Box 5B
Contains 68 Results:
Letter from R.L. Baker (Plainfield, Ohio) to Joseph Medill, 1888-03-13
Letter from Shelby M. Cullom (Washington, D.C.) to Joseph Medill, 1888-03-16
Letter from Murat Halstead (Cincinnati) to Joseph Medill, 1888-04-29
Letter of introduction for James Boyle. "I am observing with great interest and very little sympathy the ardor with which you are blowing the fires that raise the [Walter Q.] Gresham boom. It reminds me of the extirminating [sic] enthusiasm with which twelve years ago I championed the cause of the illustrious Bristow, and with which I championed Lincoln '60."
Letter from Carson Lake (Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York) to Joseph Medill, 1888-09-15
Letter from H. Hamlin (Bangor) to Joseph Medill, 1889-01-30
Thank-you letter for an invitation to stay with the Medills
Letter from Herman Kreissmann (Berlin) to Joseph Medill, 1889-04-12
Suggesting a treatment for Medill's gout. "Prince Bismarck, I know, is most anxious to come to a satisfactory settlement with the United States." "Of the disgusting result of the Chicago municipal election I voice nothing."
Letter from Abner Taylor (Washington, D.C.) to Joseph Medill, 1890-04-16
Letter from Abner Taylor (Washington, D.C.) to Joseph Medill, 1890-04-28
Letter from Abner Taylor (Washington, D.C.) to Joseph Medill, 1890-05-14
Letter from J.S Clarkson (Arlington Hotel, Washington, D.C.) to Joseph Medill, 1891-01-08
Interested in purchasing the Tribune. Accompanied by a note from Medill, "I answered this letter Jan. 13, 91 ... No offer of less than three millions cash would be entertained for my interest in the Tribune ..."
Letter from J.S Clarkson (Arlington Hotel, Washington, D.C.) to Joseph Medill, 1891-01-23
Clarkson is hoping to come to Chicago soon
Letter from Shelby M. Cullom (United States Senate) to Joseph Medill, 1891-01-27
Enclosing a print of a bill ("To amend an act entitled 'An act to regulate commerce,' approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty seven, and amended by an act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine"), and a typescript of amendments to the same bill.
Letter from Joseph Medill (Chicago) to Shelby M. Cullom, 1891-01-31
Replying to Cullom's letter of o1891-01-27. "I can see the difficulty of getting the relief desired into the law by the method suggested without letting in other things not promotive of public interests and after considerable reflection have only progressed with the solution of the problem [?] to do good to the [rail]roads without harming the people a very short distance.
Letter from Richard Prendergast (Chicago) to Joseph Medill, 1891-06-20
Written to convey a resolution (not present here) to be introduced to the Board of Trustees.
Letter from Joseph Medill (Chicago) to Richard Prendergast, 1891-06-21
Replying to Prendergast's letter of 1896-06-20. "The general object of the act is to keep the sewage of the city, within the Sanitary District, from flowing into the Lake and thereby contaminating and poisoning the city's drinking water, and this can only be done by turning the drainage channel into which the sewer empties westward into the Illinois River."
Letter from Joseph W. Fifer (Springfield) to Joseph Medill, 1891-07-27
Letter from James T. White & Co. (New York) to Joseph Medill, 1891-09-30
Transmitting a copy of a biography of Medill (not present here) to appear in the Cyclopaedia of American Biography.
Letter from Joseph Kirkland (Chicago) to Joseph Medill, 1891-10-02
Requesting the loan of a portrait of William H. Medill
Letter from William I. Marshall (Chicago) to Joseph Medill, 1891-10-20
Letter from Horace White (New York) to Joseph Medill, 1892-01-16
Letter of condolence on the death of the Medill's youngest daughter, Josephine