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One newspaper clipping entitled, "Police Witness Collision, Witness Hurt," dated November 4, 1977. Above the title is a note from Connie that reads "Buddy's Mishap," which may refer to a car crash that their neighor Buddy may have caused.

GLC09573.02.152

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Autograph letter signed

11 November 1977

Wetmore, Connie, fl. 1977-1978

to Rod Wetmore

One letter addressed to Rod Wetmore from Connie Wetmore dated November 11, 1977. Mentions that Linda drove her to her grandmother's while the car is in the shop. Expresses missing him.

GLC09573.02.153

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Autograph letter signed

12 November 1977

Wetmore, Connie, fl. 1977-1978

to Rod Wetmore

One letter addressed to Rod Wetmore from Connie Wetmore dated November 12, 1977. Mentions that Kathy's school friend Cindy Pyle and her mother visited. Expresses missing him.

GLC09573.02.154

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

15 November 1977

Wetmore, Connie, fl. 1977-1978

to Rod Wetmore

One letter addressed to Rod Wetmore from Connie Wetmore dated November 15, 1977. Mentions that the car has been fixed and the children watching "Happy Days."

GLC09573.02.156

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

16 November 1977

Wetmore, Connie, fl. 1977-1978

to Rod Wetmore

One letter addressed to Rod Wetmore from Connie Wetmore dated November 16, 1977.

GLC09573.02.157

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

17 November 1977

Wetmore, Connie, fl. 1977-1978

to Rod Wetmore

One letter addressed to Rod Wetmore from Connie Wetmore dated November 17, 1977. Mentions her mother inviting her and Kathy for Thanksgiving.

GLC09573.02.158

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Autograph letter signed

11 December 1977

Wetmore, Connie, fl. 1977-1978

to Rod Wetmore

One letter addressed to Rod Wetmore from Connie Wetmore dated December 11, 1977. Pertains to day-to-day activities. Mentions that Kathy took school pictures.

GLC09573.02.176

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

17 August 1977

Wetmore, Roderick, fl. 1963-1977

to Connie Wetmore

One letter addressed Connie Wetmore from Rod Wetmore dated August 17, 1977. Pertains to visiting family and his ex-wife. Details his interaction with his ex-wife and them discussing their past relationship. Expresses that he feels lucky to be married...

GLC09573.02.003

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

19 June 1881

Hartsuff, Arthur, fl. 1870-1893

to wife

re: Hartsuff opens with the admonition that his wife and children should deprive themselves of nothing since he is deprived of almost every comfort in the field. He goes on to describe the High Sierra as "worse than anything you ever saw, barren...

GLC05201.004

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

22 May 1863

Clapp, George, fl. 1839-1892

to parents

Received their letter last night. "It is hot enough to roast a nigger alive out here." Everyone has sat down under a row of pine or cedar trees for shade or has created improvised shade with tree branches. It looks "like the town hall when they have...

GLC09355.003

History Now Essay

Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute, 1892: A Little-known Encounter

Adele Alexander

Featuring a passage from Adele Alexander’s book in progress, A Black Suffragist in the Jim Crow South: Adella Hunt Logan’s Epic Journey Author’s Introduction Most historians consider Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington the...

Appears in:

50 | Frederick Douglass at 200 Winter 2018

57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020

History Now Essay

From the Editor

Carol Berkin

In this final issue of 2010, History Now offers readers a selection of the latest interpretations of the Civil War era by four leading historians. These essays remind us that this critical moment in the history of our nation continues...

Appears in:

26 | New Interpretations of the Civil War Winter 2010

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

March 23, 1865

Cook, George B., fl. 1845-1865

to father

George B. Cook writes in response to his father's letter from March 13th. He is well and it was good to hear from them again. It has been a long time since he has received a letter. "We haven't had any mail for a month." Nothing new to write about....

GLC00653.22.17

Essay

"The Merits of This Fearful Conflict": Douglass on the Causes of the Civil War

David W. Blight

In the spring of 1871, Frederick Douglass was worried. Six years after Robert E. Lee had surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Grant was now President of the United States, the Union of northern and southern states was...

Lesson Plan

Challenging Segregation in Public Education

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12

Background The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868, during the congressional Reconstruction era. The amendment’s most significant provision —"No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or...

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

23 April 1789

Hazen, Charlotte, fl. 1789

to Henry Knox

The wife of General Moses Hazen, Charlotte (she signs it "Charlot"), writes, "Mr Hazen I am informed has requested to see you about some business, I suppose from circumstances it is to consult you on the propriety of either going to Lake Champlain...

GLC02437.04187

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

5 January 1791

Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809

to Henry Knox

General Jackson is happy to have received Secretary of War Knox's letter of 28 December 1790. Mentions a card party he is attending "with a small circle of female friends." "Free" stamped on address leaf with no signature.

GLC02437.04818

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

31 July 1794

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

to Margaret Craig

Informs Craig he received her letter and would be happy to find employment for the gentleman she spoke of. See GLC02437.06154 for Craig's request..

GLC02437.06156

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

6 September 1790

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

to William Knox

Tells William he is anxious about his sister-in-law Mrs. "Horwood" (Hannah Flucker Harwood) paying a debt Henry Knox owed to Mr. Longman. Writes, "I hope there is no unnecessary delay on the part of Mrs Horwood - She appears to have answered the...

GLC02437.04720

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