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Miller, John Goodrum, Sr., 1853-1936 (Mss 629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2018

Miller, John Goodrum, Sr., 1853-1936 (Mss 629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 629. Writings of John Goodrum Miller, Sr., a lawyer and native of Caldwell County, Kentucky. Includes a family history, a personal memoir, and manuscript chapters on early Kentucky history, English church history, and the U.S. Constitution. Also includes a small amount of material related to The Black Patch War, Miller’s book on the Night Riders.


Rice, Laban Lacy, 1870-1973 (Mss 605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2017

Rice, Laban Lacy, 1870-1973 (Mss 605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 605. Correspondence, writings, photographs, clippings, and papers of Laban Lacy Rice, a Webster, County, Kentucky native, educator, author, lecturer, poet, and president of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee. Includes his scientific writing, principally on astronomy, relativity and cosmology, as well as fiction, poetry, and autobiographical writing. Also includes some correspondence and papers relating to his brother, poet and dramatist Cale Young Rice, and sister-in-law, author Alice Hegan Rice.


Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 - Collector (Sc 2992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 - Collector (Sc 2992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2992. Newspaper clippings, model press releases and other materials collected by Mary Leiper Moore, chairman of the publicity committee for a drive to recruit Warren County, Kentucky women for the Women’s Army Corps (WACs). Includes Moore’s letter to the commander of Louisville’s Bowman Field complaining of the Army’s poor planning of a publicity event held at Western Kentucky University on 12 November 1943.


Mcgregor Collection (Mss 566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Mcgregor Collection (Mss 566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 566. Correspondence, accounts, and lists of materials relating to the acquisition by the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, of rare books, periodicals and manuscripts with funding provided by the McGregor Plan.


Murton, Jessie Wilmore (Jones), 1886-1973 (Mss 439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Murton, Jessie Wilmore (Jones), 1886-1973 (Mss 439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.


Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2014

Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 482. Correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs and miscellaneous papers of Mildred (Potter) Lissauer of Bowling Green and Louisville, Kentucky and of her family, especially her mother, Martha (Woods) Potter and her aunt, Elizabeth Moseley Woods. Includes a World War I scrapbook created for and about Mildred's brother John (Click on "Additional Files" below).


Bundles For America - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2813), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2014

Bundles For America - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2813), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2813. Meeting minutes of Bundles for America, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from 24 January to 14 March 1945. Includes a draft thank-you letter to a sponsor summarizing the organization’s accomplishments since 1941; also includes a 1943 clipping outlining the history and work of the organization in knitting garments, salvaging metal and clothing, and making up toiletry kits for British and American soldiers and their families.


Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2013

Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 349. Correspondence, photographs, business records and miscellaneous papers of the Coombs, Robertson and related families of Warren and Simpson counties in Kentucky and of Alabama, Texas and Tennessee. Includes correspondence, personal papers and research of Elizabeth Robertson Coombs, librarian at the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University. Several documents from this collection have been scanned are available for viewing by clicking on the "Additional Files" below.


Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 1082), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2013

Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 1082), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1082. Letter, 4 February 1937, written by Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky to Bess (Fayne) Cherry, vividly describing her involvement in providing transportation by car of Louisville flood refugees to Bowling Green. She housed some refugees in her home.


Weeks, Estella Terry, 1886-1969 (Sc 670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Weeks, Estella Terry, 1886-1969 (Sc 670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan representative of material in the collection (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 670. Correspondence of Miss Estella T. Weeks of Washington, D.C., with Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to Weeks’s research on the Shakers and the holdings of Shaker material in the Kentucky Library.


Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 887), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 887), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 887. Letter written by Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Mina Weber, Los Angeles, California, in response to Weber’s request that she write a supporting letter to radio host Ralph Edwards of “This is Your Life,” concerning Bowling Green's Ida Hodges and her contributions to society. Also carbon copy of Weber’s letter to Edwards.


Twitchell, Jacob Paul, 1909-1971 (Mss 433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Twitchell, Jacob Paul, 1909-1971 (Mss 433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 433. Correspondence, news clippings, photographs, and publications including prose and poetry of Jacob Paul Twitchell, a native of Paducah. Includes World War II correspondence with his wife, Camille, and letters to family, friends, as well as with editors and publishers.


Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 - Relating To (Mss 423), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 - Relating To (Mss 423), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 423. Family letters, notes and typescripted scrapbook items (primarily contemporary newspaper articles) relating to the family and career of Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan.


Wilson, John B., 1861-1943 (Sc 2571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Wilson, John B., 1861-1943 (Sc 2571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2571. Letter from John B. Wilson, Hartford, Kentucky to Mary Leiper Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky, enclosing an article he wrote, titled “Lest We Forget”. This article covers the early settlement of Ohio County, including its early buildings, churches, and roadways. Also included is an article written by Wilson, titled “Fort Hartford”, concerning the settlement of Fort Hartford in Ohio County and complications with land titles.


Muir, John Wakefield, 1909-1991 (Sc 633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Muir, John Wakefield, 1909-1991 (Sc 633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and sample of correspondence for Manuscripts Small Collection 633. Correspondence of John Wakefield Muir, Bardstown, Kentucky, and Mary (Taylor) Moore, Librarian of the Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, which contains much information about
the history of Bardstown and Nelson County.


Agnes Gough, 1902-1988 (Sc 648), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Agnes Gough, 1902-1988 (Sc 648), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of sample item (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 648. Letters to Mary Taylor Moore, librarian of the Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Miss Agnes Gough, an artist and a teacher, originally from Benton, Kentucky, but living in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Anchorage, Alaska, when these letters were written.


Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr., 1886-1945 (Sc 628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr., 1886-1945 (Sc 628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 628. Correspondence of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., of Munfordville, Kentucky, with Mary Leiper Moore, librarian of the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, while he was serving in the U.S. Army during World War II in Alaska and Okinawa.


Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 584), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 584), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 584. Correspondence chiefly of Mrs. Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore, Librarian of the Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, with politicians, principally of Kentucky.


Stubblefield, Richard C., 1763-1847 (Sc 558), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Stubblefield, Richard C., 1763-1847 (Sc 558), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 558. Typescripts of letters, 8 October 1828, and 9 October 1837, from Richard Stubblefield, Rockingham County, North Carolina, to his son, Robert C. Stubblefield, Hartsville, Sumner County, Tennessee (1828), and Calloway County, Kentucky (1837). He relates news concerning his family, crop prices, and religious activity. Also, a letter 24 August 1954 from Lawrence S. Thompson, Lexington, to Mrs. Mary Moore, Bowling Green, related to the Stubblefield letters.


Farmington Institute - Farmington, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 538), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Farmington Institute - Farmington, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 538), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 538. Correspondence between Mary T. Leiper, librarian, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Pearle
L. Hendley, Farmington, Graves County, Kentucky, related to Miss Hendley’s uncle, J.A. Hendley, founder of the Farmington Institute. Includes a photograph of J.A. Hendley.


Strange Collection (Mss 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Strange Collection (Mss 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 42. Correspondence, 1864-1878 (8); journal, 1852-1883; scrapbooks (2); Manuscript: “House of Madison and McDowell in Kentucky,” 1888; family genealogical data; slave records; etc., of Agatha (Rochester) Strange, 1832-1896, a lifelong resident of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Moore, Mary Elizabeth (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Mss 387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Moore, Mary Elizabeth (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Mss 387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 387. Radio scripts, correspondence, research notes, and newspaper clippings of Kentucky Building director, Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore. Moore served as director of the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University from 1931 to 1956. Also includes articles and speeches written by Moore.


Trimble, Anne Ridings, 1909-1971 (Mss 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Trimble, Anne Ridings, 1909-1971 (Mss 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.


Venable Family Papers (Mss 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Venable Family Papers (Mss 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 382. Correspondence, account books, receipts, sermons, drawings, and diaries of the Venable family of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, chiefly John Wesley Venable, Sr. and his wife Fannie and son John, Jr. Of particular interest is an 1839-1839 travel journal kept by John, Sr. while in Florida. Also includes John, Sr.’s sermons and sermon preparation material as well as thirty-nine small diaries documenting his career as an Episcopal priest in Versailles and Hopkinsville. Includes one of John, Sr.’s art sketch books.


Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Sc 251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Sc 251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.


Pusey, William Allen, 1865-1940 (Sc 238), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Pusey, William Allen, 1865-1940 (Sc 238), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 238. Chiefly letters from Dr. William Pusey’s widow to Mary T. Moore, Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, related to Dr. Pusey’s published works. Includes typescripts of letters commenting on Dr. Pusey’s efforts to prevent the spread of venereal diseases during World War I.


Adcock, James Pringle, 1856-1951 (Mss 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2011

Adcock, James Pringle, 1856-1951 (Mss 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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 Jul 2011

Davis, Anne Pence, 1901-1982 (Mss 373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.


Browne Family - Account Book, 1872-1948 (Sc 211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Browne Family - Account Book, 1872-1948 (Sc 211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 211. Account book that lists expenditures for Edmonia, Susie, and James Harvey Browne of Bardstown, 1872-1884; also, for Mary Marshall and Susie Beauchamp, 1882-1884. Book includes the will of Sue Browne Elliott, recipes, and a tuition receipt from the Bardstown Female Academy, 1873. A 1948 letter relates to the Browne family.


Kouwenbergh, Ella, 1871-1965 - Collector (Sc 129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Kouwenbergh, Ella, 1871-1965 - Collector (Sc 129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 129. Revolutionary War pension papers of Nicholas Carter, Nelson County, Kentucky, 1837; letter of James Carothers written from Bowling Green, Kentucky to his wife Rebecca in Shirleysburg, Pennsylvania describing the construction of the bridge over Barren River (College Street Bridge), 1838 and accompanying 1938 letter; Civil War envelopes; and Jefferson County land abstract, 1877.