Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Publication Date

9-21-2012

Comments

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

Abstract

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 736. “Prison Pastime: A Poem,” written by William W. Western, a Memphis, Tennessee Confederate while in Canada during the Civil War. Privately printed, updated, and dedicated to Henry H. Skiles, a lawyer friend of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes typescripted letters of Western, written from Canada, discussing his poems and his uncertain future.

Disciplines

American Literature | United States History

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SC 736 Prison Pastime.pdf (1853 kB)
SC 736 Western letters.pdf (453 kB)
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