John Fox, Jr. and Madison J. Cawein letters to Micajah Fible, 1883-1889
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- John Fox, Jr. and Madison J. Cawein letters to Micajah Fible, 1883-1889
- Creator
- Fox, John, 1863-1919.
- Extent
- 64 pieces.
- Subjects
- Fox, John, 1863-1919.
- Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914.
- Fible, Micajah, d. 1890.
- Authors.
- Journalists.
- Poets.
- Arrangement
- Organized: letters from John Fox, letters from Madison J. Cawein. Arrangement in each is chronological.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- John Fox was an author born and raised in Kentucky. After attending Transylvania and Harvard, he began a brief career as a journalist, but returned to Kentucky due to poor health. He is best known for two novels, THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME and THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE. It was while Fox was a student at Harvard that he met Micajah Fible, a native of Louisville who became an attorney and journalist in Louisville, Kansas City, and Chicago. Through Fible, Fox met Madison J. Cawein, a poet from Louisville.
- Scope and Content
- This is a collection of typed copies of letters to Micajah Fible from two of his friends, writers John Fox and Madison J. Cawein. All but four of the sixty-four letters are from Fox. In them, he discusses his journalistic career and his frequent bouts of illness. He also discusses his abortive attendance at law school and his attempts at serious writing in New York. By the time of the last letter, written in 1889, Fox had returned to Kentucky and regained his health. The Cawein letters are chiefly about his career and Fible's friendship, and include a poem titled "To my friend Micajah Fible." The entire collection is also available in the library on microfilm as M-252.
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