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By Jonathan Stokdyk
Collection Overview
Title: John Wilson Townsend Papers, 1898-1965![Add to your cart. Add to your cart.](themes/default/images/addtocart.gif)
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Predominant Dates:1903-1940
Primary Creator: Townsend, John Wilson (1885-1968)
Extent: 6.47 Cubic Feet
Date Acquired: 04/09/2003
Subjects: African American poets., American literature--Kentucky., American poetry. - Kentucky, Authors, American--Kentucky., Horses--Breeding--Kentucky., Poets, American - Kentucky, Thoroughbred horse. - Kentucky, Women authors, American--Kentucky, Women poets, American--Kentucky
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The John Wilson Townsend Papers consist of letters received by Townsend which reflect literary, business, and personal concerns. The bulk of the materials consist of letters received by Townsend, as well as photographs, book reviews, manuscripts and various other items about Kentucky literary figures. These include, but are not limited to, James Lane Allen, Madison Cawein, Irvin S. Cobb, Willard R. Jillson, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Samuel M. Wilson, Paul Sawyier, Otto A. Rothert, and Jesse Stuart. The letters offer insights into authors that might not otherwise be found, as well as discussions of their works and biographical information. Many letters simply talk about sending or receiving autographed copies of books. Some letters were not written to Townsend, but seem to have been collected by him instead.
In addition there are also letters concerning horses, as Townsend raised Thoroughbreds for years while living at Graceland Farm.
The collection is generally arranged alphabetically by the author of the letter, but in cases where Townsend is not the recipient, the letter was alphabetized by the recipient's name, with a notation in this finding aid of who the letter was from. Letters about a single person are filed by that person's name rather than the author of the letter. All photographs, book reviews, news clippings and other items are filed with the subject making the arrangement a collection of subject files.
There are multiple subjects per folder and because of this the folders have been numbered with a dash to maintain the subject integrity of the arrangement.
Biographical Note
John Wilson Townsend, Kentucky author and historian was born November 2, 1885. His parents were Charles Wesley Townsend, Lexington journalist and lawyer, and Jeannie Dillon Townsend. Townsend had three sisters, two of whom died in infancy and the third, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Morrison who died in 1931 in West Virginia.
Townsend received his early education in the Johnson and Dudley Grammar Schools of Lexington. Following grammar school, he attended the Preparatory School of Kentucky University. After graduating from Kentucky University, now Transylvania College, in 1906, he enrolled in Harvard University where he continued his study of history and literature.
It was at Kentucky University where he first made the acquaintance of James Lane Allen, who later became his personal friend, and about whom he has written much. This friendship began when Allen made a large contribution to the Periclean Literary Society of which Townsend was the member in charge of fund-raising.
His first book, "The Life of Richard Hickman Menefee," was published when he was only 19 years old. Several others followed during his years as a student at Harvard. After leaving Harvard he taught at the Fishburne Military Academy in Virginia before returning to Kentucky as an assistant librarian at the Lexington Public Library in 1909. He subsequently worked at the Kentucky Historical Society, Lexington Herald (1910 to 1916), the Kentucky Geological Survey (1928-1932), WPA (1936-1942), and the Lexington Signal Depot in the 1940s. Throughout this period Townsend was actively engaged in literary and historical research and published numerous books and pamphlets on prominent Kentucky historical and literary figures.
Townsend's best known work is "Kentucky in American Letters," which was the first anthology of Kentucky literature ever published. This work probably produced most of the letters contained in this collection. In addition, he was good friends with many literary figures that he regularly corresponded with. These include Irvin S. Cobb, James Lane Allen, James H. Mulligan, John Fox Jr., and others.
In 1930, Townsend's finest collection of Kentuckiana, consisting of over 1500 books, numerous pamphlets, letters and pictures, was sold to Eastern State Teachers College Library (now Eastern Kentucky University) where it remains to this day. Townsend continued to collect books until his death in 1968.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition Source:
Townsend, Dorothy
Box and Folder Listing
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- Box 2
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- Folder 1-1: Bramlette, Thomas E., ca. 1839
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- 1 item. Thomas E. Bramlette, Kentucky Governor, 1863-1867. Autograph on page extracted from old vol published 1839.
- Folder 1-2: Brandenburg, Dave, 1966
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- 7 items. Letters to JWT. Books. Jesse Stuart, Ambrose Barbour.
- Folder 1-3: Brashear, William H., 1907 - 1928
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- 7 items. Letters to JWT. Biographical sketch of Brashear. Typed copy of "To A Buzzard".
- Folder 1-4: Bratton, Nancy S., 10 December 1928
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. History Department of Winchester Woman's Club Christmas verse.
- Folder 1-5: Brauer, M. J., 9 September 1930
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. American Tract Society. "The Lord of Glory".
- Folder 1-6: Breckenridge, John Cabell, 1914
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- 1 item. Two pages from The Candlestick Magazine, May 1914, "Friends" by Ethelbert D. Burrows. Includes part of article about Breckenridge. Also "Paul Revere's Ride" and "Sampson of the Sixteenth" by Frederick J. Liesmann.
- Folder 1-7: Breckinridge, Curry, n.d.
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- 1 item. Letter to "My Dear Belle".
- Folder 1-8: Breckinridge, Desha, 1914
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- 17 items. Letters to JWT. Also 3 letters to Breckinridge. Morgan, Hunt, Bullock, Milward. Comb's "All That's Kentucky". Henry Allen Laine. Notes on John Bell, Benjamin Berry, Mr. Wier. Millers poem.
- Folder 1-9: Breckinridge, Henry, 27 January 1914
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. "Kentucky in American Letters"
- Folder 1-10: Breckinridge, Mary, 25 March 1955
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT from secretary. "Matins and Evensong", "Verse and Valentines". "Wide Neighbors".
- Folder 1-11: Breckinridge, Sophonisba, 1935 - 1942
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- 7 items. Letters to JWT. Includes a calling card. Desha, Madge, Mr. Roche
- Folder 1-12: Brett, Phillip M., 1925
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- 3 items. Letters to JWT. The estate of John Wolcott Adams.
- Folder 2-1: Brewer, Joseph, 22 August 1932
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Robert Penn Warren's "Pondy Woods and Other Poems"
- Folder 2-2: Brewer, Luther A., 1913
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- 2 items. Letters to JWT from The Torch Press. Prices and payments for books.
- Folder 2-3: Briggs, Morris H., 21 January 1924
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Bookseller, list of books.
- Folder 2-4: Brigham, Clarence S., 1929
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- 2 items. Letter to JWT. Allen's "Kentucky Cardinal". Perin, Kentucky list.
- Folder 2-5: Britt, Carryl, 29 January 1941
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. University Club of Lexington's Kentucky Author's Dinner. Ticket for JWT, 2/27/1941.
- Folder 2-6: Brock, G. M., 26 July 1930
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Eastern Kentucky State Teacher's College Kentucky Room, Kentucky Collection
- Folder 2-7: Brockway, Howard, 20 September 1932
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- 2 items. Letter to JWT. Signed photograph.
- Folder 2-8: Brockway, Katherine, 22 August 1932
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT for Mr. Howard Brockway.
- Folder 2-9: Brodhead, Albert, 11 September 1915
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Collecting and publishing Albert's brother's wife's stories.
- Folder 2-10: Brodhead, Eva Wilder, 1913 - 1915
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- 12 items. (Mrs. Henry C. Brodhead) Letters to JWT. Signed photograph. News clipping about Brodhead's death. Brodhead excerpt from "Kentucky in American Letters".
- Folder 2-11: Brodhead, S. B., 9 September 1923
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- 1 item. (Mrs. Lucas Brodhead) Letter to JWT.
- Folder 2-12: Bronner, Milton, 1908 - 1913
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- 2 items. Letters to JWT. Hearn book. Biographical sketch.
- Folder 2-13: Brossart, Ferdinand, 1909
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- Letter to JWT, 1 item
- Folder 2-14: Brother, Hunter, 1929
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- 1 item. Letter from and to JWT. Alline Brother. Dr. Brother. Paul Brother.
- Folder 2-15: Browder, J. C., 2 October 1912
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT.
- Folder 3-1: Brown, Francis, 8 May 1930
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Aldus Book Company. "For France", Charles H. Towne.
- Folder 3-2: Brown, Herbert J., 1919 - 1928
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- 16 items. Letters to JWT. Some signed by Brown's secretary W. E. Perkins. Pataud (a stallion, horse). Senator Baily.
- Folder 3-3: Brown, Lew B., 23 April 1941
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- 2 items. Letter to JWT. "Woman and Other Poems". Brief biographical sketch of Brown.
- Folder 3-4: Brown, Phil H., n.d.
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- 10 items. Newspaper clippings of poems by Brown.
- Folder 3-5: Brown, Robert W., 21 December 1909
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- 1 item. Letter to "Jim".
- Folder 3-6: Browning, Rev. B. F., 22 October 1929
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- 1 item. Epworth League Board.
- Folder 3-7: Bruner, James D., 1908 - 1927
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- 9 items. Biographical sketch of Bruner. Lee Bruner. Elisha Tilford. W.B. Hayward.
- Folder 3-8: Bryan, Mary, 14 September 1915
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Her brother's death.
- Folder 3-9: Buchanan, Lamount, 20 September 1956
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. "Kentucky Derby Story"
- Folder 3-10: Buchanan, Thompson, 1913 - 1929
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- 4 items. Newspaper article by Buchanan. Partial sketch about Buchanan. Clipping with photo, marriage to Katherine Winterbotham. Biographical sketch from University of South Sewanee.
- Folder 3-11: Buck, Charles Neville, 1912 - 1945
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- 5 items. Letters to JWT. Bluegrass farm, "Mountain Justice", books.
- Folder 3-12: Buel, C. C., 15 January 1908
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Biographical information.
- Folder 3-13: Buford, Nancy Belle, 6 September 1927
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT.
- Folder 3-14: Bullitt, William Marshall, 8 July 1939
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Books, Booker Washington.
- Folder 3-15: Bullock, Waller I., 10 June 1929
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Chivers, "Kentucky Cardinal". Allen sketches, Baldwin, Bennett, Harkins.
- Folder 3-16: Bunker, Frank F., 20 January 1934
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Hasse's "Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States"
- Folder 3-17: Burba, George F., 1913
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- 2 items. Letter to JWT. "Our Bird Friends". Newspaper clipping with photograph.
- Folder 3-18: Burman, Ben Lucien, ca. 1934
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- 3 items. Biographical sketch of Burman by JWT. Two photographs.
- Folder 3-19: Burnam, John M., 12 May 1913
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. List of works by Burnam. University of Cincinnati
- Folder 3-20: Burns, Annie Walker, 1931
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- 2 items. Letters to JWT. Burns' volumes on marriages. Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival.
- Folder 3-21: Burns, James A., 25 August 1928
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT from Burns' secretary, Charles Goins. "The Crucible". Emerson Hough article.
- Folder 3-22: Burns, Walter Noble, 28 October ?
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Biographical sketch.
- Folder 3-23: Burr, April Bond, 29 April 1938
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- 2 items. Panther Rock, The Methodist Book Concern. Book flier.
- Folder 3-24: Burroughs, John, 3 February 1915
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Madison Cawein book
- Folder 3-25: Burton, George Lee, 1913 - 1915
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- 5 items. Letters to JWT. Postcard "Inter-Southern Insurance Building, Louisville, KY". Includes brief biographical sketch of Burton.
- Folder 4-1: Bush, Isabel Graham, 5 December 1912
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- 2 items. Letter to JWT. "Goose Creek Folks". Biographical information. News clipping review of "Goose Creek Folks", also by Florence L. Bush.
- Folder 4-2: Bush, S. S., 10 October 1927
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. John Lane Allen's "John Grey" and "The Chair Invincible".
- Folder 4-3: Butler, Ellis Parker, 30 December 1921
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- 1 item. JWT's letter to Butler and Butler's reply. Butler's tribute to Cobb in Davis's "Who's Cobb and Why".
- Folder 4-4: Butler, Lorine Letcher, 3 February 1930
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- 4 items. Letter to JWT. Biographical sketch. Newspaper article about "My Old Kentucky Home". Photograph.
- Folder 4-5: Cade, Frank L., 1922
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- 2 items. Letters to JWT. Biographical information about Irvine Cobb.
- Folder 4-6: Calhoun, C. C., 1928 - 1933
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- 3 items. Letters to JWT and Isobel (Isabel) Bennett. "A Kentucky Pioneer". Kentucky Room.
- Folder 4-7: Calverton, V. F., 1931
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- 2 items. Letters to JWT. JWT's "Life of Cobb". Cobb manuscript. JWT's sister's death.
- Folder 4-8: Cambiare, C. P., 1930
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- 9 items. Letters to JWT. Newspaper clipping. "Fleurs d' Amerique". French-American Art Guild. W. C. Boone.
- Folder 4-9: Camden, J. N., 4 October 1924
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- 1 item. Letter to C. W. Hay. Scotland Farm.
- Folder 4-10: Cammack, J. W., General, 1939
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- 6 items. Letters to and from H. L. Donovan. Fire and tornado insurance, Eastern Kentucky State Teachers College, Senator Fitzpatrick, Cammack's hospitalization and surgery. Letter to L. Katherine Morgan from Perry after Cammack's death. Letter to Mrs. Cammack from Donovan, Letter to News Herald.
- Folder 4-11: Cammack, James W. Jr., 1939
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- 4 items. Letters to and from H. L. Donovan, Eastern Kentucky State Teachers College. O'Donnell, Judge Nolan, Mr. Swing, Governor Johnson. Court of appeals race.
- Folder 4-12: Campbell, Elmer, 31 December 1929
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Transylvania College. Horace Holley. Henry Bascom.
- Folder 4-13: Campbell, Henrie Jennings, 1915 - 1928
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- 2 items. (Mrs. Francis Campbell) Letters to JWT. Money for book. "Sometime" news clipping by May Riley Smith.
- Folder 4-14: Campbell, Marie, 1956 - 1960
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- 8 items. Letters to JWT. "Cloud Walking", "Folks Do Get Born".
- Folder 4-15: Campbell, Robert A., 12 June 1928
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Mrs. Ann Eliza Daumont, Sallie J. Hancock.
- Folder 4-16: Campbell, Robert L., 14 February 1927
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Biographical sketch.
- Folder 5-1: Cannon, Jouett Taylor, 1929 - 1935
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- 12 items. Letters to JWT. Secretary of Kentucky State Historical Society, H. V. McChesney. Two blank postcards. Copy of a letter to George H. Goodman from Cannon encouraging JWT to begin third edition of "Kentucky in American Literature". Coleman's "Stage Coach Days".
- Folder 5-2: Cantrill, James C., 1917 - 1922
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- 2 items. Letters to JWT. Government Records. Congress.
- Folder 5-3: Capers, Walter B., n.d.
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- 1 item. AThe Soldier-Bishop" by Capers, about Rev. Ellison Capers.
- Folder 5-4: Cappleman, Josie Frazee, 1912
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- 3 items. Letters to JWT. Biographical information about Cappleman. Program for Saturday Night Concert by The Philharmonic Society and The Music Club in which Cappleman recites an original poem.
- Folder 5-5: Carlisle, Katherine Thompson, 1930
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- 2 items. Letters to JWT. Hattie Belle Dunbar, Miss Wilson, Birdie Blades.
- Folder 5-6: Carlton, W. N. C., 6 June 1929
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Books by Chivers, O'Hara, Allen. Williams College Library.
- Folder 5-7: Carmel, Sister Mary, 11 March 1965
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Jillson book quotes for Brescia College, Owensboro, Kentucky.
- Folder 5-8: Carnegie Public Library, ca. 1927
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- 1 item. Annual Report of the Carnegie Public Library, February 1926 to January 1927.
- Folder 5-9: Carrington, Fitz Roy, 23 March 1911
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Whistler's painting "The Little White Girl".
- Folder 5-10: Carrith, George William, 1906
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- 2 items. Letters to JWT.
- Folder 5-11: Cary, Lois Durant, 1930
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- 4 items. (Mrs. Albert E. Cary) Letters to JWT.
- Folder 5-12: Cary, Richard L., n.d.
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- 2 items. Newspaper clippings (Obituary)
- Folder 5-13: Case, B. E., 18 July 1932
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- 1 item. Blank postcard to JWT.
- Folder 5-14: Casey, A. J., 4 September 1912
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Miss Walter. Dr. Ridpath.
- Folder 5-15: Cassedy, John Irvine, 10 August 1911
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- 2 items. Letters to JWT. Dewitt Miller's death, funeral and library.
- Folder 5-16: Castleman, John, 1898-1913
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- 2 items. Letter to Mr. Cole. Letter to The Torch Press. Castlewood. Marshall Cole.
- Folder 5-17: Castleman, Virginia Carter, 1912
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- 2 items. Letter to JWT. Copy of poem "The Early Daffodils"
- Folder 5-18: Cathcart, Wallace H., 21 October 1932
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. The Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio. George Cooper's "When Old Friends Were Here". Foster, Dr. Thomas Chivers.
- Folder 5-19: Cawein, Gertrude, 1915
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- 5 items. Letters to JWT. Madison Cawein
- Folder 6-1: Cawein, Madison, 1905 - 1915
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- 55 items. News clippings, poems, letters, 2 photographs, receipts. JWT's radio talk. Tribute by Dr. Cottell. "Home" handwritten and signed. (See also W.T.H. Howe for 2 more photographs.)
- Folder 6-2: Cecil, Emma Talbott, 1929
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- 3 items. Letters to JWT. News clipping.
- Folder 7-1: Chadwick, William E., 1 December 1926
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- 4 items. Letters to JWT. Horses and lineage, Paradise Ridge, Gargoyle. Imp. Gargoyle horse breeding brochure.
- Folder 7-2: Chaly, Evelene, n.d.
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- 1 item. Incomplete letter
- Folder 7-3: Chambers, B. Stuart, 29 June 1913
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- 3 items. Letter to JWT. Her aunt Mrs. Chambers-Ketchum. 2 Mrs. Chambers-Ketchum cards.
- Folder 7-4: Chapman, Virgil, 28 July 1934
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT by secretary, Frances Dugdell. U. S. Congress publications.
- Folder 7-5: Chapman, Virgil Munday, 3 March 1929
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- 1 item. Invitation to the unveiling of the statues of Henry Clay and Ephraim McDowell (the gift of Mr. Isaac W. Bernheim) in Washington D.C.
- Folder 7-6: Chase, Hariett M., 4 February 1932
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- 2 items. Letter to JWT. J. W. Crabtree. Copy of "The Moonlight Schools of Kentucky" by Cora Wilson Stewart.
- Folder 7-7: Chase, Lewis, 1929 - 1933
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- 2 items. Letter and postcard to JWT. Chivers. Postcard, East Duke Building, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
- Folder 7-8: Cherry, H. H., 1928 - 1930
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- 15 items. Letters to JWT. Letter from Irvine Cobb about The Kentucky Building and The Student Loan Fund, Western Kentucky Teachers College. Brochures for The Kentucky Building and The Three Hundred Thousand Dollar Campaign for The College Heights Foundation. Allen book.
- Folder 7-9: Cherry, T. C., 1927 - 1928
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- 2 items. Letters to JWT. Biographical sketch.
- Folder 8-1: Childress, Rufus Jackson, 11 February 1912
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- 1 item. Letters to JWT.
- Folder 8-2: Childress, Will Glover, 13 August 1928
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. "Woods and Waters", Oaten Roads", biographical information.
- Folder 8-3: Childs, Mary Fairfax, 1913 - 1915
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- 5 items. Letters to JWT. "The Little Nazarene". Photograph.
- Folder 8-4: Chiles, James Alexander, 1915
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- 2 items. Letter to JWT. Copy of "Song-Tract-Poem, Probation, The Last Call".
- Folder 8-5: Chivers, Thomas Holley, 1929 - 1930
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- 4 items. News clipping by A. B. Maurice relating Poe and Chivers. Letter from British Museum regarding Chivers' works. Letter from Library of the University of Virginia regarding Chivers Scrap-book by JWT and John Dewitt Miller; from Harry Clemons: Prof. Lewis Chase of Union College. "Chivers: A Transylvania Poet" by JWT.
- Folder 8-6: Churchill, Winston, 1930
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- Not to be confused with the British prime minister. 2 items. Letter to JWT. "The Crossing" by Churchill. Signed copy in Special Collections.
- Folder 8-7: Cincinnati Museum, n.d.
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- 20 items. Collectable cards of exhibits in the Cincinnati Museum. Frank Duveneck, John W. Alexander, Karl Bitter, William Merritt Chase, A. A. Weinman, H. F. Farny, Frank W. Benson, C. J. Barnhorn, Julius C. Rolshoven, L. H. Meakin.
- Folder 8-8: Clark, Charles Eugene, 1932
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- 2 items. Letter to JWT on back of candidate for State Senator form letter. Pamphlet.
- Folder 8-9: Clark, Florence Anderson, 1912
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- 3 items. (Mrs. James B. Clark) Letters to JWT. List of books.
- Folder 8-10: Clark, The Arthur H. Company, 1931
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- 3 items. Letters to JWT. Brochure for "Louisiana Under the Rule of Spain, France, and the United States 1785 - 1807" by James Alexander Robertson, L.H.D. George Croghan, Professor Volwiler.
- Folder 8-11: Clark, Thomas D., 1934, 1940
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- 2 items. Letter to JWT. Cousin Sally. Ross book. Typescript of a WHAS radio talk about John Fox, Jr. inscribed to JWT.
- Folder 9-1: Clarke, Peyton Neal, 1927
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- 2 items. Letter to JWT. Brief biographical sketch of Clarke. "Old King William Homes and Families"
- Folder 9-2: Clason Map Company, 25 October 1930
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- 1 item. Postcard for Map of the Early Indian Wars in the Yellowstone and Missouri River Regions for sale by the Clason Map Company.
- Folder 9-3: Clay Postcards, n.d.
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- 2 items. Clay Monument, Lexington, KY, no writing. Ashland, Home of Henry Clay, Lexington, KY, damaged writing on the back.
- Folder 9-4: Clay, Brutus J., 1916 - 1930
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- 7 items. Postcard to J. M. Roche. Includes letter by Mrs. Brutus J. Clay. Negative of bust. Transparency.
- Folder 9-5: Clay, Cassius M., 1927 - 1953
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- 12 items. 10 letters to Townsend. Blank postcard, Clay Monument, Lexington, KY. Addressed postcard, Ashland, Home of Henry Clay, Lexington, KY. Letter to Mary Floyd. Auvergne in Paris, KY.
- Folder 9-6: Clay, Cassius M., Jr., 1905 - 1909
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- 2 items. Letter to JWT. Letter to Judge Mulligan
- Folder 9-7: Clay, Green, 12-Nov-24
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Books
- Folder 9-8: Clay, Laura, 26 September 1924
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Photographs and letters of her father.
- Folder 9-9: Clay, Mary Harris, 1924 - 1931
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- 8 items. (Mrs. Cassius M. Clay) Letters to JWT. Kentucky Progress Commission Historic Sites
- Folder 9-10: Clay, Miriam Berle, 27 October 1959
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- 1 item. Letter to JWT. Writes on behalf of husband. Paris, KY.
- Folder 9-11: Clay, Nannie, n.d.
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- 2 items. Letter to JWT. A review her father wrote of JWT's book.
- Folder 9-12: Cleveland, Catherine C., 1913
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- 2 items. Letters to JWT
- Folder 9-13: Cobb, Ann, 11 June 1930
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- 2 items. Book autograph, Lucy Furman. Letter to JWT from publisher.
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