Box 6

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...

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Accepting Medill's invitation for this afternoon

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Thanking Medill for an article in the Tribune on the proposed History of American Commerce

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Transmitting a group of clippings (not present)

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...

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Concerning a statue of Benjamin Franklin to be placed in Lincoln Park

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Concerning a statue of Benjamin Franklin to be placed in Lincoln Park. Accompanied by a clipping

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Thanking Medill for the Tribune's appreciative article on Eugene Field, who had recently died

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Concerning taxation and expenditures in Boston and Chicago. Accompanied by a pamphlet on Chicago municipal finances (containing at the end a letter dated 1895-12-28), and a typescript address on Chicago Tribune Business Department letterhead, with manuscript changes

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Concerning his own appointment to Committee chair

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Requesting a portrait of Medill, "the Nestor of the Republican press"

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Transmitting copy of an article on Benjamin Franklin, and a pamphlet by James, "An early essay on proportional representation". Contained in two envelopes

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Thank-you for recommendation of appointment to the Board of Education

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Concerning an earlier sale of Tribune stock, and private financial matters

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Enclosing a reproduction of The Times of 1796-11-09, which includes a portion of Washington's farewell address

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...

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...

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Form letter. Transmitting a list of the best 10 short poems in English, prepared by the editor of the New York Sun, and asking for Medill's own selection. Accompanied by 3 manuscript pages with lists of poems

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Congratulations on the Tribune's golden jubilee

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Asking for Medill's help in recommending Col. Robert H. Hall's promotion to Brigadier General