Box 1
Container
Contains 73 Results:
MBF to her daughter, ALS, 6 pages, from Philadelphia. MBF goes into details of her Eastern Pennsylvania tour and visit to her son at Princeton. June 13, 1925
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 4
Dates:
1925
MBF to her daughter, ALS, 6 pages, from Thomasville, North Carolina, on the letterhead of the Day Hotel. MBF notes her arrangement to work as a Chautauqua Superintendent for the summer program in 1926. November 2, 1925
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 6
Dates:
1925
MBF to her future son-in-law Walter Giersbach, ALS, 4 pages, from Cooperville [sp?], Virginia. She provides insights into life on the circuit and Chautauqua plans for the coming year. December 1, 1925
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 7
Dates:
1925
MBF to her mother, Mary Ballou, ALS, from "Harison City, thereabouts, Pa." 10 pages. Marion Fisk [Giersbach] noted on the letter that it was written in late January 1926. MBF relates a saga of a lost boy and lost luggage., 1926
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 8
Dates:
1926
MBF to her mother, Mary Ballou, ALS, 16 pages, from Dawson, Pennsylvania. MBF continues the saga from the previous letter. February 12, 1926
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 9
Dates:
1926
MBF to her daughter, ALS, 6 pages, on notepaper from Gilmer's Hotel, Pembroke, Virginia. MBF recapitulates the wedding described in the previous letter. The letter's beginning four pages (two leaves) have been lost. Probably written on or about February 12, 1926
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 10
Dates:
1926
MBF's transcription, on the letterhead of The Dinkler Hotels' Hotel Ansley in Atlanta, Georgia, 1 page, of an undated letter written to her by Felix Sanchez, a fellow trouper.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 11
Dates:
1906-1930
Printout transcripts by Walter Fisk Giersbach of the letters described above.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 13
Dates:
1906-1930
"The R.R. Engineer's Story." Story written in pen and pencil, 2 pages in [MBF's?] hand.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 1
Dates:
1906-1930
"A Frontier Home." Story written in pen, 2 pages on 2 sheets in [MBFs?] hand.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 2
Dates:
1906-1930
"1912. Last November I spent a night in a little wood ." Story written in pencil, 6 pages, in MBF's hand. Typescript transcript by MFG with note: "Experience of [MBF] later incorporated into lecture as The Cowboy's Prayer.", 1912
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 3
Dates:
1912
"Among the Sandhills, The Cowboy's Prayer". Another version, written in pen, 5 pages on 5 sheets, with beginning of a drawing on the verso of the final leaf.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 4
Dates:
1906-1930
"Negro Cemetery, Perry, Ga. Sun. Mch. 30, 1913." Story in pen, 6 pages on 3 sheets, in MBF's hand. Typed transcript by MFG with note: "Written by hand by [MBF]. Experiences which she may have used, or planned to use at a later time.", 1913
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 5
Dates:
1913
"Cap'n Tommy." Story in pen, three parts, 14 pages, in MBF's hand.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 6
Dates:
1906-1930
"There now, don't cry, don't cry ." Story in pen, 4 pages, in MBF's hand. Typed transcript by MFG with note: "One of the romantic things seen by [MBF] in her handwriting."
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 7
Dates:
1906-1930
"She was a Kentuckian. " Story in pen, 7 pages, in MBF's hand. Typed transcript by MFG with note: "From the notes of [MBF] in her handwriting."
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 8
Dates:
1906-1930
"Irish Girl." Poem (or song), 1 page, in MBF's hand. On the verso of the sheet is a drawing (colored pencil?) and a few lines of obscure text which ends, "The Men Must Go!"
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 9
Dates:
1906-1930
"The Guard of Honor". 2 sheets of ledger paper, 4 pages.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 10
Dates:
1906-1930