A sketch : reminiscent and autobiographical, [190-?]

1 item (50 p.) ; 29 cm.

English

Purchased from E. Nolan on the William Robertson Coe Fund, 1973.

Undated holograph and typed manuscript with corrections of William Leidy Adams's memoirs from his birth in 1860, to 1888. Adams describes his boyhood on a farm and early education in Pennsylvania; his studies at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio; his work as a teacher in Pennsylvania and Ohio; and his move to Texas in 1882, where he became a sheep rancher and county official in Midland and Mitchell Counties. Some pages of the manuscript are written on the verso of typescripts of portions of a story by Geraldine Blufman, and "The Adams Family in America" by an unidentified author. Folder containing manuscript reads "Gwenivere Adams, English IV, Miss Harker's School, Palo Alto, California, Senior Year."

June 01, 2002

William Leidy Adams, A Sketch: Reminiscent and Autobiographical. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

William Leidy Adams, A Sketch: Reminiscent and Autobiographical. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Autobiographies - United States - 19th century.