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Latimer legend: typescripts and notes
1961
University of Kentucky Special CollectionsLexington, Kentucky 40506
Organized: Notes on John Brown raid; Marietta and Virginia settlers; Stonewall Jackson; The Latimer Legend typescripts. The typescripts are paginated and the other materials have no discernible arrangement.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Latimer legend : typescripts and notes, 1961, 1M64M16, Special Collections, University of Kentucky.
.5 cubic ft.
Author. Ann Hebson, who lived in Louisville and later New York, published her first novel, A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE, in 1958 and her second one, THE LATIMER LEGEND in 1961. The second is set in Kentucky and West Virginia alternating between the present day and Civil War eras.
The collection contains typescripts of THE LATIMER LEGEND and undated notes which went into the writing of the historical novel.