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Varlie, Margaret (Roemer), 1896-1976 (Sc 148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Varlie, Margaret (Roemer), 1896-1976 (Sc 148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 148. Christmas letter written by Margaret Roemer Varlie, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which she briefly recounts trips she took to New England and to the Orient during 1963.
Barren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2419. Miscellaneous Barren County, Kentucky legal and court records, including administration bonds and renunciations, estate accounts, deeds of sale and mortgage, marriage contract, power of attorney, and bastardy suit.
Pillar, Samantha R. (Sc 2426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pillar, Samantha R. (Sc 2426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2426. "'It Wasn't Elaborate, But It Was Modern': The Cardinal Motel," paper written by Samantha R. Pillar for a history of architecture class at Western Kentucky University.
Composers - Kentucky (Sc 109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Composers - Kentucky (Sc 109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 109. Letters and forms received by Clara Elledge, member of the Music Department, Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in response to her inquiries concerning Kentucky composers and their works and includes listing of both.
Sublett Family (Sc 146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sublett Family (Sc 146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 146. Bill of Charles Sublett for tanning calf skin, 1808; tax receipt (fragment) to Charles Sublett, Warren County, Kentucky, 1817; promissory note signed by William Sublett, 1826; three notes on religious doctrine; scrapbook of articles and poems about Kentucky and Kentuckians compiled by Paul H. Murphy, 1932.
Deupree Family Letters, 1865 (Sc 189), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Deupree Family Letters, 1865 (Sc 189), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 189. Letter, 30 May 1865, to James R. Deupree, Woodburn, Warren County, Kentucky from his sister-in-law, Sarah H. E. Deupree, Richmond, Virginia, and letter, 2 June 1865, to James R. Deupree from William L. Salmon, Henrico County, Virginia. They both relate to the death of James’s brother, Stephen, who was killed in an explosion while serving in the Confederate army. They also write of the effects of the war on everyday life in the Richmond area.
Allen Family Collection (Sc 108), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Allen Family Collection (Sc 108), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 108. Letters to Mrs. A. C. & Mollie Allen, Simpson County, Kentucky, 1868-1893 (3), unpublished poetry written by various authors, 1893 (14), and printed songs, n.d. (5).
Mcclanahan Family Papers (Sc 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcclanahan Family Papers (Sc 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 194. Photocopies of legal papers such as deeds, surveys, land grants, slavery bills of sale, and other miscellaneous documents related to the McClanahan family of Simpson County, Kentucky.
Morgan, Joseph Underwood, 1835-1892 (Sc 145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morgan, Joseph Underwood, 1835-1892 (Sc 145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 145. Correspondence of Joseph Underwood Morgan, Logan County, Kentucky. He writes to Maria D. Noel (whom he would marry in 1866) of their families, mutual friends, and his social activities. While serving in the Confederate Army, he writes of military life, including the derailment of his troop train, and of the restrictions placed on him while aprisoner at Rock Island, Illinois. A final letter discusses their intentions to marry.
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 (Sc 2425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 (Sc 2425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2425. Letter written on behalf of Edward Everett, U. S. ambassador to Great Britain, to Stultz and Company, a firm of London tailors. The letter complains about the length of pantaloons made for Everett and his son and suggests arrangements for alterations before they depart for Liverpool.
Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Mss 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Mss 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 356. Correspondence, photographs, sketches and drawings, writings, journals and clippings of or relating to Ivan Wilson, an artist and faculty member in the Art Department at Western Kentucky University from 1920 to 1958. Includes some materials related to other artists.
Moltenberry, Nola Maude (Pearson), 1890-1969 - Collector (Sc 144), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moltenberry, Nola Maude (Pearson), 1890-1969 - Collector (Sc 144), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 144. Copy of 1789 appointment of Joseph Nourse as Register of U.S. Treasury, 1822; letter of K. A. Martin, Warren County, Mississippi, to his parents in Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1825; and petition and bond relating to appointment of a committee for a mentally ill woman of Warren County, Kentucky, 1837.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911 (Sc 2423), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911 (Sc 2423), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2423. Letters of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps to Richard Watson Gilder, editor of The Century Magazine. Two letters relate to her submission of the manuscript for the story “Jack” and explain her eagerness to read and correct the proof. She also writes of her home in East Gloucester, Massachusetts and of the challenge of composing short stories. A third letter from Newton Center, Massachusetts discusses her submission of chapters of her memoir, offers to make changes, and advises of her availability by telephone.
Jones & Stevens - Account Book (Sc 248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones & Stevens - Account Book (Sc 248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 248. Account book for the Jones & Stevens general store located in Greencastle, Warren County, Kentucky. Index of accounts is located in the front of the volume, followed by the full accounts of the store’s customers. A label affixed to the ledger’s cover indicates that the volume was originally intended for recording information about Warren County court cases, but this was never done. The label is signed by James D. Hines.
Horne, Richard Henry, 1803-1884 (Sc 2424), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Horne, Richard Henry, 1803-1884 (Sc 2424), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2424. Letter from Richard Henry Horne, English poet and dramatist, to poet, novelist and playwright Algernon Charles Swinburne. Home discusses Swinburne's reaction to his work "King Nihil's Round-Table" and offers to let Swinburn quote from his comic verses written fifty years earlier, as part of Swinburne's work on Elizabethan drama.
Cotter, Joseph Seamon, 1861-1949 (Sc 378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cotter, Joseph Seamon, 1861-1949 (Sc 378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 378. Letter, 27 August 1934, from Joseph S. Cotter, Louisville, Kentucky, to James Tandy Ellis, a fellow poet, which relates an incident of Cotter’s early life.
Moates, Lassie (Taylor), 1892-1981 (Sc 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moates, Lassie (Taylor), 1892-1981 (Sc 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Mansucripts Small Collection 143. Sheet music, lyrics and poems written by Lassie (Taylor) Moates, Richardsville, Kentucky. Includes typescripted newspaper clippings about Moates's compositions.
Sharp, Solomon Pollux, 1787-1825 (Sc 190), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sharp, Solomon Pollux, 1787-1825 (Sc 190), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 190. Notice, 30 January 1821, sent by Sharp to John M. Roberson [sic], paymaster of the 25th Regiment of the Kentucky Militia, directing him to settle his accounts with the commanding officers of the regiment at Vance’s Tavern in Bowling Green.
Drake Family Papers, 1804-1861 (Sc 192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Drake Family Papers, 1804-1861 (Sc 192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 192. Chiefly letters to Albrittain Drake and his wife, Ruth (Collins) Drake, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Most of the letters are from Drake and Collins family members, primarily their sons, James Perry, a land agent in Indiana, and Benjamin Michael, a Methodist minister in Mississippi. Also includes biographical and genealogical information related to the two families.
Rose, John W. (Sc 191), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rose, John W. (Sc 191), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 191. Letter, 6 February 1862, of Confederate soldier John W. Rose, encamped near Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his mother and his cousin?, W. B. Mooningham, near Dixon Springs, Smith County, Tennessee. He relates information about food, food prices, and the fall of Fort Henry. Includes a printed poem, "To the Soldiers and Freemen of the South."
Rowan, John, 1773-1843 (Sc 193), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rowan, John, 1773-1843 (Sc 193), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collecction 193. Two letters related to the Rowan-Chambers duel fought in Bardstown, Kentucky, 3 February 1801. Letter from Dan Barry, Bardstown, 6 February 1801, indicates that Rowan's friends have scheduled a meeting to show their support of him. Letter from John Rowan, 19 April 1801, to William Lytle, his brother-in-law, provides his detailed version of the events surrounding his duel with Chambers.
Goodman, George H., 1876-1961 (Sc 2422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Goodman, George H., 1876-1961 (Sc 2422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2422. Letter from George H. Goodman, State Administrator, Works Progress Administration, to Mary K. Vogel, Bowling Green, Kentucky, inquiring about her willingness to swear out a warrant in connection with her knowledge of a WPA employee's performing private work while on the organization's payroll.
Land - Transactions (Sales, Purchases, Transfers, Etc.), 1861-1890 (Sc 104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Land - Transactions (Sales, Purchases, Transfers, Etc.), 1861-1890 (Sc 104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 104. Deeds and papers for land in the Kentucky counties of Butler, 1877 (1 item), Warren, 1861-1886 (4), and Edmonson, 1890 (1). William P. Beard and the Porter family are involved in many of these transactions.
Logan County, Kentucky - Tax Receipts (Sc 142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Logan County, Kentucky - Tax Receipts (Sc 142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 142. Tax receipts, 1825-1834, issued to John P. Mize and William Mize, Logan County, Kentucky.
Pearson, Catherine Diaden, 1859-1947 (Sc 141), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pearson, Catherine Diaden, 1859-1947 (Sc 141), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 141. Pages from a copybook belonging to Catherine Diaden Pearson. Includes penmanship exercises and a poem about a casualty of the Battle of Shiloh.
Cavanah, David (Lg 426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cavanah, David (Lg 426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 426. Original land grant, 31 December 1816, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to David Cavanah 100 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
Howel, Henry (Lg 428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Howel, Henry (Lg 428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 428. Original land grant, 7 June 1824, by which John Adair, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Henry Howel 20 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky. Identified as "Kentucky Land-Office Warrant no. 5127."
Law, Robert Cornwell, B. 1937 (Sc 2421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Law, Robert Cornwell, B. 1937 (Sc 2421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2421. Correspondence and miscellaneous ephemera related to magicians, magic shows, and magic tricks or illusions of Robert Law, Franklin, Kentucky. Includes membership information from the Society of American Magicians, manuscript formats of shows presented by Law, and a brief diary about his performances.
Wyatt, George, Jr. (Lg 427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wyatt, George, Jr. (Lg 427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 427. Original land grant, 21 February 1840, by which Charles A. Wickliffe, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to George Wyatt, Jr. 50 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
Lindley, Sarah (Lg 429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lindley, Sarah (Lg 429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 429. Original land grant, 30 May 1849, by which John J. Crittenden, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Sarah Lindley 300 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.