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Civil war letters of the Fox brothers: Edward, George and Samuel Fox 1861-1865
No full textCollection in 2 archival boxes contains approx. 250 original letters, letter transcriptions, family photos, genealogical chart showing descendants of George and Barbara Fox, Oath of Identity, Discharge Papers, Payroll receipts for Edward D. Fox, several "memorabilia" Southern items taken during war (letters, business cards, receipts, stationary and photos). Civil War letters (and transcriptions done by David H. Fox, great-grandson of the recipient) written to Charles H. Fox by his older brothers (Edward, George and Samuel) who served in the Civil War between 1861 and 1865. $b The correspondence begins in the fall of 1861 with Samuel (mustered August 26, 1861) in Company B of the 6th New Jersey Volunteers stationed near Washington, DC. Edward Fox (mustered October 30, 1861) is in Company E of the same regiment. Samuel and Edward are both drummers...Samuel dies of "brain fever," possibly meningitis, on September 23, 1862, at Camp Hooker, near Alexandria, VA. Edward despairs of his situation and obtains a medical discharge on February 23, 1863, near Falmouth, VA... He returns to Trenton and joins the Invalid Corp. on August 9, 1864...George's Company A, 6th Regiment is reorganized as Company E of the 8th New Jersey Volunteers in October 1864...With the end of the war, George's unit is stationed at Washington for several months, but he finally returns to Trenton in July 1865. - From transcriptionist's notes
Letter Written by Samuel H. Fox to the Bryant College Service Club Dated December 21, 1943
No full text[Transcription begins] SAM FOX U. S. NAVAL RESERVE
December 21, 1943
Bryant College Service Club, Bryant College, Providence, R. I.
To the Chairman:
Thank you very much for your recent letter and the Xmas gift of cigarettes. I appreciated [them] very much, especially at this time of year.
My address has been changed and is now:
c/o Navy V-12 Unit, North Texas Agricultural College, Arlington, Texas.
May I take this opportunity to wish you all a merry Xmas and a happy New Year.
Sincerely yours, Samuel H. Fox Samuel H. Fox, Y1c, USNR. [Transcription ends
Postcard Written by Samuel H. Fox to the Bryant College Service Club Dated January 6, 1943 [Date mistakenly written as January 6, 1942]
No full text[Transcription begins] Sam Fox, U. S. N. R. 1/6/42 [sic]
Dear Friends:
Thank you very much for the two packages of “Flat-Fifties.” I’m smoking them now and enjoying them very much. It certainly is nice to know that you are being remembered by such fine people. Received in excelent [sic] condition.
Sincerely yours, Samuel H. Fox Samuel H. Fox [Transcription ends
Letter Written by Samuel H. Fox to the Bryant College Service Club Dated March 16, 1943
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U. S. Naval Training School (Radio) AUBURN, ALABAMA
MARCH 16, 1943.
CHAIRMAN, (34494) BRYANT SERVICE CLUB, BRYANT COLLEGE, PROVIDENCE, R. I.
DEAR SIR:
I WANT TO TAKE THIS OPORTUNITY TO TELL YOU HOW MICH I APPRECIATE THE GIFT OF 2 PACKS OF FLAT FIFTIES THAT YOU HAD FORWARDED TO ME.
IT IS THE LITTLE THINGS THAT PWOPLE DO FOR US THAT MKES THIS WHOLE THING WORTH WHILE TO US SERVICE MEN. IF THERE IS ANYTHING THAT I CAN DO FOR YOU, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CALL ON ME.
SINCERELY YOURS,
SAMUEL H. FOX, YEOMAN SECOND CLASS, U.S.N.R. [Transcription ends
Letter Written by Samuel H. Fox to the Bryant College Service Club Dated July 14, 1943
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Navy V12 Unit North Texas Agricultural College, Arlington, Texas
USN Sam Fox, Y2C United States Naval Reserve
14 July 1943
Bryant Service Club:
Thank you very much for your recent “newsie” letter. It was entertaining + greatly appreciated.
I also want to thank you for the “flat-fifties”. At the time I received them I was about to be transferred + this is the first opportunity I’ve had to acknowledge them.
You all know what the V-12 Program is and my particular job was to more or less commission the office + to get the personnel work “squared away” – That, is just about finished now.
Keep up the good work,
Sincerely, Sam Fox, Yeoman 2nd Class (why I’ll never know) [Transcription ends
Correspondence between Zelma C. Wyche, William H. Samuel and Vernon Jordan, 1968
No full textCorrespondence from Zelma C. Wyche to William H. Samuel proposing a voter education program to take advantage of a Black majority voting population. William H. Samuel' correspondence to Vernon Jordan endorses the proposal to Vernon Jordan citing an important upcoming election and the fact no Black person had held office at the time of correspondence
Correspondence from William H. Samuel to Vernon Jordan, August 1968
No full textCorrespondence from William H. Samuel to Vernon Jordan endorsing the Grant Parish Civic and Improvement Organization to increase Black civil rights participation and knowledge of voter education rights
Correspondence between William H. Samuel Jr. and John Lewis, 1971
No full textCorrespondence between John Lewis and William H. Samuel about the Louisiana Voter Education Project Summer Intern Program. Included is a summary of the summer program, general statistics for VEP projects in Louisiana, and a description of summer program participants
Usability and acceptability of a website that provides tailored advice on falls prevention activities for older people
No full textThis article presents the usability and acceptability of a website that provides older people with tailored advice to help motivate them to undertake physical activities that prevent falls. Views on the website from interviews with 16 older people and 26 sheltered housing wardens were analysed thematically. The website was well received with only one usability difficulty with the action plan calendar. The older people selected balance training activities out of interest or enjoyment, and appeared to carefully add them into their current routine. The wardens were motivated to promote the website to their residents, particularly those who owned a computer, had balance problems, or were physically active. However, the participants noted that currently a minority of older people use the Internet. Also, some older people underestimated how much activity was enough to improve balance, and others perceived themselves as too old for the activities
Writing and the rights of reality: usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett
No full textThe thesis critically evaluates Jacques Derrida's conferral of the rights of reality on writing, focussing on his theory of an arche-text in light of the speculative nature of this theory. The theory is initially considered in the context of Derrida's elucidation of the usurpatory status of writing within the Platonic and Nietzschean texts. This consideration reveals an admission of writing's usurpatory status by both writers while at the same time demonstrating their awareness of the intrinsically speculative nature of this view, the significance of writing lying in its ability to exteriorise the radically indeterminate status of consciousness m relation to reality rather than its ability to displace consciousness or reality The analyses, therefore, not only bring the Derridean hypothesis of a repressive or phonocentric metaphysical episteme into question but also exhibit the historical and philosophical role of potentiality in relation to writing, writing's ultimate significance lying in its capacity to exteriorise our existence as a mode of potentiality. Accordingly, in the second half of the thesis the Derridean theory of writing is countered with a specifically Aristotelian theory of the text as it is exhibited in the prose of Samuel Beckett, an author whose significance lies in his close alignment with Derridean theory within contemporary criticism. It is demonstrated that this identification has obviated an awareness of the significance of potentiality within the Beckettian text, his work consequently being appraised in the previously neglected context of Aristotelian metaphysics
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