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- Transmittal letter from C. M. Davison, Cashier, of the Second National Bank of Detroit to the Chemung Canal National Bank, dated June 7, 1867. The letter is handwritten in black ink and includes the engraved letterhead of the Second National Bank of Detroit. It appears that the bottom portion of the page has been torn off. The text of the letter is transcribed as follows: "Detroit, Mich., June 7, 1867 Chemung Canal Nat. Bk. I enclose for colln. [collection?] and returns 7185 H. C. Spaulding on your 119 29 reply. C.M. Davison"
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Typewritten letter, with envelope, signed Woolley and Chittenden, managers of the Hotel Pontchartrain to William D. Purdy, asking him to report for work on October 1, 1907, dated September 26, 1907. The letter is on Hotel Pontchartrain stationery, and the envelope is printed with the hotel's crest. The letter reads: Mr. W.D. Purdy, 1159 Third Avenue, Detroit Dear Sir:- Please report for work on October 1st. Kindly acknowledge receipt of this. Yours very truly, The Pontchartrain Hotel Company Woolley & Chittenden Managers. GHW/GEC
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Handwritten note from Percy Ives to Mrs. Emil Solomon Heineman (Fanny Butzel), dated February 1896, regarding the date of a portrait he painted of Emil Solomon Heineman in 1877. The note reads: Dear Madam At the reception of Mrs. McGraw you asked me the date of the portrait of Mr. Heineman. I find that the portrait was commissioned on Oct. 21 1877 and that it was finished in Dec. of the same year. Yours very sincerely, Percy Ives
- Date Issued:
- 1896-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- This 1-page letter was typewritten in blue text on a light tan paper by Charles H. Jacobs who was the Chairman of the scholarship fund as well as the Vice President and Managing Director of the Buhl Stamping Company. The company letterhead appears across the top of the page which is dated "Dec. 31, 1900" and is signed in black ink by Charles H. Jacobs. The letter is entitled, "The Detroit High School Scholarship Fund," and gives some brief history of how and why the fund was established in 1890.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Typewritten letter sent to the Clark Electrical Engineering Company from H. Kent McCay, president of the McCay Engineering Company of Baltimore, Maryland on May 30, 1906. In the brief message McCay informs Clark that they will being sending the specifications for wireless telegraph sets for Fort Wood, New York "within a few days." McCay closes with his signature. The letter was printed on McCay Engineering Company letterhead. "Army Navy Paper," has been handwritten in pencil near the bottom left corner of the recto.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Handwritten letter with envelope from writer Julian Hawthorne in Philadelphia, to Eli Ransom Sutton of the University of Michigan, postmarked May 12, 1902, concerning the prospect of writing a biography of Hazen S. Pingree. The letter is on Colonial Press stationery, however the letterhead has been crossed out. The letter reads: 1208 Spruce St. Phila. April 23, 1902 My dear Sutton, I have [?] considered your letter, and this is what I think. You have been at a lot of pains about the thing, out of [?], and I want to do all possible in the [?]. If the book is to be such as I can be[?] in four months. I am willing to undertake it for $2500, and half of whatever royalties may come in after this sum has been [?] by then[?]. The $2500 to be paid to me upon the ratifying of this understanding. The materials on [?] to be sent to me here, and I will then engage to furnish[?] the complete copy for the book, 350pp on or before Oct. 1st 1902. If Mrs. Pingree consents[?] to this, I would like to have the above minimum[?] fulfilled in[?] once. Of course I regret, on other accounts besides my own. There the book is to be curtailed: it would have made a splendid 2-vol. work. But I will do my best with it out of regard for the subject, one of the best of Americans. As [?] work, I will only [?] to bear in mind that I am cordially mistaken in it, and should more than plan to [?] help then. [?] Julian Hawthorne
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Letter from the Detroit Association of Charities. The cover page shows the letterhead of the organization which is printed in red text on slightly yellowed paper. The names of the officers of the organization are shown in the upper left corner: "R. A. Parker, President; Henry M. Utley, Vice-President; M. W. O'Brien, Treasurer; Dr. James A. Post, Secretary." The body of the 7-page letter is printed in typewritten text that has been mimeographed in a purple color onto the letter pages. The letter is dated December 31, 1900, near the upper right corner area on the first page and the last page has been signed and dated in black ink by "James Alexis Post, M.D., Secretary" who also noted that he was "Born Nov. 18, 1838." The letter gives a general discussion of charity movements in England and the United States as well as some background and details of the Detroit Association of Charities.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Two page typewritten letter from Walter E. Morrison, president of the Dow Portable Electric Assistant Company of Braintree, Massachusetts to the Electric Service and Appliance Company on 166 Randolph Street, dated November 27, 1901, written in reply to a previous letter from the company. Morrison responds that they do not generally carry three, four, or five inch Rhumkorff coils, however they can specially manufacture them given some further information about what voltage it will carry and whether they will be run by battery or generator. Morrison adds that they have enclosed a catalogue of automotive goods as well. Morrison closes with his signature. The first page is printed on Dow Portable Electric Assistant Company letterhead, which includes an engraving of a portable receiver built into a carrying case.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Two page handwritten letter from F.D. Prinniger from the U.S. Navy Wireless Station in Brooklyn, New York, which reads as follows: Operator Clark Wireless Telegraph Co., Buffalo N.Y. Dear Sir:- While on watch last night, Oct. 16th -17th, I was listening to Chicago (Go) and Milwaukee (Mk) working together and was fishing for Manitowoc Wis. (MW) whom I know to be working and I heard the following calls--"CB," "CN," "CU," & "CR." I also heard one which I took for "CS," but which sounded considerably like "St." He was working with "CB." All of these calls came in way clear and easily readable, without strain except for very heavy static. Should judge the wave length as somewhere about 1200 meters, though am not sure, for was using very loose coupling in order to cut out a number of nearby stations and ships. I would like very much to know if these were stations of your system. It is the first time I have happened to hear any of them. Here are parts of a couples messages I was able to copy through the heavy static:- No - CR - Pk = 10 Paid CR 10/16-09 (to) Miss Gladys Hudson #192 Addison Road "CN" Don't know whether this is part of same message or not "_____ every body suck ____ may for _____ love ans. sig. Sidney With only moderate static or with less interference so close at hand would have had no trouble in copying every word. Would be please to learned if such messages were sent by any of your stations and who "CR." is. Sorry we have only a 1 kW. set so could give you a call. Hoping to hear from you. I am Yours truly, F.D. Prinniger, Elict. U.S.N. U.S.N. Wireless Station, Brooklyn New York, NY Both pages are printed on United State Navy Yard, New York, N.Y. letterhead.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One letter, dated February 11, 1909, from Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Company of Buffalo to Fleet Falconer Williams & Bovey, of Montreal. The carbon copy letter is typewritten in blue ink on yellowed vellum paper. The letter concerns a recent exchange of stock shares in the Abbey Effervescent Salt Company.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
