Manuscripts
Mary Alice Smith Gray letters to Calvin Oliver Power
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- Description
- Twenty letters from Mary Alice Smith Gray to Calvin Oliver Power, written between 1918 and 1923. The letters talk about her past, the family news, including the rapidly deteriorating health of John Wesley Gray, and the "dues" she received from Power for the appearances on his show. The letters are undated, scribbled in pencil in a halting and clearly unskilled hand and signed "Mrs. Gray" or "Orphant Annie."
- Production date
- 1918-1923.
- Call number
- mssHM 44514
- Additional description
- Also included is the preface titled "How I Came to Know Mrs. John Wesley Gray (the original Orphant Annie) Whose Name was Mary Alice Smith," signed "C. Oliver Power, Los Angeles, California, September 12th 1924," and two "Orphant Annnie" picture cards copyrighted "Coburn Indianapolis, 1919" and "Calvin Oliver Power."
