A collection of letters and a few news clippings and postal cards. These are not organized in chronological order. Examples are: a letter (7/24/59) from 14 year old Irene Betty Mras of Port Clinton, OH & Wilson’s reply (7/30/59) re/ her activities and a request for an autographed picture of Congressman Wilson; a letter (2/16/59) from La Jolla constituent Mrs. Margaret H. Gregson & Wilson’s reply (2/24/59) re/ they are sending Mrs. Gregson a guide to the Russian Exposition to be held this summer; letters & news clipping (2/59) re/ Wilson sends this constituent “a copy of Farmer’s Bulletin No. 2126, the Farm Beef Herd;” letters (Jan.-Feb. 1959) re/ Wilson helps D. C. Kalbfell (President, Kalbfell Electronix) obtain information on horse breeding as a potential career for his daughter Sally; letters (1/59) re/ Wilson responds to Ramona, CA student Miss Faith Holley’s request for information on the Government of the District of Columbia and voting privileges; letter (1/28/59) & office notes re/ response to inquiry from San Diego constituent as to locating a lost brother; letters (12/4/58 & 1/23/59) re/ Wilson assistance to Bob Hoss (El Cajon High School Student) as to sending him a Library of Congress list of “College Fraternities and Sororities Selected References”—copy attached; a letter from Miss Rosemary Sdao (Santee, CA) & Wilson’s reply (1/15/59) re/ a junior at Grossmont High School requests pictures of “yourself and as many members of the House of Rep. as possible” for a notebook for a U.S. History class – Wilson sent his photograph, but suggested she contact other Representatives for their photographs; a letter (rec’d 1/12/59) from Coronado resident 12 ½ year old Jo Ann Mathias & Wilson’s reply (1/15/59) re/ booklets send on U.S. Government as well as picture of President Eisenhower; letters (1/59) re/ Wilson responds to constituent request for the names of consular representatives in British North Borneo, Sarawak and Bangkok; letters (2/49) re/ Wilson sends William P. McCahill (Ext. Sec., The President’s Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped) three copies of “Duty as seen by Lincoln;” letters (2/59) re/ Imperial Beach constituent J. W. Klueh (US NAAS Ream Field) receives information from Wilson on the topic “collective naturalization. This term refers to the naturalization of natives of territories which have come under the jurisdiction of the United States;” letters (July & Au. 1959) re/ inquiry as to a law preventing women from divorcing a husband while he is in the armed forces, the answer was no; letters (7/59) re/ Wilson sends Pasadena resident information on where the flag flies 24 hours a day; letters (July-Aug. 1959) re/ Library of Congress response to Coronado constituent’s inquiry as to those since 1900 declining titles of nobility from the British Crown; letters (7/59) & copy of “What is the La Jolla Town Council?” & listing of officers of the town council re/ Installation of new officers; letters & news clipping ((8/59) & 50 star flag design by 10 year old 5th grade Montezuma School student Miss Sally Bell re/ commendation from the Office of the Quartermaster General; letters (JulyAug. 1959) re/ Wilson processes three facsimile copies of the Declaration of Independence for Chula Vista constituent Mrs. Helen Morton; copies of letters (8/21 & 9/4/59) from Wilson to Thomas W. Sefton (Ex. V.P., San Diego Trust & Saving Bank) re/ sending him “the book Railroads of the Hour . . . appropriately autographed by the Vice President” & a recent publication on oceanography; a postal card ((8/22/59) from Spring Valley constituents Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Myers & Wilson’s reply (8/26/59) re/ “It is a pleasure to enclose ten copies of the letter of James B. Carey to the Members of Congress” – “threatening the Members of Congress for voting against the Landrum Griffin Bill,” this sounds like conservative concerns about union opposition to the bill; letters (Aug. & Sept. 1959) re/ Wilson responds to constituent Mrs. Moulin’s request for more information on the Government of the United States to help instruct her eleven year old son and self; letters (8/59) re/ Wilson and the National Archives respond to San Diegan Irving LeFever’s request for information about a “recently acquired Colt Dragoon pistol of Civil War vintage . . . and bearing the name Captain Phil Sheridan followed by the date 1861 scratched on the metal;” letters (8/59) re/ “I am enclosing a copy of H.R. 7650, and related material, which you requested;” letters (July & Aug. 1959) re/ Wilson responds to request from the Right Reverend Monsignor George M. Rice (St. Joseph’s Cathedral, S.D.) for a copy of the Congressional Record for August 22, 1959; letters (July & Aug. 1959) re/ “enclosed herewith is a page from today’s Congressional Record containing a laudatory statement about your friend Gene Kinnaly “ – Admin. Asst. to Congressman John W. McCormack; a copy of a letter (9/4/59) from Wilson to La Jolla constituent Carlos Tavares re/ sending him a copy of the Stanford Research Institute Journal since Tavares had an interest in underwater exploration; letters (9/59) re/ Wilson responds to El Cajon constituent Ken Burke’s request for teaching positions in Australia and Africa; copy of Wilson letter to Neil Morgan (9/15/59) re/ Iowa Congressman H. R. Gross’ license number is 144; letters (June-Sept. 1959) re/ La Jolla constituent W. Jefferson Davis -- “I am enclosing a copy of a letter from the White House and a copy of the proclamation signed by the President, proclaiming September 17th to be Citizens Day and Constitution Week, 1959;” letters (Aug. & Sept. 1959) re/ Wilson sends a pamphlet prepared by the Dept. of the Army containing the pay scale of enlisted personnel to a constituent; letters (9/59) re/ personal information of interest to Coronado residents, the Lathams; letters (11/59) re/ Leon Parma helps Imperial Beach student Miss Joyce Macdonald acquire information on the Constitution; letters (9/59) re/ “Enclosed is the information relative to statues in the United States Capitol . . . Oklahoma is listed on page 3 and page 13;” letters (8/59) re/ Wilson sends check “for two tickets to this year’s Big Game” to Dr. T. Kimball Hill, Breitbard Athletic Foundation; letters (11/59) re/ Leon Parma helps SDSU student Martin Bazik prepare for a term paper on the 22nd Amendment; letters (11/59) re/ Wilson’s secretary Margaret Young responded to a request from eighth grade La Mesa Junior High School student Carol Thomas of El Cajon by sending her several documents on U.S. Government and pictures of Wilson, Utt, Halleck and Nixon; letters (Nov. & Dec. 1959) re/ Secretary Young responds to letter from Coronado constituent Hugo R. Buenger (Portraits By Photography) by sending Food Yearbooks & a Navy Nurse Corps Fact Sheet, since Buenger’s daughter was currently a student at the University of San Francisco; letters (Sept.-Dec. 1959) re/ response to inquiry from Miss Florence Hopewood-Thompson about whom to contact as to the Civil War Centennial Commission and her hope to find a reliable agent in order to have her 100,000 word manuscript published; letters & office note (12/59) re/ sympathy for “the hardships you and Mrs. Marion are experiencing in having to change your residence at this time.” The Rev. S.H. Marion (Logan Temple A.M.E. Zion Church) was requesting a donation from Congressman Wilson; a series of letters (Oct. 1958-Feb. 1959) covering correspondence between Wilson, Paul Ecke (CA Poinsettia Grower), Wilson, Vice President Richard Nixon & Homer H Gruenther (Special Asst., The White House) re/ gifts of “unusual poinsettia plants to the President and Mrs. Eisenhower” and to the Vice President and Mrs. Nixon and notice of a photograph of the presentation being sent to Mr. Ecke as “official proof of their receipt.”