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Letters

 Subject
Subject Source: Genreform

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

Bert Byron Davis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3564
Scope and Contents This collection covers the time period during B.B. Davis’ life in the Philippines in the 1930s to mid-1940s. The majority of the collection contains correspondence between B.B. Davis and his wife to family and friends living in and around Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids, MI, in particular Areta Williams Hibbard. Many of the letters were written to Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Lorenzo Hibbard, the latter of whom was a sister to B.B. Davis.The letters from the 1930s give an interesting insight...
Dates: 1930-1940

Betty Fouch Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-1362
Scope and Contents This collection contains documents dating from the late 1940s to 2008. The collected papers reflect the life work of Betty Louise Fouch, including her personal published and unpublished writings, a variety of correspondences with family and friends, genealogical information, newspaper clippings from local and non-local sources, paperwork related to Betty’s health, divorce, and children, a substantial amount of addressed and unaddressed cards, as well as myriad lists and miscellaneous...
Dates: 1940-2008

Carol Bergé - Judson Crews Correspondence Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 03-01-exws_berge-crews
Abstract Collected correspondence between authors Carol Berge (1928-2006) and Judson Crews (1917-2010) from the late 1970s and mid 1980s. Also contains a few pieces of correspondence between Berge or Crews and other artists, editors, publishers, and friends In addition to the correspondence, the collection contains drafts of both Berge's and Crews' poetry and prose and includes Berge's editor's copy of the manuscript for Crews' book The Clock of Moss. The are also manuscript...
Dates: 1978-1987

Caroline Bartlett Crane Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-92
Scope and Contents The collection contains material relation to Caroline Bartlett Crane's personal and public life as a Unitarian minister, a social and urban reformer, suffragist, and early conservationist. Papers include personal and professional correspondence, speeches, sermons, articles,articles, travel journals, scrapbooks, biographical material, and photographs. Papers relating to women's issues of the early 20th century include: correspondence with suffragists Anna Howard Shaw, Susan B. Anthony, and...
Dates: 1880-1960

Clyde Cory Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3869
Abstract

This collection contains letters of correspondence from Clyde Cory to his family and wife while serving in World War I from February 1917 to July 1919.

Dates: 1917-1919

David Small & Sarah Stewart Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 20CENG-SMALLSTEWART
Dates: Copyright: 1970-2022

Denise Levertov-Alan Helms Correspondence Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 03-01-exws_levertov
Abstract

Handwritten correspondence between the twentieth century American poet Denise Levertov (1923 - 1997) and writer / English professor Alan Helms (1937-). Also includes legal document listing Helms as co-trustee of the Denise Levertov Trust.

Dates: 1974-1997; Other: Date acquired: 1995

Dr. George C. Palmer Letter

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: RH-A-4352
Scope and Contents

The collection contains an envelope and one letter written by Dr. George C. Palmer in Kalamazoo, Michigan in October of 1866 to his brother Alonzo A. Palmer living in Pendleton Hill, Connecticut.

Dr. Palmer writes about his health and requesting a weekly letter reporting his condition. He writes that his brother has pulmonary weakness and is thinking to advise him to travel west. He also reports his own health is good.

Dates: October 1866

Edward Callan Collection: Alan Paton Archive

 Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_alanpatonarchive
Abstract

Articles, essays, speeches by South African author and anti-apartheid activist Alan Paton collected by Western Michigan University professor Edward Callan. Also contains correspondence between Callan and Alan Paton, as well as Callan and other notable South African anti-apartheid activists, such as Nadine Gordimer and Albert J. Luthuli.

Dates: 1920-2001; bulk 1922-1994; Other: Date acquired: 12/1996