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Boone, Samuel Harney. Letter : Louisville, Kentucky, to Reuben T. Durrett, Louisville, Kentucky, 1898 Nov. 21.

Title: Letter : Louisville, Kentucky, to Reuben T. Durrett, Louisville, Kentucky, 1898 Nov. 21.

Typescript copy of letter (signed?) from Samuel Harney Boone to Reuben T. Durrett, president of the Filson Club in Louisville, Kentucky, regarding the history of the Boone family.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (11 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80617042 View

Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891. Letter, 1883 Aug. 31.

Title: Letter, 1883 Aug. 31.

Letter on Wisconsin State Historical Society letterhead discussing Draper's forty year long collection of materials for an intended biography of Daniel Boone. He describes a Boone tree near the head of Shawnee Run, on which Boone's initials were cut, and questions whether the initials were not actually "S.B." for Squire Boone. Also mentions Reuben Durrett's proposed work on Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, and says that Durrett could produce a "most credible work."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49217777 View

Jouett, Matthew Harris, 1787-1827. Correspondence with Lawrence and William Leavy, 1823.

Title: Correspondence with Lawrence and William Leavy, 1823.

Handwritten transcript in pencil. Copied by Reuben T. Durrett. Also includes notes by Durrett.

ArchivalResource: .10 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52249371 View

Boone, Samuel Harney. Letter : Louisville, Kentucky, to Reuben T. Durrett, Louisville, Kentucky, 1898 Nov. 21.

Title: Letter : Louisville, Kentucky, to Reuben T. Durrett, Louisville, Kentucky, 1898 Nov. 21.

Typed letter (signed?) from Samuel Harney Boone to Reuben T. Durrett, president of the Filson Club in Louisville, Kentucky, regarding the history of the Boone family.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (11 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52249155 View

Durrett, Reuben T. (Reuben Thomas), 1824-1913. Reuben T. Durrett papers : letters, 1887-1908.

Title: Reuben T. Durrett papers : letters, 1887-1908.

Collection consists of two letters to William Lenny, and one letter to Miss Sallie Jackson. The letters to Lenny, dated February 8 and 24, 1887, discuss the purchase of Lenny's book collection by Reuben T. Durrett. The letter also mentions pamphlets that Durrett is copying for sale. The letter to Miss Jackson, dated November 17, 1908, is an invoice for Filson Club publications being sent to the Kentucky Historical Society.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (5 leaves) ; 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36864003 View

Harding, John. John Harding collection, 1846-1914.

Title: John Harding collection, 1846-1914.

Harding's papers consist of correspondence, 1859-1914, with his family and friends while a student at Georgetown, Ky., and Franklin College, Franklin, Ind., during the Civil War; letters from his father, Aaron Harding, lawyer of Greensburg, Ky., who served as a Union Democrat from Kentucky from Kentucky in the U.S. Congress, 1861-1867; letters, 1865, relative to the Taylor Petroleum and Mining Co. in which John Harding was a partner; letters and certificates relating to the breeding of Harding's horses; contract, 13 Feb. 1865, agreeing to form a petroleum and mining company; English compositions and manuscript poems, 1899-1911; letters, 1895, of Sallie Ward Downs to Mary Harding; legal papers, 1881-1890, of John Harding as attorney for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co. in Henry Co., Ky.; accounts, 1864, 1897-1900, and 1906. Also a contract, 1896, of John Harding and his father-in-law, George F. Downs with W.T. Hanks, contractor, for building a two-story addition to a dwelling house on John Harding's farm in Henry Co., Ky., accompanied by statements of accounts and receipts for expenses of building, 1896-1898; and promissory notes in favor of the Bank of Commerce, Louisville, Ky., signed by John Harding and G.F. Downs. The collection also includes the papers of George F. Downs (1814-1908), merchant and landowner of Louisville, Ky., and later of Pleasureville, Henry Co., Ky., and fourth husband of Sallie Ward Downs. Included is correspondence, 1897-1908, chiefly about the care of his real estate in Louisville, but including letters from his stepson J.W. Hunt, Mary Margaret Hunt, John T. Moore, Samuel Casseday, and R.T. Durrett; statements of account for upkeep of real estate in Louisville and personal expenses, 1896-1908; tax notices and receipts, 1902-1905, on real property in Louisville; notes, 1891-1895, of Downs in favor of Kentucky and Louisville Mutual Insurance Co.; eleven volumes of memorandum books, 1846-1878; five volumes of account books, 1866-1895; and four volumes of bank books of the Western Financial Corporation, 1866-1879.

ArchivalResource: 2.66 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49278810 View

Durrett, Reuben T. (Reuben Thomas), 1824-1913. Papers, [ca. 1850]-[ca. 1912].

Title: Papers, [ca. 1850]-[ca. 1912].

Contains a small amount of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, newspaper clippings, transcripts and memorabilia. Includes biographical and genealogical information on numerous historical figures from Kentucky, lists of prominent Kentuckians, list of Kentucky newspapers in Durrett's library, copies of historical letters and documents concerning Kentucky. Also includes correspondence concerning Matthew Jouett, an early Ohio Valley painter. Papers document Durrett's interest in acquiring a variety of materials on the history of Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52248109 View

Bodley family. Bodley family papers, 1773-1939.

Title: Bodley family papers, 1773-1939.

Papers pertaining to the Bodley and related families, primarily in Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Virginia, include personal and business correspondence, business, legal, land, and military papers, and genealogical material. Personal correspondence, 1776-1920, revolves around Thomas Bodley, his son William Stewart Bodley, and his grandson Temple Bodley. Topics include Kentucky history and politics; prominent Kentucky families like the Breckinridges, Clays, Crittendens, and Wickliffes; presidential elections and candidates; African American colonization efforts; agriculture in Kentucky and the South; banking; California history and the gold rush; cholera and other diseases; churches; land speculation; North American Indians; lawyers in Kentucky and Mississippi; Louisville history and politics; the Mexican War; Mississippi history and politics; the Aaron Burr Conspiracy; railroad development; the Civil War; states' rights; Reconstruction; slavery; religion and religious thought; St. Louis history; United States history, politics, foreign relations, and military; Virginia history; the Whig Party; and World War I. Documents include three diaries (1770-1811, 1814-1815, 1863-1865); land papers, 1783-1912; business papers, 1781-1936; military papers, 1788-1852; and genealogy. The collection also contains a group of Clark-Hite-Shiell Papers.

ArchivalResource: 9.33 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86072194 View

Filson Club. Filson Club records, 1890-1893.

Title: Filson Club records, 1890-1893.

Collection consists of early incoming correspondence to the Filson Club, specifically to Reuben T. Durrett as president. The letters are mainly replies to offers of membership (including one membership certificate). Other letters cover possible acquisitions, mainly "relics," for the Filson's collection and Kentucky Centenary Celebration. Tickets to the celebration, signed by Basil W. Duke (3 $10 tickets and 6 $5 tickets) are included, along with Filson letterhead. Notable correspondents include R. C. Ballard Thruston, Cassius M. Clay, George M. Davie, Bruce Haldeman, E. T. Halsey, Virginia Campbell Thompson, Abbe Carter Goodloe, and Rufus J. Childress.

ArchivalResource: 75 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/658826467 View

Walter, Lewis Allwhyn, 1868-1951. Lewis Allwhyn Walter : additional papers, 1891-1941.

Title: Lewis Allwhyn Walter : additional papers, 1891-1941.

Includes research, essays, fiction, and local history about Louisville; personal letters; family history; information about the George Rogers Clark Memorial Association; travel descriptions from trips to the Christian Endeavorers Convention in Boston in 1895, the Bluegrass area of Ky. in 1896, Mammoth Cave, Ky. in 1891, Lexington, Mass., and New Orleans. His research includes notes on memorials in Cave Hill Cemetery and tombstone inscriptions from the Frankfort Cemetery; essays on Southern Art Galleries, Bloody Monday, the Falls of the Ohio, and several other subjects; lectures on writing, Longfellow, and George Rogers Clark; and miscellaneous material regarding Louisville.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49377344 View

Todd, Harry Innes, 1818-1891. Harry Innes Todd-George Davidson Todd papers, 1823-1925.

Title: Harry Innes Todd-George Davidson Todd papers, 1823-1925.

Harry Innes Todd's papers consist of personal correspondence, 1835-1891, including letters from his wife and his mother, Maria Innes Todd Crittenden, and other letters discussing Ky. and national politics and his son Chapman C. Todd's service in the U.S. Navy, 1878-1889; papers from his career as keeper of the Kentucky Penitentiary, 1867-1873; accounts, 1860-1890; inventory of property of Harry I. Todd, 2 Sept. 1874; legal papers; a biographical sketch of John Rodman, attorney general of Ky.; 1828 Ky. broadside giving results of the election for governor and lieutenant governor; and newspaper clippings. Also includes the papers of George Davidson Todd, mayor of Louisville, businessman and son of Harry I. Todd. Contains correspondence, 1875-1925, discussing his 1879 visit to the monastery at Gethsemani, Ky.; Sarah Cecil's grievance against the actress Mary Anderson; politics; the Spanish-American War; Otto A. Rothert's proposed biography of Harry Innes; and family history.

ArchivalResource: 0.66 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49324873 View

Durrett, Reuben T. (Reuben Thomas), 1824-1913. Reuben T. Durrett added papers, 1883-1910.

Title: Reuben T. Durrett added papers, 1883-1910.

Papers consist primarily of correspondence with approximately one cubic foot of receipts and miscellanea. Correspondence details Durrett's book, manuscript and portrait collecting as well as his presidency of the Filson Club, his time as member of board of Park Commissioners, and his financial investments in numerous Louisville companies. Most of the letters are written to Durrett with a few letters from him scattered throughout. Correspondents include prominent Louisvillians, politicians, businessmen, historians and archivists. Also includes personal correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 5 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/67712510 View

Filson Club. Scrapbook, ca. 1890.

Title: Scrapbook, ca. 1890.

Scrapbook containing a list of the Filson Club's earliest members, letters about Durrett's biography of John Filson, and sample forms used by the society.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49221709 View

Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891. Lyman Copeland Draper : miscellaneous papers, 1854-1890.

Title: Lyman Copeland Draper : miscellaneous papers, 1854-1890.

Letters dated 18 April and 12 May 1854 to Benson Lossing discuss progress on his biography of Daniel Boone, its publication, the formation of a western historical society, and the ownership of his original materials; letters dated 8 March 1883 and 3 October 1884, to Reuben T. Durrett, describe George Rogers Clark's Illinois Regiment and its composition, and concerns Dr. Christopher Columbus Graham; and seventeen letters to Charles Anderson regarding a biography of George Rogers Clark and contacts with collateral descendants.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49217778 View

Innes, Harry, 1752-1816. Papers concerning Judge Harry Innes, 1786-1788, 1791-1792, 1893, 1899.

Title: Papers concerning Judge Harry Innes, 1786-1788, 1791-1792, 1893, 1899.

Typed transcripts of letters from John Belli and George D. Dodd to Reuben T. Durrett relating to Judge Harry Innes. Also includes a typescript copy of a letter from Innes to George Washington (1788).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (12 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/223979168 View

Filson Club. Filson Club lectures, 1887-1992.

Title: Filson Club lectures, 1887-1992.

Often referred to as "Talks Before the Filson," the collection contains numerous research papers and memorial speeches given before meetings of the Filson Club from 1887 to 1992. Topics cover many aspects of Kentucky history and culture. The bulk of the collection focuses on the period from the frontier era to the Civil War, but papers about later periods and non-historical topics are also included. Many prominent club members gave papers and had speeches given about them after their deaths. The collection also includes several poems and short stories.

ArchivalResource: 3 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60811962 View

Durrett, Reuben T. (Reuben Thomas), 1824-1913. Reuben T. Durrett papers, 1821-1931.

Title: Reuben T. Durrett papers, 1821-1931.

Papers include personal and legal correspondence, 1835-1910; correspondence of other persons, 1849-1900; land papers, 1854-1931; legal papers, 1847-1916; bills and receipts, 1851-1910; papers pertaining to R.T. Durrett's law practice, 1828-1902; and manuscripts of books, articles, lectures, editorials, orations, and addresses. Also included are letters and claims for slaves mustered into the Union Army, 1863-1867; business and legal papers of various persons; and Civil War pension claims, arranged alphabetically. Also included are records regarding The Filson Club during Durrett's presidency concerning history, announcements of publications, orders, acknowledgements and letters accepting membership, and general correspondence. The latter discusses historical and genealogical matters, literary productions, legal affairs, acquisition of manuscripts and portraits, etc. Correspondents include Charles Anderson, William C.P. Breckinridge, John Mason Brown, John D. Caldwell, Cassius M. Clay, Henry Whitney Cleveland, Elliot Coues, Andrew Cowan, Lyman C. Draper, William H. English, J. Stoddard Johnston, Anderson Chenault Quisenberry, Patty B. Semple, Reuben G. Thwaites, John Wilson Townsend, Neander M. Woods, Enid Yandell, Bennett H. Young, and others.

ArchivalResource: 14 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49217960 View

Durrett, Reuben T. (Reuben Thomas), 1824-1913. Extracts from the manuscripts of Col. R.T. Durrett concerning Col. William Linn : typescript copies, [ca. 1775]-[ca. 1781].

Title: Extracts from the manuscripts of Col. R.T. Durrett concerning Col. William Linn : typescript copies, [ca. 1775]-[ca. 1781].

Typed transcripts of extracts from manuscripts relating to William Linn. Includes inventory of Linn's estate.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (8 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52249400 View

Durrett, Reuben Thomas, 1824-1913. Autograph letter signed : Louisville, Ky., to Worthington C. Ford, 1890 Aug. 15.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Louisville, Ky., to Worthington C. Ford, 1890 Aug. 15.

Asking him to send a list of books omitted from an earlier letter.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270742801 View

Draper, Lyman Coleman, 1815-1891. Lyman Coleman Draper letters to Reuben Thomas Durrett, 1882-1886.

Title: Lyman Coleman Draper letters to Reuben Thomas Durrett, 1882-1886.

This is a collection of holograph letters from Draper to Durrett concerning their mutual interest in the settlement and early history of Kentucky.

ArchivalResource: 68 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13227541 View

Public Library of Kentucky. Broadside, 1872-1876.

Title: Broadside, 1872-1876.

Folder includes a number of lottery tickets authorized by by the Kentucky legislature to pay for the library building, coverage of the opening of the building on Fourth Street., announcements for the second and fifth gift concerts, and an article concerning the losses incurred by R.T. Durrett.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49301719 View

Reuben T. Durrett Collection on Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley (University of Chicago. Library). Proceedings of the memorial meeting of the Filson Club in behalf of John Mason Brown : manuscript, [1890].

Title: Proceedings of the memorial meeting of the Filson Club in behalf of John Mason Brown : manuscript, [1890].

Memorial book honoring John Mason Brown. Compiled by members of the Filson Club, 1890. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, and newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (110 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80985205 View

Goodknight, Thomas Mitchell, b. 1842?. Thomas Mitchell Goodknight letter, 2 December 1889.

Title: Thomas Mitchell Goodknight letter, 2 December 1889.

Collection contains one typed letter from Reuben T. Durrett, President of the Filson Club, to Thomas Mitchell Goodknight . The letter notifies Goodknight of his "unanimous election" to the Filson Club. Also contains general information about the Filson Club, its membership, and its protocol.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/74496353 View

Hayden, Sarah Marshall, 1825-1899. Letters, 1894.

Title: Letters, 1894.

Letters to Reuben T. Durrett containing biographical notes on George Leech, Sarah Marshall Hayden's grandfather, and information on the early history of Louisville, Kentucky.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (27 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52249332 View

Innes, Harry, 1752-1816. Papers concerning Judge Harry Innes : typescript copies, 1786-1788, 1791-1792, 1893, 1899.

Title: Papers concerning Judge Harry Innes : typescript copies, 1786-1788, 1791-1792, 1893, 1899.

Typed transcripts of letters from John Belli and George D. Dodd to Reuben T. Durrett relating to Judge Harry Innes. Also includes a typescript copy of a letter from Innes to George Washington (1788).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (12 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52249583 View

Filson Club. Proceedings of the memorial meeting of the Filson Club in behalf of John Mason Brown : manuscript, [1890].

Title: Proceedings of the memorial meeting of the Filson Club in behalf of John Mason Brown : manuscript, [1890].

Memorial book honoring John Mason Brown. Compiled by members of the Filson Club, 1890. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, and newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (110 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52249179 View

Durrett, Reuben T. (Reuben Thomas), 1824-1913. Reuben T. Durrett miscellaneous papers, 1853-1909.

Title: Reuben T. Durrett miscellaneous papers, 1853-1909.

Includes seventy-seven photocopied letters from the University of Chicago collection which discuss the painters Joel T. Hart, G.P.A. Healy, Matthew Jouett, and Chester Harding; other correspondence discusses the acquisition of material for his collection and Kentucky authors; and an 1857 newspaper clipping about his challenging George D. Prentice to a duel.

ArchivalResource: 88 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49217961 View

Hayden, Sarah Marshall, 1825-1899. Letters, 1894.

Title: Letters, 1894.

Letters to Reuben T. Durrett containing biographical notes on George Leech, Sarah Marshall Hayden's grandfather, and information on the early history of Louisville, Kentucky.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (27 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154328426 View

Cullen, Dorothy Thomas,. Letters concerning the Lyman Draper papers [manuscript], 1887, 1957.

Title: Letters concerning the Lyman Draper papers [manuscript], 1887, 1957.

In a letter, 1887 April 12, Mary Starling Payne writes to Lyman Draper describing all the Lewis family papers in her possession. In a letter, 1957 May 3, Dorothy Thomas Cullen of the Filson Club writes to Prentiss Price concerning a gift of "valuable old letters" made by Mrs. Payne to the Club, noting that the collections of the Club were intermixed with the papers of its president, Col. R. T. Durrett which were "unexpectedly" sold to the University of Chicago.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647997855 View

Pickett, Thomas Edward, 1841-1913. Letters to Reuben T. Durrett, 1905 Sept. 30-Nov. 26.

Title: Letters to Reuben T. Durrett, 1905 Sept. 30-Nov. 26.

Seven autograph letters signed by Thomas Edward Pickett to Reuben T. Durrett.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (29 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52249486 View

Gibson family. Gibson-Humphreys family papers, 1840-1955, 1847-1897 (bulk dates).

Title: Gibson-Humphreys family papers, 1840-1955, 1847-1897 (bulk dates).

This is a collection of primarily nineteenth century papers from a prominent Woodford County, Ky. family.

ArchivalResource: .4 cubic ft. (ca. 400 pieces)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13766881 View

Reuben T. Durrett Collection on Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley (University of Chicago. Library). Pictures, maps, and sketches from the Reuben T. Durrett Collection on Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, [1779-1910].

Title: Pictures, maps, and sketches from the Reuben T. Durrett Collection on Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, [1779-1910].

Consists of originals and reproductions of illustrations of individuals, locations, and events associated with Kentucky history. Contains portrait paintings, photographs, crayon sketches, pencil drawings, photographs of statues, maps, blueprints, and plans. Includes drawings of the house where Thomas Lincoln married Nancy Hanks and the house where Abraham Lincoln was born, and portraits of George Rogers Clark, Henry Clay, John Filson, Andrew Jackson, Stephen Douglas, Reuben T. Durrett, and others. Also includes maps or plans of post routes, Boonesborough, Harrodsburg, Louisville, Falls of Ohio, Bryant's Station, Floyd Station, Squire Boone's Station, Linn's Station, and others.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52246950 View