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Letters of Nelly Macdonald Houston, 1905-1946
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Group 1570: Houston, Nellie Shaw
Manuscripts
This collection contains of the business records of the Merrymount Press and the related papers of its founder Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941). The bulk of the collection consists of financial volumes; correspondence with customers, publishers, illustrators, craftsmen, and suppliers; bills; estimates; and scrapbooks with specimens of work. While the majority of the correspondence is comprised of letters, there are occasionally proofs, specimens, and cloth, paper, fabric samples, etc., found with the correspondence. The records reflect Updike's involvement with printing across the United States and in Europe, though much of his work was produced for clients in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York City. Some of the correspondence reflects Updike's personal interests including Rhode Island history and churches and charitable work with poor children as well as prison inmates.
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J.B. Houston papers
Manuscripts
This collection contains manuscripts, agreements, and correspondence, most of which are related to J.B. (James) Houston, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and the Southern Pacific Company. Items include an agreement between Collis Huntington, Sidney Dillon, Russell Sage, and J.B. Houston regarding the buying and selling of Pacific Mail Steamship Company stock; extracts from the minutes of a board meeting; and two statements regarding Thomas Reddington, J.W. Throckmorton, Joseph E. Johnston, railroad legislation, and the Congressional Committee on Pacific Railroads. Other authors include Senator Roscoe Conkling, Ulysses S. Grant (autograph letter signed to Mrs. J.B. Houston, 1884 October 25, HM 68476), and William T. Sherman. Also included are two letters to J.B. Houston's daughter (her first name unknown) from soldiers, one stationed in Cuba and involved in the Spanish-American War, the other participating in the South African War. The collection also includes poems and clippings.
mssHM 68473-68482
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Nellie F. Stanley letters to Nathaniel S. Wheeler
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A collection of 31 autograph, signed letters; the majority written from various towns in New Hampshire. Twenty-seven of the letters were written by Nellie F. Stanley to her "sweetheart" Nathaniel S. Wheeler; all of the letters have accompanying envelopes. The letters were written from her home in Enfield, New Hampshire, to Wheeler as he moved between various army posts over a two-year period. The letters detail her life in New Hampshire, including her work as a seamstress in a shop, her opinion of colored troops, church, the local county, town social life, the weather, news of relatives and friends. She also expresses discouragement about their separation and offers to end their courtship if that is what would make him happy. The collection also includes four additional letters: one each from Wheeler's sister, Susan, his cousin Emily, Amos K. Kepner, and a friend who signs his letter "A. F. S."
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Nellie F. Stanley letter to Nathaniel S. Wheeler
Manuscripts
A letter from Nellie F. Stanley to Nathaniel S. Wheeler, before they were married, that discusses her family's health and daily life in Enfield, New Hampshire. Wheeler was in Cairo, Illinois.
mssHM 84375
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Bert MacDonald papers
Manuscripts
The 54 items, which are arranged chronologically, include correspondence, military records, reports, programs, and a newsletter. The collection also contains some ephemera related to the groups and individuals MacDonald was investigating. The material before 1947 deals with MacDonald's early Army career and his appointment as a Security Protective Agent for the War Department and the Corps of Engineers. The material after 1947 pertains to MacDonald's espionage work and his monitoring of radical groups in Los Angeles. These items include material MacDonald collected about the groups as well as his reports on their activities. Some of the groups and people he investigated are: the Congress of American Women, the Federation of American Citizens of German Descent, Dr. Wesley A. Swift, Glendale School Superintendent Willard S. Ford, and a conference on civil rights held by the Los Angeles Community Relations Council. Also included is a copy of the newsletter Alert: A Weekly Confidential Report on Communism and How to Combat It.The collection deals with the following subjects: Anti-communist movements, anti-Jewish propaganda, Anti-Semitism, Communism, espionage, race relations in the Untied States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the Women's International Democratic Federation, and subversive activities. Some notable authors of correspondence are: Agnes Ayres, George Van Horn Moseley, Gerald L. K. Smith, Colonel Edwin C. Kelton, and Major General Ralph H. Van Deman.
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