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Semper Fi, Robert Waldruff

Mighty Pen Project Anthology & Archive

A Marine accompanies the casket of his best friend and fellow Marine home from Vietnam for burial.

Articles, stories, and other compositions in this archive were written by participants in the Mighty Pen Project. The program, developed by author David L. Robbins, and in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, offers veterans and their family members a customized twelve-week writing class, free of charge. The program encourages, supports, and assists participants in sharing their stories and experiences of military experience so both writer and audience may benefit.

Harris, Henry Thornton, 1831-1899 (Sc 3197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3197. Miscellaneous papers related to Henry T. Harris, a lawyer of Lincoln County, Kentucky. Includes an invitation to “Bachelor’s Hall,” an article written for the Saturday Evening Post, a short note to an aunt written from “awful Niagara,” a flyer for Montrose Law College, Frankfort, Kentucky, and an exterior sketch of the Law College building with rooms identified. Also includes poems, recipes, a trade card for Louisville’s Alexander House, a sample print strip from a telegraph machine, and genealogical data.

Miller, John Goodrum, Sr., 1853-1936 (Mss 629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 629. Writings of John Goodrum Miller, Sr., a lawyer and native of Caldwell County, Kentucky. Includes a family history, a personal memoir, and manuscript chapters on early Kentucky history, English church history, and the U.S. Constitution. Also includes a small amount of material related to The Black Patch War, Miller’s book on the Night Riders.

Baker, Walter Arnold, 1937-2010 (Mss 539), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 539. This small collection contains material related to legislative matters of interest to Kentucky legislator and jurist Walter A. Baker, Glasgow, Kentucky. Also includes files about several trips abroad and family material.

'His Grief Is The Plague': Poetry Of Loss And The Risk Of Losing One's Readers, Michael R. Jacklin

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The book Lalomanu (2010), by Jorge Salavert, is a collection of poetry written in response to the death of the author’s six-year-old daughter Clea, one of the victims of the tsunami which swept ashore in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga in September 2009. Lalomanu is a deeply moving account of grief and mourning, a book that its author knows will be too painful for some to read. As Salavert points out in his poems, most people he knows seem afraid of his grief; they are unable to respond to, or acknowledge, its intensity. And yet, in its expressions of grief …

Fennell Collection, 1869-1957 (Mss 348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 348. Account books of Cynthiana Horse Boot Company; materials related to Kentucky Hemp Brake Company of Cynthiana, Kentucky; correspondence of Cynthiana attorneys Chester M. Jewett, J. J. Osborne, William J. Osborne, McCauley C. Swinford, and William Wilson Van Deren.

Moore-Mulligan-Brown Collection (Mss 219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 219. This collection consists chiefly of correspondence of the Moore, Mulligan, Brown and Johns families, who are interrelated. The correspondence deals chiefly with family matters and events occurring in Trigg County, Kentucky and Allen County, Kentucky.

Constructive Haiku And The Law Of Contracts: Raintree County Memorial Library Occasional Paper No. 3, Douglass Boshkoff

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Writing And Reading In Philosophy, Law, And Poetry, James Boyd White

Book Chapters

In this paper I will treat a very general question, the nature of writing and what can be achieved by it, pursuing it in the three distinct contexts provided by philosophy, law, and poetry.

My starting-point will be Plato's Phaedrus, where, in a wellknown passage, Socrates attacks writing itself: he says that true philosophy requires the living engagement of mind with mind of a kind that writing cannot attain. Yet this is obviously a paradox, for Socrates' position is articulated and recorded by Plato in writing. How then can we make sense of what Plato is saying and doing? What …

More Selected Poems On The Law Of Contracts: Raintree County Memorial Library Occasional Paper No. 2, Douglass Boshkoff

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Notes Toward An Aesthetics Of Legal Pragmatism, David A. Skeel Jr.

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Selected Poems On The Law Of Contracts, Douglass Boshkoff

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Rose Of Aberlone (Being An Entry For An Index), Brainerd Currie

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.