Series: 11 CC (Volume 11)
Scope and Content Note: (Shane I). The first volume of John D. Shane's notebooks incorporated into Series CC. Within are notes recording more than eighty interviews or conversations by Shane with pioneers in Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Franklin, Jessamine, Shelby, and Woodford counties, Kentucky. Among these are interspersed occasional notes from archival and newspaper sources. Shane dated few of his interviews, but internal evidence indicates that much of the data was gathered circa 1843-circa 1849. The interviews are far-ranging in subject with mention of dozens of individuals. The notes were heavily underlined and annotated by Draper. The published calendar, Kentucky Papers, describes each interview in detail, but a few items, such as the copy of the letter (1804) of Mrs. Eliza Todd on her reaction to marriage and to her occupation as housewife (11 CC 118-119) appear to have been omitted. However, one group of typescript copies of documents concerning William Harrison, his wife Sarah, and his brother Benjamin, and James Reed and Reed's half-brother John Hamilton, was added to this volume in 1909 and included in the calendar.