Archives Collection

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS                                                                      06-001

 

 

Physical Description:

2 letters

 

Dates:

March 17, 1967

September 1968

 

Provenance:

Gift to the Center from Harry Eskew, New Orleans, Louisiana in July 2007.

 

Scope and content:

Two letters to Harry Eskew regarding Primitive Baptist hymnal publication. One from Mrs. C. H. Cayce, March 17, 1967 and the other from Mrs. LaVista Lloyd Smith, September 1968. The letter from Mrs. Cayce concerns the Cayce Publishing Company of Thornton, Arkansas, which published The Good Old Songs. The letter from Mrs. Smith provides information and publishing history of Primitive Hymns, the oldest Baptist hymnal.

 

Location:

Filed by date in manuscript section of the stacks in box labeled Miscellaneous Papers.

 

Related Materials:

The Center holds manuscript collections related to gospel music publishing, namely the Southern Gospel Convention Singing Collection, John A. McClung Hartford Music Company Collection, George B. Holsinger Shape Note Gospel Music Collection, and the Ruebush-Kieffer Company Corporate Collection. All are searchable in the InMagic database.

 

 

LPC  March 2008