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Title

Description

Date

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170

Article

News clipping: "Kiwanis to hear theater official" RE Willis J. Davis. Includes photo

1951

"The Perfect Squelch" by K. S. Davis, Jan 19, 1951.  Handwritten and typed drafts

1951

4

171

Cards etc

Cards and envelopes that have been separated from their letters. 8 items. Various dates: 1903, 1926, 1950, 1951, 1963

1903 ≠ 1963

Willis

Kate

5 pp. Letterhead: Hotel Alexandria, Los Angeles,

Nov. 11, 1917

Kate

All

Wedding announcement. Kate to Willis Jonathan Davis. Dallas, Texas

Nov. 21, 1917

Mother Davis

Kate

4 pp.

Jan. 27, 1918?

Willis

Kate

2 pp. Letterhead: Hotel Dempsey. Davenport, Iowa[E]

May 21, 1919

Willis

Kate

3 pp. Letterhead: The Palmer Hotel. Paducah, KY [E]

May 16, 1919

Willis

Kate

Telegram from Saint Nicholas Hotel. Decatur, Illinois

May 16, 1919

Willis

Kate

6 pp. Letterhead. The New Ireland. Springfield, Ill [E]

May 17, 1919

Willis

Kate

4 pp. Letterhead: Hotel Iowa. Keokuk, Iowa [E]

May 19, 1919

Willis

Kate

4 pp. Letterhead: Hotel Burlington. Burlington, Iowa. Includes table tally

May 20, 1919

Willis

Kate

5 pp. Letterhead: Hotel Jefferson. St. Louis, MO [E]

May 26, 1919

Grace

Kate

3 pp. typed. Letterhead: House of Representatives. Grace worked in office of W. C. Wright, M.C. 4^th Georgia Dist. In Newnan, GA.  [E]

May 28, 1919

Willis

Kate

5 pp. Letterhead: Arlington Hotel. Memphis, TN. [E]

May 29, 1919

Willis

Kate

5 pp. Letterhead: House of Representatives. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Willis J. Davis, Clerk. Written from Newnan, GA. Kate is still in Dallas. [E]

May 31, 1919

Willis

Kate

2 pp. [E]

June 1, 1919

Willis

Kate

6 pp. Letterhead:  Swint-Davis Leaf Tobacco Company. Atlanta, GA [E]

June 2, 1919

Willis

Kate

2 pp. Typed. Letterhead: Swint-Davis Leaf Tobacco Co. Atlanta, GA. [E] and calling card for Mrs. Willis Jonathan Davis

June 6, 1919

Willis

Kate

4 pp. Letterhead: House of Representatives. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Willis J. Davis, Clerk. Written from Newnan, GA.  [E]

June 7, 1919

Willis

Kate

4 pp. Written from Atlanta, GA on The New Ireland Hotel letterhead.  (Kate went to Dallas for funeral of father.) [E]

Aug. 22, 1919

Willis

Kate

2 pp. Typed. Letterhead: Swint-Davis Leaf Tobacco Co. Atlanta, GA. [E]

Aug 23, 1919

Willis

Kate

3 pp. Letterhead: Swint-Davis Leaf Tobacco Co. Atlanta, GA. [E]

Aug 24, 1919

Willis

Kate

3pp. Typed. Letterhead: Swint-Davis Leaf Tobacco Co. Atlanta, GA

Aug 25, 1919

Willis

Kate

1 p. Typed plus 3 pp. typed list of wedding gifts. Letterhead: Swint-Davis Leaf Tobacco Co. Atlanta, GA. [E]

Aug 26, 1919

Willis

Kate

2 pp. Typed. Letterhead: Swint-Davis Leaf Tobacco Co. Atlanta, GA. [E]

Aug 27, 1919

Willis

Kate

4 pp. [E]

Aug. 28, 1919

Margaret Stanifout?

Kate

2 pp. card from Margaret Stanifout? 1100 Alma St. Wichita Fallas, TX. [E]

Sept 10, 1921

May D. Allen

Kate

5 pp.  from "Your maid, May D. Allen" Braddock, PA

Feb. 27, 1938

G. Peyton Craighill

Kate

1 p typed. Letterhead: Rev. G. Peyton Craighill, Christ Church Rectory. Millwood, VA [E]

Jan. 24, 1948

Samie? Boyd

Kate

2 pp. typed. From Dallas

Oct 26, 1948

Connie Panton?

Kate

4  pp. From lady in Scotland. [E] SA 4/229

Dec 6, 1949

Kate

Elizabeth

Christmas card w/note to Mrs. Woodford Robinson, Parkersburg, W VVA undelivered [E]

Dec 16, 1949

Mother Davis

Kate

1 p. note.  [E]

Dec. 17, 1949

B. W. Farnham

Kate

Christmas note from Mr. & Mrs. B. W. Farnham, Cheshire, Conn. [E]

Dec. 20, 1949

Faye

Kate

2 pp. note from Mrs. H. W. Brown/ Winter Park, Florida (name on back of envelop. Front reads Mr. And Mrs. Cleo Thompson) [E]

March 22, 1950

Mary Helen

Kate

Photo w/note on back. "Greetings from W. J. (Billy) Disch" Austin, Texas. [E]

Dec. 22, 1950

Margaret Rees

Kate

1 p typed RE National Defense Committee/Atlanta Chapter/ National Society Daughters of the American Revolution from Mrs. S. M. Page Rees. Signed "Margaret Ralderll Rees ? [E]

Sept 5, 1958

David Lawrence

Mrs. Davis

1 p typed from David Lawrence, U.S. News and World Report

Feb. 27, 1959

Katie

Aunt Katie

1 p note from Winter Haven, Fla [E]

July 6, 1963

Lillian B. Chartain

National Defense Committee

Thank you note to National Defense Committee, D.A.R. Chapter c/o Mrs. Willis Davis  [E]

July 4, 1963

Eleanor Garrison

Mrs. Davis

Sympathy note on death of Willis Davis [E]

Nov 25, 1963

Bill Floyd

Mrs. Davis

1 p letter of sympathy RE death of Willis Davis. Letterhead: Ivan Allen Company/ W. F. Floyd, Jr., Secretary-Treasurer [E]

Nov 26, 1963

Feuben & Fauntleroy Garland

Kate

1 p letter of sympathy RE death of Willis Davis. Woodlawn Plantation/ West Point, GA  [E]
"The vicessitudes of fortune that overtake us all in our struggles of this life and the happenings concurrent of our earthly existence shake us and encompass us in the grim reality of unexpectedness and sorrow.  Both of us grieve with you and the shock of this news drove you to us in unexplained nearness&"

Nov 26, 1963

Edith Wyatt..

Mrs. Davis

Sympathy card from Edith Wyatt and staff, Peachtree Branch Library [E]

Nov 26, 1963

Louise Frix

Mrs. Davis

Sympathy card with article from newspaper "Willis Davis, Theater Exec, Dies" Atlanta Journal

Nov 25, 1963

Fanny Hinton

Mrs. Davis

Sympathy card [E]

Nov 26, 1963

Mary Marvin

Kate

Sympathy note [E]

Nov 26, 1963

Ethel Ewing Fike

Mrs. Davis

Sympathy note from Columbia, SC [E]

Nov 30, 1963

Margaret Martin Gibbs

Kate

Sympathy note [E]

Nov 30, 1963

Bec

Katie

Sympathy note from Mrs. Ward Wight [E]

Nov 30, 1963

Frank & Katie