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Darrow, Clarence to Mary Field Parton, Mary Field Parton-Clarence Darrow correspondence, 1914

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Title Darrow, Clarence to Mary Field Parton, Mary Field Parton-Clarence Darrow correspondence, 1914

Creator Parton, Mary Field

Date 1914

Language English

Subjects Lawyers, Legal assistance to the poor, Orators, Practice of law

Description Material relating to the friendship between Clarence Darrow and journalist Mary Field Parton, which includes sixty-one of his letters to her, several other letters, short articles by Darrow, clippings, and photographs. Included are numerous transcripts of Darrow's letters, a biographical sketch of Parton, and excerpts from her journal that refer to Darrow, all done by Parton's daughter Margaret Parton (Hussey).

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User-Contributed Transcription have seen what I said about war in the same number of Everyman with your piece about getting rid of babies Yours is bully see Mary you can write & think, you are a number & some day you will be discovered, and then dont forget that I saw you first - You dear patient sad clever girl. Say Mary I have been thinking & planning on the McNamaras. A monument will be started soon to get the fellows int who were considered at Indianapolis it will succeed before long, maybe not at once, but it will succeed, then I think we ought to go after Johnston first in JJ I can ? we can get the labor fellows right. I have talked with many of them, and I shall keep at it. Any thing that can be done to get & keep Johnston in a receptive state should be done. After the last election it ought not to be so ard. I am going to spend Christmas with in N.Y. and go over it all with Steffens & lay out some plan. I wish Older would do a little to make himself strong with Johnston, but poor man he has fought so much & so valiantly. I believe I can

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Archival Collection Title Mary Field Parton-Clarence Darrow papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Parton Box 1 Folder 5

BibID 991840698805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Size 3961px × 5141px 116.56 MB

File Created 10/28/2020

Filename 991840698805867_midwest_ms_parton_box_001_fl_005_006_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL15HJF

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