Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 11. Originals of poems entitled  Frost-bitten Epigrams  written by James Pringle Adcock of Livingston County, Kentucky during the years 1939-1946. Also correspondence, 1932-1953, related to the collection

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Western Kentucky UniversityTopSCHOLAR®MSS Finding Aids Manuscripts8-11-2011Adcock, James Pringle, 1856-1951 (MSS 11)Manuscripts & Folklife ArchivesWestern Kentucky University, mssfa@wku.eduFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aidPart of the American Literature Commons, and the United States History CommonsThis Finding Aid is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in MSS Finding Aids by anauthorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact connie.foster@wku.edu.Recommended CitationFolklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Adcock, James Pringle, 1856-1951 (MSS 11)" (2011). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 1835.http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/1835Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Department of Library Special Collections Kentucky Library & Museum Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY  42101  Descriptive Inventory  MSS  11     ADCOCK, James Pringle, 1856-1951  1/2 box.  3 folders.  48 items.  1932-1953.  Originals.  1932.20.1   BIOGRAPHY  James Pringle Adcock was born in the fall of 1856, the eldest son of William Henry Harrison and Clarissa I. (Trimble) Adcock.  On 13 May 1884, he married Alice D. Peters (1865-1931); they had one son William Kirk Adcock.  The family built a two-story home near Hampton, Kentucky which they called “Sylvan Croft.”   Adcock published two books of poetry:  Heart Whispers (Marion, Kentucky, 1905) and Wooings in Rusticity (Hampton, Kentucky, 1909).  He died on 4 March 1951 and was interred in the May Cemetery in Lola, Kentucky.   COLLECTION NOTES   This collection consists of seven small notebooks full of poetry written by James Pringle Adcock and collectively titled Frost-bitten Epigrams. A folder of correspondence, chiefly letters from Adcock to Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore, director of the Kentucky Building, is also included. In the correspondence Adcock discusses his health, his writing, and the surrounding community.   SHELF LIST  BOX  1  Folder  1 Adcock, James Pringle –  1932-1953 41 items   Correspondence  Folder  2 Frost Bitten Epigrams – Manuscript, 1939-1942 4 items   Parts 1-4  Folder  3 Frost Bitten Epigrams – Manuscript, 1942-1946 3 items  2   Parts 5-7  CATALOG CARD  MSS    ADCOCK, James Pringle              1932-1953 11 1856-1951    Originals of poems entitled Frost-bitten Epigrams              written by James Pringle Adcock of Livingston County,              Kentucky during the years 1939-1946.  Also correspond-             dence, 1932-1953, relating to this collection.  ½ box.  3 folders.  48 items.  Originals.  1932.20.1   SUBJECT ANALYTICS  Epigrams Frost-bitten Epigrams Livingston County Noe, James Thomas Cotton, 1864-1953 – Relating to Poetry Poets – Kentucky Moore, Mary (Taylor) [Leiper], 1885-1973    Jeffrey   08/11/2011 

Adcock, James Pringle, 1856-1951 (MSS 11)

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Adcock, James Pringle, 1856-1951 (MSS 11)

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