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Murrey, Loretta (Martin) (Mss 429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Murrey, Loretta (Martin) (Mss 429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 429. Interviews conducted by Loretta (Martin) Murrey, professor of English at Western Kentucky University, with poet Joy Bale Boone. Includes transcriptions, summaries, and cassette tapes (32). The interviews emphasize biographical information and descriptions of Boone's influence as a poet and literary activist.
Mccoy, Thomas N. (Sc 2635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mccoy, Thomas N. (Sc 2635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2635. Bound typescript of paper by Thomas N. McCoy, Catlettsburg, Kentucky entitled “Sadie F. Price, 1849-1903,” Kentucky Botanist,” including typescripts of correspondence with Price about botany, and a collection of new clippings concerning Price.
Salyers, Mary Alice, 1910-1998 - Letters To (Mss 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Salyers, Mary Alice, 1910-1998 - Letters To (Mss 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 430. Courtship letters sent to Mary Alice Salyers, Somerset, Kentucky from various suitors, chiefly Charles Duke Payne, a Christian minister and her future husband, Richard Allen Hays.
Hannum Family (Sc 746), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hannum Family (Sc 746), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 746. Ciphering book containing problems using the British pound system, which also contains accounts of John Hannum, Jr., and Richard Hannum, and writings of Penelope Hannum, Logan County, Kentucky. Also clippings, chiefly from newspapers of Russellville, Kentucky, 1820-1860.
Rowan Family Letters (Sc 745), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rowan Family Letters (Sc 745), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 745. Letters of the Rowan family, Bardstown, Kentucky, which include letter co-signed by John Rowan, concerning a Naval Academy appointment, 1828; letter to Rebecca Rowan about her son William passing his bar exam, 1859; letter to Rebecca from son John, 1862; letter from S. R. Rowan to brother John, 1861. Includes a Rowan family genealogical chart.
Sumpter, William Cullin, 1862-1958 (Sc 748), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sumpter, William Cullin, 1862-1958 (Sc 748), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 748. Membership book of Aeolian Lodge Number 51 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Bowling Green, Kentucky, retained by William Cullin Sumpter. Information includes name, residence, occupation, and age of each applicant.
Bate, Richard Alexander, 1871-1956 (Sc 2625), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bate, Richard Alexander, 1871-1956 (Sc 2625), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2625. Narrative poem by Richard Alexander Bate, Louisville, Kentucky, written to honor the life and career of Revolutionary War sailor Commodore Richard Taylor.
Mccormack, Arthur Thomas, 1872-1943 (Sc 749), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mccormack, Arthur Thomas, 1872-1943 (Sc 749), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 749. Correspondence between sculptor Charles Henry Niehaus and Dr. Arthur Thomas McCormack, Louisville, Kentucky, regarding statues of Henry Clay and Ephraim McDowell completed by Niehaus and placed in Statuary Hall, Washington, D.C. The letters also discuss a memorial to Jane Crawford, McDowell's famous patient.
Orr, Jennie Miller (Sc 2624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Orr, Jennie Miller (Sc 2624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2624. Paper by Jennie Miller Orr titled "Captain Ed Porter Thompson." Also include a 1987 letter from Frances J. Fletcher, Orr's niece, explaining the paper.
Brown-Hodges Papers (Sc 754), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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).
Procter, Benjamin Franklin, 1849-1944 (Sc 2623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Procter, Benjamin Franklin, 1849-1944 (Sc 2623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2623. Paper by Benjamin Franklin Procter titled, “Dr. Leslie Waggener,” a biography of an English Professor at Bethel College in Russellville, Kentucky. Also includes a three-page farewell address delivered by Waggener in 1883.
Blewett, Benjamin Turner, 1820-1911 (Sc 747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Blewett, Benjamin Turner, 1820-1911 (Sc 747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 747. Letter, 18 April 1857, from Benjamin Turner Blewett, president of Bethel College, Russellville, Kentucky, to mathematics professor D. W. Hoyt, Brighton, Massachusetts, recruiting him for that position and describing the school and the town. Includes an illustrated school brochure.
Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 515. Letter, 17 January 1926, from Cale Young Rice, Louisville, Kentucky, to Mrs. Grayot? giving permission to reprint some of his poetry in the magazine "The Club Woman." Also includes some of his comments concerning poetry.
Barrow, David, 1753-1819 (Sc 517), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barrow, David, 1753-1819 (Sc 517), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text of diary (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 517. Photocopy of a typescript diary kept by David Barrow, a pioneer Baptist minister, during his trip to Kentucky and the Northwest Territory of Ohio. He visited family members, often preached at religious gatherings, and observed peace negotiations between the United States and various Indian tribes at Fort Greenville. Beginning in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, he traveled through Pennsylvania, Kentucky, the Northwest Territory, Eastern Tennessee, and North Carolina, before returning to his home in Virginia.
Carter, Nell Bohannon, 1898-1995 (Sc 2585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carter, Nell Bohannon, 1898-1995 (Sc 2585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2585. Teacher’s register and gradebook of Nell Bohannon Carter, believed to be from a Smiths Grove, Kentucky or Barren County, Kentucky school. Includes absence note from the mother of a student.
Tynes, Lillian Iona, 1925-2010 (Mss 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tynes, Lillian Iona, 1925-2010 (Mss 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 431. Sundry items from Lillian Iona Tynes’s childhood and adolescence in Russellville, Kentucky, including greeting and holiday cards, correspondence, diaries, report cards, programs from school functions, news clippings, church programs, and more.
Clark, Otis Vernon, Jr., 1926-2006 (Mss 428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clark, Otis Vernon, Jr., 1926-2006 (Mss 428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 428. Chiefly letters from Otis Vernon Clark, Jr., while studying in Lexington, Virginia, to his parents Otis and Susie, Bowling Green, Kentucky, detailing university social life. Also included in the collection are miscellaneous photos, postcards, and biographical information.
Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 - Relating To (Mss 423), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 - Relating To (Mss 423), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 423. Family letters, notes and typescripted scrapbook items (primarily contemporary newspaper articles) relating to the family and career of Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan.
Burns Family - Bible Records (Sc 2615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burns Family - Bible Records (Sc 2615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2615. Genealogical pages removed from the Bible of the Burns family of Kentucky.
Owens, Philip, 1925-1944 (Sc 2614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Owens, Philip, 1925-1944 (Sc 2614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2614. Two letters from Philip Owens, of Russell Springs, Kentucky, to his sisters, written during Owens’ Army service in World War II. He comments on a rigorous march, warns about mail censorship, and asks them to keep his mother from worrying. Includes typescripts of the letters and of local newspaper articles published after Owens was killed in action in Germany.
Gardner, Tandy Thomas, 1865-1963 (Sc 511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gardner, Tandy Thomas, 1865-1963 (Sc 511), 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 511. Autograph album covering the period that Gardner was a student at Southern Normal School and Business College, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also, copy of 1962 newspaper interview with the 97 year old Gardner.
Decantillon, Mary E. (Sc 514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Decantillon, Mary E. (Sc 514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 514. Autograph album of Mary E. DeCantillon of Louisville, Kentucky, which contains essays as well as autographs.
Perry, Emily Bailey, 1844-1923 (Sc 513), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Perry, Emily Bailey, 1844-1923 (Sc 513), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 513. Album containing autographs of Civil War Confederate soldiers. It was found on a Southern battlefield and was presented to Emily Perry of Hopkinsville, Kentucky by a friend in 1866. Includes autographs of Kentucky soldiers, some having served with John Hunt Morgan.
Wade, Frances Ann, 1927-2008 (Sc 2599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wade, Frances Ann, 1927-2008 (Sc 2599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2599. World War II letters to Hopkinsville, Kentucky, teenager Frances Ann Wade from James T. Smith and David W. Kerr. Smith, a Kentuckian serving in the Navy, writes about his training in Vermont and his service in the Pacific. Kerr, a soldier from Ohio, writes from nearby Camp Campbell, Kentucky, and from France after his deployment. The letters describe their daily activities and reveal their plans for the future.
Mammoth Cave Hotel - Registers (Mss 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mammoth Cave Hotel - Registers (Mss 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and images (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 66. Original, bound folio hotel registers and bound typescript copies of the same for the Mammoth Cave Hotel, located near the famed subterranean tourist attraction in Edmonson County, Kentucky. Entries include the name and hometown of the visitor as well as the date. One wag signed in as Abraham Lincoln on 30 May 1863.
Eads, Harvey Lauderdale, 1807-1892 (Sc 741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Eads, Harvey Lauderdale, 1807-1892 (Sc 741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 741. Holograph inscription by Harvey Lauderdale Eads to Thomas C. Calvert, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in a copy of Condition of Society; and Its Only Hope, In Obeying the Everlasting Gospel, as Now Developing Among Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (Union Village, Ohio, 1847).
Lawson, H. M. (Sc 728), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lawson, H. M. (Sc 728), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 728. Medical report written by H. M. Lawson, surgeon, on the back pages of Regulations for the Medical Department of the Confederate States Army (Richmond, 1861). He describes the camp conditions and health problems of the 51st Regiment, Georgia Volunteers at Pocotaligo, South Carolina.
Peers, Benjamin Orr, 1800-1842 (Sc 2618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Peers, Benjamin Orr, 1800-1842 (Sc 2618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2618. Typescript copy of letter, 20 December 1833, from Transylvania University president Benjamin O. Peers, Lexington, Kentucky, to the Board of Trustees regarding additional appointments to the University.
Smith, T. E. (Sc 2622), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, T. E. (Sc 2622), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2622. Paper written by T. E. Smith titled, "Benjamin O. Peers: Pioneer in Public Education" for a class at Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee.
Sanders, Lorenzo Jackson, 1838-1925 (Sc 2621), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sanders, Lorenzo Jackson, 1838-1925 (Sc 2621), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2621. Civil War diary kept by L. J. Sanders of the 30th Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers, Confederate States of America. Diary includes details about the war, casualties, and the weather. Of particular interest are comments about the Battle of Vicksburg.