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Box 1B

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Contains 82 Results:

Letter from Sionii Tomomi Iwakura and four others (letterhead: Secretary's Office of the Japanese Embassy, Chicago; with envelope) to Joseph Medill, 1872-02-27

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 4.6.2
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"Prmit us to add a small offering, to the relief fund, which the benevolent of your nation have donated to alleviate the distress of those of your people who suffered by the late fire."

Dates: 1872-02-27
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers

Letter from George B. Cortelyou (letterhead: White House, Washington) to Robert W. Patterson, 1902-04-24

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 4.7.1
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"The President requests me to say that he expects Mr. Eugene Ware in Washington some time between the 2d and 15th of May, and that he will ask you to come here at the same time."

Dates: 1902-04-24
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Correspondence from George B. Cortelyou to Robert W. Patterson

Telegram from George B. Cortelyou to Robert W. Patterson, 1902-05-01

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 4.7.2
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"Your letter received invitation to dinner may eight had already been mailed you but in place of this the president will be glad to see you one of the days you mention please advise me what day will be convenient."

Dates: 1902-05-01
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Correspondence from George B. Cortelyou to Robert W. Patterson

Letter from John Hay (letterhead: Department of State, Washington) to Robert W. Patterson, 1904-10-22

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 4.7.3
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"Here is the proof you asked for. A letter just in from Henry Adams reports your wife and daughters in Paris looking well and beautiful."

Dates: 1904-10-22
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers

Photocopy of letter

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 4.9
Scope and Contents From the File: This letter is replaced by a photocopy. The original letter is in series IX-63, box 1, folder 20: "You have been apprised of the circumstances which prevented me from having the pleasure of visiting my friends in New Philadelphia before the 4th of July as was my intention. I would have written you from Napoleon to inform you that I would not leave this part of the state without paying you my respects in person but having kept up until very late on the night of the 4th & setting out very...
Dates: Other: 1838-07-07
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letter from William Henry Harrison (Cadiz, Ohio) to James Patrick and three others

Letter from William B. Allison (Washington, D.C.; with envelope) to Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson, 1903-02-15 (postmark)

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 4.10.1
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Has been ill, and is now busy with work of his Congressional committee. May not be able to visit until after March 4.

Dates: 1903-02-15 (postmark)
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Correspondence from William B. Allison to Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson

Letter from William B. Allison (The Arlington; with envelope) to Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson, 1905-03?-07

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 4.10.2
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Apologizes for not having visited as arranged.

Dates: 1905-03?-07
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Correspondence from William B. Allison to Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson

Letter from William B. Allison (The Arlington) to Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson, 1905-03-21?

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 4.10.3
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"I want to take a moment to bid you good by & to tell you how greatly I enjoyed the dinner & the company."

Dates: 1905-03-21?
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Correspondence from William B. Allison to Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson

Letter from William B. Allison (The Arlington) to Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson, Sunday, March 5 [1905]

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 4.10.4
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Accepting Mrs. Patterson's invitation to pay a call.

Dates: Sunday, March 5 [1905]
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Correspondence from William B. Allison to Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson

Letter from Thomas Brackett Reed (House of Representatives, Washington; with envelope) to Joseph Medill, 1891-03-17

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 4.15.1
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I wish I could agree with you on the two points on which you think me wrong by I cannot. McKinley's bill being [...] doubtless might be better but it is pretty good. As for reciprocity by treaty and reciprocity by Presidential enactment I still cling to the wise views promulgated by a great statesman of my own state years ago reproduced in 1883 or later.

Dates: 1891-03-17
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Correspondence from Thomas Brackett Reed

Letter from Thomas Brackett Reed (house of Representatives, Washington; with Envelope) to Joseph Medill, 1897-10-28

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 4.15.2
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"Your article has the point of danger will put. No plan has yet been suggested which will not lead to silver. Either U.S. must redeem in gold or somebody else. Has any somebody been yet discovered? ... Moreover what can we do with Senate as it is? Is it worth while to propose action when there can be none ..."

Dates: 1897-10-28
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Correspondence from Thomas Brackett Reed

Calling cards, undated

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 5.1
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Calling cards of Prinz Johann Liechtenstein (K.u.K. Linienschiffslieutenant); Miss Medill; Princesse Adam Lubomirska (nee Ctesse. Zamoyska); Mr. Joseph Medill [with mourning border]; Thomas S. Medill [with mourning border)

Dates: undated
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Miscellaneous correspondence and other items

Letter from M...[?] Tillee to The Misses Medill, undated

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 5.2
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Ionviting the Misses Medill to the opera

Dates: undated
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Miscellaneous correspondence and other items

Letter from Newcastle to Mrs. McCormick, ????-07-05

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 5.3
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: ????-07-05
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Miscellaneous correspondence and other items

Envelope addressed to Miss Elinor M. Patterson Jr. care Mrs. Patterson, Boston, Mass, undated

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 5.4
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: undated
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Miscellaneous correspondence and other items

Envelope inscribed [by Joseph Medill?] "My mayoral commission", undated

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 5.5
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: undated
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Miscellaneous correspondence and other items

Letter from (illegible; Farrar Farm) to Miss de Barril[?], Thursday

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 5.6
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...
Dates: Thursday
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Miscellaneous correspondence and other items

Sketch of Gov. Medill, a cousin of my father, undated

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 5.7
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: undated
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Miscellaneous correspondence and other items

Letter from "And. [Andrew] W. Patrick" (Whiddy Island [Ireland]) to "Dear Robert", 1811-04

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 5.8
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Accompanied by a scrap of paper inscribed in pen "Written by my grand father's brother" and "Andrew Patrick"; and in pencil "to his brother Robert"

Dates: 1811-04
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Miscellaneous correspondence and other items

Document (State of New York, Secretary's office, Albany Signed: Arch.d Campbell, Dep. Sec. of State), 1843-02-04

 Item — Box: 1B, Folder: 5.9
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The document gives details of Abraham Westfall's service during the Revolutionary War. The second leaf has a note from M.[?] L. Marcy[?] apologizing for a delay in gathering the information. Inscribed "Abraham Westfall the grand father of my mother (Elinor Patterson)"

Dates: 1843-02-04
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Miscellaneous correspondence and other items