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to Blanche Kelso Bruce
29 August 1877
Nugent, fl. 1877
This letter is an acknowledgement of payment to Nugent and McWillie by Senator Bruce in regards to a legal matter. The payment amount was $450.00.
GLC09400.140.03
circa August 1877
This is a separate docket for the previous three letters which all had dockets as well, with a note saying three letters.
GLC09400.140.04
January 30, 1879
Tanner, B.I., fl. 1879-1880
A letter regarding the case of Jerry Robinson, asking the senator to help in any way he could, on the docket there is a note saying "Ans. Feb 2/79. Would do all I could"
GLC09400.141
to Morris "Moe" Weiner
3 May 1943
Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008
Written at 12 Midnight at home. Sylvia says she received letters and pictures from him, as well as her allotment check. The picture makes her feel "warm and cold" because it brought her close to him yet he is not actually with her.
GLC09414.0020
4 May 1943
Sylvia asks Moe to thank Mrs. Feitelson for her letter. Says Sammy is in Officer's Training. She had a flat tire that morning and Sidney will help her change it. She and Sarah are planning on attending the Union Convention on Saturday. Will call his...
GLC09414.0021
Sylvia talks about yesterday's Labor Rally for the War Effort that didn't have the same spirit as a May Day Parade. The speakers were Senator [Claude] Pepper, Mayor La Guardia, Paul Robeson, and the French woman editor of the Free French Paper. David...
GLC09414.0022
5 May 1943
Sylvia saw the opera last night-Fledermaus/Rosalinda (Johan Stauss) Passed the Times Building and bought a copy of the Oregonian (Portland newspaper) to see news from his location. She is going that night to a place in Brighton that is run by the...
GLC09414.0023
Sylvia received a letter from Alvin (brother) on his 20th birthday. Her mother and father saw Alvin who is very thin because there is not enough food. Alvin is not allowed to go out and get food so Sylvia is sending some. Is enclosing a piece from...
GLC09414.0024
6 May 1943
Sylvia tells him that the Mother's Day gifts will be given from both of them. Thanks him for thinking up a scheme to keep her letters, so they will have a full story when this is all over.
GLC09414.0025
Dave has told Sylvia some new stories about his C.O. who sent him on a mission to Maine with the Coast Guard. Talks about a new law that all Ensigns must be examined by an M.D.. Says his brother Ben is shipping out this week and that he is trying to...
GLC09414.0026
7 May 1943
Sylvia notes that she has "B" [ration] coupons for gasoline. At A&S she shopped for gifts for Mother's Day. Reports that Marge has a job. She will probably start working in Intake sometime in the future. Says Moe's sister Adele is probably serious...
GLC09414.0027
9 May 1943
Sylvia went out to lunch with her friends, then went over to the Union Hall, where they heard three speakers. She thanks him for returning her letters. She was happy to hear the results of his training exams. She loved the local examples of flora...
GLC09414.0028
Written at 9:30 PM. Sylvia says she had funny dreams about him running after a trolley; like something out of a Dali painting. Delivered the respective Mother's Day gifts. Speaks of how many Sundays she spent with him.
GLC09414.0029
10 May 1943
Sylvia went to work and met her new supervisor (a man). She told her male co-workers to stop treating her differently because she knows what she is doing. Asks about whether he will be getting a furlough, or should she come out to the West coast to...
GLC09414.0030
11 May 1943
Sylvia says she rode in to work with Sid and one of his neighbors who boasted about a car trip to Grossinger's using Black Market gasoline. Discussed with others how well he did in his exams, and was still not chosen. Says there is either an age...
GLC09414.0031
13 May 1943
Sylvia says money will be a little tight in the next month; but to leave it up to her whether she can send him money. She will get a raise in July. Says she liked his poem.
GLC09414.0032
14 May 1943
Sylvia was able to get 9 gallons of gasoline. Gives Moe family news. Says one phase of the war is over, perhaps it will all be over soon. Is planning to take a full month's vacation to go West and see him.
GLC09414.0033
15 May 1943
Sylvia went out with a collection can for the Spanish Loyalists who have been released from concentration camps in North Africa and are being transported to Mexico for asylum by the Mexican government. Has to be "Rosie the Riveter" and has stage...
GLC09414.0034
16 May 1943
Sylvia took the car out and got her last instruction on "Rosie the Riveter." Went over to the party where the program was a Truth or Consequences game and then singing Russian songs by those dressed in Russian costumes. Then she came on; and did a...
GLC09414.0035
18 May 1943
Sylvia wants to come and see him on the West coast in August. Got home late from seeing "Mission to Moscow." Talks about the Trotsky trials and other events in Soviet history, and that Russia has to protect herself. Tells Moe he knows all of the...
GLC09414.0036
19 May 1943
Sylvia talks about Moe's difficulties in training. Sid wants to enlist; but can't because of his obligations at home. Postscript: Handwritten telling him that he has received a notice from "Uncle Sam" that he owes taxes. Will send him the needed form...
GLC09414.0037
Sylvia took the car to work and had to visit a Greek Catholic Church and found the priest charming. He acted as a Polish interpreter for her client. Sorry Moe has had bad weather and bad food, and reminds him he will have good food again when he...
GLC09414.0038
20 May 1943
Sylvia is tired because she walked all the way to her father's house. Saw children along the way, boys chasing girls and the girls calling them "dirty little Polack." Feels that "despite all we've gone through with the Depression and the War, things...
GLC09414.0039
21 May 1943
Sylvia went to a USO meeting, and to see "Counter Attack" [stage play about a Russian soldier-made into a movie in 1945] and read his letters during intermission. Tells him that FDR gave an audience to our delegates from the C/O Community Council.
GLC09414.0040
22 May 1943
Sylvia sends him money as she doesn't know how he is managing on so little. Writes about his health and the damp Oregon weather. Talks about coming to see him. A dried flower is enclosed in this letter.
GLC09414.0041
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