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Edward Everett Hale letter to John S. Lockwood
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George Ellary Hale letter to Seth Barnes Nicholson
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This autograph letter, written by George Ellery Hale to Seth Barnes Nicholson, concerns Nicholson's employment at the Mount Wilson Observatory and an eclipse. He expresses, "...I sincerely hope you may see your way clear to stay with us. We can certainly give you better facilities for research than you could get elsewhere, and you may also count on an adequate increase in salary." This letter was written in Florence, Italy.
mssHM 83603
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Charles A. Magnuson letter to Miss Kneebone
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This letter was written by Charles A. Magnuson to Miss Kneebone, a friend, living in Butte, Montana. He describes his experiences in Alaska, including the weather, landscape, mail delivery, and arrivals and departures of ships. Magnuson arrived in Nome less than a month ago and started working immediately: "This is the busy season here, and I have been working every day and evening since I stepped ashore. However, the rush will be over in a few days...then we will be dead to the outside world for about seven months." He describes the last frontier as being bleak: "I have not had much opportunity to see the country as yet, but what I have seen is not a least bit inviting. Not a tree, or blade of grass...when the heavy snows come, they will hide all of this...nothing but snow, snow, snow."
mssHM 80840
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S. P. (Samuel Pierpont) Langley letter to Henry S. Mackintosh
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This letter was written by Langley to Henry S. Mackintosh, an American teacher and author. It is on Smithsonian Institution letterhead. The letter reads as follows: "I am very glad to see your hand again, and perhaps I can best answer your inquiry by enclosing you a copy of a report from the Administrative Assistant in the National Museum, in reference to the feathered cloak. If you wish anything more done through the Museum, let me know, though I rather think you would do quite as well with private parties. Very sincerely yours, S. P. Langley."
mssHM 80278
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T.M. Leung letter to Z.F. Nevius and Mrs. Nevius
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Dr. T. M. Leung addresses this letter to his "dear friends" Dr. Z. F. Nevius and Mrs. Nevius in San Francisco, California. Writing from Hong Kong, China, Leung begins by noting that their letter of last month has been received and expresses relief that they have finally written to him since his return to China. Leung hopes Nevius' drug business will "do as well as my drug store in Canton, for which has been paying 100% dividend per annum." Leung proceeds to explain that he is about "to take interest in a new [drug store] soon in the same city [Canton] for I believe that European drugs are becoming more and more in demand from now on." The letter is written on the letterhead of Canton-based Yan Sun Co. Ltd. (est. 1884), specializing in wholesale and retail of European drug and dental supplies; Leung appears to have been a distributor. Included: Original envelope and two business cards.
mssHM 75846
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George S. Patton letters to Eleanor Banning Macfarland and John Cobb Macfarland
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Two letters from General George S. Patton (1885-1945) to his cousin Eleanor Banning Macfarland and her husband John Cobb Macfarland. The letter to Eleanor is dated October 21, 1918, and was written while Patton was recovering from a leg wound he received in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive during World War I. Patton congratulates Eleanor on the birth of her daughter, Anne Banning Macfarland Brown (who had been born in July), sends his best wishes to various relatives, and notes that "I will be out [of the hospital] in a week or so...and can get back in the show and have some fun" (Patton returned to duty on October 28 but saw no further action before the armistice of November 11). The letter to John Macfarland is dated October 8, 1940. Patton thanks Macfarland for his congratulations (probably on Patton's promotion to brigadier general on October 2). Patton writes that "if and when" the United States entered World War II, he hopes he will "have the guts to put my theories of personal leadership into action." He further notes that he feels that he is "better situated to be killed than most as I have had out of life about all there is to get." He also comments on missing the recently deceased Eleanor, who was "very like a sister" to him.
mssHM 78061-78062