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Walden, May, outgoing, mostly to children, May Walden correspondence, 1954-1955

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Title Walden, May, outgoing, mostly to children, May Walden correspondence, 1954-1955

Creator Walden, May, 1865-1960

Date 1954-1955

Language English

Subjects Depressions, Mothers and daughters, Socialist Party (U.S.)

Description Forms part of the Midwest Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library).

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription 2/ He called Cora just before me and she suggested that he call me, as in the morning I had called mrs Maxwell for news of him. Glad you could help Va. with mailing her pkgs and hope her plane trip will be a pleasant one. Hope the new owners of the Kopp house will prove to be pleasant and congenial neighbors. I'm hearing often from Mrs. Bertha Howe, the Orlando Socialist and she wants to meet you. She is a lively little, well-informed lady, well to do, and very helpful to everybody. she has a neighbor a widow with a [sub?] normal daughter. Lately the neighbor had near relatives visiting her - so Mrs. How took them to Bok Tower, then wrote that she was so glad to be of some use. She will be 89 Nov 6th but you wd never guess she is over 65. she lately made the acquaintance of some liberal Lakeland woman, not robust, so she visited her, brought her home and kept her two nights - same as she did me. Cora and Mildred were over half an hour last Monday and Cora read a letter from her d-i-l- Love, (Ellis' wife) mentioning the Negro girl from Baltimore who just won the $16,000 T.V. prize, and Love claimed that the girl is part white, and Cora sustained her, saying

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Transcription Note This document was transcribed by volunteers as part of the Newberry Transcribe crowdsourcing initiative.

Archival Collection Title May Walden papers

Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record

Call Number Midwest MS Walden M Box 4 Folder 137

BibID 991703478805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020, Transcribe: complete

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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File Created 01/19/2021

Filename 991703478805867_midwest_ms_walden_m_box_004_fl_137_015_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL15PIR

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