Collection-level Scope and Content Note The William Zimmerman, Jr., Manuscripts Collection consists of two series of material. The first series is a collection of autograph materials such as correspondence by literary figures, intellectuals and politicians, including novelists R.D. Blackmore, Samuel Butler, Anatole France, Thomas Hughes, Edgar Lee Masters, and George McDonald; and statesman Harold Ickes. Photographs by Burton Holmes and Henry Greenwood Peabody are also included. Of special interest is a fragment of a sixteenth...

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

(Folders 1 - 47) This series contains autograph correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera pertaining to a variety of notable British and American figures in the arts and sciences. Arrangement is alphabetical by individual name.

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Letters of inquiry concerning the history of White Marsh, including a letter by M.A. Purtell, SJ, to Father Kelly, SJ, May 14, 1941 that includes reminiscences of the parishes supported by the White Marsh residence with references to a predominantly black parish Woodmore (called "Blackmore")

**Former finding aid location: 53_3_1**