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, mssfa@wku.edu

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