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George Ben Johnson oration

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Description: This manuscript is a handwritten transcript of a speech given by "the Honourable" George Ben Johnson at the Presbyterian Church of San Francisco, California, to the E Clampus Vitus Society. The speech was published in the Mountain Democrat newspaper on January 6, 1928, and it was from this newspaper that this transcription was taken. In the speech, Johnson speaks of the importance of upholding the legacy of George Washington, religion, the virtues of brotherhood, and the enduring importance of women. There is a handwritten and unsigned note at the end of the transcript which reads "I write this because I know it will please for it is the most eloquent I ever readd and as you are a member of the order I know it will please you."
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Production date: 1853, February 22.
Call number: mssHM 43204
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Sir George Howard Darwin letter to Frederick Pollock

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This letter was written by George H. Darwin to the English jurist Frederick Pollack. The letter is simply dated "Tuesday;" the cataloger obtained the date from the postmark on the envelope.The letter reads as follows: "I enclose a cheque for £10 from my Father, and one of £5 from myself. My Father says he will be glad to increase his subscription if necessary, + I shall be proud to help so worthy a subscription by another £5 if there is any kind of need of it - So will you let me know how the total gets on. Yours G. H. Darwin." The letter was written from Beckenham, London, England.

mssHM 80279

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Reverdy Johnson letter to James W. Denver

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Letter written by Reverdy Johnson to General James W. Denver and sent from San Francisco. Johnson writes that he will not be able to attend a meeting for the "friends of Judge Douglas" due to previous engagements. He mentions that he recently gave a speech supporting Douglas in Boston and had distributed related pamphlets. He also notes that he was having the speech copied in several California newspapers. Includes envelope and typed transcription of the letter.

mssHM 79958

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"I came to New York to find something that I'd always wanted. I did not know what it was. Now I know. It was happiness. That was the beginning of the story"--From page [3].

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Tom Johnson

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Approx. 60 items - memos, reports, speeches and articles on a wide range of subjects. Notable names and items include: Tom Johnson ; speech by Robert Erburu (cover sheet dated 12/20/1985), "Paine Webber Outlook on the Media Conference," presented 12/10/1985 in New York ; 3-pp. cover memo, 3/8/1983, attached to 25-pp. booklet, Newspaper Marketing - a time for reappraisal?" by Paul S. Hirt (Chicago Sun-Times) ; 13-pp. speech transcript, remarks by Tom Johnson to the Bakersfield Rotary, 6/17/1982 ; 5-pp. speech transcript, 3/18/1982, "remarks Tom Johnson made to a large group of security analysts today" ; Vance Stickell ; 13-pp. packet, 7/27/1977, "Tom Johnson Orientation" (there are other, shorter versions of this item).

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Haven, Frank

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Approx. 15 items: collection of news clip copies, news releases, a "top ten news stories" list for 1960, many of them relating to Frank Haven ; 8-pp. speech transcript, "New roles and hazards for today's newspaper," "1969" is written in at top margin of pp. 1 - presumably Haven delivered this speech somewhere that year ; single sheet, "Frank P. Haven - biography," 3/20/1974 ; 15-pp. transcript, "This is a taping with Frank Haven, Managing Editor of The Times, on 11/3/(19)74" - subjects include: Haven describes his first weeks on the job by saying "the paper was not all I had dreamed it would be," which is rare negativity in these interviews ; Haven's memories of Pearl Harbor attack & coverage ; more memories. 19-pp. transcript, "This is a second taping with Frank Haven...(1/23/1975). Subjects include: by mid-1960s Los Angeles Times had made great strides in foreign coverage but needed to beef up local "beats" ; memories of Watts riot coverage (pp. 5) ; improving an often "dull and insular" paper of the 1950s (pp. 9) ; NOTE - this transcript has a great amount of cross-outs and editing marks all over it ; 18-pp. speech text, opening with "Thank you, Mrs. Johnstone," n.d., no other info.

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Franc Johnson Newcomb letter to "Dear friend"

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In this letter, Franc Newcomb begins by telling her friend that she sent a copy of the New Mexico quarterly dedicated to Alice Corbin and comments that she was glad it was published before she died. She relates that she's been a hermit for the month of August so she can work on her paintings of Navajo sandpaintings, namely the Mountain Chant (Fire dance) collection. She says there are no copies or records of the male variety so she must complete them. Newcombs says that she did not send her friend a copy of her book "Navajo omens and tabboos" as the friend already has a copy, but says she did send an issue of The New Mexico folklore record with an article about "The lore" and a New Mexico place names. She praises the two year old New Mexico Folklore Society and closes by saying that it was a nice visit.

mssHM 30950

George Ben Johnson oration

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