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Valentines (Sc 830), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Valentines (Sc 830), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 830. Original handcut valentine with poetry written in circular fashion to William [Carson?], ca. 1850. Also included is typescript of the text.
Venable Family Papers (Mss 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Venable Family Papers (Mss 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.