Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
Gift, 2000.
Collection is arranged by format. The Wade Hall Collection of American Letters has been processed into discrete collections based on provenance.
No biographical information available on Jefferson Hallowell.
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
2009ms132.0500: [identification of item], Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Jefferson Hallowell exercise book, 1850, undated, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
The Jefferson Hallowell exercise book (dated 1850, undated; 0.05 cubic feet; 1 folder) comprises a notebook that documents various exercises completed by Hallowell while in school in the mid-nineteenth century. Also included in the book is a set of notes between Hallowell and another man, whom he seems to be in an argument with, and a large amount of clippings of death announcements and obituaries of local residents.
The Jefferson Hallowell exercise book 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.
The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.