Old Letters and Documents, Volume VII, 1918 - 1930

Caperton/Burnam family letters and documents including Katherine Caperton's Colonial Dames correspondence. (Approximately 143 pieces) Items of note: Certificate from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland acknowledging Paul Burnam's efforts on behalf of the fourth Liberty Loan Drive. n. d. (1918). Paul Burnam's discharge papers, Camp Zachary Taylor, November 29, 1918. ALS. Tony____ to Esther ____, London, July 11, 1922. Relates details of airline flight (from Brussels?) that took him over Ghent, Bruges, Calais and across the English Channel over Dover then to the Croydon Aerodrome. The aircraft hit a storm after passing over Dover. "The plane lurched, dropped, and then rose, rocking from side to side all the time--however there was no real danger as this is the way the best planes do in a storm." Describes his fellow passengers and tells how some of them vomited into cuspidors. Stating proudly that he did not get sick, he confessed that "the last part of the journey was not what you would call a joy ride." Airline service in the UK began in 1919. Croydon Aerodrome opened 29 March, 1920. ALS. Minerva Caperton Jennings to Katherine Caperton, Jacksonville, Florida, Feb. 17, 1919. Discusses the sale of Blair Park. ALS. Adelaide Everheart to Katherine Caperton, Decatur, Georgia, Feb. 7, 1919. She has finished the portrait of Colonel Caperton. She has also done a little watercolor and pen and ink sketch of Dreaming Creek Heights. She is saddened by the sale of Blair House and states, "Oh, Paul and Jamie what does anyone want with a modern house and furnace and $400,000 when they could live in lovely Blair Park?" ALS. Mrs. Delia Claiborne Buckner to Katherine Caperton, Danville, Kentucky, Mach 26, 1919. Letter of friendship. ALS. Adelaide Everheart to Katherine Caperton, Decatur, Georgia, March 11, 1919. The portraits and sketches have been sent. Hopes that the sketches will bring back old memories of good times for both Katherine and Minerva. TLS. Vachel W. Anderson to Katherine Caperton, Cincinnati, Ohio, February 5, 1929. Family letter. Anderson (1864-1935) was an attorney and the former Director of the Barney and Smith Car Company, Dayton, Ohio. TLS. Vachel W. Anderson to Katherine Caperton, Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 20, 1929. Family letter re: how Vachel became a family name, etc. ALS. (Elizabeth Irwin Harrison?) to Katherine Caperton, "Clifton," October 5, 1926. Re: Mrs. Carter Harrison's 100th birthday. Mrs. Harrison, was the wife of Carter Bassett Harrison (1840-1905) a brother of president Benjamin Harrison. AL (copy in Katherine's hand). Katherine Caperton to Albert Jennings, n.p. (Richmond), July 14, 1922. Re: Albert's (her nephew's) responsibility in choosing a wife. Cautions him not to marry beneath his station, etc. ALS. Delia Claiborne Buckner to Katherine Caperton, The Puritan, April 22, 1926. Thanks her for the beautiful roses. Discusses her family. TLS. Mrs. Winifred Reed to Katherine Caperton, Maysville, Kentucky, April 30, 1929. Asks for Katherine's assistance in revitalizing the Kentucky chapter of the DAR and requests that she join the board. State Regent of the DAR and wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley Forman Reed. TLS. William Boone Douglas to Katherine Caperton, Washington, D.C., January 22, 1929. Relates conversation he had with Senator Alben Barkley the previous day re: a bill to support a National Park at Boonesboro. TLS. Mrs. Winifred Reed to Katherine Caperton, Maysville, Kentucky, July 20, 1929. Pledges to obtain a DAR resolution to support the establishment of a National Park at Boonesboro. ANS. Laura Clay to ______, n.p., June 16, 1941. "Affectionately your friend, Laura Clay." Daughter of Cassius Clay and women's suffrage advocate, Clay (1849-1941) died on June 29.