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Smith, Jesse (Sc 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Smith, Jesse (Sc 554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and transcription (Click on Additional File) for Manuscripts Small Collection 554. Letter, 25-27 February 1862, to an unidentified recipient from Union soldier Jesse Smith upon his arrival in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Smith describes the abandoned Confederate fortifications in some detail and comments on the surrounding countryside, the damage to the railroad and bridges, and the large numbers of troops converging on the area. He also relates news of the occupation of Nashville, Tennessee by Union forces.


Moore, Gilbertine Douglass, 1914-2008 (Mss 435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Moore, Gilbertine Douglass, 1914-2008 (Mss 435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 435. Correspondence, autograph albums, travel accounts and other miscellaneous material of Franklin, Kentucky native Gilbertine Moore. Moore owned a seed inspection business in Franklin and was interested in the arts, nature, and writing.


Whitaker, Matilda Lucretia, 1841-1892 (Mss 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Whitaker, Matilda Lucretia, 1841-1892 (Mss 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 434. Photocopies of the Civil War diaries of Matilda Lucretia Whitaker, Grove Spring, Logan County, Kentucky. Whitaker sympathized with the South and noted the activities of Confederate troops in Russellville. Poetry and songs are also included.


Wood, James Willis, 1841-1940 (Sc 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Wood, James Willis, 1841-1940 (Sc 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 607. Photocopies of Civil War papers of James Willis Wood of Dunmor, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, which include his enlistment papers, letters, 1864 (9 items), written while in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia, and his discharge papers, 1864.


Brown-Hodges Papers (Sc 754), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Brown-Hodges Papers (Sc 754), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 754. Photocopies of Sumner County, Tennessee, deeds, 1813-1888 (7), and land surveys, 1813, 1875 (2), of the Brown and Hodges families. Also, genealogical information of the Hodges family (1).


Reid, Josephine Rogers (Rowan), 1838-1911 (Sc 2593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Reid, Josephine Rogers (Rowan), 1838-1911 (Sc 2593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2593. Letters of Josephine Rogers (Rowan) Reid, written from Federal Hill, Bardstown, Kentucky to a friend, “Mary.” She writes in 1860 of treatment for an injured foot and an offer of marriage; reacts to Mary’s marriage to a Mr. Keating, notes the anniversary of her brother John’s death, and reports on her brother Lytle’s Civil War service in 1863; and writes of her own marriage and forthcoming move to New Orleans in 1865.


Morris, Walter B. (Sc 29), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Morris, Walter B. (Sc 29), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 29. Photocopies of letter written by Walter B. Morris, Gallatin, Tennessee, to his brother, Eastin Morris, Fort Pickering, Tennessee, pertaining to a shower of flesh and blood near Lebanon, Tennessee, on 17 August 1841, and of an article from American Journal of Science, 1841, pertaining to the same event. Also a letter to Julia Neal regarding photocopies, 1968.


Cox, Samuel K., 1849-1925 (Sc 2597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Cox, Samuel K., 1849-1925 (Sc 2597), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2597. Bound typescript diary of Captain Samuel K. Cox, Confederate Army, 17th Kentucky Infantry. The diary includes details about travel, camp life, and the capture of Fort Donelson, Tennessee.


Slavery - Tennessee (Sc 704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Slavery - Tennessee (Sc 704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 704. Photostats of slave narratives which relate a folk history of slavery in Tennessee from interviews with former slaves. The records were prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938. Originals (typed) are in the Library of Congress.


Scopes, John Thomas, 1900-1970 (Mss 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Scopes, John Thomas, 1900-1970 (Mss 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 419. Letters and clippings removed from a scrapbook belonging to John T. Scopes or his wife and relating primarily to the 1925 Scopes trial, his subsequent notoriety, and later publicity and commemorations surrounding the controversy.


Greathouse Family Papers (Sc 635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Greathouse Family Papers (Sc 635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts 635. Photocopies of papers of the Greathouse family of Hancock County, Kentucky. The papers include surveys, deeds, receipts, wills, business letters, etc., 1825-1869, and are chiefly of R.B., Susan, John, and William. Also included are some papers of the Lewis family, 1823-1847.


Henderson, Wallace W. (Sc 2645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Henderson, Wallace W. (Sc 2645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2645. Bound typescript copy of “Christian County, Kentucky Sketches,” by Wallace W. Henderson, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, tracing the history of Christian County. Includes sub-categories such as the Civil War, the Robert Hollowell Case, and notable Christian County figures.


Davis, Samuel Thomas, 1838-1908 (Sc 626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Davis, Samuel Thomas, 1838-1908 (Sc 626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 626. Photocopy of Civil War journal of Samuel Thomas Davis of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who was in the 77th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. The journal relates his experiences in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama with the dates of his stay in Kentucky being 21 October 1861-28 February 1862 and 13 September 1862-23 October 1862 and described on pages 1-5 and 16-21.


Wickersham Family Papers (Sc 560), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Wickersham Family Papers (Sc 560), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 560. Bound typescripts of 73 letters, 1861-1877, and an 1887 deed of the Wickersham family, Mercer County, Kentucky. The collection includes 53 Civil war letters, chiefly written to the family by brothers William, Jacob and George Wickersham, who served with Kentucky Union regiments. The majority of these letters are from William who prayed for peace and to be reunited with his family, but he died in 1863. Additionally, there are other family letters from 1863 to 1877.


Taylor, Judson Slade, 1838-1889 (Sc 525), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Taylor, Judson Slade, 1838-1889 (Sc 525), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collecction 525. Photocopy of an incomplete typescript memoir entitled “The First Fifty Years of Judson Slade Taylor,” a Baptist minister born in Ohio County, Kentucky; and a letter, 20 August 1971, from J.B. Taylor, a relative, to Nell Childress, Auburn, Kentucky, related to the memoir.


Potter, Blanche Genevieve (Jamison), 1860-1942 (Sc 512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Potter, Blanche Genevieve (Jamison), 1860-1942 (Sc 512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of selected pages from album (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 512. Autograph album covering the years that Miss Jamison, of Nashville, Tennessee, was a student at Ward Seminary, Nashville, Tennessee. In 1881 Miss Jamison married J. Whit Potter of Bowling Green.


Turnley, William H. (Sc 472), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Turnley, William H. (Sc 472), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 472. Statement from William H. Turnley, Elephant Tobacco Warehouse, Clarksville, Tennessee, to Joe Hatcher, Trenton, Kentucky, for tobacco sold for Hatcher. Turnley notes reason for selling some of the tobacco and for holding the rest until later.


Anderson, Joseph, 1757-1837 (Sc 456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Anderson, Joseph, 1757-1837 (Sc 456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 456. Original letters (3) of Joseph Anderson, and original and holographic copies of letters, notes, etc. (11) written by William Meredith, Philadelphia, to Anderson, Washington, D.C. Anderson’s correspondence with Meredith pertains to a debt owed by Anderson since 1790. Anderson was a Tennessee Senator and first Comptroller of the Treasury.


Dawson, Ella Mai (Randolph), 1892-1991 (Mss 397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Dawson, Ella Mai (Randolph), 1892-1991 (Mss 397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 397. Family correspondence, church materials, greeting cards and other personal papers of Ella Mai (Randolph) Dawson, a native of Logan County, Kentucky and resident of Clarksville, Tennessee. Includes voter registration and urban renewal materials relating to African Americans.


Meriwether Family Papers (Mss 44), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Meriwether Family Papers (Mss 44), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 44. Typed copies of personal and legal papers, 1791-1840 (43) of Charles Meriwether, a pioneer doctor of Christian County, Kentucky; family letters of Caroline Gordon Tate, author and educator, 1938-1947 (18); and family letters of newspaper columnist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (“Dorothy Dix”), 1930-1949 (13).


Crisp, John J., B. 1839? (Sc 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Crisp, John J., B. 1839? (Sc 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 416. Certificate, 5 August 1869, confirming voter registration of J.J. Crisp, issued by the Commissioner of Registration for Warren County, Tennessee.


Thomas, Elizabeth (Wright), 1842-1931 (Sc 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Thomas, Elizabeth (Wright), 1842-1931 (Sc 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2. Account (15 pp.) written by Elizabeth (Wright) Thomas, Bowling Green, Kentucky, entitled “A Week’s Outing in the Tennessee Mountains” describing a trip made after the Civil War. Also includes her obituary.


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.


Warren, Robert Penn Oral History Collection, 1977-1982 (Mss 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Warren, Robert Penn Oral History Collection, 1977-1982 (Mss 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 383. Transcripts, notes, and cassette tapes for interviews conducted by Dr. Wilford Fridy with individuals who knew or knew about John Wesley Venable, Jr., the person on whom Robert Penn Warren based the character Bolton Lovehart in his novella "Circus in the Attic." Interviews mention other people and places that Warren knew in Todd County, Kentucky. Also includes tapes of Robert Penn Warren giving a speech, reading some of his work, and an interview with Warren.


Lipscomb, John, D. 1820 (Sc 319), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Lipscomb, John, D. 1820 (Sc 319), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 319. Photocopy of journal kept by John Lipscomb of his trip to Nashville and the Cumberland Settlements from southwest Virginia. Part of the journal is in typescript with an explanatory introduction and is entitled “Pease Supe, Milk and Clabber,” and the remainder is a photocopy of the original.


Clark, William, 1770-1838 (Sc 315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Clark, William, 1770-1838 (Sc 315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 315. Portion of diary kept by William Clark when he passed through Kentucky during his trip from St. Louis, Missouri to Washington D.C. He mentions Hopkinsville, Russellville, Bowling Green and other places as he travels through central and east Kentucky and into East Tennessee.


Mcintire, Tandie Lewis, 1865-1947 (Mss 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Mcintire, Tandie Lewis, 1865-1947 (Mss 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 396. Correspondence to family, friends, and acquaintances of Tandie Lewis McIntire, Edmonson County, Kentucky. Collection contains educational material related to McIntire's career as a teacher in Edmonson County. Also includes tracts and pamphlets related to McIntire's involvement in religious organizations, particularly Baptist entities.


Louisville And Nashville Railroad Company - Ledger (Mss 399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Louisville And Nashville Railroad Company - Ledger (Mss 399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 399. Large leather bound ledger book containing information about road repairs and construction projects on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad line, chiefly in Tennessee and Kentucky. The ledger includes tools and materials used in these projects, a brief accountof the work, and information about employees used during the projects.


Civil War, 1861-1865 - Papers (Sc 371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Papers (Sc 371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 371. Correspondence, 1862-1863 (8), and pardon, 1864, of Union soldiers from the Kentucky counties of Hopkins and McLean; official program for Soldiers’ Reunion in Evansville, Indiana, 1887; and words of a Union song.


Alexander, C. Emmaline (Norman) Ballenger (Sc 2410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Alexander, C. Emmaline (Norman) Ballenger (Sc 2410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text (click of "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2510. Letter of C. Emmaline (Norman) Ballenger Alexander, written from Gallatin, Tennessee, to her granddaughter Lelia, presumably in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She mentions local social activities and refers to a recent fire in Bowling Green.