A&M 0831Waitman T. Barbe (1864-1925) Papers, 1884-1930 A&M 0831Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History CenterWest Virginia and Regional History Center

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-06-18 13:34:29 -0400.EnglishDescribing Archives: A Content Standard West Virginia and Regional History Center Waitman T. Barbe (1864-1925) Papers Barbe, Waitman, 1864-1925 A&M 0831 Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key /repositories/2/resources/3497 2.1 Linear Feet Summary: 2 ft. 1 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 records carton, 15 in.) 1884-1930 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 The collection includes manuscripts of Barbe's published poetry and unpublished short stories, correspondence, notes, speeches, class lectures, illustrations for short stories drawn by John Rettig, a scrapbook of clippings of reviews and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. 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: West Virginia & Regional History Center English Preferred Citation

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 Clinton District, Monongalia County. Monongalia County (W. Va.) Monongalia County, Clinton District. Morgantown (W. Va.) Parkersburg. Authors -- Letters and papers Education. SEE ALSO Schools. Hospitals and sanitariums. Iron furnaces and iron industry. Monongalia County - schools. Poets and poetry. Schools West Virginia University. Department of English Weston State Hospital 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 Jacobs family Reed family Reppert family Staritt family