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Meriwether Family Papers (Mss 44), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Meriwether Family Papers (Mss 44), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 44. Typed copies of personal and legal papers, 1791-1840 (43) of Charles Meriwether, a pioneer doctor of Christian County, Kentucky; family letters of Caroline Gordon Tate, author and educator, 1938-1947 (18); and family letters of newspaper columnist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (“Dorothy Dix”), 1930-1949 (13).


Richards, Alta Beatrice (Lightfoot), 1900-1989 (Mss 381), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Richards, Alta Beatrice (Lightfoot), 1900-1989 (Mss 381), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 381. Materials chiefly related to Allen County-native Alta Beatrice Richards’s interest in weaving, developed while working at Berea College. Includes correspondence with other weavers, weaving patterns, and weaving techniques. Also, information concerning noted Kentucky weaving authority Lou Tate of the Little Loomhouse, Louisville, Kentucky.


Hays Family Papers (Sc 343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Hays Family Papers (Sc 343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 343. Photocopy of letter of Mrs. William Shakespeare Hays, 1928; pages from book of poetry of W. S. Hays with holographic notes by Mrs. Hays; Neel family genealogy; article and newspaper clippings about W. S., E. W., and Hugh Hays, 1927-1933 (6); and photos of various members of the Hays family (4).