15 July 1941

Universal Pictures Company

Typed document signed

Title: to Margaret Sullavan

Contract amendments for Sullavan's role in the motion picture "Mississippi Gambler." Signed by Universal's vice president and assistant secretary, and Margaret Sullavan. With accompanying photograph (GLC05508.239.02).

GLC05508.239.01

1941

Jones, Ray, 1900-1975

Photograph

Title: [Photograph of Margaret Sullavan]

Publicity shot for "Appointment for Love." Photo by Ray Jones, costume by Muriel King. Accompanied contract amendments for "Mississippi Gambler" (GLC05508.239.01). 1941 photograph of Rita Hayworth by George Hurrell, for Warner Bros., on verso.

GLC05508.239.02

26 April 1934

Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Karl

Sunday remarks that he is ill because of overwork. He believes God will heal him and asks Karl to pray for him. Signed "W.A. Sunday." Accompanied by photograph (GLC05508.242.02).

GLC05508.242.01

26 April 1934

Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935

Photograph signed

Title: [Photograph of Billy Sunday].

Handwritten commentary on veracity of Christ's miracles. Signed "W.A. Sunday. Psalm 34." Accompanies letter to Karl (GLC05508.242.01).

GLC05508.242.02

circa 1980-1990

Teresa, Mother, 1910-1997

Typed letter signed

Title: to Eireni

Mother Teresa thanks Eireni for her concern during a recent illness. The letter is typed on a card with Mother Teresa's picture on it. There is a printed prayer on verso.

GLC05508.243.01

19 July 1989

Teresa, Mother, 1910-1997

Typed letter signed

Title: to Eirene Mowji

Mother Teresa writes to Mowji and gives her advice regarding a friend's brother who is taking drugs. Mother Teresa will pray for him and apparently enclosed a "miraculous medal" for the addict to wear during prayer.

GLC05508.243.02

February 23, 1981

Teresa, Mother, 1910-1997

Typed letter signed

Title: to Rev. & Mrs. Chas O'Hara

Mother Teresa writes to the O'Hara's to congratulate them on their 50th wedding anniversary.

GLC05508.243.03

circa 1980-1990

Teresa, Mother, 1910-1997

Typed quotation signed

Title: [God is love...]

A Missionaries of Charity card, with Mother Teresa's picture, that reads: "God is love, and he who abides in God abides in love, and he who abides in love, abides in God."

GLC05508.243.04

January 20, 1981

Teresa, Mother, 1910-1997

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Earl Hunt

Mother Teresa writes to Bishop Hunt: "Be holy. Because Jesus who has chosen you to be His own is Holy."

GLC05508.243.05

circa 1980-1990

Photograph

Title: [Photograph of Mother Teresa]

GLC05508.243.06

13 June 1895

Tolstoy, Leo, fl. 1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Herron

Tolstoy writes that he received several of Herron's books and will start reading "The Christian State" in the hopes that it will induce him to read them all. When he is finished he will write a letter with his opinion of the book (see GLC05508.245.02).

GLC05508.245.01

10 July 1895

Tolstoy, Leo, fl. 1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Herron

Tolstoy critiques Herron's book, "The Christian State." He agrees with Herron's view of Christianity as a "politic and economic doctrine." He was especially struck by Herron's "denunciation of the American people for not having fulfilled its vocations." He disagrees with Herron's handling of Church and State, accusing the author of "pouring old wine into new bottles."

GLC05508.245.02

21 July 1975

Von Braun, Wenher, 1912-1977

Typed quotation signed

Title: [Excerpt from a statement by Dr. Wernher von Braun].

A partial reproduction of a statement by von Braun that originally appeared in an article contained in "This Week Magazine," included with the Charlotte Observer issue of July 18, 1965. The statement was from a interview discussing the relationship between science and religion, in which von Braun sees the two as compatible. von Braun states that the destructive forces unleashed by modern science have led people to return to religion for a means to control this awesome power. Signed and dated for inclusion with Bishop Earl Hunt's autograph collection.

GLC05508.249.01

21 July 1975

Photograph

Title: [Photograph of Dr. Wernher von Braun]

Accompanies von Braun's autographed quotation (GLC05508.249.01).

GLC05508.249.02

23 December 1964

Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1866

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. White

Waugh writes to thank White for her compliments on the book, "Helena," on which Waugh worked hardest but is least popular. Waugh suggests reading her "Life of Ronald Knox," and congratulates White on her recent conversion to Catholicism. Waugh deplores changes in the church (from Vatican II) that boast of "Renewal," but notes that the Church has survived harder times.

GLC05508.257.01

19 July 1865

Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1866

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. White

Waugh writes to White thanking her for new pictures of the revised Catholic mass (after Vatican II, said in the vernacular language), and expresses her dislike of it. She graciously declines White's suggestion to write a book on the martyrs. She hopes her correspondent becomes editor of the "Wanderer."

GLC05508.257.02

20 July 1865

Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1866

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lord Bishop

Waugh writes to an unknown bishop declining a proposal of his for writing a work (unknown topic). She discusses martyrs of the English Counter-Reformation.

GLC05508.257.03

28 June 1879

Whittier, John G., 1807-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Maria Child

Discusses the Yearly Quaker Meeting he just returned from, in addition to speakers at Garrison's funeral and William Lloyd Garrison's views on the after life. Whittier is "shocked by the barbarism & superstition of our popular faith." He says another George Fox is needed to call men to a life of the spirit. He thanks Child for the translation of George Sand.

GLC05508.262.01

1856-1872 circa

Currier, Nathaniel, 1813-1888

Print

Title: John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States.

Date inferred from Breckinridge's vice presidential term, and the time period in which Currier's printing business was housed at the address cited.

GLC08630.01

1850-1870 ca.

Print

Title: Lithograph of the Death of Johnson

Currier & Ives Print: Lithograph of the Death of Johnson

GLC08630.02

circa 1872-1874

Currier & Ives

Engraving

Title: Lithograph of Frederick Douglass

Circa dates based on several sources, indicating Currier and Ives' location at 125 Nassau St. between 1872 and 1874.

GLC08630.03

1850-1870 ca.

Print

Title: Print of the death of Zachary Taylor

Currier & Ives Print: death of Zachary Taylor

GLC08630.04

1852

N. Currier (Firm)

Print

Title: [Lithographs of Winfield Scott]

Two Currier lithographic copies depicting a bust portrait of Scott as a Whig candidate for president. One with his face colored, the other without. The lithographs are the same size but the borders differ.

GLC08630.05

1864 ca.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Header Record

Title: Carte de visite decimalized

GLC02911

1883/06/29

Adee, Alvey Augustus, 1842-1924

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Col. Rockwell. Re: facsimile of "the Declaration" (presumably, Independence) and attempt to acquire an"impression" of the Presidential Seal.

Discussing a facsimile "of the Declaration" (presumably, Independence) and the Presidential Seal.

GLC06343.301