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Box 2

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Contains 9 Results:

Box 2

 File — Box: 2
Identifier: id290217
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists mostly of love letters between Ella-May Abbott of New Orleans, Louisiana and Walter James Rathbun who is based in ship ports in the United States, Europe, Nicaragua and the Panama Canal Zone.  Letters from Walter Rathbun’s Mother, Mrs. J. Baird of Floral Park, New Jersey and other family members are included. Ella-May and Walter begin a correspondence courtship in 1916, then breakup in 1919. They begin writing to each other again in 1926 and finally marry...
Dates: 1916-1942

Correspondence, 1927 June-July

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: id290220
Scope and Contents

Walter is still working from Puerto Cabezas in Nicaragua.

Dates: 1927 June-July

Correspondence, 1927 August-October

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Identifier: id290223
Scope and Contents

Walter becomes a Free Mason. Ella-May asks Walter to either keep her letters in his desk or destroy them "because things I say to you sound very silly..."

Dates: 1927 August-October

Correspondence, 1927 November 1-15

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Identifier: id290226
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists mostly of love letters between Ella-May Abbott of New Orleans, Louisiana and Walter James Rathbun who is based in ship ports in the United States, Europe, Nicaragua and the Panama Canal Zone.  Letters from Walter Rathbun’s Mother, Mrs. J. Baird of Floral Park, New Jersey and other family members are included. Ella-May and Walter begin a correspondence courtship in 1916, then breakup in 1919. They begin writing to each other again in 1926 and finally marry...
Dates: 1927 November 1-15

Correspondence, 1927 November 16-30

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: id290229
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists mostly of love letters between Ella-May Abbott of New Orleans, Louisiana and Walter James Rathbun who is based in ship ports in the United States, Europe, Nicaragua and the Panama Canal Zone.  Letters from Walter Rathbun’s Mother, Mrs. J. Baird of Floral Park, New Jersey and other family members are included. Ella-May and Walter begin a correspondence courtship in 1916, then breakup in 1919. They begin writing to each other again in 1926 and finally marry...
Dates: 1927 November 16-30

Correspondence, 1927 December

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: id290232
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists mostly of love letters between Ella-May Abbott of New Orleans, Louisiana and Walter James Rathbun who is based in ship ports in the United States, Europe, Nicaragua and the Panama Canal Zone.  Letters from Walter Rathbun’s Mother, Mrs. J. Baird of Floral Park, New Jersey and other family members are included. Ella-May and Walter begin a correspondence courtship in 1916, then breakup in 1919. They begin writing to each other again in 1926 and finally marry...
Dates: 1927 December

Correspondence, 1928 January

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Identifier: id290235
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists mostly of love letters between Ella-May Abbott of New Orleans, Louisiana and Walter James Rathbun who is based in ship ports in the United States, Europe, Nicaragua and the Panama Canal Zone.  Letters from Walter Rathbun’s Mother, Mrs. J. Baird of Floral Park, New Jersey and other family members are included. Ella-May and Walter begin a correspondence courtship in 1916, then breakup in 1919. They begin writing to each other again in 1926 and finally marry...
Dates: 1928 January

Correspondence, 1928 February

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Identifier: id290238
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists mostly of love letters between Ella-May Abbott of New Orleans, Louisiana and Walter James Rathbun who is based in ship ports in the United States, Europe, Nicaragua and the Panama Canal Zone.  Letters from Walter Rathbun’s Mother, Mrs. J. Baird of Floral Park, New Jersey and other family members are included. Ella-May and Walter begin a correspondence courtship in 1916, then breakup in 1919. They begin writing to each other again in 1926 and finally marry...
Dates: 1928 February

Correspondence, 1928 March

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Identifier: id290241
Scope and Contents

Walter is still working from Puerto Cabezas in Nicaragua.

Dates: 1928 March