Cowan, Gilbert, 1903-1969 (SC 3316)

Authors

Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky UniversityFollow

Publication Date

1-7-2019

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 3316. Letters, 28 July and 18 November 1931, of Gilbert Cowan, written to his brother Finley Cowan in Cannons Mill, Clinton County, Kentucky, while Gilbert was an inmate at the Kentucky State Reformatory in Frankfort, Kentucky. He asks Finley to help arrange a recommendation for him to the superintendent of the prison school, and doubts that he, unlike other inmates, will be able to apply for a reduced sentence. He also wishes he could attend church with Finley in order to “get me a gal.” The institutional letterhead includes rules governing inmate letter-writing and visitors.

Disciplines

Criminology | United States History

Recommended Citation

Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Cowan, Gilbert, 1903-1969 (SC 3316)" (2019). Manuscript Collection Finding Aids. Paper 4559.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4559