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Open Your Eyes - And Where are You? An Untrue Tale

  • US TxAM-C C000081
  • Collection
  • 1916

This collection contains a "complete manuscript copy, written in a ruled notebook in black ink with occasional corrections in red, a few additional pencil notes... a few additional sheets with re-drafting in ink or pencil loosely inserted... Written by a cousin of H. Rider Haggard, this unpublished novella presents the fantasies of a child ill in bed in the form of six dreams." - bookseller's description.

Military World War I Archives of Lt. Bewman Gates Dawes

  • US TxAM-C C000078
  • Collection
  • 1917

This archive documents Lt. Bewman's time in the American Ambulance Service during World War I (WWI).

This archive includes a large amount of war dated letters and documents, a scrapbook with war clippings, and other war-related items kept by either Lt. Bewman Gates Dawes or a member of his family, and an mss diary in both ink and pencil covering January 8 - July 10, 1918. This 4x6 in. diary in dark cloth boards is printed in France with heading in French...[Dawes] was an engineer in France at least as early as 1916 and joined the American Ambulance service in 1917, then a supply company in the French Army and later the 17th Engineers Co. with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, and it appears from his diary that his company was in charge of a major port and the distribution of the supplies that arrived to the front.....These letters give very detailed accounts of life in port and while in Paris...Most of the letters are from 1917...The scrapbook has a large chromolithograph on the cover of 'American Ambulance Service' in action with pasted title below reading 'B.G. Dawes Jr./May 1917-1919'. It is packed with newspaper clippings, many of which must have come from Marietta papers and deal directly with Dawes and other local boys serving in France. It also has several telegrams from the war, pamphlets, 'American Ambulance Service' document, a photograph of Dawes, his last will and testament, and much more. A truly unusual WWI archive of a soldier who served in both the French and American Armies during that bloody conflict." - bookseller's description.

Texas A&M College Social Events Scrapbook

  • US TxAM-C 1424
  • Collection
  • 1894-1900; 1917

This scrapbook contains news clippings, football tickets, publications, sick lists, miscellaneous materials, and programs and invitations to social events at A&M College.

Kenneth Kade Prestridges '17 Scrapbook

  • US TxAM-C 1405
  • Collection
  • 1913-1917

This collection consists of the scrapbook from Kenneth K. Prestridges containing materials from his time at A&M college from 1913-1917.

Booklets and postcards from "Time Spent at A&M College for Radio Electrician School"

  • Power of Attorney, 1918-07-09
  • "Victory Songs" Booklet issued by the Transportation Bureau-National War Work Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations (YMCA) [total copies produced 2,150,000]. 1918 (3 1/4 x 5 inches, 16 pages)
    • The pamphlet contains the lyrics and key to thirty-nine songs, most of which are patriotic or religious. Some of the songs include parodies printed beneath. When known, the pamphlet includes the song's lyricist, composer, and date of creation.
  • "Soldier Songs" booklet stamped with "Carl Hoffman Established 1869, Leavenworth, Kans.). 1918 (20 pages including covers)
  • "Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In the Morning" chorus, Copyright MCMXVIII by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., Strand Theatre Bldg., B'way, N. Y. (single page)
  • 32 Service Company Signal Corps Schools leave permission slip, "visiting friends in Galveston, Texas. July 13, 1918
  • A&M College of Texas Postcards with commentary from Hummel on back. Undated (no postmark, 3x)
    • Electrical Engineering Building - Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Publ. by Exchange Store A. & M. College of Texas. (B&W picture postcard of building)
    • "This is where all visitations are held, has a large lecture room and Buzzer R arm [?], also all the Laboratories to the right of the door is the Head-quarters office, Captain, etc. And is where I worked throughout two weeks I was here, class rooms on 2nd and 3rd floor, Lab. in basement."
    • *Chemistry Building, A. & M. College, College Station, Texas. (color, artistic realistic rendering)
    • "This building is vacant at present. And I stood in front of the white pillars for my lectures."
    • Regiment in Front of Main Building - Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Publ. by Exchange Store A. & M. College of Texas. (B&W picture postcard)
    • "This is the largest building on the grounds, 1 for,. Merchandise store, Post office, bank, officers. Treasurer, Land & Ground's, etc. And is only 1 ½ blocks from our Dormitory, and this is where I went to have my papers fixed out by the Notary Public. Will send name more later on "This is Agri. Student Cadets"
  • War Banquet Menu, "Given by Graduating Class of Radio Electricians of A. & M. College." September 3, 1918

Certificates, Tickets, Military Service Order, and letter from King George V

  • War Department Certificates, Local Board Division 2, Lincoln, Nebraska
    • Military Service Registration Certificate card (3-4227). June 5, 1917
    • Notice of Military Classification card (Form 1005-PMGO; C3-5133) January 11, 1918
    • Physical Examination Results Notification card (Form 1011-P.M.G.O, C3-5139). Janurary 25, 1918
    • Military Classification Certificate card (Form 1007-PMGO; 3-5121). February 6, 1918
  • "Order of Induction into Military Service of the United States". June 5, 1918
  • United States Meal Ticket (No. 1990118,1990121, 1990122), College Station Texas Training Camp. June 8, 1918
  • The Pullman Company Passenger's Check tickets (2x), Office 5812, Form 1000-3, #1036; Kansas City, MO to Dallas, TX. June 9, 1918
  • Letter from King George V also signed "With Love Henry" (father). April 1918
  • 32 Service Company Signal Corps School leave permission slip for "visiting friends in Galveston, Texas". July 13, 1918

Correspondence

11/10
Typed card addressed to Donald Dyal from Alice T. Powell.

Alice Thompson Powell [Concord, NH] to Dr. Dyal. Re: Donation of collection. TLS, 1 leaf. November 14, 1992

Document of Donation to Sterling C. Evans Library. Typed and signed. 1 leaf.

Handwritten chart by Alice T. Powell regarding the contents of the collection.

"Contents of the Package" list of donated material. Typed, 1 leaf.

Clipping from unknown magazine of verse.

11/20
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"My dearest". ALS, 2 leaves. [Indianapolis] December 29, 1917

"My dear wife". ALS, 1 leaf. January 1, 1918

"My dearest". ALS, 1 leaf. January 2, 1918

"To all the folks". ALS, 4 leaves. January 2, 1918

11/25
Photocopies of the letters in File 11//20

11/30
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"Alice". ALS, 2 leaves. January 4, 1918

"My dear Pat". ALS, 1 leaf. January 5, 1918

"My dear Sweetheart". ALS, 5 leaves. January 6, 1918

"Dear Wife". ALS, 9 leaves. January 6, 1918

"Dear Alice". ALS, 3 leaves. January 8, 1918

"My dear girl". ALS, 5 leaves. January 9, 1918

"To my littlest little girl". ALS, 1 leaf. January 9, 1918

"My dear wife". ALS, 4 leaves. January 10, 1918

11/35
Photocopies of the letters in File 11//30

11/40
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"To Everybody". ALS, 3 leaves. January 11, 1918

"My dear little Sweetheart". ALS, 2 leaves. January 11, 1918

"My dear wife". ALS, 7 leaves. January 12, 1918

"My dear little folks". ALS, 5 leaves. Sunday, January 13, 1918

11/45
Photocopies of the letters in File 11//40

11/50
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"My dear Wife". ALS, 2 leaves. January 14, 1918

"My dear little daughter". ALS, 5 leaves, with original envelope. January 14, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, 3 leaves, with original envelope. January 15, 1918

Letter fragment, page 4 only. Handwritten, 1 leaf. undated

Letter fragment, pages 5 through 9 only. January 15, 1918

11/55
Photocopies of the letters in File 11//50

11/60
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

ALS, 4 leaves. [Original first page is missing, typed copy is substituted], with original envelope. January 16, 1918

Letter fragment, pages 4-7 only. Attached is handwritten note and original envelope. January 17, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, 5 leaves, with original envelope. January 18, 1918

"Dear Wife" The Birthday. ALS, 4 leaves, with original envelope. (January 19, 1918)

11/65
Photocopies of the letters in File 11//60

11/70
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"To everybody". ALS, 9 leaves. January 20, 1918

"My dear little sweetheart". ALS, 4 leaves. Sunday, January 20, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, 4 leaves. January 21, 1918

"To my little Folks". ALS, 3 leaves. January 21, 1918

"My dearest Wife". ALS, 4 leaves. January 22, 1918

11/75
Photocopies of the letters in File 11//70

11/80
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"Dearest". ALS, 4 leaves, with original envelope. January 23, 1918

"My dear little girl". ALS, 5 leaves, with original envelope. Sunday (January 27, 1918)

"My dear Wife". ALS, 9 leaves. February 2, 1918

11/85
Photocopies of the letters in file 11/80

11/90
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

Letter fragment, pages 3 through 8. ALS, 6 leaves. February 14, 1918

"My Sweetheart". ALS, 6 leaves. February 15, 1918

"My dear Patsie". ALS, 8 leaves. February 16, 1918

"To everybody". ALS, 4 leaves. Sunday (February 17, 1918)

"Dear Alice". ALS, 1 leaf. (February 17, 1918)

11/95
Photocopies of the letters in File 11/90

11/100
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"My dear Wife". ALS, 4 leaves. February 18, 1918

"My dear Alice". ALS, 6 leaves. February 19, 1918

"Dearest". ALS, 5 leaves. February 20, 1918

"My dearest". ALS, 4 leaves. February 21, 1918

"My dear Wife". 1918. ALS, 1 leaf. February 22, (1918)

11/105
Photocopies of the letters in File 11/100

11/110
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"To everybody". ALS, 4 leaves. February 23, 1918

"My Sweetheart". ALS, 5 leaves. Sunday, February 24, 1918

"My Wife". ALS, 7 leaves. February 25, 1918

"Dear Patsie". ALS, 7 leaves. February 26, 1918

"To My Little Folks". ALS, 4 leaves. February 26, 1918

11/115
Photocopies of the letters in File 11//110

11/120
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"My dear Wife". ALS, 5 leaves. February 27, 1918

"Dear Madam". ALS, 3 leaves. February 28, 1918

"My dear Patsie". ALS, 4 leaves. March 3, 1918

"Another Letter for my Little Folks" ALS, 3 leaves, with original envelope. March 4, 1918.

"My dear Wife". ALS, 3 leaves. March 5, 1918

11/125
Photocopies of the letters in File 11//120

11/130
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"My dear Wife". ALS, 3 leaves. March 7, 1918

"My dearest". ALS, 6 leaves. March 9, 1918

"Dear Wife". ALS, 4 leaves. March 10, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, 1 leaf. March 11, 1918

"My dear Margaret". ALS, 6 leaves. March 13, 1918

11/135
Photocopies of the letters in File 11//130

11/140
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

Letter fragment, pages 3 through 6 only. Included is hand drawn diagram. March 14, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, 5 leaves. March 26, 1918

"To my little Folks". ALS, 4 leaves. March 28, 1918

Handwritten list of March statistics, 1 leaf.

Letter fragment, page 3 only. March 31, 1918

11/145
Photocopies of the letters in File 11//140

11/150
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"My dear Wife". ALS, 5 leaves. April 1, 1918

"My dear Patsie". ALS, 3 leaves. April 4, 1918

"My dear little Folks". ALS, 5 leaves. April 4, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, 4 leaves. April 5, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, pages 1 and 3 10. April 7, 1918

11/155
Photocopies of the letters in File 11//150

11/160
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"My dear Wife". ALS, 4 leaves. April 12, 1918

"Dear Patsie". ALS, 4 leaves. April 16, 1918

"My own dear Wife". ALS, 3 leaves, with original envelope. April 18, 1918

"My own dear Wife". ALS, 7 leaves. April 19, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, 4 leaves. April 22, 1918

11/165
Photocopies of the letters in File 11//160

11/170
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"Dear Margaret". ALS, 5 leaves. April 22, 1918

"Dear Alice". ALS, 4 leaves. April 23, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, 5 leaves. April 24, 1918

"My dear Children". ALS, 3 leaves. April 27, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, 5 leaves, with original envelope. April 29, 1918

11/175
Photocopies of the letters in File 11//170

11/180
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"My dear Wife". ALS, 2 leaves, with original envelope. April 30, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, 2 leaves, with original envelope. May 1, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, 5 leaves, with original envelope. May 2, 1918

"Dear Pat". ALS, 3 leaves, with original envelope. May 3, 1918

ALS, 5 leaves. May 6, 1918

11/185
Photocopies of the letters in File 11//180

11/190
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

Letter fragment, page 4 only. May 8, 1918

Newspaper clipping: "Army 'Y' Decides On Censorship to Halt Pro Germans"

"My Sweetheart". ALS, 3 leaves, with original envelope. May 9, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, 4 leaves, with original envelope. May 10, 1918

"Dear Wife". ALS, 1 leaf, with original envelope. May 11, 1918

"Dear Alice". ALS, 3 leaves, with original envelope. May 12, 1918

11/195
Photocopies of the letters in File 11//190

11/200
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"My dear Wife". ALS, 6 leaves, with original envelope. May 14, 1918

"My dear little Folks". ALS, 2 leaves. May 14, 1918

"My dear Alice". ALS, 4 leaves. May 15, 1918

"My Sweetheart". ALS, 5 leaves, with original envelope. May 16, 1918

11/205
Photocopies of the letters in File 11//200

R. C. Leffel '18 Clarinet

  • US TxAM-C 1212
  • Collection
  • 1918

This collection consists of a clarinet owned by R.C. Leffel, Texas A&M College class of 1918.

Leffel, R. C.

Photographs from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Postcards and Song Sheet

  • Hotel Baltimore, Kansas City MO postcard from Henry to Mr. H.L. Hummel (father). September 9, 1918 (postmarked)
    • "Monday 7PM. Just arrived in K.C. leave for camp tonight had a fine trip. Henry"
  • Photographs of Henry L. Hummel, Jr. (2x), one of John Schleef, and one of men on train "headed north to Lawrence Kansas". September 17, 1918
  • Postcard to H. L. Hummel (father) with forwarding information to Camp Merritt in New Jersey. September 23, 1918
  • "Camp Song Sheet - Compliments of Army YMCA - Compiled by Ralph E. Stolz, "Y" Song Leader. Undated (sec From St Louis MO)
  • Good Printing Quick published by The Webb-Biddle Company of Cincinnati: "Uncle Who?" (page 15), "Good Day to Loaf" (page 16), and "He Had the Bacon". (single page)
    • The Webb-Biddle Company of Cincinnati publishes a house Organ titled, Good Printing Quick (4.5 x 7 inches, 16 pages with cover). The contents consist of six pages of advertising matter, four pages of poems, two pages of jokes, and one story about direct-mail advertising (Printing Art, Volume 40. University Press, 1923. p491.).

Bernard Sbisa Family Collection

  • US TxAM-C 1377
  • Collection
  • 1877-1919

The Bernard Sbisa Family Collection consists of photographic scrapbooks, personal correspondence, photographs of the Sbisa Family, and early Texas A&M College photographs along with other early college photographs of the campus of Perdue. The items included either have no date or are dated from between 1877 to 1919.

Bernard Sbisa was one of the first Texas A&M College professors who lived and taught the early Texas A&M College.

Sbisa, Bernard

Sbisa Correspondence and Photographs

S1-1/1: Correspondence

  • Passport for Rita R. Kerr. October 22, 1877
  • Photocopy of correspondence to Mrs. O. P. Kerr from Eugene [?] Kerr. October 29, 1893 (3 pages)
  • Funeral notice for Mrs. Francisco Orfila, Bryan, TX. June 13, 1888
  • Recipe with a note. May 5, 1899
  • Correspondence to Bernard Sbisa from J. G. Huth, November 18, 1911 (2 pages)
  • Correspondence to 'Professor' [Bernard Sbisa] from [Father] J. B. Gleisanner of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Bryan, TX. April 1, 1917 (1 page)
  • Correspondence to Ma Chere Rita from Meg [?], December 8, 1918, (2 pages)
  • Correspondence to Ma Chere Rita from Meg [?], December 30, 1918[?] (2 pages)
  • Correspondence to Mrs. Sbisa from T.D. Row [?], February 27, 1919 (2 pages)
  • Photocopies of E. W. Kerr article in the Galveston Daily News. Wednesday, June 10, 1896 (2 pages, 2 copies)

S1-1/2: Photographs of the Sbisa family and friends of the family.

S1-1/3: Photographs taken at A&M College

  • Inside Old Mess Hall [?]. Undated
  • Group photo. 1895 [?]
  • Group photo outside of Old Main with Rila Sbisa. Undated
  • Group photo of Corps of Cadets and Matriarchs in front of Mess Hall [?]. 1896 (possibly taken by E.W. Kerr)
  • Group photo outside Academic building in front of Sull Ross statue [possibly group of professors, administrators, or families]. Undated

S1-1/4: Postcards

  • A&M Old Main building burning. Undated
  • A&M College campus house [?]. Undated
  • Military Walk. Undated (3 copies)
  • Sbisa Hall. Undated (3 copies)
  • Sbisa Hall, black and white photograph postcard. Undated

Photographs, postcards and papers from time overseas in Lussac, France in the 109th Field Signal Battalion

  • Field Signal Battalion. February [?] 9, 1919 (B&W picture postcard)
  • Co. A. 109 F.S. Bn. and Billet (Company A. 109th Field Signal Battalion and Billet, Lussac, France). March 1, 1919 [received April 7, 1910] (B&W picture postcard)
  • "Instructions For Troops", document given to troops quartered on ship. Undated
  • "The ship on which I sailed has arrived safely overseas…" postcard addressed to Miss Orpha Bidgood of Sidney, NE. Undated
  • "I am now stationed at…" postcard addressed to Mr. H. L. Hummel of Lincoln, NE (father). February 11, 1919-02
  • Leave Papers
    • Request for Leave. April 4, 1919
    • Class "B" Leave Approval / Identity Card. April 5, 1919
  • 4 postcards containing one letter to Mabelle Hummel (sister). January 31, 1919

Letters

1/1
June 16, 1919, Bosworth explains how the third U.S.S. Albany anchors along with the British cruiser Kent with a hand-drawn diagram. He draws a map of "Golden Horn," one of the harbors in Vladivostok. He shows a hand-drawn ring initialed with the words "USS DB Albany."

June 18, 1919, Bosworth mentions cruising around in Peter the Great Bay. Describing a Russian bathing beach, he comments that Russians do not wear anything while swimming. He thinks Vladivostok is a good place for hunting.

June 21, 1919, Bosworth records that the British cruiser Kent plans to leave Vladivostok Monday morning, but her relief that Carlisle has not come yet. He asks his folks to send some film for his camera because it is expensive in Vladivostok. He informs them that the Navy Department is preparing a bill for Congress by which crews will get a raise in pay.

1/2
June 22, 1919, Bosworth talks about the concert of the Middlesex Regiment Band at "Y." At the concert, he meets a well-educated Czech. Bosworth explains the Battalion of Death, a group of Russian women forces. He mentions two American merchant ships, the West Helix and the Archer.

June 25, 1919, Bosworth writes that he has gone to Russian Island for a test with the navigator, the chief quartermaster, the first-class general manager, and the third general manager. They swim while they are waiting for the boat after they have finished their test.

1/3
June 28, 1919, Bosworth recalls that about 3 days or so ago 500 Bolsheviks attacked a small number of Americans and they killed sixteen and wounded thirty-six. Since the Bolsheviks warn that they will attack the town by tomorrow, all of the Marines are guarding the American consulate.

1/4
June 30, 1919, Bosworth informs that small arms, ammunition, and equipment are distributed for the landing force. He offers the chief 41 dollars to get him on the list of the forces, which will go ashore tomorrow morning, but he does not make it.

July 1, 1919, Bosworth describes that the Albany puts ashore the one hundred forty landing forces to capture Petrovka, which is about 8 or 9 miles inland from Andreeva Bay. Each man is armed with a rifle and 220 rounds. When they attack the town, they find that the Bolsheviks have already left.

July 2, 1919, Bosworth mentions the arrival of the Carlisle, which relieves the Kent when the Albany gets back to port. The Carlisle is a super-destroyer and is armed with five 6-inch guns and ten torpedo tubes. Her speed is 35 knots.

July 5, 1919, Bosworth writes that his shipmates have games on the ship in the morning. The games include an obstacle race, boon fight, shoe race, bottle royal, three-legged race on the dock, pie-eating contest, and a boat race.

July 6, 1919, Bosworth details that the Albany and the Carlisle accompany the ships loaded with supplies for the Americans at Suchan mines. The troops land at about seven in the morning. Even though there is no opposition to the landing, mounted men scout the land.

July 7, 1919, Bosworth records that nothing much happens today. The Carlisle leaves this morning. The Albany returns from the Suchan River at 10 pm.

Correspondence, and Photographs

12/10
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

Envelope containing a handwritten note and two pressed flowers. postmarked May 16, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, 3 leaves, with original envelope. May 17, 1918

"My Sweetheart". ALS, 4 leaves, with original envelope. May 18, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, 4 leaves. May 19, 1918

"My dear little daughter". ALS, 3 leaves, with original envelope. May 19, 1918

12/15
Photocopies of the letters in File 12/10

12/20
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"My dear Wife". ALS, 3 leaves, with original envelope. May 21, 1918

"For the Little Folks". ALS, 4 leaves, with original envelope. May 22, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, 4 leaves, with original envelope. May 25, 1918

"My Patsie". ALS, 3 leaves, with original envelope. May 26, 1918

12/25
Photocopies of the letters in File 12/20

12/30
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"My dear Patsie". ALS, 3 leaves, with original envelope. June 1, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, 4 leaves, with original envelope. June 2, 1918

"My dear Patsie". ALS, 1 leaf, with original envelope. June 3, 1918

"Dearest". ALS, 3 leaves. June 24, 1918

"My dearest". ALS, 3 leaves. June 25, 1918

12/35
Photocopies of the letters in File 12/30

12/40
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"Dear Alice". ALS, 1 leaf. July 2, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, 5 leaves. July 3, 1918

"My dearest". ALS, 3 leaves. July 14, 1918

"My dearest". ALS, 3 leaves. July 15, 1918

12/45
Photocopies of the letters in File 12/40

12/50
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"My dear Wife". ALS, 3 leaves. July 16, 1918

"My own dear Wife". ALS, 5 leaves. July 17, 1918

"Sweetheart". ALS, 3 leaves. July 18, 1918

"My dear Wife". ALS, pages 1 and 4 only. July 21, 1918

12/55
Photocopies of the letters in File 12/50

12/60
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"Dear Alice". ALS, 3 leaves. July 26, 1918

"My dear little girl". ALS, 3 leaves. July 28, 1918

ALS, 2 leaves. July 30, 1918

"For my little Folks". ALS, 2 leaves. July 31, 1918

12/65
Photocopies of the letters in File 12/60

12/70
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"My dear Wife". ALS, 3 leaves. August 5, 1918

ALS, 2 leaves. August 6, 1918

ALS, 5 leaves. August 9, 1918

"My dear Margaret". ALS, 2 leaves. August 10, 1918

12/75
Photocopies of the letters in File 12/70

12/80
Correspondence from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his wife and family.

"Sweetheart". ALS, 1 leaf. undated

"My dear Alice". ALS, 1 leaf. undated

12/85
Photocopies of the letters in File 12/80

12/90
Various empty envelopes from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson [Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas] to his family.

Postmark dates:
January 29, 1918
January 30, 1918
January 31, 1918
February 1, 1918
February 2, 1918
February 4, 1918
March 30, 1918

12/100
Four color postcard with printed pictures regarding World War I
"Infantry Drill at Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas"

"U.S. Battalion Artillery Drill, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas"

"Entrance to Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas"

"The Canteen"

One black and white (B&W) photograph with inscription on back:
"See letter Jan. 10. F.C.T. right rear. Over the top of some real trenches. Taken by a soldier soon after I arrived here. Note the lumpy crumbly soil. All that is not lumps is stone. Makes a fine dust that penetrates anywhere and a mud that sticks exactly like so much glue. Arrow shows long row of wire entanglements"

12/110
Six color postcard with printed pictures regarding World War I
"Entrance to Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas"

"Double Time"

"Shelter Tent Inspection"

"U.S. Artillery Drill, Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas"

"The Beauty Shop"

"Bird-eye View of Army Post, Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas"

Four B&W photographs with inscriptions:
"Chapel at Fort Sam Houston. Here 13 negroes were recently sentenced to death for mutiny"

"F.C.T. Winter 1918. Travis"

"Where they hung the thirteen mutinous negroes - part of the company that shot up Houston recently"

"Where they buried the thirteen"

12/120
Four B&W photograph with no inscriptions.

Twenty-five B&W photographs with inscriptions:
"Camp Travis Review. (Use magnifying glass)"

"Review on March 13, 1918 for Gov. of Oklahoma"

"Review of Gov. of Oklahoma" [4 scenes]

"This building is three days old and 300-350 feet long"

"A company street with a company assembled"

"A company street barrack housing 125 men. These buildings stretch as far as one can see"

"A picture taken in the middle of the day, of a stretch of track 1/3 mile long. (Where they load up for France) This was taken during a norther and the cloud of dust obstructs the view. The arrow points to a building only 50 feet from the camera. About 100 feet of tracks (right) and 150 (left) show - the edge of the dust cloud is thus outlined. No dust at extreme left, see freight car"

"An army balloon, almost a daily sight"

"Where a small part of the hay goes"

"Count the bales of hay here"

"A part of one detail of the general problem of maintenance. Piles of baled hay. Note the horse and buggy to get relative size - 3 times as high. As big as a house"

"Camp Travis Post Office"

"Air and plenty of it"

"Streets at Camp Travis"

"You can count the trees but not the soldiers in this camp"

"Writing letters, playing the piano, holding a talk fest. The usual afternoon use of the Y. In this type of building the other wing 60x30 is used for reading, games and writing too"

"A good view of the main room of a Y building. In some cases this is the only large room. Note the permanent movie screen, stage, piano. Two little rooms, class, dressing or bed, one each side of stage. Folding writing tables across benches at posts. Also two rows additional at outside walls. Capacity of hall about 650. Main room of Y #30. Camp Travis. 1. Jos. W. Nory, Educ. Sec'y, 2. E.O. Williams, Physical, 3. Hume Frost, Asst., 4. W.M. __, Ex-religious Sec'y"

"The Texas Soldiers opinion of a Yankee preacher. (2/3 of the audience is shown) 4000 men - and all quiet. Note the outdoor stage, with a wrestling mat, and the movie screen. Half the end of the Y building shows. My room at present (only one on second floor) is marked by the X"

"F.C.T. on right"

"A part of the outgoing mail of 2 regiments 358-359th. Part goes to the reg. P.O. Here we took n 2 sacks of parcel post and 1120 letters. January 6, 1918"

"Travis Post Office"

"A Y.W.C.A. Hostess house 5 now in R.S. Serve meals and provide a place for women to meet their soldier friends. L shaped. Note the large enclosed veranda. Everything permanently screened here. Camp Travis"

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Six B&W photographs with inscriptions:
"Y.M.C.A. No. 29 Play Room"

"F.C.T.'s Bldg., Camp Travis"

"Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson YMCA Sec'y. Camp Travis, 1918. Bldg. #29"

"Reading room wing on the left. Office int he center of the H (right behind the soldier). My window, first floor just to left of fire escape. The funny little windows above the triangle and to the right are for the light for outdoor moving pictures"

"Y.M.C. No. 29"

"The main room of the Y. It will hold 7 or 8 hundred people. The wing is used now as a store, but this week we will fix it up for the officers to use. The only man in camp from connecticut is standing on the corner. This land is full of small stones. So we pick them up, make side walks and fences of them and paint them white. Notice how high our grass has grown. Mar. 19"

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Five B&W photographs with inscriptions:
"Pack Train - 8th U.S. Cavalry. Marfa, Texas"

"1918"

"Fairrs left! ho"

"Tug of War"

"Mexican refreshment stand near the Mission San Jose"

12/150
Six B&W picture postcards of various scenes of Mercedes, Texas

Sixteen B&W photographs with inscriptions:
"After the hurricane, Camp Mercedes"

"After the hurricane, May, 1919, Camp Mercedes"

"Camp Mercedes, 1919"

"Headquarters in foreground, Hospital in background, Barracks on right, Officers Qrs on left"

"Barracks and stables and sand, Camp Mercedes.

"Irrigation Canal West boundary of Camp"

"Notice 2nd Barracks from right - hurricane"

"Officers Qrs. Barracks. Headquarters bldg. Y.M.C.A., Camp Mercedes"

"Officers Qrs. Non-Com. Hospital"

"Parade Ground & Barracks, Camp Mercedes, Tex"

"View of Parade Ground & Barracks, Camp Mercedes, Texas"

"Y.M.C.A., Camp Mercedes, 1919"

"Camp Mercedes, Spring 1919" [three scenes]

"YMCA Camp Mercedes, Spring 1919. F.C.T. by Fireplace"

12/160
Five B&W photographs with inscriptions:
"Rio Grande, Spring 1919"

"Rio Grande, 1919" [two scenes]

"Barricade at Outpost. Llano Grande Pump"

"Mercedes, 1919. An old mill, the first to be built in this section - now in the center of a Mexican village"

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Johnston, Captain Frank H. [Company M, 1st Regt. Connecticut Home Guards] to Franklin C. Thompson. TLS, 1 leaf. January 15, 1918

Fitch, C.L. [Camp Logan, Houston TX] to F.C. Thompson. ALS, 2 leaves. March 23, 1917

Sherry, Will to Mr. Thompson. ALS, 1 leaf. undated

Nash, Lyman J. [Camp Beauregard, La.] to Mr. Thompson. TLS, 1 leaf. March 23, 1918

Reese, Clarence [Chaplain, 360th Infantry, Camp Travis] to Mr. F.C. Thompson. TLS, 2 leaves. March 25, 1918

Oakes, Clay O. to Mr. Williams. TL, carbon copy, 1 leaf. March 3, 1918

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One printed postcard showing three B&W photographs with inscriptions:
"A General View of Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas, Where an Army of 46,000 Men is in Training"
"The Historic Alamo, San Antonio, Texas"
"View of General Headquarters, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas"

Booklet contained B&W photographs:
"The Alamo - Built 1718"

"Delivering Supplies to Company Kitchen"

"Home of the Commanding Officer"

"Company on Drill Ground"

"Company Lined up in Front of Barracks"

"Field Artillery"

"Signal Corps at Work"

"U.S. Wireless Station, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas"

"Gift Chapel, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas"

"Officers Quarters, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas"

"Main Entrance to Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas"

"United States Aeroplane"

"Recruits Arriving at Camp Travis"

"More Recruits"

"Getting "Shot"

"One of the Barracks"

"Partial View of Camp Travis"

"Looking up a Company Street"

"Setting-up Exercises"

"Inspection in Company Street"

"Another Partial View of the Many Buildings"

"Lined up for Mess"

"The Men who Bake the Bread"

12/190
One sheet of unused YMCA writing paper.

12/200
Printed postcard with picture of various flags.

War Roll Card of Membership.

YMCA printed color Christmas card, with envelope.

Pencil sketch by B. Gerhardt [a soldier at Camp Travis]. Titled "The Conquers Fate"

Typed copy of verse "In My Castle on the River Rhine," 1 leaf.

Typed list of General Orders at Camp Mercedes. July 19, 1919

12/210
Two B&W photographs of F.C. Thompson in uniform, 1918.

Typed note from A.T. Powell explaining circumstances regarding "The Little Folks at Home: Their Book" 1 leaf.

Photocopy of a handwritten booklet by F.C. Thompson, "The Little Folks at Home: Their Book" 15 leaves.

12/220
Extracts from various letters from F.C. Thompson. Typed, 15 leaves.

12/230
Note from A.T. Powell regarding the extracts from letters. Typed, 1 leaf.

Extracts from missing letters. Typed, 3 leaves.

12/240
Powell, Alice [Concord, NH] to Donald Dyal. TLS, 2 leaves. November 2, 1993

Powell, Alice [Concord, NH] to Donald Dyal. TLS, 2 leaves. July 5, 1993
Attached is:

Notes re: corrections to printout of letter transcriptions. Handwritten, 1 leaf.

Three leaves of printouts showing corrections.

Addendum to letter. Typed, 1 leaf.

Excerpt from "Camp Travis: The National Army Cantonment at Fort Sam Houston, 75th Anniversary" booklet. Photocopy, 3 leaves.

Excerpt from "Camp Travis and Its Part in the World War" booklet. Photocopy, 7 leaves.

Powell, Alice [Concord, NH] to Donald Dyal.. ALS, 1 leaf. August 28, 1993
Attached is: Fifteen pages from printout of letter transcriptions showing corrections to be made.

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Davis, Jacqueline B. [Museum Technician, Fort Sam Houston Museum] to Donald H. Dyal. TLS, 1 leaf. January 30, 1993

Souvenir postcard booklets, emergency notes and other souvenir papers

  • Postcard Booklets
    • Souvenir Bordeaux - 24 Cartes Postales Artistiques, M.D. (back: Phototype - Marcel Delboy - Bordeaux)
    • Souvenir de Carcassone - 12 Vues Detachables, Edition J.B.
    • Nancy - 12 Carrtes Postales Artistiques, Series 2, Phototypie Royer & Cie
    • Souvenir de Perpignan - 10 Cartes Detachables, Edition-Aux Dames de France
    • Souvenir-Guide - Toulouse - 12 Vues Detachables, No 2, Edition Clemence Isaure
  • Emergency Notes Issued in France during WWI. Un (one) Franc - Commerce de Perpignan (Serie E.P. No 65728), Un Franc (one) - Commerce de Perpignan (Serie J.S. No 34434), Un (one) Franc - Commerce de Beziers (ZB 24.82 No 12,559), Cinquante Centimes (50 cents) - Commerce de Carcassone (012453)
  • YMCA "See Historic and Artistic Bordeaux" Brochure
  • YMCA "Outline of the History of Bordeaux - Compiled by Pierre Berger, Professor of English, University of Bordeaux" Brochure
  • Ticket "Carcassone-2, Narbonne. Quart de Place Militaire. Prix 1.25, 1919

Don Bosworth Letters

  • US TxAM-C 98
  • Collection
  • 1919

This collection consists of twelve letters handwritten in black ink on both sides of thirteen pages of blue-lined paper with an envelope. The letters are arranged into two series. At the center of the top of the paper are printed the words "Nation War Work Council of the Young Men's Christian Association," each side of which is decorated with an American Flag and the symbol of the YMCA printed in red and dark blue ink. Each page, measuring 27 cm. x 15 cm., is now housed in a transparent plastic folder. On the upper-right side of the envelope are handwritten words "Sailor's Mail". The addressee written on the envelope is Mrs. J.E. Bosworth, who lived on 141 Midland Ave. in Syracuse, New York. However, the letters are addressed to "Dear Folks." Bosworth seems to have bought the envelope before he wrote the letters because his letters begin on June 16, 1919, but the date stamped in blue ink on the envelope is June 14, 1919. In his letters, Bosworth very often does not write the first singular pronoun "I" and uses "&" in preference to the word "and." He crosses out with one or two lines on the words he writes incorrectly. He provides some hand-drawn maps and pictures. He frequently mentions numbers to detail his stories. Of interest is that he comments on the characteristics of the Bolsheviks. He also mentions that he hopes to fight them because he has had no chance to hear gunshots, except in practice.

Bosworth, Don

Telegrams and Postcards - Camp Upton New York,

  • YMCA (fill in the black) Postcard to Miss Orpha Bidgood, "I arrived in New York today on the transport Siboney. Will go at once to Camp Upton and will write from there as soon as possible." April 27, 1919
  • Postcard of the USS Siboney, Naval Troopship, in "War Paint"
  • Telegram to H.L. Hummel (father). April 27, 1919
  • Very Fragile Telegram from Orpha Bidgood "Biddy" (two, one written and one typed), April 28, 1919

Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson Correspondence

  • US TxAM-C 1577
  • Collection
  • 1917-1919

This collection contains correspondence (1917-1918) from Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson to his wife (mostly) and family from when he was at Camp Travis in San Antonio, Texas. Also included are many black and white (B&W) photographs with inscriptions, ten color postcards, and a few B&W picture postcards taken at Camp Travis and Camp Mercedes, Texas.

Felix J. Stalls World War I Papers

  • TxAM-CRS 396
  • Collection
  • 1917-1919

This collection contains the paper of Stalls regarding his military service in the 359th Infantry during World War I. Included are 71 letters and cards mostly to his parents, 17 photographs, a copy of the speech given by Major Tom G. Woolen to the 2nd battalion 359th Infantry on November 11, 1918, a chronology of the activities of the 359th Infantry, and a copy of A Short History and Photographic Record of the 359th Infantry Texas Brigade by Lieutenant Colonel W. A. Cavenaugh (1918(.

Batts Warranty and Insurance Documents

8/1: Warranty Deed, April 1912

8/2: Warranty Deed, December 1912

8/3: Warranty Deed, July 1919

8/4: Warranty Deed, November 1919

8/5: Thomas Bowman Abstract Notes, Undated

8/6: J. W. Batts - Household Furniture Insurance, January 1901

8/7: J. W. Batts - Barn Insurance, March 1901

Diaries of a World War I (WWI) 13th Rajputs Regiment Officer

  • TxAM-CRS 927
  • Collection
  • 1914-1919

This collection consists of three diaries written by an officer from the 13th Rajputs regiment during World War I from various locations.

Description from the bookseller:

A trio of diaries written during the Great War in various locations by an officer from the 13th Rajputs regiment. Although the entries do not allow us to go as far as deducing the identity of the author (or his precise rank), they do provide some insight into the conditions and challenges faced as the War spread to remote territories: the first diary is written from Uganda, whilst the second begins dramatically with the fall of Kut-al-Amara and capture by the Ottoman forces with a 2-page, unpublished poem "A Prisoner of War in Yozgad (Asia Minor)", followed by a short, incomplete and entirely bleak piece of prose entitled "Regret" at the rear; the third returns him to Europe, the hand a little less sure and frequent reference to his own poor health, with a broad overview of events both personal and public around the continent - the Paris Peace Conference, the deaths and marriages of his close friends (including his attendance at the wedding of Cynthia Hamilton and Lord Althorp).

The writing is frequently amusing, and there is more complaining about food and living conditions than there is description of fighting; itself an elucidative encapsulation of the day-to-day experience of war.

Bachelor Hall Records

  • US TxAM-C 1205
  • Collection
  • 1890s-1920s

This collection includes documents, ledgers, expenses, and other items such as a World War I officers ledger containing signatures of the officers who attended or visited Texas A&M.

George and Nell Armstrong Papers

  • US TxAM-C 93
  • Collection
  • 1913-1920

The Papers consist chiefly of personal correspondence (1913-1920) between George Armstrong and Nell Floss Steel, later Nell Steel Armstrong, over the course of their courtship and marriage, both before and during World War I (1914-1918).

The correspondence is unusual in that both George Armstrong and his sweetheart, later wife, Nell Floss Steel, both served on the front during World War I, either in Europe, or at home in hospitals or camps in the United States. Life as a U. S. Armyinfantry officer in charge of recruits, or a Red Cross nurse is therefore vividly depicted in their letters to each other.

The Armstrong correspondence is also unusual for war-time, since Nell Floss Steel was the first of the two sent overseas in September 1914 to serve in a military hospital in Serbia, while her future husband was serving in army military camps in Texas City, Texas, at El Paso, Texas and Columbus, Ohio. In turnabout, George was later sent to France (September?-November 1918), while, as a result of her recent marriage to George, Nell had to remain in the United States, despite her eagerness to return to active war duty.

During this time George Armstrong served primarily with a U. S. Army General Services Infantry Recruit Depot, training recruits, and was stationed periodically at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana and at Camp Sherman, Ohio, eventually serving with the 83rd Infantry Division in France (September?-November 1918).

Nell Floss Steel served six months as a Red Cross nurse in a military hospital in Serbia (1914-1915) and as part of "The Texas Ten" group of nurses in a military camp at Eagle Pass, Texas (August 1916-March 1917), before marrying George Armstrong 21 August 1917. She spent the rest of the war mainly working in hospitals and sanitariums in the Columbus, Ohio area.

Details of daily life in the military camps, or in Red Cross service are many, and recorded by both the Armstrongs in delightfully intimate and detailed letters. Subjects mentioned in the correspondence include domestic and international politics, housing issues, income, social customs in different cultures, such as Greek nationals encountered both in the United States as well as in their homeland, or Austrian soldiers, both as officers and an hospital orderlies, politics, sports, and the lives of both a professional soldier and a professional nurse.

As a career nurse during wartime, Nell Floss Steel faced typoid and typhus epidemics, patients with unimaginable wounds, along with the difficulty and challenge of learning to understand Greek and German. Mail is forever delayed, obstructed or censored, the nurses never venture outside the hospital area after dark, and the availability of serum to innoculate the nurses before they face sufferers of contagious diseases is not certain. Over the course of the correspondence a very plucky and independent Nell Floss Steel records such moving scenes as a child dying of typhus, a young soldier dying of lockjaw, and a young military wife whom Nell Steel Armstrong aids when she miscarries.

Nell Floss Steel is invigorated by these challenges, however, and keeps a keen eye on the socio-political interactions manifested by relations between, for example, Austrian orderlies who are prisoners-of-war and an Austrian officer, who though a countryman and dying patient, is abused as a result of his former tyranny to underlings. Her letters present a finely detailed and atmospheric portrait of life as a World War IRed Cross nurse in occupied territory far from home. The contrasts inherent in World War I are shown by the delightful sightseeing Nell enjoys in Athens, just a short journey from the horrors of a Serbian hospital.

Nell Steel Armstrong is also approvingly aware of the political struggles of the "suffrage ladies," and extremely disappointed after 1917 that her married status prevents her from returning to war work in Europe, although she rejects the option of "divorcing for the war."

Patriotic and convivial, George Armstrong is both an avid football player and horseback rider, a passion he shares with Nell Steel Armstrong. He recounts incidents of heat-exhuastion after a 16-mile march in Texas heat, resulting in the death of two soldiers, as well as other accidents and wounds. He voices doubts, however, about the advisability of the United States becoming involved in the political upheavals of Europe or Mexico. Much comment about political developments of the day are included. President Woodrow Wilson and former President Teddy Roosevelt are mentioned. George Armstrong also describes the early military training of Pancho Villa, and comments on Texas/Mexico border activities of the Texas Rangers with great admiration. Nell Steel Armstrong describes former President Taft speaking to a group of nurses including herself.

Military camaraderie is evident in George Armstrong's high spirited description of pistol matches, parades, training exercise, mule and horse training, as well as life among soldiers living in often makeshift army training camps. For example, life in tents on the dusty fields at Texas City, Texas is enlivened by socializing with the population of Irish soldiers, most of them "fresh from the old sod."

Also present are letters from Nell Steel Armstrong to her mother, Mrs. James G. Steel, or sisters, Jane Steel, Margaret Steel, and Ethel Withgott; official correspondence regarding Nell Steel Armstrong's nursing service and George Armstrong'smilitary service; family correspondence to the married couple; George Armstrong's diary for 1914; an American Civil War letter (1862) by William Steel to his brother James G. Steel (Nell's father), with two poems (1863) collected by William Steel, newspaper clippings, a few programs and Christmas cards; one box of photographs [some negatives lacking photographic prints] of George Armstrong and Nell Steel Armstrong, either separately, together, or in groups; one flat storage box of oversize diplomas and photographs.

Items separated include five drawings of Platoon Plans of Attack[missing as of 10/2002], and one map of the northeast of France for bicycle and automobile touring.

  • “Partially processed. Might not be available to patrons. Please contact the Cushing Library’s Reading Room for more information.”

Armstrong, George, 1884-1964

Junto Club Materials

1/1: "War Cartoons" by Gilbert Allen Geist, discusses the depictions of Germans by cartoonist John T. McCutchion of the Chicago Tribune and war propaganda. November 21, 1919 [unedited]

1/2: "Physicians and the World War" by T.C. Brunneman. Sunday, May 9, 1920

1/3: "European Observations" by Isaac S. Ashburn, giving a brief presentation of some of the writer's observations in Europe. December 10, 1919

1/4: "Bolshevism" by E. E. McQuillen, begins with the split in the ranks of the Russian Socialists in 1905. 1920

1/5: "Foreign Loans As Empire Builders" by H.S. Hundson

1/6: "The New Poetry" by Thomas F. Mayo

Willmund Reaux Glaeser Diary

  • US TxAM-C 114
  • Collection
  • 1919-1920

This collection contains a diary (December 9, 1919 - November 25, 1920), signed by hand in ink on recto of the first leaf "Willmund Reaux Glaeser", held on top and bound with three-hole-punched loose-leaf ring binder memo book, with imitation brown leather covers, measuring about 14 x 9 cm. Filler paper (120 leaves) is narrow-ruled in blue, with most entries closely handwritten in ink, a very few in pencil, on both sides of the leaves, with only 21 leaves left completely blank. Some leaves preceding the diary entries are filled with names and addresses of friends and family, lists of traveler's cheques and numbers, as well as other miscellaneous lists. Unused index divider sheets labeled A-Z are included in a group at the back of the main body of diary entries. Diary entries begin on leaves just after the group of index dividers, continue for only two leaves, then begin again starting from the other end of the diary. Typed transcript on 39 pages of 8.5 x 11-inch white bond paper is undated, untitled and the author is unknown.

Entries in the diary are fairly evenly divided between Glaeser's service on the tramp steamer Sag Harbor, and on the New York-based excursion ships, the S.S. Chester W. Chapin and S.S. Richard Peck.

As a wireless operator aboard the "tramp freighter" S.S. Sag Harbor, Glaeser sailed the coast of South America to the port of Antofagasta, Chile, to take on a cargo of "nitrates and saltpetes." Glaeser describes hordes of migrating birds, ducks, whales, sea lion, sharks, and pelicans. With great gusto Glaeser includes much detail on life aboard ship, including a crew of mixed nationalities, contending with furious storms at sea and drunken brawls ashore, often ending in arrests and wounds. One steward, in particular, addicted to both "booze and cocaine," proves especially disturbing, since ships stores of food are being sold off to fund the man's habit. The S.S. Sag Harbor puts into port at Malon, Panama, then Balboa and Panama City, passing through the canal on January 22, 1920, with orders to proceed to Baltimore. Storms are reported disabling and sinking several ships off the coast of Georgia (January 30, 1920 - February 3, 1920), but the S.S. Sag Harbor reaches Baltimore safely on February 9, 1920, proceeding on to Washington, DC. With a new captain and much better steward, hence better meals, the S.S. Sag Harbor takes on a cargo of coal bound for Havana, Cuba, where a long longshoreman's strike holds up both delivery of cargo and taking on new cargo, from early February to mid-March 1920. Finally free to take their new cargo of phosphates to Wilmington, NC the S.S. Sag Harbor continues on its journey, finally arriving on May 8, 1920, in New York City.

In New York City, Glaeser stays at the YMCA intermittently as he is transferred May 28, 1920, to the S.S. Chester W. Chapin, an excursion steamer based in New London, Conn., and later (June 5, 1920) to another excursion boat, the S.S. Richard Peck. While in New York, Glaeser has quite a social life, visiting restaurants, theatres, and the shore on dates, but also looking for an office job. He buys stock in the Century Adding Machine Co. and is offered a job starting a sales agency for the company in Texas, but Glaeser declines that offer, later taking a position as an accountant with the A. H. Bull Steamship Co. in New York.

Glaeser includes vivid descriptions of life in the ports of Havana, Cuba, Miami, and Tampa Bay, FL, Charleston, SC, Wilmington, NC, as well as the cities of Baltimore and New York in 1920. He is attuned to the unrest of longshoremen in Cuba, observes the unsteady nature of trading on the stock exchange, and aware that, although life on a tramp steamer is romantic to a young man fresh out of the Army in World War I, it is eventually not that attractive a life considering the storms, brawls, and other natural vicissitudes of peacetime seafaring life. Glaeser's sense of adventure and humor are both keen, so he manages to infuse the diary with both in equal measure.

Glaeser, Willmund, 1897-1966

Texas A&M College Junto Club

  • US TxAM-C C000043
  • Collection
  • 1919-1920

This collection includes manuscripts discussing World War I (WWI) propaganda cartoons, an essay on war and physicians, and other essays written by students at Texas A&M College in 1919-1920.

Oversize Materials

72/68
Genealogical chart of the descendants of Domingo Gonzales, six sheets.

72/69
Map of South half of Webb County, whiteprint, 1920.

72/70
Contour map showing proposed road from Laredo to Beeville, blueprint.

Promissory Note - Roy Bohman and the Children of W. H. Mays

Item 29 - Promissory Note from Roy Bohman to Ethel Sinclair Crawford, Thomas Sinclair, Maud Sinclair Davis, and Alice Sinclair (with payment given as due March 9, 1922), dated March 9, 1921

Item 30 - Promissory Note from Roy Bohman to Ethel Sinclair Crawford, Thomas Sinclair, Maud Sinclair Davis, and Alice Sinclair (with payment given as due March 9, 1923), dated March 9, 1921

Notarized Copy of Promissory Note - Roy Bohman and the Children of W. H. Mays

Item 31 - Copy of the March 9, 1921, Promissory Note from Roy Bohman to Ethel Sinclair Crawford, Thomas Sinclair, Maud Sinclair Davis, and Ollie Sinclair, notarized by the State of California, San Francisco County and the State of Texas, Bexar County. Dated March 15, 1921. (2 pages, connected to backing by two metal grommets)

Notarized Copy of Promissory Note - Roy Bohman and the children of W. H. Mays

Item 32 - Copy of the March 9, 1921, Promissory Note from Roy Bohman to Ethel Sinclair Crawford, Thomas Sinclair, Maud Sinclair Davis, and Ollie Sinclair, notarized by the State of California, Los Angeles County and the State of Texas, Bexar County. Dated April 1, 1921. (2 pages, connected to backing by two metal grommets)

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