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Public Relations: Agricultural Yearbooks, 1954-1959

 File — Box: 115, Folder: 2
Identifier: Folder 2

Scope and Contents

A collection of letters, postal cards, office notes & a press release. Those few from 1954 to 1957 are filed in consecutive order, whereas those for 1959 are filed from Dec. back to Jan. The predominance of this collection concerns requests to Congressman Wilson for copies of Agricultural Yearbooks featuring various topics and concerns. Selected examples are: a letter (6/18/54) from Congressman Douglas R. Stringfellow (Utah) & Wilson’s reply (6/28) re/ Stringfellow’s Mormon commentaries & Wilson’s “Thanks for sending along the beautiful brochure, “Heritage of Freedom;” copies of a letters (10/11/54) from Mrs. Cecil F. Holley to Congressman Stringfellow and from Mrs. Cecil F. Holley (Pres. Central Republican Women) to Wilson re/ “On behalf of the members of our club, may I express our thanks to you for speaking to our group at a recent breakfast meeting for our Bob Wilson;” letters (3/10 & 3/14) re/ Congressman Stringfellow thanks C. Arnholt Smith (V.P. U.S. National Bank) for the “very hospitable way in which you received me” and Smith passes this message on to Bob Wilson; a 3 page letter (1/7/55) from Stringfellow to Wilson re/ many personal comments; 2 letters from Captain Harlon W. Harrison (MC, USNR) & 1 from Wilson (5/57) re/ the sad and tragic case of Mr. & Mrs. B. H. Garrett’s adoption of baby Patty then loss of due to Nevada Judge Robert B. Burch’s decision to return the child to the father; a single page letter (12/2/57) from Wilson to Richard W. Wilson (Yuma, AZ) re/ personal commentary & sending several copies of the Agricultural Yearbook to Richard who was determined to make a career of farming; a letter (12/3) from Chula Vista constituent Edward L. Hurley & Wilson’s reply (12/3) re/ request for Yearbook topics on Land and Food; postal card & letters (Oct.-Nov) re/ pamphlets and Yearbook materials on Grass to El Cajon constituent W. S. Head; letters (Oct.-Nov.) re/ Yearbook materials on Water and Soils to SDSC Education Major Mrs. William Henderson, who was taking Dr. Post’s conservation class; letters (May-Nov.) re/ Yearbooks received for Animal Diseases, Food & Land; letters (Oct. & Nov.) re/ Retired Adm. W. S. Rodman (La Jolla) receives Yearbook materials on Plant Diseases and Soils; letters (Nov.-Dec.) re/ SDSC student Manuel .A. Thomas, Jr. (El Cajon) receives 10 Yearbooks (1948-1959) on such topics as Grass, Marketing, Water, etc.; letters (Aug. & Sept.) re/ the Zoological Hospital and Biological Research Institute of the Zoological Society of San Diego receives Yearbooks for Soil and Land – these will be placed in the library at the San Diego Zoo; a United States Department of Agriculture press release for Sept. 27 re/ publication on “Food” in the 1959 Yearbook; several subsequent requests showed interest in Plant Diseases and Insects (with this topic becoming exhausted in supply by July); a letter (3/6) from Library Chairman Warren C. Heyer (San Diego Junior College) & Wilson’s reply (3/13) “We have forwarded to you under separate cover the Agricultural Yearbook entitled LAND;” letters (3/23 & 3/30) re/ sending the Director of Planning, County of San Diego, Willis H. Miller a copy of the Yearbook entitled LAND; several more letters to January follow this same request as to LAND, but others broaden the request to other topics such as Grass, Soils & Plant & Animal Diseases; the last letter in the collection (1/5) is from Professor Andrew C. Olson (Chairman, Zoology Dept., SDSC) requesting two copies of the 1958 Yearbook entitled LAND.

Dates

  • created: 1954-1959

Creator

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Extent

From the Collection: 0.00 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections & University Archives Repository

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