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A misaddressed letter from Lloyd P. Farrar of the Patuxent Martial Musick Collection about an old Squires cornopean (meant for a Mr. Durrell of Valley Farm), G. E. Valley Jr.'s replies forwarding it to Jack T. Carter and asking Farrar about Edward Baack's instruments, and Carter's answer. Also GEV's note of a 10 Nov 1986 call to the Baltimore Museum of Art about the Ringgold portraits (a remark about the museum employee is left out).
Linked to Heinrich Eduard Baack, Sr.
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Correspondence between G. E. Valley Jr. and Dr. Margaret Downie Banks, curator of the Shrine to Music Museum, University of South Dakota, about its fife stamped "E. Baack/N-York" (No. 2867, ca. 1838-1871), with photocopies of the museum's two photographs of it, its bill, and GEV's chronology of Edward Baack's life.
Linked to Catharina Sophie Baumann
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First page of Clara Swanson's letter of 13 October 1948 to her son Hilding and his wife Gertrude ("Gerthy"), thanking them for a birthday sweater. The inside pages, from the envelope postmarked the same day, were filed earlier. In Swedish mixed with English, with an English translation.
Linked to Gertrude Ata Jones
G. E. Valley Jr.'s correspondence with Gail G. Bouchard, secretary of Notre Dame Church, Ogdensburg, October 1986 to May 1987: the 1986 certificate of baptism of Edouard Vallee; a photocopy of the 1875 register entry (No. 64, "Edouard (batard)"), which says he was born of unknown parents, with the names Joseph Vallie and Sophie Bertrand written in above the line, and GEV's translation and comment; his questions about foundlings and sponsors; the church's reply that it found no baptism for Sophie and no marriage of Joseph and Sophie; his letter of thanks; and his letter to St. Mary's Church, Waddington.
Linked to Joseph H Valley
G. E. Valley Jr.'s notes of New York City directory searches made for him in September and October 1986: the Baack family 1874-1931 (Edward, Edward Jr., widow Caroline, George P., Henry J.), Thomas H. Cummins 1880-1916, and Edward G. / George E. Valley 1896-1919, with plans for further searches and a call to the Baltimore Museum of Art about the Ringgold portraits.
Linked to Philipp Jakob Donnecker
G. E. Valley Jr.'s notes of September 1986 on the Baack family: his reading of the 1850 census (Edward Baach, 40, music store, Ward 15, with Catharine and six children), plans for New York directory requests, Maryland's certifications that no Baltimore death record was found for John Holliday Cummins or Rebecca B. Ringgold Cummins, an index of the requests in his earlier notebooks, and a summary of the death certificates, 1890 police census and city directory results he received in 1985. The page 94 cover letter and page 90 were photographed out of focus.
Linked to Mary Elsie Baack
G. E. Valley Jr.'s questions for, and notes of, his second telephone call with Marian Steuart, 18 August 1986 ("not a complete literal transcription"): Clayton Ringgold's smuggling for the Confederacy, Thomas Charles Ringgold's later years in Baltimore, and where to write for Queen Anne's County records.
Linked to Rebecca Betton
G. E. Valley Jr.'s research notes for July 1986: Ringgold listings in Baltimore phone books (the listings themselves are not copied), a postcard about an Eastern Shore directory, and his calls to the Maryland Division of Vital Records and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Linked to George Edward Valley Jr
G. E. Valley Jr.'s research notes, late August to mid-September 1986: the cost of copying his Ringgold report (VLCME9) for the family, a letter of 12 Sep 1986 (probably to Professor Hancock), calls to the Baltimore museum and records offices, his plan to "resume the Valley/Baach searches" (letters to the Ogdensburg church and to Oscar Valley and Lillian, questions about Pop's family in Montreal), and the census years and New York addresses of the Baack, Cummins and Donnecker families. Pages 76, 80 and 82 were photographed out of focus.
Linked to Caroline Frances Mcgovern
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History of James Morris
Linked to James Morris
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History of Ray Mettetal
Linked to Raphael Mettetal
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Letter from "Pop" (Edwin A. Swanson) to his daughter Jean Marion, aged 9, written on Hotel Jamestown stationery in Jamestown, New York, on Sunday 3 April 1932, with deliberate misspellings for her to correct: a get-well note about her chicken pox, with a riddle about Job and his boils.
Linked to Emma Louise Nygren
Letter from Clara Swanson ("Mother") in Wilkes-Barre to her son Hilding A. Swanson in Louisville, Kentucky, postmarked 13 October 1948, thanking him for birthday gifts and giving news of the Kahlers, her health, and Ken and Jo. In Swedish mixed with English, with an English translation. The first page of the letter was not scanned.
Linked to Ralph Artman Kahler
Letter from Clara Swanson ("Mother") in Wilkes-Barre to her son Hilding and his wife Gertrude ("Gerthy") in Louisville, 9 November 1948. She thanks them for a check and a birthday sweater, and gives news of her health, Ed's visit for a Building & Loan meeting, Josefine and Ken, and the 1948 presidential election. In Swedish mixed with English, with an English translation.
Linked to Gertrude Ata Jones
Letter from G. E. Valley Jr. to his cousin Oscar Valley ("Little Oscar"), sending photocopies of pictures of Pop's shop on Tenth Avenue and asking for pictures and stories of the Valleys and Dolbecs, with GEV's notes for the letter and the questions he held back for a later one: the bicycle ride from Montreal, Grandma Valley after Joseph died, and Tom's theory that Pop was illegitimate. The top half of the first page was photographed with motion blur, and the street addresses are left out.
Linked to Elizabeth Valley
Letter from G. E. Valley Jr. to Marian Steuart thanking her for a map of Kent Island and sending a copy of his report on the Ringgold family, with pages from the John H. Cummins-Rebecca (Ringgold) Cummins Bible; he plans a report on John and Rebecca Cummins next, then his other three grandparents.
Linked to Marion Ringgold Price
Letter from G. E. Valley Jr. to Professor Harold Hancock setting out the evidence that Martha Rebecca Cummins married Clayton Ringgold and had children: Schoch's Ringgold in the United States, the "Mary Cavender Legacy papers", a 1907 Smyrna clipping about his mother and Helen Cummins Ringgold, and Marian Steuart's account.
Linked to John Cummins Ringgold
