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[Identification of item], in the John Fox Letters, #3303-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received 1957.

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A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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• Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914.
• Family-owned business enterprises--Kentucky--History--19th century.
• Fible, Micajah, fl. 1883-1889.
• Fox, John, 1863-1919.
• Industries--Kentucky--History--19th century.
• Journalists--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
• Kentucky--Intellectual life--19th century.
• Mineral industries--Kentucky--History--19th century.
• Novelists, American--Kentucky--19th century.
• Poets, American--Kentucky--19th century.

John Fox (1863-1919) was a novelist and short story writer of Kentucky. Fox was educated at Harvard University and worked as a newspaper journalist in New York, N.Y., and a bookkeeper in his brother's mining venture in the Kentucky mountains.

The collection is chiefly typed copies of letters from John Fox to friend and Harvard classmate, Micajah Fible, Louisville, Ky., lawyer. Written from New York, N.Y., and Paris, Ky., these letters discuss Fox's literary activities and his work as a newspaperman in New York and in the family mining business in the Kentucky mountains. Also included are three letters to Fible from Madison Julius Cawein (1865-1914), Kentucky poet.