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Scope and Contents From the Collection: The life of the James Rankin Mason family of Madison County, Kentucky is documented through the papers in this collection. Much of the correspondence deals with Civil War times. Reference is made to hiring black people, desertion and loneliness of soldiers. Parental concerns are voiced in correspondence as women try to raise children alone. Other correspondence mentions trials concerning an army discharge as well as other matters during the war years. Of particular interest is a letter from...

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1 item. Certificate from governor of Missouri regarding Townsend' s election as mayor of Starksville.

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1 item. Photograph of a painting, signed

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3 items. (Certificates) Life Member of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States. Member of the State Historical Society of Iowa. Member of the Imperial Council of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America.

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2 items. Mss poem Amy Cohentry, Tis of Thee!, signed. Photograph from dinner in his honor in Paducah

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1 item.  Diploma from Kentucky University.

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1 item. Photograph, signed as a grandson of John G. Fee

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1 item. Copy of mss poem "In Kentucky", signed

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1 item. TLS about Charley Russell and Tom Johnson and Townsend's autobiography

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Inscribed "To my friend, John Wilson Townsend, Dean of Kentucky's Men of Letters, who has done more to collect and preserve Kentucky & Literary heritage than any man I know."