Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Publication Date

2-14-2008

Comments

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

Abstract

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 53. Correspondence (business and family), business papers, speeches and drawings of J. Proctor Knott, 1830-1811, lawyer, congressman, and Kentucky governor, of Lebanon; family correspondence and business papers of Sarah (McElroy) Knott, 1833-1915; Civil War diaries and letters of Knott's mother (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescripts); letters of the Gibbs, McElroy and Chapman families chiefly of Marion and Warren Counties; clippings and photographs.

Disciplines

United States History

MSS 53 B2F4 Knott Diary #1 typescript.doc (171 kB)
Maria Knott Diary Apr. 1861-June 1862

MSS 53 B2F4 Knott Diary #2 typescript.doc (122 kB)
Maria Knott Diary June 1862-Jan. 1863

MSS 53 B2F4 Knott Diary #3 typescript.doc (83 kB)
Maria Knott Diary Jan.-Sept. 1861

MSS 53 B2F3 Maria Knott Civil War letters and reminiscence.doc (79 kB)
Maria Knott Civil War letters and reminiscence

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