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In researching the history of rum and rum cocktails, author Wayne Curtis bought
No full textIn researching the history of rum and rum cocktails, author Wayne Curtis bought an out-of-print copy of Trader Vic\u27s Book of Food & Drink that once belonged to Maine author Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957). On a blank page, Curtis discovered Roberts\u27 well-crafted description of inventing a recipe, with scratched out and recast words
Curtis Blanton, Mountain Humorist
No full textAuthor Curtis Blanton has a wonderful sense of humor. Herewith, listen to this interview from 2009 about how he came to publish the stories he heard the old timers tell when he was a kid
Curtis R. Burke journal, W.0063
No full textAbstract: Typescript of Curtis R. Burke's Civil War journal which includes daily entries from October 1862 to June 1865. Notable journal entries include descriptions of John Hunt Morgan's raid into Ohio in July 1863, and accounts of conditions in prison camps in Indiana and Illinois.Scope and Content Note: This collection contains a 482-page typescript of Curtis R. Burke's Civil War journal. The journal includes daily entries from October 1862 to June 1865. Notable journal entries include a description of John Hunt Morgan's raid into Ohio in July 1863 and an account of conditions in the prison camps Camp Morton, located in Indianapolis, and Camp Douglas, located in Chicago.This bound typescript was edited by Pamela J. Bennett in 1971. According to information provided in an article by Pamela J. Bennett, editor of the published journal, Curtis R. Burke prepared a typed copy of his journal in 1914, drawing from an earlier journal to create the account. While the typescript copy written by Burke survived, the original was lost.Source: "Curtis R. Burke's Civil War Journal." Pamela J. Bennet and Richard A. Misselhorn.
Indiana Magazine of History, vol. 65, no. 4 (December 1969), pp. 283-327 (Published by: Indiana University Department of History. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27789613)Biographical/Historical Note: Curtis Rensellear Burke, son of Edward D. and Anna Barbara Rice Burke, was born on January 24, 1842, in Massillion, Ohio. As a child, Burke and his family relocated to Kentucky. In 1862 Burke, then a student at Transylvania University, left school and enlisted in the Lexington Rifle company led by John H. Morgan. Under Morgan's command, Burke participated in the raid into Ohio in July 1863. He was captured by Union forces on July 19, 1863, and imprisoned at Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois. Burke was released in March 1865 and at the end of the war, he returned to Kentucky. He died on November 5, 1919
Trip account
No full textTrip account - AMs, 15 pp.
“I am attempting to give you some account of a recent vacation trip which we were privileged to enjoy - Rose, Mother and I…” As the account of the trip to view the eclipse is unsigned, we can’t say for sure but as the author states “Rose, Mother and I” one could logically assume that the author is a sibling of T. Rose Curtis
Letter from Thomas Bennett to Alden Partridge, 5 December 1827
No full textThomas Bennet writes from Charleston, South Carolina, to Alden Partridge at the American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy in Middletown, Connecticut, regarding an application he had made previously to abridge some of the "labours" of his son, Washington J. Bennett, at the Academy due to a worrying "chest complaint" that others have written to him about; also mentions the recent death of a close childhood friend of his son.Transcription by L. Gregory Curtis, NU'77, MSIA'07. Transcriptions may be subject to error
Curtis Wilkie Letter and Map
No full textA nine-page letter from journalist and author Curtis Wilkie, written to his parents, containing a first-hand account of the integration of the University of Mississippi. Wilkie was a student at the university at the time. Included is a hand-drawn map showing the places on campus where various events occurred during the riots
Program for the Curtis Picture Musicale
No full textPrinted on title page: Edward S. Curtis. Author of "The North American Indian". Music composed by Henry F. Gilbert.
The program for Edward Curtis's "musicale" or "picture-opera" featuring a foreward by Curtis, dissolving slide shows, motion pictures and music. The music was composed by Henry Gilbert and based on the wax cylinder recordings Curtis had made of Native American music with his photographic subjects. This program which toured the country during the winter of 1911-1912 included such productions as "Dream of the Ancient Red Man", and "Evening in Hopi Land".
Also in PH Coll 484.AD
[Letter] 1859 December 12, Roxberg / George William Curtis.
No full textCurtis thanks the sender for the little book, stating that it makes him wish and hope that the fraternity of good thinking will not be dissolved. An author and an orator who spent two years at the utopian Brook Farm community, Curtis published novels like _Trumps_ [1861] as well as delivering addresses on William Cullen Bryant, Robert Burns, Washington Irving, and James Russell Lowell. He befriended Emerson, edited _Putnam\u27s Monthly_ , actively wrote about New York and national politics in periodicals like _Harper\u27s Magazine_ , and wrote travel narratives
Bennett College Postcard, circa 1960
No full textA postcard displaying Bennett College's faculty cottages; Belle Tobias Curtis Cottage, Ellen Taylor Trigg Cottage, and Nan Goode Smith Cottage
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