Nellie Hobbs Smythe papers, 1887-1939.

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Nellie Hobbs Smythe papers, 1887-1939.

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Papers of a Benton Harbor, Michigan musician and educator. Collection contains general files of Smythe's (nee Hobbs) 1889-1890 tour of Germany, including typescripts of Smythe's letters to her family, and newspaper clippings of her letters that were published in an unidentified newspaper. The general files on the European trip also contain postcards, several photographs, and copies of concert programs she attended. The collection also includes incoming letters (1887-1939) from a wide variety of musicians and writers, including Zona Gale, and two letters from Booker T. Washington concerning a speaking engagement in Benton Harbor. The miscellaneous items include an undated photograph of Smythe, and her notes on the life of Johann Sebastian Bach.

.8 cubic ft.

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7248570

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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Smythe, Nellie Hobbs.

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Gale, Zona, 1874-1938

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