Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 570 Collections and/or Records:
Dillingham Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0257
Abstract
The Dillingham Family Papers, consisting of approximately 900 items or 1.25 linear feet, follows the history of a prominent Texas family from 1858 to 1958. Correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, photographs, journals, poetry, and newspaper clippings show the life style of a family who moved into Texas during the prosperous era of the late nineteenth century and played an important role in developing both the social and economic framework of Houston.
Dates:
1858 - 1958
Dillon Anderson papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0540
Abstract:
Contains materials relating to Anderson's work with Dwight D. Eisenhower as National Security Advisor as well as correspondence and manuscripts related to his short stories, his book Recollections of Eisenhower and book reviews.
Dates:
1941-1973
Dorothy M. Richardson letters
Collection
Identifier: MS 0333
Overview
This collection contains thirteen items, most of which are letters from Dorothy M. Richardson to Mr. Curtis Brown, her publishing intermediary. Ms. Richardson was an English novelist noted for a series of novels published under the collective title Pilgriamge. She has also been noted as the introducer of the stream of consciousness method into English fiction.
Dates:
1917 - 1920
Dresel and Spiess families records
Collection
Identifier: MS 0239
Overview
This collection consists of several hundred typewritten pages and many photographs of people and places concerning the immigration of Germans into Texas, most notably the Dresel and Spiess families. Most of the material focuses around the middle of the nineteenth century when Gustav Dresel and Hermann Spiess settled in Galveston and Waco Springs, respectively. Clyde H. Porter compiled the material.
Dates:
1785 - 1914
E. B. Osborn letters
Collection
Identifier: MS 0135
Abstract:
The collection consists of autographed correspondence between Edward Bolland Osborn (1867-1938) and James Nicol Dunn (1856-1919) between the years 1892 and 1909. The bound letters reveal a wide range of topics and interests that the two men shared from reviewing books and writing articles to professional achievements. The volume contains some biographical information about the two correspondents as well as a prepared index of topics and individuals mentioned in the letters.
Dates:
1892 - 1909
Early Fondren Library manuscripts collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0018
Abstract:
This collection consists of an assortment of letters and papers acquired over a period of time and kept together. The collection consists of folders containing correspondence to and from historical / literary figures (Thomas Carlyle, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Jose de San Martin, George Bernard Shaw, Henry David Thoreau, William Wordsworth, and others). The largest part of the collection is correspondence of nineteenth century literary figures.
Dates:
ca. 1700-1948
Early Rice Institute records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0101
Abstract:
These records include the original William Marsh Rice murder trial records, and the estate records of Rice, founder of Rice Institute, now Rice University. These records relate to the formation of the idea of the Rice Institute and the activities of its first Board of Trustees in the years before Mr. Rice’s death and to the Institute’s formative years just after his death. The outcomes of the legal proceedings documented in these records, which related to significant financial resources and...
Dates:
1844 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1916
Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0112
Overview
Event planning documents, correspondence, notes, drafts, memos, press releases, newsclippings, photographs and memorabilia created and maintained by Rice University in support of the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations, hosted by Rice University.
Dates:
1990
Edgar Odell Lovett and Mary Ellen Hale Lovett Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0494
Abstract
Family correspondence, photographs, travel and community involvement records, business information, newsclippings, academic realia and genealogies for the Edgar Odell Lovett family and related families such as the Hale and Wicks families. In addition to providing detailed family history, this material documents the close administrative and philanthropic relationship of the Lovetts and others primarily to Rice Institute, and to a lesser degree the Art League of Houston and the Houston Museum of...
Dates:
1849-1979
Edgar S. Maclay letters
Collection
Identifier: MS 0147
Abstract:
Letters written by Maclay to Admiral Thomas A. Stevens mentioning his intention to write a comprehensive account of the Navy’s part in the U.S. Civil War.
Dates:
1894 - 1895