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Cawein, Madison, 1865-1914 (Sc 3621), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Cawein, Madison, 1865-1914 (Sc 3621), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3620. Poem, “The Little Boy’s Thanksgiving,” by Madison Cawein. The typescript of the poem is inscribed by Cawein. Includes a letter from Cawein to Reverend Charles E. Craik, Louisville, Kentucky, expressing pleasure in composing it for children.


Watley, Louanne, B. 1937, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2021

Watley, Louanne, B. 1937, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3606. Correspondence of Watley, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and poet, author and Appalachian studies scholar Jim Wayne Miller regarding writing workshops and grant-funded projects. Includes poems of Watley and a detailed critique by Miller.


Bryan Family Letters (Sc 3583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2021

Bryan Family Letters (Sc 3583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 3583. Letters of the Bryan and associated families of Montgomery County, Tennessee. Most are written to Tennessee “Tennie” Bryan and come from friends, relatives, and ardent male admirers. Two correspondents write during their Civil War Confederate service (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescripts) and a cousin, Fannie Parkhurst, writes from Vermont. Fannie also writes to her cousin Byron in Illinois about local news and her studies, school teaching, social activities and abhorrence of intemperance; she gossips about local courtships and mentions Byron’s brother Sherman, who she would marry after Byron’s death in Union …