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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) Papers, A&M 1220, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Papers of a Baltimore essayist and novelist which include a checklist of the Kennedy collection in the Peabody Institute Library; an alphabetical checklist of Kennedy's incoming correspondence; and selected materials pertaining to the Berkeley Springs-Martinsburg-Winchester area, visits to Richmond, Salt Sulphur, and White Sulphur Springs, and a journey in 1850 to Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Louisville from Kennedy's journal, 1848-1855; and his diary, 1829-1832. There are also selected letters and portions of a diary copied from originals in the Library of Congress, describing visits to Berkeley Springs and White Sulphur Springs, 1848-1857.

Scope and Contents

This collections contains checklists of the John Pendelton Kennedy Papers and the letters to John Pendleton Kennedy

Related Material

1220, 1301, 2168

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Authors -- Letters and papers
• Diaries and journals.
• George Peabody Library
• Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870
• Travel accounts.