Finding aid prepared by Sarah K. Piester
Young Ewing Allison papers
1914-1933
University of Kentucky Special Collections
Collection is arranged by material type.
Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
63M203: [identification of item], Young Ewing Allison papers, 1914-1933, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
1.24 Cubic feet
1 box and 7 items
The Young Ewing Allison papers consist of scrapbooks containing letters, manuscripts, clippings, and ephemera by or about Young Ewing Allison.
Young Ewing Allison was a journalist and one time member of the editorial staffs of the Evansville, Indiana Journal and of the Louisville, Kentucky, Commercial, Courier-Journal, and the Herald. Allison wrote widely on literary and artistic matters. He is particularly known for The Men's Long, the pirate ballad associated with Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island. Allison devoted the last three decades of his life to editorial responsibilities on the Insurance Field, a trade publication he founded in the late nineteenth century of which he was proprietor and editor.
The Young Ewing Allison papers consist of scrapbooks containing letters, manuscripts, clippings, and ephemera by or about Young Ewing Allison. The majority of letters were sent to Jens Christian Bay. However, several letters were received from Jennie Flexner, a librarian, and Edward M. Brecht, Abbot of Gethsemani, Trappist, Kentucky, as well as by members of the Bay and Allison families. Included are a short biography of Allison and a bibliography of his works. Many of the clippings present in the scrapbooks are articles written by Allison.
Contains articles, two unidentified photographs, poems, a Filson Club program, and Henderson County Historical Society fliers celebrating Young Ewing Allison.
Contains clippings, photographs, and letters compiled by Young Ewing Allison.
Contains clippings, photographs, and letters compiled by Young Ewing Allison.
Contains clippings, photographs, and letters compiled by Young Ewing Allison.
Contains clippings, photographs, and letters compiled by Young Ewing Allison.
Contains clippings, photographs, and letters compiled by Young Ewing Allison.
Contains clippings, photographs, and letters compiled by Young Ewing Allison.
Contains clippings, photographs, and letters compiled by Young Ewing Allison.