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Napier Collection (Sc 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Napier Collection (Sc 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 476. Letters, 1926-1952 (3), sermons and speeches (15), commencement program, 1913, memo books, 1920-1923 (2) of Baxter W. Napier, Sr., Methodist minister, 1882(?)-1971; Masonic tribute and receipt, 1895 (2) of I. S. Napier; and miscellaneous items, 1842, 1951 (8).
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.
Shakers - South Union, Ky. (Sc 357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Ky. (Sc 357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 357. Holographic letters, 1893-1922 (3); words (2) and words and music to Shaker hymns (3); receipts, n.d. (3); and notes about the Shakers compiled by Pauline Smith for a speech about the Shakers at South Union, Kentucky.