Papers, 1858-1863 (bulk 1858-1861).

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Papers, 1858-1863 (bulk 1858-1861).

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These are letters written by I. Chapin Bartlett to his family. At the time Bartlett was a student at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and lived with the family of college president Dr. Lewis Warner Green. He describes campus life and activities of the literary society to which he belonged, as well as noting growing antagonism between Union and Confederate sympathizers at the school.

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Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky Guide Project Office

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Centre College (Danville, Ky.)

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The literary societies at Centre College began with the formation in 1828 of the Chamberlain Philosophical and Literary Society, named in honor of the College's first President, Rev. Jeremiah Chamberlain. The Society apparently died out around 1927, but then was revived around 1939 for only two years.The Deinologian Literary Society was founded in 1835 by students who were dismayed with the Chamberlain Society, and continued in existence until about 1940. The Athenaean Literary Society was an of...

Green, Lewis W. (Lewis Warner), 1806-1863

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Bartlett, I. Chapin, 1842-1893.

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