Box 1

This series consists of both business and personal correspondence.  Subjects include Hindman and Pine Mountain Settlement Schools, students recommended for admission to Berea College, and an account of a 1932 trip to South America.

This series consists twenty-two, undated, typewritten pages transcribed from a Pettit diary.

This series consists of correspondence and published tributes relating to Pettit’s death in 1936.

This series consists of correspondence, news clippings, a Pettit photograph, membership certificate, and an anonymous manuscript entitled A Mountain “Funeralizing” (the style of writing and attention to detail, especially in the description of speech patterns, suggests Josiah Combs as a likely author.)

This series consists of both business and personal correspondence.  Subjects include Hindman and Pine Mountain Settlement Schools, students recommended for admission to Berea College, and an account of a 1932 trip to South America.

Re: creation of Knott County, KY

This series consists of Pettit and May Stone’s accounts of their 1899-1901 work experiences in Knott and Perry counties that led to the establishment of the WCTU Settlement School. The Camp Industrial report includes a list of program participants and transcriptions of letters from them to Pettit and Stone.

This series consists of correspondence, news clippings, a Pettit photograph, membership certificate, and an anonymous manuscript entitled A Mountain “Funeralizing” (the style of writing and attention to detail, especially in the description of speech patterns, suggests Josiah Combs as a likely author.)

Folder 11: pp. 10-31
Folder 12: pp. 32-45
Folder 13: pp. 46-74
Folder 14: pp. 75-88

Papers and records of Katherine Pettit.