Guide to the Alleen Hill Letters MSS.2531
Hill, Alleen
- Author:
Finding aid prepared by Amanda Haldy
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
September, 2009.
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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English
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Alleen Hill Letters
- Unit ID:
MSS.2531
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (6 Letters, 2 Envelopes)
- Dates:
1949-1971
- Abstract:
Alleen Hill's girlhood friends write to her in Louisville, Kentucky, with news about their lives and reminiscences of a childhood in Greenville, Kentucky.
Scope and Contents note
Contains news from girlhood friends now grown and far apart, describing their families and life circumstances, and reminiscing about a childhood in Greenville, Kentucky. Three letters come from Ethel Bell of Falmouth, Kentucky, one from Annie May Wallace of Greenville, Kentucky, and one from M.M.E. Another letter was written by Alleen Hill to Ethel Bell, returned 50 years after the fact by Ethel, according to one of Ethel's letters.
Biographical/Historical note
Alleen Hill received the letters at an address in Lousiville, Kentucky, but the topics of the letters tend to surround girlhood friendships in Greenville, Kentucky. A majority of the letters (four of six) are circa 1970, written when the women are seniors, with references to grandchildren and health problems.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2006.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Alleen Hill Letters, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Amanda Haldy, 2009.
Alleen Hill Letters Box SC0024 Folder 2531.01