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Alice McMechen, Collector, Papers of Artist Alvena V. Seckar
Papers of artist and author Alvena V. Seckar, collected by her friend Alice McMechen. Collection includes newspaper and magazine articles; material regarding work-in-progress "Jewels of Memory"; invitations to Seckar's birthday parties, correspondence, photographs, artworks, and copies of two of Seckar's books.
Clay V. Miller Papers
Correspondence, clippings, and printed material collected by the historian of Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, West Virginia. Subjects include Anna Jarvis and the Mother's Day movement and Andrews Church and Methodism in Taylor County. There are photographs of Ann M. Reeves Jarvis and her daughter, Anna. Correspondents include Anna Jarvis and Okey L. Patteson.
Ernest Glenwood Otey (1895-1966) Papers
Evelyn Cole, Student, Scrapbook
A scrapbook kept by Evelyn Cole on student life at West Virginia University and other social activities in West Virginia; contains clippings, letters, invitations, cards, tickets, programs, curfew penalty slips, etc.
Frances Hunter Diary
Diary of a female teenager from Pocohontas County, Frances Hunter, documenting her social life and other activities, including athletics, movies, parties, and 4-H camp. She mentions seeing General Pershing, General Petain, and President Hoover at Williamsburg. This is a candid statement of everyday life of a young woman in east-central West Virginia.
Harvey W. Harmer (1865-1961) Papers
Helen Holt Papers
Herman Guy Kump (1877-1962), Lawyer and Politician, Papers
Jean Lee Latham (b.1902) Typescripts
Typescript copies of several works of Latham: THIS DEAR BOUGHT LAND, a story of the Jamestown settlement; TRAIL BLAZER OF THE SEAS, the story of Matthew Fontaine Maury; and a serialization CARRY ON, MR. BOWDITCH. Latham was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia, graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan in 1925, and became a prolific and distinguished author and playwright.