Letters to Gertrude Negley and Walter Negley 1920s

MCM: A group of letters from the 1920s addressed to Gertrude Negley, after 1921 Mrs. Rupert Gresham, and letters to Walter Negley. They are mostly full of personal correspondence between family members. Some of the letters are fragile and many were dirty. I removed the letters from and clipped them to each envelope.

One interesting letter is from a child named Dickey to Walter Negley. It reads as follows:

Dec 31, 1922

Dear Watler,

Thank you for the check. I have a silver-Pencil. And I got a train. And I got Robin Hood. And I got a pistol.

Dickey

Another letter dated September 30, 1921 from J.E. Jarrett, who was in investment bonds, to W. Walter Negley mentions the flood that occurred in San Antonio in 1921, in this paragraph:

San Antonio has just about recovered from the terribleness of the recent storm, that is in physical appearance and in another month or two there will not be much visible evidence of the ravages of the flood. There will be some inward and financial "hurts" but I believe on the whole people are going to recover and get over this in pretty good shape.

I also found a wedding invitation to the marriage of Ruth Gertrude Negley to Rupert Neely Gresham set for June 8, 1907 at St. Mark's Church in San Antonio, TX.

Letters from William Negley to Susie Jones 1890's

EMS: A batch of letters that was tied together consisted letters from William Negley to his future wife Susie Jones during the 1890's when she was in Long Island and he was at the Pena Ranch in Eagle Pass Texas. The letters are fragile but not too dirty. I removed each from its' envelope and laid it flat with the envelope clipped to the letter.

UTSA Archives Group Project

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