Box 4259.14

Scope and Contents Contains Jane Thomas Kent's notes from various college-level English topics: Shakespeare, Modern Drama, Essays of Francis Bacon, and classical poetry. Some of the notes are written in shorthand.

Scope and Contents Recipe book of C. Gatchet, handwritten probably between 1862 and 1864. Includes recipes for foods (icings, custards, soft gingerbread, tomato sauce, etc.), medicines (dropsy, kidney affliction, small pox, cancer, etc.), and household uses (whitewash, soap, fly paper, dying fabrics, scouring fluid, etc.). It also has several poems written upon the deaths of friends and a short account of the military career of Thomas H. Smith until his death in West Point, August 14, 1864.

Scope and Contents Contains one scrapbook made by pasting newspaper clippings into a book, "The Credit Man's Diary". Most of the scrapbook contains clippings from one newspaper column, "From Mills Point to the Big Sandy," from The Louisville Times. A few of the clippings are of another column, "Kentucky All Over." Both columns, by unidentified authors, tell brief news from around the state. The scrapbook also includes one photograph of a tree and loose clippings.