Finding aid to the Antionette Wheeler Nicholson letters: regarding the suffrage movement and against capital punishment, 1912-1940

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Finding aid to the Antionette Wheeler Nicholson Letters: regarding the Suffrage Movement and Against Capital Punishment, 1912-1940

Collection number: BANC MSS P-A 344

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

Contact Information:

The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu

Processed by:: The Bancroft Library staff
Date Completed:: ca. 1964
Encoded by:: Xiuzhi Zhou

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Antionette Wheeler Nicholson letters: regarding the suffrage movement and against capital punishment,

Date (inclusive): 1912-1940

Collection Number: BANC MSS P-A 344

Creator: Nicholson, Antoinette Wheeler

Extent: Number of container: 1 portfolio

Repository: The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

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Languages Represented: English

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[Identification of item], Antionette Wheeler Nicholson letters: regarding the suffrage movement and against capital punishment, BANC MSS P-A 344, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

The Antoinette Wheeler Nicholson letters: regarding the suffrage movement and against capital punishment, were transferred from the University Archives of the University of California, Berkeley on Sept.10, 1964.

Accruals

No additions are expected.

Processing Information

By Bancroft Library Staff.

Scope and Content of Collection

Correspondence received from various public officials including, Lou Henry Hoover, Fremont Older, and Theodore Roosevelt concerning suffrage and capital punishment. They have been arranged chronologically. An alphabetical list of correspondents follows.

Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937

see U. S. Secretary of War

Barton, Bruce, 1886-

Letter, Nov. 17, 1938

Clark, Kate Upson, 1851-1953

Letter, Aug. 1, 1919

Davis, Dwight Filley, 1879-1945

see U.S. Secretary of War

Democratic Party. National Committee, 1936-1940

Letter, Sept. 12, 1936, by James A. Farley

Farley, James A., 1888-

see Democratic Party. National Committee

Hammond, Emily Vanderbilt (Sloane) (Mrs. John Henry Hammond)

2 letters, Sept. 12, 1920, and Dec. 18 [ca. 1920?]

Harper, Ida Husted, d. 1931

Letter, Oct. 25, 1912

Hays, Will H., 1879-1954

Letter, Jan. 15, 1920

Hill, Samuel, 1857-1931

Letter, July 8, 1923

Hoover, Lou (Henry), d. 1944 (Mrs. Herbert Hoover)

Letter, Mar. 12, 1938

Lovejoy, Esther Pohl

Letter, May 24, 1938

Milburn, Devereux

Undated letter, placed at end.

Older, Fremont, 1856-1935

2 letters, Apr. 17, 1916 and Oct. 10, 1933

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1887-1944

2 letters, Apr. 11, 1917 and Apr. 10, 1939

Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919

Letter, Oct. 23, 1912

Simms, Ruth (Hanna) McCormick, 1880-1944

Letter, Apr. 16, 1940

Sokolsky, George Ephraim, 1893-

Letter, June 14, 1939

U. S. Secretary of War

3 letters

Newton D. Baker, Aug. 25, 1920

John W. Weeks, Aug. 19, 1921

Dwight F. Davis, Dec. 1, 1927

Vandenberg, Arthur Hendrick, 1884-1951

Letter, Apr. 10, 1939

Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949

Letter, June 1, 1937

Weeks, John Wingate, 1860-1926

see U. S. Secretary of War

Wise, Stephen Samuel, 1874-1949

Letter, Oct. 21, 1912