Shirley, Mrs. W. E. - Collector (SC 174)

Authors

• Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky UniversityFollow

Publication Date

5-11-2011

Comments

This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, [email protected]

Abstract

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 174. Research materials collected by Mrs. W. E. Shirley for her master’s thesis (Western Kentucky State Teachers College, 1934) on Isaac Shelby (1750-1826). Includes typescripts of Shelby’s gubernatorial correspondence (1793-1794); his 1826 will (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan); his autobiography; a pamphlet (1828) by Shelby’s son relating to the Chickasaw Treaty of 1818; and a letter to Mrs. Shirley from the Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky, regarding the source of the typescripted autobiography.

Disciplines

History | Political Science | United States History

Recommended Citation

Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Shirley, Mrs. W. E. - Collector (SC 174)" (2011). Manuscript Collection Finding Aids. Paper 1784.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/1784