Roberts, George R. - travel journal - Hi! Ho! Commander! Away!, 1952
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, personal ephemera, diaries, scrapbooks, and financial and estate documents of individual members of the Marsh, Roberts, Mack, and related families. Of note is correspondence of Daniel Elston, early Chicago settler, and legal papers of his daughter Blanche and her husband Robert R. Clark. Both Clarks died in 1907, and Blanche, who lived a few months after Robert Clark, had inherited her father's considerable fortune. After Blanche's death, her will was disputed by her brother Daniel Jr. and his wife Alice, who were left nothing of the Elston estate. There is also a significant amount of fictional writing and intricate pen and ink drawings by George R. Roberts, much of it relating to Norse mythology. Roberts also kept humorous and detailed journals of his travels as a child and with his wife Katherine Marsh Roberts.
Dates
- Creation: 1952
Creator
- From the Collection: Marsh, Marshall S., 1856-1925 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The Marsh-Roberts-Mack Family Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
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