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Greenfield Family papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 860

Overview The collection consists of one box containing nine letters in Yiddish from Morris Greenfield to his future wife, Bessie Peters (Polycov), in 1915 and one large family photograph with three generation of Greenfields from 1918.

Dates: 1915 - 1918

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Groce Family correspondence

Collection

Identifier: MS 240

Overview The collection consists of correspondence and land documents related to the personal, business and legal correspondence of the Groce family of Texas and 2 letters regarding the possible donation of an historic letter. Topics include family matters, plantation conditions, legal concerns and land dealings. Most of the letters were written in Texas and are to and from Jared Ellison Groce, Sr. and his sons, Jared, Jr. and Leonard Waller Groce. Highlights include an official transcript of the land...

Dates: 1823 - 1922; Majority of material found within 1826 - 1859

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Grounding of the S.S. Schroon papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 265

Abstract: The papers include investigative reports, correspondence, and ship and crew information in relation to the grounding of the S.S. Schroon while helping the S.S. West Hematite. The S.S. Schroon was an American sea-going vessel invovled in cargo transport.

Dates: 1922 - 1937

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Grover Smith collection of Aldous Huxley correspondence

Collection

Identifier: MS 462

Overview The Grover Smith papers are largely comprised of photocopies of letters between literary critic and author Aldous Huxley and numerous correspondents -- literary, scientific, friends, and family -- mainly from Great Britain and the U.S., dating from 1908-1985, bulk years 1930s-1950s. Some original correspondence between Julian Huxley and Smith exists, which relates to Smith's publication of the Huxley letters as Letters of Aldous Huxley, Harper & Row, 1970.

Dates: 1908-1965

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Guide to the Sir Richard John Strachan letter

Collection

Identifier: MS 145

Abstract: This letter from Sir Richard John Strachan was sent to Commodore Sir William Cornwallis, his squadron commander in the East Indies, describing his role in the action against the French frigate Resolue off Pondicherry, India, which resulted in her capture.

Dates: November 21, 1791

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

W. Wortmann / Robert Schumann collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 637

Overview The central item in this collection is a remarkable contemporary manuscript report of Robert Schumann's conducting at Dusseldorf, written by W. Wortmann, deputy mayor of Düsseldorf and a leading member of the administration of the Allgemeiner Musikverein (of whose orchestra and chorus Schumann had been appointed director in 1850).

Dates: 1853-1939 (bulk 1853)

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Gus S. Wortham family and business records

Collection

Identifier: MS 514

Abstract: Correspondence, financial records, awards, memorials and photographs documenting the family and business life of Gus S. Wortham. Wortham was a pioneer in the insurance industry in Texas , founding the American General Life Insurance Company, one of the first multi-line insurance firms, in 1926. Gus S. and Lyndall F. Wortham were very generous philanthropists in Houston, supporting the arts in many ways.

Dates: 1864-1997

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Hallam Tennyson Letters and Postcards

Collection

Identifier: MS 136

Abstract: The collection consists of personal correspondence of Hallam Tennyson, who was the eldest son and biographer of the poet Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892). Correspondents include Mrs. Allingham, Sir George Grove, J. M. Ludlow, A. West. The collection contains letters that deal with Nelson letters, Captain Mahon, and Tennyson's memoir of his father.

Dates: 1886 - 1926

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Hank Hudspeth papers regarding Rice University

Collection

Identifier: MS 597

Overview Letters, meeting minutes, notes and news articles relating to the administration of Rice University, 1969-1993.

Dates: 1969 - 1993

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Hannah Juanita Rembert Rice Institute Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 1011

Overview One folder containing news clippings, photographs, graduation program and invitation, a senior banquet program, an acceptance letter, and a summary of student expenses documents some of Hannah Rembert's time at Rice Institute from 1936 to 1938.

Dates: 1936 - 1938

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

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Greenfield Family papers

Groce Family correspondence

Grounding of the S.S. Schroon papers

Grover Smith collection of Aldous Huxley correspondence

Guide to the Sir Richard John Strachan letter

W. Wortmann / Robert Schumann collection

Gus S. Wortham family and business records

Hallam Tennyson Letters and Postcards

Hank Hudspeth papers regarding Rice University

Hannah Juanita Rembert Rice Institute Papers

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