Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Soldiers; War casualties; Sick persons; Military camps; Military hospitals; Prisoners of war; Military officers; Guards; Courtship; Campaigns & battles; Writing; Reading; Christianity; Slaves; Freedmen; Orphanages; Mental institutions; Teachers;...
Diaries of siblings O.C., Mary, and R. Amanda Shelton from the 1860s and a speech written by R. Amanda Shelton in 1911 about her experiences during the Civil War. O.C. Shelton served as an officer in the Iowa Infantry 45th Regiment and died of...
Letters to and from Kinnick, a student leader, scholar, athlete, and naval officer from Iowa. This correspondence is chiefly letters from Nile Kinnick to his family during his term in law school at the University of Iowa and his enlistment into the...
Newspaper articles about the University of Iowa football seasons, 1936-1939, where Nile Kinnick excelled as a star player, which led to his Heisman trophy award.
Concerning his agreement with Wilson's Tory beliefs; accuses Blackwood's magazine and Wilson of offensive treatment of the "Cockney" poets, Shelley, Keats, Hunt, Procter and Tennyson, because their political ideas were not in agreement with...
Concerning his sending a magazine that includes his verses, as well as translations from Richter and Calderon, to the recipient; his request that the recipient share them with Lord Leigh; his reluctance to "force the acknowledgment of their...
Concerning his delay in answering Powell's letter; explaining his reluctance to send the sheets out without the preface; promising him "one of the very first batches that go forth".
Craik, George L. (George Lillie), 1798-1866; Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859;
Concerning an article on Mazzini that Hunt might publish to oblige him and Miss Winnard; the importance of not publishing it if it might injure the Journal.