Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Prentis Papers (MSS 32)

Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky University

Document Type Finding Aid

This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 32. Letters to James Prentis, 1836-1869 (7); family letters to Lucy Prentis; Petersburg, Virginia, 1838-1842 (10); family letters to Margaret Prentis, 1867-1909 (8); 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.