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Box 1

 Container

Contains 131 Results:

Item 71; Letter -- To Mr. E.E. Meredith, Fairmont, West Virginia, regarding the history of the naming the town of Rivesville, 1936

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Dates: 1936
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 72; Letter -- L.A. Tavenner, Parkersburg, to Roy Bird Cook, regarding of descendants of Colonel A.S. Withers and those still living in West Virginia. Also mentions letters regarding Dr. Josiah Huff and a man named Butcher competing against Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson for appointment to West Point, 1937

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Dates: 1937
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 73; Letter -- Virginina Withers Ast, to Roy Bird Cook regarding the returning of letter he had loaned out, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 74; Letter -- Olita Withers Hooker, Buchannon, West Virginia to Roy Bird Cook talking about the reprint of the book Chronicles of Border Warfare. She mentions that the book was the best seller in 1831, and the reprint was published by Robert Clark & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. Also discussed was the book being burned after a few hundred copies were produced. This edition was worked on by Liman (Lyman) Draper and Mr. Thwart, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 75; Letter -- C.R. Rector, Washington, West Virginia, to Dr. Roy Bird Cook, explaining a photograph of the Mineral Wells Hotel in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Identified are the wells, the hotel, the Sulphur Well, and the wreckage of the Friedel Mill. Included are letters from Dr. And. W. Clark, T.A. Harris and Rezin P. Davis analyzing the mineral waters and telling of their curing powers, 1937

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Dates: 1937
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 76; Letter -- Boyd B. Stutler, New York, to Roy Bird Cook, thanking him for photostatic copies of the Withers copyright. He also mentions other places he received information such as the Wisconsin Historical Society, Hugh Paul Taylor papers, Noah Zane, Stuart, and the Peel Tree judge, 1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Dates: 1943
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 77; Letter -- Boyd B. Stutler, New York, to Roy Bird Cook, thanking him for information on the book Chronicles of Border Warfare. He states that even though finished in 1831, the book might have been ready for distribution and mentions that the subscription copies would go out in 1832. Inquiry is also made about other books he is writing and books others are writing, such as Freeman's Washington, 1948

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Dates: 1948
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 78; Letter -- Mrs. Basil Mathews, Vancouver, to Roy Bird Cook, with information on Booker T. Washington. She notes discrepencies that her husband commented on and issues with salt furnaces and coal mines. She said her husband interviewed James B. Washington, foster brother of Booker T. Washington, 1949

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Dates: 1949
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 79; Letter -- Kenneth P. Williams, Bloomington, Indiana, to Mr. Cook, with information about Grant's Aunt Rachel. She was a sister of Jesse R. Grant, and lived in Chestnut Hill, Virginia, 1952

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Dates: 1952
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 80; Letter -- Robert E. Shields, First Presbyterian Church, Morgantown, to Roy Bird Cook, listing all the names and dates on the old cemetery head stones remaining at the corner of Spruce and Forest Avenues. He explains that many of the graves were removed to other cemeteries before the church was built, 1953

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Dates: 1953
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)