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1. 7.20.1-192 - Letter

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1955-1971, (C-D). Includes general correspondence of the Corporation. 7.20 4-5 and 7.20. 89 are cataloged separately and provide insights into Fairhope benefactor, Joseph Fels. 7.20 includes correspondence between C. A. Gaston and John R. Chadwick, who works at The Birmingham News. Chadwic, Gaston, and Frances Gaston Crawford are discussing the possible sale of the Fairhope Courier ...

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2. 7.20.4-5 - Letter

   Correspondence dated September, 1995 initiated by George Cartwright of Modesto, California to Frances Gaston Crawford, but answered by C. A. Gaston. Cartwright writes of an incident he observed while waiting in (he did not give a date) Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, Tom L. Johnson's outer office. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fels also happened to be there and Cartwright asked about the status of Fairhope. Cartwright writes of Fels' response: "fine, they...

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3. ii.2.114-115 - Letter

   Letter written to E. B. Gaston from W. E. Brokaw of St. Louis, Missouri dated 05/03/1894. Brokaw, editor of a single tax newspaper, The Courier (The Courier Publishing Company), is optimistic about the movement, and says men are "falling in line" towards supporting the movement. He predicts Ohio businessman and congressman Tom Loftin Johnson (1854-1911) will be elected president in 1896.

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4. vi.2.33 - Letter

   Letter dated 3/13/1906 to Joseph Fels in London, England from Tom L. Johnson in Cleveland, Ohio. Johnson is responding to Fels' letter about the Fairhope Single Tax Colony. Although Johnson wishes "the enterprise every success," he does not appeal to him as a "practical illustration of what the Single Tax might do."

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5. vi.2.34 - Letter

   Letter dated 3/30/1906 to Tom L. Johnson in Cleveland, Ohio from Joseph Fels, writing from London, England. Johnson has written (vi.2.33) to Fels, telling him that he does not support the Fairhope Colony plan. Here, Fels, tells Johnson "if free water, free schools, free library, free bath-houses, free telephone service, and the best roads of any small community in the South, free wharf for foot passengers and other public utilities" are not ...

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6. vi.7.12 - Letter

   Letter dated 10/15/1907 to to E. B. Gaston from Joseph Fels. He suggests that he put two names on his list of exchanges. He thanks him for suggestions for Ed. Ross and asks him to hand an enclosure to Mr. Powell. He was anxious to hear of the progress of the boat matters. He notes that the Fairhope Courier should make note of Tom L. Johnson's work in Cleveland and that the two daily Cleveland papers may have news worth printing in the Fairho...

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7. vi.7.23 - Letter

   Letter dated 3/17/1908 to Hon. Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio from Joseph Fels. He invites him to visit he and his wife at their home Elmwood, Bickley, Kent. He suggests he write Mr. Gaston of Fairhope regarding a deposit. He enclosed a letter from C. Arthur Pearson, the proprietor of the London Times Standard, Daily Express, etc. and other papers with marked articles about his Cleveland work. He mentions that Pearson is a rank Torry, b...

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8. vi.7.24 - Letter

   Letter dated 3/9/1908 to Joseph Fels from Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio suggesting that it would be better for Mrs. Gaston to receive her deposit in ten $100 certificates which draw interest from date, In this way she will be able to get a 4% rate. He appreciated Mr. Fels recommending his bank. He is sorry that Fels is going back to England without stopping by Cleveland to see him. He may come to England in the summer and will avail hims...

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9. vi.8.23-24 - Letter

   Two form letters dated 12/6/1907 to Theo. F. Lane in Flushing, New York, and the other to W. L. Ross in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, both from E. B. Gaston. Gaston is sending each a copy of a booklet about Fairhope's success as a Single Tax Colony which he has written and printed for distribution. He said single-taxer Daniel Kiefer of Cincinnati has pledged to "make it a personal matter with Louis Post, Tom Johnson, Henry George (likely Henr...

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10. vii.3.4 - Letter

    Letter dated 1/8/1909 to E. B. Gaston from Joseph Fels in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fels has just met with Tom L. Johnson, whom he terms a "brick" and one who is "keeping up the fight (i.e. for the single tax) with just as much bravery as ever. He also plans to meet soon with Bolton Hall and other single taxers in New York soon. Fels includes a letter from Dr. Carr (see vii.3.5) and discusses his meeting with Carr whom Fels terms "a li...

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11. vii.5.36 - Letter

    Letter dated 6/3/1909 to Tom L. Johnson, treasurer of the Joseph Fels Fund of America, from William Brown, writing from Toledo, Oregon. Brown is enclosing a contribution for the Fund, but also comments about his positive experience living for five years in Fairhope, Alabama.

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12. vii.5.48 - Letter

    Letter dated 10/8/1909 to E. B. Gaston from Daniel Kiefer in Cincinnati, Ohio enclosing correspondence Kiefer wants Gaston to see.

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13. vii.5.49 - Letter

    Letter to Tom L. Johnson from Daniel Kiefer asking for Johnson's opinion on and artcle Kiefer read in the Omaha World Herald newspaper concerning the politics of the day and the tax movement.

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14. vii.5.50 - Letter

    Letter dated 10/7/1909 to Daniel Kiefer from Tom L. Johnson in response to the former's letter (vii.5.49) discussing the political climate of the day. Johnson opines about the print media, and his take on his form of "radicalism."

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