Condolence notes

Scope and Contents This collection includes a January 17, 1901 letter sent by the Pittsboro (IN) Lodge No. 342 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows to Mrs. Samuel (Elizabeth) Scott of Poplar Bluff, Missouri. The letter was in response to the lodge learning that Samuel Scott, a member of the lodge, had died. The incomplete letter extends the lodge's sympathy and mentions the lodge's resolutions regarding Scott's character and his faithful membership.

Scope and Contents The bulk of the collection consists of Maude Vestal’s diaries (1920, 1925-1932) and papers, ranging from 1920 to 1940, largely regarding the Wendell Willkie Notification Committee (1940). The Willkie papers principally pertain to the planning of the official notification ceremony in Elwood, Indiana, on August 17, 1940. The collection also contains family and business correspondence; papers regarding her guardianship of Ann Catherine Shaffer; reports on clothing production by Red Cross...

Scope and Contents The collection includes indentures, mortgages, abstracts of titles, and other legal documents from William Henry Harrison Miller regarding his property ownership in Indianapolis (1874-1906) as well as correspondence, reports, and financial papers regarding the construction and maintenance of said properties; letters of condolence to his wife and children at his death; several of Miller’s speeches; and a report to the U.S. Circuit Court on the case of James R. Jessup vs. the Wabash, St. Louis...