This is a collection of blue prints of mining machinery and equipment drawn up for the Thomas, West Virginia company. There are also 19 pictures of mining operations and water falls around Tucker County.
These records include correspondence, graphs, blueprints, maps and other printed material relating to the coal industry in Tucker County, West Virginia.
A letter book that documents daily correspondence carried out when Davis Elkins served in the U. S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Stephen Benton Elkins. The letter book contains mostly constituent requests for information about various laws and regulations, or lobbying requests on pending legislation. There are many condolences and a few personal business letters.
Personal and business papers of Isaac, Albert, and Silas R. Davis, of Ohio and Marshall counties, West Virginia. Includes estate settlements, genealogical data, justice of the peace docket and broadsides. There is a Civil War loyalty oath for J.N. Keller, a War of 1812 discharge for Thomas Moore and an 1844 presidential campaign broadside for the Whig candidate Henry Clay.
Manuscripts of Davis Grubb's first novel, NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, and of his short story, "Gentleman Friend," which was the basis for the longer work.
Six audio cassettes of Davis Grubb reading "Tally Vengeance", "Craven Quick", and "Child of Small Consequence", n.d.; copy of "The Siege of 318" by Grubb, inscribed to Muriel Dressler.
Bound copy of the fifth draft of the play The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb (1976).