Abstract This collection contains 34 original letters written by Alfred B. McCreary to his father, sister, and brothers during the Civil War. The letters describe the movements and activities of his regiment and give McCreary’s perspectives on the progress of the war. The collection contains original documents and photocopies of original documents from the National Archives concerning McCreary’s attempt to receive a pension from the Department of the Interior. The collection also includes background...

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Collection houses twenty-six poetry journals of James A. Perkins. Each journal is a composition notebook that contains a year's worth of writing, notes, addresses, pictures, assignments, and business cards. This collection contains journals from 1985 to 2011.

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This collection houses correspondence, book reviews, grade books, a manuscript copy of Snakes, Butterbeans, and the Discovery of Electricity, research notes, and other materials documenting James Perkins' work at Westminster College and his 1972 dissertation on poet Kenneth Fearing.

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This collection consists primarily of a poem that James Russell Lowell wrote on the stationary of the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, Italy. It is ten lines long and is written in iambic pentameter. Lowell published at least three versions of this verse: The Lesson at the Pine (1849), A Mood (1869), and A Mood (1884). Also included is an engraving depicting Lowell.

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This collection consists of James Tipton's poem America the Elephant on broadsheet from 1974.

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William Bane wrote this poem, entitled I Am Blind, to describe what is is like to be blind and to express the hope that when he dies he will "go to the spirit land where the blind shall see."

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This collection includes a reproduction of a handwritten page by William Wertenbaker in 1869 about his time with Edgar Allan Poe at the University of Virginia in 1826. Wertenbaker comments on Poe's temperament and work as a student. At the end of the writing, Wertenbaker includes a brief list of the books Poe borrowed from the library during the semester. The letter in this collection is not an original.