Box 2

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Consists of ten newsy letters from Eva Lee Kesler of Walnut Hill Farm in Bagdad, Kentucky. Letters discuss cholera, the "World Fair," counting, and the drought in Kentucky in 1889. Eva is a writer and she talks about writing and having her works rejected.

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Form letter listing recommended textbooks for the academic year.

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Emma is writing to Ellen telling her why she left the celebration at Point Pleasant and asking about all of their mutual friends. She talks of converting friends to the Baptist faith.

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A letter from a wife to her husband. She has been away to visit family in Pennsylvania. She is telling him about their daughter and how much she misses him.

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Letter about a painting business bid.

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Blyth talks about a friend of his by the name of Mr. Williams who has requested a specific price to send an orphan girl whom is under his care to school. (Williams is willing to pay $200 for one year.)

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A letter that accompanied a two dollar donation from Allen to the Welch Memorial Fund of which Clark was the treasurer.

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Letter speaks of an unpleasant event that occurred.

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Two letters involving the collection of debts from a dry good store in Pineville, Kentucky.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Dr. Thomas H. Appleton, Jr. started regularly collecting historical Kentucky materials after he started working at the Kentucky Historical Society in the 1980s. The collection he continues to build consists of materials such as correspondence, ephemera, publications, legal documents and other items, which span over 200 years of Kentucky history. Some notable figures mentioned in the correspondence include Henry Clay, Charles S. Morehead, A.B. 'Happy' Chandler, Phyllis George Brown, Alben...