Manuscripts
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 112 Collections and/or Records:
Logan Esarey collection
Collection
Identifier: L459
Scope and Contents
The collection contains articles, essays, speeches, manuscript drafts, and research notes from Logan Esarey in Indiana, ranging from circa 1900 to 1950. The collection consists of several unpublished chapters on politics and early Indiana state newspapers, Esarey's research and notes from the Indiana Journal and Senate Journal, as well as several essays on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...
Dates:
circa 1900-1950
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Logan Esarey collection
Lucy Morerod Detraz biography
Collection — Folder S0357
Identifier: S0357
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an undated, handwritten biography about Lucy Morerod Detraz, written by her niece or nephew in Indiana, regarding Detraz and the history of Vevay, Switzerland County, Indiana.
Dates:
circa 1903-1916
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The papers consist primarily of Margaret M. Scott's correspondence, essays, short stories, and unpublished novels from 1920 to 1930s.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
Marie McNett play
Collection — Folder S2825
Identifier: S2825
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a transcript of Marie McNett's play, Cradle of Glory, from 1967, regarding Abraham Lincoln's youth and young adulthood.
Dates:
1967
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Marie McNett play
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
Collection — 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
Maurice S. Lafuze papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0796
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of manuscripts compiled and written by Maurice S. Lafuze ranging from 1952 to 1973. His manuscripts, "Whitewater Presbytery: A Brief History" (1952) and "Early Presbyterianism in Southeastern Indiana" (1967), include historical information of the presbytery and churches, biographical information of church pastors, lists of members, photographs, and a map with locations and founding dates of early Presbyterian churches. Lafuze compiled a sixty-one page...
Dates:
1952-1974
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Maurice S. Lafuze papers
Maurice Thompson collection
Collection — Folder S1307
Identifier: S1307
Scope and Contents
This collection contains hand-written letters and documents by Maurice Thompson, as well as three letters written to him in 1897 by Dr. Richard Gordon Gatling, inventor of the Gatling Gun. A hand-written manuscript entitled "The Spirit of Specialization" is enclosed in a blue folder. The "Hoosier Listening Post" article dated November 18, 1934, published in the Indianapolis Star, describes Maurice and his brother Will going hunting with bows...
Dates:
1882-1934
