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Perry Collection (Mss 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Perry Collection (Mss 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 676. Letters, papers, photographs and scrapbooks of the Perry family, principally Gideon Babcock Perry, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Hopkinsville, Kentucky and his children, Reverend Henry G. Perry, Chicago, Illinois, and Emily B. Perry, Hopkinsville.
Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 617. Correspondence, documents, news clippings and ephemera from Seth Thomas Farley, Jr., a life-long educator. This collection includes a good deal of information about Farley’s teaching career prior to his work as a professor at WKU, his involvement in organizations that fought alcoholism and gambling (particularly the lottery in Kentucky), his church work, and his service on a committee to choose a federal magistrate for the western district of Kentucky. The collection includes an entire box of assessment related material related to Fort Knox Dependent Schools in the mid-1960s.
Sears Family Papers (Mss 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sears Family Papers (Mss 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 518. Full text of Sears family documents can be accessed by clicking "Additional Files" below. Shaker manuscript hymnal commenced by Polly Ann Smith in 1848; copy book of Shaker Chauncey E. Sears, 1840-1870, which includes occasional original poems and essays by Sears as well as short examples of popular and historical authors; an 1829 letter from Rufus Bishop that extols the moral virtues of the Shakers; historical and genealogical information about the Sears family.
Jones, Drucilla Montgomery (Stovall), 1907-2007 (Mss 493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones, Drucilla Montgomery (Stovall), 1907-2007 (Mss 493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 493. Correspondence, chiefly from the Fort and Flowers families of Logan County, Kentucky, which includes prisoners of war correspondence from the Civil War. Also includes cemetery, church, and funeral home records, as well as news clippings about historic sites, people and events in Logan County.
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.
Sumpter, Ward Cullin, 1902-1977 (Sc 2318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sumpter, Ward Cullin, 1902-1977 (Sc 2318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2318. Chemistry notebook of Ward Cullin Sumpter, probably kept about 1930 while he was a doctoral student at Yale University. Includes other miscellaneous documents: a tribute to a church's departing pastor, a draft petition in support of an anti-cigarette law, and a poem relating to the 1928 presidential election.
Ua94/6/1 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Western Kentucky University Small Collections, Wku Archives
Ua94/6/1 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Western Kentucky University Small Collections, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Small collections of personal papers and oral histories relating to the Western Kentucky University.
Hutchings, Noah J., B. 1840 (Sc 1766), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hutchings, Noah J., B. 1840 (Sc 1766), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1766. Noah J. Hutchings's membership agreement with the Shaker community at South Union, Kentucky, 18 February 1867; poems written by Hutchings; unsigned poem, "To Nancy Clark," about a Shaker sister; typescript of 20 May 1866 letter to Hutchings from Noah Anderson Hutchings; letter from Harold E. Hutchings, 21 November 1982, related to Noah J. Hutchings, his grandfather.
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Correspondence, speeches, and writings of Shaker scholar and English professor, Mary Julia Neal, a native of Auburn, Kentucky. Neal served as director of the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University from 1964 to 1972. Includes photos and correspondence with twentieth century eastern Shakers.
Chambliss Collection (Mss 152), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chambliss Collection (Mss 152), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 152. Collection includes memoirs of Issachar Bates; Shaker letters; correspondence of Emma B. Chambliss; prescriptions and remedies; newspaper clippings; and miscellaneous items.
Kerr Memorial Methodist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kerr Memorial Methodist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and selected full scan documents (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 133. Historical materials about Kerr Memorial Methodist Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky, including list of donors for original building (1891); printed histories; correspondence and commemorative programs from church anniversary celebrations; account book of the church's Young Adult Fellowship (1947-48); and deeds.
Superior Instants: Religious Concerns In The Poetry Of Emily Dickinson, Elisabeth Buckner
Superior Instants: Religious Concerns In The Poetry Of Emily Dickinson, Elisabeth Buckner
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
When I decided to write a thesis on Emily Dickinson's poetry, my intention was to show that she did, indeed, implement a concrete philosophy into her poetry. However, after several months of research, I realized that this poet's philosophy was ongoing and sometimes inconsistent. Emily Dickinson never discovered the answers to all of her religious and spiritual questions although she devoted her entire life to that pursuit. What Dickinson did discover was that orthodox religion had no place in her heart or mind and she must make her own choices where God was concerned. Immortality was an intense fascination to …