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Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 1779), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2008

Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 1779), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1779. Letter, 11 October 1904, from author Alice Hegan Rice to the editor of Outlook magazine commenting on books that she enjoyed as a child and young adult.


Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 (Sc 1781), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 (Sc 1781), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1781. Paper titled "Bowling Green's Literary History," presented by WKU English teacher Frances Richards to the Samuel Davies Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 8 October 1938.


Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Sc 1790), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Sc 1790), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1790. Research material, including news clippings and several letters, related to William Shakespeare Hays, a Kentucky musician and journalist. Also includes typescripts of poems written by Hays under the pseudonym Hayseed.


Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 1780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 1780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1780. Brief letter, 9 June 1917, from author Alice Hegan Rice, Louisville, Kentucky, to a Miss Stearns complimenting her on the attractiveness of her book plate.


Boyd, George Robert, 1906-1993 (Sc 1759), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Boyd, George Robert, 1906-1993 (Sc 1759), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1759. Poetry by George Robert Boyd, a Simpson County, Kentucky native and educator; also, material related to the Boyd family.


Guthrie, Charles Snow, 1922-2000 (Sc 1604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Guthrie, Charles Snow, 1922-2000 (Sc 1604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1604. Copy of speech given by Charles Snow Guthrie, professor of English at Western Kentucky University, to the Kentucky Philological Association, Morehead, Kentucky, 4 March 1988, entitled "Eighteenth Century Kentucky Writing."


Dickerson And Venable Families (Sc 1574), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Dickerson And Venable Families (Sc 1574), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1574. Genealogical charts, news clippings, and photographs of members of the Dickerson and Venable families of Warren County, Kentucky. Also includes a news clipping from the Park City Daily News, 9 January 1947, about author Rosa Praigg Dickerson, who published under the name Violet Woods, and a pre-1911 photo and program from a production of "Mrs. Wiggs and the Cabbage Patch" performed at Woodburn College.


Drake, Leah Bodine, 1904-1964 (Sc 1575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Drake, Leah Bodine, 1904-1964 (Sc 1575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1575. Letters from poet Leah Bodine Drake, Evansville, Indiana, to Fletcher and Grace Stewart, Santa Ana, California, related to the publication of her poetry, awards for her poetry, and possible television appearances.


Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Mss 50), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Mss 50), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 50. Correspondence of David Morton, correspondence concerning Morton Collection, speeches, essays, MSS: "Entries for a Diary," and MSS: "The Amateur Listener" -- diary, poems, pamphlets, and miscellaneous items of Morton, a poet and English professor born in Elkton, Kentucky.


Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 1557), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 1557), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1557. Letter, 10 March 1976, from Kentucky author Jesse Hilton Stuart, W-Hollow, Greenup, Kentucky, to John Howard Spurlock, Bowling Green, Kentucky, related to "He Sings for Us", Spurlock's book about Stuart's writings.


Hochstrasser, Maud Adelaide, 1900-1994 (Sc 1552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Hochstrasser, Maud Adelaide, 1900-1994 (Sc 1552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1552. Letters to Maud Adelaide Hochstrasser, many concerning the establishment of the Maud Adelaide "Addie" Hochstrasser Fund honoring Jesse Stuart at Western Kentucky University. Includes letters from Naomi Deane Stuart, Jesse Stuart's widow.