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Contains 12 Results:

Howard Comfort letters to Grandmother, 1910-1917

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Letters from Howard Comfort to his grandmother. Discussing life updates

Dates: 1910-1917

Howard Comfort Letters, 1912

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Letters regarding the death of Howard Comfort (d. 1912) sent to his widow and the board of Bryn Mawr College.

Dates: 1912

Letters, 1914

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Letters sent by Howard Comfort and "Polly" from France and England to Howard's father and grandmother. Also includes post cards and newspaper clippings. These letters cover topics including travel, the war

Dates: 1914

Letters from Howard Comfort, 1914

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Letters sent by Howard Comfort to his father and grandfather while he was studying at Oxford.

Dates: 1914

Letters to William Wistar Comfort, 1895-1908

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Letters sent to William Wistar Comfort and Mary Comfort, including marriage invitation for the marriage of William Wistar Comfort and Mary Comfort.

Dates: 1895-1908

General Letters 1, 1898-1917

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Letters sent to William Wistar Comfort and his wife Mary Comfort most concern his family life, some concern his time at Cornell University.

Dates: 1898-1917

General Letters 2, 1901-1917

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Letters sent to William Wistar Comfort and his wife Mary Comfort. many congratulating his appointment as president of Haverford. Some are family related. Includes letter sent by R. Menéndes Pidal to William Wistar Comfort (d. 1955).

Dates: 1901-1917

Comfort family letters, 1911-1954

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Letters sent within the Comfort Family about family matters and updates.

Dates: 1911-1954

Letters from France, 1914

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Letter sent by Mrs William Wistar Comfort to her father from the town of Villerville France, near Le Havre. Letter documents the wartime changes in life that were enacted shortly following the start of WW1.

Dates: 1914

Comfort Family in World War I, 1914

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Letters and a book documenting the time of the Comfort family in France. The Comfort Family had engaged on a vacation in the town of Villerville in 1914, before the war and was in the town for the prewar mobilization and then in England for the opening stages of the war, includes reports on the treatment of Americans in France during the war.

Dates: 1914