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Box 5A

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Contains 58 Results:

Letter from William Henry Smith (New York) to Joseph Medill, 1883-10-30

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C30
Scope and Contents

Enclosing a note "On motion of Mr. Richard Smith. Resolved, that the President of this Association be requested to prepare a memorial to Congress setting forth the injustice of the present rate of postage on newspapers ..." signed H.E Baker, secretary; and a copy of a telegram to E.B. Wight, dated 1884-05-26, beginning "What has become of the House bill to liberalize transient postage on newspapers?"

Dates: 1883-10-30
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from H.G. Bond (New York) to Joseph Medill, 1883-11-22

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C31a
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Concerning the upcoming trial of an electrical rail engine, drawing power from a third rail, constructed by Leo Daft

Dates: 1883-11-22
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from H.G. Bond (New York) to Joseph Medill, 1883-11-23

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C31b
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If Bain's dynamo [for an electrified railway] performs as claimed, Leo Daft will want to use it. "I do not think you take the right view, however, of your decision whether or not you want to go into the Chicago Co. The matter is of great moment to me as I want to go to work in our territory. ... If I am satisfied with the trial at Saratoga I think it but fair that you should then see what there is & satisfy yourself whether you want to take any interest or not."

Dates: 1883-11-23
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from H.G. Bond (New York) to Joseph Medill, 1883-12-12

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C31c
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson Papers consist chiefly of Medill, McCormick and Patterson family correspondence, Joseph Medill business and political letters, Chicago Tribune historical material, and a collection of letters of Joseph Medill and others to and from important people. The papers cover the years 1846-1910, approximately, with most of the material falling in the 1850-1899 period. The name of the collection reflects its provenance, not its...
Dates: 1883-12-12
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from H.G. Bond (New York) to Joseph Medill, 1883-11-26

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C32
Scope and Contents

Concerning an accident during a trial of an electrical rail engine, drawing power from a third rail, constructed by Leo Daft

Dates: 1883-11-26
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from H.G. Bond (New York) to Joseph Medill, 1883-12-18

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C33
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Medill has decided not to invest in the Leo Daft Co. at Chicago

Dates: 1883-12-18
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Mary S. Leiter (Washington, D.C. (postmark)) to Joseph Medill, 1883-12-28

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C34
Scope and Contents

Please have her subscription forwarded to Washington. "The article sent you, from Washington, about the Arnolds visit being inopportune is entirely false."

Dates: 1883-12-28
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Joseph H. Barrett (Cincinnati [Ohio]) to Joseph Medill, 1860-03-12

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson Papers consist chiefly of Medill, McCormick and Patterson family correspondence, Joseph Medill business and political letters, Chicago Tribune historical material, and a collection of letters of Joseph Medill and others to and from important people. The papers cover the years 1846-1910, approximately, with most of the material falling in the 1850-1899 period. The name of the collection reflects its provenance, not its...
Dates: 1860-03-12
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Schuyler Colfax (Washington [D.C.]) to Oliver P. Morton?, 1861-01-11

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C2
Scope and Contents

Attached to the letter is a letter to Colfax from T.H. Basinghurst (1861-01-08) concerning Lincoln's cabinet appointments.

Dates: 1861-01-11
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Charles Henry Ray (Chicago [Ill.]) to Joseph Medill, 1861-02-20 (postmark)

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson Papers consist chiefly of Medill, McCormick and Patterson family correspondence, Joseph Medill business and political letters, Chicago Tribune historical material, and a collection of letters of Joseph Medill and others to and from important people. The papers cover the years 1846-1910, approximately, with most of the material falling in the 1850-1899 period. The name of the collection reflects its provenance, not its...
Dates: 1861-02-20 (postmark)
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from A.L. Morrison (Chicago) to Joseph Medill, 1873-08-20

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C15
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson Papers consist chiefly of Medill, McCormick and Patterson family correspondence, Joseph Medill business and political letters, Chicago Tribune historical material, and a collection of letters of Joseph Medill and others to and from important people. The papers cover the years 1846-1910, approximately, with most of the material falling in the 1850-1899 period. The name of the collection reflects its provenance, not its...
Dates: 1873-08-20
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Elihu B. Washburne ([Paris, France]) to Mr. & Mrs. Medill; the Misses Medill, 1873-11-15

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C16
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Invitations to dinner with the "The Minister of the United States and Mrs. Washburne"

Dates: 1873-11-15
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Herman Kreissmann (Berlin) to Joseph Medill, 1874-06-02

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C18
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson Papers consist chiefly of Medill, McCormick and Patterson family correspondence, Joseph Medill business and political letters, Chicago Tribune historical material, and a collection of letters of Joseph Medill and others to and from important people. The papers cover the years 1846-1910, approximately, with most of the material falling in the 1850-1899 period. The name of the collection reflects its provenance, not its...
Dates: 1874-06-02
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Joseph W. Congdon (New York) to Joseph Medill, 1874-09-21

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C19
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Hopes that Medill's letters from Europe will be published in book form

Dates: 1874-09-21
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Illinois State Guard First Regiment (Chicago (postmark)) to Joseph Medill, 1874-10-09

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C20
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Medill is elected an honorary member of the Regiment

Dates: 1874-10-09
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Niles Pomroy (Lockport, N.Y.) to Joseph Medill, 1874-11-15

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C22
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Is sorry to have missed Medill when he passed through New York; last fall visited Medill's mother

Dates: 1874-11-15
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Bluford Wilson (Department of Justice, Office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, Washington, D.C.) to "My dear sir", 1876-05-03

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C23
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Concerning a financial transaction involving Albert Smith and John Harper. The letter includes copies of a letter to Wilson from M. Hay, 1876-05-10; and a letter from Wilson to Jas. C Connolly, U.S. Attorney, Springfield, Ill.

Dates: 1876-05-03
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from T.C. Henry and Company (Abilene Kansas) to Joseph Medill, 1876-06-10

 File — Box: 5A, Folder: C24
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson Papers consist chiefly of Medill, McCormick and Patterson family correspondence, Joseph Medill business and political letters, Chicago Tribune historical material, and a collection of letters of Joseph Medill and others to and from important people. The papers cover the years 1846-1910, approximately, with most of the material falling in the 1850-1899 period. The name of the collection reflects its provenance, not its...
Dates: 1876-06-10
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]