Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, press releases, and related materials from the office of "Romney Volunteers" during the first six months of 1963. Also included are biographical materials, executive speeches and releases, Romney's daily schedules as Governor, photographs, newspaper clippings and campaign materials.

Scope and Contents This collection consists primarily of correspondence and account books. The letters, which span ninety years, are between members of the Wall, Clark and Handy families. The bulk of the letters are from Hannah Wall Handy to her sister Abigail, who married Charles Clark. The Clarks moved to Grand Haven, Michigan, from Maine in the 1850s. When Abigail died in 1874, Charles married her sister, Augusta. The letters between family members occasionally mention politics or economic conditions, but...