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Magee, J. Harry (Sc 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Magee, J. Harry (Sc 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 66. Letter, 23 December 1868, written by J. Harry Magee, Washington, D.C., to Dr. Albert Covington, Bowling Green, Kentucky, regarding the record of the U. S. Senate impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson.
Galloway, John Marshall, 1844-1937 (Sc 519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Galloway, John Marshall, 1844-1937 (Sc 519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 519. Business papers of John M. Galloway, lawyer and judge of Bowling Green, Kentucky, which include petition for election to enable county to purchase railroad stock, 1889; 1890 stock certificates and a 1901 deposition related to Warren Deposit Bank; Peter Perkins’ will, 1891; judgeship certificate, 1903; newspaper clippings and photos kept by Mrs. Galloway, 1873-1930.
Moss, John Mckenzie, 1868-1929 (Sc 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moss, John Mckenzie, 1868-1929 (Sc 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 518. Papers of John McKenzie Moss, lawyer, judge, and politician of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Notice of his contest of election, 3rd Congressional District, 1900; letters to Moss pertaining chiefly to politics, 1902-1903; letter of Moss to lawyer, 1902.
Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 720), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 720), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 720. Letter written by Thomas Elliott Bramlette, Louisville, Kentucky, to President Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C., concerning recommendation that Bramlette had made for a state political appointment which he wants disregarded as he has learned that the man recommended “is a radical of the negro suffrage and impeachment school.”
Vincent, Beverly Mills, 1890-1980 (Sc 717), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vincent, Beverly Mills, 1890-1980 (Sc 717), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 717. Letter written to Margaret Calvert, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Beverly Mills Vincent, Washington, D.C. Vincent, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, thanks her for her letter in which she expressed her choice for the postmaster appointment to be filled in Bowling Green.
Barry, William Taylor, 1784-1835 (Sc 2584), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barry, William Taylor, 1784-1835 (Sc 2584), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2584. Typescript copies of correspondence of William Taylor Barry, Lexington, Kentucky, with colleagues, family, and political leaders. Includes a photocopied article with excerpts from Barry’s correspondence.
Averitt, Lewis H., 1812-1872 (Sc 710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Averitt, Lewis H., 1812-1872 (Sc 710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 710. Manuscript book of 30 poems written by Dr. Lewis H. Averitt physician of Caledonia, Trigg County, Kentucky, between 1840-1872. Several of the poems are about the Whig Party in Kentucky, 1842-1843.
Crittenden, John Jordan, 1787-1863 (Sc 708), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crittenden, John Jordan, 1787-1863 (Sc 708), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 708. Letter written by John Jordan Crittenden, United States Senator from Kentucky, Frankfort, Kentucky, to Ohio Congressman, J. W. Allen, concerning the recent defeat of Henry Clay and the Whig Party.
Cassell, J. Frank, 1872-1925 (Sc 2559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cassell, J. Frank, 1872-1925 (Sc 2559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2559. Letter, 20 June 1921, from Frank Cassell, Chairman, Louisville, Kentucky Legislative District, to Pearl Smith (Mrs. Stuart A.), Louisville, informing her of her selection as a delegate to the Democratic nominating convention to be held on 22 June 1921.
Griffith, Josh T., 1861-1939 (Sc 2557), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Griffith, Josh T., 1861-1939 (Sc 2557), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2557. Form letter, 24 March 1903, from Josh T. Griffith, Clerk of the Daviess County (Kentucky) Court, setting out his credentials and seeking support for the Democratic nomination for State Treasurer.
Mccreary, James Bennett, 1838-1918 (Sc 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mccreary, James Bennett, 1838-1918 (Sc 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 445. Appointment of Henry Thomas Hagerman of Eddyville, Kentucky as a delegate to the Southern Sociological Congress, Nashville, Tennessee. Signed by Governor James Bennett McCreary.
Stevenson, John White, 1812-1886 (Sc 433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stevenson, John White, 1812-1886 (Sc 433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 433. Letter from John White Stevenson, Covington, Kentucky, to L.Q. Washington, Washington, D.C., regarding Washington’s candidacy for undesignated office, Kentucky’s Congressional races, and the upcoming national election.
Mallory, Robert, 1815-1885 (Sc 641), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mallory, Robert, 1815-1885 (Sc 641), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 641. Letter to President Abraham Lincoln from Robert Mallory, Oldham County, Kentucky and U.S. Representative from Kentucky, relating to the appointment of Dr. L. L. Mathers for the position of regimental surgeon. He is recommended by the entire Kentucky Union delegation in Congress. Mallory congratulates Lincoln on the news from the Kentucky elections.
Lowther, Charles Ernest, B. 1951 (Sc 649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lowther, Charles Ernest, B. 1951 (Sc 649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 649. Photocopies of letters written to Charles Ernest Lowther, of Nortonville, Kentucky, and a history student at Western Kentucky University, from various members of the U.S. Congress in reply to Lowther’s letter regarding the Nixon-Cox incident.
Eisenhower, Mamie Geneva (Doud), 1896-1979 (Sc 579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Eisenhower, Mamie Geneva (Doud), 1896-1979 (Sc 579), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 579. Letter written to Nellie Virginia Heasley, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Mamie Geneva (Doud) Eisenhower, expressing thanks for Mrs. Heasley’s message of good wishes following Dwight D. Eisenhower’s election as President.
Washington, George, 1732-1799 (Sc 535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Washington, George, 1732-1799 (Sc 535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 535. Facsimile of George Washington’s 14 April 1789 letter to John Langdon, president pro tempore of the Senate, accepting the presidential office.Includes a discussion of the events surrounding the occasion written by Paul M. Angle.
Jonson, Jeptha Crawford, 1833-1912 (Sc 503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jonson, Jeptha Crawford, 1833-1912 (Sc 503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 503. Autograph album of Constitutional Convention of Kentucky, 1890-1891, of delegate Jeptha Crawford Jonson of McLean County.
Rodes, Robert, 1824-1913 (Sc 504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rodes, Robert, 1824-1913 (Sc 504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 504. Autograph album of Constitutional Convention of Kentucky, 1890-1891, of delegate Robert Rodes of Warren County. Also includes a typescript of the album’s contents.
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Collector (Sc 502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 - Collector (Sc 502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 502. Autographs and biographical sketches of the members of the Constitutional Revision Assembly of Kentucky, 1964-1965 solicited by Mary Julia Neal.
Crisp, John J., B. 1839? (Sc 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crisp, John J., B. 1839? (Sc 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.
Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston, 1837-1904 (Sc 2521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston, 1837-1904 (Sc 2521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2521. Letter, 17 July 1888, from William Campbell Preston Breckinridge to an unknown correspondent. He advises of his intention to seek reelection to Congress and asks friends in his district for support.
Camden, Johnson Newlon, Jr., 1855-1942 (Sc 2520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Camden, Johnson Newlon, Jr., 1855-1942 (Sc 2520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2520. Letter from Johnson N. Camden, U.S. Senator (Democrat) from Kentucky, in Washington, D.C. to Ciceroe Coleman, Lexington, Kentucky, asking for support in the upcoming election. Camden filled a vacancy caused by the death of William O. Bradley
Brown, Eugene Scott, 1846-1892 - Letters To (Sc 2519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, Eugene Scott, 1846-1892 - Letters To (Sc 2519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2519. Letters of a political nature addressed to Eugene Scott Brown, a prominent attorney and Republican from Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky. Several contain precinct election results for Allen and contiguous counties.
James, Addison Davis, 1849-1910 (Mss 400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
James, Addison Davis, 1849-1910 (Mss 400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Mansucripts Collection 400. Photocopy of a letter press book kept by Addison Davis James during the time he was U.S. Marshal for Western Kentucky. James was a physician and a prominent Republican from Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.
Underwood, Oscar Wilder, 1862-1929 (Sc 372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood, Oscar Wilder, 1862-1929 (Sc 372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) of Manuscripts Small Collection 372. Letter, 26 August 1912, of U.S. Representative Oscar W. Underwood, Washington, D.C., to John M. Bogart, New York City, declining an invitation to a dinner honoring Kentucky governor Augustus Wilson because of matters of importance requiring his return to Alabama.
Woodson, Urey, 1859-1939 (Sc 367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woodson, Urey, 1859-1939 (Sc 367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 367. Letter to Miss Elizabeth N. Duncan, Denver, Colorado, concerning the availability of tickets to the Democratic Convention. Urey Woodson was Secretary of the Democratic National Committee.
Donaldson, William M. (Sc 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Donaldson, William M. (Sc 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 346. Circular letter written by in behalf of Henry E. Youtsey who was imprisoned for his actions in the murder of Governor William Justus Goebel. Signatures on a petition were to be obtained with petition being returned to Mr. Donaldson, Newport, Kentucky.
Patterson, F. Youree, 1869-1936 (Sc 246), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Patterson, F. Youree, 1869-1936 (Sc 246), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 246. Campaign letter, 25 July 1913, written by F. Youree Patterson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning his candidacy for the Warren County Clerk’s office in the primary election on the dry ticket.
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 (Sc 239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 (Sc 239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 239. Letter written by Alben Barkley, U.S. Senator from Kentucky, to J. Marion Robertson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, expressing his gratitude for Robertson’s work in Warren County during the recent primary election.
Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 (Sc 280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 (Sc 280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 280. Photostat of a letter written at Washington, D.C. on 20 January 1861 by Jefferson Davis to President Frankin Pierce advising of his resignation from the U.S. Senate and his intention to return to Mississippi. Davis also comments on the unsettled conditions following Mississippi's secession from the Union. Original in Library of Congress.