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Box 0134.01

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Contains 137 Results:

1930 May 21 (typed letter City View Sanitarium, Nashville, TN letterhead)

 File — Box: 0134.01, Item: 82
Scope and Contents from Dr. John W. Stevens to Miss Mary Tompkins (Coca Cola Company) (no envelope) Dear Miss Tompkins – Talks about her aunt, Mrs. Aline (Reese) Blondner. She has been in the hospital since Feb. 24, 1924. Her nephew, Mr. Reese Adamson of Birmingham, Alabama is paying for her expenses - She has no estate of her own. Mrs. Blondner has become very much demented and quite incapable of caring for herself. She knows who you are and was glad to get your letter and if you would come to see her she...
Dates: 1918-1931
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Mary Frances Tompkins Danser Correspondence / Series 1: Correspondence 1918-1931

1930 June 10 from Mrs. O.L. Reese to Dearest Sweetest Mary

 File — Box: 0134.01, Item: 83
Scope and Contents writes about hearing from Sarah and getting the silk hose but finds cotton would suit better in the garden, disappointed that Mary didn't visit, thanks her for the offer of money but declines as Mary "just can't keep up the family besides." Hopes to get $25. by July 1. Bill said he would send $10. and will write to remind P.W. that he should send his $10 but hasn't heard from him since he arrived in Panama, told Jim to get his car fixed to bing Mary ans his mother for her (Grandma's) 78th...
Dates: 1918-1931
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Mary Frances Tompkins Danser Correspondence / Series 1: Correspondence 1918-1931

1939 July 24 from Mrs. K. R. Tompkins to Dear sweet daughter

 File — Box: 0134.01, Item: 84
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Talks about writing Sarah several weeks ago and wondering why she never writes! Loves to get Mary's letters. Will soon be liquid and her money her own. Asks if she know more about "Auntie" - She just finished reading "A Tale of Two Cities" and "The Violin". She's wonderfully interested in Conan Doyles' Spiritualism. Years ago she read "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", "Fly fast the hours 'till cometh the expected dawn" when I see you – Aff – Mamma

Dates: 1918-1931
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Mary Frances Tompkins Danser Correspondence / Series 1: Correspondence 1918-1931

1930 Oct. 8 from Mrs. O.L. Reese to Dearest and Sweetest

 File — Box: 0134.01, Item: 85
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Received letter Sunday morning Talks about cutting out gowns Monday morning. Finished one by afternoon Tues., except buttons and button holes. On Thursday will make and send Nelson a cake for her birthday. She said she reads more than is good for her old weak eyes. Going to get apples at orchards above Cedartown. Asks if Mary is coming home after her month's (vacation with Sarah at the Roe's) Love to both of you – Grandma

Dates: 1918-1931
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Mary Frances Tompkins Danser Correspondence / Series 1: Correspondence 1918-1931

1930 Nov. 24 Post Office Department Registered

 File — Box: 0134.01, Item: 86
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Post Office Department Registered Article No. 419 Insured Parcel Return to W.E. Reese Carrollton, Georgia from Cristobal Canal Zone Return Receipt Deliver to addressee only

Dates: 1918-1931
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Mary Frances Tompkins Danser Correspondence / Series 1: Correspondence 1918-1931

1930 Dec. 1 from Mrs. K.R. Tompkins to Dear sweet daughter

 File — Box: 0134.01, Item: 87
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mentions that Mary is having a gown of crepe made for Sarah but Mamma says that Mary should send her the material and pattern so she can make it. Don't spend anything for Christmas on them - Paul is so ungrateful and not regularly attending school, asks Mary to send her her old gloves as she needs them. Aff. Mamma

Dates: 1918-1931
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Mary Frances Tompkins Danser Correspondence / Series 1: Correspondence 1918-1931

1930 Dec. 2 from Mrs. O.L. Reese to Dearest Mary & Sarah

 File — Box: 0134.01, Item: 88
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writes she will bake a cake every day, her time is precious until after Xmas. Dewel left ready to report at the office where he will work until Jan 1st, then begin to travel. He told her he would give her $40. to keep Nelson and Bill with her and he would visit every other weekend to save money. May should write Nelson to go live with Grandma - Grandma says I'm enjoying it - & don't mind the little extra work, knowing I'm getting paid.

Dates: 1918-1931
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Mary Frances Tompkins Danser Correspondence / Series 1: Correspondence 1918-1931

1930 Dec. 5 from Mary Knight (4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris) to Mary Tompkins

 File — Box: 0134.01, Item: 89
Scope and Contents French Christmas card with Sacre-Coeur etching by H. Robin (newspaper clipping of cartoon of Mary Knight in airplane flying around Eifel Tower) [Mary Knight was "A Girl Reporter in Paris"* an American journalist in Paris working for United Press International who had a masculine reporting style. *We Cover the World: By Sixteen Foreign Correspondents, ed. by Eugene Lyons, 1937, New York: Harcourt, Brace. Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting, by John Maxwell...
Dates: 1918-1931
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Mary Frances Tompkins Danser Correspondence / Series 1: Correspondence 1918-1931

1930 Dec. 17 from Mrs. O.L. Reese to Dearest Mary

 File — Box: 0134.01, Item: 90
Scope and Contents writes both Nelson and Bill are both children and hard to wait upon. Now you must do, as you wish to be done by – by not spending one cent on any body for Christmas. Write me if you and Sarah want your cakes sent you before you come Christmas. Dewel writes that J--- is a beautiful city - has had hard work to do since being there, will come home the 24th. Love Grandma from Nelson to Dear Mary - writes that Dewel thinks Santa Clause can get there, but Bill (a child) won't let his mother out of...
Dates: 1918-1931
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Mary Frances Tompkins Danser Correspondence / Series 1: Correspondence 1918-1931

1930 Dec. 18 from Mrs. O.L. Reese to Dearest Mary

 File — Box: 0134.01, Item: 91
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Talks about seeing a little suit (Indian) in Rich's Boula – page – and wants to get it for Bill. It costs 93 cents and smallest no. is – 6. Enclosing $2.10. Keep the change left to pay postage & maybe a cab fare to go to Rich's. Weather is terrible. Talks about Nelson and Bill being a mess but will deal with it for Dewel's sake. Do hope your cold is getting better – keep your feet warm!... Love G----

Dates: 1918-1931
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Mary Frances Tompkins Danser Correspondence / Series 1: Correspondence 1918-1931