Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Publication Date

11-30-2011

Comments

This collection is archived in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Finding aid, scans and typescripts of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 32. Letters to James Prentis, 1836-1869; family letters to Lucy Prentis, Petersburg, Virginia, 1838-1842; family letters to Margaret Prentis, 1867-1909; 26 letters and essays of James Prentis written to friends and newspaper editors expressing his views as a Union supporter, 1861-1867; and miscellaneous items.

Disciplines

History | Military History | United States History

Additional Files
MSS 32 B1 PRENTIS, A. B. 20 May 1865 Typescript.doc (35 kB)
Letter from A. B. Prentis to James Prentis 20 May 1865
MSS 32 B1F4 James Prentis political letters and essays.pdf (89610 kB)
B1F4 James Prentis political letters and essays
MSS 32 B1F4a James Prentis partial letters and essays.pdf (10282 kB)
B1F4a James Prentis letter and essay fragments
MSS 32 B1F4 item 1.doc (49 kB)
B1F4 item 1 Letter to Thomas Branch
MSS 32 B1F4 item 3.doc (49 kB)
B1F4 item 3 Letter to Archibald Prentis
MSS 32 B1F4 item 5.doc (49 kB)
B1F4 item 5 Letter to Editors of National Intelligencer
MSS 32 B1F4 item 7.doc (39 kB)
B1F4 item 7 Letter to Editors of Louisville Journal
MSS 32 B1F4 item 9.doc (36 kB)
B1F4 item 9 Letter to Edmund Ruffin
MSS 32 B1F4 item 10.doc (38 kB)
B1F4 item 10 Letter to Editors of Louisville press
MSS 32 B1F4 item 12.doc (41 kB)
B1F4 item 12 What is to be done with Jeff. Davis?
MSS 32 B1F4 item 13.doc (37 kB)
B1F4 item 13 On confiscation bills
MSS 32 B1F4 item 14.doc (70 kB)
B1F4 item 14 On slavery and secession
MSS 32 B1F4 item 15.doc (53 kB)
B1F4 item 15 Letter to Col. C.J. Swan
MSS 32 B1F4 item 19.doc (38 kB)
B1F4 item 19 Where are we drifting?
MSS 32 B1F4a item 2.doc (39 kB)
B1F4a item 2 Letter to Andrew Johnson?
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