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Mitchell, Strother D., Mrs.,. Joel T. Hart scrapbook, 1877-1947.

Title: Joel T. Hart scrapbook, 1877-1947.

This is a photostatic copy of a scrapbook of clippings about Joel T. Hart, which was kept by Mrs. Strother D. Mitchell.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (27 l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13766408 View

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872. Horace Greeley collection, 1840-1872.

Title: Horace Greeley collection, 1840-1872.

Ninety-nine letters and one receipt pertaining to the life and activites of Horace Greeley, dated from 1840 to 1872. Nearly all letters are written by Greeley; recipents include Thurlow Weed, Henry Clay, Roscoe Conkling, Andrew Johnson, Hamilton Fish, and Joshua R. Giddings. Receipt is for a subscription to Greeley's Whig newsletter "Log Cabin," signed by Greeley.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders (100 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/711607282 View

Weeks, James Hubbard, 1810-1885. Journal, 1862-1864.

Title: Journal, 1862-1864.

Journal (with gaps) detailing an extensive tour of European cities accompanied by his wife, Maria Faxon Weeks, in four volumes. Weeks talks about difficulties traveling, the weather and scenery, and the accommodations and meals in each place. Using the Murray guidebooks, Weeks visited churches, museums, and palaces, and comments on works of painting and sculpture, architecture and antiquities. He also visits with the American residents of each city; in Rome and Florence, he visits artists in their studios and notes the works that have been purchased by American patrons. Vol. 1 (1862 Oct. 19-1863 Jan. 11): Bologna, Florence, Pisa. Rome: William H. Herriman and family; news of the Civil War and concern about McClellan becoming military dictator; taking Italian lessons; Roman Forum; horseback riding. Artists' studios: Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Emma Stebbins, William Wetmore Story, John Rollin Tilton. Visits Charlotte Cushman and describes her apartment. Vol. 2 (1863 Jan. 12-1863 March 27): Rome. Tilton's studio; Mrs. Murray's copies; visits Charlotte Cushman; Rome flooded; Miss Stebbins' studio; Ludovisi Villa; shopping for jewelry; to see the opera "Semeramide," in the Prince Colonna's box, comments on the dignitaries in the hall; John Gibson's studio; audience with Pius IX; Alessandri's photographs; Protestant Cemetery; Meli's, Simonetti's, and Joseph Ropes' studios; the Vatican museum and collections; the Farnesina; Karl Wolff's studio; Roman lotteries; Roman beggars; the Forum toured; to Frascati; a steeplechase, Harriet Hosmer riding; Hadrian's Villa Vol. 3 (1863 March 28-1863 June 10): Purchases photographs of works of art and stereograph views; Vatican Museum; Naples; Pompeii; purchases mosaics. Florence: visits studio of sculptor Joel Hart. Fiesole, Genoa, Asti. Turin: sees Victor Emmanuel II, "the ugliest man in Europe." Dijon. Vol. 4 (1864 Feb. 19-1864 April 8): Lyons, Avignon, Nîmes, Marseilles, Barcelona; winter in Málaga; Cádiz, Jerez. Madrid: description of a tobacco factory. Detailed discussion of Spanish culture, food, and customs. Granada: detailed description of the Alhambra.

ArchivalResource: 4 v., in slipcase ; 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62164600 View

Timothy Cole papers

Title: Timothy Cole papers

The papers of Timothy Cole measure 0.5 linear feet and date from 1883 to 1936. Found within the papers are letters primarily written by Timothy Cole to the editors of <emph render="italic">Century Magazine</emph> including A. W. Drake, W. Lewis Fraser, Richard Watson Gilder, Robert Underwood Johnson, and George Howes Whittle, discussing Cole's production of wood engraved copies of European master paintings for the magazine, and details of the wood engraving process. There are scattered letters to Cole from <emph render="italic">Century Magazine</emph> editors and colleagues Gifford Beal, Alice Brown (discussing Cole's wood engraved portrait of Louise Imogen Guiney for Brown's biography of her), George de Forest Brush, Kenyon Cox, David Finney, Helen C. Frick (concerning a bookplate), Joseph Pennell, Caroline Powell, John Singer Sargent, and Helen M. Turner.Also found are miscellaneous writings including a notebook of poems by Cole, essays about Louise Imogen Guiney and Joseph Pennell, and an autobiographical essay, artwork consisting of wood engravings executed by Cole of works by the master painters of Europe and America, and two printing plates used by <emph render="italic">Century Magazine</emph> to reproduce Cole's wood engravings. Several clippings concern Cole, his work, and the publication of the book <emph render="italic">Timothy Cole: Wood Engraver</emph> by Alphaeus P. Cole and Margaret Ward Cole in 1936. There is also a photograph of Cole cutting a wood engraving block as his wife reads nearby.

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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.

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Hart, Joel T. (Joel Tanner), 1810-1877. Papers, 1837-1881.

Title: Papers, 1837-1881.

Contains correspondence to and from Hart, poems, copy of will, geneaological material, and miscellaneous items. Correspondents include neices Dian and Mary Weaver, Hart's pupil George H. Saul, and others.

ArchivalResource: 40 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/506011313 View

Hart, Joel T. (Joel Tanner), 1810-1877. Joel Tanner Hart Papers, 1836-1877.

Title: Joel Tanner Hart Papers, 1836-1877.

The collection includes letters to and from Hart. The earliest, written while he was a stonecutter. Another recommends Larkin Mead's Lincoln design. A letter from Hart's cousin details conditions in Kentucky in 1868. Many letters are from or mention other expatriate artists such as S.V. Clevenger, Hiram Powers, and Anna Mowatt Ritchie. Other correspondents are Henry Clay, Cassius Clay, and John Breckinridge. Also included are a poem by Thomas Buchanon Read; a copy of Hart's will; and a letter dated 30 March 1868 labeling him "the poet-sculptor."

ArchivalResource: .33 cubic feet

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Chauncey Bradley Ives letters

Title: Chauncey Bradley Ives letters

Letters to Ives, 1838-1883, including a letter from C.D. Roberts, November 29, 1838, expressing satisfaction with Ives's statue of "Kitty" and reminding him of a second statue titled "Undine"; a letter, October 20, 1847, from Horace Bushnell concerning the reception given Ives's bust of President Day; a letter, February 23, 1849, from Charles Chauncey advising Ives to remain abroad; a letter, October 17, 1860, from Harriet Beecher Stowe relating activities while visiting friends in Peekskill and Brooklyn; a letter, March 6, 1862, from Mary Caroline Allan mentioning American visitors to Rome who have solicited letters of introduction to Ives and giving news of mutual acquaintances, including sculptor Joel Tanner Hart; and a letter, August 8, 1883, from Caroline Tilton.

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Barbour, B. Johnson (Benjamin Johnson), 1821-1894. Papers of the Barbour family [manuscript], 1672-1930.

Title: Papers of the Barbour family [manuscript], 1672-1930.

The collection consists of personal and business papers of the Barbour family, including correspondence, pamphlets, newspapers, maps, speeches, documents, reports, and a record of weather observations. It consists chiefly of the correspondence of James Barbour of Barboursville, Orange County, Va., dealing mainly with his official business while Governor of Virginia (1812), Secretary of War (1825), and Minister to England (1828). There are also papers of Barbour's brother Philip Pendleton Barbour, his son Benjamin Johnson Barbour, and of other family members. There is correspondence with many notable Virginia and national statesmen. Subjects mentioned include politics, government, foreign relations, railroads, the tariff, land grants, finance, states rights, weights and measures, and plantation operations. The collection also includes "A Mappe of Paradise belonging to Mr. Richard Lee, surveyed July 22nd, 1672" by Richard Lawrence, and a land grant signed by John Quincy Adams.

ArchivalResource: 1600 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647884416 View

Grigsby family. Grigsby family : papers, 1818-1884.

Title: Grigsby family : papers, 1818-1884.

Early correspondence, 1818-1859, includes letters of Charles S. Todd discussing revolutionary activity in South America, the election of 1828, and personal matters; family letters noting day-to-day activity; letters of introduction for Alfred Shelby written by Martin Van Buren and Henry Clay; Letitia Todd's niece's 1 June 1832 letter to Susan Shelby describing the death of Todd's children from cholera; letters, 1833, to Virginia Shelby discussing the cholera epidemic in Kentucky; and letters between the women of the family detailing plantation life and their activities, often mentioning slaves and their activities. Correspondence dated 1860-1865 concerns the secession crisis; attitudes toward secession; slavery; the Civil War in Kentucky; confiscation of property and impressment of slave labor; John Grigsby's military service in the Confederate Army; daily activities; and family news and events. The papers of John Warren Grigsby contain family, personal, and business letters, 1838-1877, concerning his service as U.S. consul at Bordeaux, France, 1839-1849; his marriage to Susan P. Shelby; European travels; U.S. and Virginia politics; and his service in the Confederate Army. The remainder of the collection includes business accounts, legal papers, land papers, and genealogical material.

ArchivalResource: 11.66 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49252868 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

Hart, Joel T. (Joel Tanner), 1810-1877. Joel T. Hart letters, 1829-1864.

Title: Joel T. Hart letters, 1829-1864.

Three letters from Joel T. Hart, a Kentucky sculptor, to his brother, John Hart of Clark County, Ky., and an 1843 slave bill of sale. One letter, 1829 (as published in a newspaper in 1881), from Nicholas County, Kan., describes Hart's studies; one, 1884, from Florence, Italy, recounts his travels and inquires about exhibiting his statues; and an undated fragment discusses a niece-in-law who is trading on Joel Hart's reputation by using his surname.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24342003 View

Clay, Henry, 1877-1852. Henry Clay letter, 1895 October.

Title: Henry Clay letter, 1895 October.

Note by E.A. Grant, a Louisville, Ky., physician, indicates that the cover sheet signed by Clay originally contained letters of introduction from Clay to Joel T. Hart. Hart was a distinguished artist who produced sculptures of several notable persons, including Clay. The address leaf is in Clay's hand.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428440015 View

Menefee family. Menefee family papers, 1826-1958.

Title: Menefee family papers, 1826-1958.

Papers consist of correspondence, primarily letters of Richard Jouett Menefee and Richard Hickman Menefee. Letters record family news; condolences upon the death of Richard Jouett Menefee, June 1893; and army life and news from Richard H. Menefee from camps in Lexington, Ky., Ga., and Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War. Correspondents include James B. Beck, Benjamin Bristow, Don Carlos Buell, Garrett Davis, Henry F. Farney, Joel T. Hart, J. Proctor Knott, Thomas Satterwhite Noble, William T. Sherman, and Thomas Speed. Also included is genealogical material of the Menefee and Jouett families; family record labeled : Matthew H. Jouett's Bible; diary, 1840-1841, of Richard Hickman Menefee; tributes and eulogies delivered upon the death of Richard Jouett Menefee, June 1893; and printed material of the Spanish-American War period.

ArchivalResource: 0.66 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49253056 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

Hart, Joel Tanner, 1810-1877. Papers, 1823-1876.

Title: Papers, 1823-1876.

Contains correspondence, manuscripts of Hart's poetry, a diary (1846-1848), and miscellaneous notes. Correspondents include Horace Greeley, Henry Clay, Robert Browning, Andrew Jackson, James Polk and others.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52249080 View

Mackoy family. Mackoy family papers, 1784-1943.

Title: Mackoy family papers, 1784-1943.

These are the papers of the Mackoy family.

ArchivalResource: 23 v.2454 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13848083 View

Hart, Joel T., 1810-1877. Joel T. Hart papers, 1836-1876.

Title: Joel T. Hart papers, 1836-1876.

This two item collection consists of a letter written by Kentucky poet/sculptor Joel T. Hart to Sophia Shryock, Sept. 9, 1836, and a poetic prose tribute written May 20, 1876 in Florence, Italy by Joel Hart in honor of his father, Josiah Hart.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38744758 View

Pindell, Henry Clay, 1823-1882. Henry Clay Pindell : papers, 1857-1882.

Title: Henry Clay Pindell : papers, 1857-1882.

Papers consist of correspondence of a committee for a statue of Henry Clay for the Jefferson County courthouse, and include letters, 1857-1876, from Joel Tanner Hart discussing sculpting the statue, a 26 Mar. 1867 letter from Millard Fillmore to the committee declining being the speaker at the statue's dedication and discussing the sad current state of the country and its need for Henry Clay, and letters to Pindell relating to the administration of Hart's estate; subscription lists for the statue, 1862-1863; accounts and receipts of expenses for erecting the statue; and manuscripts of Hart's poems, 1830-1873.

ArchivalResource: 0.66 cubic ft. (236 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49309051 View

Joel T. Hart Letters, ., 1829-1864

Title: Joel T. Hart Letters, . 1829-1864

Three letters from Joel T. Hart, a Kentucky sculptor, to his brother, John Hart of Clark County, Ky., and an 1843 slave bill of sale. One letter, 1829 (as published in a newspaper in 1881), from Nicholas County, Kan., describes Hart's studies; one, 1884, from Florence, Italy, recounts his travels and inquires about exhibiting his statues; and an undated fragment discusses a niece-in-law who is trading on Joel Hart's reputation by using his surname.

ArchivalResource: 4

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Coleman, J. Winston (John Winston), 1898-1983. J. Winston Coleman scrapbooks, 1799-1983.

Title: J. Winston Coleman scrapbooks, 1799-1983.

These are the microfilm copies of the scrapbooks of J. Winston Coleman containing newspaper articles, photographs and documents relating to Kentucky history. References to Joel T. Hart, Henry Clay letters and documents, articles about William (King) Solomon, material on the Harp Brothers, letters from Jesse Stuart, Hatfield-McCoy feud items, references to the Beachamp-Sharp duel and Belle Brezing articles are some of the documents incorporated into Coleman's scrapbooks. Also included are articles about Man O' War, references to "The Book Thieves" (a literary club of which Coleman was a member), articles about Otto A. Rothert and many photographs of historic Kentucky, Lexington landmarks as well as famous personalities and dignitaries.

ArchivalResource: 6 Reels of microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15741086 View

Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918,. Miscellaneous artists' letters, receipts and exhibition announcements, 1731-1901.

Title: Miscellaneous artists' letters, receipts and exhibition announcements, 1731-1901.

Fifty-nine letters from artists to various people regarding paintings, art works, advice, and daily activities. Also included are a list, probably in Samuel F.B. Morse's hand, August 1, 1833, of some of the subscribers to a dinner to be given by the National Academy of Design for Charles Robert Leslie; two signed exhibition announcements, one for John H. Twachtman, and Julian A. Weir; four receipts for James Claypoole, William Birch, Gilbert Stuart (signed receipt for payment for a portrait of John Adams, 1815), and Adolph U. Wertmuller; and an indenture release deed for Stephen Warne, 1731.

ArchivalResource: 66 items (on 1 microfilm reel)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81461316 View

Smith, Joshua Soule, 1848-. Joshua Soule Smith papers, 1865-1903.

Title: Joshua Soule Smith papers, 1865-1903.

The papers consist of newspaper clippings, drafts of essays, sketches, short stories and poems, fragments of novels, speeches, and miscellaneous Masonic material written mostly by Smith.

ArchivalResource: 12 v.1.6 cubic ft. (16 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14363464 View

Drew, Dorothy Hart. Drew Family Letters 1927-1973.

Title: Drew Family Letters 1927-1973.

Correspondence to and from society portrait painter Dorothy Drew. Distantly related to Joel T. Hart, Drew painted the portrait of Hart owned by the Kentucky Historical Society.

ArchivalResource: .25 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32288620 View

Wickliffe-Preston family. Wickliffe-Preston family papers, 1753-1897 1770-1887.

Title: Wickliffe-Preston family papers, 1753-1897 1770-1887.

These are the papers of Robert Wickliffe, General William Preston and their families. There are papers from Preston's career in Congress and from his tenure as Envoy to Spain. Correspondents include Thomas Hart Benton, Mary Todd Lincoln and Cassius M. Clay. There are several documents signed by CSA President Jefferson Davis. Andrew Jackson's pardon and amnesty to Preston (1868) is included as are Texas Association papers which include letters, contracts, stock certificate books, surveys and maps which are important in the history of Texas. Included with the Wickliffe-Preston papers are the Christy-Hepburn papers, George Hancock papers, Jason Rogers papers, Wickliffe executor's papers and the Woolley family papers.

ArchivalResource: 80 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15219132 View