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Tom and Ada Beardsworth correspondence, 1899 June 28-July 15 Box-folder 12:3

Ada wrote that she was miserable and lost without Tom. She also wrote about William Powell, Frank Joliffe, Warren Rice and Mame Shriner. Ada also met with J. Madison Spurr to persuade him to return to the band, but he had to remain home to take care of his wife. Tom hired a sixteen year old cornet player named Nelson Kratz to replace Mr. Spurr. Ada wanted to know if he was good looking!

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Additional Papers of Ada Bantz Beardsworth 1874-1953
  3. Series I: Correspondence

Tom and Ada Beardsworth correspondence, 1899 October-December Box-folder 13:2

Tom was in a parade with the F. Fire Company and [Union boys] and Ada and her mother felt that he looked too "pure" for the Company. Ada spent Christmas in Baltimore shopping and visited her friends. Tom wrote that he thought that his prospects in Staunton were very good.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Additional Papers of Ada Bantz Beardsworth 1874-1953
  3. Series I: Correspondence

Tom and Ada Beardsworth correspondence, 1899 September Box-folder 13:1

Ada wrote from her trip to New York and about William Powell. Tom went to Alum Springs, Buena Vista and Winchester. Ada mentioned that Mr. Charles Broadway Rouss was coming for a visit with her father. She ordered Tom to make up a "yarn" to get out of playing in J. Madison Spurr's band because she didn't think it good enough for him.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Additional Papers of Ada Bantz Beardsworth 1874-1953
  3. Series I: Correspondence

Tom and Ada Beardsworth correspondence, 1900 April 13-23 Box-folder 14:2

Tom directed a concert at the University of Virginia and attended a University of Virginia baseball game against Yale. Tom tried to obtain advice from Doug Fuller regarding the stock of the Baltimore Building and Loan Associates. There is a printed letter to the shareholders explaining what had happened with the company. He also made explicit references regarding some of Ada's physical attributes and requested that Ada burn that part of his letter.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Additional Papers of Ada Bantz Beardsworth 1874-1953
  3. Series I: Correspondence

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