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Paschal, (Mrs.) C. R. (Sc 2640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Paschal, (Mrs.) C. R. (Sc 2640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2640. Typescript copy of paper titled “Dr. John Milton Harney,” by Mrs. C. R. Paschal, written for a class at Western Kentucky State Teachers’ College. The paper gives details about Harney’s poetry, and includes a few excerpts.
Crabb, Alfred Leland, 1884-1979 (Sc 762), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crabb, Alfred Leland, 1884-1979 (Sc 762), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 762. Letter, 20 May 1958, written by Alfred Leland Crabb, Nashville, Tennessee, to Eugenia Gerard Paxton, Bowling Green, Kentucky, responding to Mrs. Paxton’s laudatory letter commenting on his book, Peace in Bowling Green. Also poems composed by Crabb for Christmas greetings.
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.
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.
Halleck, Annie Jeanette (Ainslie), 1839-1915 (Sc 719), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Halleck, Annie Jeanette (Ainslie), 1839-1915 (Sc 719), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 719. Letter written to Bessie Oates, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Annie (Ainslie) Halleck, Louisville, Kentucky, replying to an inquiry for information for a research paper about her grandfather, Hew Ainslie.
Allison, Young Ewing, 1853-1932 (Sc 723), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Allison, Young Ewing, 1853-1932 (Sc 723), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 723. Two letters written by Young Ewing Allison, journalist and author, Louisville, Kentucky, to Edward A. Jonas, editor, Louisville, thanking Jonas for his kind remarks.
Brooks, Attie Frances (Riggs), 1871-1946 (Sc 2577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brooks, Attie Frances (Riggs), 1871-1946 (Sc 2577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2577. Typescript copies of a few letters from Attie Riggs Brooks, Utica, Kentucky, to Gayle R. Carver, Greenville, Kentucky, enclosing typescript copies of several poems and articles as well as a short biography.
Fox, John William, Jr., 1862-1919 (Sc 2600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fox, John William, Jr., 1862-1919 (Sc 2600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2600. Bound volume of letters chiefly from John W. Fox, Jr., New York City, to Micajah Fible, Louisville, Kentucky. Fox writes of topics including his career in journalism and mutual friends.
Averitt, Lewis H., 1812-1872 (Sc 710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Averitt, Lewis H., 1812-1872 (Sc 710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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.
Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 484. An autographed letter to Mr. Blodgett stating that he never saves his manuscripts, 6 March 1917, and a poem entitled “Silence,” 1 November.
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 463. Photocopy of letter written by Robert Penn Warren, from France, to Addie Hochstrasser, Bowling Green, Kentucky, fulfilling her request for an inscription of his to place in a copy of his biography of Theodore Dreiser.
Allen, James Lane, 1848-1925 (Sc 442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Allen, James Lane, 1848-1925 (Sc 442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files) below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 442. Letters from James Lane Allen, Atlantic City, New Jersey, summer 1906, and New York City, 30 September 1906, to cousin Helen inquiring as to the illness of her father, his uncle John, and expressing sorrow at his death.
Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 550), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 550), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 550. Letter, 19 March 1949, to Marjorie Clagett, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from poet David Morton, Deerfield, Massachusetts, concerning his visit to Western Kentucky State College, Bowling Green. Also, a printed copy of one of his poems as requested. Morton was originally from Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky.
Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914 (Sc 531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914 (Sc 531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 531. Letter from poet Madison Julius Cawein, Louisville, Kentucky, to Fred H. Day, Boston, Massachusetts, a publisher, relative to several of Cawein’s books of poetry and to a book by novelist and poet Alice Brown.
Banks, Nancy (Huston), 1850-1934 (Sc 516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Banks, Nancy (Huston), 1850-1934 (Sc 516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 516. Letter, 8 June 1902, from Nancy Banks, Morganfield, Kentucky, to Mr. Parker, inquiring as to whether he had received a copy of her book "Oldfield" which she sent him because of his assistance to her in the writing of it.
Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 459. Letter from Cale Young Rice, Louisville, Kentucky, to Stuart McKenzie, of Florida, in which Rice discusses some of his own writings. Also printed book reviews (3).
Warren, Robert Penn Oral History Collection, 1977-1982 (Mss 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren, Robert Penn Oral History Collection, 1977-1982 (Mss 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 383. Transcripts, notes, and cassette tapes for interviews conducted by Dr. Wilford Fridy with individuals who knew or knew about John Wesley Venable, Jr., the person on whom Robert Penn Warren based the character Bolton Lovehart in his novella "Circus in the Attic." Interviews mention other people and places that Warren knew in Todd County, Kentucky. Also includes tapes of Robert Penn Warren giving a speech, reading some of his work, and an interview with Warren.
Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 261. Handwritten, pencil manuscript of “The Reformation of Sam Amos” by Lida Calvert Obenchain (Eliza Calvert Hall). This was one of nine stores published by Little Brown & Co. in The Land of Long Ago, 1909.
Ladies Literary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ladies Literary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 393. Minutes, correspondence, programs, historical sketches, and miscellaneous material of the Ladies Literary Club of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Baker, J. M. (Mrs.) (Sc 363), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baker, J. M. (Mrs.) (Sc 363), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 363. Biographical sketch of Cale Young Rice, writer originally from Webster County, Kentucky, written by Mrs. Baker for the Gen Samuel Hopkins Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Included are photographs of historical marker and Rice’s birthplace.
Vance, Marion, 1922-1979 (Sc 361), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vance, Marion, 1922-1979 (Sc 361), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 361. A short story titled “Little Noah” written by Marion Vance, a lawyer of Glasgow, Kentucky.
Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Sc 251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Sc 251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 251. Correspondence of Mrs. Sachs, writer, and native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly with Mary T. Moore, librarian, Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, related to a book on the history of Kentucky that Sachs was researching.
Evans, Mollie F. (Sc 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Evans, Mollie F. (Sc 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 244. Letters written by Evan, 5 January 1870 and 17 May 1870, from Russellville and Adairville, Logan County, Kentucky, to Mr. J. P. Morton, Louisville, related to the possible publication of her manuscript.
Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscritps Small Collection 342. Letters (25) written by Mrs. Giles, an author of Knifley, Adair County, Kentucky, to her friends, Joe Covington and Mitchell Leichhardt, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating much about her writings.
Gilbert, Mary C. (Sc 339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gilbert, Mary C. (Sc 339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 339. Letter written by Mary Gilbert, Binghamton, New York, to fellow poet, Lima Canon, Bowling Green, Kentucky, complimenting her writings and informing her of a new poetry group organization.