Emilie Todd Helm papers, 1855-1943.

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Helm, Emilie Todd, 1836-1930. Emilie Todd Helm papers, 1855-1943.

Emilie Todd Helm papers, 1855-1943.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41208655

These are the papers of Emilie Todd Helm, wife of Confederate General Ben Hardin Helm and half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln. The collection primarily consists of correspondence and genealogical materials. The correspondence includes papers of Ben Hardin Helm as well as those of his wife. Among them are official orders sent to Helm during the war, letters he wrote to his wife during that period, and his law diploma from the University of Louisville. Helm's correspondence includes many letters, largely concerning Confederate reunions, from well-known Confederate officers and their wives. One separate series of correspondence consists of letters between Emilie Helm and her children and her cousins, Governor and Mrs. J. Proctor Knott. Helm was keenly interested in genealogical research. The genealogy subgroup contains many family narratives and some charts. Other materials include many clippings, essays, and other writings generally concerning the Confederacy and the Civil War. One subgroup contains remnants of the collection once held in the Confederate Room at the University of Kentucky Libraries (as was part of the Helms' original papers). This subgroup includes more miscellaneous writings, and correspondence (such as postwar letters by Jefferson and Varina Davis.) The following families are prominently mentioned in the genealogical materials compiled by Emilie Todd Helm: Breckinridges, Browns, Carrs, Findleys, Helms, Humphreys, Logans, McFarlands, Owens, Parkers, Prestons, Smiths, Todds.

6 cubic ft.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library