Thursday, October 23, 2008

Celebrity Letters from the H. O. Murfee Collection

Here is a sampling of some letters from notable personalities found in the Hopson Owen Murfee Collection in the MMI Archives. These letters were chosen less for their content and more for their signatures (autographs) and/or letterheads. Several of the letters are revealing, however.

John J. Pershing



Douglas MacArthur



Richard E. Byrd



Paul von Hindenburg



Booker T. Washington



George Washington Carver



Albert Einstein



Eleanor Roosevelt



Grover Cleveland



William Howard Taft



Woodrow Wilson



Herbert Hoover