2.1 Linear Feet, Summary: 2 ft. 1 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 records carton, 15 in.)
Creator
Barbe, Waitman, 1864-1925
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown,
WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Language
English
Abstract
Papers of the managing editor of the Parkersburg DAILY STATE JOURNAL, 1889-1895, editor of the WEST VIRGINIA SCHOOL JOURNAL,
and member of the English faculty of West Virginia University, 1895-1925. The collection includes manuscripts of Barbe's published
poetry and unpublished short stories, correspondence, notes, speeches, class lectures, illustrations for short stories drawn
by John Rettig, a scrapbook of clippings of reviews and correspondence relating to Barbe's book, GOING TO COLLEGE, and memorabilia.
The correspondence includes letters, in some cases accompanied by holograph verse, from Winston Churchill, Richard Harding
Davis, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Hamlin Garland, R.W. Gilder, Edward E. Hale, William H. Hayne, Thomas Wentworth Higginson,
Julia Ward Howe, William Dean Howells, Rupert Hughes, Stephen Leacock, Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Brander Matthews,
Margaret Prescott Montague, Bliss Perry, Melville D. Post, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Booth Tarkington, Charles Dudley Warner,
Barrett Wendell, William Allen White, W.L. Wilson, and Owen Wister. There is also a volume of mounted holograph letters, 1884-1895,
from the following American authors, a few of whom are also included in the general collection: Edward W. Bok, George W. Cable,
Kate Chopin, Danske Dandridge, Oliver W. Holmes, Clifford Lanier, Sidney Lanier, Thomas Nelson Page, Margaret J. Preston,
James Whitcomb Riley, and John G. Whittier. Most letters are brief and many are simple acknowledgements.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Waitman T. Barbe (1864-1925) Papers, A&M 0831, West Virginia and Regional
History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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