Series 3. Louis Reed Papers, ca. 1960-1975, undated

This series includes newspaper clippings and typescripts of Wirt County resident and Atlantic Monthly writer Louis Eckert Reed. The newspaper clippings show images of Reed family photos (1960). The typescripts are short stories written by Louis, many likely unpublished. Also included are notes and a draft of Burning Springs, Virginia: The Civil War's Unsolved Mystery, initially a paper that Reed prepared for the West Virginia Historical Society (see Burning Springs, West Virginia: the Civil War's Unsolved Mystery, by Louis Reed, self-published in Elizabeth, WV, 1960). This material may have been developed for his later fictional novel, Burning Springs (published in Huntington, WV by University Editions/Aegina Press, 1985). For more information on Reed, see the Historical Note. A letter from Louis Reed to Jim Comstock regarding Reed's book Warning in Appalachia (1967) can be found in Series 6, Comstock Correspondence, box 62, folder 27. Other letters from Reed may be found elsewhere in Series 6, Correspondence.