S 346. SALTZ, Robert. Papers, 1968-1971. .5 linear ft. Gift of Mr. Meyer Saltz, 1974. ACCESSION 84. Professor of English at the University of Maryland. Papers consist of drafts of articles submitted to the PMLA, correspondence, notes and other papers. 347. SAUER, Alice Carder, 1918- . Papers, 1855-1979. 1 cubic ft. Gift of Mrs. Sauer, 1979. ACCESSION 260. Mason County, West Virginia, resident. Papers contain correspondence with Patricia Burton, publicist for the Battle of Point Pleasant; newspaper clippings of events in Mason County; items relating to the NSDAR; family papers, including deeds and certificates; and photographs. 348. SAVAGE GRANT. Typescript (photoreproduction), 1772-1841. Loaned for copying by Orman Tomlin, 1976. ACCESSION 124. Typescript copies of the original grant listing original patentees; decrees and reports entered in the Superior Court of Chancery in Staunton, Virginia, 1817-1841, concerning the sale of lots and resurveying the original grant. 349. [SAVAGE GRANT. Land surveys], 1775-1833. 1 vol. Gift of George S. Wallace III, 1989. PROCESSED: MANUSCRIPT 118 Vol. 1 (Accession 495). (See also Huntington-Kenova Land Co.) Holograph description of plots located within the Savage Grant. 350. SAYRE FAMILY. Papers, 1640-1929. 3 items. Transferred, 1979. ACCESSION 252. Typescript history of Sayre family in Long Island, New York; obituary of Drs. Reginald Hall Sayre and John Stanford Sayre. 351. SCARBERRY, Wayne. Papers (photoreproductions), 1924-1979. 94 leaves. Loaned for copying by Mr. Scarberry, 1979. ACCESSION 259. RESTRICTED ACCESS; by permission of Mr. Scarberry. Pamphlets, photographs and a term paper written by Mr. Scarberry about the Prichard School, a private orphanage in Cabell County, West Virginia. 352. SCHRULE, Anna. Papers, 1901-1975. 8 cubic ft. Gift of Mrs. Schrule, 1975, 1984. ACCESSION 79. Kenova, West Virginia, resident and employee of Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. Papers include annual reports of the C&O, house publications, correspondence, newspaper clippings and publications relating to the railroad industry. Also includes several feet of local and state Women's Club material, and a photograph album of urban renewal sites in Huntington, West Virginia in the early 1970's. 353. SCOTT, Addison M. Papers, 1873-1939. 4.5 linear ft. On permanent loan of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, 1973. PROCESSED: MANUSCRIPT 14 (Accession 57). Charleston, West Virginia, engineer. Papers relate to the construction and improvement of navigation on the Great Kanawha River with the first system of locks and dams. Includes bid proposals and specifications for the construction of locks, dams, and buildings. 354. SCOTT, Joseph. Document, 1807. 1 item. Acquired, 1968. ACCESSION 127. Indenture between Joseph Scott, Marshall of Virginia District, and Stephen Tease for the sale of three hundred acres of land on Mill Creek in Kanawha County, (West) Virginia. 355. SCRAPBOOK, 1874-1892. 1 vol. Acquired, 1973. ACCESSION 116. Consists of newspaper clippings about crime primarily in the Payton, Kentucky, area. 356. SCRAPBOOK, 1878-1886. 1 vol. Gift of John Wilkey, date unknown. ACCESSION 155. Contains poetry and election handbills from Bland County, Virginia. 357. SECHLER, Robert. Papers, 1920-1950. .5 linear ft. Gift of William P. Sullivan, 1980. ACCESSION 307. Former chairman of English Department, Marshall College, Huntington, West Virginia (1951-1959). Papers include thesis, newspaper and magazine clippings and Sechler's own student compositions. 358. SELF, Leslie W. Papers, 1900-1908. 11 items. Gift of Gene Elliott, 1979. ACCESSION 286. Huntington, West Virginia, resident. Papers include a diploma from the Marshall Business College, textbooks from the college and photographs. 359. SHANHOLTZER, L. E. Papers, 1895-1947. 86 items. Gift of Karl Shanholtzer, 1981. ACCESSION 326. Hampshire County, West Virginia, schoolteacher, whose papers include teachers' attendance records, 1895-1930, correspondence, bank statements, ephemera, and printed material. 360. SHANNON, Oscar R., collector. Photographs, 1903-1937. 34 items. Gift of Mr. Ralph Shannon, 1984. PROCESSED: MANUSCRIPT 90. (Accession 388). Photographs of Central City (now part of Huntington), West Virginia, including groups of athletic teams and employees from the West Virginia Brewing Company and the Huntington Tumbler Company. 361. SHARP, Vernon. Papers (photoreproductions), 1973-1977. 2 items. Loaned for copying by Mr. and Mrs. Sharp, 1978. ACCESSION 237. Huntington, West Virginia, businessman. Includes a reminiscence by his wife about his life during the Depression; mentions the 1937 Ohio River flood. 362. SHEPHERD, Jane, 1918-1984. Papers, 1937-1982. 4 linear ft. Gift of Mrs. Shepherd, 1981, 1982. PROCESSED: MANUSCRIPT 89. (Accession 332). Professor of music and artist-in-residence at Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia. Sang professionally as `Jane Hobson.' Collection includes programs of concerts, diplomas, contracts and letters. 363. SIGEL, Franz. Letter, 1864 March 15. 2 pp. Acquired, 1976. PROCESSED: MANUSCRIPT 68 (Accession 119). Union general. Newly-appointed commander of the Department of West Virginia, Sigel wrote to Congressman Kellian V. Whaley concerning his command, requesting the names of reliable men, and giving his plan for defending the state. 364. SILL, Maurice. Papers, 1967-1968. 2 cubic ft. Gift of Dr. Sill, 1981. ACCESSION 329. Office files of Julie Sherriff, editor for the Community Action Programs of the Council of Southern Mountains; also includes proceedings and papers from the International Conference on Water for Peace, May, 1968. 365. SIMMONS, Ethel. Papers, 1925-1962. .5 linear ft. Gift of Mrs. Alice C. Sauer, 1975. ACCESSION 88. Point Pleasant, West Virginia, resident. Contains lineage papers, newspaper clippings, and other items relating to the Daughters of the American Revolution; photographs, and Mason County, West Virginia marriage records, 1850-1874. 366. SLAATTE, Howard Alexander. Papers, 1962-1986. 2 cubic ft. Gift of Dr. Slaatte, 1976-1986. ACCESSION 337. Professor of philosophy at Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia. Papers consist of holograph, typescript, and photoreproductions of book manuscripts, including The Arminian Arm of Theology, and The Pearl of Perfection, Modern Science and the Human Condition. 367. SLACK, John, Jr. Note, ca. 1882. 1 item. Transferred, 1979. ACCESSION 253. Holograph note acknowledging receipt of annual message and documents of the Governor for the 1881 session of the legislature. 368. SLOAN-WYATT FAMILY. Papers, 1853-1983. 5.5 cubic feet. Gift of Phillips C. Emmons, 1985. ACCESSION 415. From ca. 1898, residents of Huntington, West Virginia. Papers include correspondence and manuscripts of Mrs. Morton Wortham Sloan, founder of the Huntington Woman's Club; correspondence of her daughter and son Sallie Sloan Wyatt and Charles Wortham Sloan; correspondence and business papers of grandsons Joseph Wyatt and Charles Russell Wyatt; diaries and correspondence of granddaughter Morton Wyatt Davis. Some items relate to Mrs. Sloan's life in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, and to her husband's Confederate army service. 369. SMITH, Floyd, d. 1910. Diaries, 1887-1892. 10 vol. Gift of Florence Kunst Hoback, 1956. PROCESSED: MANUSCRIPT 9 (Accession 75). Diary accounts of Smith's student days in Taylor County, West Virginia, and at the University of Maryland Medical School. 370. SMITH, Harold C. Typescript, [1955?]. [33] leaves. Gift of Dr. Sam Clagg, 1988. ACCESSION 480. `A historical survey of Lexington [Kentucky] during the Civil War.' 371. SMITH, Henry A. Letter, 1881 October 9. 1 item. ACCESSION 34. Marshall College student's letter to R. W. Vandal of Schilling, Roane County, West Virginia, discussing his courses, his boarding house and the community. 372. SMITH, Marjorie Austin, d. 1984. Papers, 1777-1984. 5.5 cubic ft. Gift of the estate, 1985. PROCESSED: MANUSCRIPT 93. (Accession 407). Huntington, West Virginia, resident; genealogist. Papers contain extensive research materials concerning the Austin, Rhoades, Gillespie, Prose, Smith, Graham, Spencer, Bybee and related families of Lawrence and Meigs Counties, Ohio, and Mason County, West Virginia. 373. SMITH, Marjorie Austin, d. 1984. Scrapbook, ca. 1936. 1 vol. Gift of Mrs. Smith, 1982. ACCESSION 399. Scrapbook contains clippings about radio personalities of the 1930's. 374. [SMITH,] Virgie. Letter, 1896 April 16. 4 pp. Acquired, 1977. PROCESSED: MANUSCRIPT 57 (Accession 202). Letter from Marshall College student to W. Zack Stewart, urging him to come for a visit, wishing that he were a school boy so that he could `come to school and have a good time like the rest of us.' 375. SMITH RUN METHODIST CHURCH, Lewis County, West Virginia. Typescript (carbon copy), 1832-1952. 5 leaves. Gift of J. B. F. Yoak, 1973. ACCESSION 61. History includes a list of ministers. 376. SOLDIERS' RELIEF RECORD, 1888-1894. 1 vol. Gift of Don McGraw, 1977. ACCESSION 203. A record of payment to `resident indigent Union soldiers, sailors and marines, and wives, widows and minor children of same. . .' on a printed form with holograph entries. 377. SPEARS, Marguerite Bias Williams. Papers, 1979-1982. .5 linear ft. Gift of Mrs. Spears, 1986. ACCESSION 429. Proctorville, Ohio resident; papers relate to her career as a secretary and member of Professional Secretaries International. 378. SPENCER, Rena, 1944-1979. Papers, 1959-1974. 85 items. Gift of Miss Spencer, 1979. ACCESSION 249. Huntington, West Virginia, resident. Papers consist chiefly of clippings from magazines and newspapers. One cubic foot of newspaper clippings about the Marshall University basketball team were placed in the University Archives. 379. STALEY, D. G. Letter, 1850 February 9. 1 item. ACCESSION 38. Addressed to Charles W. Ferguson of Wayne Court House, [West] Virginia. Discusses the Laidley family, gives news of the neighborhood around Marshall Academy, and mentions some who are `bound for Calafornia.' 380. STANARD, William B. Papers, 1941-1943. 2 vol. ACCESSION 151. Navigation workbooks kept during Mr. Stanard's years as a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy. 381. STEELE, Paul Curry, 1928- . Papers, 1914-1978. 5 cubic ft. Gift of Mr. Steele, 1976, 1977. ACCESSION 164. Logan County, West Virginia, native, writer. Collection consists of copies of poetry, story ideas, school papers, honors papers and family and financial papers. Includes correspondence from Mark Van Doren, Louis Auchincloss, and Richard Wilbur. 382. STEIN, Dr. Glenray C. Manuscript, 1948. 13 pp. Transferred, 1982. ACCESSION 400. Dr. Stein was musical director of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. Manuscript is an arrangement of Beethoven's `Moonlight Sonata.' 383. STEMPLE FAMILY. Papers, 1831-1949. 7 leaves. Acquired, 1980. ACCESSION 295. No location cited. Includes information about marriages and families in the Kelley, Goff, Badgett, and Conley families. 384. STEPHENS, Edith Miller. Papers, 1867-1900. 29 items. ACCESSION 21. Primarily correspondence between Edith Miller and her future husband, Benjamin Stephens. Also contains miscellaneous papers of Mrs. Stephens' father, Charles C. Miller, lifelong resident of Mason County, West Virginia. 385. STEPHENSON FAMILY. Scrapbook (photoreproduction), 1888-1972. .5 linear ft. Loaned for copying by Mrs. Harriet Hanrahan, 1977. ACCESSION 195. Parkersburg, West Virginia, family. Contains items concerning the Sammel family, as well as autographs of literary figures and an autograph letter signed by Jefferson Davis. 386. STERRETT, William. Indentures, 1807-1834. 14 items. Gift of Eugene Sterrett, 1982. ACCESSION 368. Mason County, West Virginia, indentures for land that was part of the George Washington military tract. Parties of the sales include Alexander Spotswood, Bushrod Washington, Jr., William Trotter, and Walter Newman. Includes plats. 387. STEWART, Jude. Typescript, [1975?]. 6 leaves. Gift of Dr. Michael J. Galgano, 1975. PROCESSED: MANUSCRIPT 31 (Accession 112). `Activities of the Church of God in Jesus' Name,' a report on a pentecostal church in Wyoming County, West Virginia, for the Oral History Collection at Marshall University. 388. STEWART, Oswald Blaine, collector. Scrapbook, 1941-1942. 1 vol. Gift of Mr. Stewart, 1978. ACCESSION 240. German-language newspaper clippings of various military operations of the second world war. 389. STOLLINGS, Jacob. Typescript (carbon copy), undated. 5 leaves. Acquired, 1975. ACCESSION 115. Copy of a Cabell County [West] Virginia will, 1817, dividing property along Crawley Creek; includes an inventory of the estate. 390. STRIBLING, William S. Agreement, 1836. 1 item. ACCESSION 27. Holograph agreement for Stribling's services as a teacher near Eighteen Mile Creek, Mason County, West Virginia, for three dollars per quarter per scholar. Contains a list of students and parents. 391. STRICKLING, Lynn. Papers, 1956-1967. 2 cubic ft. Gift of James Jeffrey, 1980. ACCESSION 322. Huntington, West Virginia, schoolgirl. Papers include school papers, correspondence, and travel memorabilia. 392. STUART, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984. Papers (in part, photoreproductions), 1929-1978. 12 linear ft. Gift, in part, of Mr. Stuart, 1975-1976. PROCESSED: MANUSCRIPT 32. (Accession 113). Collection consists primarily of articles, short stories and poetry from the author's own collection of magazines. Includes holograph material from International Bookfinders of California, vendors of a collection of first editions. 392-A. STUART, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984. Papers, addendum. Purchased from William Curry, 1977. PROCESSED: MANUSCRIPT 32-A Collection of magazines, correspondence, and newspaper clippings dealing with Jesse Stuart.
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