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Extracts from letters of Esther G. Leggett to Caroline Hazard
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Esther Baldwin York letter to Mrs. Burk
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Letter from Esther Baldwin York to her former English teacher, Mrs. Burk. York writes of her education, her published poems, and her current employment in a gift shop outside Clifton's Cafeteria. Also included is a brief poem entitled "Afternoon in a Forest."
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Group 1349: Hazard, Caroline (president, then trustee of Wellesley College; includes a letter from Oliver Wendell Holmes)
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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Letter. To WGM. From John G. Maher
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, photographs and clippings related to the life and political career of William Gibbs McAdoo. Much of the McAdoo correspondence deals with his public appearances and engagements as a U.S. senator and also his failed attempt at re-election in 1938. Also of interest is McAdoo's involvement with the first Pan-American flight in 1936 and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's campaign trip to California in July 1938. There are also materials related to McAdoo's involvement with the Liberty Bond Act during World War I and the construction and management of the Hudson River Tunnels.
mssMcAdoo papers
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Letter. To WGM. From Ernest G. Taylor
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, photographs and clippings related to the life and political career of William Gibbs McAdoo. Much of the McAdoo correspondence deals with his public appearances and engagements as a U.S. senator and also his failed attempt at re-election in 1938. Also of interest is McAdoo's involvement with the first Pan-American flight in 1936 and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's campaign trip to California in July 1938. There are also materials related to McAdoo's involvement with the Liberty Bond Act during World War I and the construction and management of the Hudson River Tunnels.
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Lottie G. Woods letter to Caroline Huntington Holladay
Manuscripts
Also: copy of photograph of Holladay house in San Francisco, taken after 1906 earthquake showing refugee tents.
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