BIB_ID
446669
Accession number
MA 4733.69:11
Creator
Smyth, Frederic Hastings, 1888-1960, sender.
Display Date
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1942 September 29
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.8 x 21.5 cm
Notes
Written on letterhead stationery printed "transubstantio mundi per incarnationem / Oratory of St. Mary and St. Michael / Society of the Catholic Commonwealth / 12 Putnam Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts".
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Mentioning an enclosed "heart-touching appeal" (not present); notifying that "Hugo Munsterberg has been drafted and leaves for the Army camp next week" and that they are reduced to only one student, though others are still coming; announcing his fifty-fifth birthday the day before; notifying his intention of speaking at a rally put on by the C.I.O. [Congress of Industrial Organizations] for the Italians of greater Boston on October 12th "(Columbus Day)" in Faneuil Hall; notifying that Harvard has begun classes again with the largest entering class in its history and that "what with the Army, Navy and the Chaplains, everything is very crowded"; inviting Cahoon to visit and recommending he visit Al Putnam in New Haven[, Connecticut].
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