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Ethel Traphagen Leigh

 Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Dci People

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from Richard to Leigh inviting him and Ethel for a summer visit and suggestion about Leigh's second operation, May 28, 1932

 Item — Folder 359: [Barcode: 127.359]
Identifier: 3837.2700
Description Folder 359 Transcript (DCI) [first page of multi-page letter] [typewritten][stationery with personal letterhead of four lines centered at top of page: “WILL RICHARD”, “SCULPTOR-TAXIDERMIST”, “THE CODY MUSEUM”, “CODY, WYO.”][handwritten pencil notation on top left corner “file under Richard”] May 28th / 32 [/ 32 is a handwritten addition to the month and day]Dear Leigh;- Ive [sic] been so dam...
Dates: May 28, 1932

Letter to W. R. Leigh from Garland Smith, Athens, Georgia thanking him for letter about 76ip around world in 1936, February 2, early 20th century

 Item — Folder 341: [Barcode: 127.341]
Identifier: 3827.2727-.1
Description Folder 341 Transcript (DCI) [first page of multi-page letter] [handwritten in cursive with ink] 146 Mell ST., Athens, Ga., Feb. 2.My dear Mr. Leigh: How very nice of you it was to write me that interesting letter about your trip! I can imagine how you and Mrs. Leigh both must have enjoyed those seven months. Your museum trips must have been packed with thrills - adventurous as well as aesthetic - to say nothing...
Dates: February 2, early 20th century

Newspaper article about death of Leigh at 88, March 13, 1955

 Item — Folder 479: [Barcode: 127.479]
Identifier: 5327.533.14

Unsigned carbon copy of letter from Leigh to Richard describing trip from New York to San Diego via Panama, returning cross country through the Southwest and South, November 7, 1931

 Item — Folder 356: [Barcode: 127.356]
Identifier: 3827.2696
Description Folder 356 Transcript (DCI) [first page of multi-page typed document] November 7, 1931Mr. Will Richard, Taxidermist, Cody, WyomingDear Richard:We left New York September 5th on the steamship Pennsylvania, after having put in a most exhausting summer; we ended a change badly.Right away in Cuba we got an eye-opener, - on board the Pennsylvania was a girl of about eighteen or so; she...
Dates: November 7, 1931