Box 4265.001

This file contains a notebook full of handwritten poems with attributions to various people. The front inside cover is inscribed: "Elizabeth R. Shaw, Chillcothe, Dec. 20th, 1840." The file also includes two typewritten copies of a poem from the notebook, "All for the Best," with attributions to Elizabeth Shaw in Chillicothe, Ohio (December 20, 1840), and George P. J. Stober of Louisville, Kentucky (November 24, 1960).

This file contains a six-page poem, "Reveries," written by T. Y. K. in Chicago. The poem is about a "batchelor" who, while trying to write on the eve of Valentine's Day, falls asleep and dreams of a June day in the countryside.

This file contains an unitled two-page love poem written on stationery with the heading "Laconia, Indiana, 189--."

This file contains a poem written by Frank Burrell addressed to people young and old, stating that it is the "twenty-fourth day of December" and calling on listeners to have a merry Christmas. The top of the paper bears the heading: "Opening Address." The file also includes an envelope addressed to Miss Crissie Burrell, Rocky Fork, Ohio, postmarked March 7, 1891.

This file contains a handwritten poem titled "The Cowel Letter," by an unknown author, in which a woman plans to tell a man who had been courting her that "he is free" after she hears he has been courting another woman named Dora Lee. The poem is dedicated to "M. E. C."

This file contains part of a poem equating flowers with human virtues by an unknown author.

This file contains a handwritten two-page poem by an unknown author, "The Country Physician," which traces the challenging and thankless life of a country doctor.

One postcard to author and historian Hendrick W. van Loon, Esq, at the Netherlands Club, New York, from R. E. Mae Kungir(?) in a US Troop camp in England. The writer addresses van Loon as "Old Friend" and says, "even if you couldn't keep me awake with graphic word pictures of Erasmus and his illegitimate Satiyrsguruua you could make me remember always the professor and teacher who was scholarly without being pedantic ..."

This file contains one letter written from Fred R. Prusha, Fayette County chairman of the Iowa Poetry Day Association (IPDA), to Ortha Green, vice president of the IPDA. The letter is written from Hawkeye, Iowa, to Promise City, Iowa. Prusha lists many newspapers that have "given publicity," as well as newspapers that he expects to do so in the near future, and offers congratulations on a writing award Green won the previous spring.

This file contains one page with handwritten words and music by Anne Allen Crockett. The title of the song is written in Greek, and the lyrics are in English, with notes indicating that words and music were written at different times during 1954 and 1955.

This file contains two poems by Alabama Poet Laureate Bert Henderson that he submitted in 1962 to Judge Jones for possible publication in theAlabama Bible Society Quarterly, with related correspondence.

This file contains two handwritten pages by an unknown author with a pun on the word "ate" using the number "8" to explain how many apples were eaten by Adam and Eve.

This file contains one typewritten letter from R. Howard of Bernard Quaritch, Limited, in London, England, to R. C. Riebel of Louisville, Kentucky. Howard is offering to sell a somewhat damaged 1623 copy of Shakespeare: Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies for 17,000 pounds ($47,600).

The collection contains letters to Harrison Hayford of Evanston, Illinois, from international book publishers/sellers. One letter is from Mario Casalini Ltd. in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the other is from Daijo-Shukutoku-Gakuen in Tokyo, Japan.

This file contains a presentation card displaying a commemorative stamp issued in 1998 honoring American gospel singer Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972), with an accompanying gold copy of the stamp.

This file contains a letter from William S. Weatherstone of Toronto, Canada, to the Pentucket Stamp Company in Haverhill, Massachusetts, about collecting and dealing in stamps and his own stamp and postcard collections primarily consisting of Revolutionary postage.

John L. Kent of Garnerville, New York, wrote to Lewis Ottenberg about stamp collecting. The letter is on common paper, but the elaborate letterhead appears to be hand drawn in black with green and yellow accents.

This collection contains one letter from Lieutenant Colonel Harvey E. Sheppard at the Muscle Shoals Project in Sheffield, Alabama, to Colonel John Pohl in Newport News, Virginia. The two had met at the Confederate Stamp Alliance convention in Richmond. In the letter, Sheppard mentions "sending along a used set of the Peace Issue, British Solomon Islands" and asks that Pohl forward any information he finds regarding Virginia Confederate postmarks.

This file contains contains three letters and notes sent between Roy Blomberg in Berwyn, Illinois, and people in France and Michigan concerning stamp collecting and exchanging.

The collection contains letters to and from John Moohr of Chicago, Illinois, a stamp collector and dealer, about collection prices, specifically Ethiopian stamps.

The collection contains a letter from Charles Johnson of Grand Rapids, Michigan, to John about stamp collecting. He will be attending collection shows as both dealer and buyer.

Stanley Adams, president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) writes from New York, New York, to Mr. Joe Moshay, a member of the ASCAP, in Beverly Hills, California. The Stanley Adams Letter was sent to provide the ASCAP member with a first-day cover bearing the commemorative $0.06 (six-cent) stamp issued by the United States Post Office in tribute to American composer and musician (and ASCAP member) W. C. Handy (1873-1958), known as "Father of the Blues."

This file contains a baseball card depicting Rudolph "Rudy" York, who played minor league baseball with the Shreveport Sports in 1933 and then moved into the major league in 1937 with the Detroit Tigers. In his career, he played for the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, and Philadelphia Athletics, primarily as a first baseman. The card, no. 260 of a series 288 baseball stars, indicates that he had played catcher for the Tigers for two years at the time of printing (1939).

This file contains two cloth bookmarks. One is a ribbon dominated by an embroidered rectangle that reads: "J. P. Barnes, W. E. Holmes, 1854." The other is made from three ribbons sewn together and embroidered with the text: "Feb. 14th 1893."

The collection contains an invitation and admission card for the Governor's Derby Breakfast on the Capitol grounds in Frankfort, Kentucky, on 3 May 1986, prior to the 1986 running of the Kentucky Derby.

This file contains a color print of "Winter in the Country: The Old Grist Mill," a lithograph originally issued by American printmaking company Currier and Ives in 1864. The image of a snowy mill scene is taken from a painting by G. R. Durrie.

This file contains an undated letter from Mary Pickford to Douglas Fairbanks Sr. She refers to him as "the very brave turkey hunter" and signs it as "Your funny friend."

This file contains five sketches and drawings in pencil, pen, and watercolor. Two are signed "Doug." Another, a cartoon of a woman holding a picture, includes the dialogue, "Gee, I hope Doug will give me this--I gotta hole in my plaster to cover."

A playbill for a production of Moss Hart's Winged Victory, performed in the Opera House on Wacker Drive at Madison in Chicago, Illinois, in January, 1945. According to the playbill, the company of Winged Victory consisted entirely of Army Air Forces personnel - 319 service personnel (cast, orchestra, choral group, and production staff) and thirty-nine civilians (cast and production staff).

This collection contains one program from the Montgomery Concert Courses presentation of Lauritz Melchior, tenor, with the Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, New York. The concert was given at the Sidney Lanier Auditorium in Montgomery, Alabama, on Monday, February 27.

Edward R. Murrow was an American reporter sent overseas by CBS during World War II--a tour of journalism that made his name a household word back home. After his return to the states, Murrow, along with Fred Friendly, produced a radio news show called Hear It Now before later translating the program to television, where it became See It Now.

This file contains one program from the presentation of the musical Rosalie, presented by the Municipal Theater Under-The-Stars at the Chastain Memorial Amphitheater in Atlanta, Georgia, July 19-24, 1954.

This collection consists of an invitation from Governor and Mrs. George Wallace, Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Volker, and Mr. and Mrs. David Roberts, II, to attend the opening performance of the American Bicentennial Theater's production of Thornton Wilder's play, The Skin of Our Teeth, performed at the Birmingham-Jefferson County Civic Center, and to the supper following, at the Birmingham Hyatt House Hotel, June 23, 1975. A ticket for the supper accompanies the invitation.

The file contains one undated Christmas card written by Isabel Halliburton to Gregory and Mrs. Peck. The inscription on the card indicates that Peck and Halliburton had worked together on "To Kill a Mockingbird." There is also a letter written in 2002 by Melissa Barton of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University to Ward Harrison of Jeffersonville, Indiana, concerning Harrison's desire for more information about Halliburton.

This file contains a twenty-four-page booklet by G. E. Hamilton, How to Make Handmade Lantern Slides, published by Keystone View Company in Meadville, Pennsylvania. It also includes three glass slides along with papers manufactured by Radio-Mat Slide Company.

The collection contains a single quilt pattern piece with instructions for selecting fabric colors and cutting. The only instruction for piecing the quilt is to be sure not to put two blocks of the same color together.

The file contains one photograph of Hank Williams shaking the hand of a boy wearing a cowboy outfit, as men and women in dress clothes walk by in the background. The photograph is slightly pixelated and is printed on a piece of photo paper.

This file contains a page bearing a pasted bookplate showing an an image of a monk writing with a quill, with the inscription "Ye Librarie of Robert E. Woods." On the other side of the page is a note that says: "Presented to Jennie, Dec. 25th, 1880, by R. E. Woods, 'Con Amore." "

The Stepin Fetchit Postcard depicts a scene from the movie The County Chairman, wherein Fetchit interacts with Will Rogers in an outdoor setting. The postcard features a reproduction of Fetchit's signature as well as an actual autograph by Fetchit.

One nrespaper article from February 16, 1996, about African American performing duo Buck and Bubbles (real names Ford Lee Washington and John William Sublett), who were popular in the 1920s and 1930s in Louisville, Kentucky.