David Gray papers, 1857-1960.

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David Gray papers, 1857-1960.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/218532715

The David Gray collection contains correspondence from the 1930s-1950s, including letters from Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Joseph Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, and John F. Kennedy. There are research notes, reports, and clippings relating mainly to Ireland and Irish politics in the 1940s-1950s. Much of the collection consists of unfinished and unidentified original manuscript material regarding Ireland during WWII, including the subjects of Sinn Fein, Irish Republican Army, Irish politics, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Adolph Hitler, Germany, and England. Also included is a family scrapbook of photos, clippings, and letters from 1857-1902. The collection also contains an original manuscript of Stephen Crane's short story "The Devil's Acre."

15.85 cubic ft. (36 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7020847

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Gray, David, 1870-1968

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David Gray (1870-1968) was born in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Harvard University in 1892, and received a Doctor of Letters from Bowdoin College in 1925. He married Maude Livingston Hall Waterbury, an aunt to Eleanor Roosevelt, in 1914. Between 1893 and 1899, he worked as a reporter and editorial writer for several Rochester and Buffalo newspapers. Gray was admitted to the bar in 1899, and served as a Captain in the American Expeditionary Force during World War I. From 1899 onward, his ...

Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900

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Stephen Crane was a novelist, poet, and journalst. He was born November 1, 1871, at 14 Mulberry Place, Newark, New Jersey. Crane is best known for his novel The Red Badge of Courage (1895) that depicted the experiences of a soldier in the Civil War. During the Spanish-American War (1898), Crame served as a correspondent. In 1897, he moved to England and met Joseph Conrad and Henry James. Crane died of tuberclosis in 1900. From the description of Newark Stephen Crane collection, 1897-...