Literary Papers: Manuscript of U.S. government book, undated: Chapter III, "Sphere and government" (pages 63-146)

Papers of William Starling (1839-1900), Union soldier and engineer for Mississippi River levee systems. Content includes: diaries containing descriptions of Starling's activities as a planter and engineer and of a tour of Holland; manuscript of a chapter of a novel, draft of a book on the U.S. Government, and index to literature and literary and historic figures; notebooks pertaining to Starling's student days at New York University and presenting observations on the Mississippi River and a trip to San Francisco; Starling's commission in the Kentucky Volunteer Militia; muster rolls of the Kentucky State Guards, and case of United States vs. Lieutenant Thomas F. Murdoch, 13th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1862. Includes material on Edwards Pierrepont, and several unidentified photographs, including two by Matthew Brady. Addition: microfilm of a scrapbook concerning the Starling family, including Civil War letters of William Starling, 1862-1863; original at the Arkansas History Commission.

Starling's sheet music collection has been incorporated into the Manuscripts Sheet Music Collection and is cataloged separately. Starling's rare book collection has also been separated and cataloged separately.