Edwin Carlile Litsey papers
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Edwin Carlile Litsey papers
- Date
- 1938-1965, undated (inclusive)
- Extent
- 3.83 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Authors, American -- Kentucky.
- Manuscripts -- Kentucky.
- Novelists.
- Poets laureate.
- Short stories, American -- Kentucky
- Arrangement
- The collection is arranged into six series: Autobiographical novels; Novels; Poems; Printed short stories, original manuscripts; Short stories and essays; and Book reviews, correspondence, and assorted.
- Preferred Citation
- 70m12: [Identification of item], Edwin Carlile Litsey papers, 1938-1965, undated, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Edwin Carlile Litsey was born near the Little Beech River in Washington County on June 3, 1874. When he was a child his family moved to Lebanon, Kentucky. Upon his father's death, when Edwin was only 17 years old, he began a long career as a banker at Marion National Bank. He continued to work at the bank for more than seventy years. He married the former Carrie Selecman, of Washington County, in 1900. She died in 1910. They had one daughter, also an author, Sarah Selecman Litsey Nye Ford.
- In his twenties, Litsey began writing as a hobby. His first novel, The Princess of Gramfalon was published in 1900. Throughout his life he published 13 books - nine novels, one volume of short stories, one novelette, and two books of poetry. His works were often about people and life in Washington County, Kentucky. Notable works include A Man from Jericho (1911), The Eternal Flame (1937), a novelette, Stones for Bread (1940). Litsey was chosen by the state legislature as Poet Laureate of Central Kentucky in 1954.
- "Edwin Carlisle Litsey, Poet Laureate Dies". The Lebanon Enterprise, pages 1-2, Thursday, February 5, 1970.
- Scope and Content
- The Edwin Carlisle Litsey papers (dated 1938-1965, undated; 3.83 cubic feet; 9 boxes) consists of typescripts for 174 short stories, 218 poems and nine novels by Kentucky author Edwin Carlile Litsey. The collection includes the typescript for the novel Stones For Bread, which is considered one of Litsey's best works. Also included are book reviews, letters, and poems by his daughter, Sarah Litsey Nye Ford.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open for 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
Autobiographical novels, undated
Novels, undated
Peaceful Valley, undated
The Stalled Ox, undated
Stones for Bread, undated
The Strength of the Soil, first version, undated
The Strength of the Soil, second version, undated
The Strength of the Soil, third version, undated
The Way of a Man, first version, undated
The Way of a Man, second version, undated
Poems, undated
Printed short stories, original manuscripts, undated
Short stories and essays, undated
Book reviews, correspondence, and assorted, 1938-1965, undated
The Eternal Flame review, undated
Grist reviews, undated
Letters, 1938
Letters, 1943
Letters, 1965
Miscellaneous and incomplete poems written by others, undated
Sarah Litsey's poems, undated
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