Harriet Blankenship Papers, and Blankenship Family Papers
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Harriet Blankenship Papers, 1834-1861, and Blankenship Family papers, 1866-1951. Included is correspondence with John Wesley Johnson of Mississippi and George F. Holmes of the University of Virginia regarding the biography of Dr. John Millington. There are letters from Frank and John Blankenship to their mother, Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship, many of which are from Florida and Cuba in the time of the Spanish-American War, 1989-1899. Included is correspondence, 1937, between Mrs. Blankenship and the officers of the Folger Shakespearean Library in Washington regarding the gift of Mrs. Siddon's stage jewelry, which had been given by Dr. Millington to his grandmdaughter; and a 6 page report of the Pearl harbor attack of the December 7, 1941, sent out by Earl M. Thacker of Honolulu.
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