Manuscripts
John Steele letters to James Steele, Madurai (India)
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Manuscripts
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San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
A typewritten copy, with a carbon copy.
mssPratt
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of approximately 591 items from 1909 to 1936, it contains the correspondence of James King Steele and Edith Shorb Steele. The collection also includes business papers mainly relating to the tourist business in the Philippine Islands and in Japan. There are also typescripts of articles and talks, eight radio scripts, and photographs in the collection.
mssSteelejk
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Manuscripts
The collection contains thirty letters chiefly from the Steele family of Ann Arbor, Michigan, between 1856 and the 1870s, to Ellen Steele Sturges (1837-1930). All but one of which are addressed to Ellen (or Ellen and David) Sturges from her immediate family (and one friend, identified only as "Rebecca"). The aberrant letter was written in 1856 to David B. Sturges from Ellen (it is unclear if they were already married at this point). The correspondence contains detailed descriptions of the failing health and treatment of Julia and Valentine Steele in the months leading up to their deaths. There are occasional references to cultural and religious life in Ann Arbor in the letters of the 1866-1876 period, especially regarding the growth of the Methodist Church and the public speeches of Erastus Otis Haven (1863-1869), the second president of the University of Michigan and pastor of the First United Methodist Church. Though politics and national affairs are rarely discussed, HM 73855 includes Phebe Steele's thoughts on President Ulysses S. Grant's unsuccessful bid for a third term. Ebenezer and Phebe Steele express deep anxiety throughout the 1866 correspondence as to their daughter's safety from Indians in Montana, though no specific events are referenced. In addition to the correspondence, there is a family record, believed to be in the hand of Phebe Steele, detailing the birth and death dates of the siblings and parents of Ebenezer Steele, as well as a folder containing seven empty envelopes.
mssHM 73830-73862
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Manuscripts
Seven letterpress books of Steel's business and private outgoing business and personal correspondence: 1) 1862, Aug. 28 -- 1864, Feb. 29 (HM 76186); 2) 1864, Feb. 29 -- 1864, Dec. 21 (HM 76187); 3) 1864, Dec. 21 -- 1865, Dec. 18 (HM 76188); 4) 1865, Oct. 13 - 1867, June 15 (HM 76189); 5) 1867, June 15 -- 1869, Apr. 7 (HM 76190); 1870, Nov. 12 -- 1873, Jan. 14 (HM 76191); 7) 1875, Jan. 1 -- 1877, Oct. 22 (HM 76192).
mssHM 76186-76192
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Rare Books
181537
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Visual Materials
Photographs of Steele, alone and with visitors or associates. One photograph of Aimee Semple McPherson holding flowers, approximately 1931.
photCL 694