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1. 2.5.1-108 - Letter

   Fairhope Courier newspaper Correspondence P-W for 1926 including statements for adverstising, advertising copy, Courier clippings, and general business correspondence for the newspaper. (2.5.1-66) Included in this file (2.5.67-108) are assorted post cards dating from 1897 to 1907, mainly dealing with requests for subscriptions to the Fairhope Courier newspaper. There are some postcards from individuals corresponding about the Fairhope Industr...

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2. ii.10.49 - Letter

   Letter dated 06/06/1894 to E. B .Gaston from P. T. Ostrander of Castana, Iowa. Ostrander is requesting more information about the Fairhope Colony. He doesn't see why it won't work! He read about it in the Sioux City Daily newspaper.

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3. ii.10.58 - Letter

   Letter written to E. B. Gaston on March 30, 1894 from F. A. Pearson of Keosauqua, Iowa asking for a copy of the constitution of the Fairhope Industrial Association.

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4. ii.10.78-79 - Letter

   Letter written to E. B. Gaston on May 30, 1894 from George Pollay of Riverside, California saying that he received the Liberty Bell and read the constitution of the Fairhope Industrial Association which he says will be acceptable to any honest reformer (Single Tax or Socialist). He asks for more information on the Fairhope Colony. It is interesting to note that George Pollay was one of the first 28 colonists to come to Fairhope.

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5. ii.11.14-15 - Postcard

   Letter written to E. B. Gaston on June 9, 1894 from S.R. Rittenhouse of Reading Pennsylvania requesting the information about the Fairhope Industrial Association Colony.

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6. ii.11.29 - Letter

   Letter written to E. B. Gaston on July 3, 1894 from Dr. William C. Roby of Henderson, Kentucky requesting information on the Fairhope Industrial Association Colony.

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7. ii.11.35 - Letter

   Letter written to E. B. Gaston on February 17, 1894 from John Holl Rollo of Wilmington, Delaware asking for information on the Fairhope Industrial Association Colony and including 5o cents for the Liberty Bell.

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8. ii.11.42 - Letter

   Letter written to E. B. Gaston on March 24, 1894 from Garrett Rowe of Charles City, Iowa asking for membership applications and more information on the Fairhope Industrial Association Colony.

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9. ii.1.2-3 - Postcard

   Postcard dated 3/19/1894 to E. B. Gaston asking for him to send membership information to interested parties in Mexico, England, New Zealand, New South Wales and Paraguay.

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10. ii.3.67 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston dated 07/12/1894 from L. W. Crumpton of Ft. Meade, FL. Crumpton has read about the cooperative colony to be started by Populists in Iowa in the Reform Press newspaper. He wants information about the plan and questions if the committee has considered Florida as a site.

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11. ii.3.69 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gastondated 08/16/1894 from A. J. Cullen of Erie, PA. Cullen sends subscription money for the Liberty Bell newspaper, and asks for membership information in the Fairhope colony.

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12. ii.4.11 - Letter

    Undated letter of 1894 written to E. B. Gaston from Mrs. H. W. Davenport of Glidden, Iowa thanking him for the copy of the LIberty Bell newspaper, and including subscription information.

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13. ii.4.23-24 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston from August Dellgren of Minneapolis, Minnesota dated 09/08/1894. Dellgren is requesting information about the Fairhope Industrial Association. (This document is in poor condition and difficult to read.)

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14. ii.4.28 - Letter

    Letter to Alf Wooster dated 02/26/1894 from J. N. Dixon of Malvern, Arkansas sending money for a subscription to the Liberty Bell newspaper and requesting a membership application for the Fairhope Industrial Association.

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15. ii.4.61 - Letter

    Letter to Ernest B. Gaston, Des Moines, Iowa, from C. L. Ferree, Jamaica, Iowa, date 06/16/1894. He is inquiring whether he might get any employment in the Association inside the next 4 to 6 months if he should buy a share of stock and pay in full now. Have any physicians joined yet. Also would Mr. Gaston advise a family of less than $500.00 in money to join the colony.

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16. ii.5.12-15 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on August 26, 1894 from Hamlin Garland asking for a prospectus as it is the most excellent propoganda for Single-Tax Individualism and should be interesting to his People's Party friends. He comments on the various locations saying that he may go to Mobile Bay for a couple of months but would not take up permanent residence there. Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee do not attract him. He says that choice of location is i...

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17. ii.6.48-49 - Letter

    Letter dated 07/18/1894 to E. B. Gaston from Llewellyn T. Haskell of San Franscisco, California. Haskell sends stamps for more copies of the Liberty Bell newspaper, membership forms and constitution and by-laws for the Fairhope Industrial Association. He comments on Gaston's use of the term "competition', and encourages Gaston to consider California as a site for Fairhope. He mentions he is not related to a man named Haskell who was connected...

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18. ii.8.14-15 - Postcard

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on February 12, 1894 from Chris Landolt of Louisville, Kentucky asking for more information on his cooperative plan. He says he is a Single Taxer.

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19. ii.8.9-13 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on October 12, 1894 from Mrs. Dr. Amelia Lamon saying that her friends Mr. & Mrs. Smith of Findlay, Ohio have just left her home on their way to the Fairhope Colony in Alabama. She is interested in joining and asks many questions about the area and estimated expense of building a house in Fairhope.

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20. ii.9.24 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on dated 6/14/1894 from H. C. Marshall, Bonner Springs, Kan. He is requesting a copy of the constitution and any other information regarding the proposed colony.

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