{"id":8487,"date":"2014-03-17T17:37:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T21:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitright.pmss.net\/?page_id=8487"},"modified":"2020-12-26T22:51:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T03:51:01","slug":"stapleton-letter-pettit-darby-joan-1930-august-attractive-trip","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=8487","title":{"rendered":"STAPLETON: LETTER TO PETTIT FROM DARBY &#038; JOAN 1930 &#8211; August &#8220;What a most attractive trip &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Pine Mountain Settlement School<br \/>\nSeries 09: Biography<\/h5>\n<h3><strong>STAPLETON: LETTER TO PETTIT FROM DARBY &amp; JOAN 1930 &#8211; August &#8220;What a most attractive trip &#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>GALLERY: \u00a0Original Document of\u00a0<strong>STAPLETON: LETTER TO PETTIT FROM DARBY &amp; JOAN 1930 &#8211; August &#8220;What a most attractive trip &#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 25%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8487 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=8489'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lf_stap_08_30_001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8489\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8489'>\n\t\t\t\tStapleton Letter, 1930 August. p.1. lf_stap_08_30_001.jpg\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=8490'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lf_stap_08_30_002-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8490\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8490'>\n\t\t\t\tStapleton Letter, 1930 August. p.2. lf_stap_08_30_002.jpg\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=8491'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lf_stap_08_30_003-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8491\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8491'>\n\t\t\t\tStapleton Letter, 1930 August. p.3. lf_stap_08_30_003.jpg\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=8492'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lf_stap_08_30_004-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8492\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8492'>\n\t\t\t\tStapleton Letter, 1930 August. p.4. lf_stap_08_30_004.jpg\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h4>ORIGIN OF THE STAPLETONS&#8217; NICKNAMES<\/h4>\n<p>Darby and Joan are nicknames Ida used for Robert and herself \u2013 she sometimes refers to Robert as \u201cD.D.\u201d (Darby Dear). The names are taken from the following song. The second verse is especially poignant as they buried their two baby sons in Erzurum; one on his first birthday in 1902 and one at eighteen months of age in 1909. [Source: Gretchen Rasch, Great-granddaughter of the Stapletons]<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 210px; text-align: left;\">Darby and Joan<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">Darby dear, we are old and gray,<br \/>\nFifty years since our wedding day,<br \/>\nShadow and sun for everyone<br \/>\nAs the years roll on;<br \/>\nDarby dear, when the world went wry,<br \/>\nHard and sorrowful then was I.<br \/>\nAh, lad, how your cheered me then.<br \/>\n&#8220;Things will be better, sweet wife, again!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">Chorus:\u00a0Always the same, Darby my own,<br \/>\nAlways the same to your old wife Joan,<br \/>\nAlways the same to your old wife Joan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">Darby dear, but my heart was wild<br \/>\nWhen we buried our baby child,<br \/>\nUntil you whispered &#8220;Heaven knows best!&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd my heart found rest;<br \/>\nDarby dear, &#8217;twas your loving hand<br \/>\nShowed me the way to the better land;<br \/>\nAh! lad, as you kissed each tear,<br \/>\nLife grew better and heaven more near.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">Hand in hand when our life was May,<br \/>\nHand in hand when our hair is gray,<br \/>\nShadow and sun for everyone<br \/>\nAs the years roll on;<br \/>\nHand in hand when the long night-tide<br \/>\nGently covers us side by side;<br \/>\nAh! lad, though we know not when,<br \/>\nLove will be with us forever then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\"><em>Words by F.E. Weatherly, music by L. Molloy,\u00a0published in 1890.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>From\u00a0<\/em>Heart Songs,<em>\u00a0Chapple Publishing Co., 1909<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>TRANSCRIPTION:\u00a0<strong>STAPLETON: LETTER TO PETTIT FROM DARBY &amp; JOAN 1930 &#8211; August &#8220;What a most attractive trip &#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Gilley, Kentucky<br \/>\nAugust 23 &#8211; 1930<\/p>\n<p>[1]\u00a0Our dear <a title=\"KATHERINE PETTIT\" href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=424\">Miss Pettit<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>What a most attractive trip you are having! I don&#8217;t wonder travelogues say &#8211; &#8220;See America First&#8221; &#8211; Well &#8211; if not first at least second &#8211; You must indeed be &#8220;full up with joy&#8221; as our Natalie said when we came home from Turkey in 1908 and she saw wild strawberries growing for the first time. There are all sorts of beauty for those who have eyes to see and the more we see the more we wish to wander and so we are glad you want to wander back here in 1932 &#8211; and you can have the entire summer from May 1st until Oct 1st and garden to your heart&#8217;s content and &#8220;shoo&#8221; off Nancy Lewises <em>[sic]<\/em> turkeys just as often as you like. Neely is sure they ate the blossoms from her<\/p>\n<p>[2]\u00a0beans &#8211; but Nancy avers that they don&#8217;t do any harm &#8212; I myself had to run them out of the cabbages &#8211; however, she may invite us to help eat one of them.<\/p>\n<p>We are hoping you can introduce us to a freight ship whose captain would take us on a cruise to the Baltic Sea or mayhap to the Adriatic &#8211; but those detail can wait.<\/p>\n<p>Darby&#8217;s sister has visited Natalie in Berlin and we had letters from them both. It almost seemed like visiting her ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8211; great news. Billy and Sibyl &#8211; and the children are driving here with Father and Mother Cooke in the Ford &#8211; next week. So we shall have them for a day or two before they drive back to New York. My nephew who lived with Bill and Sibyl is to be married today in Oberlin O. and D.D.&#8217;s niece is being married in Ann Arbor at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=84445\">Miss [Marian] Purbrick<\/a> and Miss Simmis, the primary teacher, came over last Sat. for the night. Miss Simmis seems an enthusiastic young teacher and was at Carcasonne with the Hadleys.<\/p>\n<p>Miss <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=43294\">[Anne P.] Halliday<\/a> and friend Miss Garret came<\/p>\n<p>[3] thru on Monday and &#8220;camped&#8221; in our back yard &#8211; They had Nell and Peggy and were going to Caney, Carr Cen [?] and Hindman and possibly to Wooten and Hyden. They had been walking thru the Great Smokies. We enjoyed Miss Halliday especially.<\/p>\n<p>All is quiet on Line Fork. Lou Riddle and brother and two other preachers are at Bear Branch School this afternoon and tomorrow. Neely said she wouldn&#8217;t go if she couldn&#8217;t get some better stockings. I suggested she could hear just as well sitting out on a rock.<\/p>\n<p>Willie Hall has actually got started in school down at Sugar Grove. Nancy Jane said he couldn&#8217;t stand the Cornett boys nagging if he went to Pine Mt. He is living with his grandpap Ira Holcomb and riding down to K.C. in the car that brings Mrs. Miracle to Trace Br. School every morning.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, we had another grand surprise. My sister Carrie who lives with my mother in Lapeer &#8211; drove down to Com. with my<\/p>\n<p>[4] young nephew Robert from the farm &amp; my sister Anna and niece from Birmingham Mich. They all walked from Com. except Anna who rode Swallow &#8211; and Darby walked with them. I was going to Leatherwood the next day but one[?] and Carrie went with me, quite enjoying the long ride.<\/p>\n<p>The day of Nancy Jane&#8217;s Baby Party &#8211; Anna baked bread &#8211; cookies and pie &#8211; so we were well supplied for the table &#8211; and the next day I took Anna to see N.J. and the day following Carrie went and she told Frank she wanted to see a wall under his house the next time she came. She loved it, and will come again next summer.<\/p>\n<p>There &#8211; you see how I run on when I get started &#8211; Thanks for your card from Glacier Park. We just skirted it when we came thru from Oregon in 1918. One of my nephew who lives in Montana is one of the guides.<\/p>\n<p>With kindest regards<br \/>\nfrom<br \/>\nDarby and Joan<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=3473\"><strong>Dr. IDA STAPLETON &amp;\u00a0Rev.\u00a0ROBERT STAPLETON<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nLine Fork 1927 &#8211; 1947<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=8315\"><strong>GUIDE TO Dr. IDA STAPLETON &amp;\u00a0Rev.\u00a0ROBERT STAPLETON REPORTS<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n1927 &#8211; 1936<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"85%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" bgcolor=\"#fdebc6\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"72\" \/>\n<col width=\"184\" \/><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Title<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>STAPLETON: LETTER TO PETTIT FROM DARBY &amp; JOAN 1930 &#8211; August &#8220;What a most attractive trip&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Alt. Title<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>Dr. Ida Stapleton and Rev. Robert Stapleton<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Line Fork 1927 &#8211; 1947<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Identifier<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=7031\">http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=8<\/a><a href=\"487\">487<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Creator<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Alt. Creator<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Ann Angel Eberhardt ; Helen Hayes Wykle ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Subject Keyword<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Dr. Ida Stapleton ; Rev. Robert Stapleton ; Pine Mountain Settlement School ; Line Fork Settlement ;\u00a0Katherine Pettit ; Nancy Lewis ; gardening ; freight ship ; Darby and Joan ; Erzurum ;\u00a0Miss Purbrick ; Miss Simmis ; Miss Halliday ; Miss Garret ; Hadleys ; Great Smoky Mountains ; Lou Riddle ; preachers ; Bear Branch School ; Lou Riddle ; Willie Hall ; Sugar Grove ; Ira Holcomb ; Mrs. Miracle ; Trace Branch ; Swallow (horse) ; baby party ; Glacier Park ;\u00a0Pine Mountain, KY ; Harlan County, KY ; Line Fork, KY ; Gilley, KY ; Letcher County, KY\u00a0; Carcasonne, France ; Caney, KY ; Hindman, KY ; Wooten, KY ; Hyden, KY ; Lapeer, MI ; Birmingham MI ; Leatherwood, KY ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Subject LCSH<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Stapleton, Dr. Ida S., &#8212; 1871 &#8211; 1946.<br \/>\nStapleton, Rev. Robert, &#8212; 1866 &#8211; 1945.<br \/>\nPine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) &#8212; History.<br \/>\nLine Fork Medical Settlement (Gilley, Ky.) &#8212; History.<br \/>\nHarlan County (Ky.) &#8212; History.<br \/>\nEducation &#8212; Kentucky &#8212; Harlan County.<br \/>\nRural medicine &#8212; Kentucky &#8212; Letcher County.<br \/>\nRural schools &#8212; Kentucky &#8212; History.<br \/>\nSchools &#8212; Appalachian Region, Southern.<br \/>\nRural health services \u2014 Appalachian Region \u2014 History.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Date<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">2014-03-17<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Publisher<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Contributor<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Gretchen Rasch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Type<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Collections ; text ; image ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Format<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Original and copies of documents and correspondence in file folders in filing cabinet<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Source<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Series 21A: Personal Narratives (Written) ;\u00a0Series 14: Built Environment &#8211; Line Fork Settlement ; Series 09: Biography &#8211; Ruth Dennis, Katherine Pettit ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Language<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">English<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Relation<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Is related to: Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections, Series 21A: Personal Narratives (Written) ; Series 14: Built Environment &#8211; Line Fork Settlement ; Series 09: Biography &#8211; Ruth Dennis, Katherine Pettit ;\u00a0Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kyhistory.com\/\">http:\/\/www.kyhistory.com\/<\/a>\u00a0; Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) Library, Ida Stapleton Letters to Friends SC 462 <a href=\"http:\/\/khscatalog.kyvl.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=8347\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/khscatalog.kyvl.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=8347<\/a> ; Morris, Glyn. <em>Less Traveled Roads<\/em>. New York: Vantage Press, 1977.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Coverage Temporal<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">1930-August<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Coverage Spatial<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Pine Mountain, KY ; Harlan County, KY ; Line Fork, KY ; Gilley, KY ; Letcher County, KY\u00a0; Carcasonne, France ; Caney, KY ; Hindman, KY ; Wooten, KY ; Hyden, KY ; Lapeer, MI ; Birmingham MI ; Leatherwood, KY ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Rights<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Any display, publication, or public use must credit the Pine Mountain Settlement School. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Donor<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">n\/a<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Description<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Core documents, correspondence, writings, and administrative papers of Dr. Ida Stapleton and Rev. Robert Stapleton ; clippings, photographs, books by or about Dr. Ida Stapleton and Rev. Robert Stapleton ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Acquisition<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">n\/d<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Citation<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Line Fork Settlement School &#8211; Dr. Ida S. Stapleton and Rev. Robert Stapleton.\u00a0Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers, Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Processed By<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Helen Hayes Wykle ; Ann Angel Eberhardt ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Last Updated<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">2014-03-17 hhw ; 2014-03-31 aae ; 2017-06-05 aae ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Bibliography<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">National Magazine.\u00a0<i>Heart Songs: Dear to the American People<\/i>. Boston: Chapple Publishing Company, 1909. Print.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Pine Mountain\u00a0Settlement School Collections, Series 21A: Personal Narratives (Written),\u00a0Series 14: Built Environment &#8211; Line Fork Settlement,\u00a0and Series 09: Biography &#8211; Ruth Dennis, Katherine Pettit.\u00a0Pine Mountain, KY. Archival material.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><b>Bibliography<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kyhistory.com\/\">http:\/\/www.kyhistory.com\/<\/a> (accessed 2014-01-06). Internet resource.<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) Library, Ida Stapleton Letters to Friends SC 462 <a href=\"http:\/\/khscatalog.kyvl.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=8347\">http:\/\/khscatalog.kyvl.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=8347<\/a> (accessed 2014-01-06). Internet resource.<\/p>\n<p>Morris, Glyn. <em>Less Traveled Roads.<\/em> New York: Vantage Press, 1977. 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