Box 3

Scope and Contents Approximately 180 handwritten letters and business documents pertaining to the affairs of the Challinor family of Leek, Staffordshire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The bulk of the collection pertains to Miss Anne Marie Turner, a Challinor cousin resident in Italy: there are a number of letters from her, as well as material pertaining to her funeral, mourning, and estate, including lengthy correspondence from friends Gertrude Niccoli (nee Birken) and Sophia Chiaracci following...

Scope and Contents 29 letters addressed to US congressman Frederic René Coudert Jr. from a number of political personalities including British diplomat Harry Armstrong, UN US Ambassador Warren R. Austin, French politician Pierre de Chambrun, New York Governor Thomas Dewey, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, British Ambassador Sir Auckland Geddes, French Ambassador Jean Jules Jusserand, British politician Hilda Runciman, and Sumner Welles, foreign policy advisor to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Under Secretary of...

Scope and Contents Approximately 50 items printed by the Black Knight Press between 1965 and 1970, first in Bath then Leicester, England. The collection includes a copy of An Old Drama, Three Encounters with Jack the Ripper by Michael Gardner (1969), and 10 pamphlets containing mixed poetry and prose often accompanied by wood- or lino-cuts on various papers, at least some of which appear to be handmade. The remainder are various small print pieces ranging from offprints and greeting cards to promotional...

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18 pieces of correspondence sent to Eliot Norton of New York City. 12 letters are from author William Dean Howells, addressed both to Eliot and a female relative named Grace who appears to be neither his sister nor his wife; of the remainder 4 are from painter John Singer Sargent, and 2 from poet and author John Ruskin, all of whom were friends of his father.