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Weymouth family papers, 1891-1964

Title: Weymouth family papers 1891-1964

These papers include correspondence, lectures, articles, student essays, poetry, and short stories of Frank Weymouth, Alice Jenkins Weymouth, Oliver P. Jenkins, and others. Photographs and negatives in the collection include images of family members, beach scenes, crabbing activities in Anacosta, Washington, clamming in the San Francisco Bay area, and Mt. Rainier expeditions. Papers of Frank Weymouth include letters from his parents while he was a student at Stanford, 1906-1912; his letters to Alice Jenkins prior to their marriage; Stanford student memorabilia; pocket diary for 1905; lectures for comparative biology, 1934; professional correspondence with Donald C.G. MacKay, 1932-46, concerning their mutual interests in crabs, MacKay's work with Julian Huxley, and other matters; and letters from friends, 1905-63. Correspondents include Stanford classmate Ernest G. Preisker; and friends George Brammer and Elsa Dresbach, some of whose letters mention Kathleen Norris. Papers of Alice Jenkins Weymouth include compositions from English classes at Stanford, 1906-10, botany notes and drawings, 1904-05, and several letters. Papers of Oliver P. Jenkins include several commencement addresses, lecture notes on physiology, and a short story he wrote for his granddaughter.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 Linear feet

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J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

Title: J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections.Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.

ArchivalResource: 479 Linear Feet; 307,000 Items

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Weymouth family. Weymouth family papers, 1891-1964.

Title: Weymouth family papers, 1891-1964.

These papers include correspondence, lectures, articles, student essays, poetry, and short stories of Frank Weymouth, Alice Jenkins Weymouth, Oliver P. Jenkins, and others. Photographs and negatives in the collection include images of family members, beach scenes, crabbing activities in Anacosta, Washington, clamming in the San Francisco Bay area, and Mt. Rainier expeditions.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet.

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Weymouth, Frank W. (Frank Walter), b. 1884. Frank W. Weymouth papers, 1900-1965.

Title: Frank W. Weymouth papers, 1900-1965.

Correspondence, research notes, poetry and prose manuscripts, lectures and research papers. Subjects include animal and human physiology and other related topics. Collection also includes material on Weymouth's family and on the writing of Weymouth's wife, Alice Jenkins Weymouth.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 linear feet.

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