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Gregory, Warren, 1864-1927. Warren Gregory papers, circa 1884-1958.

Title: Warren Gregory papers, circa 1884-1958.

Personal and business correspondence, clippings, and miscellaneous publications relating to the activities and interests of attorney and U.C. Berkeley faculty member Warren Gregory, family members, and friends. Includes California bar exam questions with corresponding composition answer books. Agencies represented in correspondence and publications include: Alaska Packers Association; Committee for Relief in Belgium; California Committee for Relief in France and Belgium; Serbian Relief Society of California; League of Nations Non-Partisan Association; League of Nations; Hawaiian Dredging Co. (reconstruction of U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor); the presidential election campaign of Herbert Hoover (including correspondence from Hoover); and others. Also includes typewritten transcriptions of letters (some attached to originals and some in separate bound volumes without originals). Includes a bound volume of handwritten correspondence by R.J. Bolles in a "McDonald's Stylograph" notebook (most addressed from Aspen, Colo.) and typewritten personal testimonial letters on behalf of Mrs. S. Bolles from various persons in Portland, Or.

ArchivalResource: 6 cartons (7.5 linear feet)

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Alfred de Vries Papers, 1937-1944, 1944

Title: Alfred de Vries Papers 1937-1944 1944

This collection was originally part of the Alfred H. de Vries map collection. The map collection is available through UC Berkeley and contains 416 volumes in addition 106 individual sheet maps. This collection consists of original manuscript “Maps and their Makers Through the Centuries: A General Handbook for Map History”, newspaper clippings regarding the exhibit of his map collection in Amsterdam, 1937, and a copy of “On the Development of Cartography” presented to the Cercle de Bibliophile in Amsterdam in April, 1936. Also included are photos of the map making process, a lecture given to the San Francisco Museum of Art on “400 Years of Mapmaking”, 1 miniature map, a sheet of stamps from various counties and personal/business correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 1 carton; 1.2 linear feet

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Noble, C. A. (Charles Albert), b. 1867. Charles Albert Noble letters, Berkeley, CA, to WIlliam L. Lassleben, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 1946

Title: Charles Albert Noble letters, Berkeley, CA, to WIlliam L. Lassleben, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 1946

Includes description of several fraternity houses' antics before the Stanford-Berkeley football game; the increase of the student population on campus from 21,500 to 30,000 students in the coming semester; post-war relations between Russia and the United States; post-war problems in the United States; and the Republican proposal to reduce federal taxes. Includes description of Noble's pleasure at Lassleben's upcoming return to campus as an undergraduate student, following his service as a Lieutenant in the United States Army in World War II; a description of the Faculty Club Christmas dinner, and cocktail hour at the Nobles' home beforehand; an account of James Kennedy Moffitt's Christmas luncheon, and Noble's appreciation of Moffitt's character; and brief mention of international and domestic affairs.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706579350 View