correspondence
Found in 781 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas McFadden Patton letters
Thomas McFadden Patton (1829-1892) served in the Oregon Legislature and as U. S. Consul to Japan. Collection includes manuscript correspondence from Patton's wife, Frances M. Patton, 1861-1871, regarding family matters; a letter from Rockey P. Earhart, 1872, requesting settlement of financial affairs to save his reputation; and letters from both Thomas McFadden Patton and Frances M. Patton to family members, 1884, from Japan.
Grace Olivier Peck papers
Peebles family papers
Collection consists of miscellaneous papers of the Peebles family, circa 1917-1940, including James E. Peebles and Ellena Peebles. Materials include resumes; diplomas; radio scripts; correspondence, 1918-1940; Army records, 1917; ephemera and miscellaneous documents, 1919-1936.
People Against Nerve Gas papers
Correspondence, petitions, statements, and other materials produced or compiled by Gordon L. Kilgour (1929-2016) in relation to his role as the chair of People Against Nerve Gas (P.A.N.G.). Kilgour was a chemistry professor at Portland State College (later Portland State University) in Portland, Oregon. People Against Nerve Gas was a group founded in 1970 to protest a proposed shipment of nerve gas from Okinawa, Japan, to the Umatilla Army Depot near Hermiston, Oregon.
Percefull-Ayers family papers
Collection includes receipts and legal documents, correspondence, a diary of Margaret Percefull, and miscellaneous ephemera and other documents. Family members mentioned include Margaret Percefull, Emma S. Percefull, James K. Wallace, William T. Wallace and Andrew H. Ayers.
George Perkins papers
Collection includes correspondence and documents regarding legal cases, 1914-1961. Clients include the Nicolai family, Rose City Brewing Co., Shaver Transportation Co., and Peninsula Iron Works.
Russell Peyton papers
Russell Peyton worked as an investigator for the Civil Rights Division of the Oregon State Bureau of Labor and as an executive director of the Metropolitan Human Relations Commission. He was also involved with the Joint Council for Social Welfare for many years. Collection includes correspondence; reports; a scrapbook containing clippings, programs, and photographs regarding civil rights and human relations; and programs for the Metropolitan Human Relations Commission Awards.
William Phillips letters
Manuscript correspondence, 1902, to William Phillips from Oregon pioneers requesting copies of his poem "Crossing the Plains in '46."
J. C. Pidcock papers
Collection includes account book, Cornelius, Oregon, 1904-1936; and correspondence and receipts, 1913-1936, including a letter from J. R. Schaffer of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Nehalem, Oregon.
Walter Marcus Pierce papers
Collection related to Walter M. Pierce, an educator, rancher, and politician who served as Oregon governor and in the U.S. House of Representatives. Materials include correspondence, primarily with family members and with J. A. Churchill, superintendent of public instruction, as well as minutes of the State Textbook Commission's meetings. Also included are Dictaphone belts made by Pierce's biographer, Arthur H. Bone, regarding Bone's research about Pierce and other topics.