Collins family letters, 1808-1895, 1839-1879 (bulk dates).

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Collins family letters, 1808-1895, 1839-1879 (bulk dates).

This collection consists mainly of letters received by Mary Cox Collins.

1.2 cubic ft. (2098 pieces)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6819685

University of Kentucky Libraries

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Collins, Mary Cox.

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Collins, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1824-1888

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Lawyer and journalist from Kentucky. Wrote on the history of Kentucky. From the description of Papers, 1761-1873. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52246331 Lawyer, historian, editor, and a founding member of the Filson Club. From the description of Richard Henry Collins Letterbook, 1878-1880. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49200259 ...

Collins family.

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Richard H. Collins was born in 1824, the son of Lewis Collins, author of HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF KENTUCKY (1848). An 1845 graduate of Centre College, Danville, Ky., and later of the Transylvania University School of Law, Richard Collins edited THE MAYSVILLE EAGLE from 1845 to 1850, and again from 1853 to 1857. He also practiced law in Maysville from 1851 to 1853, and in Cincinnati from 1862 to 1871. He traveled extensively in Kentucky and Tennessee and further south during the Civil War. In 1874 ...

Cox, Alfred J. (Alfred John), 1835-1909

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