Authors -- Letters and papers
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Carpenter, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1773
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks maintained by Charles Carpenter, Grafton, between 1939-1963. Subjects include descriptions of libraries, book and manuscript collections, museums, rare and unusual books, magazines, book reviews, newspapers, and advertisements for books.
There are items as early as 1838, 1875, 1898, 1905, 1917, but the mass of the collection is in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Recurrent topics include book...
Dates:
1829-1963
John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2168
Scope and Contents
Selected letters and portions of the diary of John P. Kennedy, a Baltimore essayist and novelist. The letters describe Kennedy's many visits to Berkeley Springs and White Sulpher Springs. These items were copied from the originals which are held by the Library of Congress.
Dates:
1848-1857
John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1301
Scope and Contents
Papers of a Baltimore essayist and novelist which include selected materials pertaining to the Berkeley Springs-Martinsburg-Winchester area, visits to Richmond, Salt Sulphur, and White Sulphur Springs, and a journey in 1850 to Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Louisville from Kennedy's journal, 1848-1855; and his diary, 1829-1832. There are also selected letters and portions of a diary copied from originals in the Library of Congress.
Dates:
1829-1862