Janice Holt Giles letter, 1954 Oct. 5.

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Janice Holt Giles letter, 1954 Oct. 5.

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This document is a typewritten letter from Janice Holt Giles to Bayless Hardin of the Kentucky Historical Society asking for more information on a "great emigration of girls" to Kentucky in 1781. The letter is dated October 5, 1954 and is signed by her hand.

1 item; 27 cm.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Giles, Janice Holt 1909-1979

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The novelist Janice Holt Giles was born March 28, 1905, in Altus, Arkansas, and grew up in both Arkansas and Oklahoma. She attended the University of Arkansas and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1941, she moved to Kentucky, working in Frankfort and Louisville. She later met and married native Kentuckian, Henry Giles, and settled on a farm near his boyhood home in Adair County. Her first novel, THE ENDURING HILLS, was published in 1950, after which she became a full-time writer...

Hardin, Bayless E. (Bayless Evans), 1912-1956

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Hardin worked at the Kentucky Historical Society and was also a prolific author of Kentucky history. Hardin is also known as "The Rambler." From the description of Notebooks 179?-195?. (Kentucky Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32288623 ...