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Bath County, Kentucky - Letters (Sc 2958), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bath County, Kentucky - Letters (Sc 2958), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2958. Correspondence of two related Bath County, Kentucky families. A lonesome Sarah L. Boyd writes to her mother, Elizabeth A. “Lizzie” Rogers, from boarding school in Fleming County, Kentucky in 1865, where she discusses having her photograph taken, “hateful” schoolmates, and provisions from her family of clothing, whiskey and bitters. In the 1880s, Ida Lee Bell receives letters from cousins, friends and suitors with family news and local gossip. One of her letters voices disapproval of young men who drink when calling on ladies. The letters mention many family members by first name.
Hardy, Lawrence J., B. 1874? (Sc 2950), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hardy, Lawrence J., B. 1874? (Sc 2950), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2950. Handwritten invitation to Misses Alice and Dump Page, Hart County, Kentucky, to a candy pulling at the home of L.J. Hardy on Christmas night, 1896.
Gates, Nellie Gertrude, 1856-1950 (Sc 2948), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gates, Nellie Gertrude, 1856-1950 (Sc 2948), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2948. Diary kept by Nellie Gates, Calhoun, Kentucky, from 12 March 1872 to 25 October 1873. Also includes a brief note, dated 24 January 1942, written by Gates in which she reminisces about the visit of a friend on 24 January 1881.
Hines, Clara Ursula (Wright) Nahm, 1904-1983 (Mss 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, Clara Ursula (Wright) Nahm, 1904-1983 (Mss 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 561. Personal diaries of Clara (Wright) Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky, kept during her marriage to food critic Duncan Hines and after his death. Includes some correspondence, travel itineraries, and miscellaneous papers.
Davidson, Benjamin Gideon, Iii, 1914-1998 (Mss 559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davidson, Benjamin Gideon, Iii, 1914-1998 (Mss 559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 559. Letters to Benjamin Gideon Davidson “B.G.,” III, Bowling Green, Kentucky, written primarily by female friends when he was a student at Bowling Green High School and Centre College, Danville, Kentucky. Includes some letters from his mother and miscellaneous papers.
Jackson, Mary Nancy "Nannie" (Taylor), 1893-1974 - Letters To (Sc 2923), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Mary Nancy "Nannie" (Taylor), 1893-1974 - Letters To (Sc 2923), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2923. Courtship letters, 1911-1919, to Nannie Taylor, Logan County, Kentucky, from “Shine” in Woodburn, Kentucky, including a letter expressing his intention to leave the state now that another has “won your love from me.” Also includes a 1919 letter from Nannie’s future husband Sam F. Jackson, and a 1945 letter from her uncle in Magnolia, Arkansas.
Current Events Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Current Events Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 543. Minutes, yearbooks, administrative papers and program information relating to the Current Events Club, a ladies literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky, that was founded in 1902.
Richardson, Sarah Nell (Pickett), 1915-2000 (Sc 2903), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richardson, Sarah Nell (Pickett), 1915-2000 (Sc 2903), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2903. Wedding book, gift cards, and greeting card from the wedding of Sarah Nell Pickett to Harry Blair Richardson, Sr. on 30 April 1939, held in Joplin, Missouri. Book includes list of attendees.