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David P. McCafferty letter to Alexander Pogo, 1893-

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Description: In this letter dated August 14, 1966, Florida Bible College student, David P. McCafferty asks Alexander Pogo about a verse in Job 26: 7. He inquires, "I would like to know if there has ever been any place in the north as being empty. Some secular College students will say "where is north"? It seems they just want to argue with everything a Bible College student has to say."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1966, August 14.
Call number: mssHM 83615
Creator: McCafferty, David P(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Placed on deposit by Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1988-1989.

Ella P. Starkweather letter to "Mrs. Dwight and Family,"

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This letter was written by Ella P. Starkweather, a school teacher, living in the town of Bridgewater, now part of South Dakota. Starkweather describes her experiences in Dakota Territory to her friends back home. To her surprise, she likes the school where she is teaching. There are new series of books, a school room that is large and pleasantly furnished. She writes that some of her students could benefit from a lesson on cleanliness: "...a few would be rendered much more attractive by a vigorous application of soap suds..." Regarding life on the frontier, she writes: "You may imagine the people here are sick of the country, and I can hardly give you an idea how happy and contented they all seem to be. They say the most scant time for provisions they have known is since I came and I know of no one suffering." She also touches upon the weather and the farmers. "The country looks lovely, farmers who had seed here and sown find everything encouraging." Near the end of the letter, she describes her layover in Sheldon, Iowa for five days and her amusement regarding a car half-filled with Bohemian immigrants.

mssHM 80839

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A. P. Watt letters regarding Jack London

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The first letter was written by Mary-Cécile Logé, a French book translator. In the letter she declines to translate White fang due to the similarity of its "most important scenes" to those in The call of the wild. She states that Paris editors agree with her and that the book would have to be condensed to "one-third of its actual length" to be published in French. She sends back eight guineas to be forwarded to London. She also inquires after the rights to translate a new Robert Hitchens novel. In English (1908, May 13, HM 81227).

mssHM 81227

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Davies, David W., 1908-1984 13 letters to Thelma Davies

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The majority of the collection consists of personal letters sent by David William Davies to his wife, Thelma Davies, while working as a librarian and serving in the United States Army Corps during World War II from 1941 through 1947. Most of the letters were sent while Davies was serving in the military, which included his cryptographic preparation at Chanute Field Air Force Base, work at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and his deployment in Europe. The correspondence begins in December 1938 when Davies was an assistant librarian in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Much of the correspondence during this time concerns his wife's health; she was in a tuberculosis sanatorium in Altadena, California. Other common topics include work in the library, social life, and a project renovating a house. In August 1941 the correspondence begins in Logan, Utah where Davies was appointed as librarian at Utah State University, College of Agriculture. As an ambitious librarian, Davies "...made several proposals to the President and the Dean of Education for improving the curriculum in library science, but they do not want to do anything. Well if they do not want to do anything I guess it is all right on account it is their college" (August 21, 1941).

mssDavies correspondence

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Davies, David W., 1908-1984 1 letter to Thelma Davies

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mssDavies correspondence

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Davies, David W., 1908-1984 14 letters to Thelma Davies

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mssDavies correspondence

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Davies, David W., 1908-1984 13 letters to Thelma Davies

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mssDavies correspondence

David P. McCafferty letter to Alexander Pogo, 1893-

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