Robert Wilmot Scott papers, 1829-1884.

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Robert Wilmot Scott papers, 1829-1884.

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This group contains papers and an agricultural register of Robert W. Scott, a prominent nineteenth-century Franklin County landowner. Included in this small group is an 1833 letter written to Scott by Gideon Shryock, the noted architect, describing the state capitol (now the Old Capitol) recently designed by Shryock in Frankfort. Another letter present, from James Birney Marshall, discusses exploring expeditions to caves in Harrodsburg, Frankfort, and Virginia, the collection of minerals, and news of Frankfort, including the possible construction of a turnpike. This letter was written in 1829 when Scott was in Washington, D.C. A letter by Samuel Martin, dated soon after the reburial of Daniel and Rebecca Boone in Frankfort, answered Scott's question about early white visitors and settlers in Kentucky. Also in the collection is a hog, sheep, and goat register dating from 1851 to 1884. The sheep register was begun in 1851 and the hog register was started four years later. The volume contains many clippings from agricultural publications and some loose letters and documents pertaining to Scott's farming and livestock sales. The group also includes a letter from a friend, James Bacon, in school in Cincinnati, Ohio, and two letters from Elizabeth Scott's sister, Mary Watts Brown, one to her sister and one to her brother-in-law. The collection has an undated document titled "Notes on the life of Lafayette" supposed to be written by Scott and possibly completed just after the close of the Marquis de Lafayette's 1825-1826 visit to the United States.

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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