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Murton, Jessie Wilmore (Jones), 1886-1973 (Mss 439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Murton, Jessie Wilmore (Jones), 1886-1973 (Mss 439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 439. Correspondence, writings, scrapbooks, and financial records of Kentucky native and poet Jessie Wilmore Murton. Although born and raised in Kentucky, she spent most of her adult life in Battle Creek, Michigan. Her poetry and prose was published in several solo books and anthologies and appeared extensively in religious publications of the mid-twentieth century. The contents of Box 9 Folder 7 related to the League for Sanity in Poetry has been scanned and can be accessed by clicking on "Additional Files" below.
Trimble, Anne Ridings, 1909-1971 (Mss 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Trimble, Anne Ridings, 1909-1971 (Mss 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 391. Correspondence and published stories of Logan County, Kentucky, romance story writer Anne Ridings Trimble. The correspondence is between Trimble and Kentucky Library librarians Mary Leiper Moore and Elizabeth Coombs. Click on "Additional Files" below for a list of Trimble stories mentioned in the collection.
Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Sc 251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Sc 251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 251. Correspondence of Mrs. Sachs, writer, and native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly with Mary T. Moore, librarian, Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, related to a book on the history of Kentucky that Sachs was researching.
Adcock, James Pringle, 1856-1951 (Mss 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Adcock, James Pringle, 1856-1951 (Mss 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 11. Originals of poems entitled "Frost-bitten Epigrams" written by James Pringle Adcock of Livingston County, Kentucky during the years 1939-1946. Also correspondence, 1932-1953, related to the collection.
Davis, Anne Pence, 1901-1982 (Mss 373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Anne Pence, 1901-1982 (Mss 373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 373. Correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, publications and associated material relating to the literary career of Anne Pence Davis, a poet, reviewer, novelist, and author of juvenile fiction who grew up in Bowling Green, Kentucky and lived in Wichita Falls, Texas after her marriage.
Crabb, Alfred Leland, 1884-1979 (Mss 367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crabb, Alfred Leland, 1884-1979 (Mss 367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and bibliography (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 367. Correspondence, book and article manuscripts, and research material of Alfred Leland Crabb, a native of Warren County, Kentucky and later professor at George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee. The topics of the manuscripts include historical fiction related to Nashville and Bowling Green, biographies of prominent Nashvillians, and articles on all levels of education. Much of the unpublished material is fiction but draws from Crabb's Plum Springs school days and his student experiences at Western Kentucky University.
Authors Correspondence (Mss 358), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Authors Correspondence (Mss 358), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 358. Correspondence between authors or poets and staff of the Kentucky Library & Museum, primarily regarding donations of their works and available library holdings. Correspondents also write about their activities and work in progress.
Authors Correspondence (Mss 337), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Authors Correspondence (Mss 337), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 337. Correspondence between authors and researchers and staff of the Kentucky Library & Museum, primarily regarding historical and genealogical resources. Correspondents also write about their work and publications.
Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944 (Sc 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944 (Sc 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.