. Most relate to Simpson County’s participation in ceremonies and programs commemorating the 175th anniversary of Kentucky statehood. Includes Governor Edward T. Breathitt’s proclamation and calendars of statewide events. Also includes 1958 letters with biographical data from Secretary-Treasurer Charles F. Hinds, delivered in advance of his speaking engagement at WKU.
Rennick, Robert M., 1932-2010 (Sc 3419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rennick, Robert M., 1932-2010 (Sc 3419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3419. Letters, March 1972, to retired WKU faculty member Frances Richards and her sister Mary Ellen Richards, Franklin, Kentucky, from Robert M. Rennick of the University of Kentucky’s Prestonsburg Community College. Rennick outlines the objectives and methods of a national undertaking to survey all the place names of the United States and his work with a committee to ensure Kentucky’s participation. He requests their help in supervising the research and gathering of data from Simpson County. A second letter thanks Frances for her agreement to participate and asks for a meeting. Rennick’s book, …
Harrison, Lowell Hayes, 1922-2011 (Sc 3416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harrison, Lowell Hayes, 1922-2011 (Sc 3416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3416. Letters of WKU history professor Lowell Harrison to retired WKU faculty member Frances Richards, Franklin, Kentucky. He writes of his activities, travel, publications, and the health of himself and his wife Penny. Includes a manuscript, “On His Majesty’s Service” regarding unrest in colonial America.
Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 - Letters To (Sc 3406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 - Letters To (Sc 3406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collections 3406. Letters of recommendation for Simpson County, Kentucky teacher Frances Richards (later a WKU faculty member), and associated letters regarding teaching positions. Includes teachers certificates and certificate examination grades for Frances’s sister Mary Ellen Richards. One correspondent, A. H. Hill, writes with familiarity to his “cousins” Frances and Mary Ellen.
Muir, John Wakefield, 1909-1991 (Sc 3399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Muir, John Wakefield, 1909-1991 (Sc 3399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3399. Correspondence and associated material of amateur historian, collector and Bardstown banker John W. Muir. Most relates to Muir’s interest in John Rowan and his Bardstown, Kentucky home Federal Hill, and to Stephen Foster’s association with the property, thought to have been the inspiration for his song “My Old Kentucky Home.” Muir brings sources on Rowan to the attention of WKU faculty member Frances Richards, the author of a master’s thesis on Rowan. Also includes Muir’s correspondence with J. Winston Coleman regarding the Rowan-Chambers duel, and letters about his family and travel.
Duncan, Parker Ward, 1909-1966 - Relating To (Sc 3396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Duncan, Parker Ward, 1909-1966 - Relating To (Sc 3396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3396. Memorial resolution for Parker Ward Duncan, former Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and associated correspondence between former Kentucky Governor Bert Combs and WKU President Kelly Thompson, members of the committee composing the resolution. The resolution was presented at the dedication of a portrait of Duncan to hang in the State Capitol Building.
Clarke, Marcellus Jerome, 1844-1865 - Relating To (Sc 3393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clarke, Marcellus Jerome, 1844-1865 - Relating To (Sc 3393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 3393. Clippings, some typescripted from unidentified sources, and letters about the identity and exploits of Confederate guerrilla “Sue Mundy,” the alias of Simpson County, Kentucky native Jerome Clarke. Topics covered include his family, career, burial place, the origin of the name “Sue Mundy,” and the resulting confusion over whether “Sue” was actually a woman. Also includes an abstract of the U.S. War Department’s record of his court martial.
Boyd, John Allen, 1938?-2017 (Sc 3394), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boyd, John Allen, 1938?-2017 (Sc 3394), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3394. Poems written by John Allen Boyd, a WKU graduate, teacher, and resident of Louisville, Kentucky. One collection is bound in pamphlet form and inscribed to WKU faculty member Frances Richards; others are included, with commentary, in a graduate project entitled “Experiments in Verse and Poetry” and written for an advanced composition class at WKU.
Clagett, John Henry, 1916-1970 (Sc 3388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clagett, John Henry, 1916-1970 (Sc 3388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3388. Christmas cards to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from student John H. Clagett. The cards reflect Clagett’s service at the U.S. Naval Academy and at sea. Includes a notice for Clagett’s novel Buckskin Cavalier, clippings about his novels, and a copy of “The Lantern,” his short story published in Collier’s magazine.
Grise, Finley Christopher, 1886-1973 (Sc 3389), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Grise, Finley Christopher, 1886-1973 (Sc 3389), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3389. Letters to faculty member Frances Richards from WKU dean Finley Grise. He thanks her for a contribution to a scholarship fund in his name and provides information about his deceased brother, a WKU alumnus. Includes two Christmas cards from Grise and his wife Mary, and Grise’s obituary and funeral program.
Kentucky Historical Society - Kentucky Historical Highway Marker Program (Sc 3386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Historical Society - Kentucky Historical Highway Marker Program (Sc 3386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3386. Materials relating to the Kentucky Historical Society’s Kentucky Historical Highway Marker Program, consisting mostly of correspondence of WKU President Kelly Thompson, a member of the Committee to Edit Inscriptions, and WKU faculty member Frances Richards, who consult with the state and Warren County chairmen concerning the content of proposed markers. Includes a 1963 report and other statistical data for the 1960s.
Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Sc 3384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Sc 3384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3384. Letters of WKU English faculty member Gordon Wilson to fellow faculty member Frances Richards and her sister Mary Ellen Richards, Franklin, Kentucky. The folklorist and accomplished amateur ornithologist writes effusively about his life and post-retirement work, including his autobiography and his linguistic and bird studies in the Mammoth Cave region. He reports various bird sightings and counts to Mary Ellen, discusses upcoming speeches and publications, shares news of his family, friends and health, and thanks Frances for gifts of phonograph records. Includes notes from his wife written after his death.
Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Sc 3381), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Sc 3381), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3381. Letters of WKU art professor Ivan Wilson to WKU faculty member Frances Richards and her mother and sister. Most are short notes of thanks, affection or get-well wishes; he asks her to critique his 1960 note “on matters of punctuation and tenses.” Lengthier 1970 letters describe his and wife Emma’s retirement to Hazel, Kentucky and their many contacts with friends from WKU. Includes a photograph of the Wilsons on their 50th wedding anniversary, and Richards’ account of a tribute to Wilson by WKU’s class of 1952.
Noe, James Thomas Cotton, 1864-1953 (Sc 3379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Noe, James Thomas Cotton, 1864-1953 (Sc 3379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3379. Christmas cards and letters to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from Cotton Noe, first Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Each includes a poem by Noe, but in his 1950 letter he advises Richards that he will be discontinuing this forty-year-long custom. He describes his activities with a poetry guild in Los Angeles, California, and recalls their friendship. Includes Noe’s obituary and a 1960 clipping about Noe.
Cornette, James Percival, 1908-1986 (Sc 3374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cornette, James Percival, 1908-1986 (Sc 3374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3374. Letter, 5 June 1956, to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from James P. Cornette, a former colleague and now president of West Texas State College, expressing his appreciation of a recent visit with her. Also includes a 1962 letter to Richards from WKU alumnus and West Texas State College history professor Lowell H. Harrison enclosing a lengthy clipping about Cornette’s recent “Man of the Year” award, and a 1963 speech of Cornette’s on the occasion of the college’s renaming as West Texas State University.
Kelsay, Terence Eugene, 1932-2013 (Sc 3373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kelsay, Terence Eugene, 1932-2013 (Sc 3373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3373. Letter, 24 September 1960, to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from former student Terry Kelsay, Lexington, Kentucky. He encloses a copy of the October, 1960 issue of The Episcopal Church Advocate of the Diocese of Lexington and draws her attention to its contents, particularly an article about the publication’s founder, John Esten Cooke, and a portrait of him by artist Matthew Jouett. Kelsay expresses pride in the revival of the publication after more than one hundred years, and in the greater numbers of Kentucky Episcopalians since 1950 due to “vigorous evangelism.”
Coleman, John Winston, Jr., 1898-1983 (Sc 3369), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coleman, John Winston, Jr., 1898-1983 (Sc 3369), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3369. Letters to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from author, historian and Kentuckiana collector J. Winston Coleman, Jr., primarily regarding his books. Includes book notices, biographical and publication data, and a speech of Coleman’s on Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
Dougherty, Russell Elliott, 1920-2007 (Sc 3371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dougherty, Russell Elliott, 1920-2007 (Sc 3371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3371. Letters to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from and about General Russell E. Dougherty, USAF, her former student. Includes Christmas letters for 1960 and 1967, an inscribed copy of his commencement speech delivered at WKU in 1975, and two 1977 letters regarding Dougherty’s hospitalization for a heart attack.
Crabb, Alfred Leland, 1884-1979 (Sc 3366), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crabb, Alfred Leland, 1884-1979 (Sc 3366), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3366. Correspondence, consisting mainly of publication announcements for books by Alfred Leland Crabb, a faculty member at WKU and George Peabody College and an author of essays and historical fiction. Includes miscellaneous writing of Crabb’s as well as reviews, clippings and obituaries.
Bryant, Joseph Allen, Jr., 1919-1999 (Sc 3367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bryant, Joseph Allen, Jr., 1919-1999 (Sc 3367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3367. Letter, 5 February 1960, of Shakespeare scholar and alumnus J. A. “Jo Allen” Bryant to WKU faculty member Frances Richards. He thanks her for forwarding items from WKU’s campus newspaper, the College Heights Herald, reporting on his activities, praises the Herald, and remarks on his enjoyment of his position on the English faculty at Duke University. Includes notices regarding Bryant’s book Hippolyta’s View. Also includes a flyer for a lecture Bryant delivered at Western Michigan University, forwarded to Miss Richards by a colleague.
Giles, Janice Meredith (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 3363), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Giles, Janice Meredith (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 3363), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3363. Letters, 1951 and 1955, from author Janice Holt Giles, Knifley, Kentucky, containing biographical information about her and husband Henry Giles. Includes a 1956 letter declining WKU faculty member Frances Richards’ invitation to speak at WKU’s Leiper English Club due to her dental problems, and a few clippings about the Giles and their work.