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McDougall, Walter Hugh, 1858-1938. Correspondence, 1924-1925, with Perry Walton.

Title: Correspondence, 1924-1925, with Perry Walton.

Amusing letters, most in response to Walton's (copies of originals included), reflecting on his career as a newspaper cartoonist and concerning the up-coming publication of his memoirs by Knopf, This is the life! (1926).

ArchivalResource: 8 items, in folder ; 26 cm.

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Roscoe Pound Papers

Title: Roscoe Pound Papers

Correspondence, writings, speeches, lectures, teaching notes, reports, minutes of meetings, legal briefs, scientific drawings, pamphlets and other printed material, newspaper clippings, maps, photos, memorabilie, miscellaneous honorary degrees, and other papers, chiefly 1910-1964. Includes material pertaining to Pound's participation in the Boston and Cleveland crime surveys (1920's), as a member of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement or Wickersham Commission (1929-1931), as a member of the American Bar Association and with various Masonic chapters, and as advisor to the Ministry of Justice in Nanking, China (1940's). Also two typed, bound journals recounting camping trips in West Virginia and to Civil War battlefields (1898, 1912-1917).

ArchivalResource: 1 collection (257 Boxes, 14 Paige boxes)

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Steffens, Lincoln, 1866-1936. Letter, 1931 July 5, Carmel, Calif., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1931 July 5, Carmel, Calif., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Has just responded to another correspondent about what he had to say in his book [his autobiography?] about Harvard; he hopes to make it to Boston in October.

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Thomas, Augustus, 1857-1934. Letter, 1922 Feb. 27, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1922 Feb. 27, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Regarding Col. John A. Cockerill.

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932. Letter, 1928 May 19, South Pasadena, Calif., to Perry Walton.

Title: Letter, 1928 May 19, South Pasadena, Calif., to Perry Walton.

No copies of Son of Power available, so he is sending a copy of the Glass Hive magazine that lists other novels carried. On Glass Hive Gallery and Book Room stationery.

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Maude, Aylmer, 1858-1938. Letter, 1931 Jan. 13, Chelmsford, England, to Perry Walton.

Title: Letter, 1931 Jan. 13, Chelmsford, England, to Perry Walton.

Regarding the new translation of Tolstoy's War and peace. On Tolstoy Society stationery.

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945. Letters, 1929 Nov. 26-1933 Nov. 6, Chadds Ford, Penn., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letters, 1929 Nov. 26-1933 Nov. 6, Chadds Ford, Penn., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Letters mostly concern Wyeth's great-uncle, John B. Wyeth, western adventurer and author of Oregon (1833).

ArchivalResource: 3 items (9 p.), in folder ; 26 cm.

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Andrew, A. Piatt (Abram Piatt), 1873-1936. U.S. House of Representatives pass, 1924 March 19, to Perry Walton.

Title: U.S. House of Representatives pass, 1924 March 19, to Perry Walton.

ArchivalResource: 1 item, in folder ; 26 cm.

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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Letter, 1914 April 21, Orlestone, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1914 April 21, Orlestone, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Thanking Walton for the pamphlet on clipper ships, Conrad reminisces about clipper ships he had known or seen (like the Red Jacket), and his own experiences as a sailor.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.), in folder ; 26 cm.

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Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973. Letter, 1917 Sept. 6, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1917 Sept. 6, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

She does not wish to purchase a copy of War administration.

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Cutting, Bronson M., 1888-1935. Letter, 1929 Oct. 14, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1929 Oct. 14, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Acknowledges Walton's congratulations for his Senate speech the week before; will "take great pleasure in reading Professor Bury's book on freedom of thought."

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939. Letter, 1927 Sept. 3, Ithaca, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1927 Sept. 3, Ithaca, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Farrand explains that despite their friendship he is unable to make an exception and accept Walton's niece into Cornell.

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933. Letter, 1929 Nov. 19, Princeton, N.J., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1929 Nov. 19, Princeton, N.J., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Letter recounts the form of an early game of football played between Princeton and Rutgers.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.), in folder ; 26 cm.

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Coffin, Robert P. Tristram (Robert Peter Tristram), 1892-1955. Letter, 1934 July 1, Aurora, N.Y., to Perry Walton.

Title: Letter, 1934 July 1, Aurora, N.Y., to Perry Walton.

On Wells College stationery, Coffin discusses his poetry and says that he is taking a position at Bowdoin College in the fall.

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Hopkinson, Charles, 1869-1962. Letter, 1933 Nov. 9, Manchester, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1933 Nov. 9, Manchester, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Recounting his visit to Walton's office, he has no doubt that the picture is a Homer, not "first class," but "good."

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941. Letters, 1923 Jan. 25-1936 Nov. 3, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letters, 1923 Jan. 25-1936 Nov. 3, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Friendly letters. Evidently the Brandeis and Walton families summered together in Chatham, Mass.

ArchivalResource: 6 items, in folder ; 26 cm.

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Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948. Letters, 1913 March 15-1917 Sept. 15, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letters, 1913 March 15-1917 Sept. 15, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Two letters, one enclosing his autograph, and the other thanking Walton for a copy of War administration (1917).

ArchivalResource: 2 items, in folder ; 26 cm.

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Borah, William Edgar, 1865-1940. Letter, 1929 Oct. 12, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1929 Oct. 12, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Thanking Walton for a book and alluding to some legislation regarding censorship that was not adopted.

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Harvey, George Brinton McClellan, 1864-1928. Letter, 1925 Nov. 23, Asbury Park, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1925 Nov. 23, Asbury Park, to Perry Walton, Boston.

He is scheduled to speak to the St. Andrews Society and will be unable to eat with the Silurians.

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946. Letters, 1929-1931, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letters, 1929-1931, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Includes one letter (1931 Oct. 26) regarding hunting for walrus - "the animals are getting scarce ... bootlegging is more profitable ..."

ArchivalResource: 3 items, in folder ; 26 cm.

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Coolidge, Grace Goodhue, 1879-1957. Recipe, 1934 April 13, Columbus, NC, sent to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Recipe, 1934 April 13, Columbus, NC, sent to Perry Walton, Boston.

Unsigned recipe for whole wheat and rye cereal, postmarked Columbus, North Carolina. With autographs on White House card stock of Calvin and Grace Coolidge, and a photograph of the Coolidge inauguration, March 4, 1925.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.), in folder ; 26 cm.

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Bryan, Mary Baird, 1861-1930. Letter, 1925 Aug. 31, Coconut Grove, Fla., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1925 Aug. 31, Coconut Grove, Fla., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Thanking Walton for the two pictures he sent.

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Ochs, Adolph S. (Adolph Simon), 1858-1935. Letter, 1921 Sept. 12, New York, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1921 Sept. 12, New York, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Friendly but formal letter thanking Walton for marking his twenty five years managing the newspaper.

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Terhune, Albert Payson, 1872-1942. Letters, 1936 Dec. 22-1939 May 24, Pompton Lakes, N.J., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letters, 1936 Dec. 22-1939 May 24, Pompton Lakes, N.J., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Letters, on Sunnybank Collie Kennels stationery to an old friend, discussing his growing old and impending retirement, and providing stories of dogs, some of which were published in his syndicated column, "Calling all dogs." One letter, 1936 Dec. 22, reminisces about his career writing for the New York Evening World under editors both good (Fred Duneka) and bad (Charles Chapin). He also mentions the Silurians, and journalists Billy Inglis and Martin Green.

ArchivalResource: 5 items, in folder ; 26 cm.

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Thompson, Dorothy, 1893-1961. Letter, 1936 July 22, South Pomfret, Vermont, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1936 July 22, South Pomfret, Vermont, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Regarding the monthy publication, Champion of Youth.

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976. Letter, 1938 Dec., 9, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1938 Dec., 9, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Asking to send a photostat of the Andrew Jackson lithograph.

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Anderson, Mary, 1859-1940. Note, 1930 Sept. 2, Broadway, Worcestershire, to Perry Walton.

Title: Note, 1930 Sept. 2, Broadway, Worcestershire, to Perry Walton.

Giving Walton permission to visit her gardens. Signed "Mary de Navarro."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.), in folder ; 26 cm.

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Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956. Letters, 1939 Feb. 5-March 10, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letters, 1939 Feb. 5-March 10, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Regarding a picture of Andrew Jackson offered by Walton.

ArchivalResource: 2 items, in folder ; 26 cm.

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Coolidge, Marcus Allen, 1865-1947. Letter, 1935 Feb. 14, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1935 Feb. 14, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Regarding old age pension legislation before Congress.

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Kennedy, William Sloane, 1850-1929. Letters, 1926, West Yarmouth, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letters, 1926, West Yarmouth, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Letters primarily concern his book, The fight of a book for the world; a companion volume to Leaves of grass, published in 1926. Letter of 1926 June 22, expresses condolences on the death of Walton's wife, Emily, mentions the recent death of Luther Burbank, Kennedy's long-time friend Thomas A. Watson, and the fact that the deluxe limited edition of his book is selling out; a second sheet gives a hand-drawn map and directions to his house in West Yarmouth, and mentions the local writer Joshua Freeman Crowell and his wife, "liberals (our style)." Another letter, accompanying a copy of the book, says that H.L. Mencken has offered "high praise" for it and will publish a review in the Mercury. A postcard relates that a Capt. Hendricks of Chatham is the prototype of one of Joseph Lincoln's characters. With a printed prospectus (5 p.) for the book, and a sample of Whitman's handwriting (an envelope addressed to Kennedy, 1889 Dec. 27).

ArchivalResource: 3 items (6 p.), in folder ; 26 cm.

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Bowers, Claude Gernade, 1879-1958. Letters, 1926 Feb. 1-1929 Aug. 19, New York, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letters, 1926 Feb. 1-1929 Aug. 19, New York, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Bowers writes of his background and influences as a historian and his role in Indiana politics. Letters are on Evening world stationery.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (6 p.), in folder ; 26 cm.

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Markham, Anna Catherine, 1859-1938. Letter, 1927 April 18, Staten Island, N.Y., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1927 April 18, Staten Island, N.Y., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Writing on behalf of her husband, Edwin Markham, who is on a lecture/reading tour in California. His many committments will probably prevent him from writing a poem on the Sacco-Vanzetti case.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.), in folder ; 26 cm.

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Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949. Letters, 1921 June 4-1931 Sept. 17, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letters, 1921 June 4-1931 Sept. 17, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Three letters: 1921 June 4, thanking Walton for his support as subscriber to The Nation; 1927 Sept. 4, grateful for Walton's praise of his article on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, "the horror and wickedness of that execution still haunts me..," and blaming "the grandsons of the broadcloth Harvard mob" for it; 1931 Sept. 17, recalling how he met President Wilson in Pennsylvania Station just before publication of his position on the sinking of the Lusitania, and Wilson telling him " ... this country will never go into that war while I am President."

ArchivalResource: 3 items, in folder ; 26 cm.

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Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928. Letter, 1917 Aug. 31, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1917 Aug. 31, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Acknowledging receipt of the book War administration.

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Letter, [1924?] Jan. 9, New York, to Perry Walton.

Title: Letter, [1924?] Jan. 9, New York, to Perry Walton.

On American Mercury stationery, Mencken writes that he is forwarding Walton's letter to [Walt] McDougall, and that the magazine "will be far better in its second year than in its first."

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Autograph, 1933 May 15, Washington D.C., sent to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Autograph, 1933 May 15, Washington D.C., sent to Perry Walton, Boston.

On White House card stock.

ArchivalResource: 1 item, in folder ; 26 cm.

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Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968. Letter, 1933 June 21, New York, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1933 June 21, New York, to Perry Walton, Boston.

An appeal for funds, recounting the growth of Socialist Party membership and the cost to maintain organizers in the field.

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

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Masefield, John, 1878-1967. Letters, 1916 and 1933, New York, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letters, 1916 and 1933, New York, to Perry Walton, Boston.

In the letter dated 1933 Jan. 6, Masefield says that "a writer ought to save up his autobiography for his extreme old age."

ArchivalResource: 2 items, in folder ; 26 cm.

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Dallin, Cyrus E. (Cyrus Edwin), 1861-1944. Letter, 1929 May 11, Arlington Heights, Mass., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1929 May 11, Arlington Heights, Mass., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Thanking Walton for sending a copy of Paul Revere's own story (1929), "a most beautiful example of the book makers art."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.), in folder ; 26 cm.

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Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924. Letters, 1918 Jan. 25-1924 March 19, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letters, 1918 Jan. 25-1924 March 19, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston.

Includes: Letter, 1918 Jan. 25, saying that he has supported all the measures for the war, and means to give President Wilson "every possible support," but "he is not the country. He is the President, charged with great responsibilities and deserving every support; so is Congress charged with great responsibilities, which they cannot escape;" letter, 1919 Feb. 8, suggesting that the government has taken over the cables "to control absolutely the flow of news between the United States and Europe in regard to the peace conference;" letter, 1919 Oct. 2, upon "examining the League terms find it impossible to support them as they stand." With Senate pass, 1924 March 19.

ArchivalResource: 5 items, in folder ; 26 cm.

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