Manuscripts
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 97 Collections and/or Records:
Lara Paul Good collection
Collection
Identifier: L059
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an autobiography of Lara Paul Good, including draft sections. The autobiography, completed in 1967, includes photographs, personal papers, and genealogical records. The autobiography covers the first quarter of Mr. Good's life and family history. The title of the autobiography states it is "part 1," there is no part 2 within the collection. Correspondence with Iva Kittermann is also included.
Dates:
1967
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Lara Paul Good collection
Lawrence County, Indiana collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2085
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the following items related to Lawrence County, Indiana: land patents ranging from 1816 to 1833; documents regarding orders for books and equipment for the county library ranging from 1819 to 1827; a typewritten copy of “The Story of an Indiana Pioneer Village – Spring Mill,” an address given by E.Y. [Elam Young] Guernsey at the State Federation of Art Clubs convention in April 1929; an undated print of a winter scene at Spring Mill State Park; undated notes found in...
Dates:
1816-circa 1960
Lealie Samantha Hulen Reeve "Early Days" manuscript
Collection — Folder S173
Identifier: S0173
Scope and Contents
This is a manuscript written by Lealie Samantha Hulen Reeve in 1938 telling about her early life. This 14-page typed manuscript gives her childhood memories until her father died and she went to live with her aunt, who was not very kind to her. Lealie Samantha Hulen Reeve wrote this story of her childhood at the request of her children. Her father came from Davies County and married three four, first to Eliza Jane Keith, second to Elizabeth Patton, and third to Lealie's mother. In...
Dates:
1938
Lewis King papers
Collection
Identifier: L083
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the minutes of the 27th Indiana Infantry Regiment Association; a religious tract from 1849 by Reverend Robert Newstead; a medal of a Grand Army of the Republic veteran from 1866; a typed and autographed manuscript from Lewis King; an autographed, signed poem by Lewis King; autographed and signed letters from Thomas Deputy, Joshua Deputy, W.E. McGuire, Mrs. Archie McEwen, and Edmund R. Brown in Indiana, Tennessee and Virginia ranging from 1862 to 1929 regarding Civil War...
Dates:
1849-1929
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Lewis King papers
Logan Esarey collection
Collection
Identifier: L459
Scope and Contents
The collection, which dates from approximately 1900-1950, contains articles, manuscript drafts, and research notes of Logan Esarey. The collection consists of several unpublished chapters on politics and early Indiana state newspapers, Esarey's research and notes from the Indiana Journal and Senate Journal, as well as several essays on Jacksonian democracy in Indiana, the William Henry Harrison administration, and the Republican...
Dates:
circa 1900-1950
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Logan Esarey collection
Margaret M. Scott collection
Collection
Identifier: L139
Scope and Contents
The papers consist primarily of Margaret M. Scott's correspondence, essays, short stories, and unpublished novels from 1920 to 1930s. The collection also includes papers regarding the work of the Indiana Lincoln Memorial Association, a scrapbook of newspaper stories by and about her, and poetry of her father, John Scott.
Dates:
1873-1955
Margaret Osborne Steele Dickey collection
Collection — Folder S2991
Identifier: S2991
Scope and Contents
This 6-page, typed manuscript was written by Katharine McAfee Parker as a memorial address in honor of Margaret Osborne Steel, wife of Rev. John M. Dickey. The paper was delivered at the Lexington Presbyterian Church, Lexington, Indiana, on November 21, 1938, on the occasion of placing a bronze marker at the graves of Rev. and Mrs. Dickey near New Washington. Katharine explained how Dr. Rule of Louisville, Kentucky, asked her to speak on Margaret Steele Dickey, shortly after returning from a...
Dates:
1798-1847
Marvin W. Pershing papers
Collection — Folder S1057
Identifier: S1057
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a 15 page document, "Memories of the Civil War", read by Marvin W. Pershing before the Century Literary Club, Indianapolis, Indiana, on January 22, 1935.
Dates:
1935/01/22
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Marvin W. Pershing papers
Mary Faye Hite, "Dreams Do Happen" manuscript
File — Folder S2296
Identifier: S2296
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a copy of "Dreams Do Happen," a manuscript containing a collection of essays written by Mary Faye Hite and compiled in circa 1980. The essays cover a variety of topics, including family history, country and pioneer living, nature, travel, and historic people, places, and events. Many essays have a patriotic theme and one essay, "Political Issues," relays her opinion regarding the Equal Rights Amendment, and how estates should be settled. Another essay, "Home Remedies,"...
Dates:
circa 1980
Mary Hannah Krout collection
Collection
Identifier: L080
Scope and Contents
This collection includes manuscripts, photographs and scrapbooks from Mary Hannah Krout in Crawfordsville, Indiana ranging from 1881 to 1919 regarding her writing.
Dates:
1881-1919, undated
