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Correspondence regarding Horace Kephart journals

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  • This 1937 correspondence, from Robert G. Stone to Arthur Stupka, concerns Horace Kephart’s journals and notes. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
  • HAEY . • TtKIV'.: SITY Blue Hill Meteor®logical Observatory Milton, Massachusetts Feb.. ?, 1937 Bear Mr* Stunk*i In reply to your letter ©f Feb* 2 as to what access 1 had to Kephart*a journals in preparing the article in the last So. of the Jn. So. App. Bot. Club, 2 guess you did not notice that both the footnote to the article and my letter to Jennlson state that 1 have possession of the original notes of Kephart's on which the article was based* I as pleased to hea# that the Park has been given Kephart's effects which is the right place for themj in view of that fact I am going to send you the typewritten notes in question that I have for you to put with other Kephart materials, as I have no reason to continue to hold the® and they really belong to the Park collection. I am not sure that I should explain to you how I came into possession of them except to say that there was nothing irregular about it* Though I did not know Kephart s ,'o be numbered among his loyal friends in spirit. 1 was well familiar with his work and sympathetic to his ideaIsi and one of my friends was on© of his closest friends. After he died I assisted this friend in km eightea out Kephart's estate U at <?iven the notes in ouostion as a token - I think they were separated from his other notes and journals, which seemed to indicate to sty friend that they were not of much special values also sine® these notes were a .>r-ely a compilation from other ai . I I am not so sure about that) I think they were not regarded in the same category as his other bound journals and notes. Also 1 have a faint recollection that they were typed in ur Lie te, I getting only one copy, the other left sdth the effects • I say be mistaken about that and since your letter suggests ■ -s not so. At any rate I cherished the note® because I am t .-. fche mountains and because at the time his friend were rather pesslslmlstle as fco what would be dose with &aphart,s effects. For that reason too, I was glad te have them published la part at least,, as was recently done. I have a very large library ©f materials on the southern Appalachians * perhaps few others exceed it * aad a still sore complete bibliographys I was keeping the ■ Is collection, ir,i ty to deposit the library with some institution where it would be used for research, etc., and taken c re of an built up further. If you will tell me by return mail to whom 1 should send the notes, 1 shall send them right away. Sincerely yours, Robert 0. Stone

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Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America

This digital collection was created to contribute to the public's understanding of the forces and ideas that led to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The most vi...

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