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Box 5

 Container

Contains 7 Results:

Series 3. Correspondence [boxes 5-9], 1942–2005

 Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Includes a substantial amount of correspondence with the book publishers (Winchester, Amwell, and Alfred Knopf Company), book dealers, and magazines (including: "Field and Stream", "Gun Dog", "American Hunter", and "The American Sportsman") that were publishing material authored by Evans. Also includes research requests, permissions, and releases for material used in publications by Evans. Other correspondents includes friends and fellow hunters. Many letters were from patrons and fans such...
Dates: 1942–2005
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / George Bird Evans Papers

Correspondence with Dr. and Mrs. E. R. Ingraham, friends and owners of dogs from the Evans' Old Hemlock breeding line (includes several letters and cards "composed" by the pedigree dogs at Old Hemlock to their family now with new owners or "people" [ghostwritten by George and Kay Harris Evans]), ca. 1951-1954

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 1
Dates: ca. 1951-1954
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / George Bird Evans Papers / Series 3. Correspondence [boxes 5-9]

Correspondence between the Evans and several friends and businesses (includes dog "composed" letters and cards, correspondence with the Angler's and Shooter's Bookshelf [book dealer] and new dog owners), 1952–1996

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 2
Dates: 1952–1996
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / George Bird Evans Papers / Series 3. Correspondence [boxes 5-9]

Correspondence with friend, David Hall (includes cards, letters, church bulletins, copies of articles, photographs of guns, and Hall's family; also includes photographs of puppies and dogs from the Evans breeding line and a journaled account of George Bird Evans last day of hunting), ca. 1959-1998

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 3-4
Dates: ca. 1959-1998
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / George Bird Evans Papers / Series 3. Correspondence [boxes 5-9]

Correspondence regarding the Evans' bird dog breeding business (includes several letters from patrons reporting their puppies' progress), August 1983-October 1983

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 5
Dates: August 1983-October 1983
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / George Bird Evans Papers / Series 3. Correspondence [boxes 5-9]

Correspondence to Kay Harris Evans (includes letters from a sixth grade class at Bruceton School, Preston County, West Virginia, thanking Mrs. Evans for a donation of books; also includes several e-mails and photographs from owners of dogs from the Evans' breeding line, regarding the progress of their new puppies), 2000–2005

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 6
Dates: 2000–2005
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / George Bird Evans Papers / Series 3. Correspondence [boxes 5-9]

Correspondence regarding "Opus 10" (includes letters, responses to research requests, copies of articles and invoices), ca. 1978-1983

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 7
Dates: ca. 1978-1983
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / George Bird Evans Papers / Series 3. Correspondence [boxes 5-9]