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Roberts, Edwin T., 1920-1998 (Sc 1230), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1230. Letters, removed from genealogy notebooks prepared by Edwin T. Roberts, written by Thomas W. Jenkins of Bowling Green, Kentucky to his daughter, Ethel Mae Roberts, discussing his family and life in a Bowling Green boarding house.

Clark, Tim (Sc 1208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1208. Desert Storm letters from Tim Clark to his cousin, Rebecca Louise Spencer, Bowling Green, Kentucky, which tell of his military experiences.

Paul, Linda (Smith) (Sc 1211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collecction 1211. “The Life of Jessie Smith,” written by Jessie Marie (Trowbridge) Smith and compiled by Jessie’s granddaughter Linda (Smith) Paul, detailing Jessie’s life including information about traveling round trip in a covered wagon from Missouri to Oklahoma, frontier life, and life in Trask, Missouri.

Manar, Edna Earl (Moore), 1887-1972 (Sc 1189), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1189. Biographical sketch of Fred McCormick Manar written by his wife Edna Moore Manar, and an autobiographical sketch of Mrs. Manar. Both were natives of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Mr. Manar worked for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad and Mrs. Manar was a homemaker.

Olson, Celia (Ross), 1854-1937 (Sc 1168), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1168.

Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Mss 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 159. Family correspondence, greeting cards, handicrafts, and newspaper clippings of Mary Kimbrough, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also items from various family members.

Coombs Family Collection (Mss 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 349. Correspondence, photographs, business records and miscellaneous papers of the Coombs, Robertson and related families of Warren and Simpson counties in Kentucky and of Alabama, Texas and Tennessee. Includes correspondence, personal papers and research of Elizabeth Robertson Coombs, librarian at the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University. Several documents from this collection have been scanned are available for viewing by clicking on the "Additional Files" below.

Carter, Chillon Conway, 1830-1891 (Mss 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts of selected material for Manuscripts Collection 112. Correspondence, chiefly written by Monroe County, Kentucky native Chillon Conway Carter, to his wife, Lucinda E. and his two daughters Nancy G. and Louisa A., during the Civil War. Also includes letters written to Carter by his brother, John B. Carter, who lived in White County, Illinois.

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Social Life And Customs, 1904 (Sc 928), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 928. Letter, 20 January 1904, written from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Katie Love, Gallatin, Tennessee, chiefly relating family news. The writer also mentions a visit to the local Morehead House Hotel and comments on two local churches.

Ahart, Frances (Shaw), 1850-1894 (Sc 946), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 946. Letter, 30 September 1877, written by Frances (Shaw) Ahart, Hico, Calloway County, Kentucky, to "Brother & Sister" in LaGuardo, Wilson County, Tennessee relating family news. She signs as F.A. Shaw.

Westray, Wilbur Morgan, Sr., 1921-2000 (Sc 965), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 965. Paper (22 p.) titled “My Early Life [,] 1921-1939” written by Wilbur Morgan Westray, Sr. Westray recounts life as he experienced it growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. Also includes associated genealogical data.

Page, Evelyn Ellis (Pulliam), 1845-1928 (Sc 982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 982. Affectionate letters from her sons to Evelyn Page of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1905, 1913; letter regarding son Foster Page’s religious conversion; letter discussing rural life; and invitation to an egg fair, 1895.

Garrison, Lucien, 1874-1957 (Sc 998), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 998. Based on stories of Lucien Garrison’s father, Calvin A. Garrison (1800-1895) and his uncle Samuel Crosthwait (1823?-1912), Garrison’s manuscript emphasizes the location of Bowling Green residences, schools and businesses.

Underwood, Warner Lewis, 1808-1872 (Sc 2678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2678. Letters of Warner Lewis Underwood of Bowling Green, Kentucky, written to his family from Texas, Washington, D. C., Scotland, and Frankfort, Kentucky. He writes to his wife of business and household matters,and of political affairs during his service in the Kentucky Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. A letter to his son-in-law from Scotland, where Underwood was serving as consul, praises his Civil War service. Correspondence with his son discusses the younger Underwood’s law studies in Albany, New York.

Kimbrough, William Joseph, Jr., 1930-2007 (Sc 868), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 868. Letters written by William Joseph Kimbrough to Sarah Gilbert Garris, Library Science instructor at Western Kentucky State College, 1953-1954, during his military service in
California and Japan. Includes a vivid description of a visit in a middle class Japanese family’s home and additional details about his experiences written in 1992.

Burgess, Sarah Edward, 1876-1924 - Letters To (Sc 2667), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2667. Letters to Sarah “Sally” Burgess, addressed to her in Davis (Scott County), Kentucky, Georgetown, Kentucky, and Newton, Illinois. Young men extend invitations, a niece writes of her social activities, and her sister Ella invites her to a “cantata” in Georgetownand describes her clothing needs. Another friend writes of social activities, including attendance at “negro minstrel”

shows, for which she was “ashamed.”

Thomas, William Guy, 1889-1987 (Sc 838), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 838. Typescript copy of "Biographical Sketch of W. G. Thomas," written by William Guy Thomas about his life growing up in Warren County, Kentucky.

Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 833. Chiefly correspondence between Louise Twyman Suydam, Fort Pierce, Florida, and WKU Kentucky Building faculty concerning Suydam’s memories of Bowling Green during the 1920s, and biographical information about the Wright family. Includes a typescript copy of Suydam’s reminiscence, "The Best of Times?”

Botts, William H., 1824-1891 (Sc 801), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 801. Letters, 1889, to William H. Botts of Glasgow, Kentucky, from Preston Hopkins Leslie, former Kentucky governor and former territorial governor of Montana, chiefly describing Leslie’s finances, and from the cashier of Deposit Bank of Monroe County regarding Trigg family debt. Also includes a 1920 letter of the Jackson family.

Thomas, Alice F., 1843-1911 - Letters To (Sc 795), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 795. Letters, 1889 (?) (2), written by sisters Lettie and Maggie, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to their sister, Mrs. Alice F. Thomas, Russellville, Kentucky, in which they chiefly relate family news. Also includes family data, 1986.