Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Virginia Porter letters
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Virginia Porter letters
- Date
- 1907-1941, undated (inclusive)
- Creator
- Porter, Virginia
- Extent
- 1.35 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Letters.
- Correspondence.
- Female friendship -- United States.
- Domestic Life -- United States -- 20th century
- Women in higher education
- Women in education -- Kentucky.
- Farm life
- Teachers -- Kentucky.
- Women teachers.
- Education
- Gossip.
- Clergy.
- Travel.
- Religion
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by subject. The Wade Hall Collection of American Letters has been processed into discrete collections based on provenance.
- Preferred Citation
- 2009ms132.0906: [identification of item], Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Virginia Porter letters, 1907-1941, undated, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Virginia Porter (1893-1987) was born in Jeffersontown, Kentucky to Reuben Porter (1864-1918) and Elizabeth Hall (1865-1959). In 1919, she married Robert L. Carrithers (1890-1962). Virginia worked as a public school teacher and Robert was a house painter.
- 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 Virginia Porter letters (dated 1907-1941, undated; 1.35 cubic feet; 3 boxes) comprises letters and papers that document the lives of colleagues and friends of school-teacher Virginia Porter in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Kansas in the early twentieth century. The majority of the letters come from friends discussing education, teaching children, moving to new schools, local gossip, memories shared with Virginia, preparing classroom lessons, spending time with family and friends, trips taken, personal health, dating, marriages, graduations, working on farms, attending church, and preaching sermons. Letters from her family discuss Virginia becoming a teacher, their desire to see her and her family, daily life, visits from other relatives, and personal health. Virginia also receives letters from teaching colleges and her statewide education association discussing where she could attend school for appropriate teaching certificates, what subjects she needs to work on more, and professional development opportunities. The papers in the collection include a list of members of the Kentucky state judicial system, an advertisement for additional education for teachers to control classrooms, and a church program.
- The Virginia Porter 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
Olivia Beal to Virginia Porter, 1910-1916
Virginia B. Bell to Virginia Porter, 1913-1916
Daisy Buyan to Virginia Porter, 1907-1912
Lillian Edith Clark to Virginia Porter, 1914-1916
Edith Eldridge to Virginia Porter, 1912-1917, undated
Eunice Eldridge to Virginia Porter, 1918
Maude Eldridge to Virginia Porter, 1912-1913
Frieda Lang-Lausman to Virginia Porter, 1912-1915, undated
"Mazie" to Virginia Porter, 1911-1912
Mary Jane Roscoe to Virginia Porter, 1913
Mary Jane Roscoe to Virginia Porter, 1914
Mary Jane Roscoe to Virginia Porter, 1915-1916
Mary Jane Roscoe to Virginia Porter, 1917-1918
Stella S. to Virginia Porter, 1915-1917
W.R. "Jack" Spalding to Virginia Porter, 1914-1915
W.F. Wagner to Virginia Porter, 1909
Marie Whitman to Virginia Porter, 1912-1914
Hulda Wiggington to Virginia Porter, 1912
Ora Wiggington to Virginia Porter, 1912-1916
E. Luther Zerger to Virginia Porter, 1916
Friends to Virginia Porter, 1909-1911
Friends to Virginia Porter, 1912
Friends to Virginia Porter, 1914-1915
Friends to Virginia Porter, 1916-1917
Friends to Virginia Porter, 1929, 1941, undated
Family to Virginia Porter, 1910-1915, 1928
Professional letters to Virginia Porter, 1912-1914
Virginia Porter letters, 1913, 1936, undated
Virginia Porter papers, undated
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