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0843: Katharine Rodier Collection, 1974-2011, Marshall University Special Collections
0843: Katharine Rodier Collection, 1974-2011, Marshall University Special Collections
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Personal writing, class notes, photograph, professional works, correspondences, professional materials, and mementos of Katharine Rodier during her collegiate career and career in the English Department of Marshall University.
0829: John Mckernan Collection, Marshall University Special Collections
0829: John Mckernan Collection, Marshall University Special Collections
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The John McKernan Collection contains mostly published materials that John McKernan collected related to his own poetry. There are a limited number of non-McKernan publications that he saved.
0525: Doris C. Miller Papers, 1915-1989, Marshall University Special Collections
0525: Doris C. Miller Papers, 1915-1989, Marshall University Special Collections
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Doris Copley Miller was a Huntington, West Virginia poet, newspaperwoman, and local historian. Papers include her work in draft and printed form and correspondence, notably the Jesse Stuart letters. It also contains poetry submissions from other friends and the public as well as working files from her years as religion, education and poetry editor at the Huntington Publishing Company. In addition to her newspaper columns, she also conducted genealogical research.
To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Doris C. Miller Papers, 1915-1989 here.
0248: James N. Potts Papers, 1861-1906, Marshall University Special Collections
0248: James N. Potts Papers, 1861-1906, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection predominately consists of a Civil War diary by James Potts. Legibility of the copy of the diary is limited given that it is a xeroxed black and white copy.
The cover of the diary says, “Romance of the War by James N. Potts [illegible] Commissary [illegible] Book Commencing Dec. 12th, 1861 Hunter’sville, Va, Pocahontas Co., Virginia”. The first thirty-one pages consist of a ledger tracking provisions for 1861-1862. In order, the contents after are as follows: recipes, ciphers or “enigmas”, journal entries from 1861 to 1867, an 1869 letter to the editor of the “Herald” from Williamsville, VA, …
0140: Tessa Sweazy Webb Letter, 1936, Marshall University Special Collections
0140: Tessa Sweazy Webb Letter, 1936, Marshall University Special Collections
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Letter from Columbus, Ohio, newspaper columnist to Charles Stater of Huntington, West Virginia, commenting on her columns and on poetry published in the newspaper.