Young Ewing Allison papers,
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Young Ewing Allison papers,
- Date
- 1914-1933
- Creator
- Allison, Young Ewing, 1853-1932
- Extent
- 1.24 Cubic feet
- Subjects
- Insurance--United States.
- Journalists.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by material type.
- Preferred Citation
- 63M203: [identification of item], Young Ewing Allison papers, 1914-1933, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- 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.
- Scope and Content
- 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.
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.
Contents of the Collection
Bibliographical Survey,, undated
Articles, two unidentified photographs, poems, a Filson Club program, and Henderson County Historical Society fliers celebrating Young Ewing Allison,, 1926-1933
- Box 1, Folder 2
Scope and Contents note
Contains articles, two unidentified photographs, poems, a Filson Club program, and Henderson County Historical Society fliers celebrating Young Ewing Allison.
Will: photocopy,, 1907 April 30
William Fortune,, 1942
Letters,, 1893 January 6-1933 June 14
Photograph,, undated
Scrapbook,, 1916-1923
- Item 1
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings, photographs, and letters compiled by Young Ewing Allison.
Acta Allisoniana: Book I,, 1914-1915
- Item 2
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings, photographs, and letters compiled by Young Ewing Allison.
Acta Allisoniana: Book II,, 1916
- Item 3
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings, photographs, and letters compiled by Young Ewing Allison.
Acta Allisoniana: Book III,, 1917
- Item 4
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings, photographs, and letters compiled by Young Ewing Allison.
Acta Allisoniana: Book IV,, 1918
- Item 5
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings, photographs, and letters compiled by Young Ewing Allison.
Acta Allisoniana: Book V,, 1919-1921
- Item 6
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings, photographs, and letters compiled by Young Ewing Allison.
Acta Allisoniana: Book VI,, 1922-1932
- Item 7
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings, photographs, and letters compiled by Young Ewing Allison.
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