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Helen Wills letter to Sherman Day Thacher
Manuscripts
In this letter, Helen Wills writes that she is sorry she was slow in answering and that she regrets that she will not be able to play in Ojai this year due to prior engagements. She is interested to learn that the first Ojai Tournament was in 1996 and thinks that it was one of the oldest events of its kind in California. She does hope to play in a future tournament and would "love to see the beauties of the Ojai Valley."
mssHM 52273
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Helen Wills letter to Sherman Day Thacher
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In this letter written on a postcard, Helen Wills acknowledges the letter Thacher sent her and regrets that she will not be able to visit Ojai this year due to a long trip abroad. She is delighted to hear about the new asphalt courts and hopes she can play on them some day. Card is postmarked: Berkeley, Calif., 11:30 PM, Nov. 28, 1925.
mssHM 52272
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Mary Jane Brooks letters to Thomas and Priscilla Marsh
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In this first letter (HM 19797, dated 1853, September 14), Mary Jane Brooks describes her journey to California "according to agreement" to her sister Priscilla and her husband Thomas Marsh. Much of this letter contains Brooks' description of Kingston, Jamaica, where she stopped en route to California. She laments that she has not yet found a man to run away with her. HM 19798, written August 12, 1886, and includes an envelope. Brooks is still in San Francisco, and writes of people she is seeing and letters written and received. The last letter in this sequence was written 1886, September 2. Brooks writes that she has reached her sixtieth birthday, but feels "old beyond my years." She discusses the possibility of getting her share of the farmstead left by her father, and hopes her sister will cooperate.
mssHM 19797-19799
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Mary Jane Brooks letter to Fanny Davis
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In this letter to her sister Fanny Davis, Mary Jane Brooks writes that as she is now sixty years of age, she is unable to work as in her youth. She asks for back payment on rent for Fanny's house, where she lived for twenty-five years without payment, or suggests Fanny buy the property outright. She also writes of details of mutual friends in San Francisco.
mssHM 19795
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Elizabeth Benton (Lily) Frémont letter to Clara Stanton Howe
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Miss Frémont writes that she is leaving town for a month and that a lady with a subscription book for the F.F. Society called on her that day, but she didn't have time to look into the matter. Miss Frémont told the caller that all connections to that society are now through her (Mrs. Howe) and that she would see her about it when she got back unless the matter was pressing. In that case, Mrs. Howe could write her at Long Beach. The letter is signed: Yours sincerely, E. Benton Frémont, Los Angeles, Thursday afternoon.
mssHM 16698
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Mary Davis Bucknall letter to Eugene Lemuel Sullivan
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In this letter to her father, Mary Davis Bucknall writes of mutual acquaintances, and of her desire to vacation in San Francisco. She also writes of the recent exhibition of "a man said to be a native of Borneo. He has only four fingers and no thumbs....he walks on his hands and knees with his legs crossed."
mssHM 19342