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Manuscripts

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 106 Collections and/or Records:

John H. Weber manuscript

 Collection — Folder S2327
Identifier: S2327
Scope and Contents This collection includes a copy of the manuscript, "Railroad History of Dubois County" by John H. Weber in Ferdinand, Indiana, from 1946.
Dates: 1946

John McCoy collection

 Collection — Folder S2187
Identifier: S2187
Scope and Contents This collection includes "The Index to the Diary of John M'Coy of Clark County, Indiana, July 17, 1847 - April 30, 1852, compiled by Elizabeth Hayward, 1939" and "Extracts from the Diaries of John M'Coy of Clark County, Indiana, edited with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Elizabeth Hayward, Ridgewood, New Jersey, 1943." The manuscript which Ms. Hayward prepared in 1943 gives a history of the family on pages 1-5. From pages 6 to 16, she records items from John's diaries...
Dates: 1842-1943

John Tenbrook Campbell collection

 Collection
Identifier: L258
Scope and Contents The collection consists of the writings of John TenBrook Campbell ranging from 1840 to 1909 and undated. They include a family history, papers relating to temperance, emancipation, and theology, poems, reports, surveys, and items related to other miscellaneous topics. Included in the collection are personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, manuscripts sent to editors, and a photograph of John T. Campbell.
Dates: 1840-1909, undated

Julia Cooley Altrocchi collection

 Collection
Identifier: L245
Scope and Contents This collection consists of papers relating to Wolves Against the Moon, including research correspondence and notes, a manuscript of the book, reviews and correspondence with Harold S. Latham and others at the Macmillan Company, the book's publisher, from the author, Julia Cooley Altrocchi, ranging from 1933 to 1958 and undated. Also included are notes and a manuscript on the Fort Dearborn massacre.
Dates: 1933-1958, undated

Knights of the Golden Circle collection

 Collection — Folder S0353
Identifier: S0353
Scope and Contents This collection includes a 5-page manuscript Mary Adeline Denny in Indianapolis, Indiana on December 4, 1924, entitled “How the Capture of Indianapolis by the Knights of the Golden Circle, August 16, 1864, during the Civil War Was Prevented.”
Dates: 1864

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

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 U.S....
Dates: 1849-1929

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