Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Eunice Harriet Avery family letters
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Eunice Harriet Avery family letters
- Date
- 1896-1935, undated (inclusive)
- Creator
- Avery, Eunice Harriet
- Extent
- 1.35 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Letters.
- Families.
- Drawing.
- Travel.
- Friendship.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by subject. The Wade Hall Collection of American Letters has been processed into discrete collections based on provenance.
- Preferred Citation
- 2009ms132.1138: [identification of item], Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Eunice Harriet Avery family letters, 1896-1935, undated, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Eunice Harriet Avery (1888-1976) was born in Springfield, Massachusetts to Theodore Lyman Avery (1839-1922) and Harriet Bartlett Foster (1852-1888). She studied at Vassar College and was a frequent lecturer around the New England area. No other biographical information available.
- American Letters collector Wade Hall (1934-2015) was a native of Union Springs, Alabama. Starting in 1962, he lived in Louisville, where he taught English and chaired the English and Humanities/Arts programs at Kentucky Southern College and Bellarmine University. He also taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Florida. He held degrees from Troy State University (B.S.), the University of Alabama (M.A.), and the University of Illinois (Ph.D.). He served for two years in the U.S. Army in the mid-fifties. Dr. Hall was the author of books, monographs, articles, plays, and reviews relating to Kentucky, Alabama, and Southern history and literature. His most recent books include A Visit with Harlan Hubbard; High Upon a Hill: A History of Bellarmine College; A Song in Native Pastures: Randy Atcher's Life in Country Music; and Waters of Life from Conecuh Ridge.
- Scope and Content
- The Eunice Harriet Avery family letters (dated 1896-1935, undated; 1.35 cubic feet; 3 boxes) comprise letters, notes, drawings, and clippings that document the life of Eunice Harriet Avery and her family in Massachusetts in the early twentieth century. The letters are primarily between Eunice and Albert Melville Graves; they discuss day-to-day life, travel for work, spending time with family and friends, their desires to spend time with each other, books and articles they've read, the daily weather, and personal health. Many of their letters include little drawings of animals on the margins. Other letters come from family and friends, discussing daily life, local gossip, planning and attending lectures, travel, employment, and personal health. The papers include drawings of teddy bears, cats, and tigers and the notes include notes on lectures Eunice presents at and readings she has done.
- The Eunice Harriet Avery family letters collection is part of the Wade Hall Collection of American letters, which includes correspondence and diaries from all over North America covering the time period of the Civil to Korean Wars. The materials were collected by Wade Hall and document everyday men and women.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
A.M. Graves to Eunice Harriet Avery, 1918-1923
A.M. Graves to Eunice Harriet Avery, 1924-1929
A.M. Graves to Eunice Harriet Avery, 1930-1935
Julie to Eunice Harriet Avery, 1935
Lillian Graves to Eunice Harriet Avery, 1928-1931, undated
Theodore L. Avery to Eunice Harriet Avery, 1897-1909, 1922
Letters to Eunice Harriet Avery, 1900-1934
Letters to Eunice Harriet Avery, undated
Eunice Harriet Avery to A.M. Graves, 1917-1919
Eunice Harriet Avery to A.M. Graves, 1921-1922
Eunice Harriet Avery to A.M. Graves, 1923-1931
Eunice Harriet Avery to A.M. Graves, undated
Eunice Harriet Avery to Julia L. Avery, 1907
Eunice Harriet Avery to Theodore L. Avery, 1896, 1907-1908, 1922, undated
Julia to Theodore L. Avery, 1896
General letters, 1929, 1935, undated
Clippings, 1919, undated
Drawings, undated
Eunice Harriet Avery notebooks, undated
Reading notes, 1904, undated
Eunice Harriet Avery papers, 1907-1919, undated
McCall printed pattern no. 6274, circa 1930s
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