Sallie Brown Campbell Wagner : papers, 1854-1890.

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Sallie Brown Campbell Wagner : papers, 1854-1890.

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Papers include correspondence, 1863-1890, concerning personal matters of Wagner and her second husband, Doctor Lewis Clark Wagner, whom she married in 1880, and letters from Russell Cecil, a Nicholasville sunday school teacher, while overseas. Diaries for the years 1857, 1859, 1861-1862, 1866, 1879, and 1880, kept by Wagner, record school days at Jessamine Female Institute, social life in Nicholasville, personal thoughts on love, religious practices, local Civil War news and her perceptions of the soldiers, her years as a widow having to board with different family members and friends in Thomasville, Ga., and in Nicholasville, and her courtship and marriage to Nicholasville physician Lewis Clark Wagner. A diary, dated 1856, kept by Amanda Lindsay, contains a young woman's thoughts and some poetical verse on love and the sorrow of life. Other material includes receipts; a bank account book; canceled checks; genealogical data on the Brown family; a Civil War pass belonging to Wagner's first husband, James A. McCampbell, adjutant of the 20th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry; accounts for McCampbell's horse farm; Wagner's household and boarding accounts while the widow of McCampbell; lecture notes on the subject of physical geography taken by James McCampbell at Princeton; and a friendship album belonging to Wagner before she was married.

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