Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection includes P. O. Selby's personal papers, research notes and writings and includes the files and records he gave during his lifetime as well as those found in his campus office after his death. The majority are concerned with Kirksville and Adair County history, genealogies of Adair County families, and Mark Twain.

Scope and Contents 97 Letters, Six Telegrams, Three Memos, Four Newspaper Clipping, One News Release, One Report, Two Postcards, Five Miscellaneous CORRESPONDENTS: Arnold, Sam A. Burk, Glenn G. Griswold, Olive Rambo Cook, Charter Heslep, H. A. Moffett, George Somerville, Frank D. Miller, Earl Whitnell, Margareth Brostrup, L. S. Ryan, George Reedy, Jr., G. H. Schmitt, Carl E. Morris, J. B. Wilcox, James S. Price, C. W. Millner, Niles Trammell, John H. Norton, Jr., National Broadcasting Company,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Letters, memos, telegrams, newspaper clippings, and photographs accumulated during Wat Arnold's terms as Representative in the House of Representatives, United State Congress (1943-1949). during which time he represented the interests of his constituents in the First District of Missouri (Adair, Clark, Daviess, Grundy, Knox, Lewis, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Marion, Mercer, Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland, Shelby, and Sullivan Counties). Subjects include radio station KIRX, flood control, the...