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Justice Frank J. and Virginia Williams

Description

This typed letter, dated July 28, 1922, is written from Grace Bedell Billings to Herbert Wells Fay acknowledging the receipt of a letter and expressing Billings' preference for who should be cast to play Grace Bedell in a film depicting Lincoln's life. The letter goes on to advise that Billings doesn't have any childhood photographs of herself and no duplicates of the photographs of herself at other stages of her life and would require their return should they be required. The letter is written on "State Bank of Delphos" letterhead, a bank located in Delphos, Ottawa County, Kansas and is addressed to National Lincoln Monument, H. W. Fay, Custodian, Springfield, Illinois.

Publication Date

7-28-1922

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Time Period

1920-1929

Subjects

Correspondence

Geographic Location

Kansas

Object Type

text

Format (original)

correspondence

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

FVW-MANU-B1F95-1

Source

Mississippi State University Libraries, Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Original Manuscript Collection, Series 4: Abraham Lincoln Legal Documents, 1837-1859, Box 1, Folder 95

Repository

The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana Repository

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.

Letter, Grace Bedell Billings to Herbert Wells Fay, July 28, 1922

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