Four-page letter dated September 17, 1854, from D. McF. [Daniel McFarland] in Sauk City [Wisconsin] to Lysander Spooner [probably in Boston, Massachusetts], describing his circumstances in Wisconsin, and his plans to move further West.
Manuscript copy of a four-page letter from Gerrit Smith of Peterboro [New York] to Hon. D. [David] Wilmot, in which he responds to a letter from Wilmot discussing slavery and the United States Constitution, and sends him a copy of Lysander...
Bronx Savings Bank customer at the Tremont & Park Aves. branch receiving a $100 savings bond for putting the bank over the $250,000,000 mark in deposits.
Cigarettes; Military maneuvers; Military mobilizations; Military camps; Photographs;
Bill describes his joy at receiving one of Marjorie's letters, aside from getting cigarettes. He wants to meet her when he gets home and will picket her house if she doesn't send him a photograph soon. He says that he is waiting to take a shower...
Clippings; Democratic Party (Kings County, N.Y.); Johnston, John B., 1882-1960
Staten Island Leader article describes the strong support John B. Johnston is receiving from the "far end of Staten Island to where Long Island greets the rising sun at Montauk Point."
Paul tells his family how happy receiving mail makes him. He says that the men who receive newspapers or magazines are very popular on mail day, but not as popular as those who receive candy or cigarettes. Paul describes an impromptu barbecue and...
Jan 10 1919
Dear Mrs. Markham:
Your letter written a month ago has wandered about after me, reaching me incredibly late. I’d come for you gladly – but you see where I am: teaching verse-writing and other things in the University of California....
Transcript of letter: October 22, 1940. Dear Mr. Klapper: I have not yet answered your letters of October 2nd and the 9th because we have been receiving various instructions from Switzerland up to yesterday, and therefore were not in a position to...
UPTON SINCLAIR
LOS ANGELES WEST BRANCH
CALIFORNIA
May 1933
Dear Friend:
I didn't expect to send you another circular this spring; but it appears that I have written another book!
So many persons have been asking me for something on the...
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT OF AUTUMN CONFERENCE OF THE INTERCOLLEGIATE SOCIALIST SOCIETY to be held at BELLPORT, LONG ISLAND September 18-24, 1917.
Dear friend:
You are cordially invited to attend the Autumn Conference of the Intercollegiate...
UPTON SINCLAIR
PASADENA
CALIFORNIA
April 23, 1925.
To FRIENDS OF THE RADICAL AND LABOR MOVEMENT:
The American Fund for Public Service has voted to finance the publication of a series of standard works of literature and education in the service...
June 6/07.
Mr. Edward Markham,
Westerleigh, S.I.,
New York City
Esteemed Friend and Fellow Worker: I am sending you under separate cover a copy of Oklahoma’s New Constitution which I hope will meet with your approval. I have heard that the Boston...
Postal service; Postal service employees; Correspondence; War; Sunburns; Machine guns; Cannons; Military life;
Jim describes to his mother the excitement of receiving mail and, as he writes the letter, the postman is standing on a barrel calling out recipients' names. Jim says that he just stepped outside and he can hear the cannon fire and see flashed on...
