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Item 28: Letter from Sarah Atherton Bridgman to Nadja Vujica, 1970

 Item — Box: 13, Folder: 28

Dates

  • Created: 1970

Creator

Restricted Note:

Item 9: Princeton University Financial Report, 1958 October 3 [Restricted]: Contains confidential financial information related to Princeton University. Item 10: Princeton University Financial Report, 1959 May 22 [Restricted]:Contains confidential financial information related to Princeton University. Item 15: Wilkes College Financial Report, 1950 May 22 [Restricted]:Contains confidential financial information related to Wilkes College. Item 16: Audit Report - Wilkes College, 1950 September 28 [Restricted]:Contains confidential financial information related to Wilkes College. Item 17: Audit Report - Wilkes College, 1951 August 24 [Restricted]:Contains confidential financial information related to Wilkes College. Item 19: Appraisal of Securities - Wilkes College, 1956 June 29-December 31 [Restricted]:Contains confidential financial information related to Wilkes College.

Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Type of Material:

Letter/Correspondence

Condition Note:

Good, no issues.

Measurements:

6 1/16 in. x 7 15/16 in.

Description:

A letter to Nada Vujica from Sarah Atherton Bridgman.

Location:

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Transcription:

My dear Md. Vujica The official photograph for the Gambarreau - to Pennington 55 Moyallen St. W.B. - I suppose I never dream of the wonderful care [required] in such instances in what you are doing every good wish gratefully Sarah Atherton Bridgman Feb 5 1970

Document 2:

April 8. 1970 Dear Madam. You may feel this note reward, the whole generation, now gone. The builders - or between - era before pioneers period and those long gone, Mr. Fred Kirby (Wilkes Building for Library of Wilkes used as library was I understand [originally] the Thurlow building; home- all good will

Document 3: When I was merely a girl I heard read by Jordon curator of the Phila[delphia] Historical Society from the Life of William Henry that when we 14- already making guns for the men of General Washingtons army, he noticed the extreme talent of a little rag a muffin who chalked a picture onto a rock. Without learning he was the son of the tavern keeper near Boston where Henry guns were made by hand by workers always naked to the waist, said come you cant draw a man naked unless you see one “In a period of extreme promise ^[at the gun factory] he ordered a worker to come inside his house, and strip to be a model for B.W. Cates head head of the British Academy

Repository Details

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