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Hines, James Arvin, 1926-2017 (Mss 746), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 746. Articles, stories, songs, and two unpublished novels by Ohio County, Kentucky native and prolific freelance writer James Hines.

Jillson, Willard Rouse, 1890-1975 (Mss 682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 682. Writings and supporting materials of Willard Rouse Jillson, State Geologist of Kentucky, author and historian. Includes manuscripts, page proofs, photographic negatives, and promotional pamphlets for his books.

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

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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

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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 …

Bowling Green Rose Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 712. Minutes, correspondence, show programs, and miscellaneous records of the Bowling Green Rose Society. The bulk of the material is from the 1980s and 1990s.

Carleton, William Mckendree, 1845-1912 (Sc 3432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3432. Typescripted excerpt from Will Carleton’s narrative poem, “First Settler’s Story,” first published in 1881, as recited in March 1895 by Berta M. Morton.

Stewart, Robert Lee, 1873-1963 (Sc 3415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3415. Letters, 30 May 1956 and 15 May 1957, to Mary Ellen Richards, Franklin, Kentucky, from Lee Stewart, Morehead, Kentucky. He encloses poems and song lyrics relating to Kentucky history, and comments on the Rowan County, Kentucky centennial celebrations. He also encloses his newspaper article about a Fayette County, Kentucky judge, legislator and poet.

Clarke, Kenneth Wendell, B. 1917 (Mss 635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 635. Manuscripts, notes, publisher’s correspondence, and photographs relating to the scholarly work of WKU English and folklore professor Kenneth W. Clarke, principally "Bud Long: The Birth of a Kentucky Folk Legend" and "The Harvest and the Reapers."

Garvin Collection (Mss 522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 522. Correspondence, photographs and papers of members of the Campbell and Garvin families of Warren County, Kentucky. Included are business records of David B. Campbell and letters written to him in 1850 while he prospected for gold in California.

Street, James William, 1858-1944 (Mss 478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 478. Account books and journals of James William Street, recording his activities and local events, primarily in Henderson and Lyon counties in Kentucky. He also records the 1908-1909 activities of the Night Riders in the region.

Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Sc 2603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2603. Chiefly typescript copies of letters from William Shakespeare Hays, Louisville, Kentucky, to Jess and Sue Barkley, Greenville, Kentucky, and a few selected poems. Poems include "Insured", "Sunday Morning", "Eli's Thanksgiving", etc. Also included is general biographical information about Hays.

Ladies Literary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 393. Minutes, correspondence, programs, historical sketches, and miscellaneous material of the Ladies Literary Club of Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Sublett Family (Sc 146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 146. Bill of Charles Sublett for tanning calf skin, 1808; tax receipt (fragment) to Charles Sublett, Warren County, Kentucky, 1817; promissory note signed by William Sublett, 1826; three notes on religious doctrine; scrapbook of articles and poems about Kentucky and Kentuckians compiled by Paul H. Murphy, 1932.

Ua68/6/1 Potter College Of Arts & Letters English Publications, Wku Archives

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Publications created by and about the English Department.

Zephyrus is produced by the English Department and contains student creative writing.

"A literary magazine called Voices had been produced for a number of years prior to that, but in 1969 Professor Gatlin, with the help of Professor Will Fridy, came up with the title Zephyrus, the Roman name for the west wind, because Dr. Wood had asked that "Western" be included in the title." From A Centennial History of the Department of English of Western Kentucky University by James Flynn

"In 1979, Frank [Steele], along with his wife, Peggy, began publishing …

Legerdemain, Paul M. Bush

Academic Support Division Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Use Of First-Person Narrators In The Poetry Of Rita Dove, Laura Phy

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The chronological focus ofthis senior honors thesis will be an explicatory study of some of Rita Dove's often-ignored poems, particularly those that employ first-person narrators.

Ascetic, Paul M. Bush

Academic Support Division Faculty Publications

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Giles, Janice Holt, 1905-1979 (Mss 39), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Manuscripts, galley proofs and research material for janice Holt Giles's books; published and unpublished articles and short stories; poems; reviews and clippings relating to Giles's work; correspondence of Giles, her husband (Henry Earl Giles) and daughter (Elizabeth Moore Hancock); correspondence of Giles, her literary agent, and publisher; Holt and Giles family material.