Letters (correspondence)
Subject
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Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:
Verdehr Trio collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.320
Scope and Content
The Verdehr Trio collections contains musical compositions either written or commissioned by the Trio.The collection variously includes handwritten scores, full scores, and individual parts. If there is no written distinction, the folder comprises a full score. Among the composers represented are Leslie Bassett, William David Brohn, David Diamond, Elena Firsova, Jere Hutcheson, Gian-Carlo Menotti, James Niblock, and Gunther Schuller. Many items of correspondence are also included between...
Dates:
1940 - 2007
Verdun E. Leichty papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.57
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence about the development of a Workers Education program. Leichty worked as the assistant director of correspondence study in the extension department at the University of Michigan and later developed a similar program at Michigan State University.
Dates:
1944 - 1972
Victor R. Gardner papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.18
Scope and Contents
In 1972 and 1973, Professor Frank Dennis interviewed Victor Gardner as part of an oral history project. Gardner's papers include tape recordings and transcripts of these interviews as well as his own written reminiscences. In these Gardner discusses his experience while a student at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) (1901-1905), the development of the Horticultural Department and his colleagues in the department (1923-1945), and achievements throughout his...
Dates:
1972 - 1973
W. Paul Strassmann papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.59
Scope and Contents
The W. Paul Strassmann papers consist of a Monterrey (Mexico) Project proposal, a proposal for a Center for Research on Development and International Economics, a James Madison College curriculum proposal for socio-economic welfare policy, a proposal for an Institute of International Business Management Studies, College of Social Science roles of advisory committee members on promotions and leaves, MSU officers of faculty government, reports on the transfer of technology to developing...
Dates:
1962 - 1969
Waldo family papers and the Waldo Travel Agency records
Collection
Identifier: 00042
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of personal correspondence, notes, reports, and financial records. The majority of these relate to Mortimer Waldo's activities in Russia and Finland from 1916 to 1918.Letters to family and friends written from 1916 to 1917 describe life in Siberia and comment on the political situation in the United States and the entry of the U.S. into the First World War. Later letters (1918) concentrate on the Finnish Civil War. Those dating from after 1919 primarily...
Dates:
1904 - 1991
Waldron family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00413
Scope and Contents
This collection contains deeds, mortgages, tax receipts, and a diary (1878) of Aaron K. Waldron, a prominent farmer of Tecumseh, Lenawee County, Michigan. Also included is family correspondence (1863-1879) including two Civil War letters (1863) to Waldron's wife, nee Sarah Gunderman, from her brothers John, 126th New York Regiment, and Abram, 148th New York Regiment.The Civil War letters have been transcribed, scanned and placed online at ...
Dates:
1846 - 1904
Wallace De Pue papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.334
Scope and Contents
The Wallace De Pue papers consist of sheet music composed by Wallace De Pue. Some of the compositions include drafts as well as the finished piece. The pieces include choral music, orchestral music and a few operas. The collection also contains a small amount of correspondence as well as concert programs, and honors and awards. Also included is a reminiscence about the influence of Mary Tolbert in Wallace De Pue's childhood. There are also CDs and a cassette of some of De Pue's works, a...
Dates:
1947 - 2014
Walter Adams papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.1.13
Scope and Contents
Walter Adams' papers contain administrative subject files, speeches, and correspondence from his short term as President of Michigan State University. Subject files contain monographs, correspondence, and other documents related to the various schools and departments of the university, and to student affairs. Includes a proposal for a Russian and Eastern European Studies Center. Correspondence deals primarily with state and community issues, with some from the Board of Trustees and from the ...
Dates:
1969, 1973, 1994
Walter Bradford Barrows papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.2
Scope and Content
The Walter Bradford Barrows papers consists of letterpress copies of correspondence (3 volumes, 1896-1900, 1904-1906, 1905-1910), correspondence (1893-1915), bird lists (1850-1914, undated), migration records (1903-1908), advertisements, newspaper articles, Michigan Bird Life (1912), and photographs.
Dates:
1850 - 1961
Walter J. Carrier papers
Collection
Identifier: 00138
Scope and Contents
The Walter J. Carrier papers consist of correspondence, government publications, scrapbooks, and volumes collected by Carrier during the years 1914-1931. The correspondence reveals Carrier's deep pacifistic beliefs. His views on such issues as World War I and the American intervention into Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the 1920s are of particular interest. The scrapbooks contain several pieces of correspondence as well as newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1914 - 1931