MSS Finding Aids
Publication Date
1-7-2019
Abstract
Finding aid only 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). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 4559.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4559
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu