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Box WSC001

 Container

Contains 2 Collections and/or Records:

Lecture notes

 File — Box: WSC001, Folder: W.0092.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Alabama author Octavia Walton Le Vert wrote and used this twenty-three page manuscript on her lecture tours. Written after the Civil War, "The Home of the Brownings" describes Le Vert's 1885 visit to the Casa Guidi, the Italian home of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
Dates: circa 1870

Letter and music

 Item — Box: WSC001, Folder: W0121.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains a handwritten letter, dated January 7, 1919, and sheet of music written by Geneva, Switzerland, professor Dr. R. Landesberger and addressed to President Woodrow Wilson. A typed transcript of the letter is also included. In the letter, Landesberger expresses his doubts about Wilson's proposed League of Nations. Instead of the proposed plan, he suggests that nations should adopt a "Referendum" which would require a majority of nations to approve any future conflicts...
Dates: 1919-01-07