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Phillips, William B. (Sc 24), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Phillips, William B. (Sc 24), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 24. Typed copy of letter written by Phillips, Maysville, Kentucky, to William Tompkins, Kanawha Saline, Virginia, concerning salt contracts, 1834, and a letter, 1934, containing information about the 1834 letter.

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Mcgrohan, Mary M. (Sc 16), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Mcgrohan, Mary M. (Sc 16), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 16. Signed statement of Mary McGrohan listing the subjects that Miss Jane Berry studied while a pupil of hers at the Glasgow Female Academy, Glasgow, Kentucky.

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Dotson, Mary Ann (Sc 15), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Dotson, Mary Ann (Sc 15), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 15. Letter written to Miss Mary Ann Dotson, Bladen County, North Carolina, from a friend Sophia, Bladen County. Relates personal news only.

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Naccs 35th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Mar 2008

Naccs 35th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Poesía, Baile y Canción: The Politics, Implications, and Future of Chicana/os' Cultural Production
March 19-22, 2008
Hyatt Regency Hotel

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Beauchamp, Jeroboam (Sc 13), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Beauchamp, Jeroboam (Sc 13), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 13. Letter written by Jeroboam Beauchamp, Washington County, Kentucky to Peter Smith, regarding purchase of land from Stephen Prather on Hardin's Creek in Washington County.

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Elliott, Elizabeth, D. 1822 (Sc 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Elliott, Elizabeth, D. 1822 (Sc 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scanned image (click on "Additional File" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 14. Bill itemizing articles used in preparation for and burial of Elizabeth Elliott, Logan County, Kentucky paid by William Allen to Will V. Morris.

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Lafferty, John Aker, 1832-1905 (Sc 1617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Lafferty, John Aker, 1832-1905 (Sc 1617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1617. Civil War reminiscences of John Aker Lafferty, Harrison County, Kentucky, recounted in 1905 to his son W.T. Lafferty. John A. Lafferty served with the 1st Kentucky Cavalry and later with the 9th Kentucky Cavalry. W.T. Lafferty adds an account of his family's lives as Confederate sympathizers in Harrison County during the war.

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Welch, Jesse Earl, 1917-1973 (Sc 1615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Welch, Jesse Earl, 1917-1973 (Sc 1615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1615. World War II letters from Jesse Earl Welch to his wife in Gamaliel, Monroe County, Kentucky. He writes from a hospital about the loss of his leg.

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Gott Collection, 1922-1952 (Sc 1609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Gott Collection, 1922-1952 (Sc 1609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1609. Chiefly post-World War II letters from Peggy Purves, London, England, to Warren County native John C. Gott in which she reveals working conditions, food shortages and her feelings for him; other Gott family correspondence included. Also, letter to Purves from a friend in New York, 1946, relating her impressions of the city.

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Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Mss 201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Mss 201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 201. Correspondence and research notes relating to biographical information compiled for labels attached to portraits of Warren County, Kentucky Circuit Court judges. Copies of the labels and photos of five of the portraits are included. Detailed information about Judge John B. Rodes is included.

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Grider, John Hobson, 1822-1884 (Sc 1605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Grider, John Hobson, 1822-1884 (Sc 1605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1605. Military records of Union soldier Grider who served as a staff officer with the 9th Kentucky Infantry and the 52nd Kentucky Infantry. Also, documents relating to pension requests made by Grider and his widow, Kittie A. Grider.

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Ratliff, Amelia Ellen (Edelen) Bosley, 1918-2002 (Sc 1613), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Ratliff, Amelia Ellen (Edelen) Bosley, 1918-2002 (Sc 1613), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1613. Letter, 7 September 1978, from Amelia E. Ratliff, Lebanon, Kentucky to Irene Moss Sumpter, Bowling Green, Kentucky about Sumpter's book and the McElroy and Skiles families.

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Harper, J. (Sc 1612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Harper, J. (Sc 1612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1612. Letter, 12 September 1862, from Harper, Cincinnati, Ohio to William Single discussing conditions in Cincinnati and northern Kentucky. He expresses fervent pro-Union and anti-slavery sentiments.

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Jones, William Forest, 1891-1975 (Sc 1601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Jones, William Forest, 1891-1975 (Sc 1601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1601. Copy of William Forest Jones's 1918 naval enrollment record and 1921 naval discharge; copy of 1924 certificate of marriage between Jones and Lizzie Kathleen Harlan. Also, information on the Jones and Harlan families.

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Barclay, Anna (Sc 1603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Barclay, Anna (Sc 1603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1603. Paper, undated, by Anna Barclay entitled "Old Newspapers and Early Editors of Kentucky."

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The Grizzly, March 6, 2008, Matt Flyntz, Lane Taylor, John Strassburger, Ashley Mccomeskey, Terry Kelley, Kristi Blust, Jill Alspach, Kristin O'Brassill, Juliane Katz, Jeremiah Long, Christopher Schaeffer, Anthony George, Alex Ernst, Matt Short, Laurel Salvo, Ryan Tole, Danielle Langdon Mar 2008

The Grizzly, March 6, 2008, Matt Flyntz, Lane Taylor, John Strassburger, Ashley Mccomeskey, Terry Kelley, Kristi Blust, Jill Alspach, Kristin O'Brassill, Juliane Katz, Jeremiah Long, Christopher Schaeffer, Anthony George, Alex Ernst, Matt Short, Laurel Salvo, Ryan Tole, Danielle Langdon

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

President Strassburger's Message to Campus About New Member Education • Students Flock to Ursinus Job and Internship Fair • SIFE: An Organization Suited for All Ursinus Majors • The Real Inspector Hound: Stoppard Performed at UC • Local Venues Offer Break Options • Ursinus Fraternities Participate in Community Service • Da Vinci's Pub: Are You a Renaissance Man or Woman? • Opinions: Anthony's Keys to Making Friends; Academic Integrity for the Rest of Us; Rethinking the Second Amendment: What Does it Protect? • Football Coach Kevin Barger Moving On • Congrats to the 2008 Centennial Conference Champs! • Baseball and …

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Brackin, Green, 1822-1901 (Sc 1608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Brackin, Green, 1822-1901 (Sc 1608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1608. Deed for sale of Green Brackin's Allen County, Kentucky land to G.B. Woodcock, dated 30 August 1859.

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Beula Villa Hotel, 1940-1968 (Sc 1606), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Beula Villa Hotel, 1940-1968 (Sc 1606), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1606. Reservation requests, receipts, and miscellaneous business correspondence related to the Beula Villa Hotel, Sulphur Well, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. Also, 1968 news clipping featuring the hotel.

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Hoofnel, Nellie Keown, 1876-1949 (Sc 1600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Hoofnel, Nellie Keown, 1876-1949 (Sc 1600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 1600. Paper by Nellie Keown Hoofnel entitled "Rules and Regulations of Old Transylvania University," dated 10 August 1935.

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Hume, Archie, 1892-1963 (Sc 1599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Hume, Archie, 1892-1963 (Sc 1599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Smalll Collection 1599. Pages from the diaries of Archie Hume, Tompkinsville, Kentucky, related to singings and singing schools he was involved with in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1945-1963. Also, 1989 letter from Lynwood Montell concerning Hume's diaries.

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Guthrie, Charles Snow, 1922-2000 (Sc 1604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Guthrie, Charles Snow, 1922-2000 (Sc 1604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1604. Copy of speech given by Charles Snow Guthrie, professor of English at Western Kentucky University, to the Kentucky Philological Association, Morehead, Kentucky, 4 March 1988, entitled "Eighteenth Century Kentucky Writing."

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87th Depot Repair Squadron (Sc 1596), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

87th Depot Repair Squadron (Sc 1596), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1596. Humorous skit prepared for the second anniversary of the 87th Deport Repair Squadron's formation, celebrated at the Enlisted Men's Club, Foggia, Italy.

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Title Page Mar 2008

Title Page

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

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Book Notes Mar 2008

Book Notes

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

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Institutional Members Mar 2008

Institutional Members

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

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Music - Books (Sc 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Music - Books (Sc 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and images of cover and selected interior pages (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 8. Manuscript music book hand-sewn into a crude leather cover. Some of the songs are folk songs having a love theme, while others are spiritual songs. Letters f,s,l,m are used instead of notes.

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Porter, Charles, 1735-1809 (Sc 10), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Porter, Charles, 1735-1809 (Sc 10), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 10. Will for Charles Porter, d. 1809, Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Lewis, William L. (Sc 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Lewis, William L. (Sc 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 9. Letter written by Lewis, Loudoun County, Virginia, to his sister-in-law, Mrs. Susanna Lewis, Nelson County, Kentucky, relating family news.

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Kentucky - Cavalry - 25th Regiment (Sc 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Kentucky - Cavalry - 25th Regiment (Sc 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 11. List of volunteers to serve under Isaac Shelby in the War of 1812 in the 25th Regiment of the Kentucky militia from Warren County, Kentucky. Signed by Colonel George Hudspeth, Commandant, 25th Regiment Kentucky Militia (R.K.M.)

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The Precognition Of Crime: Treason In Medieval England And Terrorism In Twenty-First Century America, E. Kay Harris Mar 2008

The Precognition Of Crime: Treason In Medieval England And Terrorism In Twenty-First Century America, E. Kay Harris

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

“The Knight of the Two Swords” in Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur (1485) tells a story of an invisible knight who without provocation kills other knights. Rather than have the identity of this invisible knight become part of the plot of this tale, Malory names him immediately (1:79-80). This early identification of the invisible knight has led Eugene Vinaver to speculate that Malory “wants at all costs to avoid suspense, and so transfers the solution of the mystery from the end of the dialogue to the beginning. There are cases,” Vinaver continues, “where such a method can relieve the story of …

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