Kenneth W. Duckett Papers 1960-2003

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Kenneth W. Duckett Papers 1960-2003

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Kenneth W. Duckett (1924-2014) was a curator at the Ohio Historical Society (OHS) in Columbus, Ohio, from 1959-1964. He acquired the papers of Warren G. Harding for OHS, including love letters between Harding and Carrie Phillips. Duckett and other people and entities were sued by the Harding family when the existence of the letters was made public, and Duckett microfilmed the letters because he feared the originals would be destroyed. Duckett kept a detailed diary of the acquisition of the Harding-Phillips correspondence and the controversy that followed. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries and diary entries, draft and final versions of articles and books, invoices, legal documents, microfilm, memoranda, newspaper clippings, notes, press releases, reports, speech texts, and transcribed recollections.

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Duckett, Kenneth W.

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Kenneth W. Duckett (1924-2014) was the Curator of Manuscripts at the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus, Ohio, from 1959-1965. He negotiated with the Harding Memorial Association in Marion, Ohio, for several years to arrange for the donation of William G. Harding's papers to the Ohio Historical Society. The Harding Memorial Association had custody of Harding's papers but did not allow researchers to use them, and Duckett was successful in convincing the association to transfer the ...