[Letter from Ludwell Lee Rector to Kenner K. Rector, March 8, 1858] Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title [Letter from Ludwell Lee Rector to Kenner K. Rector, March 8, 1858]
  • Series Title K. K. Rector Letter Collection

Creator

  • Author: Rector, Ludwell Lee
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Correspondent: Rector, Kenner K.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Donor: Clifton, H. Leldon
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Donor: Clifton, Kenna
    Contributor Type: Personal

Date

  • Creation: 1858-03-08

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Letter from Ludwell Lee Rector, to his son, Kenner K. Rector discussing that John wrote home to only be hard on Kenner and request funds. Jeanette will start school soon and it's becoming hard to get hold of bread or seeds. There's a possibility the grasshoppers will take the crop.
  • Physical Description: [3] p.

Subject

  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Social Life and Customs - Correspondence
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Social Life and Customs - Families
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Personal correspondence
  • Named Person: Rector, Ludwell Lee
  • Named Person: Rector, Kenner K.

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas
  • Coverage Date: 1858-03~
  • Time Period: tex-fron

Relation

  • Has Transcription: [Transcript of Letter from Ludwell Lee Rector to Kenner K. Rector, March 8, 1858], ark:/67531/metapth1297901

Collection

  • Name: Abilene Library Consortium
    Code: ABCM

Institution

  • Name: McWhiney History Education Group
    Code: MWHFG

Resource Type

  • Letter

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: KKR_004
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth1297900

Note

  • Display Note: Donated by H. Leldon Clifton and Kenna Clifton to the McWhiney History Education Group, previously known as the Grady McWhiney Research Foundation, the K. K. Rector Letter Collection is housed at McMurry University’s Jay-Rollins Library in Abilene, Texas. Comprised of correspondence from the early 1850s through 1914, letters center around the Rector family in Texas and the Virginia based Watts family.
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