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Margaret M. Simon, Compiler, "Trips from Ohio to New Germany in Preston County, Virginia 1826, 1833, 1835"
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3550
Overview
Transcript of "Trips from Ohio to New Germany in Preston County, Virginia 1826, 1833, 1835; Journal entries taken from the Tagebuch [Diary] of David Simon, Boardman Township, Mahoning County, Ohio; translated from the German original with an introduction and indexes by Margaret Miller Simon." The journal entries record the travel experiences of David Simon from Mahoning County, Ohio to Washington, Pennsylvania and New Germany in Preston County near present-day Aurora; includes a record of...
Dates:
1825-1986
Margaret Prescott Montague, Author, Letter
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0582
Overview
TLS to Dr. L. D. Arnett, librarian, West Virginia University, concerning the placing of copies of Miss Montague's books in the library.
Dates:
1934
Margaret Prescott Montague, Author, Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2218
Scope and Contents
Margaret Prescott Montague (1878-1955) of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, and Richmond, Virginia, was an American short story writer, novelist, and O. Henry Award winner in the early twentieth century; she penned some of her work under the pseudonym Jane Steger. Approximately thirty letters written by Montague to her friend Maggie McGee document Montague's personal life and literary career. Three letters at the beginning of the collection indicate how the friendship began, when McGee...
Dates:
1936-1945, undated
Margaret Prescott Montague, Author, Letters
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Collection Number: A&M 1348
Scope and Contents
Six letters by Margaret Prescott Montague to a Mr. Paddock concerning her own poems and writings, and the poetry of Angela Morgan.
Dates:
1919-1920
Margaret Prescott Montague, Author, Papers
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Collection Number: A&M 1110
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, manuscripts, notes and notebooks, diaries, press clippings, photographs, and printed material of a West Virginia essayist, short-story writer, poet and novelist, who won the first O. Henry Memorial Prize in 1919 for her short story, "England to America." The papers include correspondence from editors, publishers, agents and critics; readers' correspondence; family letters; manuscripts of short stories and other works; outlines, plots, and drafts; and diaries and notebooks...
Dates:
1893-1958
Margaret Price Hoke Reminiscences
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Collection Number: A&M 2361
Overview
A personal narrative entitled "Mistakes of My Life", prepared by Margaret Price Hoke of Marlinton, 1945.
Dates:
1945
Margaret V. Watson Diary
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Collection Number: A&M 3671
Overview
Diary of Margaret V. "Jennie" Watson, a resident of northern West Virginia, with most entries dating from 1877 to 1879 during the period of her single life. These entries provide a glimpse of the day-to-day life of the author, including giving music lessons, sewing, entertaining, traveling by horse-drawn carriages and trains, and her courtship with Clarence Smith, whom she married on 21 May 1879. A 26 June 1877 entry mentions the "Mystics" having a "Grand Meeting" at Governor Pierpont's. On...
Dates:
1877-1882; Majority of material found in 1877-1879
Maria Schwald, Diary Regarding Cruise Along the Ohio River
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Collection Number: A&M 4359
Content Description
Typescript of a diary kept by Maria Schwald chronicling her cruise on the Ohio River aboard the steamboat Gordon C. Greene, including her visits to Huntington, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati along the way. Schwald went on her trip in late July and travelled with "Two Pfisters, an Arnold, and two Schwalds", her relatives and close companions who were collectively nicknamed the "quintuplets". Typescript is bound with ribbon; a postcard depicting the Gordon C. Greene is pasted onto the...
Dates:
1935-1952
Marian McQuade Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3222
Overview
Much of this collection documents the efforts of Marian McQuade as the founder of Grandparents Day including information she collected on centenarians of West Virginia. There are also miscellaneous publications and artifacts belonging to her husband, Joseph McQuade, that pertain to coal mining.
Dates:
1853-1872, 1917-1995
Marie Boette Folk Music Collection
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Collection Number: A&M 4705
Scope and Contents
Recordings used in preparing Boette's book, Singa Hipsy Doodle: and Other Folk Songs of West Virginia, published by McClain Printing Co. in 1971. Collection includes vocal solos, hammered dulcimer solos, and vocal solos accompanied by dulcimer.
Dates:
1962-1969 and undated