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Curle, Richard, 1883-1968 (Sc 2114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Curle, Richard, 1883-1968 (Sc 2114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2114. Letter, 30 September 1929, written by Richard Curle to "Katherine" in which he mentions their attendance at a party and her criticism of his novel.


Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 2096), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 2096), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2096. Letters from Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice to Henry and Rebecca Watterson, 1903-1916 (13), chiefly including personal advice, discussions of literary topics, and social invitations. Also includes a brief note to Benjamin W. Huebsch, n.d., giving a positive review of a book titled 'Dragnet'; and a letter to William Orton Tewson, n.d., in which Rice discusses literary criticism.


Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 2094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 2094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2094. Letters from Cale Young Rice to Henry Watterson, 1906-1917 (11), chiefly thank you notes and letters asking for the support of the 'Courier-Journal' for various causes; to Benjamin W. Huebsch, 1918 and response 1919 (2), about publishing some of his poems; and letter to William Orton Tewson, 1926 (1) in which he discusses literary criticism.


Stuart, Jessica Jane, B. 1942 (Sc 1209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Stuart, Jessica Jane, B. 1942 (Sc 1209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1209. Correspondence between Jessica Jane Stuart and Lawrence S. Thompson regarding a reprint of her story "A Man of Her Own Faith" for the Lost Cause Press. Includes a copy of the story, published in "Bluegrass Woman," Spring 1974. Stuart also writes of her doctoral studies and her difficulty finding a teaching position.


Giles, Janice Holt, 1905-1979 - Photos (Sc 2092), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Giles, Janice Holt, 1905-1979 - Photos (Sc 2092), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2092. Slides (and pictures made from the slides) of Janice Holt Giles and her husband, Henry E. Giles, friends, and interiors of their house in Knifley, Kentucky.


Joiner, Sandra (Sc 2089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Joiner, Sandra (Sc 2089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2089. Scholarly papers (3) written by Sandra Joiner about Kentucky author, Janice Holt Giles. One paper is untitled; the others are titled; "Janice Holt Giles: Woman of Contradictions" and "The Concept of 'Place' in the Fiction of Janice Holt Giles." Also includes two photographs of conference attendees.


Giles, Janice Holt, 1909-1979 (Sc 2090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Giles, Janice Holt, 1909-1979 (Sc 2090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2090. Photocopies of news clippings and photographs related to Kentucky authors, Janice Holt Giles and Henry Giles. Manuscript note from Pansy Phillips to Pat Hodges; photos taken on a barge related to research for Mrs. Giles's book 'Run Me a River' (1964); and photocopies of Mr. and Mrs. Giles's wills, 1970 & 1985.


Janice Holt Giles Symposium, May 17-18, 1991 (Sc 2067), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Janice Holt Giles Symposium, May 17-18, 1991 (Sc 2067), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2067. Miscellaneous items from the Janice Holt Giles Symposium held 17-18 May 1991 at Campbellsville College, Campbellsville, Kentucky. Includes a cassette tape containing remarks by Giles's daughter Libby Hancock and songs sung by Wig Robinson at the Caldwell Chapel Church, Knifley, Kentucky where Giles and her husband are buried.


Woodridge, James & Nancy (Sc 2084), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Woodridge, James & Nancy (Sc 2084), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2084. Transcript of an interview conducted by Wilford Fridy, a English Department faculty member at Western Kentucky University, with James and Nancy Woolridge, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The interview revolves around the Woolridge's familial connections to characters in Robert Penn Warren's stories in his book "Circus in the Attic."


Warren, Rosanna, B. 1953 (Sc 2056), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Warren, Rosanna, B. 1953 (Sc 2056), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2056. Letter from Rosanna Warren, the daughter of Robert Penn Warren, to Dr. Henry Hardin, thanking him for his hospitality when she and her mother attended the Robert Penn Warren Symposium at Western Kentucky University on 26 April 1992. She expresses her hope to write a poem about the ticking clock in Hardin's home.


Janice Holt Giles Symposium, 17-18 May 1991 (Mss 283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Janice Holt Giles Symposium, 17-18 May 1991 (Mss 283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 283. Five videocassette recordings of the Janice Holt Giles Symposium presentations made on 17-18 May 1991. Also inlcudes, "Janice Holt Giles", a publication based on papers delivered at the Symposium.


Shaw, Mary Mosby (Sc 2041), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2009

Shaw, Mary Mosby (Sc 2041), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2041. Composition book of Mary Mosby Shaw, Glasgow, Kentucky, containing children's poems. An additional file contains one of the poems from the composition book titled "Old Santa's Wife."


Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 1692), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2009

Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 1692), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1692. Letter, 9 March 1922, from Lida (Calvert) Obenchain, Dallas, Texas to high school student Pearl Lowe, Bowling Green, Kentucky providing information for a paper Lowe was writing about Obenchain. Includes some biographical information about Lowe.


Hancock, Elizabeth Ann (Moore), 1924-2019 (Sc 1900), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Hancock, Elizabeth Ann (Moore), 1924-2019 (Sc 1900), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1900. Letters and portions of letters written by author Janice Holt Giles, Knifley, Adair County, Kentucky to her daughter Elizabeth, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Includes references to her family and friends, her daily life, and her writing habits.


Havighurst, Clark Canfield, B. 1933 (Sc 1897), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Havighurst, Clark Canfield, B. 1933 (Sc 1897), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Senior thesis: "The South and Robert Penn Warren" completed at Princeton University, 1955. Also includes typed comments by Princeton faculty and handwritten comments from Warren scholar Victor H. Strandberg.


Hamilton, Weston A. - Collector (Sc 118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2009

Hamilton, Weston A. - Collector (Sc 118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 118. Militia drill meeting notice scheduled in Russellville, Kentucky, 1818; slave bill of sale, Logan County, Kentucky, 1860; a young woman’s letter to a friend, 1875; letter written by Kate Bosher, 1910; and letter written by Cale Young Rice, 1926, regarding biographical data, with a postscript by Alice Hegan Rice.


Ellis, James Tandy, 1868-1942 (Sc 110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2009

Ellis, James Tandy, 1868-1942 (Sc 110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 110. Letters, 1897-1939 (16 items), written to James Tandy Ellis, poet, humorist, columnist, and lecturer of Ghent, Kentucky. Also includes Ellis' poems and writings, 1891 (5); printed items; clippings; commissions as Assistant Adjutant and Adjutant General of Kentucky; and miscellaneous items.


Spence, Ruth Potts, 1894-1988 (Sc 1840), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2009

Spence, Ruth Potts, 1894-1988 (Sc 1840), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1840. Letters from Alice Hegan Rice (4), Cale Young Rice (13) and Laban Lacy Rice (1) to Ruth Potts Spence, who met the Rices at Camp Nakanawa in Mayland, Tennessee and maintained a friendship with the couple. The letters discuss writing, current events, family matters, and grief.


Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944 (Sc 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944 (Sc 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 82. Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb's original manuscript of an editorial, "A Leaf From a Memory Book," which appeared in "Kentucky Progress Magazine" (Spring 1933), and two letters concerning the manuscript.


Allison, Young Ewing, Jr., 1890-1965 (Sc 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Allison, Young Ewing, Jr., 1890-1965 (Sc 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 80. Letter written by Young Ewing Allison, Jr., Louisville, Kentucky, to Miss Julia Neal, Auburn, Kentucky, in reply to an inquiry concerning Lucy Furman.