Box 5

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, from a variety of sources, that is undated.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The bulk of the Caperton-Burnam Family Papers can be found in the following Correspondence Series. Mrs. Katherine Caperton was well organized individual who preserved an overwhelming volume of correspondence throughout her lifetime. The following folders reflect her practices, and may be considered perhaps her most lasting material legacy. It should be noted that Mrs. Caperton also preserved a clearly articulated and planned narrative for her close family and self in the bound letter...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The bulk of the Caperton-Burnam Family Papers can be found in the following Correspondence Series. Mrs. Katherine Caperton was well organized individual who preserved an overwhelming volume of correspondence throughout her lifetime. The following folders reflect her practices, and may be considered perhaps her most lasting material legacy. It should be noted that Mrs. Caperton also preserved a clearly articulated and planned narrative for her close family and self in the bound letter...

Scope and Contents

The Katherine Caperton Legal Subseries contains correspondence from two unrelated legal cases and/or investigations. The first addresses Mrs. Caperton's dispute with the L & N Rail Road, and the trust fund for Miss Jennie Lackey, a Caperton cousin who suffered from a mental illness that stemmed from rural isolation and old age.

Scope and Contents

Box 5 Folders 5 through 8 and Box 6 Folders 1 through 5 capture Mrs. Caperton's personal life and relationships. The materials cover a variety of subject matters from local to national events. The letters in this subseries demonstrate the relationships that Mrs. Caperton fostered and maintained with other like minded national and local elites.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The bulk of the Caperton-Burnam Family Papers can be found in the following Correspondence Series. Mrs. Katherine Caperton was well organized individual who preserved an overwhelming volume of correspondence throughout her lifetime. The following folders reflect her practices, and may be considered perhaps her most lasting material legacy. It should be noted that Mrs. Caperton also preserved a clearly articulated and planned narrative for her close family and self in the bound letter...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The bulk of the Caperton-Burnam Family Papers can be found in the following Correspondence Series. Mrs. Katherine Caperton was well organized individual who preserved an overwhelming volume of correspondence throughout her lifetime. The following folders reflect her practices, and may be considered perhaps her most lasting material legacy. It should be noted that Mrs. Caperton also preserved a clearly articulated and planned narrative for her close family and self in the bound letter...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The bulk of the Caperton-Burnam Family Papers can be found in the following Correspondence Series. Mrs. Katherine Caperton was well organized individual who preserved an overwhelming volume of correspondence throughout her lifetime. The following folders reflect her practices, and may be considered perhaps her most lasting material legacy. It should be noted that Mrs. Caperton also preserved a clearly articulated and planned narrative for her close family and self in the bound letter...