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29.16.16 - Correspondence
Letter to H. W. Rucker in Albany, Georgia from E. B. Gaston continuing correspondenceenc (see 29-16-4-7) of the week prior about a poem Rucker has written about Fairhope. Gaston comments about hs late wife, son Cornelius A. Gaston and P.Y. Albright, a former resident of Fairhope. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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29.4.1-23 - Correspondence
Correspondence and receipts dated April 1935 of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Topics of the correspondence include federal legislation promoted by The People's Lobby and a letter from Bolton Hall. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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29.5.1-22 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated August 1934 regarding the Home Owners Loan Corporation. FSTC lessees had been rejected as applicants for the program (see 29.10.3) in February 1934, and these letters are addressing that issue. Letters are from and to the FSTC with these individuals: Senator Hugo Black, Congressman Lister Hill (2nd district of Alabama), Wallace H. Walker, J. Chandler Burton (State Counsel for the HOme...
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29.6.1-18 - Correspondence
Correspondence, bills and receipts dated August 1935 of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. A. C. Campbell, a single-taxer in Ottawa writes effusive congratulations on the 42nd anniversary of the publication of the Fairhope Courier. A personal letter from E. B. Gaston to his cousin Cyrus Gaston is cataloged separately (29.6.14-15). From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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29.7.1-15 - Correspondence
Correspondence dated December 1935 of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. References are made to a trip E. B. Gaston made to the Muscle Shoals area. Topics include the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the Poll Tax, and general correspondence. Congressman Joe Starnes, W. P. Hoopes, George W. Norris, LIster Hill, Edwart Polak, James E. Nugent and Anna Walker. These 2 letters are cataloged separately: 29.7.4 is about A.M. Troyer, a satsu...
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29.7.14 - Correspondence
Letter dated December 18, 1935 from E. B. Gaston to Frank L. Brown, both in Fairhope, Alabama. Gaston is asking Brown his plans for the upcoming 1936 executive council election for the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Gaston writes that "I have made up my mind that my 74 years and condition of my health make it inadvisable for me to serve longer and plan to hand in my declination to have my name appear upon the ballot....." Gaston's son...
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29.7.4 - Correspondence
Letter dated December 2, 1935 from E. B. Gaston to W. P. Hoopes in Forest Hill, Maryland addressing Hoopes' query about a single tax candidated for governor of Mississippi. Of particular interest are Gaston's comments, again in response to Hoopes, about A.M. Troyer, the Fairhope satsuma grower who left in the early 1930s to go to Soviet Russia to aid the government in starting orchards on the Black Sea. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corpora...
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29.8.1-25 - Correspondence
Correspondence dated February 1935 of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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32_1_1-294 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation about payment of taxes and rents due from lessees on Colony lands, dated 1932-1934. FSTC Treasurer R. E. L. Connolly died suddenly in October, 1932 and E. C. Wolcott assumed the role. There are references which Wolcott makes about acclimating to the job and reviewing information with care. Letters from the Baldwin County Building and Loan Association are scattered throughout this file...
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34_5_001_057 - Documents
Correspondence and documents of the Fairhope Public Library dated 1952-1957. Includes receipts for books and magazines purchased for the Library, noting the titles of books in some cases. A pamphlet published by The Theosophical Society in America (no date) titled "Reincarnation: What It Really Is." and correspondence with State of Alabama Public LIbrary Service Division are included among other items. Pages 55-57 is correspondence to and ...
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36_4_027_033 - Correspondence
Correspondence dated 1933 to 1948 between Abe D. Waldhauer and E. B. Gaston. After Gaston's death in 1937, Waldauer corresponded with C. A. Gaston. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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FMH_2351-2352 - Envelope
Envelope, front and back, dated September, 1933 from Henry Stuart (Henry James Stuart 1858-1946) to his son Herschel and daughter-in-law in Portland Oregon. Stuart, a weaver of rag rugs, typed his return address as Tolstoy Park in Montrose, Alabama, referring to himself as "Ye olde weaver" He was also known as the "Hermit" of Montrose, and for his dwelling - The Round House (Hermit House). From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Arc...
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FMH_2354-2358 - Letter
Letter dated June 24, 1910 from Mrs. Little in Boise, Idaho to Herschel Stuart who is living in De Lamar, Idaho. Mrs. Little is a nurse who knew Stuart when she lived in De Lamar, and sends this newsy, motherly and ecouraging letter to him. Herschel Stuart is the son of Henry James Stuart (1858-1946). The senior Stuart would move to Nampa, Idaho in 1911 with Herschel and his other son Edward. Henry Stuart left Nampa for health reasons i...
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FMH_2359-2362 - Letter
Letter January 11, 1912 to Herschel Stuart in Nampa, Idaho from Alice McDonnell in De Lamar, Idaho. Herschel, his brother Edward and their father Henry James Stuart moved from De Lamar to Nampa in summer of 1911. Alice is writing Herschel to thank him for a gift and update him on news from his old hometown. Herschel Stuart is the son of Henry James Stuart, who is the Fairhope connection to this letter. After his sons were grown, the se...
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FMH_2363-2366 - Letter
Letter dated January 18, 1912 to Herschel Stuart in Nampa, Idaho from a former teacher Amy McDonnell in De Lamar, Idaho. Herschel, his brother Edward and their father Henry James Stuart moved from De Lamar to Nampa in summer of 1911. Amy McDonnell is writing Herschel to thank him for a gift. Herschel Stuart's father Henry Stuart the Fairhope connection with this letter. After his sons were grown, the senior Stuart left Nampa for health ...
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FMH_2367-2369 - Letter
Letter dated January 18, 1912 to Herschel Stuart in Nampa, Idaho from a former teacher Amy McDonnell in De Lamar, Idaho. Herschel, his brother Edward and their father Henry James Stuart moved from De Lamar to Nampa in summer of 1911. Amy McDonnell is writing Herschel to ask him for a favor. Herschel Stuart's father Henry Stuart, who is the Fairhope connection to this letter. After his sons were grown, the senior Stuart left Nampa for hea...
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FMH_2370-2373 - Letter
Letter January 11, 1912 to Herschel Stuart in Nampa, Idaho from Alice McDonnell, a friend in De Lamar, Idaho. Herschel, his brother Edward and their father Henry James Stuart moved from De Lamar to Nampa in summer of 1911. Alice is writing Herschel to thank him for a gift and update him on news from his old hometown. Herschel Stuart's father is of Henry Stuart, who is the Fairhope connection to this letter. After his sons were grown, t...
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FMH_2374-2378 - Letter
Letter January 11, 1912 to Herschel Stuart in Nampa, Idaho from Alice McDonnell, a friend in De Lamar, Idaho. This long letter has information about friends, activities, and Alice mentions that many people are moving away from De Lamar because the mine is expected to close soon. Herschel, his brother Edward and their father Henry James Stuart moved from De Lamar to Nampa in summer of 1911. Alice is writing Herschel to thank him for a gift an...
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vi.8.55-57 - Letter
Letter dated October 15, 1908 to E.B. Gaston from Dr. R. A. Hail. He notes he is forced to foreclose on the Christmare place and wants to advertise it in one of the County papers and wants price for three consecutive weeks. It is worth about eleven hundred dollars. He also needs an attorney and he will employ him if he agrees to his proposition.
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