Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth letters
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth letters
- Date
- 1922-1973, undated (inclusive)
- Creator
- McClain-Dulworth, Earline Lamppin
- Extent
- 0.90 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Family.
- Letters.
- Love-letters
- Family planning
- Marriage
- Medical education.
- College students.
- Ohio
- Teaching
- Moving, Household
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by subject. The Wade Hall Collection of American Letters has been processed into discrete collections based on provenance.
- Preferred Citation
- 2009ms132.0825: [identification of item], Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth letters, 1922-1973, undated, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- The Lamppin family of Floyd Knobbs, Indiana consisted of Thomas Lamppin (1868-1962), his wife Cora Belle Moore Lamppin (1874-1953), and their two children, Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth (1903-1990) and Chester William Lamppin (1907-1993). Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth married Charles A. McClain (1892-1952), a teacher, in 1926 and the couple had no children together. Charles' last name varied in spelling between McClain and McLean. Earline married Columbus J. Dulworth (1894-1986) after the passing of Charles. The couple had no children together. Chester Lamppin married Muriel Wigginton Lamppin (1906-1989) and the couple had two children together, Douglas William Lamppin (1939-1987) and Sherrill Lamppin Bohart (1939-2005). Douglas William Lamppin attended Tulane medical school and went on to become a flight surgeon and medical officer in the United States Air Force. Douglas and his family were stationed in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Ohio and Frankfort, Germany.
- 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 Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth letters (dated 1922-1973, undated; 0.90 cubic feet; 2 boxes, 2 photographs) comprises letters sent to a young woman named Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth from various members of her family and first husband. This collection primarily features love letters sent to Earline from "Professor". He writes to her about how much he loves and misses her while they are apart from one another while he is at school. The letters discuss plans to meet up with each other, visiting each other over summer break and how they spend their days apart. Also included in this collection are love letters from Earline's first husband, Charles McClain. Earline also receives many letters from her niece and nephew, Sherrill and Douglas Lamppin. Sherrill writes to her aunt for advice about work and shares with her that she struggles with depression. Douglas sends his aunt letters frequently and the letters span high school, college, and his marriage. Douglas, his wife, and their two kids write to Earline and Charles while they are stationed at different air force bases as Douglas is a medical officer and flight surgeon. Earline also receives letters from her brother and sister in law, Chester and Muriel Lamppin, as well as her parents, Thomas and Cora Lamppin. They send each other updates on their personal lives and updates on other family letters.
- The Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth 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
Charles McClain to Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth, 1922-1924
Douglas Lamppin to Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth, 1952-1968, undated
Thomas and Cora Lamppin to Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth, 1941-1947
Cora Lamppin to Charles McClain, 1944
Douglas Lamppin to Thomas Lamppin, 1957-1960
Sherrill Lamppin to Thomas and Cora Lamppin, 1947-1952
Martha Ball to Chester Lamppin, 1967
Chester Lamppin to Sherrill Lamppin Bohart, 1968
Chester Lamppin to Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth, 1960-1971, undated
Sherrill Lamppin Bohart to Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth, 1967-1970, undated
Martha Ball to Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth, 1961-1972, undated
Letters to Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth, 1925-1973, undated
Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth papers, 1925, 1957-1963, undated
Aimee and Diedre Lamppin to Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth, 1963,1972, undated
Newspaper clippings, 1961-1967, undated
Muriel Lamppin to Thomas and Cora Lamppin, undated
Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth to Charles McClain, undated
Professor to Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth, 1923-1925
Professor to Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth, 1926
Professor to Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth, 1927
Professor to Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth, 1928
Professor to Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth, 1929
Professor to Earline Lamppin McClain Dulworth, 1930-1931, undated
Lamppin family photographs, undated
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