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Box 4275.01

 Container

Contains 29 Collections and/or Records:

Orrville Wayne Letter, 1865 August 4

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 004
Scope and Contents The collection contains a letter written on 4 August 1865 to Orrville Wayne. The letter is in German, and no translation is available at this time.
Dates: 1865 August 4
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Letter in Norwegian, 1866

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 027
Scope and Contents Contains one letter written in Norwegian from Walhalla, Michigan, in 1866.
Dates: 1866
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / Norwegian Letters

Letter from Johannes, 1872 May 28

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 005
Scope and Contents Contains one letter in German, written on 28 May 1872 in Oakland, Maryland. There is no translation available at this time.
Dates: 1872 May 28
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Letter in German, 1881 January 10

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 006
Scope and Contents The collection contains a letter in German, written on 10 January 1881. There is no translation available at this time.
Dates: 1881 January 10
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Letter from Currua, 1899

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 007
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of letters in several foreign languages: French, German, Norwegian, Polish, and Swedish. At the time of writing this finding aid, there are no translations available for any of the letters.
Dates: 1899
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

German Scripture Card, circa 1900

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 008
Scope and Contents The collection contains a small card (approximately 2.75" x 1.75"), printed in an Old German alphabet with Psalm 51:12 (King James Version): "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me." The card indicates that it is verse 12, however in many modern versions of the Bible that particular text is now verse 10.
Dates: circa 1900
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Letter from Dina T. to Her Uncle, 1901 January 20

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 009
Scope and Contents The collection contains a letter from Dina T. (last name given but it is undecipherable) to her uncle, written on 20 January 1901, possibly from Germany. The letter is in German, and there is no translation available at this time.
Dates: 1901 January 20
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Frau Zimerman Letter, 1917 November 22

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 010
Scope and Contents The collection contains a letter to Frau Zimerman written on 22 November 1917. The letter is in German and there is no translation for it at this time.
Dates: 1917 November 22
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Letter from Willy to His Mother, 1918 October 19

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 011
Scope and Contents The collection contains a letter written by Willy from San Francisco, California, to his mother. It is written in German, and a translation is unavailable at this time.
Dates: 1918 October 19
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Georg L. Zimermann Letter, 1921 August 22

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 012
Scope and Contents The collection contains a letter to Georg L. Zimermann of Terra Haute, Indiana, written on 22 August 1921, and sent from Markgroningen, Germany. The letter is in German, and there is no translation available at this time.
Dates: 1921 August 22
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Letter from Tallo to Katharine Arnold, 1923 November 29

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 001
Scope and Contents This collection contains one letter from Tallo(?) of New York City to a friend, Katharine (Katee) Arnold, in Poughkeepsie, New York. The letter was written in French, which was not the writer's first language, and discussed French books the writer had read recently and an upcoming visit by Katee.
Dates: 1923 November 29
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / French Letters

Letters to Elisabeth Koffka-Ahlgrimm, 1927

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 013
Scope and Contents This collection contains three letters written to Elisabeth Koffka-Ahlgrimm in London, England, from a friend in Madison, Wisconsin. Letters are written in German. Both are addressed to Koffka-Ahlgrimm by way of the Educational Guild in London.
Dates: 1927
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Letter from Mother to Ingeborg Johnson, 1930 June

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 028
Scope and Contents Letter written in Norwegian to Ingeborg Johnson in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, from her mother.
Dates: 1930 June
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / Norwegian Letters

Small Collection of German Letters, 1937-1943

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 014
Scope and Contents Twenty-six letters and five postcards in German. Letters include newspaper clippings and drawings. Each envelope contains letters from different authors and is addressed to someone named possibly Faber or Taber. Some of the letters are postmarked Stuttgart, Germany. The signatures and names are difficult to read.
Dates: 1937-1943
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Eleven German Letters, 1940 - 1943

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 015
Scope and Contents This collection contains eleven letters written in German. All are handwritten except one typed portion of a letter. All are accompanied by an envelope and were written between 1940 and 1943.
Dates: 1940 - 1943
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Wilhelm Franke letters, 1940 - 1959

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 016
Scope and Contents The collection contains seventeen letters to Wilhelm Franke, a German national living in Springfield, Massachusetts, from family and friends in Germany. The letters are all in German, and there is no translation for them at this time.
Dates: 1940 - 1959
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Letters to Marianne Faber, 1942

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 017
Scope and Contents Contains three letters sent to Marianne Faber from a relative in the military during World War II, using Germany's Feldpost mail service. Letters are likely written in German. Translation unavailable at this time.
Dates: 1942
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Three German Letters, 1944

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 018
Scope and Contents This collection contains three letters written in German. All three letters are written in 1944. Two envelopes accompany these letters. The stamps on the envelopes have Hitler's profile on them.
Dates: 1944
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Holmstad Family Letters, 1946 - 1962

 File — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 029-032
Scope and Contents Contains sixty letters written to Sarah and Norval Holmstad from friends and relatives in Norway. Twenty-two letters are from Marie Fasgaard of Tronstad and fifteen from Ida Wullum of Skreia. Remaining letters are from Hermod Skryseth, Ovidie Kongskog, Solveig Nilson, Anna Habberstad, and Kristian Faksland. All letters are written in Norwegian.
Dates: 1946 - 1962
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / Norwegian Letters

Maria Kruper Letters, 1947 - 1948

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 019
Scope and Contents The collection contains two letters (one in German and one in English) from Maria Kruper of Muster, Westphalia, Germany (in the British Zone) to relatives (family Herm. Kreienbrink) in Louisville, Kentucky. She explains that she "accidentally found" her uncle's address, but said that she hoped to hear from them occasionally. She goes on to explain that both her parents had been killed by an air raid in 1940 and that in 1944 she lost her own lodgings. From that time on, she lived with her...
Dates: 1947 - 1948
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Raymond Gautier Letter, 1948 April 4

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 002
Scope and Contents This collection contains a letter from Raymond Gautier of Sarthe, France, to Arthur N. Persons of Northfield, Minnesota. The letter is written in French and there is no translation available at this time.
Dates: 1948 April 4
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / French Letters

Mary Freundlich Letter, 1948 March 17

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 020
Scope and Contents This collection contains a letter written in German to Mary Freundlich of Sao Paulo, Brazil, by E. Rothenberg of South Africa. There is no translation available at this time.
Dates: 1948 March 17
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Grebe Oppenheimer Letters, 1960 - 1963

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 021
Scope and Contents Contains two letters from Grebe Oppenheimer from Israel to Leopold Hirsch of New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1960 and 1963.
Dates: 1960 - 1963
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

George Wolf Correspondence, 1973 - 1976

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 022
Scope and Contents This collection contains twelve letters from George Wolf to J.R. Spratley from 1973 to 1976.
Dates: 1973 - 1976
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Alma Hinkle Letter, 1974 May 14

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 023
Scope and Contents The collection contains a letter to Alma Hinkle of Spokane, Washington, probably from a niece or nephew in Germany as the letter is headed Tante Alma. The letter is in German, and there is no translation for it at this time.
Dates: 1974 May 14
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Erich Bizer Letter, 1980 December 12

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 024
Scope and Contents The collection contains a letter written in German by Erich Bizer of Walldorf, Germany, written on 12 December 1980, to the Paul C. Jordon family of Lowden, Iowa. There is no translation of the letter at this time. There is a post script written in English, by Aunt Betty, wishing the "Family Jordan" a blessed Christmas season.
Dates: 1980 December 12
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Serviere Letter, 1984 January 24

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 003
Scope and Contents Serviere of Rueil-Malmaison, France, writes to Dave Vetrano of Kennewick, Washington. Letter is written in French and sent via air-mail.
Dates: 1984 January 24
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / French Letters

Hilde Schilling Letter, 1988

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 025
Scope and Contents Contains one letter in German from Hilde Schilling of Ringstr. B.R.D. West Germany in 1988 to the family of Rita Grau of Louisville, Kentucky.
Dates: 1988
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters

Note in German

 Item — Box: 4275.01, Folder: 026
Scope and Contents A brief note written in German. Translation not available at present.
Dates: 1865 - 2000
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4275, Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters / German Letters