Waitman T. Barbe (1864-1925) Papers

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Location of collection:
West Virginia and Regional History Center
West Virginia & Regional History Center
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6069
1549 University Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26506
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[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.

Summary

Extent:
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
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 The collection includes manuscripts of Barbe's published poetry and unpublished short stories, correspondence, notes, speeches, class lectures, illustrations for short stories drawn by John Rettig, a scrapbook of clippings of reviews and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.
Language:
English
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.

Background

Physical 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 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
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Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Authors -- Letters and papers
Education. SEE ALSO Schools.
Hospitals and sanitariums.
Iron furnaces and iron industry.
Monongalia County - schools.
Poets and poetry.
Schools
Names:
West Virginia University. Department of English
Weston State Hospital
Jacobs family
Reed family
Reppert family
Staritt family
Barbe, Clara Gould.
Barbe, Waitman, 1864-1925
Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930
Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925
Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904
Churchill, Winston.
Dandridge, Danske, 1858-1914
Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910
Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940
Gilder, R.W.
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
Hardman, George Dencil, 1906-1972
Hayne, William H.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
Holmes, Oliver W.
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956
Lanier, Clifford Anderson, 1844-1908
Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881
Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925
Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929
Montague, Margaret Prescott, 1878-1955
Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922
Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954
Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930
Preston, Margaret Junkin, 1820-1897
Rettig, John.
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946
Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900
Wendell, Barrett, 1855-1921
White, William Allen, 1868-1944
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
Wilson, Robert Burns, 1850-1916
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900
Wister, Owen, 1860-1938
Places:
Clinton District, Monongalia County.
Monongalia County (W. Va.)
Monongalia County, Clinton District.
Morgantown (W. Va.)
Parkersburg.