Collection #s:
SC 1437,
F 1192

JOSEPH TARKINGTON
PAPERS, 1831–1891

Processed By:
Stephanie Mohler
8 August 1994
Updated 1 November 2004

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 3 bound volumes (in 1 folder), 1 folder, 1 reel microfilm (.1 linear feet)

COLLECTION DATES: 1831- 1891

PROVENANCE: Mrs. John Morris Haines (great-granddaughter of Joseph Tarkington), Dec. 1950

RESTRICTIONS: None

REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE FORMATS: Microfilm

OTHER FINDING AIDS: None

RELATED HOLDINGS: M 0370, Slawson-Tarkington Family Papers, 1804-1911

ACCESSION NUMBER: 1950.1203

Joseph Tarkington (1800- 1891), born in Nashville, Tennessee, was a Methodist circuit rider in southern Indiana (1821- 1862), and a farmer near Greensburg, Decatur Co. He was grandfather of author Booth Tarkington.

Source: A Guide to Manuscript Collections of the Indiana Historical Society and Indiana State Library. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1986.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection contains Tarkington's correspondence, from Centreville (1831) and Greensburg (1861), with the Slawson family, and a letter from Greensburg (1888) to John, Matthew, and William Tarkington. There is a telegram (1891) from R. A. Kemp, and a letter from John W. Ray in Indianapolis (1891). Three Tarkington diaries, dated 1888, 1889, and 1891, relate happenings from farm and family life in Greensburg. The collection was microfilmed by the Indiana Historical Society in August, 1994.

FOLDER LISTING

1 Correspondence, 1831- 1891

2 Diaries, 1888, 1889, 1891

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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Collection #s: SC 1437, F 1192