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Correspondence

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Sahm reminiscences

 Collection — Folder S1752
Identifier: S1752
Scope and Contents This collection includes an 8-page, typewritten letter written by Albert Sahm on June 28, 1934 and sent to Miss Esther U. McNitt at the Indiana State Library regarding his reminiscences of Ft. Wayne Avenue in Indianapolis, Indiana. The collection also contains two copies, one handwritten and one typewritten, of Sahm's "Reminiscences of Ft. Wayne Ave Continued." Accompanying the letter are a map of the intersection of Walnut and Delaware Streets and Ft. Wayne Avenue and 6 clippings of Kate...
Dates: 1934

Andrew Wylie collection

 Collection — Folder S1468
Identifier: S1468
Scope and Contents This collection includes a letter written by Andrew Wylie in Bloomington, Indiana to Senator Oliver H. Smith of Indiana in Washington, D.C. on March 13, 1840, regarding a speech the senator gave and Wylie's writing. There are also several newspaper clipping of Kate Milner Rabb's column, "A Hoosier Listening Post," in theIndianapolis Star from 1929 and 1931 regarding Andrew Wylie and his correspondence.
Dates: 1840, 1929-1931

Ebenezer Dumont papers

 Collection — Folder S387
Identifier: S0387
Scope and Contents This collection includes three articles from the Indianapolis Star dated November 21, 22, and 23, 1928, by Kate Milner Rabb in her column "A Hoosier Listening Post." Ms. Rabb reprints sections of a letter originally published in the Indianapolis Journal on July 21, 1861 in which Col. Ebenezer Dumont reported on the Battle of Carrick's Ford of Cheat River, on July 13, 1861. The series over three days gives battle information and lists soldiers who participated in the battle. The November 23,...
Dates: 1861

Esther U. McNitt and M. L. Moon letter

 Collection — Folder S3150
Identifier: S3150
Scope and Contents This collection includes a typed letter from Esther Uhl McNitt in Indianapolis, Indiana to M. L. Moon in 1925. McNitt says she has heard through a mutual acquaintance, Kate Milner Rabb, that Moon was in possession of an almanac from 1751. McNitt encourages its donation to the Indiana State Library. At the bottom of the letter is Moon's handwritten response saying he is willing to donate the item and suggests Mrs. Rabb could handle the transmittal of the item.
Dates: 1925

Fassett A. Cotton papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2698
Scope and Contents This collection includes photocopied, mimeographed, typed and autographed and signed letters, speeches, newspaper articles and miscellaneous from Fassett Cotton, Kate Milner Rabb, Theodore Roosevelt and others in Indiana and elsewhere ranging from 1893 to 1943 regarding education, Fassett Cotton, government issues and other topics.
Dates: 1893-1945, undated

Fountain County collection

 Collection — Folder S1663
Identifier: S1663
Scope and Contents This collection has several items related to Fountain County, Indiana, including an August 17, 1925 handwritten letter sent by Karl Van Devanter of Veedersburg to Kate Milner Rabb at the Indianapolis Star regarding the preservation of the old state road that was used by pioneers from Cincinnati and other eastern points to travel to the Fountain County; two letters from September 1925 that were sent to Rabb from J. Wesley Whicker of Attica in response to the...
Dates: 1925-1965

Helen Clift clippings

 Collection — Folder S1183
Identifier: S1183
Scope and Contents This collection includes forty-nine clippings of Kate Milner Rabb's Indianapolis Star newspaper column, "The Hoosier Listening Post," range from March 14, 1935 to July 25, 1935 that contain transcribed entries from diaries kept by Helen Clift of New Castle, Indiana in 1863 and 1865. Helen used her diary to record her daily chores, the weather, visitors, social activities, and other happenings in New Castle. Her 1863 diary also recorded her time teaching in Economy, Wayne County, Indiana and...
Dates: 1935

Kate Milner Rabb clippings on Bradley family

 Collection — Folder S0156
Identifier: S0156
Scope and Contents This collection includes newspaper clippings of Kate Milner Rabb's column, "A Hoosier Listening Post," from the Indianapolis Star during September 13-17 and 19, 1928, regarding the family letters from the Bradley children to their parents, Burr and Esther Bradley in Salem, Indiana and Warsaw, Illinois ranging from 1843 to 1849 concering community news, family events, and daily life.
Dates: 1928/09

Kate Milner Rabb collection

 Collection — Folder S1092
Identifier: S1092
Scope and Contents This collection has includes three items, all of which are undated. A printed form on yellow paper is entitled, "List of Questions," with "188__" at the bottom. On the back, handwritten in pencil, it says: "Used by Miss Eubank of Guilford, Ind., in getting information in regard to soldiers of War of 1812.The second paper is a letter on Indianapolis Star letterhead, handwritten by Kate Milner Rabb, to "Dear Mrs. Livesey." Kate thanks Mrs. Livesey "for the use of this...
Dates: undated

Newspapers collection

 Collection — Folder S1631
Identifier: S1631
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, lists, and newspaper clippings ranging from 1930 to 1951 regarding Indiana newspapers and Indiana history, including 1931 letters about the early American Eagle newspaper published in Paoli, Indiana; a list of newspapers with circulation numbers from 1934 to 1944; an article published in the Indianapolis Star on November 4, 1951, is entitled "Where The Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is Liberty," explaining the newspaper's changing motto; and numerous...
Dates: 1930-1951