Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1472 Collections and/or Records:
Mrs. Ila Reinstedt family letter
Collection — Folder S2725
Identifier: S2725
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a typescript copy of a letter written by Mrs. Ila Reinstedt, who lived in Washington, Missouri, in 1936. In the letter, she relates what she knows of the genealogy of the Williams family from which she was descended. The original of her letter is the property of Harry Neimeyer. The genealogical information Mrs. Reinstedt relates centers around two personalities. The first is Rinda WIlliams (Rinda French, later Rinda Stockdale), who died in Samesa,...
Dates:
1936/10/11
Mrs. John A. Logan letter
Collection — Folder S3164
Identifier: S3164
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an August 7, 1868 letter written by Mrs. John A. (Mary) Logan and sent to W. L. Dorsey of Princeton, Indiana. The letter is in response to a request by Dorsey for her husband, General John A. Logan, to give a speech. Mrs. Logan mentions that her husband is in Maine and must meet with the Central Committee in Illinois before accepting any requests. The collection also contains the letter's envelope and it is postmarked from Carbondale, Illinois.
Dates:
1868/08/07
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Mrs. John A. Logan letter
Mrs. K. L. McGill collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0885
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a card from various periods in U.S. history. The earliest document in the collection is dated 1812, and the latest item in 1951. The collection contains Civil War correspondence with Colonel Benjamin Harrison, as well as letter from World War I hero, Sergeant Samuel Woodfill.
The oversize folder contains military orders for the 20th Indiana regiment ranging from 1861 to 1864 (OB093).
The oversize folder contains military orders for the 20th Indiana regiment ranging from 1861 to 1864 (OB093).
Dates:
1812-1951
Mrs. Mary Lasecki letters
Collection — Folder S0806
Identifier: S0806
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 2 handwritten letters sent by Mrs. Mary Lasecki to Roger Bryant Francis, director of the South Bend Public Library, on January 19, 1966 and February 1, 1966. Her letters relate her childhood memories of South Bend and some brief memories of World War I. Mrs. Lasecki wrote the letters in response to the article, "Hunts Hoosier History in Personalities," that appeared in The South Bend Tribune on January 16, 1966.
Dates:
1966
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Mrs. Mary Lasecki letters
Mrs. Paul Seehausen collection
Collection — Folder S1163
Identifier: S1163
Scope and Contents
The collection includes typed copies of two items, 23 pages total. The first item includes two letters written by Benjamin Franklin Sibert, Company A, Ninety-third Indiana Regiment, to his mother, Rebecca Sibert, in July of 1863 during the Siege of Vicksburg. The letters, consisting of 11 pages, indicated that Sibert was stationed at Camp Bear Creek, fifteen miles from Vicksburg, Mississippi. The letters mention Generals Sherman and Joe Sherman, as well as his comrades John M....
Dates:
1863, 1891
Myers family collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3281
Scope and Contents
This collection contains several warranty deeds and quit claim deeds of property owned by the Myers family in Marion County, Indiana (1858-1871). Included is a brief history of the Myers family origins, land records, and marriage records (1954). The third component of the collection is approximately sixty pages of pedigree charts of the Myers, Freshour, and related families (1984). There are also oversize materials including a handwritten letter pertaining to the lineage of Jacob...
Dates:
1790-1984
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Myers family collection
Myron Scarbrough collection
Collection
Identifier: L319
Scope and Contents
This collection contains clippings a several different newspaper columns that have quips and one-liners from Myron Scarbrough. The clippings include Irving Leibowitz's Indianapolis Times column (1961-1965), Troy Gordon's Tulsa World column, "Round the Clock"(1962-1976), and the Indianapolis News, "Don't Quote Me" column by Bill Wildhack, Frank Salzarulo, David Mannweiler, and other writers (1965-1974). Also...
Dates:
1961-1976, undated
Myron W. Reed collection
Collection — Folder S1101
Identifier: S1101
Scope and Contents
Six letters are in this collection, only one of which is by Myron W. Reed, dated March 27, 1890, from Denver, Colorado. The other letters are dated 1899 and reference Myron's death. Rollin L. Reed, living in Prescott, Wisconsin, wrote to W. P. Fishback, about his brother. Lawyer E. E. Chapin, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, also wrote to Judge W. P. Fishback in Indianapolis about Myron. His March 24, 1899 letter states: "After he had graduated at the Union Theological Seminary at Chicago, he engaged...
Dates:
1890-1899
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Myron W. Reed collection
Myrtie Barker collection
Collection
Identifier: L583
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, newspaper articles, clippings, manuscripts, books, family papers, awards, and other materials from Myrtie Barker and the Barker family in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1907 to 1985 regarding her career as a writer and family life. There is also an oversize folder with a Sagamore of the Wabash award certificate, 1981/01/07; signed card from Indianapolis News staff, undated, and I Am...
Dates:
1907-1985
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Myrtie Barker collection
Nancy Hovarter papers
Collection
Identifier: S0685
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a postcard and a letter sent to Nancy Hovarter in Angola, Indiana from her daughter Hattie Weirich in Toledo, Ohio on August 12, 1924, and from her granddaughter Ruth and family in Glenwood, Iowa on Augutst 24, 1931, respectively concerning travel, unemployment, farming, drought, and the swarm of grasshoppers which devastated Midwestern crops in 1931. There is also a letter to Hattie Weirich in Kendallville, Indiana from her sister Lydia in Orland, Indiana on July 15,...
Dates:
1884-1931
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Nancy Hovarter papers
