Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Charles T. Lyon letters
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Charles T. Lyon letters
- Date
- 1891, 1906-1921, undated (inclusive)
- Creator
- Lyon, Charles T.
- Extent
- 0.90 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Letters.
- Love-letters
- Military life.
- Family.
- Mississippi
- Health
- Man-woman relationships -- United States -- 20th century
- Long-distance relationships.
- Friendship.
- Travel.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Parent and child.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by subject. The Wade Hall Collection of American Letters has been processed into discrete collections based on provenance.
- Preferred Citation
- 2009ms132.0824: [identification of item], Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Charles T. Lyon letters, 1891, 1906-1921, undated, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Charles Thomas Lyon (1896-1974) was born in Kentucky to Withers B. Lyon (1852-1921) and Sadie A. Brown (1862-1951). He married Gladys Sinclair (1897-1997) about 1921. He served in the military between 1917 and 1918. 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 Charles T. Lyon letters (dated 1891, 1906-1921, undated; 0.90 cubic feet; 2 boxes) comprises letters sent between Charles T. Lyon and family, friends, and girlfriends that primarily document life and relationships during World War I. The majority of the letters are sent to Lyon, coming from his family and girlfriends he was seeing. The letters from his family discuss daily life at home, raising children, the local weather, money, personal health, and visits from friends and relatives. Letters from girlfriends discuss daily life, attending school, employment, spending time with Lyon, arguments the couples had, trips taken, personal health, and gossip. Letters from Lyon to his family discuss his military experience, life in training camps in Mississippi, spending time with friends, running into friends from home, receiving invitations from local families to have dinner with them, his movement within the ranks, attending officer training courses, his efforts to get furloughs to go home, and how he plans to save his pay. There are also letters in the collection sent to Lyon's parents, Withers B. and Sadie, from relatives discussing business efforts, family health, daily life, and local gossip.
- The Charles T. Lyon 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
Mary E. to Charles T. Lyon, 1918
Parents to Charles T. Lyon, 1917-1920
Bertha Lyon Cheney to Charles T. Lyon, 1917-1918
Ivy Lyon Meadows to Charles T. Lyon, 1917-1918
Gladys Sinclair to Charles T. Lyon, 1919
Gladys Sinclair to Charles T. Lyon, 1920
Gladys Sinclair to Charles T. Lyon, 1921
Johnnie J. Ward to Charles T. Lyon, 1918, undated
Letters to Charles T. Lyon from friends, 1917-1919, undated
Letters to Charles T. Lyon from relatives, 1918-1919
Charles T. Lyon to family, 1917
Charles T. Lyon to family, 1918
Charles T. Lyon to family, undated
Letters to Sadie Lyon, 1918-1919, undated
Letters to W.B. Lyon, 1891, 1906-1920
Lyon family letters, 1909-1920, undated
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