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Library Manuscript Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 194

Scope and Contents The collection consists of letters and documents dating from 1696 though 1983 collected by TCU library staff. Many of the letters were written by notable public figures, politicians, authors, and educators. Of note are letters written by Stephen F. Austin, Pearl Buck, Mary Couts Burnett, Alexander Campbell, T.S. Eliot, Tom Conally, John Nance Garner, John F. Kennedy, and Nelson Rockefeller among others. The collection also contains two documents related to colonial Mexico written by Baltasar...

Dates: 1696-1983

Found in: Archives and Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library

Lili Kraus Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 128

Collection Scope and Content Summary The collection includes articles, newspaper clippings, and news releases related to her career. The collection also contains master class brochures, concert notices, and papers related to Kraus' teaching at TCU. The bulk of the material concerns the preparation for the 1983 gala TCU hosted in her honor and the production of the Lili Kraus video broadcast. Gala budget sheets, invitations, speeches, scripts, and publicity plans are all included. The broadcast information includes news articles,...

Dates: 1968-1986; Majority of material found in 1968-1986 inclusive, 1968-1983

Found in: Archives and Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library

Linda Kaye Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 103

Scope and Contents The collection documents Linda Kaye's career, particularly her time spent photographing TCU events from 1962-2007. Series I consists of images taken at TCU events or of TCU faculty, staff, and students. Photos of sporting events and the performing arts comprise the majority of the series. TCU athletics are thoroughly represented. Even though photos of football, basketball, and baseball are most common, this collection includes photos from nearly all men's and women's sports in which TCU...

Dates: 1962-2007 inclusive, 1985-2007 bulk; 1985 - 2007

Found in: Archives and Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library

Linda Loftis Tobias Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 125

Scope and Contents The papers include correspondence, student records and recitals, performance programs, and news clippings.

Dates: Other: 1961-2003

Found in: Archives and Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library

Lorraine Sherley Papers, 1953-1979.

Collection — Box: 1-6

Identifier: MS 9

Scope and Contents The papers range from 1953 through 1979 and document Sherley's research and teaching interests. The papers include correspondence, lecture materials, and research materials. The vast majority of the correspondence relates to Sherley's research on Queen Elizabeth I and was written circa 1954, when Sherley lived in England. Approximately half of the collection is made up of research materials for Sherley's doctoral thesis on portraits of Queen Elizabeth. The other half of the...

Dates: 1953-1979

Found in: Archives and Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library

Love Family Letters

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS 001

Scope and Contents

Correspondence (87 letters and fragments) and a Dallas Morning News article. Letters are arranged chronologically, individually enclosed and then organized into folders by decade. The folders lay flat in an oversized box.

The correspondence deals primarily with the daily life of soldiers, troop movements and battles fought. Requests are often made for news from home. The newspaper article gives a detailed description of the assassination of Robert Love.

Dates: 1859-1903; Majority of material found in 1859-1866

Found in: Archives and Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library

Lucille Trent Montgomery Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS178-2016-009

Content Description Correspondence, photographs, TCU ephemera, scrapbooks, and other personal material documents the life of Lucille Trent Montgomery, a TCU student in the 1930s and longtime Fort Worth resident.

Dates: 1917-1999; Majority of material found in 1925-1935

Found in: Archives and Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library

Lyle H. Kendall, Jr. Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS 196

Scope and Contents THis collection includes publications such as journals, newsletters, and reviews. Also newsclippings regarding a book review and the Lewis Collection.

Dates: 1954-1970; 1988

Found in: Archives and Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library

Lynn Ligon Photographs

Collection

Identifier: MS 234

Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of photographs, negatives, certificates and Ligon's Diploma. These items document Lynn Ligon's time at Texas Christian Univeristy from 1960-1964 as the chief photographer for the Skiff newspaper.

Dates: 1960 - 1964

Found in: Archives and Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library

Mabel M. Kuykendall Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS108

Scope and Contents This collection is arranged in three series. The first series makes up the bulk of the collection and includes the materials related to Quicksilver, the quarterly poetry magazine published from 1948-1962 in Fort Worth, TX by Mabel M. Kuykendall and Grace Ross. It contains the correspondence from contributors to the magazine, the original manuscripts of the poems that were published, index card files of subscribers and contributors and a nearly complete set of...

Dates: 1923-1976, bulk 1948-1970; Majority of material found in 1923-1976,

Found in: Archives and Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library

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Library Manuscript Collection

Lili Kraus Collection

Linda Kaye Collection

Linda Loftis Tobias Papers

Lorraine Sherley Papers, 1953-1979.

Love Family Letters

Lucille Trent Montgomery Collection

Lyle H. Kendall, Jr. Collection

Lynn Ligon Photographs

Mabel M. Kuykendall Papers

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