Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Accruals
Preferred Citation
Content Description
Arrangement
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Title: Herbert C Kay collection
Identifier/Call Number: Wyles Mss 218
Physical Description:
12 Linear Feet
(8 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1861-1886
Date (bulk): 1805-1979
Abstract: Collection of American Civil War Union and Confederate correspondence concerning military strategy and life during the period.
A portion of the collection includes an assorted group of correspondence relating to important nineteenth and twentieth century
figures in American and global history.
Language of Material: English and French
Physical Location: UCSB Library, Special Research Collections
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Accruals
Acquired by Special Research Collections in 2017 from the Kay Family Trust.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of Item], Herbert C Kay Collection, Wyles Mss 218. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library.
Content Description
The collection contains letters from various authors, ephemera, and currency during the American Civil War. The majority of
the letters relating to the Civil War are addressed to or from high ranking military officers from both the Union and Confederate
State between 1861 to 1869. Many of the letters detail military strategy and specifics. Of particular note, a portion of the
collection consists of various correspondence relating to important national and international figures like Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi, Queen Victoria, Stephen King, Jay Gould, and John F. Kennedy.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into two series.
Series I. Civil War Correspondence is grouped by the subjects affiliation to either the Union and Confederacy chronologically.
Series II. Assorted Correspondence is arranged in chronological order.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Politics and war
Correspondence
Generals -- United States -- Correspondence
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military personnel -- Union
Generals -- Confederate States of America