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Box 5B

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Contains 68 Results:

Letter from Mercie Patterson (Toronto) to Joseph Medill, 1893-05-03

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C87
Scope and Contents

Has visited Ireland several times, and met. Rev. Madill. Coming soon to Chicago

Dates: 1893-05-03
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from H. Strong to Joseph Medill, 1893-05-10

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C88
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: 1893-05-10
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from R.D. Cronly (Wilmington, N.C.) to Joseph Medill, 1893-08-02

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C89
Scope and Contents

Has met Robert Duncan Dickson, who wonders if Medill is a distant relation. Inscribed "Medill family in Ireland."

Dates: 1893-08-02
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from E.T. Jeffery (Denver, Colo.) to Joseph Medill, 1893-10-24

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C90
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: 1893-10-24
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Telegram from Bennett to Joseph Medill, 1893-10-27

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C91
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: 1893-10-27
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from George R. Davis (Chicago) to Joseph Medill, 1893-11-08

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C92
Scope and Contents

Winding up the affairs of the Exposition; will not be considered to replace Chicago mayor Carter Harrison Sr., assassinated in October. Inscribed "Better late than never in making acknowledgments of what I did for him."

Dates: 1893-11-08
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from J.M. Longnecker (Chicago) to Joseph Medill, 1893-11-12

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C93
Scope and Contents

Concerning an interview with Medill published in the Los Angeles Express and republished in the Tribune

Dates: 1893-11-12
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Charles T. Logan (Chicago) to Joseph Medill, 1893-11-08

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C94
Scope and Contents

Concerning Medill's tribute to Carter Harrison

Dates: 1893-11-08
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Edgar M. Snow and Company (Chicago) to Joseph Medill, 1893-11-21

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C95
Scope and Contents

Concerning purchase of a property at the corner of Fifth Avenue [now Wells Street] and Washington in Chicago

Dates: 1893-11-21
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Telegram from W. Van Benthuysen to Joseph Medill, 1894-01-01

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C96
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: 1894-01-01
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from T.D. Stimson (Los Angeles) to Joseph Medill, 1894-03-13

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C97
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: 1894-03-13
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Robert H. Goyer (Massillon, O.) to Joseph Medill, 1894-05-16

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C98
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: 1894-05-16
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Aunt Trinkl (St. John, N.B.) to Joseph Medill, 1894-06-29

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C99
Scope and Contents

Has read in the papers of Medill's name being suggested as a Senator

Dates: 1894-06-29
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Carter H. Harrison, Jr. (Chicago) to Joseph Medill, 1894-07-16

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C100
Scope and Contents Concerning an article in the Times on the discharge of R.W. Ledwith from the Tribune staff, and the republication in the Tribune of an article from the Cleveland Leader claiming that Harrison and the Times were encouraging mob violence. "I cannot but resent, however, the implied charge that the Times has been guilty of a breach of journalistic courtesy." Envelope inscribed by Medill "Carter Harrison letter & reply"; and in another hand "not all clear from content but Medill's letter...
Dates: 1894-07-16
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Joseph Medill (Chicago) to Carter H. Harrison, Jr., 1894-07-17

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C100a
Scope and Contents

Manuscript and typed carbon copy of Medill's reply to Harrison's letter of 1894-07-16. "Your letter of the 16th inst. exhibits a singular mental condition to say the least. ... If you are so dully of perception as not to see that the Times has been 'guilty of a gross breach of journalistic courtesy' in publishing a malicious invention, and that too garnished with the most glaring typographical conspicuity, it would be a waste of words to point it out to you in this letter."

Dates: 1894-07-17
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Joseph W. Fifer (Bloomington, Ill.) to Joseph Medill, 1894-09-05

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C101
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Asking for Medill's recommendation of Isaac N. Phillips for the office of Supreme Court Reporter

Dates: 1894-09-05
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Isaac N. Phillips (Bloomington, Ill.) to Joseph Medill, 1894-09-12

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C102
Scope and Contents

Thank-you letter for Medill's recommendation

Dates: 1894-09-12
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Benjamin D. Magruder (Chicago, Ill.) to Joseph Medill, 1894-09-14

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C103
Scope and Contents

Acknowledging receipt of Medill's recommendation of Isaac N. Phillips as Supreme Court Reporter

Dates: 1894-09-14
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from Leslie E. Keeley (Dwight, Ill) to Joseph Medill, 1894-10-12

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C104A
Scope and Contents

Letter of condolence

Dates: 1894-10-12
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]

Letter from F.E. Dodge (Delta, Colorado) to Joseph Medill, 1895-02-09

 File — Box: 5B, Folder: C104B
Scope and Contents

Accompanied by an article, "Real fountain of youth," on the merits of drinking soft water

Dates: 1895-02-09
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / VI-5, Eleanor Medill Patterson Papers / Letters to Joseph Medill / [file]